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font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">The Story of Yoga <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Story+of+Yoga&rft.author=Alistair+Shearer&rft.date=2020&rft.pub=%5B%5BHurst+Publishers%5D%5D&rft.place=England&rft.pages=419+%27%27%28first+edition%29%27%27"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Story_of_Yoga.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8d/The_Story_of_Yoga.jpg/220px-The_Story_of_Yoga.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/The_Story_of_Yoga.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="257" data-file-height="385" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Front cover of the first edition<br />showing a yogi in <a href="/wiki/Akarna_Dhanurasana" title="Akarna Dhanurasana">Akarna Dhanurasana</a>,<br />the shooting bow pose</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data">Alistair Shearer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yoga_as_exercise" title="Yoga as exercise">Yoga as exercise</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data">Non-fiction</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hurst_Publishers" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurst Publishers">Hurst Publishers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; 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It narrates how an ancient spiritual practice in India became a <a href="/wiki/Yoga_as_exercise" title="Yoga as exercise">global method of exercise</a>, often with no spiritual content, by way of diverse movements including <a href="/wiki/Indian_nationalism" title="Indian nationalism">Indian nationalism</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Theosophical_Society" title="Theosophical Society">Theosophical Society</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>'s coming to the west, self-publicising western yogis, Indian muscle builders, <a href="/wiki/Krishnamacharya" class="mw-redirect" title="Krishnamacharya">Krishnamacharya</a>'s practice in Mysore, and pioneering teachers like <a href="/wiki/B._K._S._Iyengar" title="B. K. S. Iyengar">B. K. S. Iyengar</a>. </p><p>The book has been received warmly by critics in the western world, who found it erudite, informative and well-written. In India, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hindu" title="The Hindu">The Hindu</a></i> found it a readable account of how an ancient path to enlightenment had become a profitable wellness industry, while the <i><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Times" title="Hindustan Times">Hindustan Times</a></i> considered that Shearer had an agenda to argue that western body-yoga was unrelated to Indian spiritual yoga. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Context">Context</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Context"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alistair Shearer is a cultural historian of India; he was a lecturer at <a href="/wiki/SOAS" class="mw-redirect" title="SOAS">SOAS</a>. He teaches <a href="/wiki/Meditation" title="Meditation">meditation</a> and has co-founded a retreat hotel in <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Book">Book</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Book"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Content">Content</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg/170px-Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg/255px-Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg/340px-Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg 2x" data-file-width="933" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Vivekananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Vivekananda">Vivekananda</a> helped to create the modern practice of what Shearer calls "<a href="/wiki/Yoga_as_exercise" title="Yoga as exercise">body-yoga</a>" through his visit to <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, September 1893<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The book is divided into two parts, with some 350 pages of narrative in 30 chapters. </p><p>The first part steps through the <a href="/wiki/History_of_yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="History of yoga">history of yoga</a>, from ancient times onwards, in 19 chapters. The older history covers the origins of yoga from around 500 BC, the forest sages, <a href="/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali" title="Yoga Sutras of Patanjali">Patanjali's Yoga Sutras</a>, the yoga of the <i><a href="/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita" title="Bhagavad Gita">Bhagavad Gita</a></i>, yoga in Islamic India and under the <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British Raj</a>, and the impact of <a href="/wiki/Indian_nationalism" title="Indian nationalism">Indian nationalism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The modern history covers the <a href="/wiki/Theosophical_Society" title="Theosophical Society">Theosophical Society</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>'s coming to the west, "roguey yogis" like <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Bernard_(yogi)" title="Pierre Bernard (yogi)">Pierre Bernard</a>, muscle builders such as <a href="/wiki/K._V._Iyer" title="K. V. Iyer">K. V. Iyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norman_Sjoman" title="Norman Sjoman">yoga at the Mysore Palace</a> with <a href="/wiki/Krishnamacharya" class="mw-redirect" title="Krishnamacharya">Krishnamacharya</a>, and pioneering teachers who brought yoga to the west, including <a