Associate Tutors
Jacqueline Hargreaves
About
BE (Hons), E-RYT, has a special interest in Indian Yoga traditions and Japanese Zen. Jacqueline researches the contemporary meeting place between historical practices and their application in a modern (mainly therapeutic) environment. She has travelled throughout India for fieldwork and studied meditation intensively for a year in a remote part of Japan. Her teaching combines the physical practices of haṭhayoga with the application of mindfulness-based meditation (MBCT and MBSR). Jacqueline enjoys working specifically to assist those with chronic health issues, stress, anxiety and depression.
She is a founding member of the Journal of Yoga Studies, an open-access academic journal and The Luminescent, an independent, high-quality, evidence-based research hub for the history and practice of Yoga. In collaboration with the Haṭha Yoga Project (SOAS University of London), Jacqueline has produced a documentary film, which brings to life the eighteenth-century yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati. In collaboration with the AyurYog Project (University of Vienna), Jacqueline is constructing a web-based visual and textual timeline for premodern Ayurveda and Yoga.