Speaking
Panels, podcasts and conversations on literature, embodiment and current affairs.
The joke is that Firdose started speaking in full sentences as early as nine months… and hasn’t stopped!
Her speaking portfolio includes facilitating conversations on topics including literature, embodiment and current affairs. Firdose has hosted panels at the Open Book Festival and has appeared on several podcasts discussing both her writing and her research.
Firdose teaches live online trainings for Yoga Medicine: Women in Yoga; Decolonizing Yoga: Tracing the History of the Practice; and Yoga & Politics: Holding the Essence. She also gives a free 60-minute seminar with questions, Uncover the Origins of Yoga & Debunk Popular Myths.
With Janine van Wyk, in conversation with Leigh-Ann Paulick
With Nadine Dirks, Lesedi Molefi
At the 3rd International Academic Conference, Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana: the brown body in yoga after Covid and Black Lives Matter, migration from the subcontinent, and yoga as Indian soft power and a vehicle of Hindu nationalism.
With Desiree Ellis, Sindiwe Magona, Patric Tariq Mellet
Her research on yoga, race and gender in South Africa and the Indian diaspora.
