Are the yoga sutras the real authority? Is yoga actually 5000 years old? Is Kristen Bell’s naked pose “yoga”? Are we all one, or all alone? Yoga International Yoga History Podcast host and ERYT 500 Colin Hall teaches yoga history and philosophy. Today he lets us in on some self-labeled "controversial" perspectives that stem from his background of study. Find him on Instagram @colinyogin

2:15 fake yoga 4:07 living in yoga history 5:23 Kristen Bell’s bum 6:40 yoga traditionalists vs. body-positive yoga 7:38 Bikram 11:00 yoga history surprises 11:35 yoga is not 5000 years old 12:55 so how old is it? 14:26 we are NOT one says yoga sutras 19:20 yoga sutras NOT the authority?? 22:42 pissing people off, good conscience vs. good manners 23:58 dismantling yoga beliefs 25:01 the oneness delusion 27:13 focus on down regulation 28:10 collective trauma 29:00 yoga for level-headedness 32:25 business vs. yoga 37:12 hopes for yoga’s future