Religiousness in Yoga

Religiousness in Yoga
Author: T. K.V. Desikachar
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1980-01-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1461668808

The value of the book lies in the author's expertise in yogic theory and practice, the questions and responses of the students attending the course, and the many figures designed to facilitate understanding of yogic concepts and practice... both teachers and students will find the book useful as a supplemental text. The questions by the course participants are invaluable to instructors since they reflect the understanding and difficulties of beginning students...

Faith with a Twist

Faith with a Twist
Author: Amy Nobles Dolan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780880284561

Faith with a Twist connects the traditional eight limbs of yoga with the church's understanding and emphasis on living a holy life. This approach creates a unique blend of spiritual practices and religious wisdom that are perfect for the yoga novice and the experienced practitioner alike.

Yoga as Philosophy and Religion

Yoga as Philosophy and Religion
Author: Surendranath Dasgupta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136389458

This is Volume V of ten in a collection of works on India: Religion and Philosophy. Originally published in 1924, this study is an attempt at a brief exposition of the philosophical and religious doctrines found in Patafijali's Yoga-sutra as explained by its successive commentaries of Vyasa, Vacaspati, Vijfiana Bhikshu, and others.

Religious Therapeutics

Religious Therapeutics
Author: Gregory P. Fields
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002
Genre: Hinduism
ISBN: 9788120818750

Religious therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual and health presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model emerges from the work`s investigation of health and religiousness in classical yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra-Three Hindu traditions note worthy for the central role they accord the body. Author gregory P. Fields compares Anglo-European and Indian philosophies of body and health and uses fifteen determinants of health excavated from texts of ancient hindu medicine to show that health concerns the person, not the body or body/mind alone.

Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools

Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools
Author: Candy Gunther Brown
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2019-03-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1469648490

Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the 1970s. While they are commonly assumed to be secular educational tools, Candy Gunther Brown asks whether religion is truly left out of the equation in the context of public-school curricula. An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of "Vedic victory" or "stealth Buddhism" for public-school children. The legal challenges are fruitful cases for Brown's analysis of the concepts of religious and secular. While notions of what makes something religious or secular are crucial to those who study religion, they have special significance in the realm of public and legal norms. They affect how people experience their lives, raise their children, and navigate educational systems. The question of religion in public education, Brown shows, is no longer a matter of jurisprudence focused largely on the establishment of a Protestant Bible or nonsectarian prayer. Instead, it now reflects an increasingly diverse American religious landscape. Reconceptualizing secularization as transparency and religious voluntarism, Brown argues for an opt-in model for public-school programs.

Holy Yoga

Holy Yoga
Author: Brooke Boon
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2009-06-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0446562181

People often equate yoga with Eastern religion, but Brooke Boon sees it as an exercise style that Christians can use to generate patience, strength, and deeper worship. Author and yoga instructor Brooke Boon combines her passion for Christianity with her commitment to health to introduce yoga as a physical and spiritual discipline that strengthens the body and the soul. Clear explanations and photographs make yoga accessible for any reader, and Brooke offers customized routines for readers struggling with specific issues, such as weight loss and anxiety. Through it all Brooke uses scriptural references to help reinforce the idea that by taking care of our bodies we can also take care of our faith.

Peace Love Yoga

Peace Love Yoga
Author: Andrea R. Jain
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020
Genre: Spirituality
ISBN: 0190888628

"In Peace Love Yoga, Jain analyses growing spiritual industries and their coherence with neoliberal capitalism. "Personal growth," "self-care," and "transformation" are just some of the generative tropes in the narrative of these industries. Jain illuminates the power dynamics underlying what she calls neoliberal spirituality, illustrating how spiritual commodities are rooted in concerns about deviancy, not only in the form of low productivity but also forms of social deviancy. Jain, however, does not just offer one more voice bemoaning the commodification of spirituality as a numbing device through which consumers ignore the problems of neoliberal capitalism or as the corruption or loss of "authentic" religious forms. Instead, she asks what we should make of subversive spiritual discourses that call on adherents to think beyond the individual and even out into the environment, claims to counter the problems of unbridled capitalism with charitable giving or "conscious capitalism," challenges to the imperialism behind the appropriation and commodification of products from yoga to mindfulness, calls for women's empowerment, and efforts to greenwash commodities, making them more environmentally "friendly" or "sustainable." Rather than a mode through which consumers ignore, escape, or are numbed to the problems of neoliberal capitalism, many spiritual commodities, corporations, and entrepreneurs, Jain suggests, do actually acknowledge those problems and, in fact, subvert them; but they subvert them through mere gestures. From provocative taglines printed across t-shirts or packaging to calls for "conscious capitalism," commodification serves as a strategy through which subversion itself is contained"--

A Meeting of Mystic Paths

A Meeting of Mystic Paths
Author: Justin O'Brien
Publisher: Yes International Publishers
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1996
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780936663142

A MEETING OF MYSTIC PATHS offers a daring look at Christianity through the eyes of yoga philosophy. It honors the mystery of Jesus while offering dazzling new possibilities for further spiritual development.

Seven Reasons I No Longer Practice Hatha Yoga

Seven Reasons I No Longer Practice Hatha Yoga
Author: Mike Shreve
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780942507607

Mike Shreve was a teacher of Kundalini Yoga at four universities, with several hundred students looking to him as their guru. Then an encounter withe Lord Jesus radically changed his heart, his life and his world view. This booklet explains why no person embracing a biblical world view should practice Hatha Yoga, even though it is one of the simplest forms of this far eastern practice.