Post-lineage Yoga - From Guru to #MeToo - Theodora Wildcroft
6. The Construction of Practice
Post-lineage Yoga - From Guru to #MeToo - Theodora Wildcroft
Theodora Wildcroft [+]
The Open University
Theo Wildcroft, PhD, is a teacher, trainer, writer, and scholar, whose research considers the democratization of yoga post-lineage, and the evolving practice of teaching yoga for community health. She is the author of Post-Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo, an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, and Project Coordinator for the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies.
Description
Analysing this subculture further necessitated understanding the processes at the heart of practitioner negotiations with identity, ecology, and authority. That analysis gave rise to new models for understanding practice that were applicable to many more yogic subcultures than previously suspected. Chapter 6 details an innovative model for understanding individual practice. • Common intentions and themes that drive the construction of individual practice • Audit, remedy, innovate and savour: a structure for understanding practice construction