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First Things<\/span> has reimagined conservatism for our changing society.<\/p>"},{"id":"58402","title":"Yoga: It\u2019s About You","subtitle":"","link":"article\/2021\/01\/yoga-its-about-you","timestamp":"2021-01-01","date":"January 1, 2021","authlink":"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/author\/clemens-cavallin","author":"Clemens Cavallin","descript":"

The word \u201cyoga\u201d has long had many meanings. In the 1899 Monier-\u00adWilliams Sanskrit dictionary, it is defined as either a yoke, team, vehicle, performance, device, incantation, fraud, work, or union; or it may mean abstract contemplation, meditation, or the union of the individual with the universal soul. The Monier-Williams dictionary does not mention bodily postures (\u0101<\/em>sanas<\/em>)—which is perhaps surprising because today\u2019s yoga focuses almost exclusively on the achievement of well-being through systems of bodily poses. In his influential book Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice,<\/em> Mark Singleton states that \u201cthe primacy of \u0101<\/em>sana<\/em> performance in transnational yoga today . . . has no parallel in premodern times.\u201d The question, therefore, is what the yoga class at the local gym has in common with the teachings of the Yoga S<\/em>\u016b<\/em>tra<\/em> (350\u2013400 b.c.<\/span>) or the fifteenth-\u00adcentury text Hat<\/em>\u0323<\/em>haprad<\/em>\u012b<\/em>pik<\/em>\u0101<\/em>.<\/p>"},{"id":"51973","title":"The Summer Reading List","subtitle":"","link":"web-exclusives\/2015\/06\/the-summer-reading-list","timestamp":"2015-06-24","date":"June 24, 2015","authlink":"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/featured-author\/george-weigel","author":"George Weigel","descript":" "}]}