11. What are the Goals of Yoga?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
Barbora Sojková [+]
University of Oxford
Barbora Sojková holds a DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sanskrit) from the University of Oxford where her research focused on human-animal relationships in Vedic Sanskrit literature. She works as an academic librarian at the All Souls College, Oxford, and as a Sanskrit cataloguer at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. She is a certified yoga teacher and trainer focusing on history and philosophy of yoga.
Description
The goals of yoga can be distinguished according to the time period. The strong association between yoga and health has only existed since the early 20th century. In the majority of premodern texts, the word yoga indicates a state that is achieved through the practices associated with the tradition. The nature of this goal varied from text to text.