href="/wiki/B._K._S._Iyengar" title="B. K. S. Iyengar">B. K. S. Iyengar</a>. The story then moves on to <a href="/wiki/Yoga_for_women" title="Yoga for women">yoga for women</a>, and pioneering female practitioners or <a href="/wiki/Yogini" title="Yogini">yoginis</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Indra_Devi" title="Indra Devi">Indra Devi</a>. The part concludes with an account of pioneers like <a href="/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda" title="Paramahansa Yogananda">Yogananda</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi" title="Maharishi Mahesh Yogi">Maharishi Mahesh Yogi</a> with his <a href="/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation" title="Transcendental Meditation">Transcendental Meditation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 11 chapters of the second part describe yoga "today", including both what Shearer calls "body-yoga" (physical practices, mainly the yoga poses called <a href="/wiki/Asana" title="Asana">asanas</a>) and "mind-yoga" (meditational practices). Body-yoga is introduced with an account of <a href="/wiki/Bikram_Yoga" title="Bikram Yoga">Bikram Yoga</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Science_of_yoga" title="Science of yoga">science of yoga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yoga_teacher_training" title="Yoga teacher training">yoga teacher training</a>, the <a href="/wiki/British_Wheel_of_Yoga" title="British Wheel of Yoga">British Wheel of Yoga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yogendra" title="Yogendra">Yogendra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kuvalayananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuvalayananda">Kuvalayananda</a>'s attempts to treat yoga as science, and <a href="/wiki/Sivananda_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Sivananda Yoga">Sivananda Yoga</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mind-yoga is covered with discussion of the concepts of Patanjali-style meditation and <a href="/wiki/Mindfulness" title="Mindfulness">Mindfulness</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book concludes with coverage of the rapid growth in yoga's worldwide popularity, the <a href="/wiki/Sexual_abuse_by_yoga_gurus" title="Sexual abuse by yoga gurus">sex scandals affecting yoga gurus</a>, commercialisation by companies such as <a href="/wiki/Lululemon" class="mw-redirect" title="Lululemon">Lululemon</a>, and some of the many <a href="/wiki/List_of_yoga_schools" title="List of yoga schools">schools</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_yoga_hybrids" title="List of yoga hybrids">hybrids of yoga</a>. The book looks at the question of whether body-yoga is spiritual or secular, along with India's political creation of an annual <a href="/wiki/International_Day_of_Yoga" title="International Day of Yoga">International Day of Yoga</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Illustrations">Illustrations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Illustrations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mr-yoga-mermaid_arms_half_moon_bow_pose.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Mr-yoga-mermaid_arms_half_moon_bow_pose.jpg/170px-Mr-yoga-mermaid_arms_half_moon_bow_pose.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Mr-yoga-mermaid_arms_half_moon_bow_pose.jpg/255px-Mr-yoga-mermaid_arms_half_moon_bow_pose.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Mr-yoga-mermaid_arms_half_moon_bow_pose.jpg/340px-Mr-yoga-mermaid_arms_half_moon_bow_pose.jpg 2x" data-file-width="926" data-file-height="1171" /></a><figcaption>"A modern <i><a href="/wiki/Yoga_for_women#Yoginis" title="Yoga for women">yogini</a></i>", according to the book.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Mermaid pose" demonstrated by a follower of <a href="/wiki/Mr._Yoga" title="Mr. Yoga">Mr. Yoga</a>, 2016</figcaption></figure> <p><i>The Story of Yoga</i> is illustrated with 27 colour plates, in a group after page 236. They depict temple sculptures of <a href="/wiki/Yogi" title="Yogi">yogis</a>; early book illustrations, both western and from India; portraits of yoga <a href="/wiki/Guru" title="Guru">gurus</a>; and photographs of various practices, historic figures, and celebrities. The final photograph depicts the Indian prime minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a>, sitting cross-legged in the street in New Delhi, leading thousands of people in a yoga practice on the first <a href="/wiki/International_Yoga_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="International Yoga Day">International Yoga Day</a> in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Publication_history">Publication history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Publication history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The book was published in hardback in 2020 by <a href="/wiki/Hurst_Publishers" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurst Publishers">Hurst Publishers</a> of London.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>S 11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Story of Yoga</i> has been warmly received by reviewers in the western world. The <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i> writes that the book explains how modern western forms of yoga "have overlooked its complex history". Shearer tells how yoga has both physical and mental effects, including injuries especially in those forms characterised by relentless drive. At its best, it can bring self-knowledge and calm, but the book denies that yoga offers any magical short cut to such a state.