This week I review my 2023 conversations to date and reflect on some standout episodes, including: 1) Jason Crandell and plumbing the depths. 2) Jivana Heyman and his encouragement to use yoga to radically embrace all parts of yourself for the sake of activism. 3) Gail Parker's work reminding us that if we practice yoga, it’s our job to be thinking about how many people have the opportunity to do the same and, as teachers, how well we are able to meet all people where they are in class. I also talk about:

1) My upcoming conversation with Rob Schware and Beryl Bender Birch of Give Back Yoga Foundation and the yogic intelligence that we create and how that translates into yoga service.

2) The business of yoga: How can we make yoga more accessible to all while professionalizing it in the way it's offered to people?

3) Yoga lineage deep dive: I continue to be interested in the methodology for what master practitioners teach and want to look at how they are amplifying their messages and studies in the context of where we are in social media.

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Here are a few time stamps for the episode:

1:20 Summary of where we’ve come so far.

5:21 Reflection of Gail Parker’s book.

9:30 Themes for the rest of the year.

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Terms:

  1. Parampara: the transmission of knowledge from teacher to student

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References:

  1. Yoga is more than the body, with Anjali Rao

  2. Resting in the inner work, with Gail Parker

  3. That little mind push-up, with Cyndi Lee

  4. Taking refuge from the world together, with Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor, and Barbara Benagh

  5. Is there any such thing as a yoga pose, with Rodney Yee

  6. To more skillfully inhabit the body, with Jason Crandell

  7. The democratization of yoga, with Doug Keller

  8. The techniques are not God, with Judith and Lizzie Lasater

  9. Amanda Kingsmith won't stop until wee all have a long, deep breath

  10. Sensitivity is your super power, with Jivana Heyman

  11. How well is the business of yoga? With AJ Schneider

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Episode credits:

Original music by Kim's band Governess.

Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.

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