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i recently offered a free workshop entitled the 3 promises of yoga, the 3 big things we all should be getting out of our yoga practice. I've bundled this workshop into a podcast episode where I ask what are the 3 big promises of yoga, and why do so few seem to realise them?

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I used to practice yoga with rules of alignment. In fact, this approach is the dominant way to practice postural yoga today; there is a safe and an unsafe way to to do yoga poses, there is a right and a wrong way. There are cues that yoga teachers give students on how to do poses well and there are assists that teachers can give to students to help them.   

But what if the assumptions of alignment yoga are all wrong? I found out they are: come join me.

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acupressure and myofascial release are getting more and more popular in yin yoga and yoga in general. as it becomes more popular, weird and just plain wrong claims are being made on social media about what massaging or placing massage balls on these places will do.   

in this short episode, i talk about claims like these are erroneous, even dangerous because they leads yoga teachers to make spurious claims about the power of acupressure.

massaging these places is actually really great, but not for the reasons claimed.

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i continue to be shocked by how bossy yoga teachers are. 

i continue to be appalled by how inconfident many yoga students are with exploring yoga poses (placing THEIR OWN hands and feet WHERE THEY WOULD LIKE to put them) and disobeying cues by yoga teachers.   

in this episode i list a few very obvious examples of movement outside of yoga that break the alignment cues we hold so dear and that many yoga teachers enforce.

if others break our rules. why can't we?  

teachers need to stop telling people they are doing poses right & wrong.  

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yoga teachers... don't say press ABC point to fix XYZ problem.

i recently saw an acupuncturist post by a yoga teachers that made me squirm, "massage this point and it will help this problem."

As soon as anyone talks about chinese medicine this way, they are WRONG!

here I talk about what chinese medicine is and then talk about some things that yoga teachers really shouldn't say (and things they can say) if they're gonna talk things chinese med.

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live from my attic in milan!

meditation is about being your best friend... no matter what.

this simple idea is empowering. no spirituality, no super powers, not even necessarily liking it all the time... but is nurturing an ability to be there for yourself... no matter what. 

This episode I talk with Paul Grilley on his finding of and understanding of the Taoist Teaching of the Nei Jing Tu - a visual guide to the yogic experience.

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yoga is often seen to be a lot of effort. sometimes, we even boast to others (and ourselves) how much effort we have put in. we wave around certificates and accomplishments. but really, yoga is the opposite. it doesn't have to be hard. it should be really obvious. come join me to consider the lazy way...

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we often define health as physical. but these days mental and emotional health have (finally) seeped into people's minds.

finally.

drugs, surgery and antibiotics are not the first port of call.... and your doctor cannot help.

come join me as I propose a model of health based on a very old (simple) idea.

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coming again from my teacher training bedroom in milan! talking more about meditation, the core of the yoga practice. yoga is not about getting fit. really yoga (and medtiation) about staying...

even when your mind doesn't want to stay with what you are experiencing and going through in life. this is the opposite of what we tend to do.

we tend to either avoid what we are thinking and feeling... or we compartmentalise and ignore. this is bad for your mental health.

medtiation is about staying and watching what goes on inside you... and then you begin to see what thoughts really are.... 

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