<sup id="cite_ref-FT_2020_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT_2020-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mihir Bose, writing in the <i><a href="/wiki/Irish_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Times">Irish Times</a></i>, adds that in India, yoga has in his lifetime gone from being a fringe activity to a widespread form of exercise.<sup id="cite_ref-Irish_Times_2020_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irish_Times_2020-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writing in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i>, Mich Brown called the book an "erudite, scholarly and engrossing study". It notes that Shearer explains that yoga is not a religion, but may slowly align the yogi with the principles underlying all religions, and that the Katha Upanishad calls yoga "this complete stillness in which one enters the unitive state", something that the review says may be a surprise to practitioners of modern <a href="/wiki/Ashtanga_vinyasa_yoga" title="Ashtanga vinyasa yoga">Ashtanga yoga</a> and other hot styles. It quotes Patanjali as saying that "The physical postures should be steady and comfortable" when all effort is relaxed, commenting "but nobody said it would be easy".<sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_2020_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph_2020-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nicolar Barker, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i>, recalled the recent history of academic research into modern postural yoga, with Norman Sjoman's 1996 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Yoga_Tradition_of_the_Mysore_Palace" class="mw-redirect" title="The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace">The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Singleton_(yoga_scholar)" title="Mark Singleton (yoga scholar)">Mark Singleton</a>'s "controversial" 2010 <i><a href="/wiki/Yoga_Body" title="Yoga Body">Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Postural Practice</a></i>, noting that while the research was greeted by <a href="/wiki/Yoga_International" class="mw-redirect" title="Yoga International">Yoga International</a> as "a watershed moment", this was probably spoken "through somewhat gritted teeth".<sup id="cite_ref-Spectator_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spectator-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The review calls Shearer's book "clear-eyed, elegantly written and wonderfully informative", writing that his basic thesis is that "mind yoga" and "body yoga" are sharply distinct, and that he critiques western culture's narcissism, addiction to material wealth, and decreasing attention span.<sup id="cite_ref-Spectator_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spectator-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writing in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a></i>, Rosamund Unwin noted that three million people practice <a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Britain" title="Yoga in Britain">yoga in Britain</a>, and that a multi-billion dollar industry has grown from ancient roots in India. In her view, Shearer has made clear that modern yoga is "a long way from yoga's beginnings."<sup id="cite_ref-Sunday_Times_2020_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sunday_Times_2020-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, she found the book full of jargon, lacking in humanity, and only suitable for those who already practise yoga and want to know more about its cultural context.<sup id="cite_ref-Sunday_Times_2020_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sunday_Times_2020-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tunku Varadarajan wrote in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> that his wife "follows a routine advertised as yoga, performed by a woman with malleable limbs", that to his Indian eyes "look[s] nothing like the practice whose name they invoke".<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2020_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2020-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The journal called the book "a quick-witted and erudite chronicle of the Hindu practice that is now a lucrative staple of 'wellness' in the West."<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2020_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2020-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It described the book as distinguishing "<a href="/wiki/Raja_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Raja Yoga">Raja Yoga</a>, or yoga of the mind, and <a href="/wiki/Hatha_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Hatha Yoga">Hatha Yoga</a>, or the yoga of force. The former, embedded in meditation, with little or no <a href="/wiki/Calisthenic" class="mw-redirect" title="Calisthenic">calisthenic</a> component, is what Patanjali had in mind when he defined yoga as '<a href="/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali#Purpose_of_yoga" title="Yoga Sutras of Patanjali">the settling of the thought-waves in the mind</a>'. By contrast, most yoga practiced in the West – as well as in India, it should be said – is a version (however outlandish) of Hatha Yoga."<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2020_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2020-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Michael Neale reviewed the book for <i><a href="/wiki/Asian_Affairs" title="Asian Affairs">Asian Affairs</a></i> journal, calling it "a fascinating survey [and] not only for practitioners of the world's burgeoning Wellness industry".