ABSTRACT
This chapter challenges us to reflect on the different ways the yoga practitioner can be a tourist and a pilgrim and how through pilgrimage an individual’s own body is potentially transformed. Tourism is central to the yoga journey yet little has been said regarding the role embodiment plays in being a yoga tourist. This chapter explores different modes of embodying tourism within the transglobal yoga industry. While rooted in a historical-ethnographic method, it also combines a philological perspective to better understand how pre-modern concepts related to sacred landscapes, both within and beyond the body of the pilgrim might map onto the body of the tourist. Thereby illustrating that there are more ways to understand what it means to be a tourist and a pilgrim.
