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Yoga, Tantra & Eastern Mysticism

A History of Modern Yoga

Patañjali and Western Esotericism

by Elizabeth De Michelis

An influential study of how modern yoga took shape, centred on Vivekananda's Raja Yoga and its debts to Advaita, the Brahmo Samaj, New Thought and Western esotericism, and tracing the later 'modern postural yoga' that grew from it.

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