History of Yogas

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 7:00pm
Location: 
FH 118

2010 Humboldt alumnus, Seth Powell, now a Harvard trained scholar of Indian religions, offers a talk on the history of Yoga. Seth is a longtime practitioner and teacher of yoga, and is the founder of Yogic Studies, dedicated to bridging scholarly and practitioner yoga communities. Seth will discuss how the textual record can be complimented by artistic evidence in order to illumine yoga’s past. In particular, Seth will focus on his recent fieldwork at Hampi in South India.