The yoga manifesto : how yoga helped me and why it needs to save itself
Gilani, Nadia2022
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How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged? Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga for 25 years. She has also worked as a yoga teacher. 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 industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping.
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Author:
Gilani, Nadia, author
Imprint:
London : Bluebird, 2022.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781529065107 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
181.45181.45 GIL
Language:
English
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BRN:
2294227