Past Events
2024
Conference: History of Science and Philosophy in Premodern India
17–18 May 2024 — Department of History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta, Business Building 2-09
A conference in honour of Prof Dominik Wujastyk, Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity.
2022
Book launch: Illness and Immortality. Mantra, Mandala, and Meditation in the Netratantra — Patricia Sauthoff
4 February 2022 — Online
Let the Vaidyas speak! Translating the Usman Report
28 January 2022 — Online
2021
Launch of Rasaśāstra: A Timeline of Sanskrit Alchemical Literature
27 May 2021 — Online
2020
Exhibition: LONGEVITY — A Timeline of Yoga and Ayurveda
Postponed from 14 May 2020 — due to Covid-19 pandemic
Untangling Traditions: Yoga, Ayurveda and Alchemy
14–16 May 2020 — Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
Inform–AyurYog Seminar on Immortality: Beliefs and Practices
1 February 2020 — Bush House, the Aldwych, King’s College London
2019
Christèle Barois: Mārga in the Dharmaputrikā. From the Path of the Bodily Winds to the Archery Metaphor
29 November 2019
Water As Elixir of Longevity: A Rasāyana Practice from the Ānandakanda — Patricia Sauthoff
23–26 November 2019 — American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
“Yoga in Britain” Book Launch and Reception — Suzanne Newcombe and Mark Singleton
4 October 2019 — Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London
Femininities and masculinities in medieval South Asia — Patricia Sauthoff
3 October 2019 — University of Alberta
Alchemical Spaces and Tantric Traditions — Patricia Sauthoff
27–29 September 2019 — Society for Tantric Studies Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona
The Usman Report as a resource for Siddha Medicine, Yoga and Alchemy — Christèle Barois
25–27 July 2019 — Tübingen University
Suzanne Newcombe: ‘The In-between Worlds of Yogis: Body Jumping, Immortality and Kayakalpa practices’
16 May 2019
Alchemy in Daoism and Haṭha Yoga — Louis Komjathy and James Mallinson
29 March 2019 — Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London
Guest Lecture — “Yoga and Health in Modern India” — Suzanne Newcombe
20 March 2019 — SOAS, University of London
Presentation by Dagmar Wujastyk: Old substances, new understandings — iron tonics and the roots of ayurvedic iatrochemistry
1 March 2019
2018
AyurYog and Haṭha Yoga Project ERCcOMICS Event
10 December 2018 — SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies, University of London
Suzanne Newcombe: ‘Immortality and miracle cures: The stretching of language in yoga and ayurveda’
28 November 2018 — University of Kent
Suzanne Newcombe: ‘The Body in Contemporary Yoga and Ayurveda’
24 November 2018 — King’s College London
Lecture by Christèle Barois: La production de la couleur selon la médecine classique indienne
22–23 November 2018
Suzanne Newcombe: ‘The status of indigenous medicine in India from the colonial period to the present’
8 November 2018 — University of Kent
‘The Doctor from India’ Film Screening and Discussion
26 October 2018 — SOAS, University of London
Public Discussion on What is Yoga? — Suzanne Newcombe
23 September 2018 — Triyoga London
Presentation by Dagmar Wujastyk: On medicine and alchemy in the Kalyāṇakāraka
12 July 2018 — World Sanskrit Conference, UBC, Vancouver
Presentation by Christèle Barois: On a List of Sixty-Four Yoga Powers in Śaiva Purāṇic Literature
11 July 2018 — World Sanskrit Conference, UBC, Vancouver
Yoga and Ayurveda Panel at the 17th World Sanskrit Conference
9–14 July 2018 — UBC, Vancouver
Suzanne Newcombe speaking on “1923 Usman Report on Indigenous Medicine”
18 June 2018 — All Party Parliamentary Group on Indian Traditional Sciences / Nehru Centre, London
Presentation by Dagmar Wujastyk: Verjüngungskuren im Ayurveda
27 May 2018 — Ayurveda Days, Vienna
AyurYog at the opening of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies
8 May 2018 — SOAS, University of London
