''. Jason Birch gained his bachelor's degree in
Sanskrit and
Hindi at the
University of Sydney. He won a
Clarendon Scholarship to attend
Balliol College, Oxford to study the
Amanaska, the earliest
rāja yoga text, under
Alexis Sanderson. He completed his DPhil there in 2013. He is a founding member of SOAS's Centre for Yoga Studies. His partner is the yoga
scholar-practitioner Jacqueline Hargreaves, co-founder of the open-access platform for yoga research
The Luminescent, and a founding member of the peer-reviewed
Journal of Yoga Studies. == Works ==