Positioning Yoga: Balancing Acts Across Cultures by Sarah Strauss

Positioning Yoga by Sarah Strauss traces how yoga became a transnational practice. Her anthropological account follows people and ideas between India, Europe and North America, paying particular attention to the Divine Life Society associated with Swami Sivananda.

Published originally under Berg, the book examines changing cultural values and modern yoga communities. It is a historical and ethnographic study, not a sequence of physical exercises.