
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
It’s often said that yoga is timeless, but many modern methods are recent inventions. What keeps them anchored in earlier traditions? I recently explored this with Mike De Masi, who runs a discussion group devoted to the yoga of T. Krishnamacharya and his students – from B.K.S. Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois to T.K.V. Desikachar and Srivatsa Ramaswami.
Among other topics, our conversation covered:
* What “tradition” means when so much has changed
* Whether stories told by lineages stand up to scrutiny
* How one relates to other worldviews as a foreigner
* What scholarship on yoga can offer practitioners
* Why critique should be balanced with respect
If you enjoy the podcast, and would like to fuel more, please consider subscribing or buy me a coffee... All donations are greatly appreciated!
--
RESOURCES
Worldwide Krishnamacharya Yoga Community
Breath of the Gods (a 2012 film about Krishnamacharya)
“The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati” (Birch and Singleton)
The Goddess Pose (a book about the life of Indra Devi)
Srivatsa Ramaswami’s Vinyasa Krama website
5
1212 ratings
It’s often said that yoga is timeless, but many modern methods are recent inventions. What keeps them anchored in earlier traditions? I recently explored this with Mike De Masi, who runs a discussion group devoted to the yoga of T. Krishnamacharya and his students – from B.K.S. Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois to T.K.V. Desikachar and Srivatsa Ramaswami.
Among other topics, our conversation covered:
* What “tradition” means when so much has changed
* Whether stories told by lineages stand up to scrutiny
* How one relates to other worldviews as a foreigner
* What scholarship on yoga can offer practitioners
* Why critique should be balanced with respect
If you enjoy the podcast, and would like to fuel more, please consider subscribing or buy me a coffee... All donations are greatly appreciated!
--
RESOURCES
Worldwide Krishnamacharya Yoga Community
Breath of the Gods (a 2012 film about Krishnamacharya)
“The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati” (Birch and Singleton)
The Goddess Pose (a book about the life of Indra Devi)
Srivatsa Ramaswami’s Vinyasa Krama website
2,557 Listeners
831 Listeners
568 Listeners
1,866 Listeners
1,247 Listeners
392 Listeners
4,062 Listeners
1,628 Listeners
1,791 Listeners
16 Listeners
278 Listeners
48 Listeners
445 Listeners
499 Listeners
582 Listeners