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Hello

Further to our discussion this evening after Jeremy’s flow class, I thought more people might be interested in the topic of how yoga has developed over the ages. I recently completed a course with Dr James Mallison, Oxford on this topic. Between September 2015-2020, Mallinson was the Principle Investigator of The Haṭha Yoga Project (HYP), a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council and based at SOAS, University of London. This project charted the history of physical yoga practice by means of philology, i.e. the study of texts on yoga, and ethnography, i.e. fieldwork among practitioners of yoga.

If this is of interest, he has published a fair bit on the topic.