Videos of the Conference 'Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia', August 1–3, 2017

From August 1–3, our conference “Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia” took place at Vienna University. Twenty-seven speakers and over seventy participants from all over Europe discussed aspects of South and Inner Asian medicine. The conference was jointly organized with three other Vienna-based projects on Asian medicine.

For the full programme see the conference page.

Videos of the conference presentations are now available:


Karl Baier (University of Vienna) — Yoga and Alchemy within fin de siècle Occultism


Suzanne Newcombe (AyurYog Project / London School of Economics) — Longevity practices in India during the modern period: Public health imperatives and individual aspirations


Dagmar Wujastyk (AyurYog Principal Investigator, University of Vienna) — Rasāyana in Sanskrit alchemical literature


Christèle Barois (AyurYog Project, University of Vienna) — Longevity practices from the Chāndogya Upaniṣad onwards


Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University) — Tantric immortality: the factors of long life and the transcendence of time


Further videos from the conference are available on the AyurYog YouTube channel. A full report on the conference was published on The Luminescent.