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My name is Macarena González Carmona, I have been an Iyengar Yoga teacher for more than 12 years and I am dedicated to it professionally. I live in Santiago de Chile and I am originally from a small town...

This past weekend we held the first-ever Yogic Studies online conference, Yogavidyā. This three-day event featured the latest research on Yoga Studies from 28 of the world's leading yoga scholars from the fields of Indology, Anthropology, Religious Studies, Art History, and...

This past weekend we held the inaugural Yogic Studies Summer Camp in the beautiful hills of northern California. Over the course of four days, we learned about Vedāntic philosophy and yoga history, practiced āsana, prāṇāyāma, and meditation, worked on our Sanskrit, and most...

Anna Lee, the current Administrator for Yogic Studies and former Social Media Manager, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at McGill University titled "Hindu Community Formation and Ramanandi Hagiographies between the 17th and the 21st Century" on July 31st, 2024. Her doctoral work...

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our much-anticipated Sanskrit Advanced Certificate Program (SACP)! Language students at Yogic Studies will now have the opportunity to structure and advance their Sanskrit education through this robust 70-credit online program. 

SACP...

On April 20th, 2023, Yogic Studies Founder and Director Seth Powell successfully defended his PhD dissertation at Harvard University, entitled "A Lamp on Śivayoga: The Union of Ritual, Yoga, and Devotion in the Śivayogapradīpikā." His dissertation committee at Harvard's Committee on the Study of...

Yoga and the Traditional Physical Practices of South Asia: Influence, Entanglement and Confrontation (eds. Bevilacqua & Singleton 2023)

This special issue of the Journal of Yoga Studies is an edited volume by Daniela Bevilacqua and Mark Singleton with...

Every Language is a Dialect

Some might presume, upon learning that Dr. Rajiv Ranjan is from Northeast India, that Hindi is his first language. But underneath the veil of a supposed lingua franca, a rich diversity of local languages persist in modern-day India. Dr. Ranjan's mother tongue is...

The Path of the Pali-Wala

As an adolescent, Aleix Ruiz-Falqués was interested in filmmaking, the arts, and literature; things that he says, "seemed very far away in time." He had a fascination with asceticism and saints that led him to study Classics at the University of Barcelona, where...

SOAS University of London recently hosted a free webinar open to the public, Yoga: Past and Present,

In this webinar, Professor Andrew Nicholson explores the ancient Indus Valley and Vedic roots of yoga, followed by Dr. James Mallinson presenting on the development of yoga in medieval times,...