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Ashtanga Tech episodes
- Introduction to SystemsThe world isn't made of things. It's made of relationships. And once you actually see that, you can't go back to seeing it the other way.8 min
- Prana and the Bathtub: Systems Thinking for the Ashtanga PractitionerYour energy is not a battery you charge overnight. It's water in a bathtub. Filling and draining at the same time, every minute you're alive.8 min
- Escaping the House of Many RoomsYou can't escape systems. You can only learn to dance with them. Everything else is just a more exhausting way of losing.9 min
- The System Always Kicks BackYou're not broken. The system is doing exactly what systems do. Those are two very different problems, and we spend our lives confusing them.9 min
- Cultural Infrastructure: Teacher–Student Relationships and Room NormsA student forcing through pain is usually not a broken body. It's a broken room.8 min
- Tristana Method as a Stock-Flow-Loop StructureLose your gaze, and your breath follows it out the door. Then the posture goes too. In this practice, things don't fail one at a time.8 min
- Balancing the Full Spectrum: Awe, Wonder, and the Joy of the JourneyPain is a teacher. We all say that. But here's what doesn't get said enough. So is delight.7 min
- Bearing Witness is Tough: Yoga and the Path of Authentic TransformationYoga isn't here to make you comfortable. It's here to make you honest.7 min
- What is Secular Humanism?Some people think yoga asks you to believe in something. In God. In karma. In coming back for another life. It doesn't.7 min
- Systems Thinking and Spiritual PracticeThe poses aren't the practice. The breath isn't the practice. The practice is how all of it connects.8 min
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Keep the practice. Lose the guru. Michael Joel Hall on Ashtanga yoga without the authoritarianism — consent on the mat, systems over dogma, and how to practice for yourself. Each season is one course:…
Ashtanga Without a Guru, Practice for Yourself, The Mind-Body Organism, Culture and Context, Foundations of Praxis, and Executive Systems.