Latest site update – added: video, audio files, gallery and handouts from the Workshop on Sanskrit Texts on Yoga at SOAS and All Souls, University of Oxford.
UPCOMING EVENTS
| 2019 | ||
| 26 January | Jason Birch is presenting a public lecture at the Hatha Yoga Desha. | Sydney, Australia |
| 24-28 January | James Mallinson will be holding multiple talks at Jaipur Literary Festival. | Jaipur, India |
| January- February | James Mallinson and Daniela Bevilaqua will be at the Kumbh Mela. | Prayagraj, India |
| 5 March | Daniela Bevilaqua will be holding a lecture on “Introduction to Hindu traditional ascetic sampradayas through yoga practices: a historical and ethnographic approach”, at Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. | UK |
| 12-17 March | James Mallinson and Mark Singleton have a lecture series at Brown University | USA |
| 8 April | Daniela Bevilaqua will be holding a lecture on “Fieldwork among Hindu ascetics: dealing with the rules and practices of a male dominating tradition”, at Haifa University | Israel |
| 19-24 April | Jason Birch is hosting a lecture series on the Haṭhapradīpikā at the Workshop Conservatoir du Yoga. | France |
| 16-19 July | Daniela Bevilaqua is presentation the paper “This is not Tantra!”- “I am your tantrik!” Comparing traditions and self-definitions of Nath Yogis and Indian Tantrik Householders , at ICAS Conference, panel The Ethnography of Tantra: De-textualising and De-colonising the Study of Tantric Traditions. | Leiden, the Netherlands |
| 9-20 September | James Mallinson and Jason Birch are holding a Workshop on the Yogabīja and Vivekamārtaṇḍa with Professor Alexis Sanderson. | USA, Portland Oregon |
| 10-11 October | Jason Birch is holding a lecture and workshop for the Sanskrit Yoga Summer School at Hamburg University | Germany |
| 8-10 November | Mark Singleton and Daniela Bevilaqua are hosting a workshop: Yoga and the Traditional Physical Practices of India: Influence, Entanglement and Confrontation at SOAS University London. | UK |
PAST EVENTS
| 2016 | ||
| April 8 | Dr Jason Birch presented a talk on the Hatha Yoga Project at Yoga: Austerity, Passion and Peace event, British Museum, London | UK |
| May 18-21 | The team presented at the Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana conference in Krakow | Poland |
| May 23-24 | The team presented at a seminar at Poznan university. | Poland |
| June 17 11am | BBC Radio 4, Culture Wise: ‘The Secret History of Yoga’, featuring members of the team. Available for 30 days afterwards on BBC iPlayer. |
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| September 12-16 | Workshop on Sanskrit Texts on Yoga at SOAS and All Souls, University of Oxford. | UK |
| September 23-25 | Dr James Mallinson presented at The International Society for Tantric Studies conference, Flagstaff, Arizona. | USA |
| October 12-15 | Dr James Mallinson lectured at Jnana Pravaha, Mumbai. | India |
| October 21-22 | Dr Jason Birch is presented at the AyurYog Workshop: Rejuvenation, Longevity, Immortality. Perspectives on rasāyana, kāyakalpa and bcud len practices, the University of Vienna. | Austria |
| November 18-21 | The team gave a series of lectures for the Master in Yoga Studies at L’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia | Italy |
| 2017 | ||
| January | Publication of Roots of Yoga by James Mallinson and Mark Singleton (Penguin Classics). | |
| February 1 | Dr Jason Birch presented at the Sanskrit Reading Room, SOAS University of London | UK |
| March 9-10 | Dr Mark Singleton lectured at Jnana Pravaha, Mumbai | India |
| March 30-31 | Dr. Mark Singleton delivered a series of lectures to the Fédération Française de Haṭha Yoga | Fréjus, France |
| June 8-9 | Dr Jason Birch presented one public lecture and two seminars at Won Kwang University, Iksan | South Korea |
| July 14-15 | Dr. Mark Singleton delivered a series of lectures to the British Wheel of Yoga at the University of Leicester. | UK |
