Yoga East Meets West

The Global Popularization of Yoga Early modern yoga was often marred by controversy for its countercultural agenda. Despite its visibility therefore, modern yoga only attracted a small following in the West made up of those who could afford to be eccentric. FOUR (Jain's three) DEVELOPMENTS enabled the global popularization of modern yoga: Mobility : The ability to travel allowed teachers to travel to sell their wares and consumers to travel to seek new experiences. Disillusionment with Established Religious Institutions : Gurus and godmen were able to break into the spiritual marketplace with solutions to these problems. Growth of Consumer Culture : Postural Yoga Increasingly Intersected with growing global consumer culture-they appropriated popular ideas and practices of late 20th century consumer culture enabling the shift from visibility to popularization through consumption. The notion of CHOICE is central to consumer narratives. This CHOICE runs counter to the meta-narrative...

  Official photographs of traditional yogis clothed and posed by British Colonial government According to Jain, and others who study the ancient history of yoga (Singleton, Mallinson, DeMichalis, Alter) antiquity is viewed as "touchstone of authenticity." Authenticity Stories of "modern gurus" and practitioners Pathabbi Jois (Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga) dates back to the Yoga Karunta (which was eaten by ants) BKS Iyengar (Iyengar Yoga)claims his lineage dates back to the great sage Ramakrishna (also his distant relative) Guramukh Kaur Khalasa (Kundalini Yoga) claims that yoga kundalini yoga is a 5000 old tradition evidenced in the Harrapan civilization (archeology of earliest cities) Historical Alignments and Evidence: Archaeology-scant and speculative, date Yoga to about 5000 years ago Pashupati Seal from Mohenjo-daro civilization (top) the "god" Shiva (is known as the lord of the beasts and the lord of yoga). (Bottom) suggested Mulabhanda Asana on a seal fro...

 This semester will be a unique challenge. Online learning is not an ideal delivery system (for most), so we need to take special care to get the most out of synchronous meetings and resources. Know that I have spent the summer doing my best to create digital material that will assist you, but so much more is asked of YOU if we are going to have a successful semester.  ZOOM We are meeting in real time each week on ZOOM. You need to be proficient in navigating the ZOOM app (phone) or system (on your computer).  This PDF from Humboldt University is really useful for preparing you to navigate ZOOM, and use it successfully during class.   https://media.screensteps.com/exported/humboldt/12966/163556/How_do_students_use_Zoom_.pdf Other ZOOM requirements: Please put a picture of yourself up when you set up your profile AND make sure your full name is on your camera Image (this can be set up in your profile or once you are on). ZOOM Meetings are required. Please contact me A...

What is Yoga?   (that depends on who you ask) "The stilling of the movements of the mind" (YS 1.2)-  Yoga is a meditative technique that brings stillness and connects one to the divine force "Skill in Action" (BG 4.22) - Yoga is one's ability to perform one's action with the utmost skill so that one might always "act" properly "Yoga is a technique which stops death"(HYP 2.16) - yogic techniques are meant to stop the natural processes of time and have one experience the eternal divine force. "Yoga is the practice of non attachment" (BG 6.15) -Yoga is the ability to perform a ll actions according to one's purpose (dharma) without regard to the consequences of these actions. "Yoga is a form of exercise which  p ractice a designed to empower you with the focus, training and insight you need to achieve consistent results in the most important areas of your life." (Baron Baptiste)-  Yoga is a form of physical culture whi...

You will be REQUIRED to practice AT LEAST once a week OUTSIDE OF CLASS. Free classes are available at Yoga Nine ONLINE (Zoom) but there are many other options. After practices in class and on your own, please complete a  REFLECTIVE JOURNAL  after each practice. Here are some general questions you might consider when doing your WEEKLY journaling. Journals are submitted via your personal BLOG. You can make a blog on this format (blogger for free with a google/gmail account), or any other format. Please email me your blog address so that I can post it in this blog. If you would like your blog to be private (not available to the rest of class), please "close" access to your blog, but allow me in as a reader (you must give me access) . Blog addresses are due to me via email by September 15. Blog posts are due every FRIDAY by midnight. Each week on your syllabus, you will be given a prompt which is reflective of the class topical material, but please feel free to comment on anythin...

GIS 4636 Yoga: East Meets West Laurie Greene ZOOM T/TH 10:30-12:30                             Office: ZOOM Hours: by appointment Email: laurie.greene@stockton.edu Phone: 609.214.6596 (cell)           Topic: Yoga East Meets West           Time: Sep 8, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)                   Every week on Tue, Thu, until Dec 17, 2020, 30 occurrence(s)           Join Zoom Meeting           https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89966497416?pwd=cjhEMGV5aWpXazA2a1dWYm9IWmE1UT09           Meeting ID: 899 6649 7416           Passcode: 456805 Summary: This course will focus on the hist...