Guest Editorial

Author Biographies

• Suzanne Newcombe, Open University

  Suzanne Newcombe researches yoga from social historical and sociological perspectives. Her book Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis will be published with Equinox Press in 2019. She is currently part of an ERC-funded Research Project AYURYOG which is examining the histories of yoga, ayurveda and rasaśāstra (Indian alchemy and iatrochemistry) from the tenth century to the present, focusing on the disciplines' health, rejuvenation and longevity practices.   

• Matylda Ciołkosz, Jagiellonian University

  Matylda Ciołkosz focuses her academic interests on the role of the embodiment in the formation and transformations of religious traditions. Her current research is focused on the relation between the kinaesthetic experience related to āsana practice and the interpretations of religio-philosophical concepts in strands of modern postural yoga. In her methodological approach, she combines the tenets of enactivism with cognitive linguistics and phenomenology.