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In this episode I speak with Daniela Bevilacqua. We cover hindu asceticism, its history, its aims, its culture. We discuss how contemporary ascetics are interacting with a rapidly changing and modernising India. You can listen to her Wise Studies course, Hindu Asceticism and its Spiritual Disciplines here: https://wisestudies.com/product/hindu-asceticism-and-its-spiritual-disciplines-with-daniela-bevilacqua/Daniela Bevilacqua is a South-Asianist specialising in Hindu asceticism, which she investigates through an ethnographic and historical lens. She received her PhD in Civilizations of Africa and Asia from Sapienza University of Rome and in Anthropology from the University of Paris Nanterre. Her PhD research was published by Routledge under the title Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Śrī Maṭh and the Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya in the Evolution of the Rāmānandī Sampradāya. She worked as a post-doc research fellow at SOAS, for the ERC-funded Haṭha Yoga Project (2015– 2020). She has published several articles and book chapters related to asceticism, and yoga studies. She is currently a Research Fellow at SOAS.

In this episode I speak with Daniela Bevilacqua. We cover hindu asceticism, its history, its aims, its culture. We discuss how contemporary ascetics are interacting with a rapidly changing and modernising India. You can listen to her Wise Studies course, Hindu Asceticism and its Spiritual Disciplines here:  <a href="https://wisestudies.com/product/hindu-asceticism-and-its-spiritual-disciplines-with-daniela-bevilacqua/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wisestudies.com/product/hindu-asceticism-and-its-spiritual-disciplines-with-daniela-bevilacqua/</a> Daniela Bevilacqua is a South-Asianist specialising in Hindu asceticism, which she investigates through an ethnographic and historical lens. She received her PhD in Civilizations of Africa and Asia from Sapienza University of Rome and in Anthropology from the University of Paris Nanterre. Her PhD research was published by Routledge under the title Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Śrī Maṭh and the Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya in the Evolution of the Rāmānandī Sampradāya. She worked as a post-doc research fellow at SOAS, for the ERC-funded Haṭha Yoga Project (2015– 2020). She has published several articles and book chapters related to asceticism, and yoga studies. She is currently a Research Fellow at SOAS.

Hindu Asceticism with Daniela Bevilacqua

Interview with Dr Daniela Bevilacqua, South Asianist and post-doctoral researcher on the Haṭha Yoga Project.  We discuss her extensive fieldwork with ascetic communities in India and why the best time to be doing ethnographic research in the field of Yoga Studies is now!

Understanding Yoga Studies #4 Daniela Bevilacqua

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Daniela Bevilacqua (Post-Doc Research Fellow, SOAS) about her background in History and Anthropology, her doctoral work on the Rāmānandī Sampradāya, her ethnographic fieldwork for the Haṭha Yoga Project, and the role of yoga among sādhus today in contemporary India. Speaker BioDaniela Bevilacqua is a South-Asianist who received her PhD in Civilizations of Africa and Asia from Sapienza University of Rome and in Anthropology from the University of Paris Nanterre. Her PhD research was published by Routledge under the title, Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Śrī Maṭh and the Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya in the Evolution of the Rāmānandī Sampradāya. She is now a Post-Doc Research Fellow at SOAS, working for the ERC-funded Hatha Yoga Project (2015-2020).Through her groundbreaking fieldwork in India, Daniela looks at the present practices of Haṭha Yoga among sādhus belonging to “traditional” samprādayas connected with the physical practice of yoga and austerities. The purpose of this research is to confront ethnographic material with textual and historical evidences to reconstruct the development of these practices.LinksYS 103 | Yoga and Hindu Asceticsm, Past and Present"Let the Sādhus Talk. Ascetic understanding of Haṭha Yoga and yogāsanas"Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India (Routledge, 2019)Yogasana | Embodied Liberation II | Brunei Gallery | SOAS University of London (YouTube video)https://www.instagram.com/dhanya_83

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Daniela Bevilacqua (Post-Doc Research Fellow, SOAS) about her background in History and Anthropology, her doctoral work on the Rāmānandī Sampradāya, her ethnographic fieldwork for the Haṭha Yoga Project, and the role of yoga among sādhus today in contemporary India. Speaker Bio Daniela Bevilacqua is a South-Asianist who received her PhD in Civilizations of Africa and Asia from Sapienza University of Rome and in Anthropology from the University of Paris Nanterre. Her PhD research was published by Routledge under the title, Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Śrī Maṭh and the Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya in the Evolution of the Rāmānandī Sampradāya. She is now a Post-Doc Research Fellow at SOAS, working for the ERC-funded Hatha Yoga Project (2015-2020).Through her groundbreaking fieldwork in India, Daniela looks at the present practices of Haṭha Yoga among sādhus belonging to “traditional” samprādayas connected with the physical practice of yoga and austerities. The purpose of this research is to confront ethnographic material with textual and historical evidences to reconstruct the development of these practices. Links<ul><li><a href="https://www.yogicstudies.com/ys-103" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YS 103 | Yoga and Hindu Asceticsm, Past and Present</a></li><li><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37270047/Let_the_S%C4%81dhus_Talk._Ascetic_understanding_of_Ha%E1%B9%ADha_Yoga_and_yog%C4%81sanas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Let the Sādhus Talk. Ascetic understanding of Haṭha Yoga and yogāsanas"</a></li><li><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Modern-Hindu-Traditionalism-in-Contemporary-India-The-Sri-Mah-and/Bevilacqua/p/book/9781138630963" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India (Routledge, 2019)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k25uHiKj3Q4&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;fbclid=IwAR1aXLH-DW49MJb-ewLc9D1YVgw7P8fYH0h2_AIPEIGl-YX9umzyYKV0GrI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yogasana | Embodied Liberation II | Brunei Gallery | SOAS University of London (YouTube video)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dhanya_83/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/dhanya_83</a></li></ul>

2. Daniela Bevilacqua | Hindu Asceticism and Haṭha Yoga