Name: 3rd International Academic Conference: Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana
Start: 2024-05-22T09:15:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-25T18:00:00+02:00
Location: ESA West

3rd International Academic Conference: Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana

from Wednesday, 22 May 2024 (09:15) to Saturday, 25 May 2024 (18:00)

Monday, 20 May 2024
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Wednesday, 22 May 2024

14:00 Registration
Registration
14:00 - 16:00
16:15 Welcome - Harunaga Isaacson
Welcome
- Harunaga Isaacson
16:15 - 16:30
16:30 Keynote I “Yoga Turned on its Head: Inverted Postures and the Realignment of Yogic Practice c. 1000 CE.” - James Mallinson (Oxford University)
Keynote I “Yoga Turned on its Head: Inverted Postures and the Realignment of Yogic Practice c. 1000 CE.”
- James Mallinson (Oxford University)
16:30 - 18:00
19:00 Optional Dinner at Citta Izakaya
Optional Dinner at Citta Izakaya
19:00 - 21:00
https://www.cittaveganizakaya.de/ https://maps.app.goo.gl/hdcnRHzYzvCrC3dt9 Grindelhof 17, 20146 Hamburg
Thursday, 23 May 2024
09:15 Inspiration panel 1
Inspiration panel 1
09:15 - 10:45
Contributions

09:15 The Wheel of the Navel and Lotus of the Heart: Metaphor, Medical Knowledge, and the Early Tantric Body - Shaman Hatley (University of Massachusetts Boston)

09:45 Yogic Body in Ālāol’s Padmābatī - Lubomír Ondračka (Charles University)

10:15 The Importance of Rousing Serpents: Kuṇḍalinī and the Evolution of Modern Yoga in the Work of Vivekananda and Yogananda - Anya Foxen (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Institutionalisation panel 1
Institutionalisation panel 1
09:15 - 10:45
Contributions

09:15 Yoga as an Academic Discipline in Indian Public Universities - Raphael Voix (CESAH - Center for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (Paris))

09:45 Bridging the gap between yoga scholarship and practice: explorations in democratising knowledge - Martha Henson Ruth McNeil (King's College, London)

10:15 The Kundalini Research Foundations. Gopi Krishna's global network of kuṇḍalinī researchers. - Marleen Thaler (University of Vienna, Department of Religious Studies)
Introspection Panel 1
Introspection Panel 1
09:15 - 10:45
Contributions

09:15 Postured: Women, Nation and Yoga in Twentieth Century India - Ida Pajunen (University of Cambridge)

09:45 Embodying Shiva and Shakti- the construction of gender in contemporary, European tantra - Tova Olsson (Umeå University)

10:15 Teaching Women Their Place: Alignment in Yoga Postures as Rhetorical Strategy - Agi Wittich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
11:00 Institutionalisation panel 2
Institutionalisation panel 2
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Sexual Abuse and Rape Culture in Modern Transnational Yoga - Case Study: Sivananda Yoga - Angela Gollat (Lakehead University)

11:30 Contagion, conspiracy and co-regulation: alternative health under lockdown - Theodora Wildcroft (Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)

12:00 Omwashing Yoga: The Far-Right's Weaponization of Spirituality Toward Ethnonationalism - Sheena Sood (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Delaware Valley University)

12:30 Aryan Heritage? Reconsidering Postural Yoga in Interwar Germany - Beatrix Hauser (Universität Bremen)
11:15 Inspiration panel 2
Inspiration panel 2
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 Fifty Unknown Verses on Yoga: An Early Attempt to Synthesise Pātañjalayoga with Haṭha and Rājayoga. - Jason Birch (University of Oxford)

11:45 For the Purpose of Awakening Ignorant People: The Incorporation of Yoga into Advaita Vedānta in the Aparokṣānubhūti - Zoe Slatoff (Loyola Marymount University)

12:15 From Ritual to Introspection: The adhyātmayoga of the Kaṭha-Upaniṣad - Dominik Haas
Introspection Panel 2
Introspection Panel 2
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 THE ROLE OF ABSORPTION: THE KEY OF SPITITUALITY IN MODERN POSTURAL YOGA - Adriana Maldonado (Open University)

11:45 “It gets me to the same place”: Sanskrit in modern postural yoga teaching - Samuel Horsley (The University of Edinburgh)

12:15 The Purpose of Pain in Modern Yoga - Rose Mary Busto (SOAS, University of London)
14:15 Inspiration panel 3
Inspiration panel 3
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 (Haṭha)yoga for the Vedāntin in King Jasvant Singh I’s Ānandavilāsa - Rosina Pastore (Gent University)

14:45 Empower Your Mind: A Study of Manobala Pañcaviṁśikā - Punya Pragya Samani (FIU)

15:15 Yoga and Psychology in Dharmapala's Buddhism - Jessica Albrecht (Universität Bonn)
Institutionalisation panel 3
Institutionalisation panel 3
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 A history of the institutionalisation of complementary medicine in Switzerland : the case studies of yoga-therapy & mindfulness - Valentina Salonna PdD Candidate (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

