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YOGA HISTORY ONLINE COURSE This four-week course puts contemporary yoga into context, with an insightful and engaging overview of history and philosophy. From the Vedic Upaniṣads, via the Bhagavad Gītā and Yoga Sūtra, to more recent texts on haṭha yoga, we will trace the main themes in yogic teachings, and look at some less commonly studied sources. WEEK 1 / EARLY YOGA We will begin by examining evidence, of which little survives apart from texts. Since yoga was transmitted orally, how much can

NEW COURSE Roots & Branches of Yoga From Ancient India to Contemporary Global Practices In this tour de force course on the history of yoga, no Sanskrit page, meditation cushion, or yoga block is left unturned. Embracing a wide variety of evidence, from pre-Common Era texts to contemporary books and academic scholarship, from archeology to mythology, from teacher-student lineages and oral histories to genetics, we invite you to journey with us into the colorful universe of ancient, premodern, an