Mark Singleton (yoga scholar)

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rdf:langString Mark Singleton

rdf:langString Mark Singleton

rdf:langString The Body at the Centre: Contexts of Postural Yoga in the Modern Age

rdf:langString Yoga Body , thesis: modern yoga as exercise was shaped in 20th century

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rdf:langString Mark Singleton is a scholar and practitioner of yoga. He studied yoga intensively in India, and became a qualified yoga teacher, until returning to England to study divinity and research the origins of modern postural yoga. His doctoral dissertation, which argued that posture-based forms of yoga represent a radical break from haṭha yoga tradition, with different goals, and an unprecedented emphasis on āsanas, was later published in book form as the widely-read Yoga Body. Singleton was a senior research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, working on the European Research Council-funded Hatha Yoga Project. As an editor of scholarly texts and essays on yoga, his works have been widely praised and well received by scholars. Gurus of Modern Yoga and Roots of Yoga are both considered important contributions to the field of yoga.