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# Yoga Research

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## Posts

- [Dr Jason Birch](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/16/dr-jason-birch/) - Jason Birch (DPhil, Oxon) is a historian of South Asian traditions of yoga and medicine. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the ‘Light on Hatha Yoga’ project, hosted at the University of Oxford and the University of Marburg; co-director of the Yogacintāmaṇi Project at the University of Massachusetts Boston; and a visiting researcher on
- [From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices](https://yogaresearch.org/2025/08/25/from-tapas-to-modern-yoga-sadhus-understanding-of-embodied-practices/) - The publication From Tapas to Modern Yoga presents an exploration of yogic practices within ascetic traditions, offering a unique perspective on yoga's evolution and contemporary manifestations. This scholarly work stands out for its innovative methodological approach, combining extensive fieldwork with rigorous textual analysis.
- [Breath of the Gods: An interview with Jan Schmidt-Garre in Abaton-Kino Hamburg](https://yogaresearch.org/2024/05/23/breath-of-the-gods-an-interview-with-jan-schmidt-garre-im-abaton-kino-hamburg/) - Laura von Ostrowski interviews the film director, Jan Schmidt-Garre, about his documentary "Breath of the Gods".
- [A Scholar's Balancing Act: Myths, Misconceptions, and Textual Evidence in Yoga History. An interview with Dr Jason Birch.](https://yogaresearch.org/2024/11/21/a-scholars-balancing-act-myths-misconceptions-and-textual-evidence-in-yoga-history-an-interview-with-dr-jason-birch/) - In this interview, renowned yoga historian Jason Birch discusses common myths surrounding yoga's history, arguing for increased philological study of Sanskrit and vernacular sources to reconstruct multifaceted developments empirically.
- [Yoga Studies in Five Minutes](https://yogaresearch.org/2025/09/25/yoga-studies-in-five-minutes/) - Yoga Studies in Five Minutes offers an accessible and comprehensive exploration of yoga through a collection of concise yet insightful entries from leading scholars. This interdisciplinary volume bridges the gap between academic scholarship and the broader public's fascination with yoga.
- [Dr. Agi Wittich](https://yogaresearch.org/2025/09/19/dr-agi-wittich/) - Agi Wittich, Ph.D., is a scholar of religion and yoga studies whose work explores the intersections of gender, tradition, and innovation in modern yoga. She earned her doctorate in Comparative Religion from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with a dissertation on Her Yoga: Women-Oriented Iyengar Yoga – Between Innovation and Tradition (2021). Her research examines
- [Embodied Reception: South Asian Spiritualities in Contemporary Contexts](https://yogaresearch.org/2025/03/21/embodied-reception-south-asian-spiritualities-in-contemporary-contexts/) - Edited by Henriette Hanky, Knut A. Jacobsen, and István Keul, this comprehensive work brings together contributions from renowned scholars in yoga studies and related fields. The book's innovative approach introduces the concept of embodied reception, offering a fresh perspective on how practitioners' bodies engage with and shape spiritual practices as they traverse cultural boundaries.
- ["Flexible India: Yoga’s Cultural and Political Tensions" by Shameem Black](https://yogaresearch.org/2025/02/26/flexible-india-yogas-cultural-and-political-tensions-by-shameem-black/) - In her latest scholarly work, Flexible Yoga, Shameem Black insightfully probes yoga’s intricate negotiations amidst cultural appropriation debates, Hindu nationalist agendas, and global labor exploitation through an interdisciplinary framework encompassing ethnography, discourse analysis, and textual study.
- [Dr Shaman Hatley](https://yogaresearch.org/2025/03/06/dr-shaman-hatley/) - Shaman Hatley is an associate professor of Asian Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and chair of the Asian Studies Department. He studied Indology and Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Harunaga Isaacson, completing his doctoral thesis in 2007 and then teaching at Concordia University until
- [Jacqueline Hargreaves](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/jacqueline-hargreaves/) - Jacqueline Hargreaves, BE (Hons), E-RYT, is Coordinator of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies and Programme Convenor of YogaStudies Online at SOAS, University of London. She researches the contemporary meeting place between historical practices and their application in a modern (mainly therapeutic) environment.
- [Dr Seth Powell](https://yogaresearch.org/2025/02/26/dr-seth-powell/) - Seth Powell is a scholar of Indian religions, Sanskrit, and yoga traditions, who earned his PhD in South Asian Religions at Harvard University. His dissertation comprised a critical edition, translation, and detailed study of a 15th-century Sanskrit yoga text from south India known as the Śivayogapradīpikā—which uniquely combines yoga, ritual, and devotion. He also works
- [Fortunate Failures and Postural Yoga in North America](https://yogaresearch.org/2025/01/30/fortunate-failures-and-postural-yoga-in-north-america/) - In his latest book, Yogalands: In search of Practice on the Mat and in the World, Paul Bramadat used interviews, focus groups, site visits, class experiences, a survey, a teacher training program, theoretical inquiries, and auto-ethnography, to enter and take readers into the world of postural yoga.
- [Illuminating the Roots of Yoga: The Haṭhapradīpikā Critical Edition](https://yogaresearch.org/2024/09/26/illuminating-the-roots-of-yoga-the-haṭhapradipika-critical-edition/) - This collaboration between researchers at the University of Oxford (Professor James Mallinson, Dr. Jason Birch) and the University of Marburg (Professor Jürgen Hanneder, Dr. Mitsuyo Demoto, Mr. Nils-Jacob Liersch) will produce the an authoritative critical edition along with an annotated translation of the Haṭhapradīpikā's primary recension. Through meticulous examination of surviving manuscript witnesses, Professors Mallinson, Hanneder, and their research teams have produced a new critical edition of the Haṭhapradīpikā.
