Symposium lecture “How to Speak the Language of the Gods”
Invited lecture for a Symposium on the goddess Hekate. Description: The oldest known Hymn to Hecate was composed by the epic poet Hesiod, a close contemporary of Homer who claimed to have received the stories of the birth of gods from the Muses themselves. His...
Research & Manuscript development seminars 2021
These course elements were commissioned by the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Patras as part of the Postgraduate Research Planning Module in their new MSc in Therapeutic Exercise. I was invited to provide specialised training to contribute to the...
2021 course: Introduction to the Academic Study of Western Esotericism
I am delighted with the experience and feedback from course participants, whose warm engagement made this second pandemic winter a pleasure to navigate. This course is now complete, and the recordings are being professionally edited before we make them available in...
Solving the Biopsychosocial Problem
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, May/June 2021 As efforts to embed evidence-based practice across manual therapy professions continue to grow, the biopsychosocial (BPS) healthcare model has not seen the success some may have hoped for.
Sasha interviewed by David Lesondak
Earlier this year I was delighted to join David Lesondak on his Bodytalk podcast in which we discuss matters close to both our hearts: from the medical humanities to hot topics in the manual therapy...
Listen, My Body Electric
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, March/April 2020 Part 1: Narrative Medicine and the Holistic Revolution in Biomedicine
New Year 2021 lectures
I’m delighted to be returning to Treadwell’s in the New Year (albeit virtually) for a series of live lectures that will span through to the Spring. First, two standalone lectures based on my recent books: Atalanta Unveiled, and my PhD dissertation on...
CFP: “Pagan Responses to Health, Disease, and Healing:” Special Issue of The Pomegranate International Journal of Pagan Studies
Guest editor: Sasha Chaitow, PhD. Abstract deadline 31st May 2021.
Lecture for ETH Zurich: Art and literature as vehicles for change
Esoteric art and literature as vehicles for change: Joséphin Péladan’s vision for a spiritual revolution, by Sasha Chaitow for ETH Zurich, 10th November 2020
Intelligent Fascia?
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, November/December 2020 Once we are aware that we are in fact only one link in a long debate that has been repeated many times before, we can compare contexts and see where we may do things more constructively. We need to...
New alchemical art collection: The Seals of the Philosophers
New art collection The Seals of the Philosophers Opus Medico-Chymicum: tertius Basilica Philosophica The seals of the philosophers... is a set of emblems designed by Johannes Mylius in 1618 named for historical and mythical adepts and legends of alchemical lore......New book: Atalanta Unveiled
