Graham Burns

Graham has taught yoga professionally since 2001, having first qualified in the United States. A keen student of yoga's complex history and philosophies, he is a faculty member for the Yogacampus Yoga Teacher Training Diploma programmes, and co-designer and co-teacher of the Yogacampus Meditation Teacher Training course. Until 2021, Graham was a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies of London University) where he taught Hinduism, yoga history, and philosophy. As well as a law degree from Durham University many years ago, Graham has a MA in Indian religions and a PhD in ancient Indian religious philosophy from SOAS, where he remains a member of the Centre of Yoga Studies.

Graham Burns

A former commercial lawyer, Graham began practising yoga in the mid-1990s, when his earliest regular teachers included well-known teachers Simon Low and Liz Lark. During a sabbatical in 2000, he spent three months in India (to where he has returned many times since) and also studied extensively with Erich Schiffmann and Richard Freeman in the United States, as well as taking the White Lotus yoga teacher training course in Santa Barbara, California. Graham began teaching yoga regularly in 2001, when he also returned to the United States to study for the first time with Rod Stryker, who for many years was his main teacher. Graham’s special interests within yoga include yoga history and philosophy, the energetic aspects of yoga practice, and meditation. He is a faculty member for the Yogacampus Yoga Teacher Training Diploma programmes, and co-designed and co-teaches the Yogacampus Meditation Teacher Training course, as well as other courses and workshops. Until 2021, Graham was a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies of London University) where he taught Hinduism, yoga history, and philosophy . As well as a law degree from Durham University many years ago, Graham has a MA in Indian religions (2010) and a PhD in ancient Indian religious philosophy (2018) from SOAS, where he remains a member of the Centre of Yoga Studies

YAP Senior Teacher

Upcoming Courses

February 2023

A Comprehensive History of Yoga: Research and Scholarship

7th February 2023 - Online (Pre-Recorded) - Jason Birch & Graham Burns & James Mallinson & Karen O'Brien Kop & Mark Singleton & Somdev Vasudeva

March 2023

LONDON / Yoga Teacher Training Diploma (March 2023)

4th March 2023 - Yogacampus Finsbury Park Blended - Catriona Brokenshire & Sarah Litton & Liz Lark & Susanne Lahusen & Graham Burns & Paola Ceccarelli & Adelene Cheong & Raquel Alves

MANCHESTER / Yoga Teacher Training Diploma (March 2023)

4th March 2023 - Yogacampus Manchester Blended - Janine Kelly & Amelia Wood & Graham Burns & Fabiano Culora

The Yoga Constellation: a practical study of the Yoga Tārāvalī

12th March 2023 - Online (Live) - Graham Burns

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Graham Burns Portrait

Celebrating 15 years of the Yogacampus Teacher Training with Board member Graham Burns

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Therapeutic Posture, adjustment

Graham Burns: the technology of yoga

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