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:

June 22, 2026 Relationships and Boundaries
A tight shoulder is almost never a shoulder problem. That's the whole episode, and also the thing it took me years to believe.
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9min
June 21, 2026 Enhancing Ashtanga Yoga Through Systems Thinking
If a practice promises you peace and keeps handing you anxiety, that isn't your failure. That's a design you haven't looked at yet.
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9min
June 20, 2026 Stocks & Flows in Human Systems
I stopped telling my students their breath was shallow. I started telling them where their energy went instead. Same fact. Completely different room.
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8min
June 19, 2026 Simplicity, Complexity, and Complication
Complex and complicated are not the same word. We use them as if they were. And that little confusion is quietly wrecking a lot of good practices.
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8min
June 18, 2026 Ashtanga Yoga as a System
Roll out your mat and you see postures. Step back six inches and the whole thing reorganizes into something else entirely.
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8min
June 17, 2026 Non-Linear Systems Surprise and Delight
You expect your practice to run in a straight line. Do this, get that. Add more effort, see more results. It does not work like that. And thank God, because a straight line would be unbearable.
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8min
June 16, 2026 Introduction to Systems Theory
A system is more than the sum of its parts. That line gets quoted to death. And almost nobody actually lives like they believe it.
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7min
June 15, 2026 Introduction to Systems
The 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.
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8min
June 14, 2026 Prana and the Bathtub: Systems Thinking for the Ashtanga Practitioner
Your 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.
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8min
June 13, 2026 Escaping the House of Many Rooms
You can't escape systems. You can only learn to dance with them. Everything else is just a more exhausting way of losing.
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9min

FAQs about Ashtanga Tech:

How many episodes does Ashtanga Tech have?

The podcast currently has 170 episodes available.