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
Theodora Wildcroft, PhD, is a researcher investigating the democratization and evolution of physical practice as it moves beyond both traditional and early modern frameworks of relationship. Her PhD was a significant advance in the analysis of contemporary yoga pedagogies. Her research continues to consider the democratization of yoga post- lineage and meaning making in grassroots communities of practice. She is an associate lecturer at the Open University, UK; a former coordinator of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies; an editor of the BASR Bulletin; an honorary member of the British Wheel of Yoga; a member of the IAYT; and a continuing professional development trainer and consultant for Yoga Alliance (US). Her monograph Post- Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo is available from Equinox Publishing Ltd. (2020).

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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.

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Sojková, Barbora; Wildcroft, Theodora. 26. What Life does the Ideal Yogi Lead?. Yoga Studies in Five Minutes. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 111-115 May 2025. ISBN 9781800506008. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=46368. Date accessed: 16 Apr 2025 doi: 10.1558/equinox.46368. May 2025

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