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With over four million copies in print, Paramahansa Yogananda's autobiography has served as a gateway into yoga and alternative spirituality for North American practitioners since 1946. Balancing traditional yoga, metaphysical spirituality, and a flair for the stage, Yogananda inspired countless people to practice Yogoda, his own brand of yoga. His method combined the spiritual and superhuman aspirations of Indian traditions with the health-oriented sensibilities of Western practice. Because the Yogoda program does not rely on recognizable postures and poses, it has remained under the radar of yoga scholarship. Biography of a Yogi examines Yogananda's career and Yogoda in the wider context of the development of yoga in the twentieth century. Focusing on Yogis during this early period of transnational popularization, Foxen highlights the continuities in the concept of the Yogi as superhuman and traces the transformation of yoga from a holistic and spiritual practice to its present-day postural practice.
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Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga's origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize.To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature, he discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their
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Spiritual life --- Tantric Buddhism --- Yogis --- Tantric Buddhism.
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Yogis --- Biography --- Biographie --- Yogânanda, Paramahansa,
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Vedas --- planets --- space travelling --- yogis --- yogic training --- meditation
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Paramahansa Yogananda --- India --- yogis --- miracles --- self-mastery --- autobiography
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Paramahansa Yogananda --- India --- yogis --- miracles --- self-mastery --- autobiography
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Bhagwan Swaminarayan --- yogis --- divine leadership --- disciples --- ascetics --- shastras --- bhakti --- mandirs --- philosophy --- devotion
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India --- greeting --- the traditional 'Namaste' --- culture --- symbolism --- the 'Namaste' gesture --- yogis --- spiritual growth and inner strength
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philosophy --- history --- Tibetan Yoga --- breathing --- meditation --- Tibetan Yogis --- dying --- Gods --- initiation --- magic --- rites --- art --- the relation between mind and body
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