Queering and Cripping the "Yoga Body": Teaching, Practice, and Embodiment

Queering and Cripping the ＂Yoga Body＂ deconstructs the power relations that shape the image of a healthy, natural, gendered body performing a postural yoga practice. It will be of interest to students and researchers of embodiment, poststructuralism, queer theory, or disability studies, as well as practitioners of yoga.

Laura Shears has an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA and is a yoga teacher and practitioner.