Matthew Clark Yoga

Matthew Clark

Matthew Clark delivers brilliant, down to earth, insightful lectures on the origins of yoga. His wealth of knowledge is remarkable and he makes his subject highly accessible and relevant to modern day yoga practitioners.

Matthew Clark

Matthew Clark, Yoga Philosophy Teacher

Dr Matthew Clark (MA, PhD) has been a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) since 2004. Prior to that he taught Hinduism there between 1999 and 2003. Since 2002 he has been lecturing on yoga at yoga centres in the UK, Europe, Israel, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the USA. To date, he has presented lectures at yoga retreats, workshops and teacher-training courses for twenty-five different yoga teachers and organisations. He has been teaching Philosophy on the Shala School of Yoga 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training programmes since 2018.

Matthew has published articles and books on yoga, soma and sādhus (yogis). His PhD, on a sect of sādhus (saṃnyāsīs), was published in 2006. His recent book, entitled The Tawny One: Soma. Haoma and Ayahuasca, was published in July 2017. Matthew has been visiting India since 1977, visiting around 1,000 pilgrimage sites and trekking about 2,000 miles in the Himalayas. He first engaged with yoga in the mid-1970s, and since 1990 has been regularly practising a form of Ashtanga Yoga. Matthew also writes songs, plays guitar, and makes records as Mahabongo.

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testimonials

Magnificent story teller and teacher, an immense amount of knowledge and passion for the history of yogic practices, to say I was impressed would be an understatement, I was really in awe of the vastness of his appreciation and experience of India, Yoga, History and his ability to jump along the time line describing and painting a picture of the context of that time in contrast to our present thinking and environment.

“ Matthew has got a wealth of knowledge and he imparts it in a very interesting way. I could listen to his lecture a for hours. ”

-U

“ Matthew's enthusiasm for his subject made the classes very engaging. He has a huge depth of knowledge and it was a privilege to learn from him. ”

-J

“ I loved Matthews Philosophy module! Matthew is a great story teller and his teachings are very accessible. His knowledge and passion is inspiring and I learnt a great deal. Thank you Matthew! ”

“ Matthew has a very friendly accessible style and his anecdotal style was very engaging ”

-V

“ I would defy anyone not to be drawn into Matthews flowing recitals of knowledge from the ancient history of eastern culture and practices, I was with him hook line and sinker.”

-J

“ Loved Matthews sessions - they were always extremely engaging and really interesting. He really knows his stuff and I found his talks fascinating! Would love to attend more.”

Matthew is obviously knowledgeable about the History of Yoga and he is very talented in passing his knowledge on to the students. I loved how he seemed to have witnessed the events he related as he is so passionate and excited about sharing.

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