Jason Birch: Light on Hatha Yoga

Somatic Primer Podcast

Jason Birch is a scholar of medieval Hatha yoga and a founding member of SOAS's Centre for Yoga Studies
Jason is a senior research fellow for the ‘Light on Hatha Yoga’ project. He is well known for his important paper on the meaning of haṭha in early Haṭhayoga, which has reshaped our understanding of the origins of this term by locating it within Buddhist literature.
He is the co-founder of the open-access platform for yoga research The Luminescent, and a founding member of the peer-reviewed Journal of Yoga Studies. The Luminescent is an independent collaborative hub for scholars, researchers, teachers and practitioners of Yoga.
https://www.theluminescent.org/

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