The Science of Yoga

the Harvard Medical School.
    Mark Singleton. Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. How Hindu nationalism and early health fads helped create modern yoga.
    Hugh B. Urban. Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Light on the world of yoga eroticism.
    Amy Weintraub. Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga. New York: Broadway Books, 2004. Beautifully written advice on mood lifting and how it works.
    David Gordon White. Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in its South Asian Contexts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. High scholarship on early sexual rites and centuries of misrepresentations.

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