A book launch puts modern breath practice in historical context
SOAS hosts an online discussion of Magdalena Kraler’s Yoga Breath on November 16.
SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies will host an online launch of the open-access edition of Magdalena Kraler’s Yoga Breath on November 16. The event concerns a book first published in 2025.
History alongside practice
The university’s listing places the discussion from 7 PM to 8:30 PM London time. That is 2 PM to 3:30 PM in Panama. Registration is available through SOAS Yoga Studies Online.
According to the event description, Kraler’s book examines changing accounts of prāṇa and prāṇāyāma between 1850 and 1945. Its scope includes Hindu reform movements and encounters with occultism, science, medicine and ideas of hygiene.
That historical frame asks how familiar practices acquired some of their modern explanations. It gives teachers and readers a way to distinguish a technique’s older contexts from later interpretations, without turning a book announcement into an instruction session.
The launch offers a chance to hear the author discuss that work. The description here follows the university and publisher’s accounts; it is not a review based on reading the whole book. The new event and open-access edition should also be distinguished from the original 2025 publication.
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