- ["Guru to the World: The Life of Swami Vivekananda" by Ruth Harris](https://yogaresearch.org/2024/09/19/guru-to-the-world-the-life-of-swami-vivekananda-by-ruth-harris/) - In the biography Guru to the World: The Life of Swami Vivekananda, Ruth Harris provides a comprehensive and discerning account of Swami Vivekananda, the Hindu monk renowned for introducing yoga and Vedanta philosophy to the Western world during the late 19th century. Harris skillfully traces Vivekananda's journey from his upbringing in Calcutta to his notable 1893 address at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, followed by extensive tours across America and Europe.
- [Dr Peter Pasedach](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/16/dr-peter-pasedach/) - Peter Pasedach is a research associate at the department for Indology and Tibetology of Hamburg University. He is a Sanskritist specialising in court poetry, on which he leads a DFG-funded project, and yoga-related texts. He has taught Sanskrit and related topics in Hamburg, Göttingen and Leiden. He is actively involved in the building up of the focus Yoga Studies at Hamburg University.
- [3rd International YDYS Conference](https://yogaresearch.org/2024/08/09/3rd-international-ydys-conference/) - Reflections by Samantha Griggs on this year's Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana Conference in Hamburg.
- [Bridging Disciplines: Integrating Social Sciences and Humanities to Advance Yoga Studies | An interview with Prof. Smriti Srinivas](https://yogaresearch.org/2024/07/12/bridging-disciplines-integrating-social-sciences-and-humanities-to-advance-yoga-studies-an-interview-with-prof-smriti-srinivas/) - Smriti Srinivas offers a unique perspective on the academic study of yoga, drawing from her background in anthropology and lived experiences across diverse cultures.
- [“Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation” by Christopher Jain Miller (Routledge 2024)](https://yogaresearch.org/2024/07/01/embodying-transnational-yoga-eating-singing-and-breathing-in-transformation-by-christopher-jain-miller-routledge-2024/) - Agi Wittich shares her view on the book by Christopher Jain Miller, Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation.
- [Rediscovering Yoga's Diverse History | An Interview with David Gordon White](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/12/08/interview-with-david-gordon-white/) - This interview with yoga scholar David Gordon White provides a compelling window into the development of yoga studies as an academic discipline over the past 50 years and reflections on White's prolific career researching South Asian religions. A leading historian of tantra and medieval Indian asceticism, White shares how his early fascination with Indian spirituality
- [New publication: Journal of Yoga Studies, Volume 5](https://yogaresearch.org/2024/05/10/new-publication-journal-of-yoga-studies-volume-5/) - The fifth volume of the Journal of Yoga Studies, Volume 5 (2024) has been published and is available open access. The previous volume, no. 4, which was published last year (2023), contains fourteen articles, which comprise a wide variety of studies into yoga and bodily practices in South Asia and beyond, and illustrate the diversity
- [Dr. Beatrix Hauser](https://yogaresearch.org/2024/05/10/dr-beatrix-hauser/) - Beatrix Hauser is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for the Science of Religion and Related Didactics at the University of Bremen. She received her academic training in Social Anthropology (MA and PhD from the University of Hamburg) and holds a habilitation degree from the University of Halle (2009). Her main research interests lie in the
- [Dr Michel Angot](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/dr-michel-angot/) - Indologist, vedic scholar, grammarian and philologist, Michel Angot has trained and worked both in India and in France (Sorbonne). His training in India included learning Veda recitation and traditional grammar with local scholars (pandits). Some of his more specialistic areas of expertise are in the domain of svara (sanskrit tonality, often translated as accent system), Mahābhāṣya of Patañjali, Yoga Sūtra and other yoga-related texts, including the Yogayājñavalkya and the Haṭhapradīpikā.
- [Prof. James Mallinson](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/dr-james-mallinson/) - James Mallinson is Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Classical and Indian Studies at SOAS, University of London. Between September 2015-2020, Mallinson was the Principle Investigator of The Haṭha Yoga Project (HYP), a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council and based at SOAS, University of London which aims to chart the history of physical yoga practice by means of philology, i.e. the study of texts on yoga, and ethnography, i.e. fieldwork among practitioners of yoga. From January 2021, Mallison will be the lead on three year project entitled “Light on Hatha Yoga: A critical edition and translation of the Haṭhapradīpikā, the most important premodern text on physical yoga” funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the German Research Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
- [Dr Christopher Miller](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/11/dr-christopher-miller/) - Christopher Jain Miller, the co-founder and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Arihanta Institute, completed his PhD in the study of Religion at the University of California, Davis. He is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Zürich's Asien-Orient-Institut and Visiting Professor at Claremont School of Theology where he co-developed and co-runs a remotely available Masters Degree Program focusing on Engaged Jain Studies. His current research focuses on Modern Yoga and Engaged Jainism. Christopher is the author of a number of articles and book chapters concerned with Jainism and the practice of modern yoga.
