#18 Yoga

Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.1 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, we found many surprising twists, turns, and holds in the story of modern yoga. The Facts Surprisingly Awesome’s Theme Music is “This is How We Do” by Nicholas Britell and our ad music is by Build Buildings. We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Rachel Ward, Christine Driscoll and Elizabeth Kulas. Andrew Dunn mixed the episode. Jacob Cruz, James T. Green, Emma Jacobs, Rikki Novetsky, and Benjamin Riskin provided production assistance. Additional music in this episode is "Santoor and Tabla at Assi Ghat, Varanasi" by Samuel Corwin and "Electronica Tanpura 9" by sankalp. Learn More If you want to learn more about Wendy Doniger’s banned book, you can check out its page on Amazon here -- Christine is in the middle of reading it and highly recommends it, and we are linking through Amazon so you can check out the reviews and get a window into the controversy surrounding it. Or if you just wanna hear more about Indra Devi (and who wouldn’t?!) you can read more about her and get a copy of Michelle Goldberg’s book here. Adam “can’t recommend it enough!” And if you're like, "no way, take me to the science!" You can read more about the current research on the health benefits of yoga, by checking out UCLA’s longer interview with Dr. Helen Lavretsky, or a super informative article from Julia Belluz at Vox -- "I read more than 50 scientific studies about yoga. Here's what I learned." Finally... Flossgate continues! You can head to our show page at www.gimletmedia.com/surprisinglyawesome to hear an extra interview and read some of the studies we looked at while building our flossing show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, I didn't even show you our closet full of body parts.
0:03.0	Is that a scapula?
0:04.0	This is a scapula very good.
0:06.0	And so this is all upper body.
0:08.0	That's literally a bag of bones.
0:09.0	It is a bag of bones.
0:10.0	This is the...
0:11.0	What goes on in here, Leslie?
0:13.0	What goes on in here?
0:14.0	Well, we play with our bones, and we teach people to play with other people's bones.
0:18.0	This could keep police busy.
0:20.0	I mean, I know it's all plaster, but wouldn't there be about 20 minutes of wow we found a serial
0:26.6	killer. From Gimlet Media, this is surprisingly flossing. I mean, flossingly awesome. I mean surprisingly
0:47.7	awesome. And last week we talked all about the guilt and science around flossing.
0:53.6	We're going to have an update for you on that at the end of this episode,
0:56.8	our second update, so stay tuned.
0:59.2	But for now, I'm Adam Davidson.
1:01.5	And I'm Rachel Ward, and this week week we are doing part two in our series make our hosts feel terrible about their health habits.
1:08.0	Yes, this week's show is about something I am in a semi-permanent state of feeling a tiny little bit of guilt that I'm not into.
1:16.3	Something that is entirely ubiquitous in our health-obsessed culture,
1:21.0	but something I have developed a deep prejudice against as well, because it's so, I don't know, it's so hippy-dippy.
1:30.0	I'm talking about yoga.
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