Spirituality Studies 11-2 Fall 2025 85 Rachel Brown chapter 5 The Centre Held. Ultimately, Bramadat responds by suggesting that one can, perhaps should, practice a “yoga for adults” (Bramadat 2025, 20–24). By presenting a yoga for adults this book offers a way for practitioners like myself, and my mat mates, to step into the studio each day and be transformed, to allow the magic to work, while also, to cultivate “a state of mind in which one can subject one’s commitments and communities to critical scrutiny and yet remain involved with such ideas, practices, and people even after the end of innocence” (Bramadat 2025, 202). 4 Conclusion In Yogalands Bramadat weaves together, with writing that is both accessible and captivatingly complex, the personal and the scholarly perspectives on this practice. He asks the questions that plague many of us who are trying to navigate our own reasons for being on the mat alongside the many complications of taking up such a practice here and now, in this loud, fast, and dirty world. Reference Bramadat, Paul. 2025. Yogalands: In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World. Montreal & Kingston, CA: McGill-Queens University Press.
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