Event details: SOAS CYS summer school, 2021 This post written by: Varun Aiyer We asked a couple of students on our summer school to write a few reflections provoked by their time studying with us. This is one of two pieces in response. The present times, to my mind, demand from practitioners, researchers, scholars, seekers of every field of work- study, if at all their inner persons exercise the will to
Event details: SOAS CYS summer school, 2021 This post written by: Richa Agarwal We asked a couple of students on our summer school to write a few reflections provoked by their time studying with us. This is one of two pieces in response. When you grow up as an Indian infused with a culture of rich classical Indian traditions like Yoga and Vedanta since childhood, the understanding that ‘Yoga is not just
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
In September 2020, the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies ran a seminar series titled ‘Yoga and Philosophy’. After the seminars, we invited participants to write posts reflecting on each one. The presentation portion of the seminar series is available on our YouTube channel. Seminar: ‘Entangled Ontologies in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra: Sāṃkhya, Sarvāstivāda and Sautrāntika’ led by Karen O’Brien-Kop. This post written by: Rocco Cestola. On September 21, 2020, the Yoga and Philosophy Seminar
We aim with this blog to promote good scholarly conversations, by offering early career, independent or established academics the opportunity to write posts in response to some of our events. If this describes you, and you have attended, or are planning to attend any of our events, we’d be delighted to hear from you. We are particularly interested when such writing crosses international borders and disciplinary boundaries. This is a
In September 2020, the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies ran a seminar series titled ‘Yoga and Philosophy’. After the seminars, we invited participants to write posts reflecting on each one. The presentation portion of the seminar series is available on our YouTube channel. Seminar: ‘Studying Yoga Philosophically: ontology, epistemology, ethics’ led by Mikel Burley. This post written by: Vicky Addinall. Can yoga be considered an ethical system? Should we consider
In September 2020, the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies ran a seminar series titled ‘Yoga and Philosophy’. After the seminars, we invited participants to write posts reflecting on each one. The presentation portion of the seminar series is available on our YouTube channel. Seminar: ‘Internalized Asceticism: Taxonomy, Tattva-Abhyāsa, and Jñāna-Yoga’ led by Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette. This post written by: Tamara Cohen. On 14 September 2020, Dr. Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette presented a seminar
In September 2020, the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies ran a seminar series titled ‘Yoga and Philosophy’. After the seminars, we invited participants to write posts reflecting on each one. The presentation portion of the seminar series is available on our YouTube channel. Seminar: ‘Yoga, Philosophy and Gender: Sulabhā in the Mahābhārata’ led by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad. This post written by: Amanda Sue Evans. “Furthermore, ecological phenomenology as a perspective on