<sup id="cite_ref-Asian_Affairs_2020_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Asian_Affairs_2020-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Oldie" title="The Oldie">The Oldie</a></i> wrote that the book's "exhaustive examination of the history and purpose of yoga" had been widely reviewed, something it found unsurprising as yoga had been treated as the answer to all the spiritual and physical ailments of the western world. It commented that yoga traditionally took "a lifetime to master" and "was never intended to be squeezed into a stress-relieving lunch-hour break".<sup id="cite_ref-The_Oldie_2020_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Oldie_2020-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Historical_figure" title="Historical figure">Historical figure</a></i> A historical figure is a significant person in history. The significance of such figures in human progress has been debated. Some think they play a crucial role, while others say they have little impact on the broad currents of thought and social change".<sup id="cite_ref-Gabriella_Dondero_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gabriella_Dondero-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hindu" title="The Hindu">The Hindu</a></i> found the book readable, answering the question of how the ancient path to enlightenment turned into "a $25 billion-a-year wellness industry".<sup id="cite_ref-The_Hindu_2020_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Hindu_2020-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In its view the opening history chapters had "a scholarly density", though after that it was a lighter read, Shearer arguing that the practice had always been an inward-looking "mind-yoga", and that the west has turned it into a fitness- or health-oriented "body-yoga". The paper reports that Shearer told it that he took three years to write the book, cutting some 40,000 words of detailed history (such as of the <a href="/wiki/Bihar_School_of_Yoga" title="Bihar School of Yoga">Bihar School of Yoga</a>) from the draft.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Hindu_2020_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Hindu_2020-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:StAnthony.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/StAnthony.jpg/130px-StAnthony.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="257" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/StAnthony.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="185" data-file-height="366" /></a><figcaption>Shearer found affinities between yoga and the <a href="/wiki/Ascetic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ascetic">ascetic</a> <a href="/wiki/Desert_Fathers" title="Desert Fathers">Desert Fathers</a> (here, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_the_Great" title="Anthony the Great">Anthony the Great</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Mohler_2020_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mohler_2020-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Times" title="Hindustan Times">Hindustan Times</a></i> stated that Shearer had an "agenda" to argue "that body-yoga as it is practised in the west does not have any basis in Indian yoga, which was more spiritual and mystical."<sup id="cite_ref-Hindustan_Times_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hindustan_Times-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reviewer however found the book "rich in anecdotal data" and found his sensitive account of the teacher-pupil relationship and the current scandals about abuse "nuanced".<sup id="cite_ref-Hindustan_Times_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hindustan_Times-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interview">Interview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Interview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="misappropriation"></span> The <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> theologian <a href="/wiki/Albert_Mohler" title="Albert Mohler">Albert Mohler</a> interviewed Shearer about the book. Asked why he had written it, Shearer replied that he had learnt Transcendental Meditation at university, and was interested in India, having had relatives there. He then learnt <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> to study the texts. He agreed the book was controversial. Asked whether suburban yoga is "the same thing" practised by yogis in ancient India, he said it was a good question, and the one the book tried to answer, but it depended on why people were practising yoga. Using it as exercise was fine, but it was not "the full meal"; treating body yoga as the whole system was "selling yoga short".<sup id="cite_ref-Mohler_2020_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mohler_2020-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shearer agreed with Mohler that yoga had always been understood to be "a unity", and found the Christian perspective interesting and deep; the book's final chapter addressed the question of religion, and whether it could fit with yoga. He thought there were "many affinities" between Christian traditions such as of the <a href="/wiki/Desert_Fathers" title="Desert Fathers">Desert Fathers</a> and yoga, and noted that <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Catholic</a> priests were expected to be <a href="/wiki/Celibate" class="mw-redirect" title="Celibate">celibate</a>. He supposed that many Christians who found Hinduism unacceptable would find yoga a practical way "to access their own inner depths".