09/01/2026
MEET THE FACULTY 👋 We are pleased to introduce you the facilitators of the Decolonising Yoga module, Ruth Westoby and Eunice Laurel.
Eunice is a yoga facilitator, teacher-trainer and mentor with two decades of work experience in yoga settings. Alongside her role as a yoga educator, yoga outreach and community-based support is at the core of her work, having worked with NGOs abroad, London-based charities, and in private practice. In 2017, she founded Movement for Healing (MFH), a programme that brings trauma-informed yoga into organisations that support people impacted by domestic abuse and sexual violence.
Dr Ruth Westoby is a researcher in yoga and Asian Religions and a yoga practitioner. Ruth is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Jaina Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies with a focus on technologies of the body. In addition, Ruth is an Associate Researcher at Inform, based at King’s College London, researching menstruation in contemporary religions. Ruth holds a PhD from SOAS University of London on ‘The Body in Early Haṭha Yoga’ (2024), supervised by Professor James Mallinson and Dr Richard Williams, funded by CHASE-AHRC and awarded without corrections. Ruth is currently working on a book project from her doctoral thesis ‘Reversing Reproduction in Haṭha Yoga’. Her research focuses on the materiality of the body, (non-)reproduction and sexuality from critical theoretical and medical humanities perspectives.
To learn more about Ruth and, visit our website via link in our bio 📚