| July 24-28 | Dr Jason Birch lectured at a Summer School at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow | Poland |
| August 1-3 | Dr Jason Birch presented at the conference “Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia: Body Cultivation, Therapeutic Intervention and the Sowa Rigpa IndustryVienna Ayuryog” at the University of Vienna | Austria |
| September 2 | Dr. Mark Singleton lectured at Yoga Junction, London | UK |
| September 4-8 | Workshop on Sanskrit Texts of Yoga, Isle of Wight | UK |
| September 9 | Dr Jason Birch participated in a public forum “The Cultural (mis)Appropriation of Yoga” at Triyoga Studio | London |
| October 3 | Dr. James Malllinson and Dr. Mark Singleton lectured at the Advaya Initiative, Rudolph Steiner House, London | UK |
| October 10 | Dr. Daniela Bevilacqua lectured at the Advaya Initiative, Rudolph Steiner House, London | UK |
| November 15 | Dr. James Mallinson and Dr. Mark Singleton lectured at the New York Society Library, New York | USA |
| November 18 | Dr. James Mallinson and Dr. Mark Singleton presented at the American Academy of Religions Annual Meeting (conference), Boston | USA |
| 2018 | ||
| April 5 | Dr. Mark Singleton taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris Sciences & Lettres) | France |
| April 7-9 | Dr. Mark Singleton presented a series of lectures to the Fédération Française de Haṭha Yoga, Evian | France |
| April 28 | Dr Jason Birch presented at Ryukoku University, Kyoto | Japan |
| May 8 | Dr James Mallinson and Dr Mark Singleton gave public talks at the launch of the Yoga Centre and Journal of Yoga Studies, SOAS University of London | UK |
| May 8 | Dr Jason Birch (along with Dr Somadeva Vasudeva) gave a public talk at the launch of the Journal of Yoga Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto | Japan |
| May 11 | Dr Jason Birch gave a public talk at the launch of the Journal of Yoga Studies, Abhyas Studio, Delhi | India |
| June 1 | Dr Jason Birch presented a lecture at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris | France |
| June 15 | Dr Jason Birch presented at the University of Vienna | Austria |
| June 21 | Dr James Mallinson spoke at an event for the International Day of Yoga at the Nehru Centre, London | UK |
| June 26 | Dr Jason Birch presented a lecture at Charles University, Prague | Czech Republic |
| July 7 | Dr. Mark Singleton presented on ‘The Yogic Body’ at the symposium ‘Divine Bodies’, Asian Art Museum San Francisco | USA |
| July 9-13 | The team gave a series of lectures at the 17th World Sanskrit Conference, Vancouver. Premier of the HYP film on the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati. Times tbc. | Canada |
| August 30 | Dr James Mallinson gave a lecture on “Yoga and Sanskrit: what texts tell us about the practice and history of yoga” at the University of Hamburg. | Germany |
| September 7-9 | HYP team presented at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice | Italy |
| September 13-20 | HYP workshop on the Amṛtasiddhi, Procida, University of Naples | Italy |
| September 22-23 | Drs. Jason Birch, James Mallinson and Mark Singleton: lectures and panel discussion at Triyoga, London | UK |
| October 13-14 | Drs. Jason Birch and Mark Singleton spoke and taught at the London Yoga Festival. UK premier of the HYP film on the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati | UK |
| 19th November | Daniela Bevilaqua presented a paper “The ethnographic side of the Hatha Yoga Project: learning from the practice and knowledge of Indian traditional ascetic practitioners”, at AAR Conference in Denver, panel Yoga in Theory and Practi Unit, New Directions in Yoga Studies | Denver, USA |
| 13th November | James Mallinson held a lecture on “Cultural Flows in Yoga” at SOAS University. . | UK |
| 7 December | Jason Birch is giving a lecture at the Anokhi Hotel,Mysore. | India |
| 11 December | James Mallinson will be holding a lecture on “Buddhist and Nāth Yoga in Western India” at Bristol University. | UK |