Jason Birch

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Jason Birch at SOAS

Jason Birch is a scholar of medieval

critical editions, such as of the Amaraugha
.

Biography

Birch has studied haṭha yoga texts including the Yogacintāmaṇi.

Jason Birch gained his bachelor's degree in

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]

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. .
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  • Birch, Jason (2019). "The Amaraughaprabodha: New Evidence on the Manuscript Transmission of an Early Work on Haṭha- and Rājayoga".
    S2CID 198531075
    .

Book chapters

Books

  • Birch, Jason (2024). The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga. .

References

  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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