109: Yoga Should be Accessible to Everyone Because of its Priceless Health Benefits

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Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 23 July 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Peggy Kwisuk Hong has been teaching Iyengar Yoga since 2001 and is certified as an Intermediate Junior II teacher by the Iyengar Yoga National Association. She lives in Detroit where she founded, taught, and directed a nonprofit Iyengar Yoga center, Riverwest Yogashala, from 2003-2012.

Peggy has done very interesting work with Karma yoga, or yoga of service, and with my company, we're always trying to find new and effective ways to donate our time and funds, so this is why I've invited Peggy on the show today.

In this Show, You'll learn:

How Peggy is democratizing yoga so it’s available to everyone.

What makes Iyengar Yoga special and why you should practice it.

What “Community Gift Yoga” is and how it’ll change the world.

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0:00.0	Yoga students if you love to learn about yoga health and wellness
0:04.2	Plant-based nutrition flexibility and mind-body biohacking you have come to the right place my friend
0:10.0	Welcome to the yoga talk show with Lucas Rockwood, where my goal is to make your
0:14.4	yoga practice just that much easier.
0:16.7	Find us online at yoga body naturals.com. We're also on Facebook and YouTube.
0:21.5	Check us out now. Let's get on with the show.
0:25.6	So hello and welcome everyone. This is Lucas Rockwood with the yoga talk show. Thanks for tuning in. I have a special guest today named Peggy Hong.
0:33.5	Peggy has been teaching Iengar Yoga since 2001 and she's certified as an
0:38.8	intermediate junior level two teacher in the Iengar Yoga National Association. And for those of you who are not
0:44.8	familiar with the Iengar yoga tradition, the certification process is very, very rigorous.
0:50.5	It's a very long process. It's a very highly esteemed certification.
0:54.3	Peggy lives in Detroit where she founded, taught, and directed a nonprofit Iangar Yoga
0:59.2	Center called River West Yoga Shala from 2003 to 2012 and Peggy's done some really interesting work with
1:06.0	karma yoga, community service yoga, and with my company we're always trying to do community
1:11.3	service and we're always trying to donate and
1:13.0	figure out effective ways to do community service work and to donate money.
1:17.2	It's surprisingly difficult. So this is part of the reason why I'm really excited
1:21.2	to have Peggy on the show today.
1:24.4	While you're listening you can check out Peggy's blog she's got some really interesting
1:27.2	writing her blog is still in Shirshasina dot blog spot.com. So thanks so much for joining us, Peggy.
1:37.0	Well perfect, you know one of my goals as a yoga teacher is to democratize yoga and I kind of get out in my soapbox and I rant about this a lot.
1:45.9	And what I mean by democratizing yoga is I just want to make it available to everyone and I
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