56. How do Modern Practitioners Relate to Ancient Texts?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
Barbora Sojková [+]
University of Oxford
Barbora Sojková holds a DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sanskrit) from the University of Oxford where her research focused on human-animal relationships in Vedic Sanskrit literature. She works as an academic librarian at the All Souls College, Oxford, and as a Sanskrit cataloguer at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. She is a certified yoga teacher and trainer focusing on history and philosophy of yoga.
Description
For many, personal study of Sanskrit or other premodern languages and yoga texts is a way of engaging with yoga’s complex history. This can influence one’s understanding of the past, present, and future of yoga, and make one appreciate the variety and complexity of yoga, its evolution and dynamic nature.