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Jason Birch

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Jason Birch is a scholar of medieval haṭha yoga and a founding member of SOAS's Centre for Yoga Studies. His research includes locating and translating early yoga manuscripts, and preparing critical editions, such as of the Amaraugha.

Biography

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Birch has studied haṭha yoga texts including the Yogacintāmaṇi.

Jason Birch gained his bachelor's degree in Sanskrit and Hindi at the University of Sydney. He won a Clarendon Scholarship to attend Balliol College, Oxford to study the Amanaska, the earliest rāja yoga text, under Alexis Sanderson.[1][2] He completed his DPhil there in 2013.[1] In 2014 he joined the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies as a research fellow. From 2015 he took part in the five-year Haṭha Yoga Project at SOAS University of London, where he has been translating and editing Sanskrit texts on haṭha yoga and rāja yoga.[1] He is a founding member of SOAS's Centre for Yoga Studies.[3]

His partner is the yoga scholar-practitioner Jacqueline Hargreaves, co-founder of the open-access platform for yoga research The Luminescent, and a founding member of the peer-reviewed Journal of Yoga Studies.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Dr Jason Birch". University of Sydney. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  2. ^ Birch, Jason (2013). The Amanaska: king of all yogas: a critical edition and annotated translation with a monographic introduction. Oxford: University of Oxford (thesis).
  3. ^ "Dr Jason Birch". Modern Yoga Research. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. ^ Hargreaves, Jacqueline (2021). "The Luminescent and Embodied Philology". The Luminescent. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022. scholar-practitioner Jacqueline Hargreaves speaks with host Seth Powell about her work with the Hatha Yoga Project, her unlikely background as an engineer that first brought her to India, and her life as a nomadic yoga researcher with her partner Jason Birch.
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