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

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When appropriate, end with meditation. Guiding students to meditate is in line with the original aims of yoga practice. Learn to guide meditation for yoga asana classes. You can guide students in 5 to 10 minutes of dharana practice before or after savasana. Take time in meditation to let the benefits of the practice settle and integrate. 12. Closing Class and Further Considerations

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Scott also intersperses the guests words with poetry that has inspired him over the year, words that he has shared with his online and workshop communities. Listen to poems from Derek Mahon, Julia Fehrenbacher, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Rumi and more... Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Scott shares intimate moments with his guests over the year. Hear beautiful words from his conversations with Ty Landrum, Sarah Powers, Ty Powers, Nadia Gilani, Pamela Weiss, Shyam Ranganathan and Jon Yuen. Additionally, as your teaching journey unfolds, you might work with some of the following reflection and application questions and ideas for incorporating your learnings into your teaching:A thorough and honest dissection of the ups and downs of modern yoga through the lens of one young woman's experience of yoga. Journeying through discovering yoga when at such a low point in adolescence, through abusive relationships, addiction, grief and in to teaching yoga, this book is both a tribute to the wonderful connection yoga brings and a stark warning of its flaws and what needs to change. This is an incredible book, and provided such valuable insight in to the yoga and wellness industry, and reflections for how we could be doing things different. It is absolutely essential reading for those practicing or teaching yoga and wanting to do so in a way that honours the roots of yoga and challenges the wellness machine bullsht and all the harm it can do. Please put this on yoga teacher trainings reading lists! Yoga has become the latest wellness practice to fall victim to cultural appropriation – but that will come as no surprise to the many industry insiders who have been speaking out on this issue for years, with growing urgency. What is abundantly clear to me as a yoga teacher is the practice has been led astray by western economic forces. Cultural appropriation remains a contentious and triggering topic for some. “What’s the difference between appropriation and appreciation?” I’m often asked. People argue that it’s a fine line, but I fail to see it. It’s just one of the problems plaguing the industry. Viv asked what I was writing. ‘Lots,’ I said. ‘How do I turn it into a book?’ I asked. ‘Do what I do,’ she told me. ‘Write it all in short bits and move it around later.’ It took a while for me to understand what Viv meant, and I didn’t actually write anything for several years, but when I started this book I remembered her advice. The chapters in Viv’s first book Clothes, Music, Boys are exceptionally short. This method had clearly worked for her. So I did the same – wrote a bunch of stories and threaded them together later. A bit like taking a set of yoga poses and linking them with a series of flowing movements (more on that soon). This is what you’ve got in your hands now. 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. How mindfulness and his Christian faith work in tandem, with surprising similarities between Buddhist awareness meditation and the Gospel of St John. How, within the Christian contemplative tradition, God can be understood as the ‘loving heart’ at the centre of the universe. How effective the combination of cognitive therapy and mindfulness is at reducing the risk of relapse. The limitations and contraindications of mindfulness. How liberation is to be found in the present moment, and that each moment is a possible moment of freedom. _____

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Peter Levitt on How Mindfulness Is Creativity Scott and Peter talk openly about his life as a writer and a Zen practitioner. Peter shares: In The Yoga Manifesto, she investigates how the practice has evolved into a modern billion-dollar industry and asks at what cost. Does yoga in the west shut out people of colour, working-class communities, or those who don’t identify with bendy, slim, able-bodied wellness gurus? From slogans like ‘Namastay in bed’ to pricey bum-sculpting leggings, has this enduring spiritual practice lost its way? Yoga’s appropriation by the white wellness industry is a 21st century form of colonialism. Its whitewashing is why I felt so lonely and out of place when I first started teaching. But having taught yoga to refugees and vulnerable teenagers, those in addiction recovery and people with mental health and mobility issues, I’m less interested in yoga being “decolonised” or reclaimed. 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.Nadia Gilani is a writer who teaches yoga (because she loves it). She first discovered the practice as a teenager when her mum took her to a class in the 1990s. Yoga hasn’t always been an easy ride. In fact it’s been really hard at times, but somehow the practice has been a constant source of inspiration in her life over the years.