60. What is the Relationship between Yoga and Capitalism?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
Marissa Clarke [+]
Marissa Clarke is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh (2021 - 2025) and Visiting
Doctoral Researcher at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2024). Her research
explores the phenomenology of yoga, the body, and sound. She has an interdisciplinary
background in marketing studies, religious studies, and health research. Her work is funded
by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
Description
The relation between yoga and capitalism is not an assimilation of one static system (yoga) to another (capitalism); rather the relation is a response to ever changing socio-economic developments. Perhaps the power of yoga’s symbiotic socio-economic relationship to capitalism lies in its potential to revolt against capitalist exploitation.