<sup id="cite_ref-Mohler_2020_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mohler_2020-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He agreed with Mohler that the transition from ancient Indian practice to the consumerist, individualist, and celebrity-filled western varieties was full of contradictions, and that it was "certainly <a href="/wiki/Cultural_appropriation#Yoga" title="Cultural appropriation">misappropriation</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Mohler_2020_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mohler_2020-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary">Primary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Primary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>This list identifies each item's location in Shearer's book.</i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, p. vi</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, cover biography</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, chapter 11</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, chapters 1–9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, chapters 10–19</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, chapters 20–23</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, chapters 24–25</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, chapters 26–30</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, plate 24</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, pp. xi–xiii</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShearer2020">Shearer 2020</a>, p. vi</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secondary">Secondary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 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title="Lululemon Athletica">Lululemon</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="4" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ardha-Chandrasana_Yoga-Asana_Nina-Mel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Ardha-Chandrasana_Yoga-Asana_Nina-Mel.jpg/80px-Ardha-Chandrasana_Yoga-Asana_Nina-Mel.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Ardha-Chandrasana_Yoga-Asana_Nina-Mel.jpg/120px-Ardha-Chandrasana_Yoga-Asana_Nina-Mel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Ardha-Chandrasana_Yoga-Asana_Nina-Mel.jpg/160px-Ardha-Chandrasana_Yoga-Asana_Nina-Mel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="578" data-file-height="557" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Early_modern_yoga" title="Early modern yoga">Early modern yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Vivekananda</a></li> <li>1896 <i><a href="/wiki/Raja_Yoga_(book)" title="Raja Yoga (book)">Raja Yoga</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Bernard_(yogi)" title="Pierre Bernard (yogi)">Pierre Bernard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmonic_Gymnastics" class="mw-redirect" title="Harmonic Gymnastics">Harmonial gymnastics/yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marguerite_Agniel" title="Marguerite Agniel">Marguerite Agniel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Bagot_Stack" title="Mary Bagot Stack">Mary Bagot Stack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genevieve_Stebbins" title="Genevieve Stebbins">Genevieve Stebbins</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Physical_culture" title="Physical culture">Physical culture</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bishnu_Charan_Ghosh" title="Bishnu Charan Ghosh">B. C. Ghosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Iyer" title="K. V. Iyer">K. V. Iyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seetharaman_Sundaram" title="Seetharaman Sundaram">Seetharaman Sundaram</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda" title="Paramahansa Yogananda">Paramahansa Yogananda</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Yogi" title="Autobiography of a Yogi">Autobiography of a Yogi</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Aspects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hot_yoga" title="Hot yoga">Hot yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_of_yoga" title="Science of yoga">Science of yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_abuse_by_yoga_gurus" title="Sexual abuse by yoga gurus">Sexual abuse by yoga gurus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Remski" title="Matthew Remski">Matthew Remski</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_and_cultural_appropriation" title="Yoga and cultural appropriation">Yoga and cultural appropriation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_advertising" title="Yoga in advertising">In advertising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_for_children" title="Yoga for children">For children</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_for_women" title="Yoga for women">For women</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geeta_Iyengar" title="Geeta Iyengar">Geeta Iyengar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_tourism" title="Yoga tourism">Yoga tourism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_yoga_hybrids" title="List of yoga hybrids">Hybrids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1938 <a href="/wiki/Naked_yoga" title="Naked yoga">Naked yoga</a></li> <li>1990 <a href="/wiki/Mindful_Yoga" title="Mindful Yoga">Mindful Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Jude_Boccio" title="Frank Jude Boccio">Frank Jude Boccio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Cushman" title="Anne Cushman">Anne Cushman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janice_Gates" title="Janice Gates">Janice Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn" title="Jon