Post-lineage Yoga - From Guru to #MeToo - Theodora Wildcroft
8. Creating a Shared Repertoire
Post-lineage Yoga - From Guru to #MeToo - Theodora Wildcroft
Theodora Wildcroft [+]
The Open University
Theo Wildcroft, PhD, is a teacher, trainer, writer, and scholar, whose research considers the democratization of yoga post-lineage, and the evolving practice of teaching yoga for community health. She is the author of Post-Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo and co-editor of The Yoga Teacher’s Survival Guide, an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester, and former Project Coordinator for the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies.
Description
Chapter 8 explores the complex relationship between individual practice, teaching practice to others, and the creation of consensus repertoires of practice for the subculture. • How personal testimony becomes a part of a subcultural repertoire of practice • Faith, science and currents of charisma