Henriette Hanky is a doctoral candidate in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.

• Contents List of Figures vii Editors’ Preface viii 1 Introduction Henriette Hanky 1 Part I Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 2 Training—Sensing—Predicting: Towards a Theory of the Reception of Practices as Embodied Anne Koch 27 3 The Search for Rigor in Ethnographies of Bodily Practice Theo Wildcroft 48 Part II Performing Textual Traditions  4 Transpersonal Therapy and a Tantric Temple: The Parātrīśikā in Western  Practice István Keul 71 5 Practicing the Yogasūtra? An Approach to the Analysis of Contemporary Yoga Philosophy’s Somatic Aspects Laura von Ostrowski 95 6 Lay Sāṃkhyayoga Practices in Contemporary India Knut A. Jacobsen 118 Part III Bodily Practices on the Move 7 Embodied Receptions and the Creation of B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Prāṇāyāma Suzanne Newcombe 141 8 Between Patañjali and Psychology: Acem’s “Classical,Meditative Yoga” Margrethe Løøv 161 9 Kaḷarippayaṟṟ˘ in Performance: Adoptions and Adaptations of a South Indian Martial Art Lucy May Constantini 181 Part IV Embodied Meaning-Making 10 Osho in a Nutshell? Dynamic Meditation and the Relationship between Bodily Performance and Meaning-Making Henriette Hanky 201 11  Being Here Fully”: Autoethnographic Approaches to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as an Embodied Group Interaction of an Authentic Self Alan Schink 222 12 Moving Beyond the Mind through “Listening by Heart”: The Role of Experience in Modern Advaitic Satsangs Elin Thorsén 242 13 Aligning the Good and the Beautiful: Yogic Aesthetics in a Globalized World Amanda Lucia 261 Index 281

Henriette Hanky is a doctoral candidate in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.

• Contents List of Figures vii Editors’ Preface viii 1 Introduction Henriette Hanky 1 Part I Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 2 Training—Sensing—Predicting: Towards a Theory of the Reception of Practices as Embodied Anne Koch 27 3 The Search for Rigor in Ethnographies of Bodily Practice Theo Wildcroft 48 Part II Performing Textual Traditions  4 Transpersonal Therapy and a Tantric Temple: The Parātrīśikā in Western  Practice István Keul 71 5 Practicing the Yogasūtra? An Approach to the Analysis of Contemporary Yoga Philosophy’s Somatic Aspects Laura von Ostrowski 95 6 Lay Sāṃkhyayoga Practices in Contemporary India Knut A. Jacobsen 118 Part III Bodily Practices on the Move 7 Embodied Receptions and the Creation of B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Prāṇāyāma Suzanne Newcombe 141 8 Between Patañjali and Psychology: Acem’s “Classical,Meditative Yoga” Margrethe Løøv 161 9 Kaḷarippayaṟṟ˘ in Performance: Adoptions and Adaptations of a South Indian Martial Art Lucy May Constantini 181 Part IV Embodied Meaning-Making 10 Osho in a Nutshell? Dynamic Meditation and the Relationship between Bodily Performance and Meaning-Making Henriette Hanky 201 11  Being Here Fully”: Autoethnographic Approaches to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as an Embodied Group Interaction of an Authentic Self Alan Schink 222 12 Moving Beyond the Mind through “Listening by Heart”: The Role of Experience in Modern Advaitic Satsangs Elin Thorsén 242 13 Aligning the Good and the Beautiful: Yogic Aesthetics in a Globalized World Amanda Lucia 261 Index 281

Henriette Hanky is a doctoral candidate in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.

• Contents List of Figures vii Editors’ Preface viii 1 Introduction Henriette Hanky 1 Part I Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 2 Training—Sensing—Predicting: Towards a Theory of the Reception of Practices as Embodied Anne Koch 27 3 The Search for Rigor in Ethnographies of Bodily Practice Theo Wildcroft 48 Part II Performing Textual Traditions  4 Transpersonal Therapy and a Tantric Temple: The Parātrīśikā in Western  Practice István Keul 71 5 Practicing the Yogasūtra? An Approach to the Analysis of Contemporary Yoga Philosophy’s Somatic Aspects Laura von Ostrowski 95 6 Lay Sāṃkhyayoga Practices in Contemporary India Knut A. Jacobsen 118 Part III Bodily Practices on the Move 7 Embodied Receptions and the Creation of B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Prāṇāyāma Suzanne Newcombe 141 8 Between Patañjali and Psychology: Acem’s “Classical,Meditative Yoga” Margrethe Løøv 161 9 Kaḷarippayaṟṟ˘ in Performance: Adoptions and Adaptations of a South Indian Martial Art Lucy May Constantini 181 Part IV Embodied Meaning-Making 10 Osho in a Nutshell? Dynamic Meditation and the Relationship between Bodily Performance and Meaning-Making Henriette Hanky 201 11  Being Here Fully”: Autoethnographic Approaches to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as an Embodied Group Interaction of an Authentic Self Alan Schink 222 12 Moving Beyond the Mind through “Listening by Heart”: The Role of Experience in Modern Advaitic Satsangs Elin Thorsén 242 13 Aligning the Good and the Beautiful: Yogic Aesthetics in a Globalized World Amanda Lucia 261 Index 281