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An interview with Dr Jason Birch of the Hatha Yoga Project, SOAS. He discusses his research on the topic of Yoga and Ayurveda (Indian medicine) – A Shared History.
We will be asking Dr Birch (amongst other things):
Do premodern Yoga and Ayurveda share the same theory and terminology?
How does the Indian medical body compare with the 'yogic' metaphysical body, with its cakras, nadīs, kuṇḍalinī, etc?
Are there historical examples of Yogins who claimed to be doctors or healers?
Does the soteriological aim of Yoga as a means to liberation (mokṣa) conflict with that of Ayurveda for long life?
Untangling Traditions | An online conference by the AyurYog Project, University of Vienna.
ayuryog.org/content/untangling-traditions
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Dr Birch is a Sanskritist, who specialises in the premodern literature of Yoga. He is well known for his important paper on the meaning of haṭha, which has reshaped our understanding of the origins of this term by locating it within Buddhist literature.
His research has identified the earliest text to teach a system of Haṭhayoga and Rājayoga, namely the 12th c Amaraugh, and defined a corpus of Sanskrit and vernacular texts that emerged during Haṭhayoga's floruit, the period in which it thrived on the eve of colonialism.
Dr Birch is the principal editor and translator of six Sanskrit texts that will be the primary outputs of the Hatha Yoga Project.
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An interview with Jacqueline Hargreaves of The Luminescent (www.TheLuminescent.org).
#UntanglingTraditions #ayuryogproject #yogatherapy #yogastudies #originalresearchprimarysources #historyofyoga #yogaresearch #lifeofasanskritist #igyoga #universityofvienna #erc #theluminescent #yogahistory #beyondasana #medievalyoga #hathayoga #yogaheals #hathayogaproject #yogabody
This project was made possible through funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation program under grant agreement No.639363.
An interview with Dr Jason Birch of the Hatha Yoga Project, SOAS. He discusses his research on the topic of Yoga and Ayurveda (Indian medicine) – A Shared History.
We will be asking Dr Birch (amongst other things):
Do premodern Yoga and Ayurveda share the same theory and terminology?
How does the Indian medical body compare with the 'yogic' metaphysical body, with its cakras, nadīs, kuṇḍalinī, etc?
Are there historical examples of Yogins who claimed to be doctors or healers?
Does the soteriological aim of Yoga as a means to liberation (mokṣa) conflict with that of Ayurveda for long life?
Untangling Traditions | An online conference by the AyurYog Project, University of Vienna.
ayuryog.org/content/untangling-traditions
______
Dr Birch is a Sanskritist, who specialises in the premodern literature of Yoga. He is well known for his important paper on the meaning of haṭha, which has reshaped our understanding of the origins of this term by locating it within Buddhist literature.
His research has identified the earliest text to teach a system of Haṭhayoga and Rājayoga, namely the 12th c Amaraugh, and defined a corpus of Sanskrit and vernacular texts that emerged during Haṭhayoga's floruit, the period in which it thrived on the eve of colonialism.
Dr Birch is the principal editor and translator of six Sanskrit texts that will be the primary outputs of the Hatha Yoga Project.
______
An interview with Jacqueline Hargreaves of The Luminescent (www.TheLuminescent.org).
#UntanglingTraditions #ayuryogproject #yogatherapy #yogastudies #originalresearchprimarysources #historyofyoga #yogaresearch #lifeofasanskritist #igyoga #universityofvienna #erc #theluminescent #yogahistory #beyondasana #medievalyoga #hathayoga #yogaheals #hathayogaproject #yogabody
This project was made possible through funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation program under grant agreement No.639363.
