Adjusting the Quotidian: Ashtanga Yoga as Everyday Practice
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Adjusting the Quotidian: Ashtanga Yoga as Everyday Practice Benjamin Richard Smith1 The challenge of Ashtanga is to maintain a regular practice. For those who do I have seen their lives rewarded (Paul Frechtling, YogaMoves website) Sa tu dīrgha kāla nairantarya satkārā sevit drdha bhūmih (‘You must practice continuously for a long time, and you must do all this as God’s service’) (Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 1:14) The practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is increasingly popular in the West. A growing number of people have taken it up, whilst others have continued longer-running practices. For dedicated Ashtanga practitioners (or ‘Ashtangis’), yoga means the daily practice of a sequence of asana2 (‘postures’). Many also try to apply a body of ethical principles drawn from the philosophical literature that underpins this practice. This paper outlines initial work undertaken towards a socio-cultural study of the practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga amongst Western practitioners, based on initial ethnographic research as a participant-observer in yoga classes in Australia and India. This research has included ongoing asana practice and participation in classes and workshops in Australia, India and other locations, and unstructured and semi-structured interviews with other practitioners. A substantial part of the project’s methodology is reflection on the embodied experience of asana practice (including my own experience of practice, as well as that of respondents)3. This work also draws on the burgeoning field of English-language literature on yoga, which includes books and dedicated journals, websites, and practitioners’ own web-logs. The paper consists of some early ‘soundings’ of this project. It engages with varying forms of Ashtanga practice in Australia, which range from occasional classes in gyms to daily practice at yoga studios and practitioners’ homes. My intention is to examine the ways in which yoga has become integrated into the wider lives of dedicated practitioners, and their assertions of yoga’s ability to transform their lives, as well as their bodies. By relating the practice of yoga to other aspects of cosmopolitan late modernity, I hope to provide a partial explanation for its recent popularity and its relationship to other aspects of the contemporary quotidian4. Ashtanga Yoga as a system of practice
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