Some Recent UBC related Yoga projects:
2022 Traditions of Yoga: A Webinar Series at UBC
• March 23, 4PM [PDT]: Daniela Bevilacqua (SOAS, London), “How Sadhus Understand Hatha Yoga”
• March 30, 4PM [PDT]: Paul Bramadat (Univ. of Victoria), “Yoga and the Public Square”
• April 6, 4PM [PDT]: Rumya Putcha (Univ. of Georgia) & Shreena Gandhi (Michigan State Univ.), “Yoga and Settler Colonialism”
• March 30, 4PM [PDT]: Paul Bramadat (Univ. of Victoria), “Yoga and the Public Square”
• April 6, 4PM [PDT]: Rumya Putcha (Univ. of Georgia) & Shreena Gandhi (Michigan State Univ.), “Yoga and Settler Colonialism”
2021 Traditions of Yoga: A Webinar Series at UBC
Where did yoga come from? And what is it doing here? These are the questions that students are asking in ASIA 210: Traditions of Yoga, a brand-new course in Asian Studies at UBC. And as a public extension of this course, we are pleased to invite you to join UBC students on Wednesday afternoons, as we welcome international scholars to explore the traditions of yoga through historical, cultural, and critical lenses. We finish with a roundtable discussion on yoga in Vancouver.
March 24 (2-3.30PM): Jason Birch & Jacqueline Hargreaves, “Sanskrit Precursors to Modern Yoga”
March 31 (1-2.30PM): Andrea Jain, “Peace, Love, and Yoga”
April 7 (2-3.30PM): Rumya Putcha, “Yoga and White Public Space”
April 14 (2-3.30PM): Vancouver Yoga Roundtable / Cheryl Joseph, Fiona Stang, Lucy St. John, Maitreyi Yogacharini, Zander Winther
All events are free ZOOM webinars and open to the public.
For more information on the speakers & topics, and to register for the ZOOM webinars, please visit: https://blogs.ubc.ca/yogatraditions/
March 24 (2-3.30PM): Jason Birch & Jacqueline Hargreaves, “Sanskrit Precursors to Modern Yoga”
March 31 (1-2.30PM): Andrea Jain, “Peace, Love, and Yoga”
April 7 (2-3.30PM): Rumya Putcha, “Yoga and White Public Space”
April 14 (2-3.30PM): Vancouver Yoga Roundtable / Cheryl Joseph, Fiona Stang, Lucy St. John, Maitreyi Yogacharini, Zander Winther
All events are free ZOOM webinars and open to the public.
For more information on the speakers & topics, and to register for the ZOOM webinars, please visit: https://blogs.ubc.ca/yogatraditions/
MA - Asian Studies at UBC - in progress
I am currently an MA student in the Asian Studies Department at the University of British Columbia. I am studying the history and traditions of Yoga, Sanskrit Yoga texts, and their relation to the modern global practice of yoga. In particular, I am interested in the possibility that greater Sanskrit familiarity can become a bridge between the three stakeholders; contemporary yoga practitioners, traditional knowledge bearers of yoga, and scholars of yoga and indology.
To see a recent co-publication with my Advisor, Dr. Adheesh Sathaye, exploring this subject, see:
Sathaye, A., Winther, Z. Sanskrit Pathways for Mobilizing Knowledge of Premodern Yoga to Studio-Based Practitioners. DHARM 3, 71–91 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-020-00072-0
To see a recent co-publication with my Advisor, Dr. Adheesh Sathaye, exploring this subject, see:
Sathaye, A., Winther, Z. Sanskrit Pathways for Mobilizing Knowledge of Premodern Yoga to Studio-Based Practitioners. DHARM 3, 71–91 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-020-00072-0
ASIA 210 - Traditions of Yoga
In the spring of 2021 and 2022 I acted as the Teaching Assistant for a course I helped conceptualize with Dr. Adheesh Sathaye. This course explores philosophical, religious, and cultural development of yoga in classical and medieval South Asia and its relation to contemporary globalized practice. Today, yoga is practiced in nearly every country in the world, and has fostered a massive, multi-billion-dollar industry. But where did it come from? And how did certain colonial and postcolonial cultural “flows” lead to the globalized tradition found in today’s yoga studios?
MA Philosophy - 2010
In 2010 I completed an earlier MA in philosophy at the University of Waterloo. My areas of interests include the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of psychiatry, my research explored the self-referentiality, cultural variations in the conception of selfhood, and dissociative disorders.