Women in Yoga with Ruth Westoby

Over 4 sessions Ruth will explore the roles women have made in the history of ancient and modern yoga practice.

• Session 1 - Ruth discusses themes such as power, control and purity, types of female practitioners and their relation to modern practitioners.
• Session 2: Ruth discusses the role of gendered polarities in the traditions and the metaphysics of gender.
• Session 3: In this session Ruth explores the gendered yogic body.
• Session 4: In this session Ruth discusses the issues of women in globalised modern yoga