Queering and Cripping the “Yoga Body”

Teaching, Practice, and Embodiment

Laura Shears

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Routledge
22 March 2024

Gender studies, gender groups; Exercise & workout books

Queering and Cripping the “Yoga Body” deconstructs the power relations and dominant discourses that shape the image of a healthy, natural, gendered body performing a postural yoga practice.

This book examines empirical yoga research, yoga-related media, and yoga teacher training materials to critique how yoga becomes a manageable, predictable intervention that individuals can and should undertake in order to create healthy, manageable, non-burdensome bodies. It argues that when yoga is positioned as a natural intervention, discourses of morality and purity become intertwined with those of measurability, responsibility, control, health, and gender. It also considers the author’s own embodied experience, as well as those of other queer and disabled yoga teachers and practitioners, and how such experiences can open up possibilities for the teaching and practice of yoga.

Queering and Cripping the “Yoga Body” will be of interest to graduate students and researchers studying embodiment, health and mindfulness practices, poststructuralism, queer theory, or disability studies, as well as researchers, teachers, and practitioners of yoga.

By: Laura Shears
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781032505435
ISBN 10: 1032505435
Pages: 130
Publication Date: 22 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laura Shears has an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA and is a yoga teacher and practitioner.

Reviews for Queering and Cripping the “Yoga Body”: Teaching, Practice, and Embodiment

"""Foregrounding their own positionality as a yoga practitioner and instructor, Shears fluidly moves in, around, and with complex theories of embodiment and power to think differently about current (and dominant) yoga educational programming, discourse, and practice. The work is bold, rigorous, deeply reflective, and beautifully written. More than an academic debate, this book is for anyone who wants to trouble the normalizing practices that narrowly define specific subjectivities in relation to those teaching and practicing yoga."" Dr. Alecia Jackson, Professor, Appalachian State University, USA"