Knowledge, Practice, and Healing
Knowledge, Practice, and Healing
“Women-oriented Yoga: Female Empowerment or Patriarchal Practice in Disguise?”. Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities. Harvard University, Divinity School, Cambridge, USA. 28/5/2023.
“A Yoga of Her Own: Gender, Race and Authenticity in Women’s Yoga and Spirituality”. Together with Ella Poutiainen (University of Turku, Finland). Decolonizing Contemporary Women’s Spirituality, Ghent University, Belgium. 8/12/2022.
“Bleeding Yoginīs: Transforming Yoga to Accommodate Women in Iyengar Yoga”. The International Association for Study of Religion and Gender Conference: Religious Transformation and Gender, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 11/3/2021.
“Women’s Body, Lineage, and Yoga: Geeta Iyengar’s yoga (r)evolution”. The 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies, Vienna, Austria. (Cancelled due to covid-19).
“Yoga and Women in the Iyengar lineage”. The Yoga and Gender study group at SOAS University, London, UK. 22/3/2021.
“When Yoga Suits Her: Negotiating Women’s Positioning in the Yoga Tradition”. Presentation at the colloquium of the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia and the Medical Anthropology Forum, Department of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. 26/7/2020
“Yoga and Women: Historical and Contemporary Aspects”, part of the Yoga Studies, Summer School. The Jagiellonian University Institute for the Study of Religions, Kraków, Poland. Invited to give a series of lectures at the Yoga Studies Summer School. [Canceled due to covid-19]
“Yoga’s Red Tent: Menstrual-Oriented Iyengar Yoga Practices”. Female Religious Leaders and Dynamics of Female Agency in Religious Settings in South Asia workshop. University of Heidelberg, Germany. 12/8/2020.
“Her Yoga: Connecting Women to Indian Tradition by Imagined Narratives”. The Global Yoga Coersion-Scapes conference. Kyoto University. Japan. 13/7/2019.
“Women Oriented Iyengar Yoga”. The Yoga and Gender study group at SOAS University, London, UK. 7/5/2019.
“Yoga for Women: The Iyengar Revolution”. The Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies’ “Research of Our Own” conference. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 30/5/2018.
Iyengar Yoga for Women: Imagined and Real Histories. “Holy Lands and Sacred Histories in New Religious Movements”. Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), The Israeli Information Center for New Religious Movements (MEIDA), The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, The Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, Ben Gurion University and International Society for the Study of New Religions (ISSNR). 4/7/2017.
“Knowledge and Authority in Teaching Iyengar Yoga for Women: A Contemporary Ethnographic Research”. The conference “Women’s Spiritual Leadership: From Whence to Where?” The Schocken Institute for Jewish Research. Jerusalem, Israel. 20/3/2017.
“Power and Weakness as a Scholar-Practitioner in the Iyengar Yoga Tradition”. The Israeli Anthropological Association’s 45th academic conference “Between ‘Field’ and ‘Work’: Rethinking the Production of Knowledge and Professional Identity in Anthropology.” Kfar Qasem, Israel. 18/5/2017
“Yoga for Women in Iyengar yoga”. Yoga darśana, yoga sādhana: traditions, transmissions, transformations, for the Study of Religions. The Jagiellonian University Institute for the Study of Religions and the Modern Yoga Research group. 20/5/2016.
By Agi Wittich Ph.D. & CIYT Light on Prāṇāyāma is not a book you read once. You read it in layers. Maybe you start
Agi Wittich is a yoga practitioner since two decades, and is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher. Wittich studied Sanskrit and Tamil at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, completing a PhD with a focus on Hinduism, Yoga, and Gender. She has published academic papers exploring topics such as Iyengar yoga and women, the effects of Western media on the image of yoga, and an analysis of the Thirumanthiram yoga text.
