“With heat even iron will bend”: Discipline and authority in ashtanga yoga

Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 140-160

  Smith, Benjamin Richard ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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