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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Laura ShearsPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9781032505435ISBN 10: 1032505435 Pages: 130 Publication Date: 22 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction and Theoretical Framework Part I: Yoga Practice 2. Yoga as a Measurable, Medical Intervention: How Yoga Effectiveness Research Contributes to a Discourse of Productive, Manageable Bodies 3. Yoga as a Healthy, Natural Intervention: How Yoga Effectiveness Research Contributes to a Discourse of Moral, Independent Bodies 4. The Yoga Practice as Functional Movement: How Yoga-Related Media Contributes to the Developing Subjectivities of Yoga Practitioners Part II: Yoga Teaching 5. Yoga Teachers as Self-Monitoring Bodies: How Relations of Power Surrounding Yoga Alliance Contribute to the Developing Subjectivities of Yoga Teachers 6. Yoga Teachers as Strong, Docile Bodies: How Discourses Surrounding Yoga Teacher Training Programs Shape the Subjectivities of Yoga Teachers Part III: Yoga, Embodiment, and Resistance 7. Yoga as an Act of Resistance: Thinking with the Queer and Disabled Body 8. Yoga as Union: Tentative Integrations Appendix: Post-Qualitative InquiryReviews"""Foregrounding their own positionality as a yoga practitioner and instructor, Shears fluidly moves in, around, and with complex theories of embodiment and power to think differently about current (and dominant) yoga educational programming, discourse, and practice. The work is bold, rigorous, deeply reflective, and beautifully written. More than an academic debate, this book is for anyone who wants to trouble the normalizing practices that narrowly define specific subjectivities in relation to those teaching and practicing yoga."" Dr. Alecia Jackson, Professor, Appalachian State University, USA" Author InformationLaura Shears has an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA and is a yoga teacher and practitioner. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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