14:45 Nēhiyaw Yoga: Biomedical intervention in on-reserve Indigenous communities - Meera Kachroo (University of Saskatchewan)

15:15 The Effectiveness of Yoga Interventions in Improving the Well-being and Productivity of Desk-based Workers - A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Louisa Pavey (Kingston University) Nora Vyas (Kingston University) VIPIN WADHEN (Kingston University)
Introspection Panel 3 Authority, community, power dynamics
Introspection Panel 3 Authority, community, power dynamics
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Yoga, Value Retraditionalisation and Minority-Identified Yoga Practitioners in Finland - Ella Poutiainen (Åbo Akademi University)

14:45 Institutional Power and Community Power in Modern Yoga: Aligned or Maligned? - Amelia Wood (SOAS, University of London)

15:15 The teacher disappears: Cases of disaffiliation on the margin of the Iyengar Yoga community - Matylda Ciołkosz (Jagiellonian University)
16:15 Inspiration panel 4
Inspiration panel 4
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 The Soteriology of Sound Revisited: Meditation on OM at Death in the Pāśupata Sūtra - Finnian Gerety (Brown University)

16:45 Experiencing the ‘Unstruck Sound’ in the Yoga of the Sants - Jaroslaw Zapart (Jagiellonian University)

17:15 "Puffing and Swelling as Bubbles": Mantra and Music in Sri Sabhapati Swami's Yoga - Keith Cantu (Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions)
Institutionalisation panel 4
Institutionalisation panel 4
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Patañjali in Contemporary India: Role and Representations - Gudrun Buhnemann (University of Wisconsin Madison)

16:45 Comparing the Metaethics of Patañjali's Yoga and Nondual Śaivism - Brett Parris (University of Oxford)

17:15 A Post-Kantian Patañjali? Surendranath Dasgupta on the Ethics of the Yoga Sūtras - Owen Ware (University of Toronto)
Introspection Panel 4
Introspection Panel 4
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Jain Yoga of the 6th Century: Haribhadra's Yogabindu - Christopher Chapple (Loyola Marymount University)

16:45 Who is well Versed in Yoga: Insights from Yogaśatakam of Haribhadra - Samani Pratibha Pragya (FIU)

17:15 Interfaith Dialogue In Jain Yoga Texts - Cogen Bohanec (Arihanta Institute / Claremont School of Theology)
Friday, 24 May 2024
09:15 Inspiration panel 5
Inspiration panel 5
09:15 - 10:45
Contributions

09:15 Blended Ontologies: entanglements of yoga, martial arts and postmodern Indian dance - Lucy May Constantini (The Open University)

09:45 The politics and poetics of yoga spaces: three case studies from the UK - Nick Lawler (Lancaster University)

10:15 Yoga as magic - Nikolai Suvorov (Universität Hamburg)
Institutionalisation panel 5
Institutionalisation panel 5
09:15 - 10:45
Contributions

09:15 From Worshipping God to Becoming God: A Theistic Teaching of Pāśupata Yoga in the Īśvara Gītā - Susanta Bhattacharya (Pedagogical University of Krakow)

09:45 Is Sāṃkhya Really Dualistic? A Comparative Perspective Gathered from Other Gnostic Yogas - Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Department of Philosophy)

10:15 Tracing the Genesis of Lakṣyayoga ("Yoga auf Targets") - From Śaiva Tantras to Late Medieval Rājayoga Texts - Nils Jacob Liersch (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Introspection Panel 5
Introspection Panel 5
09:15 - 10:45
Contributions

09:15 From Theorhythm to yoga teachers: The impact of Phiroz Mehta in the UK - Karen O'Brien-Kop (King's College London)

09:45 Transnational Circulation of Yoga Instructors and Practitioners between Brazil and India (1950s-1970s) - Mirian Santos Ribeiro de Oliveira (Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana)

10:15 Yogi Haider: Inscribing Pakistan into the global contemporary yoga scene - Diane Charmey (University of Lucerne)
11:15 Inspiration panel 6
Inspiration panel 6
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 Paradox of Pranayama: the breath's path from god to element - Scott Lamps (Independent scholar, SOAS University of London)

11:45 Should you breath through the pores of your skin? - Jürgen Hanneder (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

12:15 The Synthesising Influence of Eustace Miles: Breath Culture and the Assimilation of Yoga in Fin de Siècle Britain - Victoria Addinall (SOAS)
Institutionalisation panel 6
Institutionalisation panel 6
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 The Other Śivasaṃhitā - Peter Pasedach

11:45 The Haṭhayogasaṃhitā - The Direct Precursor of the Gheraṇḍasaṃhitā? - Maximilian Hoth

12:15 The Unuttered Mantra: The Role of Ajapā within Haṭhayoga - Seth Powell (Yogic Studies)
Introspection Panel 6
Introspection Panel 6
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 Fierce Aesthetics of Asceticism: The Goddess Cāmuṇḍā in Temple Art of Medieval North India - Sandra Sattler (SOAS)

11:45 People and Monkeys in Yoga Poses in the Wall Paintings Decorating the Buddhist Caves of Kucha - Ji Ho Yi (Universität Leipzig)

