The New Yoga: From Cults and Dogma to Science and Sanity

The New Yoga: From Cults and Dogma to Science and Sanity! Where did most of your yoga moves come from? A guru from the annals of Indian folklore? Or are those thousand-year-old poses really a twentieth century invention hidden behind a veil of tall stories? Were they based on movement science-or cooked-up creations with a big pinch of folklore? The New Yoga takes a brutally hard look at these critical questions. It proposes six radical steps to strip away the nonsense and provide common-sense yoga for the future based on movement science: - Stretching is not the primary goal. Really? Yes. More important are ten other benefits including two new buzzwords proprioception and interoception.- Mobility tops flexibility. Focus on better control over a safe range of movement. - Practice and all is coming. Not so! Despite the famous gurus oft quotes words we may never achieve certain poses. Trying will lead to injury.- Avoid repetitive stress and encourage brain health with frequent and varying moves on and off the mat.- Pretzels pushing extreme flexibility lead to injury and misplaced envy. Hyper-mobility is not something to envy; its sad.- Dont throw the baby out with the bath water. Maintain what works but question all for good evidence.Rob Walker quotes a wide range of experts and speaks from his own 20-year yoga teacher-training experience. He dumps accepted dogma behind much current teaching and brings a fresh sparkle of evidence and science to twenty-first century yoga.