- [Corinna Lhoir](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/28/corinna-lhoir/) - Corinna Lhoir, M.A., is a PhD student of classical Indology and a contract lecturer for Beginner’s Sanskrit and Origins of Yoga at Universität Hamburg as well as an entrepreneur with her own online learning platform with focus on studies of yoga and Sanskrit (“yogastudien.de”). She holds a B.A. in Languages and Cultures of India and Tibet with focus on classical Indology from Universität Hamburg and a M.A. in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from SOAS, University of London. She is also currently enrolled in a M.A. program on Oriental Languages and Cultures India at Ghent University in Belgium, where her studies focus on Jainism.
- [Dr Laura von Ostrowski](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/21/dr-laura-von-ostrowski/) - Laura von Ostrowski studied Indology, Religious Studies and Romance Studies at LMU Munich.From 2015-2018 she was a fellow of the DFG Research Training Group "Presence and Implicit Knowledge" at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and received her PhD in Religious Studies in 2021. The book to her PhD-thesis was published Open Access under the title A Text in Motion in 2022. Her areas of research include modern and contemporary yoga, the reception of the Yogasūtra, the history of German yoga and of the physical culture movement, contemporary religion, aesthetics and embodiment. Since 2007, she works as a yoga teacher, runs her own yoga studio in the centre of Munich since 2018 and teaches about the history of modern yoga at the online education portal www.yogastudien.de, associated with the University of Hamburg, Germany.
- [Launch of YogaResearch.org](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/07/06/launch-of-yogaresearch-org/) - YogaResearch.org has officially launched on 7th July 2023. The aim of this website is to provide a rich and up-to-date resource for sharing academic research findings and upcoming events in the field of Yoga Studies. Scholars in the field will be contributing regular reflections about recent publications and projects in the field of yoga studies, current events, and offering their insights into the best way to navigate this field of study.
- [Prof. Smriti Srinivas](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/prof-smriti-srinivas/) - Smriti Srinivas is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Srinivas’ research interests include cities and urban cultures, religion, the body, South Asia within a comparative context and Indian Ocean worlds. Her most recent work, Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba's Presence (2022), is a co-edited volume with Neelima Jeychandran and Allen Roberts, and focuses on the presence and contemporaneity of Shirdi Sai Baba (d.1918), who has a vast following in postcolonial South Asia and an ever-growing global diaspora.
- [Prof. Lola Williamson](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/prof-lola-williamson/) - Lola Williamson is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies and the former Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS. She holds a Ph.D. in Languages and Cultures of Asia from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Williamson’s research centers on Hinduism in North America with an emphasis on yoga and meditation movements. She founded the North America Hinduism Consultation of the American Academy of Religion in 2006. Her book, Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion (New York University Press, 2010), uses Self-Realization Fellowship, Transcendental Meditation, and Siddha Yoga as case studies to argue that these and similar groups form a distinct category of new religion. Her edited volume with Ann Gleig, Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism (SUNY Press, 2014), examines the role of American-born teachers and gurus in creating a new hybrid “American Hinduism.”
- [Dr Andrea Acri](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/16/dr-andrea-acri/) - Andrea Acri is Maître de conférences (tenured Assistant Professor) in Tantric Studies at the Religious Studies Section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, PSL University, Paris), and contracted researcher at the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in Paris in framework of the ERC Synergy project “DHARMA” (2021–2023). He has a Laurea degree from the University of Rome “Sapienza” (2005) and
- [Prof. Ellen Goldberg](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/21/dr-ellen-goldberg/) - Ellen Goldberg is Retired Professor of Religions of South Asia at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Ellen obtained an MA and a PhD in Religious Studies from the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her doctoral work published in 2002 under the title The Lord Who Is Half Woman: Ardhanārīśvara in Indian and Feminist Perspective (SUNY Press) includes an extensive analysis of the significance of Ardhanārīśvara in haṭha and tantric yoga. Goldberg has also written several articles on the intersection between yoga and cognitive science. She has authored a chapter on “Swami Kṛpalvānanda” for a book edited with Mark Singleton titled Gurus of Modern Yoga and has an article on “Amrit Desai and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Holistic Health” in Lola Williamson and Anne Gleig’s book titled Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism (SUNY Press). Ellen’s other projects include articles on “Pārvatī” and “Ardhanārīśvara” for the newly launched Oxford Online Bibliographic Series and a book in preparation on Swami Kṛpalvānanda’s contributions to modern yoga.
- [Dr Maya Warrier](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/01/dr-maya-warrier/) - Maya Warrier was a Reader in Religious Studies at the University of Winchester until her retirement in 2020. Her research explored popular Hindu traditions in modern transnational contexts. Her last research projects focused on Ayurveda (the ancient Indian system of medicine) in the UK.
- [Prof. Christian Bouy](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/12/prof-christian-bouy/) - (1948-2011) Our esteemed contributor Christian Bouy passed away on 3 November 2011. Prof Kellens, Director of the Institut d’Études Indiennes at the Collège de France as at 2014, wrote this about his passing: We learned of … the death of Christian Bouy [on November 3, 2011]. About ten years ago, while a lecturer [maître de
- [Dr Philipp André Maas](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/01/dr-philipp-andre-maas/) - Philipp André Maas is currently a research associate at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig and was previously an assistant professor at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. He received his M.A. (1997) and Dr. phil. (2004) degrees from the University of Bonn, Germany, where he studied Indology, Comparative Religious Studies, Tibetology and Philosophy.
