Teaching yoga: Changes Over the Years
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https://doi.org/10.22201/iisue.20072872e.2025.45.1974Keywords:
art education, dance, yoga, History of educationAbstract
This article is part of a broader research entitled Dance and Yoga, which investigates the links between these two disciplines. The concern arose because dancers, teachers, and choreographers currently include yoga as part of their training, and some professional dance schools integrate it as a compulsory or complementary subject in the curriculum for the dancers' training. The advances I present focus on aspects related to the teaching of yoga, I divided them into: 1) what is yoga; 2) the commitments of the guru (teacher) and the śiṣya (student); 3) a guru of the twentieth century: B.K.S. Iyengar; 4) the classroom in the practice of yoga; and 5) the aids or props. To elaborate on it, I relied on two types of sources: documentary and testimonial. Among the documentary sources, I reviewed classic yoga books, and texts by authors who are experts in postural yoga and Asian studies. As testimonial sources, I carried out twelve interviews, of which I took up comments from three, highlighting the one with Raya Uma Datta, a yoga teacher from India.
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