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work_upd6klm6zvc7fck7a7svstowku	Laura Douglass	How Did We Get Here? A History of Yoga in America, 1800-1970	2007.0	8	.pdf	application/pdf	6428	691	66	This article reviews the academic literature of the 1800s-1970s to show that America's focus on Yoga's something else: the emphasis on Yoga as a practice for improving physical health is a way to make sense of and accept Thoreau's Yoga practice was a challenge to the academic community of a relatively new and predominately academic study alone did not: Does the study and practice of Yoga lead individuals away from Christianity? affected by Christian scholars' negative attention to the subject of Yoga and Hinduism.b;15,16 Some Hindus converted to would lead to greater physical health, Vivekananda liberated the practice of Yoga from the popular conception magic and the occult, while popular literature of this period positioned Yoga as an eclectic practice concerned with Yoga offered new ways to think about the human experience, it was also worrisome because it challenged long-held Aurobindo.52-55 These East Indian teachers of Yoga were distinctly bi-cultural. Americans studying Yoga in India, and Indian practitioners 	./cache/work_upd6klm6zvc7fck7a7svstowku.pdf	./txt/work_upd6klm6zvc7fck7a7svstowku.txt