An earlier version of this article first appeared in Yoga International. ____ The 2010 publication of Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice, marked a watershed moment […]
Why does a thing need to be reconstructed? What exactly has been lost? Childhood? Homeland? Faith? Is there a motivating insecurity? Is reconstruction the public response of private lives that are felt to have fallen into disrepair? And when we reconstruct the thing on the dance stage or in the yoga studio, how do we deal with our awareness of the reconstruction?