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Study Tour 2023

On-campus learning experience with SOAS faculty.

Lectures with the foremost scholars in Yoga Studies.

Object-oriented learning via curated learning at the best of British institutions.

Participatory embodied practices.

Live translation into Chinese-Mandarin.

SOAS University of London is pleased to announce a Study Tour 2023 exclusively for the students of the 270-hour Yoga and Meditation Education Certificate. The Study Tour 2023 will take place in London at the prestigious campus of SOAS University, which is centred in the heart of Bloomsbury. Students will experience first-hand our facilities and experience the vibrant and unique atmosphere that makes SOAS so special. The campus is located within walking distance of other important educational landmarks such as the British Museum, the British Library, and the Wellcome Institute.

The Study Tour 2023 will provide an extraordinary opportunity for students to meet the faculty of the School and participate in lectures with the foremost scholars of Yoga Studies. We will learn about current research projects, including the methods and outputs, which are continuing to shape our knowledge of the history and practice of Yoga.

We will visit the world’s most important academic library for the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and the Brunei Gallery, which exhibits SOAS’s incredible permanent collection of artworks and objects. We have a formal association with the British Museum, the British Library, and the Royal Asiatic Society, which allows us to offer exceptional access to the collections and curatorial expertise of these institutions. As such, we will engage with object-based study via lectures and contributions from a wide range of leading scholars and curators.

In addition, we will enjoy the talents of the broader SOAS community by listening to a music concert by the School’s music department, participating in a Yoga classes in the vibrant London yoga scene, and enjoy extracurricular activities with the inaugural cohort of students of the Yoga and Meditation Education Certificate.

This Study Tour 2023 programme will be taught in English and simultaneously translated into Chinese-Mandarin.

Programme Cost and Attendance Details

The cost for the Study Tour is £1200 per student.

For the inaugural cohort, SOAS is offering a 25% discount, which is limited to the first 15 students only in 2023.

The discounted price for the Study Tour is £900 per student in 2023 only.

Timeline of Key Dates

25th to 29th JUNE 2023, inclusive.

4 days (9am – 12pm) lectures on-campus with faculty of SOAS University of London.
4 days (12pm – 2pm) of buffet lunch fully catered by SOAS.
4 days (2pm – 4pm) of object-oriented museum/library with Museum/Library Curators.
1 day (6pm – 8pm) yoga class in a London studio.
1 day (5pm – 7pm) attend a live SOAS Concert Series performance.
1 day (6pm onwards) of farewell dinner.

Additional Costs

Accommodation
The accommodation costs while visiting London are not included in the Study Tour.

Transport
Flights and transfer costs to get to the UK and SOAS campus are at the student’s expense and are not included in the Study Tour.

Visas and Travel Insurance
Each student will be responsible for their own individual flights, passport validity, visa application, and travel insurance.

Travel Restrictions
Covid conditions of entry into the UK are determine by government order. Please check the current travel advice below. This may change at any time, so it should be checked regularly prior to departure: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-to-england-from-another-country-during-coronavirus-covid-19.

 

 

Course tutor

Ulrich Pagel

Seiyu Kiriyama Professor of Buddhist Studies, Convenor of the MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation

Jacqueline Hargreaves

Jacqueline Hargreaves, BE (Hons), E-RYT, is Programme Convenor for SOAS University of London, Yoga Studies Online.

Jason Birch

Jason Birch (DPhil, Oxon) is a Senior Research Fellow for the Light on Hatha Yoga Project, hosted at SOAS University of London and the University of Marburg. He is also a research fellow on the Suśruta Project at the University of Alberta, and co-Project Director of the Yogacintāmaṇi Project at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Matthew Clark

Since 2004, Dr. Matthew Clark has been a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), where he taught courses on Hinduism between 1999 and 2004. He has spent many years in India, which he first visited in 1977, visiting nearly all important (several hundred) pilgrimage sites and trekking around 2,000 miles in the Himalayas. His publications include The Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs: The Integration of Ascetic Lineages into an Order (2006).

Suzanne Newcombe

Suzanne Newcombe, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University (UK) where she researches modern yoga from a sociological and social historical perspective. She is also the Director of Inform, a educational charity which focuses on new and minority religions and is based within Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London.

Myriadne Wang

Myriadne (Changhuan) Wang is a doctoral researcher funded by SOAS Research Studentship in the Department of History, Religions and Philosophy Department at SOAS, University of London. She is working on Indo-Iranian studies and her PhD project is on the subordinating clauses introduced by conjunctions in Avestan language, in which both semantic analysis and formal aspects of hypotaxis shall be examined, with a comparative look at that in Vedic Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages.

Ruth Westoby

Ruth is a CHASE-funded doctoral candidate in the Department of History, Philosophies and Religions at SOAS, London. Her research project is ‘Bodies in Haṭhayoga: Gender, materiality and power’, an intellectual and textual history of the yogic body in premodern Sanskrit sources on Haṭhayoga. Ruth uses the lens of gender to unpack the functionality and materiality of the yogic body as body. To date there has been no such comprehensive treatment of the yogic body.

Study Tour 2023

£900.00

On-campus learning experience with SOAS faculty.

Lectures with the foremost scholars in Yoga Studies.

Object-oriented learning via curated learning at the best of British institutions.

Participatory embodied practices.

Live translation into Chinese-Mandarin.

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