This paper examines how yoga practice enhances spiritual well-being and life skills. With growing interest in non-pharmacological approaches to maintaining health, especially amid environmental changed and pandemics investigating yoga’s role in holistic health is timely. A qualitative design used in-depth interviews with twenty-one professional trained yoga practitioners in Nepal and Thailand....
This article explores the social and therapeutic roles of banjhakri, a supernatural shamanic entity whose presence extends from West Central Nepal to parts of North Eastern India. It draws exclusively upon a rich cross section of extant scholarship to offer a composite assessment of folklores and symbolism surrounding banjhakri. As such, the article discusses his physical and behavioural...