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:

August 01, 2026 Critical Thinking for Cognitive Bias
Your mind lies to you. Not sometimes. Constantly. And it lies to you fastest when it feels most certain.
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9min
July 31, 2026 Naïve vs. Deliberate Practice
You can show up every single day and still land exactly where you always landed.
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7min
July 30, 2026 Understanding Time Delays in Ashtanga Yoga
You changed the thing. It didn't work. So you changed it back. And that — that little reversal — might be the most destructive thing you did all year.
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8min
July 29, 2026 What is a Yoga Executive?
You're standing on your mat, breathing, moving. And a question surfaces. Who's running this show?
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7min
July 28, 2026 Integrating Systems Thinking into Ashtanga Yoga Community Support
You fire the controlling teacher. You hire a kind one. And two years later you're standing in the same wreckage, wondering how it happened again.
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8min
July 27, 2026 Wise Practice
You already know the difference between a good practice and one that leaves you hollow.
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7min
July 26, 2026 Leadership for Transformative Yoga Communities
If your shala falls apart the week you go on retreat, you are not a great teacher. You are a single point of failure.
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9min
July 25, 2026 Samadhi: The Point of All of It
This is what the whole thing is pointed at. And you will probably never get there. And that's completely fine.
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8min
July 24, 2026 Integrating Systems Thinking into Ashtanga Yoga Community Support
A teacher behaves badly. A student gets hurt. A shala quietly bleeds members. And we treat each one as its own little accident. It almost never is.
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7min
July 23, 2026 Dharana: Holding the Mind in Place
Here's the practice nobody wants to admit they need. It's boring. There's no shortcut. And it's the one that makes all the impressive stuff possible.
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8min

FAQs about Ashtanga Tech:

How many episodes does Ashtanga Tech have?

The podcast currently has 170 episodes available.