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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001663/00001
Subjects
- Subjects / Keywords:
- Hatha yoga ( lcsh )
हठयोग
- Spatial Coverage:
- Asia -- India
- Coordinates:
- 21 x 78
Notes
- Abstract:
- This film is a collection of videos from ethnographic fieldwork, shot in different areas of India between 2016 and 2019. It aims to vividly describe the use and understanding of āsanas (postures) among contemporary ascetics, while providing the viewer with an intimate view of the ascetics’ world (please note this film contains some nudity)
- General Note:
- Please note this film contains some nudity
- General Note:
- This film was exhibited during the Embodied Liberation II exhibition (27 April 2020 through 27 June 2020) in the Brunei Gallery and online during the COVID-19 lockdown of London. The exhibition showcased the most recent research discoveries in the field of Yoga Studies as identified by the Hatha Yoga Project, SOAS. ----- The exhibition presented different chronological periods of yoga’s history using a variety of visual and interactive mediums which derive from the diverse methodological approaches used by the research team. Handwritten Sanskrit manuscripts which are fascinating samples of the principal textual discoveries of the project; vivid Mughal paintings of pre-modern asceticism contrasted with photographs and video material sourced during extensive ethnographic fieldwork of present-day ascetic practitioners in India, including very rare examples of female practitioners. ----- The exhibition included photographs of the oldest known sculptures of complex yoga postures (i.e., the twelfth-century Mehudī Gate of Gujarat, India) and a multimedia video installation of embodied philology - the reconstruction of the āsanas (along with Sanskrit recitation and English translation) of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati, an eighteenth-century Sanskrit manual on the practice of haṭhayoga, which is one of the ten critical editions to be published by the project.
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Bevilacqua, Daniela : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/227145541783896601610
- General Note:
- The Hatha Yoga Project was funded by the European Research Council, established by the European Commission.
- General Note:
- The music, Haratanaya Sree, was played by Veena Kinhal.
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Rights Management:
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