Program

08:30 - 09:00 (30min)

Measuring Mantras, Breath, and Brahmanical Asceticism

Finnian Moore Gerety (University of Oxford)

09:00 - 09:30 (30min)

OṂ in the Dharmaputrikā Saṃhitā

Christèle Barois (ERC, GREI)

09:30 - 10:00 (30min)

The meaning of svādhyāya in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra and its early commentaries: Evidence from unstudied manuscript sources

Philipp Maas (Leipzig University)

10:00 - 10:30 (30min)

Mantra, Temple, and the Yoginī-Affiliated Goddesses of the Devīpurāṇa

Sandra Sattler (University of Oxford)

08:30 - 09:00 (30min)

Yogic Transformations through Tantric Sex: Sexual Abuse v. “Religious Freedom”

Amanda Lucia (University of California-Riverside)

09:00 - 09:30 (30min)

Tracing the Path of Soma: Traditions and Transformations of Amṛta in Indic Philosophy and Religion

Stuart Ray Sarbacker (Oregon State University)

09:30 - 10:00 (30min)

Diamond Medicine: Authority, expertise, and healing

Patricia Sauthoff (Hong Kong Baptist University)

10:00 - 10:30 (30min)

The (Alt-)Right-Hand Path: The Biopolitics of Yoga and Fascism

Emily Ward (Loyola Marymount University)

08:30 - 09:10 (40min)

Can A Yogin Anticipate Death? Exploring the concept of ariṣṭa (signs of death) in the Yogasūtra

Susanta Bhattacharya (University of Krakow)

09:10 - 09:50 (40min)

Samādhi and no breathing

Matthew Clark (School of Oriental and African Languages)

09:50 - 10:30 (40min)

Yoga Philosophy as a Way of Death: Hariharānanda Āraṇya's Samādhi

Doron Peisic (Tel Aviv University)

11:00 - 11:30 (30min)

Myths and Colophons: Intertextual and Paratextual Strategies Asserting the Authenticity of Purāṇic Kavacas

Amandine Wattelier-Bricout (CNRS, Cesah)

11:30 - 12:00 (30min)

History through Mantra: the Siddhānt Paṭal

James Mallinson (University of Oxford)

12:00 - 12:30 (30min)

Yogic Dying in the Javanese-Balinese Śaiva traditions

Andrea Acri (EPHE, GREI)

11:00 - 11:30 (30min)

Jain reception of haṭhayoga: The case of Acharya Sushil Kumar's “Jain Yoga”

Christopher Miller (University of Zürich)

11:30 - 12:00 (30min)

Ahiṃsā in Practice: Jain Contributions to the Ethics of Yoga

Corinna May Lhoir (University of Hamburg)

12:00 - 12:30 (30min)

Continuity and Adaptation: Authenticity, Authority, and the Making of Jain Yoga by Yaśovijaya

Alba Rodriguez Juan (University of California-Riverside)

11:00 - 11:30 (30min)

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)

11:30 - 12:00 (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)

12:00 - 12:30 (30min)

Reviving “True” Hinduism through Yoga: Swami Nithyananda and the Pursuit of Authority

Jaroslaw Zapart (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

11:00 - 11:30 (30min)

Kundalini Syndrome Narratives: Contemporary Accounts of Challenging Spiritual Practice Experiences

Jack Saxelby-Smith (The Open University)

11:30 - 12:00 (30min)

The Kundalini Syndrome: Treatments at the San Francisco-based Kundalini Clinic

Marleen Thaler (University of Graz)

12:00 - 12:30 (30min)

Kuṇḍalinī and the many Spiritual Emergencies

Sravana Borkataky-Varma (University of Houston) & Anya Foxen (California Polytechnic State University)

14:00 - 14:30 (30min)

Soft Powers: Affect and the Re-mediation of Gaṇeśa in Transnational Bhakti Yoga

Borayin Larios (University of Vienna)

14:30 - 15:00 (30min)

Visual and Material Culture of Yogis and Mantra

Seth Powell (Yogic Studies)

15:00 - 15:30 (30min)

Living through mantras: mantras among contemporary Hindu ascetics

Daniela Bevilacqua (University Institute of Lisbon)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Not Giving a Damn: Mexican Mantras for a Postmodern Yogic Path

Adrián Muñoz (The College of Mexico)

14:00 - 14:30 (30min)

Discerning expertise is a fundamental human skill

Marcus Braun (Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

14:30 - 15:00 (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)

15:00 - 15:30 (30min)

Tracing the Genealogies of Somatic Yoga

Laura Von Ostrowski (University of Hamburg)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Balancing act: the importance of epistemological equilibrium as an enactive skill for yoga transmission

Theo Wildcroft (Open University)

14:00 - 14:30 (30min)

‘Connecting Dots: From A Search in Secret India, through Sheilaism to Saint Culture'

Suzanne Newcombe (Open University)

14:30 - 15:00 (30min)

Yoga in the Times of Transition. The First Decade of Iyengar Yoga in Poland (1984-1994)

Iwona Kozlowiec (Independent researcher in Poland)

15:00 - 15:30 (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)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Omwashing & Yoga

Sheena Sood (Delaware Valley University)

14:00 - 14:30 (30min)

From ambiguous power­ to powerful ambiguity: Menstruation among tantra practitioners in India

Monika Hirmer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

14:30 - 15:00 (30min)

Beyond Menstruation in Yoga and Jainism

Ruth Westoby (OCHS)

15:00 - 15:30 (30min)

Case Study of Menstrual Practices from Hindu Women, in Varanasi

Daphnée Dion-Carrier (Université Laval)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Bloating, Slowness, Heaviness: Menstrual Rhythms in the Ashtanga Movementscape

Marissa Clarke (University of Edinburgh)

16:30 - 17:00 (30min)

The Ṣaṭcakranirṇaya: A Kashmiri Yoga Text on the Rise of Kuṇḍalinī

Nils Jacob Liersch (Philipps University of Marburg)

17:00 - 17:30 (30min)

Vivekananda's Ninth Auxiliary

Scott Lamps (School of Oriental and African Studies)

17:30 - 18:00 (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)

16:30 - 17:00 (30min)

From Manuscript to Book: A Bengali Witness to the Transmission of the Śivasaṃhitā

Peter Pasedach (University of Hamburg)

17:00 - 17:30 (30min)

Is there another lotus within the Sahasrāra?

Lubomír Ondračka (University of Oxford)

17:30 - 18:00 (30min)

She Whose Speech is True: The Yoga Library and Oeuvre of Om Prakash Swamigal

Keith Cantù (Harvard Divinity School)

16:30 - 17:00 (30min)

Breath, Rhythm, and Union: Dialogues of Yoga and Sufi Music in Pakistan's Spiritual Landscape

Aziz Ullah (SZABIST)

17:00 - 17:30 (30min)

Mapping Discursive Shifts: Representations of Yoga in Turkish Public Discourse (1930s–2000s)

Gülnihal Özdener (Yildiz Technical University)

17:30 - 18:00 (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)

16:30 - 17:00 (30min)

Harnessing the Mind: Yoga, Hypnotism, and Relaxation Culture in 1950s Britain

Victoria Addinall (Independent Author in UK)

17:00 - 17:30 (30min)

Kripalu Yoga and the Roots of Flow: Movement, Prāṇa, and Absorption in Modern Yoga

Adriana Maldonado (Open University)

17:30 - 18:00 (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)