#124 Dr Suzanne Newcombe History of Asana in the UK

Dr Suzanne Newcombe History of Asana in the UK
(https://www.open.ac.uk/people/shn44 |
@faithoutsidethebox)


Modern yoga classes | Importance of physical well-being post WW2
| Impact of UK due to past imperial past with India | Desmond
Dunn teaching yogism | Theosophical society early human potential
movement | Watkins book shop & first translations of Yoga
Sutras | Hari Shastri | Krishnamurti | Annie Besant Rhodes


Theosophical Society of India focus on improvement of Indians |
Paul Brunton In Search of Secret India | Christmas Humphries |
The intertwined history of Buddhism and Yoga in Britain | Gerald
York shift toward physical experience | Pierre Bernard teaching
yoga in New York | Paul Dukes first person to teach yoga on UK TV
1949 | Yogini Sunita 1960s Birmingham | Wilfred Clark British
Wheel of Yoga | BKS Iyengar Light on Yoga | Yehudi Menuhin |
Sivananda Yoga | Yogi Bajan | 1990s Pattabhi Jois | Godfrey
Deveraux & Shandor Remete


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 Dr Suzanne Newcombe 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 registered charity that researches and provides
information on new and minority religions and spiritualities
using social scientific methodology which is based
in Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London.


Between 2015-2020 she was part of a 5-year project funded by the
European Research Council (Horizon 2020) entitled ‘Medicine,
Immortality and Moksha: Entangled Histories of Yoga, Ayurveda and
Alchemy in South Asia’,
see: http://www.ayuryog.org/ for more details.


Suzanne’s focus for 2023 is coordinating a British Academy funded
conference with Karen O'Brien-Kop from 26-27 May 2023 entitled
'Public Health after COVID: Beliefs, Religion and Competing
Epistemologies.' 
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-conferences/public-health-after-covid/
Publications

(2019) Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and
Educating Yogis. Sheffield, Equinox.
Edited Books and Journals:

(2020) ed. with Karen O’Brien-Kop. Routledge Handbook of
Yoga and Meditation
Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351050753


(2017) Special Issue of Religions of South Asia: Yoga
Darśana, Yoga Sādhana: traditions, transmissions and
transformations. Religions of South Asia. 11: 2-3.
Introduction to the volume available here.
Substantive articles and book chapters relating to modern yoga:

(2020) with Karen O’Brien-Kop ‘Reframing Yoga and Meditation
Studies’ Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation
Studies. Routledge, pp.
3-12. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351050753


(2020)  ‘Yoga and Meditation as a Health Intervention’
in Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation
Studies. Routledge, pp.
156-168. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351050753