Yoga shalala

A dive into the fascinating world of yoga, combining intimate experience and universal questions. By the duo behind Resisters (over 10,000 copies sold). "The path of yoga as I have experienced it is a dense jungle, made of a thousand paths that intersect, tangle and confuse us. Wide tracks lead to the most famous clearings, but there are also forks secret paths, trails that lead nowhere, half-erased tracks, hidden walkways, descents, ascents. Yoga is neither a sport nor a wellness practice. It is much more than this... and above all something else! For ten years, the philosopher Jeanne Burgart Goutal explored this world, with a a mixture of distance and passion, she has multiplied the courses and the readings, stayed in India, trained as a teacher... In 2016, she met an ancient yogi living on the fringes of society, who opens the doors to this world for him universe and reveals the behind the scenes. At the same time, she leads a research on ecofeminism. From this intersection arise explosive questions. Why be interested here and Now to the philosophies of yoga, born in India several millennia ago? Can they change our relationship with nature? Yoga, today very predominantly female, is it feminist? Where is the boundary? between spiritual practice and sectarian drift? How can we explain that France, country of the Cartesian spirit, has eight million followers? Stroke of genius Marketing or symptom of a deep crisis of our civilization? In a word: What is the yoga fad a symptom of? A book with vibrant illustrations, which mixes fiction and reality, experiences intimate and universal questions, and challenges clichés.