Papers by Amelia Wood
This paper examines how women’s roles in pre-modern yoga practices have been represented in tantr... more This paper examines how women’s roles in pre-modern yoga practices have been represented in tantra and hatha texts. Consideration is given to the shifting notion of yoga and the academic relevance of studying women within this. The texts examined include the Brahmayāmala, a śakta-śaiva scripture that details the participation of women in rituals and represents them in various divine forms; the hathayoga texts from the 12th-15th centuries, the Amanaska, Dattātreyayogaśāstra and Hathapradīpikā. Themes explored include the limiting nature of sources written from and for the male perspective; sexuality and spiritual-sexual practices, specifically the practice of vajrolīmudra; the agency ascribed to women and to what extent representations align with the lived reality of women’s experiences.
Talks by Amelia Wood
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This presentation was given as part of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies Gender and Yoga study grou... more This presentation was given as part of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies Gender and Yoga study group in 2019. This document is a summary of what was covered in the presentation, based on early doctoral research.
Conference Presentations by Amelia Wood
This paper argues that-based on case study evidence-is it necessary to expand the conceptual para... more This paper argues that-based on case study evidence-is it necessary to expand the conceptual parameters of Spiritual Abuse to, firstly, include sexual abuse and, secondly, the experiences of victims from within modern transnational yoga contexts. Such an expansion will further the understanding of the complex relationship between spiritual and sexual abuse and resist hermeneutical injustice.
Spiritual Abuse in Modern Yoga Contexts: Definitions and Delineations, 2021
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