Research survey for yoga teachers launched!

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If you are a yoga teacher from the UK, please take 10 minutes to share your thoughts regarding farm animals and plant-based diets via this survey. Please share it with other UK yoga teachers.


Three randomly-chosen participants will receive a box of Booja Booja chocolates (if you supply your email address when requested in the survey).

This research is in honour of the awareness and sensitivity that Animalia Asana® has of and to the following:

  • the dominance of animal-based diets in western and increasingly many non-western countries
  • the trillions (including fish) of animals farmed and slaughtered each year for human consumption
  • the huge animal welfare, environmental and sociological problems this creates
  • the availability of plant-based alternatives
  • the relevance of our dietary choices to yogic teachings and practice

Research is starting with UK yoga teachers. The intention is to expand the study in the future to incorporate different nationalities and countries.

Many thanks for your help :)

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Historical animal-inspired yoga movements to be unveiled!

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Animalia Asana® is excited to be partaking in a unique event unveiling newly discovered historical yoga sequences. The workshop will be facilitated by yoga academics/teachers Jacqueline Hargreaves and Jason Birch. Join us if you can: https://www.yogacampus.com/workshops/hathaabhyaasapaddhati-a-precursor-of-modern-yoga#

“One hundred and twelve āsanas, many of which are based on the movements of animals, are described in an eighteenth-century yoga text called the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati, ‘a manual on the practice of Haṭhayoga’. The āsanas are divided into six sequences and some of them involve repetitive movement and require extraordinary strength and flexibility, as well as the use of rope. Many of these āsanas remain unknown to modern yoga practitioners.”