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Ashtanga Tech episodes
- The Importance of Explicit Communication in TeachingThere's an objection I hear from teachers all the time. "If I explain everything, my students won't need me anymore." And my answer is: exactly. That's the point. Now let me tell you why.6 min
- Yogic Agency: The Power of Choice in Your PracticeYour teacher says hold for five breaths. Your shoulders are screaming at breath three. What you do next — that's the whole thing.8 min
- Consent Protocols & Safety GuardrailsWhen I started teaching, I adjusted people without asking. It was what my teachers did. I thought it was kindness. I was wrong about that, and I want to tell you how I found out.7 min
- Vikalpa: Seeing Beyond the SurfaceThe mirror shows your body. Your mind adds the commentary. And most of us can't tell the two apart.8 min
- Assisting as Spiritual PracticeHere's the thing nobody tells you about putting your hands on someone in a yoga room. The most powerful assist you'll ever give is often no assist at all.8 min
- The Philosophy of AsanaPatanjali spends sixteen words on the physical posture. Sixteen. In a text that maps everything from the cosmos to the quietest edge of concentration, the pose gets four short lines.8 min
- Keeping Your Self CompanyYou are running an organization of one. And you have never once called a meeting.7 min
- Executives are Accountable: Your World, Your ProblemsYou're the CEO of exactly one thing. Your own mind.7 min
- Critical Thinking for Cognitive BiasYour mind lies to you. Not sometimes. Constantly. And it lies to you fastest when it feels most certain.9 min
- Naïve vs. Deliberate PracticeYou can show up every single day and still land exactly where you always landed.7 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.