Integration between western sports culture and eastern yoga traditions as a problem of the modern culture of human psychophysical rehabilitation and recreation

The study provides a relevant philosophical and cultural analysis of the phenomenon of integration between Western sports culture and Eastern yoga traditions. Human psychophysical rehabilitation and recreation (A.Ya. Flier) are regarded as a multifaceted and controversial phenomenon of modern culture that includes a variety of types and algorithms of physical activity and consolidates their core values. The axiological analysis of the phenomena of Western sports and Eastern yoga reveals the aspects of their cultural interpretation and complementarity within the framework of modern culture. The author reveals both the fundamental differences between Western sports culture and traditional Eastern yoga and their similarities as well as conducts a critical analysis of the differences in traditional and modern understanding of yoga and its manifestations in modern culture. The author concludes that not only competition and victory but also psychophysical perfection can serve as a value-based goal of the modern culture of human psychophysical rehabilitation and recreation. Notwithstanding the individualistic, competitive, personal superiority goal-and-value-centered potential, Western sports culture can be effectively complemented by the values of Eastern yoga where the high physical culture of yogis is not an end in itself but an inevitable consequence of their conscientious work on themselves.