Kabat-Zinn">Jon Kabat-Zinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyndi_Lee" title="Cyndi Lee">Cyndi Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phillip_Moffitt" title="Phillip Moffitt">Phillip Moffitt</a></li></ul></li> <li>2003 <a href="/wiki/Acroyoga" title="Acroyoga">Acroyoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doga_(yoga)" title="Doga (yoga)">Doga</a></li> <li>2013 <a href="/wiki/Paddleboard_Yoga" title="Paddleboard Yoga">Paddleboard Yoga</a></li> <li>2014 <a href="/wiki/Aerial_yoga" title="Aerial yoga">Aerial yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beer_yoga" title="Beer yoga">Beer yoga</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By country</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Yoga in America">America</a> <ul><li>1961 <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hittleman" title="Richard Hittleman">Yoga for Health</a></i></li> <li>1970 <i><a href="/wiki/Lilias,_Yoga_and_You" title="Lilias, Yoga and You">Lilias, Yoga and You</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Britain" title="Yoga in Britain">Britain</a> <ul><li>1976 <a href="/wiki/Lyn_Marshall" title="Lyn Marshall">Lyn Marshall</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_France" title="Yoga in France">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Germany" title="Yoga in Germany">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postural_yoga_in_India" title="Postural yoga in India">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Italy" title="Yoga in Italy">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Russia" title="Yoga in Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Sweden" title="Yoga in Sweden">Sweden</a> <ul><li>2015 <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Brathen" title="Rachel Brathen">Rachel Brathen</a></li></ul></li> <li>Switzerland <ul><li>1941 <a href="/wiki/Selvarajan_Yesudian" title="Selvarajan Yesudian">Selvarajan Yesudian</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1996 <i><a href="/wiki/Norman_Sjoman" title="Norman Sjoman">Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace</a></i></li> <li>2004 <i><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Alter" title="Joseph Alter">Yoga in Modern India</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_Modern_Yoga" title="A History of Modern Yoga">A History of Modern Yoga</a></i></li> <li>2005 <i><a href="/wiki/Positioning_Yoga" title="Positioning Yoga">Positioning Yoga</a></i></li> <li>2010 <i><a href="/wiki/Yoga_Body" title="Yoga Body">Yoga Body</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Subtle_Body" title="The Subtle Body">The Subtle Body</a></i></li> <li>2015 <i><a href="/wiki/Selling_Yoga" title="Selling Yoga">Selling Yoga</a></i></li> <li>2016 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Path_of_Modern_Yoga" title="The Path of Modern Yoga">The Path of Modern Yoga</a></i></li> <li>2017 <i><a href="/wiki/Roots_of_Yoga" title="Roots of Yoga">Roots of Yoga</a></i></li> <li>2019 <i><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Britain:_Stretching_Spirituality_and_Educating_Yogis" title="Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis">Yoga in Britain</a></i></li> <li>2020 <i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Story of Yoga</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>2006 <i><a href="/wiki/Guru_(2006_film)" title="Guru (2006 film)">Guru</a></i></li> <li>2009 <i><a href="/wiki/Enlighten_Up!" title="Enlighten Up!">Enlighten Up!</a></i></li> <li>2012 <i><a href="/wiki/Breath_of_the_Gods" title="Breath of the Gods">Breath of the Gods</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_yoga_schools" title="List of yoga schools">Schools</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Modern_yoga_gurus" title="Modern yoga gurus">Gurus</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1918 <a href="/wiki/The_Yoga_Institute" title="The Yoga Institute">The Yoga Institute</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shri_Yogendra" class="mw-redirect" title="Shri Yogendra">Shri Yogendra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hansa_Yogendra" title="Hansa Yogendra">Hansa Yogendra</a></li></ul></li> <li>1924 <a href="/wiki/Kaivalyadhama_Health_and_Yoga_Research_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center">Kaivalyadhama</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Kuvalayananda" title="Swami Kuvalayananda">Swami Kuvalayananda</a></li></ul></li> <li>1934 <a href="/wiki/Viniyoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Viniyoga">Viniyoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tirumalai_Krishnamacharya" title="Tirumalai Krishnamacharya">Tirumalai Krishnamacharya</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yoga_Makaranda" title="Yoga Makaranda">Yoga Makaranda</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._K._V._Desikachar" title="T. K. V. Desikachar">T. K. V. Desikachar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._G._Mohan" title="A. G. Mohan">A. G. Mohan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indra_Devi" title="Indra Devi">Indra Devi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Srivatsa_Ramaswami" title="Srivatsa Ramaswami">Srivatsa Ramaswami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanda_Scaravelli" title="Vanda Scaravelli">Vanda Scaravelli</a></li></ul></li> <li>c. 1948 <a href="/wiki/Ashtanga_vinyasa_yoga" title="Ashtanga vinyasa yoga">Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K._Pattabhi_Jois" title="K. Pattabhi Jois">K. Pattabhi Jois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysore_style" title="Mysore style">Mysore