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It seems that we have been so taken in the West by our need to be forever young and to have perfect-shaped bodies that the body postures (asanas) have completely dominated our understanding of yoga and anything else has fallen off the radar. Yet in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras only 3 out of the 196 Sutras deal with postures! Even the majority of research tends to be focused on the biomedical effects on the body, which excludes the much wider impact of yoga on human existence. With once- or twice-a-week asana classes, the deep transformative value of yogic science and the promise of spiritual transformation eludes us.

But new voices are beginning to point back to the richness of the ancient science. In their 2015 book, The Eight Limbs of Yoga: A Handbook for Living Yoga Philosophy, Stuart Sarbacker and Kevin Kimple point to the “great potential for self-transformation through Yoga” and its capacity “to transform one’s relationship with others and the world in profound ways.”51 As Michael Lee mentions in his recent article, “The gold nugget of Yoga therapy—its capacity to be a catalyst for meaningful and lasting transformational change—remains largely hidden.”52