36. Do you Need to Practise Yoga to Understand it?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
Laura von Ostrowski [+]
Laura von Ostrowski received her PhD in Religious Studies in 2021. The book of her PhD thesis was published Open Access under the title "A Text in Motion" in 2022. Her areas of research include modern and contemporary yoga, the reception of the Yogasūtra, the history of German yoga and of the physical culture movement, contemporary religion, aesthetics, and embodiment. Since 2007, she works as a yoga teacher, runs her own yoga studio in the centre of Munich since 2018 and teaches the history of modern yoga at the German online education portal Yogastudien.
Description
There are aspects of what runs under the name “yoga” that cannot be understood without intellectual endeavour and a broad range of study, and there are other aspects of yoga that cannot be approached without directly experiencing them. At its core, this question refers to a long-running and contentious discourse in the history of yoga.