Blog
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15. Feb. '23
Making rubies. Part Three: Tweaking the recipe
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4. Feb. '23
Making gems. Part two: Producing rubies
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27. Jan. '23
Making gems. Part one: fish black (matsyakajjala)
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25. Sep. '21
A final experiment: Gold imitation with chalcopyrite
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5. Sep. '21
Aurifiction revisited
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26. Jul. '21
Reconstructing Indian alchemy: Making silver, second method
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25. Jun. '21
Argentifaction — making silver
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2. Jun. '21
Aurifiction — imitating gold
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28. Apr. '21
Reconstructing Indian alchemy: Making pearls
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9. Apr. '21
Making coral — second (and third) try
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8. Apr. '21
Reconstructing Indian alchemy: Making coral
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19. Aug. '20
A final procedure: Stimulating mercury (dīpana)
We have arrived at the eighth, and for us, final procedure! This step is called the stimulating or kindling (dīpana) of mercury. And here is what the text (Rasahṛdayatantra, chapter 2, verse 11) tells us about this step:
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3. Aug. '20
Reconstructing alchemical procedures: The seventh procedure, 'fixing' (niyamana)
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19. Jul. '20
Reconstructing alchemical procedures: The sixth procedure, 'reviving' (nirodhā)
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12. Jul. '20
The fifth procedure: 'letting fall' (pātana)
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22. Jun. '20
Preparing ingredients for the fifth procedure
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10. Jun. '20
The fourth procedure: Bringing mercury to a rise (utthāpana)
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2. Jun. '20
Reconstructing alchemical procedures: The third procedure, thickening (mūrchā)
The third procedure, thickening (mūrchā)
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26. May. '20
The second procedure: Trituration (mardana)
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26. May. '20
Mapping alchemical manuscripts
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26. May. '20
Medical treatment in the context of yoga practice (yogacikitsā): Chapter Ten of the Dharmaputrikā
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25. May. '20
We are not the only ones: The first procedure according to others
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18. May. '20
Philology and experimentation: Reconstructing alchemical procedures
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27. Mar. '20
Epidemics, Isolation, and Prevention
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20. Feb. '20
Recreating alchemical operations
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20. Dec. '19
Yogis, adepts, experts: Who were the alchemists?
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2. Dec. '19
Avoiding Fundamentalist Histories — AyurYog and the launch of 'Yoga in Britain'
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7. Oct. '19
Visualizing alchemical spaces
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5. Sep. '19
How to think about 'life after death' beliefs
Drawing on some her Ayuryog research, Suzanne Newcombe has created a short reflection with the Open University on how to think about what happens after death - and the practices which may be associated with life extension or immortality. See...
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5. Jul. '19
Exploring Immortality
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25. Jun. '19
Ayurveda and alchemy
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24. May. '19
What is the role of the teacher?
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3. Apr. '19
Yoga, Daoism and Alchemy
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16. Nov. '18
Yoga and Āyurveda article on Sahapedia
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18. Sep. '18
The Roots of Ayurveda: ERCcOMICS about AyurYog
ERCcOMICS is a project that uses the power of visual storytelling to communicate the contents of ERC projects. This year, AyurYog was chosen by by ERCcOMICS as one of the projects that would be represented as a cartoon. The artist, Alice...
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8. Aug. '18
History of South Asian Alchemy: Post-doctoral Position at the University of Alberta
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5. Jun. '18
Connecting the Threads: The Convergence of Yoga and Ayurveda from 1900 to the Present
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3. Apr. '18
Publication announcement: Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia
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20. Nov. '17
From Ayurveda to biomedicine: understanding the human body
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3. Oct. '17
Seeds of Modern Yoga: the Confluence of Yoga and Ayurveda in the Āyurvedasūtra
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14. Sep. '17
Philology through experiment
The year 2015 saw the beginning of two major European projects, one at the University of Vienna, Austria, the other based at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, both projects focused on the study of texts...
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17. Aug. '17
Videos of the Conference 'Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia', August 1–3, 2017
From August 1-3, our conference “Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia” took place at Vienna university. Twenty-seven speakers and over seventy participants from all over Europe discussed aspects of South and Inner Asian medicine. The focus of the...
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20. Jun. '17
The Revival of Yoga in Contemporary India
The 21st of June was declared by the United Nations as ‘International Yoga Day’ (first celebrated in 2015). During this period of international celebrations of yoga, it is particularly valuable to recall the complex and multi-valiant nature of yoga in...
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31. Mar. '17
Conference Programme: Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia
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13. Mar. '17
How to respond to yogic powers
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14. Feb. '17
Krishnamacharya on yoga as indigenous medicine
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19. Jan. '17
Eight Yoga Postures in the Dharmaputrikā
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9. Jan. '17
Recipes for immortality and the intoxicating alchemy of South and Inner Asia
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21. Oct. '16
AyurYog workshop: Rejuvenation, longevity, immortality — Perspectives on rasāyana, kāyakalpa and bcud len practices
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4. Jul. '16
What is 'Tradition'? — Entanglements and Metaphors
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20. Apr. '16
A word on resources
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29. Feb. '16
The Arion Roşu Collection of the Institute of Indian Studies (Collège de France)
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7. Jan. '16
Untangling Histories — Commencing the Project
Image: The author melting zinc under the instructions of Andrew Mason. This is one of the steps in the preparation of a zinc rasāyana.
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29. Dec. '15
Publication announcement: 'Mercury in Medicine Across Asia and Beyond'
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16. Dec. '15
Did Ayurveda Influence Medieval Yoga Traditions? Preliminary Remarks on their Shared Terminology, Theory and Praxis
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30. Nov. '15
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