7. Is Yoga Indian?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
C. Pierce Salguero [+]
Penn State University
C. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by
historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and cross cultural
exchange. He has a PhD in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University’s Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He also has been the editor in chief of the journal Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine since 2016.
Description
The vast majority of globally widespread forms of yoga have directly come from the Indian subcontinent. However, there are multiple forms of yoga that developed and were practised historically outside of India. While it is true that these practices ultimately can trace their origins to India, they also represent unique regional variations.