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This course introduces students to the philosophical and psychological study of yoga. While primarily considered in the West as a somatic practice, yoga has historically and even contemporarily been an umbrella term for a host of cognitive, conative, and affective skills and orientations that one can train oneself in towards practical and non-practical ends. This course brings together selected readings from the philosophical and historical corpus of yoga with scholarship in cognitive sciences, psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry to invite students to think about yoga as a practice of living rather than a cluster of somatic techniques.