6. The Construction of Practice
Post-lineage Yoga - From Guru to #MeToo - Theodora Wildcroft
Theodora Wildcroft [+ ]
The Open University
Theodora Wildcroft, PhD, is a researcher investigating the democratization and evolution of physical practice as it moves beyond both traditional and early modern frameworks of relationship. Her PhD was a significant advance in the analysis of contemporary yoga pedagogies. Her research continues to consider the democratization of yoga post- lineage and meaning making in grassroots communities of practice. She is an associate lecturer at the Open University, UK; a former coordinator of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies; an editor of the BASR Bulletin; an honorary member of the British Wheel of Yoga; a member of the IAYT; and a continuing professional development trainer and consultant for Yoga Alliance (US). Her monograph Post- Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo is available from Equinox Publishing Ltd. (2020).
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