Yoga Darsana Yoga Sadhana: authenticity, authority and adaptation

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Session #7: New Research in Mantras & Yoga I

Amphi 250

Jérôme Petit (BnF, GREI)

› Measuring Mantras, Breath, and Brahmanical Asceticism - Finnian Moore Gerety (University of Oxford) 08:30-09:00 (30min)

› OṂ in the Dharmaputrikā Saṃhitā - Christèle Barois (ERC, GREI) 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› The meaning of svādhyāya in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra and its early commentaries: Evidence from unstudied manuscript sources - Philipp Maas (Leipzig University) 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Mantra, Temple, and the Yoginī-Affiliated Goddesses of the Devīpurāṇa - Sandra Sattler (University of Oxford) 10:00-10:30 (30min)

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Session #8: Round Table on “Products and Pedagogies”

Amphi 150

Theo Wildcroft (Open University), Ananda Ceballos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Martha Henson (King‘s College London), Seth Powell (Yogic Studies), Ruth McNeil (King’s College London), Jacqueline Hargreaves (SOAS, Centre of Yoga Studies)

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Session #9: Sex, Drugs, Gemstones & Fascists

Room 3.01

Dagmar Wujastyk (University of Alberta)

› Yogic Transformations through Tantric Sex: Sexual Abuse v. “Religious Freedom” - Amanda Lucia (University of California-Riverside) 08:30-09:00 (30min)

› Tracing the Path of Soma: Traditions and Transformations of Amṛta in Indic Philosophy and Religion - Stuart Ray Sarbacker (Oregon State University) 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Diamond Medicine: Authority, expertise, and healing - Patricia Sauthoff (Hong Kong Baptist University) 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› The (Alt-)Right-Hand Path: The Biopolitics of Yoga and Fascism - Emily Ward (Loyola Marymount University) 10:00-10:30 (30min)

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Mezzanine

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Session #11: New Research in Mantras & Yoga II

Amphi 250

Emmanuel Francis (CNRS, Cesah)

› Myths and Colophons: Intertextual and Paratextual Strategies Asserting the Authenticity of Purāṇic Kavacas - Amandine Wattelier-Bricout (CNRS, Cesah) 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› History through Mantra: the Siddhānt Paṭal - James Mallinson (University of Oxford) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Yogic Dying in the Javanese-Balinese Śaiva traditions - Andrea Acri (EPHE, GREI) 12:00-12:30 (30min)

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Session #12: Jain Yoga

Amphi 150

Nalini Balbir (EPHE-GREI)

› Jain reception of haṭhayoga: The case of Acharya Sushil Kumar's “Jain Yoga” - Christopher Miller (University of Zürich) 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Ahiṃsā in Practice: Jain Contributions to the Ethics of Yoga - Corinna May Lhoir (University of Hamburg) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Session #13: Yoga, Media and Messages

Room 3.01

Nicolas Sihlé (CNRS, Cesah)

› Performing Yoga in Fiction: From "Yoghis" to rNal 'byor pas—with Reference to the Earliest Tibetan Novel in a European Language - Samuel Thévoz (University of Vienna) 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Mystical Experiences Captured in Paintings: Adaptations of Hindu Visual Culture in the First Yoga School in Chile (1930-1940) - Macarena Gonzalez (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Reviving “True” Hinduism through Yoga: Swami Nithyananda and the Pursuit of Authority - Jaroslaw Zapart (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) 12:00-12:30 (30min)

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Session #14: Adverse Meditation and Yoga Experiences

Room 3.03

Knut Axel Jacobsen (University of Bergen)

› Kundalini Syndrome Narratives: Contemporary Accounts of Challenging Spiritual Practice Experiences - Jack Saxelby-Smith (The Open University) 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› The Kundalini Syndrome: Treatments at the San Francisco-based Kundalini Clinic - Marleen Thaler (University of Graz) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Kuṇḍalinī and the many Spiritual Emergencies - Sravana Borkataky-Varma (University of Houston) & Anya Foxen (California Polytechnic State University) 12:00-12:30 (30min)

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Lunch break

Foyer

13:30 - 14:00 (30min)

Plenary Session #15: Body & Mantras: Performing Somatic Research

Mezzanine

Lucy May Constantini (University of Vienna, MANTRAMS Project)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Session #16: New Research on Mantras & Yoga III

Amphi 250

Véronique Bouillier (CNRS, Cesah)

› Soft Powers: Affect and the Re-mediation of Gaṇeśa in Transnational Bhakti Yoga - Borayin Larios (University of Vienna) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Visual and Material Culture of Yogis and Mantra - Seth Powell (Yogic Studies) 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Living through mantras: mantras among contemporary Hindu ascetics - Daniela Bevilacqua (University Institute of Lisbon) 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Not Giving a Damn: Mexican Mantras for a Postmodern Yogic Path - Adrián Muñoz (The College of Mexico) 15:30-16:00 (30min)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Session #17: Shifting Worlds: Focal Practices

