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What in fact is yoga?

(a note on meaning — from Patañjali to al-Bīrūnī and beyond)

Francis Laleman
11 min readAug 31, 2023

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from: workshop images at 42Acres Shoreditch — flaleman, London 2018

What yoga really means

The true meaning of concepts has a tendency to get messy over time. Some ideas stick and others don’t. Some change altogether, and others get altogether…

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Francis Laleman

a husband, father, painter, writer, educationist, designer, facilitator. author of “Resourceful Exformation” (a book on facilitation) available from Amazon.