51. How has Modern Yoga Developed around the World?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
Firdose Moonda [+]
Firdose Moonda is a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and is
working on a doctoral project provisionally titled: Yoga, Politics and Possibilities for Social
Justice. She completed her MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation at the School of Oriental
and African Studies in 2019 and works as a journalist and yoga teacher trainer. Firdose is
interested in research areas including the politics of the body, decolonisation and the
intersection of yoga and Islam.
Description
Between 1849, when the first Western practitioner of yoga was recorded, and the present day, yoga has developed across the world, into forms that are both localised, and transnational. From the Americas to Europe, South to East Asia, and Africa to Australasia, research is underway to map at least some of this diverse development.