The Yoga Manifesto - How Yoga Helped Me and Why it Needs to Save Itself (Paperback)

How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged? Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga as a participant and teacher for over twenty-five years. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. Combining her own memories of how the practice has helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the practice from its own success.

General

Imprint:	Bluebird Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2022
Authors:	Nadia Gilani
Dimensions:	217 x 135 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-5290-6511-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Sport Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > Addiction & therapy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > Biography > Sport
LSN:	1-5290-6511-9
Barcode:	9781529065114

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