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Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness
By Home, Stewart
- ISBN
- 9780745351124
- Publisher
- Pluto
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Reviewed on June 1, 2025 | Science & Technology
Writer and art historian Home (Art School Orgy) examines the links among the modern practice of yoga, fascism, and occult practices. Though it has been claimed to be derived from ancient Hindu and Indian forms of meditation, yoga as a form of exercise owes much of its contemporary origins to Pierre Bernard (1875–1955), Home argues. An inveterate exaggerator dubbed "the Great Oom," Bernard combined superficial understandings of Eastern spiritual traditions, W...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
