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YOGA
BODY
Praise for
Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
Mark Singleton
“Mark Singleton’s Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice is an out-
standing scholarly work which brings so much insight and clarity to the historic
and cultural background of modern hat ̣ ha yoga. I highly recommend this book,
especially for all sincere students of yoga.”—John Friend, founder of Anusara
Yoga
“From the moment I started reading Mark Singleton’s Yoga Body I couldn’t put
it down. It is beautifully written, extensively researched, and full of fascinating
information. It stands alone in its depth of insight into a subject which has
intrigued me for forty years.”—David Williams, the fi rst non-Indian to learn the
complete Ashtanga Yoga syllabus
“Mark Singleton’s book Yoga Body traces the evolution of the ever-expanding
practice of ¯sana world-wide. His work offers a much needed historical perspec-
tive that will help correct much of the mythology and group-think that is emerg-
ing in the modern ¯sana based ‘yoga world.’ Any serious ¯sana practitioner who
wishes to understand the place of ¯sana in the greater tradition of yoga will do
well to read it carefully.”—Gary Krafstow, founder of the American Viniyoga
Institute, author of Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation
“Mark Singleton has written a sweeping and nuanced account of the origins and
development of modern postural yoga in early twentieth-century India and the
West, arguing convincingly that yoga as we know it today does not fl ow directly
from the Yoga Su ̄ tras or India’s medieval hat ̣ ha yoga traditions, but rather
emerged out of a confl uence of practices, movements and ideologies, ranging
from contortionist acts in carnival sideshows, British Army calisthenics and
women’s stretching exercises to social Darwinism, eugenics, and the Indian
nationalist movement. The richly illustrated story he tells is an especially wel-
come contribution to the history of yoga, demonstrating the ways in which an
ancient tradition was reinvented against the backdrop of India’s colonial
experience.”—David Gordon White, professor of Religious Studies, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
YOGA
BODY
THE ORIGINS
OF MODERN
POSTURE
PRACTICE
MARK SINGLETON
2010
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Singleton, Mark, 1972–
Yoga body : the origins of modern posture practice / Mark Singleton.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-539535-8; ISBN 978-0-19-539534-1 (pbk.)
1. Hatha yoga. 2. Posture. I. Title.
RA781.7.S568 2010
613.7'046—dc22
2009014275
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