- [Prof. Karl Baier](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/16/prof-karl-baier/) - Karl Baier is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Vienna (Institute for the Study of Religions) and has a long standing interest in the history and modernisation of yoga and meditation, as well as in the study of spirituality in Christianity and other religions. His Habilitation, submitted in 2008, was on the topic of
- [Dr Theo Wildcroft](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/21/dr-theo-wildcroft/) - Theo Wildcroft, PhD is a researcher investigating the democratization and evolution of physical practice as it moves beyond both traditional and early modern frameworks of relationship. Her PhD was a significant advance in the analysis of contemporary yoga pedagogies. Her research continues to consider the democratization of yoga post-lineage, and meaning-making in grassroots communities of practice. She is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, UK, former Coordinator of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies, editor of the BASR Bulletin, honorary member of the British Wheel of Yoga, member of the IAYT, and a continuing professional development trainer and consultant for Yoga Alliance (US). Her monograph Post-lineage yoga: from guru to #metoo is available from Equinox.
- [Prof. Johannes Bronkhorst](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/prof-johannes-bronkhorst/) - After initial studies of Mathematics and Physics with Astronomy at the Free University in Amsterdam (Kandidaats/B.Sc. in 1968), Johannes Bronkhorst took up the study of Sanskrit and Pali, first at the University of Rajasthan (Jaipur, India), then at the University of Pune (India). In Pune he obtained an M.A. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1979. After his return to the Netherlands he obtained a second doctorate from the University of Leiden in 1980 (with the highest distinction). Bronkhorst remained attached to the University of Leiden as a researcher until 1987, in which year he was appointed full professor of Sanskrit & Indian Studies at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He remained there until his (mandatory) retirement in 2011.
- [Dr Raphaël Voix](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/dr-raphael-voix/) - Raphaël Voix holds an MA and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Paris West Nanterre la Défense where he is a part-time lecturer, and also an MA in Bengali from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Paris) where he teaches Hinduism. He is an associate member of CEIAS (Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud). He specialises in the study of contemporary Hindu asceticism and has conducted extensive fieldwork on Bengali sects. His research deals mainly with tantric practices, violence and utopia in Hindu India.
- [Prof. Hugh Urban](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/prof-hugh-urban/) - Hugh B. Urban is a professor of religious studies and South Asian studies in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is primarily interested in Tantra and in the complex interactions between Tantra and new religious currents in America and Europe. He is the author of seven books, including Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religions (2003), Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism (2005), and The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies (2010).
- [Prof. Federico Squarcini](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/prof-federico-squarcini/) - Federico Squarcini taught at Florence University and at the Università La Sapienza, Rome, before joining the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy, where he is currently Associated Professor of History of Religions. Prof. Squarcini lectures on a range of South-Asia related topics, including Indian philosophy and religions. He is also Director of doctoral studies with regard to Asian subjects and In 2012 he launched the Ca’ Foscari Yoga Studies MA (information in Italian here), which he continues to direct. His main teaching and research interests include Sanskrit normative textual traditions (dharmaśāstra), intellectual history of asceticism and anthropotechnics, western receptions of South Asian cultural and intellectuals traditions, methods and theories in the studies of religions.
- [Prof. Andrew J. Nicholson](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/22/prof-andrew-j-nicholson/) - Andrew J. Nicholson is Associate Professor of Hinduism and Indian Intellectual History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. His primary area of research is Indian philosophy and intellectual history, particularly medieval Vedanta and theistic yoga philosophies and their influence in the modern world. His first book, Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History (Columbia University Press, 2010), won the 2011 award for Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion. Professor Nicholson’s second book, Lord Śiva’s Song: The Īśvara Gītā (SUNY Press, 2014), is an annotated translation of an 8th century Pāśupata Yoga text.
- [Prof. Paolo Magnone](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/21/dr-paolo-magnone/) - Paolo Magnone is currently professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, besides teaching Study of Religions: Hinduism & Buddhism at the Higher Institute for Religious Sciences (both in Milan, Italy). His main research interests include studies in the mythological narratives of the epico-purāṇic literature with variously thematic, hermeneutical, text-critical, and comparative approaches; the philosophy of the Upaniṣads and Sāṃkhya–Yoga in the light of the commentators; comparative studies in Ancient Greek and Indian philosophical thought.
- [Dr Ann Gleig](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/20/dr-ann-gleig/) - Ann Gleig recently received her Ph.D. in religious studies from Rice University and is currently a teaching fellow at Millsaps College. Her areas of specialization are Asian religions in America as well as religion and psychology. She has published and presented on numerous aspects of her research, and is presently working on a co-edited book collection (with Lola Williamson) titled Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism. She is an editor for Religious Studies Review for the sections on the “Sociology and Anthropology of Religion” and a subeditor for “Mysticism, Asian Religions, and Psychology.” She is also interested in innovative pedagogies such as feminist, queer and contemplative pedagogy.
- [Dr Borayin Larios](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/21/dr-borayin-larios/) - Dr Borayin Larios is head of the Indology Department at the French Institute of Pondicherry and EFEO fellow. He holds an MA in Religious Studies from Fribourg and Lausanne (Switzerland) universities and a PhD in Classical Indology from Heidelberg University (Germany) and served as an assistant professor at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. Dr. Larios uses an interdisciplinary methodological approach, combining cultural anthropology, religious studies, and historical philology to understand the religious traditions of contemporary India. His main regional focus is Maharashtra. He is the author of Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra, published by DeGruyter Open Access in 2017. He is also a member of the Centre for Yoga Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and also a core member of the Yoga in Latin America Project (YoLA Project) led by Adrián Muñoz. He is co-editor with Muñoz on the first publication dedicated to Yoga in Latinamerica entitled: "Latināsana: The Avatars of Yoga in Latin America", which is forthcoming with HASP.
