The Yoga Manifesto: How Yoga Helped Me and Why it Needs to Save Itself

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Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga for 25 years. She has also worked as a yoga teacher. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. I had ended up on the course because I needed a break. I had decided to look upon it as a retreat and form of healing because after many years of troubles with food and alcohol and almost a decade of working as a news journalist, I was exhausted. I needed a rest but was also searching for some serious discipline in what had otherwise been a chaotic life for too long.

The Yoga Manifesto: How Yoga Helped Me and Why it Needs to

Sima Kumar, co-founder and CEO of The Other Box and founder of Sima Says Raw. Vulnerable. Open. Truthful. Exposing the darker side of the industry provides us all with the pathway to reach the lightness that yoga brings. This is a book that will open up the floor for even more honest conversations about the side of yoga we don't often see. Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga for twenty-five years. She has also worked as a yoga teacher. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. An informative and unapologetic look at today’s yoga industry and how it has made a sacred practice out of touch to so many. It is at once a call-to-action for us to strive to protect cultural and spiritual practices and an ode to survival.” When inviting students to set an intention for class, you can refer them to yoga philosophy. For example, you can mention they are exploring their own satya , or truth, and engaging in vichara and svadhyaya as they self-reflect. 8. If You Teach Asana Class

When Viv Albertine signed my copy of her book, she wrote: To Nadia, from Viv. Write! Write! Write! So that’s what I’ve done. I hope you enjoy it, whether you’re a long-standing yoga student, interested in getting started or just curious about what the practice can mean for us all on a personal level, but also what it might mean for the modern world we all live in. CHAPTER 1 Lost in Yoga About David Swenson David Swenson began his journey of Yoga in 1969 when he and his brother Doug practiced in a small park at the end of their street in Houston, Texas. There were few sources for yoga at that time so they practiced from whatever books they could find. If you enjoyed this podcast then you might also enjoy Scott’s conversations with Pamela Weiss, Peter Levitt and Martin Aylward.

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For example, you could tie in the theme of ahimsa when describing how the goal of the practice isn’t perfection, or doing what someone else is doing or even what they did last week or last year, but instead it’s experiencing the shape they are in right here and now, with compassion for themselves rather than competition. When we guide students by invoking yoga philosophy, we are guiding them to the present moment of their experience, right here, and now. 7. Setting the SankalpaIn this deeply inspiring and wide ranging conversation Scott talks to David Swenson, one of the worlds foremost and well loved teachers and practitioners of Ashtanga yoga. And Legendary poet, Robert Creeley, wrote that Peter Levitt’s poetry “sounds the honor of our common dance,” and, in 1989 Peter received the prestigious Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry.