Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword (Michał Szczepanik)
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Philosophy and hatha-yoga practice. Para-religious aspects of hatha-yoga
- Chapter 2 The social world of yoga practice
- Chapter 3 Commonsense definitions of yoga and its meaning for practitioners
- Chapter 4 The process of becoming a hatha-yoga practitioner
- Chapter 5 Visual transmission of knowledge and the meaning of corporality and gestures in the social world of yoga practice
- Chapter 6 Emotions and yoga practicing. Working on emotions and achieving “emotional culture” without emotions
- Chapter 7 Teacher and guru in hatha-yoga practice
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword (Michał Szczepanik)
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Philosophy and hatha-yoga practice. Para-religious aspects of hatha-yoga
- Chapter 2 The social world of yoga practice
- Chapter 3 Commonsense definitions of yoga and its meaning for practitioners
- Chapter 4 The process of becoming a hatha-yoga practitioner
- Chapter 5 Visual transmission of knowledge and the meaning of corporality and gestures in the social world of yoga practice
- Chapter 6 Emotions and yoga practicing. Working on emotions and achieving “emotional culture” without emotions
- Chapter 7 Teacher and guru in hatha-yoga practice
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
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- Is the Body the Temple of the Soul?Modern Yoga Practice as a Psychosocial Phenomenon, pp. 5 - 6Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2016