style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Miller_(yoga_teacher)" title="Tim Miller (yoga teacher)">Tim Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kino_MacGregor" title="Kino MacGregor">Kino MacGregor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Schultz" title="Larry Schultz">Larry Schultz</a></li></ul></li> <li>1959 <a href="/wiki/Sivananda_yoga" title="Sivananda yoga">Sivananda Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vishnudevananda_Saraswati" title="Vishnudevananda Saraswati">Vishnudevananda Saraswati</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Complete_Illustrated_Book_of_Yoga" title="Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga">Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>1963 <a href="/wiki/Bihar_School_of_Yoga" title="Bihar School of Yoga">Bihar School of Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Satyananda_Saraswati" title="Satyananda Saraswati">Satyananda Saraswati</a></li></ul></li> <li>1965 <a href="/wiki/Ananda_Yoga" title="Ananda Yoga">Ananda Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kriyananda" title="Kriyananda">Kriyananda</a></li></ul></li> <li>1966 <a href="/wiki/Integral_Yoga_(Satchidananda)" title="Integral Yoga (Satchidananda)">Integral Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Satchidananda_Saraswati" class="mw-redirect" title="Satchidananda Saraswati">Satchidananda Saraswati</a></li></ul></li> <li>1966 <a href="/wiki/Kripalu_Center" title="Kripalu Center">Kripalu Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amrit_Desai" title="Amrit Desai">Amrit Desai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Cope" title="Stephen Cope">Stephen Cope</a></li></ul></li> <li>1971 <a href="/wiki/Himalayan_Institute_of_Yoga_Science_and_Philosophy" title="Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy">Himalayan Institute</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Rama" title="Swami Rama">Swami Rama</a></li></ul></li> <li>1973 <a href="/wiki/Bikram_Yoga" title="Bikram Yoga">Bikram Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bikram_Choudhury" title="Bikram Choudhury">Bikram Choudhury</a></li></ul></li> <li>1975 <a href="/wiki/Iyengar_Yoga" title="Iyengar Yoga">Iyengar Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B._K._S._Iyengar" title="B. K. S. Iyengar">B. K. S. Iyengar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Light_on_Yoga" title="Light on Yoga">Light on Yoga</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yoga_the_Iyengar_Way" title="Yoga the Iyengar Way">Yoga the Iyengar Way</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>1975 <a href="/wiki/Dharma_Mittra" title="Dharma Mittra">Dharma Mittra</a></li> <li>c. 1975 <a href="/wiki/Yin_Yoga" title="Yin Yoga">Yin Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paulie_Zink" title="Paulie Zink">Paulie Zink</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Grilley" title="Paul Grilley">Paul Grilley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Powers" title="Sarah Powers">Sarah Powers</a></li></ul></li> <li>1982 <a href="/wiki/Forrest_Yoga" title="Forrest Yoga">Forrest Yoga</a></li> <li>1984 <a href="/wiki/Jivamukti_Yoga" title="Jivamukti Yoga">Jivamukti Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sharon_Gannon" title="Sharon Gannon">Sharon Gannon</a></li></ul></li> <li>1995 <a href="/wiki/Power_Yoga" title="Power Yoga">Power Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beryl_Bender_Birch" title="Beryl Bender Birch">Beryl Bender Birch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryan_Kest" title="Bryan Kest">Bryan Kest</a></li></ul></li> <li>1997 <a href="/wiki/Anusara_School_of_Hatha_Yoga" title="Anusara School of Hatha Yoga">Anusara Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Friend_(yogi)" title="John Friend (yogi)">John Friend</a></li></ul></li> <li>2006 <a href="/wiki/Core_Strength_Vinyasa_Yoga" title="Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga">Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga (Sadie Nardini)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">Yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatha_yoga" title="Hatha yoga">Hatha yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_yoga" title="Modern yoga">Modern yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-lineage_yoga" title="Post-lineage yoga">Post-lineage yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Asanas" title="Template:Asanas">Asanas (template)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_yoga_schools" title="List of yoga schools">List of yoga schools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Yoga_scholars" title="Template:Yoga scholars">Yoga scholars (template)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Yoga_teachers" title="Category:Yoga teachers">Yoga teachers (category)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Modern_Yoginis" title="Template:Modern Yoginis">Modern Yoginis (template)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&oldid=1252096434">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Yoga&oldid=1252096434</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:2020_non-fiction_books" title="Category:2020 non-fiction books">2020 non-fiction books</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Books_about_yoga_as_exercise" title="Category:Books about yoga as exercise">Books about yoga as exercise</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Meditation" title="Category:Meditation">Meditation</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:C._Hurst_%26_Co._books" title="Category:C. 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