Reflection on Sounding Off
Where do we go from here? My thoughts and perspectives on Sanskrit in modern yoga.
Where do we go from here? My thoughts and perspectives on Sanskrit in modern yoga.
Part 7 of Sounding Off: Defiance to Adversity, Democracy, Diversity
Part 6 of Sounding Off: Cultural Hybrids, Orientalists, Priests; the West, the Rest, and the “Exotic East”
Part 5 of Sounding Off: Caste, Class, and Curators of Culture
Part 4 of Sounding Off: Doctrines of Discipline under Consumer Capitalism.
Part 3 of Sounding Off: Mantra, Tantra, Translation, Transformation
Part 2 of Sounding Off: Legendary Lineages vs. Living Languages.
Part 1 of Sounding Off: Sanskrit scripture, sacred sound, & spiritual power in speech aloud.
I used to be adamant about speaking Sanskrit in my yoga classes. But as I learned more about South Asian history, all those foreign words just started sounding…off.
We may have been safe from the jungle, but the jungle was not safe from us.