Join the Knowledge Quarter for our online event series; Virtual Private Views. While we have to take a break from our in-person private views, we are working with curators to bring the KQ's cultural offering to the digital realm! Join us at 3pm on Thursday 25 June for an online experience brought to you by SOAS' Brunei Gallery.

The exhibition, Embodied Liberation, will lead the audience through different chronological periods of yoga’s history using a variety of visual and interactive mediums which derive from the diverse methodological approaches used by the research team. Handwritten Sanskrit manuscripts, which are fascinating samples of the principal textual discoveries of the project, will be on display. A vivid Mughal painting of pre-modern asceticism will be contrasted with photographs and video material sourced during extensive ethnographic fieldwork of present-day ascetic practitioners in India, including very rare examples of female practitioners.

This event will be presented by the curators of the exhibition, Daniela Bevilacqua and Jacqueline Hargreaves.

About Daniela Bevilacqua: Daniela is a South-Asianist who uses ethnographic and historical methodologies to dig into religious issues of Indian culture. She received her PhD in Civilizations of Africa and Asia from Sapienza University of Rome. She is now a Post-Doc Research Fellow at SOAS, working for the ERC funded Hatha Yoga Project. Her role in the project is to collect, through fieldwork, historical evidence of yoga practice and ethnographic data among living ascetic practitioners of yoga.

About Jacqueline Hargreaves: Jacqueline is an Engineer and Yoga Teacher who researches how historical yoga practices are applied in the modern world. She is the curator of the 'Embodied Liberation' exhibition at the Brunei Gallery. Jacqueline is a founding member of the Journal of Yoga Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal, and the founder of The Luminescent, an independent open-access educational platform for the scholarly study of yoga.

Knowledge Quarter Virtual Private View: Brunei Gallery: Embodied Liberation