Modern yoga is a wide range of yoga practices with differing purposes, encompassing in its various forms yoga philosophy derived from the Vedas, asanas (physical postures derived from hatha yoga), devotional and tantra-based practices, and Hindu nation-building approaches. The scholar Elizabeth de Michelis proposed a four-part typology of modern yoga in 2004, separating modern psychosomatic, denominational, postural, and meditational yogas.
Modern yoga is a wide range of yoga practices with differing purposes, encompassing in its various forms yoga philosophy derived from the Vedas, asanas (physical postures derived from hatha yoga), devotional and tantra-based practices, and Hindu nation-building approaches. The scholar Elizabeth de Michelis proposed a four-part typology of modern yoga in 2004, separating modern psychosomatic, denominational, postural, and meditational yogas.
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