Post-lineage Yoga - From Guru to #MeToo - Theodora Wildcroft

Post-lineage Yoga - From Guru to #MeToo - Theodora Wildcroft

9. Culture and Community

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).

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Chapter 9 brings the book full circle, connecting shared repertoires and shared experiences to community subcultures of the kind first introduced in Chapter 1. • PLY as a ‘community of practice’ • How a shared repertoire and shared experiences become a ‘beloved community’

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Wildcroft, Theo. 9. Culture and Community. Post-lineage Yoga - From Guru to #MeToo. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 198-212 Nov 2020. ISBN 9781781799406. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=39177. Date accessed: 09 Feb 2025 doi: 10.1558/equinox.39177. Nov 2020

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