Graham Schweig

Graham M. Schweig, Ph.D. (ERYT500 | YACEP) has been a practitioner of meditational and heart-centered Yoga for over 50 years. He holds a doctorate from Harvard University in comparative religion, with a specialization in sacred Sanskrit literature focusing on Yoga and Bhakti.

Graham is presently Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of Studies in Religion, at Christopher Newport University. He is also Distinguished Teaching and Research Faculty at the Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

Graham has been conducting yoga workshops and offering seminars and lectures around the US and Europe for over 20 years. He has been invited by the Smithsonian Institution to deliver over three dozen lectures on religion and yoga at its museums in Washington, DC, and has been an invited speaker several times at the Yoga Journal Conferences.

Among his more than 100 publications, his translation of the Bhagavad Gita (Harper Collins, 2010) has been used in Yoga teacher trainings nationwide. His translation and commentary on Patanjali’s Yoga Sūtra is forthcoming from Yale University Press.