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Biography of a Yogi - Yogananda and the Birth of Modern Yoga (Hardcover)
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Biography of a Yogi - Yogananda and the Birth of Modern Yoga (Hardcover)
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With over four million copies in print, Parmahansa Yogananda's
autobiography has been translated into thirty-three languages, and
it still serves as a gateway into yoga and alternative spirituality
for countless North American practitioners. This book examines
Yogananda's life and work to clarify linkages between the seemingly
disparate aspects of modern yoga, and illuminates the intimate
connections between yoga and metaphysically-leaning American
traditions such as Unitarianism, New Thought, and Theosophy.
Instead of treating yoga as a stable practice, Anya P. Foxen
proposes that it is the figure of the Yogi that give the practice
of his followers both form and meaning. Focusing on Yogis rather
than yoga during the period of transnational popularization
highlights the continuities in the concept of the Yogi as
superhuman even as it illuminates the transformation of the
practice itself. Skillfully balancing traditional yogic ritual,
metaphysical spirituality, physical culture, and a flair for the
stage, Foxen shows, Yogananda taught a proto-modern yoga to his
American audiences. His Yogoda program has remained under the radar
of yoga scholarship due to its lack of reliance on recognizable
postures. However, as a regimen of training for the modern Yogi,
Yogananda's method synthesizes the spiritual and superhuman
aspirations of Indian traditions with the metaphysical and
health-oriented sensibilities of Euro-American progressivism in a
way that exactly prefigures present-day transnational yoga culture.
Yet, at the heart of it all, Yogananda retains a sense of what it
means to be a Yogi: his message is that the natural destiny of the
human is the superhuman.
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