In July 2025, SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies held an exhibition in China. Extending back over 1000 years, the exhibition Embodied Liberation: The History of Physical Yoga explores the origins and development of physical yoga within the religious traditions of India and its relationship with globalised forms of yoga that are popular beyond the subcontinent. The exhibition showcases the philological and ethnographic research findings of the SOAS University of London, Hatha Yoga Project (2015–2020). Curated by Jacqueline Hargreaves of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies, the exhibition is the first of its kind in China.

Below are some thoughts shared by the exhibition audience.