- [Dr Elizabeth De Michelis](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/05/23/dr-elizabeth-de-michelis/) - Elizabeth De Michelis has a long standing interest in religions and religious phenomena, especially those concerned with the cultivation of contemplative and meditative, non-secular lifestyles and related practices and theorizations. Her areas of academic expertise are the history of yoga; the intellectual history of modern yoga; modern yoga ideologies, groups and institutions; and western esotericism’s appropriations of South Asian disciplines.
- [Dr Mark Singleton](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/05/23/dr-mark-singleton/) - Mark Singleton has worked on yoga in tradition and modernity. He was a consultant and catalogue author for the 2013 exhibition ‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Between 2015-2020 he was a senior researcher on a five-year European Research Council-funded project entitled ‘The Hatha Yoga Project: Mapping Indian and Transnational Traditions of Physical Yoga through Philology and Ethnography'.
- [Prof. Gudrun Bühnemann](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/06/16/prof-gudrun-buhnemann/) - Gudrun Bühnemann is Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1980. Her recent work on Yoga includes the book Eighty-four Āsanas in Yoga: A Survey of Traditions (with Illustrations) (D.K. Printworld, 2007; 2nd edition, 2011), the article “The Śāradātilakatantra on Yoga: A
- [Introduction to Indology](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/05/30/introduction-to-indology-soas-centre-for-yoga-studies/) - In this episode we talk to Dr Jim Mallinson on the discipline of Indology. What the discipline entails, its place in academia and some of the skills that prove useful when researching the history and culture of Pre-modern India.
- [Indology: Voices from the field](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/05/30/indology-voices-from-the-field-soas-centre-for-yoga-studies-2/) - A selection of recommended texts and links to SOAS online talks which will help you further explore the subject of Indology. The featured authors are Geoffrey Samuel, Gavin Flood, and Jessica Frazier.
- [Dr Suzanne Newcombe](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/05/23/dr-suzanne-newcombe/) - Suzanne Newcombe is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University (UK) where she researches modern yoga from a sociological and social historical perspective. She is also the Director of Inform, a registered charity that researches and provides information on new and minority religions and spiritualities.
- [Prof. Dominik Wujastyk](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/05/23/prof-dominik-wujastyk/) - Dominik Wujastyk was born in London, and spent much of his childhood in Sudan, Uganda and Malta. He has degrees in Physics, and Sanskrit with Pali, and a doctorate in Sanskrit from Oxford University. He has published and taught on the history of Indian medicine and science, the history of Sanskrit grammar, Indian miniature painting, the study and preservation of Sanskrit manuscripts, and the history of yoga philosophy.
- [Prof. David Gordon White](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/05/23/prof-david-gordon-white/) - David Gordon White received his Ph.D. (with Honors) from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago in 1988. He also studied Hinduism at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, France, between 1977-1980 and 1985-1986. A specialist of South Asian religions, he is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he taught from 1996 to 2021.
- [New researcher added to the People page](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/01/19/new-researcher-added-to-the-people-page/) - We've added John Smith to the People page. John is a PhD candidate at the Open University.
- [Prof. Joseph S. Alter](https://yogaresearch.org/2023/05/23/prof-joseph-s-alter/) - Joseph S. Alter is the Director of the Asian Studies Center and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the editor of The Journal of Asian Studies (2021 – 2025). His research is on environmental health, the globalization of Asian medical knowledge and the cultural history of yoga’s development within the institutionalized structure of Nature Cure in contemporary India.

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- [Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice](https://yogaresearch.org/document/asanas-of-the-yogacintamaṇi-the-largest-premodern-compilation-on-postural-practice/) - Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice ...
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- [The Yoga of the Matsyendrasaṃhitā: A critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1–13 and 55](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-yoga-of-the-matsyendrasaṃhita-a-critical-edition-and-annotated-translation-of-chapters-1-13-and-55/) - The Yoga of the Matsyendrasaṃhitā: A critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1–13 and 55 ...
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- [Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation](https://yogaresearch.org/document/embodying-transnational-yoga-eating-singing-and-breathing-in-transformation/) - Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation ...
- [Freedom Inside: Yoga and Meditation in the Careceral State](https://yogaresearch.org/document/freedom-inside-yoga-and-meditation-in-the-careceral-state/) - Freedom Inside: Yoga and Meditation in the Careceral State ...
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- [Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?](https://yogaresearch.org/document/debating-yoga-and-mindfulness-in-public-schools-reforming-secular-education-or-reestablishing-religion/) - A call for clarity in newer realms of religion and public education, Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing number ...
- [Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture](https://yogaresearch.org/document/selling-yoga-from-counterculture-to-pop-culture/) - This book explores how modern yoga became transformed from a largely countercultural phenomenon to a part of pop culture when entrepreneurs became strategic participants in a global market and succeed ...
- [Peace, Love, Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality](https://yogaresearch.org/document/peace-love-yoga-the-politics-of-global-spirituality/) - Peace Love Yoga analyzes growing spiritual industries and their coherence with neoliberal capitalism. “Personal growth,” “self-care,” and “transformation” are just some of the generative tropes in the ...
- [The Classical Reveries of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Constructive Orientalism](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-classical-reveries-of-modern-yoga-patanjali-and-constructive-orientalism/) - The installation of the YS as the Classical Yoga text in the modern age is bound up with several dialectically interlinked, ideological currents. These include colonial translation projects intended t ...
