Reclaiming Yoga as a Practice of Female Empowerment
Womb yoga is a women's yoga practice developed in the UK from the observation that male bodies and experiences are privileged in mainstream yoga. Based on modern postural yoga, womb yoga integrates the philosophy and mythology of śakta tantra in reference to scholarly texts and reinterprets tan...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
2023
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Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 137-153 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Yoga
/ Woman
/ Empowerment
/ Spirituality
/ Tantrism
/ Shaktism
/ History 1980-2023
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBF British Isles TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
feminine divine
B Tantra B menstrual cycle B women's spirituality B Yoga |
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