In The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice author Elliott Goldberg shows how yoga was transformed from a sacred practice into a health and fitness regime in the early 20th century and then gradually transformed over the course of the 20th century into today’s embodied spiritual practice.

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