Fall 2026: A Fresh New Look for Yogic Studies
Oct 27, 2026
Your home for study is the same as ever, now with an updated design and new features: a redesigned website, a new course library, every podcast episode in one place, and a new way to study inside each course.
The Fall 2026 term at Yogic Studies is now underway, bringing a remarkable range of offerings: from the sacred architecture of the Deccan to a new critical edition and translation of the Haį¹hapradÄ«pikÄ with Dr. James Mallinson; from our Buddhist Studies graduate seminar to the first term of our language sequences in Sanskrit, PÄli, Tibetan, Hindi, and Latin.
In our spring survey, many students shared thoughtful reflections on how the platform itself could serve them better. Over the past few months we have redesigned the website, rebuilt the course library, brought all three of our podcasts home to yogicstudies.com, created new profiles for our faculty, and begun introducing a new course experience, one course at a time. Here is a short tour.
A redesigned Yogic Studies
Yogic Studies now offers more than 100 courses and 1,000 hours of teaching, 87 podcast episodes, and 50+ instructors. Here are five changes you will notice the next time you visit.
Caption: The new course home page, as it debuted in YS 220.
A new layout inside each course. We have redesigned the space where you actually do your studying. Each course now opens to a clear home page: your next lesson front and center, an outline that keeps your place, and a card for this week's live sessions, with meeting times shown in Pacific time or your own. The syllabus and readings are one click away, and a small badge tells you when there is a new announcement. The new design debuted with YS 220, and we will be bringing it to every course over the coming weeks.
Your library. Everything you are studying, in one place. Pick up where you left off, see what is coming up, follow your certificate programs, and search or filter all of your courses by subject and status.
All three podcasts, now on our site. Every episode of the Yogic Studies, Sanskrit Studies, and Buddhist Studies podcasts: watch or listen, with guest profiles, show notes, and related courses.
Meet our faculty. New profiles for our 50+ instructors, with biographies, selected publications, the courses they teach, and their podcast conversations.
Clearer course pages and schedules. Every course page has been redesigned, and the academic calendar can now show each meeting time in your own time zone.
Fall 2026 term
YS 220 | The Haį¹hapradÄ«pikÄ: A New Critical Edition and Translation
Instructor: Dr. James Mallinson
Dates: Term 1, Oct 26 – Dec 14, 2026; Term 2, Jan 18 – Mar 8, 2027
Mondays 10–11:30am PT
A sixteen-week master class reading the new critical edition of SvÄtmÄrÄma’s Haį¹hapradÄ«pikÄ line by line, with the editor himself. The course began on October 26, and enrollment is still open. Each session is recorded, so you can watch the first class and join us live from week two.
Seminars
BS 501 | Buddhist Studies Graduate Seminar
Instructor: Dr. Kate Hartmann
Dates: Sep 16 – Dec 9, 2026 · Wed 10am–12:30pm PT
YS 140 | Sacred Architecture of the Deccan
Instructor: Dr. George Michell
Dates: Sep 28 – Oct 23, 2026 · Fri 10–11:30am PT
Languages · Term 1
SKT 101 | Elementary Sanskrit I
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
Dates: Sep 14 – Dec 4, 2026
SKT 201 | Intermediate Sanskrit I: The BhagavadgÄ«tÄ
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
Dates: Sep 14 – Nov 13, 2026
PALI 101 | Elementary Pali I
Instructor: Dr. Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
Dates: Sep 14 – Dec 4, 2026
TIBETAN 101 | Elementary Tibetan I
Instructor: Kunsang
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 4, 2026
HINDI 101 | Elementary Hindi I
Instructor: Dr. Rajiv Ranjan
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 4, 2026
LATIN-S 101 | Latin for Sanskritists
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 4, 2026
All times Pacific. The academic calendar can show them in your time zone.
BS 501 Graduate Symposium
This December, the first cohort of our Buddhist Studies Advanced Certificate Program completes its capstone seminar, BS 501, with Dr. Kate Hartmann. To mark the occasion, the final session will be a Graduate Symposium, where each student presents their research project. The whole Yogic Studies community is warmly invited to attend, listen, and celebrate their work.
Wednesday, December 9, 2026 · 10am–12:30pm PT · Online
YS Book Club: Yogalands
This term’s YS Book Club read is Yogalands: In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World by Paul Bramadat (2025). Scholar and longtime practitioner Paul Bramadat draws on his own practice and conversations with hundreds of teachers and students across the US and Canada to ask what yoga really means to people in the modern West: its unspoken religious dimensions, its relationship to trauma, and the debates over appropriation and authenticity that shadow it.
Read along with us and join Dr. Anna Lee White for a live discussion at the end of term. The Book Club is free for YS members.
Friday, December 11, 2026 · 10–11:30am PT · Zoom
Sacred Sites of Tamil Nadu
Join Dr. Seth Powell and Kory Sheffer for ten days among the great temples of Tamil Nadu, January 14–23, 2027, with lectures on the history of yoga, daily practice, and a small group of fellow students. Private rooms are now sold out; one shared male spot remains! Learn more.
Recent podcast episodes
57 | George Michell | Sacred Architecture of the Deccan
56 | Mark Singleton | Yoga Machine: Technology, Transhumanism, and Transcendence
55 | Anjali Rao | Yoga as Embodied Resistance
Also on the site: The Sanskrit Studies Podcast with Dr. Antonia Ruppel and The Buddhist Studies Podcast with Dr. Kate Hartmann. Browse all episodes.
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