Ashtanga Tech

By Michael Joel Hall

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:... more

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The podcast currently has 170 episodes available.

Ashtanga Tech episodes:

March 07, 2026 Assesment Paradigms
You walk into a room. Twenty people are practicing. You scan, and something fires — that one needs help. Here's the question almost no teacher asks. What did you just measure?
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9min
March 06, 2026 Social media/digital presence
Social media is everything yoga isn't. It's curated. It sells your attention. It's engineered to make you compare, scroll, and come back. You already know all of this.
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9min
March 05, 2026 Safety & Consent
The absence of a no is not a yes. Sit with that one, because most of the traditional adjustment culture is built on getting it wrong.
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8min
March 04, 2026 Boundary violations response
Most yoga teachers fail at boundaries in exactly two ways. And they usually do both, one after the other.
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9min
March 03, 2026 Language
The words you choose don't just describe the room. They build it.
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9min
March 02, 2026 Subjectivity and Assisting
You put your hands on a student and move them. Congratulations — you are now expressing your opinion with someone else's body.
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8min
March 01, 2026 Accessibility & Props
Most yoga spaces treat props like training wheels. Something you graduate from. That's stupid, and it costs you students.
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8min
February 28, 2026 Scaling strategy
Growth pursued for its own sake is just ego with a business plan.
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8min
February 27, 2026 Mental health crisis protocols
Most yoga teachers handle an injury the same way. Panic. Guess. Hope. I know, because I did it for years.
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9min
February 26, 2026 Praise & Feedback
Someone will tell you that you changed their life. They'll mean it. And they'll be wrong.
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9min

FAQs about Ashtanga Tech:

How many episodes does Ashtanga Tech have?

The podcast currently has 170 episodes available.