Adrián Muñoz
Founder and head of Proyecto YoLA®, Dr. Adrián Muñoz is a professor-researcher at the Center for Asian and African Studies (CEAA) of El Colegio de México. His doctoral thesis was supervised by Dr. David N. Lorenzen. Trained in literature and history of religions, his areas of interest are South Asian religious traditions, Indian cultural and literary history, mythographic studies and comparative literature. He has specialized mainly in the history, hagiography, and literature of yogic traditions, particularly from the pre-modern period to the present day, on which he has published several books and articles. He has also devoted himself to translation (particularly from Sanskrit and English) and literary creation. These are some of his publications related to the project.
Borayin Larios
Dr. Borayin Larios teaches at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna and is assistant of the Chair of South Asian Studies. He holds an MA in Religious Studies from Fribourg and Lausanne (Switzerland) universities and a PhD in Classical Indology from Heidelberg University (Germany). He is the author of Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra, published by DeGruyter Open Access in 2017. Dr. Larios uses an interdisciplinary methodological approach, combining cultural anthropology, religious studies, and historical philology to understand the religious traditions of contemporary India. His main regional focus is Maharashtra. He is also a member of the Centre for Yoga Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation since he was a child. These are some of his publications related to the project.
Felipe Luarte Correa
Felipe Luarte is a historian. He completed his Ph.D. in Modern Indian History and M.Phil in Ancient Indian History, both at the University of Delhi, India. His research topics revolve around the cultural history of colonial and post-colonial India; the historiography of Hinduism and modern yoga; and the cultural and religious relations between India and Latin America, especially with Chile. He is a professor at Universidad Católica de Chile, collaborating in the centers of Asian Studies (CEA-UC) and Religious Studies (CER-UC). His latest publications include "A historical approach to neo-Hinduism in Chile" (2019), "Between unity and plurality: a look at India" (2018), "Yantras: some reflections on Hindu art" (2017), "Politics and religions in contemporary India" (2017), among other publications in books and specialized journals. These are some of his publications related to the project.
Gabriel Martino
Dr. Gabriel Martino holds a BA and a PhD in Philosophy from Buenos Aires University. His areas of specialization are ancient Greek and Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy, and philosophy of religion. His postdoctoral studies are focused on the philosophy of self and action in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra, carrying out a research stay at Rutgers University (USA), with a Fulbright scholarship, under the direction of Dr. Edwin Bryant. He currently works as a researcher at CONICET, and teaches Sanskrit at Buenos Aires University, Greek at Salvador University, and History of Ancient Philosophy at both universities. He directs two research projects (FONCYT-PICT and USAL) that address the subject of ancient Indian philosophy from a comparative perspective. These are some of his publications related to the project.
María Mercedes Saizar
Dr. María Mercedes Sáizar is an Independent Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (Argentina) at the Argentine Center of American Ethnology. Her main line of research is the phenomenon of alternative therapies of oriental roots in Argentina, with special attention to yoga, distinguishing modes of practice and teaching, reasons for choosing them, therapeutic uses and spiritual searches, processes of appropriation and transformation in urban contexts in the context of medical pluralism. In recent years, she has focused on the dynamics of insertion of alternative therapies in public health institutions and the associated processes of negotiation, domestication and professionalization. These are some of here publications related to the project.
Roberto Serafim Simões
Dr. Simões, earned his PhD with a thesis about the transformation of the role of klesas in the transplantation and consolidation of yoga in Brazil (2015) and his M.A. (2012) in Science of Religion from PUC-SP with a thesis about the reinterpretation of the yogic doctrine in contact with the physiological science of Western biomedicine. His academic activities include research, teaching, and various publications on the subject of yoga, health and spiritual liberation. In addition, he participates as a researcher in the research group Center for the Study of Alternative Religions of Eastern Origin in Brazil directed by Dr. Frank Usarski. He currently edits the website www.yogacontemporaneo.com. These are some of his publications related to the project.
Alberto Allende
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