Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

So my aim in writing that book was to really put together an FAQ for a lot of the questions that people were asking me when I was either running teacher trainings on yoga history and philosophy or teaching.

You know, the work I was doing at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, talking to people who, you know, in various ways were curious about yoga, but it wasn't necessarily even their main thing.

So they were doing a course about yoga philosophy because they were just generally interested in the OCHS online course offerings.

And they needed, you know, a lot of hand-holding to a certain extent.

that I wouldn't necessarily be free to do in an academic context.

I mean, this

book really grew out of a course I developed for the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies in the wake of having written The Truth of Yoga and realising that there was an appetite for this sort of engagement specifically with the modern yoga phase.

And then having got a first draft of it together...