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New Publication on the History of Āsana: "Etched in Stone" art history hampi haṭha yoga nāth yogis publication sculptures vijayanagara yoga history Āsana May 01, 2018

My article, "Etched in Stone: Sixteenth-century Visual and Material Evidence of Śaiva Ascetics and Yogis in Complex Non-seated Āsanas at Vijayanagara" has been published in the inaugural issue of the new peer-reviewed Journal of Yoga Studies (JoYS).

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Interview with Impossible Yoga impossible yoga interview italian yoga history Jan 24, 2018

Online interview with Benedetta Panisson at Impossible Yoga. Bilingual transcript available in Italian and English.

http://www.impossibleyoga.com/2018/01/24/seth-powell-yogic-studies/

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Advice on Āsana in the Śivayogapradīpikā haṭha yoga the luminescent Āsana Śivayogapradīpikā Jun 30, 2017

Guest blogpost for The Luminescent.

Original post can be found here: http://theluminescent.blogspot.ca/2017/06/advice-on-asana-in-sivayogapradipika.html 

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"The Śivayogapradīpikā (c. 15th century), or “Lamp on Śiva’s Yoga” is an...

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Haṭha Yoga Project Promo Video academia haṭha yoga project london soas video yoga studies Jun 30, 2017

In September 2016 a workshop for twenty scholars working on critical editions of Sanskrit texts on yoga was held at SOAS and All Souls, Oxford.

Look out for Seth Powell's cameo in the video ;) 

The Haṭha Yoga Project (HYP) is a five-year (2015-2020) research project funded by the European...

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