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    Dr. Katy Jane

    Katy Jane first discovered yoga and meditation after a near-death experience in high school which led her to live with a Brahmin family in Nepal where she was first exposed to Vedic Sanskrit. She then went on to study South Indian Carnatic music at Amherst College and classical yoga with many masters in India and the USA. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Vedic Sanskrit & classical yoga) from the University of California (Santa Barbara). An American Institute of Indian Studies scholar for Hindi and Bengali, she was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship for her masterÕs degree research in West Bengal and Bangladesh on the indigenous and Sanskritic cults of the goddess K__l__. During her two-year tenure in Calcutta, she was sponsored by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture for Vedic Sanskrit studies and Ved__nta. There she immersed herself in traditional adhy__yanam with her Vedic Sanskrit pan_d_ita and a rigorous daily Vedic study. For her doctoral research on ÒenlightenmentÓ within Vedic, classical yoga and __r__ Vidy__ traditions (and embodied in place), she was awarded a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship. During her research year, she completed a full circumambulation of the Narmada River, interviewing her dissertation subjects along the wayÑcountless pilgrims, b__b__s, s__dhus and s__dhv__s and yogins. In writing her dissertation, she discovered a more popular and less strictly academic voice. As a result, after serving as an assistant professor of world religions and Sanskrit at California Polytechnical University, Simpson College, the University of Colorado (Boulder) and Naropa University, she left academia to apply her knowledge of the Vedas, classical Yoga, Sanskrit and __r__ Vidy__ to the yoga community. She teaches her signature course, Sanskrit for Yogis, (and in-depth courses on Pata–jaliÕs Yoga S__tras, the Bhagavad G__t__, the principle Upanis_ads, Vedic chanting, among others) in many 200nhr and 500hr yoga teacher training curriculums worldwide. SheÕs the author of Awakening with Sanskrit, Feeling the Shakti of Sanskrit, and Sanskrit for Yogis: An Introduction to N__da, the Yoga of Sacred Sound. Presently, she serves as the director of yoga studies at the Dunagiri Retreat in Uttarakhand, India where she resides with her fiancŽ, teaches online Sanskrit classes and maintains a busy jyotisha (Vedic Astrology) consultancy. (You can learn more about Dr. Katy Jane at: www.drkatyjane.com)      
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    Kaṭha Upaniṣad: The Secret Teachings of Death

    By Dr. Katy Jane

    There’s something that you will never forget in your life. I know I haven’t. It’s the first time you see a dead body—the first time you meet Death.

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    Coercing the Gods: Fasting as Protest and Transformation

    By Dr. Katy Jane

    The Unified Field Pre-Visited

    By Dr. Katy Jane

    Lakṣmī, Light and Dark

    By Dr. Katy Jane

    Mūrti: The Living Form of God

    By Dr. Katy Jane

    A mūrti is not an idol. It’s a living “vessel” of manifestation, incarnation, and personification. It follows the same logic that if you want to drink water, you require a glass.

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    Nothing Can Be Taught

    The goal of yoga is summarized and experienced in that first word: “Now is the discipline of yoga.”

    By Dr. Katy Jane

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