- [The Neoliberal Yogi and the Politics of Yoga](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-neoliberal-yogi-and-the-politics-of-yoga/) - Can the theory and practice of the yogic tradition serve as a challenge to dominant cultural and political norms in the Western world? In this essay I demonstrate that modern yoga is a creature of fab ...
- [The Yoga of Power: Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-yoga-of-power-yoga-as-political-thought-and-practice-in-india/) - In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control the mind and body. This book argues for a wider un ...
- [Sinister Yogis](https://yogaresearch.org/document/sinister-yogis/) - Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-c ...
- [Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires](https://yogaresearch.org/document/warrior-ascetics-and-indian-empires/) - Many people assume, largely because of Gandhi's legacy, that Hinduism is a religion of non-violence. In this 2006 book William R. Pinch shows just how wrong this assumption is. Using the life of Anupg ...
- [Like A Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga](https://yogaresearch.org/document/like-a-tree-universally-spread-sri-sabhapati-swami-and-sivarajayoga/) - This book examines the life of a nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Tamil yogin named Sri Sabhapati Swami (Śrī Sabhāpati Svāmī or Capāpati Cuvāmikaḷ, ca. 1828-1923/4) and his unique English, Tamil ...
- [Suggestive Therapeutics: New Thought's Relationship to Modern Yoga](https://yogaresearch.org/document/suggestive-therapeutics-new-thoughts-relationship-to-modern-yoga/) - Modern, transnational yoga in the early twentieth century often defined itself in terms and ideologies borrowed from the popular current of esoteric American Protestantism known as New Thought
- [Traditional Yoga Postures for Modern Geriatric Care Or Women’s Yoga Lineages of the Lambourn Valley](https://yogaresearch.org/document/traditional-yoga-postures-for-modern-geriatric-care-or-womens-yoga-lineages-of-the-lambourn-valley/) - This article is a personal reflection on the evolution of Yoga teaching and practice in the United Kingdom as I have experienced it growing up and growing old(er) in the Lambourn Valley in Berkshire, in the South West of England
- [A Preliminary Survey of Modern Yoga Studies](https://yogaresearch.org/document/a-preliminary-survey-of-modern-yoga-studies/) - Modern yoga has emerged as a transnational global phenomenon during the course of the twentieth century and from about 1975 onwards it has progressively become acculturated in many different developed or developing societies and milieus worldwide
- [Yoga and Physical Education: Swami Kuvalayananda's Nationalist Project](https://yogaresearch.org/document/yoga-and-physical-education-swami-kuvalayanandas-nationalist-project/) - In the 1920s, Jagannath G
- [Immortality and Longevity through Yoga in the Tirumantiram](https://yogaresearch.org/document/immortality-and-longevity-through-yoga-in-the-tirumantiram/) - Tirumūlar yoga reveals the practices through which one may achieve longevity and immortality
- [Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis](https://yogaresearch.org/document/yoga-in-britain-stretching-spirituality-and-educating-yogis/) - Yoga in Britain reveals how yoga came to be an accepted, mainstream activity
- [The Revival of Yoga in Contemporary India](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-revival-of-yoga-in-contemporary-india/) - The word yoga refers to a multi-faceted array of beliefs and practices
- [Yoga in Modern India:The Body between Science and Philosophy](https://yogaresearch.org/document/yoga-in-modern-indiathe-body-between-science-and-philosophy/) - Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging
- [Yoga Tradition Of The Mysore Palace](https://yogaresearch.org/document/yoga-tradition-of-the-mysore-palace/) - This book traces the developmental years of the Ashtanga Yoga tradition of K
- [The Identification of an Illustrated Haṭhayoga Manuscript and Its Significance for Traditions of 84 Āsanas in Yoga](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-identification-of-an-illustrated-haṭhayoga-manuscript-and-its-significance-for-traditions-of-84-asanas-in-yoga/) - This article identifies an illustrated Harhayoga manuscript preserved in the British Library (London) and discusses the manuscript's significance in the context of traditions of 84 postures (asana) in Yoga
- [‘Physicalisation’: A Pedagogy of Body-Mind Cultivation for Liberation in Modern Yoga and Meditation Methods](https://yogaresearch.org/document/physicalisation-a-pedagogy-of-body-mind-cultivation-for-liberation-in-modern-yoga-and-meditation-methods/) - This paper explores the transformation of a dualistic mind-body relationship as reported by participants in a recent qualitative study involving modern yoga and meditation practitioners
- [Modern Medical Yoga: Struggling With a History of Magic, Alchemy and Sex](https://yogaresearch.org/document/modern-medical-yoga-struggling-with-a-history-of-magic-alchemy-and-sex/) - The history of modern yoga is rooted in the history of alchemy and the practice of magic in medieval India
- [Stretching for Health and Well-Being: Yoga and Women in Britain, 1960-1980](https://yogaresearch.org/document/stretching-for-health-and-well-being-yoga-and-women-in-britain-1960-1980/) - In Britain, yoga became an increasingly popular group activity from the 1960s onwards in government-subsidised adult-education evening classes
