Yoga 3
While traditional yoga texts focus on the subtle body, modern yoga manuals focus on the anatomical body. Question 2 options:TrueFalse
True
Ling Gymnastics was an important precursor to the physical style of modern yoga. Question 3 options:TrueFalse
true
The "medicalization" of yoga began when Indian thinkers began attempting to connect the yoga body with the anatomical body in the late 19th century. Question 2 options:TrueFalse
true!
Yoga was first part of India-wide curriculum in the YMCA. Question 4 options:TrueFalse
true
Which yoga teacher was the younger brother of Yogananada and was a judge at the Mr. Universe contest? Question 1 options: BC Ghosh Ramesh Balsekar Yogacarya Sundaram Yogendra
BC Ghosh
Which of the following, linked cakras to the "Seals of the Apocalypse"? Question 3 options: Cajzoran Ali Mollie Bagot Stack Francois Delsarte Genevieve Stebbins
Cajzoran Ali
Which yoga teacher started as a muscle contortionist and later incorporated New Thought into his yoga teachings? Question 5 options: KV Iyer Paramahamsa Yogananda Swami Kuvalayananda Yogendra
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Which of the following was the founder of the dramatic form known as Delsartism? Question 1 options: Genevieve Stebbins Francois Delsarte Cajzoran Ali Mollie Bagot Stack
Francois Delsarte
Which of the following helped usher in the "Oriental Dance Craze" that paved the way for modern yoga? Question 5 options: Genevieve Stebbins Cajzoran Ali Francois Delsarte Mollie Bagot Stack
Genevieve Stebbins
Which yoga teacher was friends with Charles Atlas and was influential in the spread of modern yoga as a workout regime through correspondence courses? Question 4 options: Swami Kuvalayananda Paramahamsa Yogananda Yogendra KV Iyer
KV Iyer
Which of the following focused on yoga postures primarily for female bodily aesthetics? Question 2 options: Francois Delsarte Mollie Bagot Stack Cajzoran Ali Genevieve Stebbins
Mollie Bagot Stack
Which of the following refers to a religious movement in the mid-1800s that emphasized the connection between mind and body? Question 1 options: Muscular Christianity Shredded Shaivism Vascular Vaishnavism Swoll Shaktism
Muscular Christianity
As it became mainstream, yoga was a gendered phenomenon. Question 4 options:TrueFalse
True
Photography was a colonial technology that supposedly "recreated the world 'as it is.'" Question 1 options:TrueFalse
True
Which yoga teacher opened a Yoga Institute in New York and researched alongside health and hygiene researchers like John Harvey Kellogg? Question 2 options: Yogendra BC Ghosh Ramesh Balsekar Yogacarya Sundaram
Yogendra
Why did the British create laws making yogis illegal? Question 4 options: Yogis were often militant They believed yogis had too great spiritual power Yogis were often nude They believed yogis engaged in witchcraft
Yogis were often militant
Who was Eugene Sandow? Question 5 options: a Christian preacher a body builder a professor a Hindu guru
a body builder
Popular postural yoga began as... Question 2 options: a way to torture prisoners. a hybridized product of colonial India. a counter-cultural movement. a popular kids' TV show.
a hybridized product of colonial India.
Sūrynamaskār was... Question 3 options: created by a bodybuilder as an exercise. taught in the Vedas. created to show everyone's connection with nature. created by ancient Indian sages.
created by a bodybuilder as an exercise.
In 1689, John Ovington connects yogic postures to... Question 1 options: health exercise asceticism delusions of Satan
delusions of Satan!
Books on yoga from the colonial period never included any images. Question 5 options:TrueFalse
false
Early European sources about yoga differentiate Hindu yogisand Muslim fakirs. Question 5 options:TrueFalse
false !
What medium was used to merge traditional yoga with modernity? Question 4 options: poetry photography prose drawings
photography
What was used to document the yoga body during the colonial period? Question 3 options: photography drawings prose poetry
photography
S.C. Vasu attempted to distinguish bad yoga from true yoga, which... Question 3 options: was scientific and rational. did not exist. was a form of simple meditation. was militant.
science and rational