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    Women in Yoga with Ruth Westoby
    Women in Yoga with Ruth Westoby
    Women in Yoga with Ruth Westoby
    Audiobook2 hours

    Women in Yoga with Ruth Westoby

    Written by Ruth Westoby

    Narrated by Ruth Westoby

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    About this audiobook

    Over 4 sessions Ruth will explore the roles women have made in the history of ancient and modern yoga practice.

    • Session 1 – Ruth discusses themes such as power, control and purity, types of female practitioners and their relation to modern practitioners.
    • Session 2: Ruth discusses the role of gendered polarities in the traditions and the metaphysics of gender.
    • Session 3: In this session Ruth explores the gendered yogic body.
    • Session 4: In this session Ruth discusses the issues of women in globalised modern yoga
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWise Studies Audio
    Release dateJan 27, 2020
    ISBN9781094283005
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