{"product_id":"yoga-as-embodied-resistance-anjali-rao-9798889842774","title":"Yoga as Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, and Sacred Resilience in Yoga History","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat does yoga have to do with caste, gender, and power? \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This groundbreaking work explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and collective liberation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoga as Embodied Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the essential--but often unseen--relationships between caste and gender in yoga. Bridging scholarship, history, and cultural analysis, yoga educator and practitioner Anjali Rao exposes how caste oppression, patriarchy, colonization, and the right-wing Hindutva movement impact contemporary practice and offers readers radical ways to re-envision a yoga grounded in liberation, inquiry, discernment, and even dissent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRao calls upon us to realize the work of co-creating a compassionate and courageous world, uplifting the stories of women and gender-expansive people who confront caste and gender dominance. The stories, or kathas, reflect different parts of yoga history from the Upanishads, the Puranas, and the Bhakti renaissance--and highlight the seismic shifts in consciousness about the potential of spiritual teachings for social change. She explores: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFoundational histories of yoga, caste, and Hinduism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe tensions among yoga, nationalism, anti-colonialism, and Indigeneity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe impacts and intersections of yoga, gender, caste, and culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrahminnical appropriation and its relationship to eros, spirituality, and loving devotion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanskritization, vernacularization, and the impact of patriarchy on bodily expression\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBhakti as a subversive tool of personal agency and anticolonial resistance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith provocative chapters like \"Is Yoga Hindu?\" and \"Ethnonationalism and Yoga: Meeting the Moment,\" Rao's work is both an invitation and a force of nature that lights up the path of yoga toward brighter, just, and more liberated futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anjali Rao\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798889842774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North Atlantic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Anjali Rao","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721254293759,"sku":"9798889842774","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a128302d-c494-4da8-86e5-0e74d11b3f95.jpg?v=1742752311","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/yoga-as-embodied-resistance-anjali-rao-9798889842774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}