INSTRUCTORS

Dheepa Sundaram - Guest Instructor

Dheepa Sundaram - Guest Instructor

AM Courses: Virtual 300HR YTT

Dr. Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) is scholar of performance, ritual, yoga, and digital culture in South Asia at the University of Denver which sits on the unceded tribal lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe people. Her research examines the formation of Hindu virtual religious publics through online platforms, social media, apps, and emerging technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Dr. Sundaram’s current monograph project titled Globalizing Dharma examines how commercial ritual websites fashion a new, digital canon for Hindu religious praxis, effectively “branding” religious identities through a neoliberal “Vedicizing” of virtual spaces. Her most recent article explores how West Bengal’s Tourism initiatives use Instagram to foster virtual, ethnonationalist, social networks during Durga puja. Spotlighting issues of access/accessibility to religious spaces and the viability and visibility of online counter-narratives, especially those from minoritized/marginalized caste, gender, and class communities, Dr. Sundaram shows how Asur tribal groups who seek to recover an alternative history of their ancestor Mahisasura, are not only excluded, but, effaced through this kind of digital cultural marketing campaign. A forthcoming piece examines so-called YouTube yogis and how the commercial landscape of yoga as part of lifestyle “cures” becomes an unwitting partner in Hindu nationalist project of repatriating yoga as a national cultural artifact.

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Erin Kelly – Lead Teacher

Erin Kelly – Lead Teacher

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Alexis Yauch – Lead Teacher

Alexis Yauch – Lead Teacher

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Stevi Gongora – Guest Teacher

Stevi Gongora – Guest Teacher

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Anthony Difiglio – Assistant Teacher

Anthony Difiglio – Assistant Teacher

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Brandon Cleek- Guest Instructor

Brandon Cleek- Guest Instructor

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Erin Kelly – Lead Teacher

Erin Kelly – Lead Teacher

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Bianca Scalise – Lead Teacher

Bianca Scalise – Lead Teacher

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Kim Picklap – Assistant Instructor

Kim Picklap – Assistant Instructor

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Alex Yauch – Assistant Teacher

Alex Yauch – Assistant Teacher

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Dr. Ben House – Guest Instructor

Dr. Ben House – Guest Instructor

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