25. What is the relationship between Yoga and Āyurveda?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
Suzanne Newcombe [+]
Open University and Inform, King's College London
Suzanne Newcombe is a senior lecturer in religious studies at the Open University and
director of the educational charity Inform based at King’s College London. She recently
published the Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies (2021), co-edited with Karen O’Brien-Kop.
Description
During the 20th century, yoga and āyurveda became closely linked as indigenous systems of promoting health and healing, united in their contrast to colonial “western” medicine. Their association became even more intimate from the 1970s onwards as global countercultures championed both yoga and alternatives to Western medicine.