- [The Wheel of the Navel and Lotus of the Heart: Metaphor, Medical Knowledge, and the Body of Early Yoga](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-wheel-of-the-navel-and-lotus-of-the-heart-metaphor-medical-knowledge-and-the-body-of-early-yoga/) - This essay examines the formative history of the cakras of tantric yoga through a genealogy of the “wheel of the navel” (nābhicakra) and “lotus of the heart” (hṛdayapuṇḍarīka, etc
- [A History of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Western esotericism](https://yogaresearch.org/document/a-history-of-modern-yoga-patanjali-and-western-esotericism/) - A History of Modern Yoga traces the roots of Modern Yoga back to the spread of western esoteric ideas in 18th century Bengal's intellectual circles
- [Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice](https://yogaresearch.org/document/yoga-body-the-origins-of-modern-posture-practice/) - Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls--that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted
- [The Power of Practice: How Music and Yoga Transformed the Life and Work of Yehudi Menuhin](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-power-of-practice-how-music-and-yoga-transformed-the-life-and-work-of-yehudi-menuhin/) - The Power of Practice showcases the pioneering achievements of renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916-99) and how both disciplines transformed his life and practice
- [Reframing Yoga and Meditation Studies](https://yogaresearch.org/document/reframing-yoga-and-meditation-studies/) - This chapter offers analytical meta-reflection on the process of identifying, surveying and examining the current field of academic yoga and meditation studies
- [Sūryanamaskār: Tracing the Origins of Yoga's Sun Salutation](https://yogaresearch.org/document/suryanamaskar-tracing-the-origins-of-yogas-sun-salutation/) - In contemporary, globalised yoga, few practices are as widespread or as emblematic as sūryanamaskār (‘salutation to the sun’)
- [Yoga Posture and Forceful Yoga: Tibetan Amṛtasiddhi Texts by Amoghavajra](https://yogaresearch.org/document/yoga-posture-and-forceful-yoga-tibetan-amṛtasiddhi-texts-by-amoghavajra/) - The Amṛtasiddhi is a text that has recently become better known to people who are interested in the study and practice of yoga, especially Haṭha Yoga
- [Cinmudrā: Origins, Evolution and Meaning](https://yogaresearch.org/document/cinmudra-origins-evolution-and-meaning/) - This paper examines cinmudrā, the practice of joining the index finger and thumb together, adopted throughout the 20th century in seated postures such as padmāsana to facilitate the practice of meditation or prāṇāyāma
- [What is Yogic Gnosticism? Demarcating an Elite Ritual Identity Worth Reconsidering](https://yogaresearch.org/document/what-is-yogic-gnosticism-demarcating-an-elite-ritual-identity-worth-reconsidering/) - In this paper I gather core definitional components of yogic Gnosticism (aka jñāna-yoga/ the yoga of knowledge), which I produced for a forthcoming monograph (Metaphysics as Therapy, Springer, April 2025) on the use of taxonomy in the spiritual exercises of gnostic yogas
- [Etched in Stone: Sixteenth-century Visual and Material Evidence of Śaiva Ascetics and Yogis in Complex Non-seated Āsanas at Vijayanagara](https://yogaresearch.org/document/etched-in-stone-sixteenth-century-visual-and-material-evidence-of-saiva-ascetics-and-yogis-in-complex-non-seated-asanas-at-vijayanagara/) - This article reassesses the history of postural yoga in precolonial India by drawing attention to recently discovered visual material evidence of non-seated postures carved onto the pillars of Vijayanagara temples at Hampi in Karnataka
- [The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-yoga-of-the-haṭhabhyasapaddhati-haṭhayoga-on-the-cusp-of-modernity/) - The Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati is a Sanskrit text on the practice of Haṭhayoga, probably composed in the eighteenth century in Maharashtra
- [The Dharmaputrikā Saṃhitā: Preliminary Notes on an Early Text on Yoga](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-dharmaputrika-saṃhita-preliminary-notes-on-an-early-text-on-yoga/) - This essay aims to present the current state of research on the Dharmaputrikā Saṃhitā, an ancient text on yoga which describes, with an exceptional depth of detail and a high level of bodily technicality, internal yogic practices
- [Premodern Yogāsanas and Modern Postural Yoga Practice: Distinct Regional Collections of Āsanas on the Eve of Colonialism](https://yogaresearch.org/document/premodern-yogasanas-and-modern-postural-yoga-practice-distinct-regional-collections-of-asanas-on-the-eve-of-colonialism/) - In this chapter, we formulate a corpus of premodern praxis manuals on yoga that were composed in the 18th and 19th century in rudimentary Sanskrit and vernacular languages, which were likely documenting collections of yoga postures (āsana) current among practitioners of the time
- [Yogi Sculptures: Complex Āsanas Across the Deccan](https://yogaresearch.org/document/yogi-sculptures-complex-asanas-across-the-deccan/) - This chapter aims to broaden our understanding of the visual record of yogis carved upon the temple pillars and walls of several Vijayanagara-era temple sites in the Deccan—including major temple complexes at Hampi, Śrīśailam, Śṛṅgerī, Lepākṣī, and Śravaṇabeḷagola
- [Royal Amusements, Sports, Acrobats and Yogic Practices According to the Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā](https://yogaresearch.org/document/royal-amusements-sports-acrobats-and-yogic-practices-according-to-the-samrajyalakṣmipiṭhika/) - The largely understudied Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā is known to a small number of Sanskritists as a compendium on kingship, which they believe to be from South India