12:15 Purpose and Text-Image-Relationship of Illustrated Yoga Manuscripts - Christina Riebesell (Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut)
14:15 Inspiration panel 7
Inspiration panel 7
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Transnational Inspiration: Prāṇa and Prāṇāyāma in Early Modern Yoga - Magdalena Kraler (Independent scholar)

14:45 To meditate, to stretch, to amuse: multiple meanings of āsanas among Indian sādhus - Daniela Bevilacqua (CRIA (ISCTE-IUL))
Institutionalisation panel 7
Institutionalisation panel 7
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Delusion, Bilingual Poetry and Commentary Literature - Peter Pasedach

14:45 Rethinking Patañjali and āsana: The relationship between āsana (posture), sukha (bliss), and meditation in early Buddhism and Patañjali’s yoga - Valters Negribs (Groupe de recherches en études indiennes, Paris)

15:15 Smṛti in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra: Retention, recollection and the practice of self - Karen O'Brien-Kop (King's College London)
Introspection Panel 7
Introspection Panel 7
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 “Puruṣa bound from within / without looking on”: Gurani Anjali's Sāṃkhya-Yoga Music on Long Island, New York - Christopher Miller (Arihanta Institute / Claremont School of Theology / University of Zürich)

14:45 Between Orientalism and Universalism: A Global Perspective on the Popularization of Body-Oriented Yoga Practices in the People's Republic of Poland 1956-1970 - Ulrike Lang (TU Dresden, Institute of Slavic Studies)
16:15 Inspiration panel 8
Inspiration panel 8
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 From Monkey Mind to Inner Silence: What could permanent loss of inner speech in meditators tell us about its purpose? - Martha Henson (SOAS University (2017-2020))

16:45 Mystical Pluralism, Yogas, and the Role of Learning in Early Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Theology - Travis Chilcott (Iowa State University)
Institutionalisation panel 8
Institutionalisation panel 8
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Menstrual practice – a survey of the field - Ruth Westoby (SOAS University of London)

16:45 Rasaśāstra and the Perfect Body - Patricia Sauthoff (Hong Kong Baptist University)

17:15 Psychoactives and Psychedelics in Yoga: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Culture - Stuart Ray Sarbacker (Oregon State University)
Introspection Panel 8
Introspection Panel 8
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Playing the Blame Game: A Critique of Neoliberal, Trauma-Informed, Prison Yoga - Rose Parkes (The Open University)

16:45 Finding the Brown Body in Contemporary Yoga - Firdose Moonda (University of Cape Town)

17:15 From ridicule to recognition. Image of yoga in public media in communist Poland. A case study of Malina Michalska. - Iwona Kozlowiec
Saturday, 25 May 2024
09:15 Inspiration panel 9
Inspiration panel 9
09:15 - 10:45
Contributions

09:15 Yoga and the Siddhis in Early Theosophical Writings - Marina Alexandrova (University of Texas at Austin)

09:45 Charting the Early History of Modern Yoga Through Latin America and Iberia with the Works of Yogi Ramacharaka - Philip Deslippe (UC Santa Barbara)

10:15 Gandhi’s Yoga Sādhana for Sarvodaya - Veena Howard (California State University Fresno)
Institutionalisation panel 9
Institutionalisation panel 9
09:15 - 10:45
Introspection Panel 9
Introspection Panel 9
09:15 - 10:45
Contributions

09:15 The Latin faces of yoga in the Americas - Adrián Muñoz (El Colegio de México) Borayin Larios (French Institute of Pondicherry and École française d'Extrême-Orient)

09:45 YOGHISM, CHRISTIANISM, AND THE ANDEAN COSMOVISION: AMALGAMATING YOGA IN BOLIVIA, ISSUES OF SYNCRETIC SPIRITUALITY - Adriana Maldonado (Open University)

10:15 "Jai Hanumān. Jai Coatlicue!" - Negotiating Bhakti Yoga and Aztec Devotion at the Jamadi Center, Mexico - Borayin Larios (French Institute of Pondicherry and École française d'Extrême-Orient)
11:15 Inspiration panel 10
Inspiration panel 10
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 Worldview types amongst yoga practitioners in Finland - Janne Kontala (Åbo Akademi) Måns Broo (Åbo Akademi University)

11:45 Pedagogies of Salvation: The Micro and Macro-Politics of Yoga in Euro-American Societies - Matteo Di Placido (Department of Cultures, Politics and Society)

12:15 The Politics of Imagining at the Boundaries of Yogaland - Jens U. Augspurger (SOAS University of London)
Institutionalisation panel 10
Institutionalisation panel 10
11:15 - 12:45
Introspection Panel 10
Introspection Panel 10
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 From India to Chile: The journey of the Suddha Dharma Mandalam, its audience, adaptations and translations. - Macarena González Carmona

11:45 Jinarajadasa: A Messenger of Oriental Wisdom, or a Theosophical Missionary in Latin America - Adrián Muñoz (El Colegio de México)

12:15 The evolution of DeRose’s understanding on yoga. Theosophy, Swasthya and beyond, from Brazil to the world. - Gabriel Martino (CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires)