Graham Schweig

Graham Schweig is a Professor and the Director of Studies in Religion at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. He is also affiliated with The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and the Avanti Schools Trust in the UK. He earned his doctorate from Harvard in comparative religion, specializing g in sacred Sanskrit literature. A student of many traditional teachers, he has been to India seven times and has practiced meditational and heart-centered yoga for over 45 years. He has offered numerous seminars and lectures in the US and Europe, and has delivered over three dozen lectures on religion and yoga at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. His over 100 articles, chapters, and books include a widely-used translation of the Bhagavad Gita (Harper Collins). With his life-partner Catherine, he is co-founder of The Secret Yoga, which presents workshops on the philosophical foundations of yoga, the deeper dimensions of meditation, and other important themes. We spoke about his own spiritual history; the deeper dimensions of yoga, bhakti in particular; the Spiritual But Not Religious phenomenon, and his varied work in academia and the larger culture. Learn more about Graham Schweig here.