- [Dance as Yoga: Ritual Offering and Imitatio Dei in the Physical Practices of Classical Indian Theatre](https://yogaresearch.org/document/dance-as-yoga-ritual-offering-and-imitatio-dei-in-the-physical-practices-of-classical-indian-theatre/) - In the Nāṭyaśāstra, two main types of physical practices are described in some detail: the so-called “bodily acting” (āṅgikābhinaya) and dance (nṛtta)
- [Zurkhāneh, Akhāṛā, Pahlavān, and Jyeṣṭhī-mallas: Cross Cultural Interaction and Social Legitimisation at the Turn of the 17th Century](https://yogaresearch.org/document/zurkhaneh-akhaṛa-pahlavan-and-jyeṣṭhi-mallas-cross-cultural-interaction-and-social-legitimisation-at-the-turn-of-the-17th-century/) - The tradition of Turco-Persian wrestling, including its programme of physical education based at dedicated gyms known as zurkhāneh (literally “houses of strength”), contains elements that would appear to merge Turkish, Iranian, Central-Asian, and Indian influences within a mystical (Sufi) Islamic framework potentially affected to a certain degree by Buddhism
- [Poles apart? From Wrestling and Mallkhāmb to Pole Yoga](https://yogaresearch.org/document/poles-apart-from-wrestling-and-mallkhamb-to-pole-yoga/) - Mallkhāmb (malla-khāmba, “wrestler-pole”) is today popularly referred to as “Pole Yoga” and it is recognised as the so-called “Authentic Indian Sport
- [Uncovering Vyāyāma in Yoga](https://yogaresearch.org/document/uncovering-vyayama-in-yoga/) - This chapter aims to show how the 19th-century revival of vyāyāma became a source for modern yoga to emerge in India during the first half of the 20th century
- [Prostration or Potentiation? Hindu Ritual, Physical Culture, and the “Sun Salutation” (Sūryanamaskār)](https://yogaresearch.org/document/prostration-or-potentiation-hindu-ritual-physical-culture-and-the-sun-salutation-suryanamaskar/) - The so-called “Sun Salutation” (S
- [Managing Wind and Fire: Some Remarks from a Case Study on Kaḷarippayaṟṟụ](https://yogaresearch.org/document/managing-wind-and-fire-some-remarks-from-a-case-study-on-kaḷarippayaṟṟu/) - Throughout its development, the Keralan body practice kaḷarippayaṟṟụ has been characterised by various visions among the masters (gurukkaḷ) regarding the practice itself and its relationship to other Indian practices
- [Firm Feet and Inner Wind: Introducing Posture in the South Indian Martial Art, Kaḷarippayaṟṟ ̆](https://yogaresearch.org/document/firm-feet-and-inner-wind-introducing-posture-in-the-south-indian-martial-art-kaḷarippayaṟṟ-̆/) - Kaḷarippayaṟṟ˘ developed as an intertwined martial and medical system in various styles across South India
- [Is There Such a Thing as Chinese Yoga? Indian Postural Therapies in Mediaeval China: Indian Postural Therapies in Mediaeval China](https://yogaresearch.org/document/is-there-such-a-thing-as-chinese-yoga-indian-postural-therapies-in-mediaeval-china-indian-postural-therapies-in-mediaeval-china/) - China has an unbroken history of therapeutic stretches, gymnastics, and callisthenic practices—collectively known as daoyin—that date back to the 2nd century BCE
- [Knowledge Transfer of Bodily Practices Between China and India in the Mediaeval World](https://yogaresearch.org/document/knowledge-transfer-of-bodily-practices-between-china-and-india-in-the-mediaeval-world/) - The “family resemblance” between the Chinese therapeutic exercises known as daoyin (lit
- [Tracking the Illusory Magical Wheel: Physical Yoga in Tibetan Tantra and Dzogchen](https://yogaresearch.org/document/tracking-the-illusory-magical-wheel-physical-yoga-in-tibetan-tantra-and-dzogchen/) - In Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and Bön, yoga refers to expedient means (thabs, S
- [The Embodiment of Meaning and the Meaning of Embodiment: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns in the Study of Postural Practice](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-embodiment-of-meaning-and-the-meaning-of-embodiment-theoretical-and-methodological-concerns-in-the-study-of-postural-practice/) - Drawing on the example of kuśtī-pahalvānī (traditional wrestling in India) to engage with arguments presented in each of the chapters that have come before, this “Afterword” engages with the problem of how meaning is assigned to physical practices and to the body engaged in various forms of self-development and self-discipline
- [Yoga and Vyāyāma in New Bengali Sources](https://yogaresearch.org/document/yoga-and-vyayama-in-new-bengali-sources/) - This paper examines yoga āsana and vyāyāma instruction from Bengal in the twentieth century
- ["Mother of Yoga": Zhang Huilan, Chris Butler, and the Popularization of Yoga in the People's Republic of China](https://yogaresearch.org/document/mother-of-yoga-zhang-huilan-chris-butler-and-the-popularization-of-yoga-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china/) - The past and present development of modern yoga within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) remains sorely understudied
- [Fading into Death through Pātañjalayoga: On the Apparent Dead-like State of the Yoga Practitioner Absorbed into Contentless Samādhi](https://yogaresearch.org/document/fading-into-death-through-patanjalayoga-on-the-apparent-dead-like-state-of-the-yoga-practitioner-absorbed-into-contentless-samadhi/) - This article was inspired by a reading of Nāgeśa Bhaṭta’s commentary, Pātañjalayogasūtravṛtti (PYV), on Pātañjalayogaśāstra I
- [The Swami Circuit: Mapping the Terrain of Early American Yoga](https://yogaresearch.org/document/the-swami-circuit-mapping-the-terrain-of-early-american-yoga/) - This article provides an overview to what the author has termed “early American yoga,” yoga as it was understood in the United States from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century

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