CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Zebrowska, Tatiana |
|---|---|
| Title | Yoga Off The Mat: The Body And The Yoga Sutras In Modern Warsaw |
| Summary | Yoga was brought into the world around 5000 years ago, and in the late XIX century, it came to Poland. Although yoga originated as a philosophy in the contemporary Western world, it is viewed mainly as a physical practice and very often as a means of changing the appearance and abilities of the body. Despite the practice being body-oriented in this way, I argue that a modern practitioner from Warsaw can find meaning in the body similar to the meaning it had when Yoga philosophy originated. Firstly, to illustrate two definitions of the term yoga, this thesis contrasts the contemporary approach to the body and this practice with the approach from the Yoga Sutras. This ancient book has long been a model of Yoga philosophy. This analytical research combines literary analysis and qualitative research, meaning in-depth interviews. Those interviews show how practitioners from Warsaw view the body in the context of modern yoga. This thesis demonstrates that modern yoga can lead to seeing the body as a tool for spiritual liberation, similar to how it was seen in the Yoga Sutras. |
| Supervisor | Kumar Sanjay |
| Department | Undergraduate Studies BA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/zebrowska_tatiana.pdf |
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