{"product_id":"yoga-as-embodied-resistance-a-feminist-lens-on-caste-gender-and-sacred-resilience-in-yoga-history-paperback","title":"Yoga as Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, and Sacred Resilience in Yoga History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnjali Rao\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eThenmozhi Soundararajan\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat does yoga have to do with caste, gender, and power? \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This groundbreaking work explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and collective liberation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoga as Embodied Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the essential--but often unseen--relationships between caste and gender in yoga. Bridging scholarship, history, and cultural analysis, yoga educator and practitioner Anjali Rao exposes how caste oppression, patriarchy, and colonization impact contemporary practice, and offers readers radical ways to re-envision a yoga grounded in liberation, inquiry, discernment, and even dissent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRao calls upon us to realize the work of co-creating a compassionate and courageous world, uplifting the stories of women and gender-expansive people who confront caste and gender dominance. The stories, or kathas, reflect different parts of yoga history from the Upanishads, the Puranas, and the Bhakti renaissance--and highlight the seismic shifts in consciousness about the potential of spiritual teachings for social change. She explores: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFoundational histories of yoga, caste, and Hinduism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe tensions among yoga, nationalism, anticolonialism, and Indigeneity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe impacts and intersections of yoga, gender, caste, and culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrahminical appropriation and its relationship to eros, spirituality, and loving devotion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanskritization, vernacularization, and the impact of patriarchy on bodily expression\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBhakti as a subversive tool of personal agency and anticolonial resistance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith provocative chapters like \"Is Yoga Hindu?\" and a foreword from Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Rao's work is both an invitation and a force of nature that lights up the path of yoga toward brighter, just, and more liberated futures.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eANJALI RAO is a yoga educator-practitioner, her work deconstructs the dynamics of power in yoga with a multi disciplinary approach integrating philosophy, art and history. She offers insight into the stories that have been obscured by heteropatriarchy, orthodoxy and colonization. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Philosophy and Religion in California Institute of Integral Studies, her studies continue to explore the formulation of movements of dissent and resistance in the religio-spiritual context. She is on the faculty of many yoga teacher training and continuing education yogaprograms. She is the host of The Love of Yoga podcast, and shares thought provoking conversations with yoga scholars and activists on the frontlines of liberatory movements\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978305241389,"sku":"9798889842774","price":21.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/zkoB5o_LRn9798889842774.webp?v=1775801553","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/yoga-as-embodied-resistance-a-feminist-lens-on-caste-gender-and-sacred-resilience-in-yoga-history-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}