#2 Event tonight on early Raja and Hatha Yoga
Dear subscribers,
Welcome aboard! I am very close to announcing booking and a venue for The History of Yoga event with Professor James Mallinson on the 15th April. In the meantime, I wanted to let you know about a free online event tonight that you might be interested in. Renowned scholar Jason Birch will be launching his new book "The Amaraugha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga" on the origins of haṭha and rājayoga at an event for the Centre of Yoga Studies at SOAS, book tickets here https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/jason-birch-amaraugha-genesis-hatha-and-rajayoga. If you happen to be in London tonight it will happening in person too!
What is the Centre of Yoga Studies?
This gives me an opportunity to introduce the Centre of Yoga Studies too. It was set up by James Mallinson and others at SOAS during the heyday of yoga studies at the university, whilst they were still running the incredible Haṭha Yoga Project. Whilst I was studying on the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation MA there, I took the role of project coordinator for the Centre, and spent two amazing years working with the committee and helping them become an internationally recognised site for the sharing of yoga scholarship. We ran events and a summer school, and as COVID forced us online, many of these events became available as videos and are still there on the YouTube channel.
I left in 2020 and was succeeded as coordinator by Theo Wildcroft and now Jacqueline Hargreaves, who are taking it to ever new heights, including a yoga studies online programme. To hear about future events you can sign up to their Facebook group, Instagram, join the mailing list or check the website.
Best wishes,
Martha, IntoYoga