#130 Ruth Westoby - Baking The Body in the Fire of Yoga

Ruth Westoby Baking the Body in the Fire of Yoga
(www.enigmatic.yoga | @ruthwestoby ) 


The Relationship Between Academic Study & Practice | Learning
Ashtanga Yoga | Entering into the academic study of yoga |
Reading the Bhagavad Gita | Getting obsessed with details | Mark
Singleton’s & Norman Sjoman’s books | Are the myths being
busted? | The Sritattvanidhi | The transformation of practice
enriches interest in the texts | Practising to techno | Cultural
appropriation | Can we separate mind & body? | Use of
critical theory in yoga | Yoga necessary for doing the
contemplation elements


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Ruth Westoby is a doctoral researcher in yoga and an Ashtanga
practitioner. As well as offering workshops and lectures at
studios and conferences, Ruth teaches on some of the principal
teacher training programmes in the UK and beyond. Ruth is on the
steering committee for the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies.


Ruth collaborated with the Haṭha Yoga Project’s ‘embodied
philology’, interpreting postures from an 18th-century text
teaching a precursor of modern yoga,
the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati, in 2016 and 2017. Ruth
began to explore yoga practices in 1996 and started teaching
postural yoga in 2004. In 2010 she received an MA in Indian
Religions from SOAS, University of London, with Distinction.


 


Ruth has studied closely with Hamish Hendry and Richard
Freeman. In 2015 she was authorized by Sharath to teach
Ashtanga level 2. Ruth does not practice at studios which display
images of Pattabhi Jois on altars in solidarity with those who
were sexually abused by him. For resources and dialogue on this
please contact Ruth directly.


 


Ruth is researching for a doctoral thesis on ‘Bodies in
Haṭhayoga: Gender, Materiality and Power’ at SOAS under the
supervision of James Mallinson.