Images of Indian Gods and Objects of Immortality — Suzanne Newcombe
7 April 2018 — British Museum, London
Guest Lecture — “Yoga and Health in Modern India” — Suzanne Newcombe
19 March 2018 — SOAS, University of London
Presentation by Dagmar Wujastyk: AyurYog: Entangled Histories of Yoga, Ayurveda and Alchemy in South Asia
2 March 2018 — Vienna
Interview with Suzanne Newcombe: “Authenticity and Transformations in Yoga Traditions”
18 February 2018 — Online conference: Embodied Philosophy: Yoga Reconsidered
Presentation by Dagmar Wujastyk: “Healthcare and longevity practices in yoga, ayurveda and rasaśāstra”
18 February 2018 — Online conference: Embodied Philosophy: Yoga Reconsidered
2017
The medical practices of yogins in medieval India. The case of the Dharmaputrikā — Christèle Barois
19 October 2017 — Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Vienna
Yoga, Ayurveda, Magic and Alchemy — Suzanne Newcombe
17 October 2017 — Rudolf Steiner House, London
Conference: Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia
1–3 August 2017 — University of Vienna
Presentation by Dagmar Wujastyk: Potent panaceas — from plant-based medicine to iatrochemistry in Ayurveda
10 August 2017
Presentation by Suzanne Newcombe: Longevity practices in India during the modern period
2 August 2017 — Conference: Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia, University of Vienna
Presentation by Dagmar Wujastyk: Rasāyana in Sanskrit alchemical literature
1 August 2017 — Conference: Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia, University of Vienna
Presentation by Christèle Barois: Longevity practices from the Chāndogya Upaniṣad onwards
1 August 2017 — Conference: Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia, University of Vienna
Presentation by Suzanne Newcombe: ‘A Historical Overview on Yoga as a Medical Intervention’
23 June 2017 — Nehru Centre, London
Panel discussion at the Vienna International Centre for International Yoga Day
21 June 2017 — Vienna International Centre
Philosophy in Contemporary Yoga Symposium — Triyoga, London
3 May 2017 — Triyoga, London
Christèle Barois: The Dharmaputrikā: A textual apparatus for yoga
20 April 2017 — French Institute of Pondicherry
Guest lecture by Suzanne Newcombe: “Yoga in the Modern Period”
22 March 2017 — SOAS, University of London
Presentation by Suzanne Newcombe: Immortality and the Medical Interventions of Sadhus
28 February 2017 — King’s College London
2016
Presentation by Christèle Barois: Medical practices and yoga — the case of the Dharmaputrikā
3–4 November 2016 — Université de Strasbourg
AyurYog Workshop: Rejuvenation, longevity, immortality
21–22 October 2016 — University of Vienna
Presentation by Christèle Barois: The Dharmaputrikā — 12 September 2016
12–16 September 2016 — Sanskrit Texts on Yoga: A Manuscript Workshop, SOAS and All Souls College, Oxford
Dagmar Wujastyk: From herbal-based medicine to iatrochemistry
22–26 June 2016 — SHOT Annual Meeting, Singapore (videoconference)
BBC Radio 4: The Secret History of Yoga
17 June 2016
Suzanne Newcombe: Relaxation in 20th Century Yoga — a Key to Health, Beauty and Eternal Youth?
17 June 2016 — Wellcome Collection, London
Conference: yogadarśana, yogasādhana — Traditions, Transmissions, Transformations
19–21 May 2016 — Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Presentation by Suzanne Newcombe: “Entangled histories of yoga, ayurveda and rasaśāstra”
8 March 2016 — Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge
Presentation by Suzanne Newcombe: “Yoga, Ayurveda and alchemy in the modern period”
24 February 2016 — Open University, London
Radio interview with Dagmar Wujastyk: Radiodoktor — das Ö1 Gesundheitsmagazin
17 February 2016
2015
Lecture by Christèle Barois: “A few remarks on the textual organization of yoga and ayurveda materials”
10 December 2015 — Paris, CEIAS/EHESS
Suzanne Newcombe: ‘Yoga, Ayurveda and Immortality: The Case of Swami Ramdev’
8–9 September 2015 — BASR Annual Conference, University of Kent