ABSTRACT
This chapter challenges the view of Yoga as isolationistic. I suggest Yoga does not lead to the abandonment of relational and material life, but to an enhanced engagement with the world. I pursue a reading of the Yoga-Sūtra that privileges the potential embodied experience of yoga over metaphysical abstractions. Drawing from the classical tradition I explore how Yoga can culminate in a balanced integration of the spiritual, ethical and material dimensions of human life that incorporates clarity of awareness with the integrity of being and action.
