Participant Info
- First Name
- Anya
- Last Name
- Foxen
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- afoxen@calpoly.edu
- Affiliation
- California Polytechnic State University, SLO
- Website URL
- https://anyafoxen.com
- Keywords
- modern yoga, hatha yoga, tantra, metaphysical religion, western esotericism, magic, occultism, harmonialism, spirituality, New Age, physical culture, wellness
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Anya Foxen is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015.
Her research focuses the intersection of South Asian yogic and tantric traditions and Western esotericism and metaphysical religions. She also does work on gender and embodiment and the interplay of religion and science. Her current writing examines the transnational evolution and popularization of yoga in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Her ever-abiding “Plan B” is to pursue a career as the reincarnation of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Except healthier and more committed to social justice.
- Recent Publications
Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- anyeechka
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, United States, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Gender, Medicine, Religion, Science, Sports, Women
