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Gurus of Modern Yoga explores the contributions that individual gurus have made to the formation of the practices and discourses of yoga in today's world. The focus is not limited to India, but also extends to the teachings of yoga gurus in the modern, transnational world, and within the Hindu diaspora. Each of the sections deals with a different aspect of the guru within modern yoga. Included are extensive considerations of the transnational tantric guru; the teachings of modern yoga's best-known guru, T. Krishnamacharya, and those of his principal disciples; the place of technology, business, and politics in the work of global yoga gurus; and the role of science and medicine. Although the principal emphasis is on the current situation, some of the essays demonstrate the continuing influence of gurus from generations past. As a whole, the book represents an extensive and diverse picture of the place of the guru in contemporary yoga practice

Gurus --- Yoga --- early twentieth-century yoga --- Swami Vivekananda --- Sri Aurobindo --- the Mother --- the lineage of integral yoga --- Shri Yogendra --- magic --- modernity --- the middle-class yogi --- T. Krishnamacharya --- modern yoga --- Sri K. Pattabhi Jois --- Parampara --- Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga --- B.K.S. Iyengar --- yoga guru --- the institutionalization of the yoga tradition --- Yogini Sunita --- Britain --- tantra --- Swami Krpalvananda --- Kripalu Yoga --- Muktananda --- the sacred --- John Friend --- Anusara Yoga --- Bhaktiyoga --- Svaminarayana --- the Aksarabrahman guru --- Sathya Sai Baba --- technology --- Jaggi Vasudev --- Isha Yoga --- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar --- Art of Living --- Bhakti --- Eknath Ranade --- Jivanvratis --- Vivekananda Kendra --- the 'Yoga Way of Life' --- Swami Ramdev