ROvolutionen #26: Women in the history of yoga

In this episode of ROvolutionen I talk to Mike Bloch-Levermore, a yoga philosophy teacher.

Mike has a bachelor degree in Western Philosophy, and has studied Hinduism, Yoga Philosophy and Sanskrit with Oxford University, and Yoga Philosophy with Seth Powell of Harvard University. Mike is particularly interested in Classical Non-Dual Shaivism and in this episode we talk about the difference between some of the main texts in yoga philosophy.

In this episode we talk about…

  • where are women in the history of yoga

  • most people who do yoga today are women, but was yoga created mainly by men, for men?

  • sequenced postures is yoga is no more than 150 years old, before that yoga was mainly a single posture

  • yoga meant mainly meditation in a seated pose

  • Mike mentions the classical texts Mahabharata, Bhagavad Ghita.

  • The female yoginis and philosophers mentioned are Sulabha, Janaka, Akka Mahadevi, Mirabai, Lal Ded.

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