Das geschäftliche Kalkül beruht nun gerade auf einer Trennung von Yoga und Religion/Philosophie:
Lucia (2018: 36) hat geschrieben:While postural yoga often includes religious ritual elements and philosophical (and sometimes theological) underpinnings, the Indian government and other yogic organizations around the world have been careful to distance the practice of postural yoga from religion, and Hindu religion in particular. Their quite accurate fear emerges from the fact that if yoga were to become synonymous with any one religion, it would be rendered particularly local, and potentially exclusionary.
Besonders denkwürdig fand ich:
Lucia (2018: 55f) hat geschrieben:The pressures of this mimetic role were revealed directly on 14 June 2015, when Kino MacGregor, an active presence in the yoga community (who at the time had 782,000 followers on Instagram and 264,000 on Facebook), posted on Instagram that she had severely injured her hamstring or hip, to the extent that she could not straighten or put weight on her leg (Remski 2015a). [Fn. 22: Importantly, McGregor’s injury occurred while assisting a student, not while engaged in her own asana practice.] Still, in the following days, as if nothing had happened, she continued to proliferate her Instagram profile with her stock of (some previously recorded) short videos of her bikini-clad, muscular body performing sequences of highly difficult poses in beautiful beach and ocean surroundings. This spurious action may be about the maintenance of the brand (as some of her online critics responded), but it was also about maintaining the illusion of bodily transcendence, insuring that the role model of the supple and invincible yogic adept remained an unscathed and intact model for aspiring yogis.
Lucia, Amanda. 2018. Saving Yogis: Spiritual nationalism and the proselytizing missions of global Yoga.
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