Extracts from the Autobiography of the Ambivalent Ashtangi

• In this article, I explore the way Ashtanga yoga specifically (as a form of transnational physical yoga) relates acrobatic bodily practices with expected spiritual development and potential modes of consciousness, drawing on, among other things, yoga philosophy. Furthermore, I will discuss what it means to these understandings that they also have unfolded and continue to unfold within a transnational, and thus multi-religious, environments.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Scenkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Performing Arts (hsv//eng)

Keyword

yoga

Artistic practices

Konstnärliga praktiker

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