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Conspirituality

206: Surviving Modern Yoga (w/ Matthew Remski)

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Matthew is in the guest seat today! Why? Because in 2019—just months before the pandemic and this podcast kicked off—he published a book titled Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics and Healing in Yoga and Beyond. It focused on survivor stories of assault and abuse within the cultic mechanisms of Pattabhi Jois' Ashtanga Yoga community. The book also proposed a path into co-creating safer yoga communities via enhanced critical thinking, self-and-other-care, student empowerment, and community resilience. In many ways, this book holds the keys to how one-third of the team has tackled the conspirituality era. Derek and Julian interview their colleague about it all on the occasion of the release of a second edition, now titled: Surviving Modern Yoga: Cult Dynamics, Charismatic Leaders, and What Survivors Can Teach Us (North Atlantic Books). Show Notes Surviving Modern Yoga by Matthew Remski | PenguinRandomHouse.com Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories | The Walrus Survivors of an International Buddhist Cult Share Their Stories | The Walrus How a #MeToo Facebook Post Toppled a Yoga Icon | by Matthew Remski | GEN Shielded for Decades, A Yoga Leader's Alleged Sexual Abuse Finally Comes Under Fire How to Respond to Sexual Abuse Within a Yoga or Spiritual Community—Jubilee Cooke, Karen Rain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So for Iengar, if the body is sculpted into hypergeometrical perfection and then the posture is held for an interminably long time,

0:09.8

it will become like a lightning rod for spiritual enlightenment.

0:13.5

But with Joyce, it's more like, you know,

0:15.8

if the body can be stretched and torqued

0:17.4

until you feel virtually boneless,

0:19.5

you're like on fire, you're soaked in sweat,

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God will flow through you. There's no resistance to God. So there's the

0:26.5

pain of the postures, but then in both cases, the teacher is also often physically manhandling the student into the

0:34.6

postures and the students are reporting these floods of pain-induced

0:38.1

ecstasy and both of these guys I think were aware of the sadomasochistic paradox.

0:44.4

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