Amphi 150

Ananda Ceballos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

› Discerning expertise is a fundamental human skill - Marcus Braun (Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› On the (extra)ordinariness of belts and blocks. What can extended cognition tell us about the use of props in āsana practice? - Matylda Ciołkosz (Jagiellonian University) 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Tracing the Genealogies of Somatic Yoga - Laura Von Ostrowski (University of Hamburg) 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Balancing act: the importance of epistemological equilibrium as an enactive skill for yoga transmission - Theo Wildcroft (Open University) 15:30-16:00 (30min)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Session #18: Navigation of Social Change

Room 3.01

Philip Deslippe (University of California-Santa Barbara)

› ‘Connecting Dots: From A Search in Secret India, through Sheilaism to Saint Culture' - Suzanne Newcombe (Open University) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Yoga in the Times of Transition. The First Decade of Iyengar Yoga in Poland (1984-1994) - Iwona Kozlowiec (Independent researcher in Poland) 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› The Bricolage Roots of Yoga under the Polish People's Republic: Leon Zawadzki and the Dynamics of Cultural Transfer - Agata Świerzowska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Omwashing & Yoga - Sheena Sood (Delaware Valley University) 15:30-16:00 (30min)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Session #19: Menstruation and Yoga and Tantra

Room 3.03

Caterina Guenzi (EHESS, Cesah)

› From ambiguous power to powerful ambiguity: Menstruation among tantra practitioners in India - Monika Hirmer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Beyond Menstruation in Yoga and Jainism - Ruth Westoby (OCHS) 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Case Study of Menstrual Practices from Hindu Women, in Varanasi - Daphnée Dion-Carrier (Université Laval) 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Bloating, Slowness, Heaviness: Menstrual Rhythms in the Ashtanga Movementscape - Marissa Clarke (University of Edinburgh) 15:30-16:00 (30min)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Mezzanine

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Session #20: History of Kuṇḍalinī

Amphi 250

Ruth Westoby (OCHS)

› The Ṣaṭcakranirṇaya: A Kashmiri Yoga Text on the Rise of Kuṇḍalinī - Nils Jacob Liersch (Philipps University of Marburg) 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Vivekananda's Ninth Auxiliary - Scott Lamps (School of Oriental and African Studies) 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› The Serpent in the Marketplace: Global Gurus and the Competition for Authentic Kuṇḍalinī (Co-presenting with Anya Foxen) - Sravana Borkataky-Varma (University of Houston) & Anya Foxen (California Polytechnic State University) 17:30-18:00 (30min)

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Session #21: Localization: Indian Regional Traditions

Amphi 150

Michal Panasiuk (Inalco)

› From Manuscript to Book: A Bengali Witness to the Transmission of the Śivasaṃhitā - Peter Pasedach (University of Hamburg) 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Is there another lotus within the Sahasrāra? - Lubomír Ondračka (University of Oxford) 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› She Whose Speech is True: The Yoga Library and Oeuvre of Om Prakash Swamigal - Keith Cantù (Harvard Divinity School) 17:30-18:00 (30min)

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Session #22: Localization: The Muslim World

Room 3.01

Alexandre Toumarkine (Inalco, Cermom)

› Mapping Discursive Shifts: Representations of Yoga in Turkish Public Discourse (1930s–2000s) - Gülnihal Özdener (Yildiz Technical University) 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Quantum Method Yoga: Scientific Meditation and the Making of Modern Middle-Class Spiritual Selves in Bangladesh - Akhi Hossain (University of Tübingen) & Carola Lorea (University of Tübingen) 17:00-17:30 (30min)

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Session #23: Twentieth-Century Yoga

Room 3.03

Magdalena Kraler (University of Vienna)

› Harnessing the Mind: Yoga, Hypnotism, and Relaxation Culture in 1950s Britain - Victoria Addinall (Independent Author in UK) 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Kripalu Yoga and the Roots of Flow: Movement, Prāṇa, and Absorption in Modern Yoga - Adriana Maldonado (Open University) 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› Come for the stretching, stay for the gods: the pedagogy, politics and power of the gods in modern postural yoga - Samuel Horsley (University of Edinburgh) 17:30-18:00 (30min)

18:30 - 19:30 (1h)

Plenary Session #24: Presentation and film screening: The Yoga of the Koraṇṭaka

Amphi 250

Jason Birch (University of Alberta) and Jacqueline Hargreaves (SOAS, Centre of Yoga Studies)

Program

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Amphi 250

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Amphi 150

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Room 3.01

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Mezzanine

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Amphi 250

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Amphi 150

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Room 3.01

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Room 3.03

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Foyer

13:30 - 14:00 (30min)

Mezzanine

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Amphi 250

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Amphi 150

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Room 3.01

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Room 3.03

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Mezzanine

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Amphi 250

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Amphi 150

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Room 3.01

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Room 3.03

18:30 - 19:30 (1h)

Amphi 250