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“To speak of ‘yoga philosophy’ is to miss the point: Yoga is a practical discipline aimed at attaining liberation. If duly practiced, it will work, irrespective of the practitioner’s beliefs.”
– James Mallinson, Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Oxford University, UK
Current Yoga Research – Sanskrit Sources, Histories, Contexts
• Introduction – Current Academic Scholarship on Yoga
• Books – Key Publications, Introductory Works, Further Literature
• People – Scholars, Teachers, Others
• Audio – Interviews, Podcasts, Other Resources
• Websites – research projects, conferences, further resources
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• History (modern postural asana practice) – lkjsdlkjf
• History (pre-modern yoga) – lkjsdlkjf
• Chakras – lkjsdlkjf
• Gender Roles – lkjsdlkjf
• Intentions – lkjsdlkjf
• Physical Adjustments – The Good, the Bad and the History
Mindfulness – Teachers, Talks, Books, Interviews
• Books – Key Publications, Introductory Works, Further
Other – stuff that doesn’t fit the categories, still we can’t resist sharing
• Books – Key Publications, Introductory Works, Further
Current Yoga Research
Introduction: seminal publication Yoga Body, Mark Singleton 2010
Books
People
“Everything said, is said by someone.”
– Humberto Maturana & Francesco Varela, The tree of knowledge: Biological roots of human understanding (1987) New Science Library/Shambhala Publications
While the dependency of the spoken on the speaker might seem too obvious to require an explicit statement, it points to the profound insight that there are no facts that are context-free. Everything said, is said, by someone, within a specific context. social background, with a specific personal history and upbringing – resulting distinct motivations and interests. Who’s talking are these people – the yoga teachers, the scholar-practitioners, the philologists, historians, ethnographers – and why do they do what they do? What got them into their topics? What keeps them going? Who’s talking? Positionality.
What’s a scholar practitioner?
James Mallinson, PhD, Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Oxford University, UK, is a leading indologist, translator and scholar practitioner. As principal investigator of the Hatha Yoga Project at SOAS, University of London, he co-authored Roots of Yoga (2017) with Mark Singleton. Accessible introductions to his work and personal background provide a BBC documentary West Meets East (2015) and an in-depth interview (20XX) on Yogic Studies. More details
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West goes East (BBC documentary 20xx)
Being in the World (2010)
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