43. What do we Know about the Teaching of Yoga?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
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
Our understanding of premodern yoga teachers is representative only of a subset of those who wrote, or who were written about by others. But research into contemporary yoga benefits from the possibility of more direct anthropological study. Multiple methodologies from diverse disciplines are now used to profile and understand contemporary yoga teaching communities of practice.