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

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Working as a yoga teacher in London has shown me just how far the practice has been pulled from its roots. UK time, join our live stream yoga philosophy, mindfulness, pranayama and discussion sessions hosted by Scott Johnson. How effective the combination of cognitive therapy and mindfulness is at reducing the risk of relapse. If you enjoyed this podcast then you might also enjoy Scott’s conversations with Pamela Weiss, Peter Levitt and Martin Aylward. Nadia puts into words what many of us feel uneasy about, inspiring us – in a compassionate voice – to question harmful aspects of modern popular yoga and work towards making positive changes.

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I have a history of taking wrong turns in life that have ended in disaster around my birthday and was starting to wonder if this might be the latest one. I had an eye on the clock – we were already 15 minutes behind schedule, so I had to get things going. I plugged my phone into the speaker, put on some gentle electronic music to assuage any discomfort they might feel with silence and turned around. Staring at the map on my phone, I turned onto a residential street in a scruffy but elegant neighbourhood. Most importantly, yoga works – as a tool to benefit our bodies and minds – when we believe that it will work.

In her book,'The Yoga Manifesto 'Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. In a way, capitalist wellness as it stands seems to serve those who are already reasonably ‘well’, or at least well off enough to access wellness tools and pay for the privilege. A thorough and honest dissection of the ups and downs of modern yoga through the lens of one young woman's experience of yoga. Exposing the darker side of the industry provides us all with the pathway to reach the lightness that yoga brings.

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To move the conversation forward, it’s imperative we understand why yoga has become out of reach for some of those who need it most – and find ways to make it available to more people. If you enjoyed this podcast then you might also enjoy Scott’s conversations with Pamela Weiss, Sarah Powers and Frank Jude Boccio. Just as you may do a land acknowledgment to honor the land you are teaching and practicing on and all those who live there, as we will describe below, do a spiritual lineage acknowledgment.Mark shares not only his involvement in the growth of mindfulness based interventions but also about his own journey with mindfulness. I’ll be seeking to answer this by exploring how yoga has gone mainstream (which is great), but the fact that it has been white-washed, distorted by Western imperialists and repackaged in platitudinal ‘love and light’ slogans is a big problem for everyone.

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Woodcraft is a bohemian, hippie version of Girls’ Brigade and Girl Guides (I went to those too, recited the Lord’s Prayer and everything). Slowly it became a big part of my life and sprinkled some magic into it, even if I didn’t immediately understand how. A boy named Belal with the kindest face and a firm handshake wrote my name on a label like they all wore to stick on my top. How he developed MBCT with his colleagues and working directly with Jon Kabat Zinn How he experienced the transformational power of mindfulness meditation only after having abandoned it.Bindis – an auspicious religious symbol with Hindu origins – are worn as fashion accessories, alongside bum-sculpting activewear.