#8 Mantra talk tomorrow night (Monday)
We had a wonderful turnout for the workshop last year on the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali, thanks to all who came, I really enjoyed it and hope you did too. Still thinking about a follow up and other ideas for future workshops so let me know if there is anything you'd like to see happen.
In the meantime, I wanted to let you know about a very exciting event on mantra tomorrow, and another conference happening in the summer (text from their own websites).
Monday 10th March (TOMORROW) 7pm, hybrid event at SOAS and online.
Project launch: MANTRAMS – Mantras in Religion, Media, and Society in Global Southern Asia
In this talk, the three principal investigators for the new MANTRAMS project, Carola Lorea, Finnian Gerety, and Borayin Larios, will introduce the project and present concrete examples of mantra practices studied within their respective research. These include the sound efficacy of mantras, ancient Sanskrit conceptualizations of mantra power, their material presence in inscriptions and amulets, and their evolving role in digital spaces, yoga communities, and diasporic religious practices.
By integrating diverse methodologies and creating sonic, visual, and digital archives, the MANTRAMS project advances a new understanding of mantras as multisensory, transregional phenomena. Join us to explore how mantras shape religious and cultural landscapes from ancient times to the present.
Find out more and register here https://yso.soas.ac.uk/product/mantrams/
2025 Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana: Tracing the Threads of Yoga
August 8-10 2025
The 2025 Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana conference at Arihanta Institute (YDYS@AI) is a three-day, online, public-facing event bringing the latest scholarship in yoga studies to the global yoga public.
Each panel at YDYS@AI carefully pairs philologists, historians, and scholars of modern yoga studies working on closely related projects. Participants will observe both the continuities and discontinuities between the ancient, classical, medieval, and modern periods, thereby learning some of the potential sources of their contemporary yoga practices and philosophies but also understanding how they are a product of their historical moment as well as how they have changed through time.
Find out more and register at https://2025ydys.arihantainstitute.org/
Happy studies!
Best wishes, Martha @ IntoYoga