UC San Diego

This thesis contributes to the fuller project of decolonization by focusing on the development of Yoga in the 20th century and up to the present. The essay considers understandings of Yoga that reinforce the dichotomous West/Non-West image of the world. It develops new research on contemporary yoga in Mexico to show the limits and distortions of this appearance. The research focuses on ensembles of yoga practices, understood as a domain of relational interaction and change, rather than as a finished form of ether non-Western or Western (translated) provenance. From this perspective, we better appreciate that overcoming the unevenness and constraints of any relation come out of the relation itself, rather than from one pole.