%0 Journal Article
%T Christianity as the Basis of Wincenty Lutosławski’s “Polish Yoga”
%A Świerzowska, Agata
%J Studia Religiologica
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/20844077SR.20.003.12506
%N Volume 53, Issue 1
%P 33-47
%K Wincenty Lutosławski, yoga, Christianity, esotericism, messianism
%@ 0137-2432
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/christianity-as-the-basis-of-wincenty-lutoslawskis-polish-yoga
%X 
	
		The article is an attempt to show the importance of Christianity in the reinterpretation of the Indian yoga tradition, in order to include it in a new (Polish) cultural context. Christianity allowed transformation of this culturally alien concept in such a way that it ceased to be seen as something foreign and exotic, and started to be treated as a Polish discipline –in a way specifically addressing the needs and conditions of the Polish nation. The article focusses on the approach to yoga proposed by Wincenty Lutosławski, the author of the first “Polish yoga”handbook, although other interpretations are also referred to, in order to demonstrate the widest possible approach to this discipline.