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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3847117467
ISBN-13
9783847117469
Edition
1. Edition 2025
Publisher
V&R unipress GmbH
Imprint
V&R unipress GmbH
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 14th, 2025
Print length
447 Pages
Weight
774 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.30 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Oriental & Indian philosophyEast Asian and Indian philosophy
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Rewriting the History of Modern Yoga: Exploring Modern Pra?a and Pra?ayama in Depth
A central practice of both premodern and modern yoga, pra?ayama (“breath control”) is practised in yoga classes worldwide. Like the notion of pra?a (“breath”, “vitality”), pra?ayama has a longstanding history in South Asia, constituting the fourth limb of Patanjali’s yoga. Since roughly 1850, pra?a and pra?ayama have been reinterpreted in light of the ideas of Hindu reform movements, nineteenth-century occultism, science, biomedicine, and transnational hygiene. In this book, Magdalena Kraler traces the history of yogic breath cultivation between 1850 and 1945 for the first time. She reconstructs how pra?a assumed a central role in the cosmological frameworks of modern yoga and how pra?ayama came to be understood as a form of self-cultivation. Engaging one of modern yoga’s key practices, this book not only offers a thorough academic analysis, but also responds to a growing worldwide interest in breath cultivation.
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