By Centre of Yoga Studies|October 24, 2022|Uncategorized|0 comments

Event details: SOAS CYS summer course, 2022 This post written by: Lea Stiller We asked a student on our summer course to write a few reflections provoked by their time studying with us. When I first started studying Sanskrit, our teacher asked a question: “Who came here because of Yoga? And who came here because of Buddhism?” Around the same number of students raised their hands for each of these

My first paper was challenging and exhilarating

By Centre of Yoga Studies|August 31, 2021|Uncategorized|0 comments

Event details: SOAS CYS Post-graduate student conference, 2021 Event recording: YouTube This post written by: Scott Lamps The opportunity to present a 15 minute talk or ‘paper’ at SOAS’s Post-Graduation Student Conference was my first such experience. I have presented and taught in many other disciplines, but the scholarly format and audience were new for me. I am a longtime practitioner of yoga. In the premodern texts of yoga, the concept of samādhi has

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Yoga’s (not so) distant relatives

My first paper was challenging and exhilarating