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Barbora Sojkova and Theodora Wildcroft, "Yoga Studies in Five Minutes" (Equinox Publishing, 2025)

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Theodora Wildcroft reveals why they couldn't call their book 'Yoga in Five Minutes' and the surprising collaboration behind it.
Doctors Barbora Sojkova and Theodora Wildcroft discuss their co-edited book 'Yoga Studies in Five Minutes', explaining its aim to make academic yoga research accessible without oversimplifying. They cover the book's structure based on FAQs, contributions from scholars, and topics like diet, hagiography, and the challenges of academic publishing.

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A careful introduction to yoga studies that values clarity without oversimplifying.

The piece presents a book that tries to make yoga studies clear and accessible without flattening it. Its strongest move is the reminder that not every question in the field has one clean answer; some have to be reframed, and the discussion keeps circling back to that idea.

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If you want a clear guide to yoga’s biggest questions, this is your five-minute doorway.

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