![]() ![]() While a narrow understanding of tantra will play its part in this paper it will not be heavily focused on so much as to show how Modern ashtanga yoga has been informed by tantric ideology. This overview will provide an interpretive framework of what Pattabhi Jois is doing in terms of subtle body and techniques, but will focus more on the techniques and historical sources from which Ashtanga draws from. The concept of spiritual heat (known as tapas) and its relationship with the nectar of immortality (deemed amṛta), display itself through the understanding and manipulation of both the gross and subtle body. In exploring Pattabhi Jois’s system of ashtanga yoga and determining the lineage through which subtle body models find their textual authority from ancient to modern representations/understandings may provide a useful scholarly framework from which to navigate different essential concepts of this Hindu tradition. This paper will explore the intersection between contemporary eastern (Hindu) traditions and their interaction with subtle body models.
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