Jason Birch
Appearance
Jason Birch is a scholar of medieval
critical editions, such as of the Amaraugha
.
Biography
Jason Birch gained his bachelor's degree in
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]
Works
Articles
- Birch, Jason (2011). "The Meaning of haṭha in Early Haṭhayoga". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 131 (4): 527–554.
- Birch, Jason (2014). "Rājayoga: The Reincarnations of the King of All Yogas". S2CID 255168404.
- Birch, Jason (2018). "Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda". History of Science in South Asia. 6 (6): 1–83. .
- Birch, Jason; S2CID 214332750.
- Birch, Jason (2019). "The Amaraughaprabodha: New Evidence on the Manuscript Transmission of an Early Work on Haṭha- and Rājayoga". S2CID 198531075.
Book chapters
- Birch, Jason (2018). "The Proliferation of Āsana-s in Late Mediaeval Yoga Texts". In Karl Baier; Philipp A. Maas; Karin Preisendanz (eds.). Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. ISBN 978-3847108627.
- Birch, Jason (2020). "Haṭhayoga's Floruit on the Eve of Colonialism". In Goodall, Dominic; Hatley, Shaman; Isaacson, Harunaga; Raman, Srilata (eds.). Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson. Leiden: Brill. pp. 451–479.
- Birch, Jason (2020). "The Quest for Liberation-in-Life: A Survey of Early Works on Haṭha- and Rājayoga". In Flood, Gavin (ed.). Hindu Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 200–242.
Books
- Birch, Jason (2024). The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga. ISBN 978-81-8470-250-7.
References
- ^ a b c "Dr Jason Birch". University of Sydney. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Birch, Jason (2013). The Amanaska: king of all yogas: a critical edition and annotated translation with a monographic introduction. Oxford: University of Oxford (thesis).
- ^ "Dr Jason Birch". Modern Yoga Research. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ 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.