{"product_id":"the-path-of-modern-yoga-the-history-of-an-embodied-spiritual-practice","title":"The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eA history of yogas transformation from sacred discipline to exercise program to embodied spiritual practice   Identifies the origin of exercise yoga as Indias response to the mania for exercise sweeping the West in the early 20th century   Examines yogas transformations through the lives and accomplishments of 11 key figures  including Sri Yogendra  K. V. Iyer  Louise Morgan  Krishnamacharya  Swami Sivananda  Indra Devi  and B. K. S. Iyengar   Draws on more than 10 years of research from rare primary sources and includes 99 illustrations  In The Path of Modern Yoga  Elliott Goldberg shows how yoga was transformed from a sacred practice into a health and fitness regime for middle-class Indians in the early 20th century and then gradually transformed over the course of the 20th century into an embodied spiritual practice--a yoga for our times.  Drawing on more than 10 years of research from rare primary sources as well as recent scholarship  Goldberg tells the sweeping story of modern yoga through the remarkable lives and accomplishments of 11 key figures: six Indian yogis (Sri Yogendra  Swami Kuvalayananda  S. Sundaram  T. Krishnamacharya  Swami Sivananda  and B. K. S. Iyengar)  an Indian bodybuilder (K. V. Iyer)  a rajah (Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi)  an American-born journalist (Louise Morgan)  an Indian diplomat (Apa Pant)  and a Russian-born yogi trained in India (Indra Devi). The author places their achievements within the context of such Western trends as the physical culture movement  the commodification of exercise  militant nationalism  jazz age popular entertainment  the quest for youth and beauty  and 19th-century New Age religion.  In chronicling how the transformation of yoga from sacred discipline to exercise program allowed for the creation of an embodied spiritual practice  Goldberg presents an original  authoritative  provocative  and illuminating interpretation of the history of modern yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985076940853,"sku":"ByrdShop_1620555670","price":33.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781620555675.jpg?v=1770845425","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-path-of-modern-yoga-the-history-of-an-embodied-spiritual-practice","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}