Jason Birch

Jason Birch is a scholar of medieval hatha yoga and a founding member of SOAS's Centre for Yoga Studies.

Biography
Birch has studied haṭha yoga texts including the Yogacintāmaṇi.

Jason Birch gained his bachelor's degree in Sanskrit and Hindi at the University of Sydney. He won a Clarendon Scholarship to attend Balliol College, Oxford to study the Amanaska, the earliest rāja yoga text, under Alexis Sanderson.[1][2] He completed his DPhil there in 2013.[1] In 2014 he joined the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies as a research fellow. From 2015 he took part in the five-year Haṭha Yoga Project at SOAS University of London, where he has been translating and editing Sanskrit texts on haṭha yoga and rāja yoga.[1] He is a founding member of SOAS's Centre for Yoga Studies.[3]

Works

Articles
  • Birch, Jason (2011). "The Meaning of haṭha in Early Haṭhayoga". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 131 (4): 527–554.
  • Birch, Jason (2014). "Rājayoga: The Reincarnations of the King of All Yogas". International Journal of Hindu Studies. 17 (3): 399–442.
  • Birch, Jason (2018). "Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda". History of Science in South Asia (6): 1–83.
  • Birch, Jason; Singleton, Mark (2019). "The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity". Journal of Yoga Studies. 2 (1): 3–70.
  • Birch, Jason (2019). "The Amaraughaprabodha: New Evidence on the Manuscript Transmission of an Early Work on Haṭha- and Rājayoga". Journal of Indian Philosophy. 47 (5): 947–977.

Book chapters

References
  1. "Dr Jason Birch". University of Sydney. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  2. Birch, Jason (2013). The Amanaska: king of all yogas: a critical edition and annotated translation with a monographic introduction. Oxford: University of Oxford (thesis).
  3. "Dr Jason Birch". Modern Yoga Research. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
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