26. What Life does the Ideal Yogi Lead?
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.
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
All yoga practitioners strive towards achieving an ideal self: self-development could be considered to be the unifying principle that unites yoga as an extremely diverse set of practices and worldviews. But what an ideal yogic life would actually consist of is probably more contested today than ever.