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Hi everyone, it's Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 5 of Yogoland.

This week is just a quickie episode I wanted to share a piece of writing I did when I was

dreaming up the podcast a few months ago.

It's inspired by Roxanne, Gay's bad feminist,

and if you are a feminist or even if you're not a feminist,

it's a great read and I highly recommend it.

Anyway, this is my intention. I wouldn't be a

yogi without having an intention, right? So that's what this is and I hope you

find it inspiring. I started this show to celebrate

yoga in all of its forms to introduce you to people who have studied yoga

deeply who live their yoga and who bring yoga into the current

cultural landscape. These are people who live with passion. But make no mistake, this

podcast is not going to focus on how to live a quote-unquote perfectly serene

yogic life so that we can all do handstands on the beach.

Because I spent more than 10 years talking to renowned Yogis every day as an editor at

Yoga Journal and as we all know but often forget that perfect life doesn't exist

and we don't really want it to. One of the biggest gifts of yoga in my mind is how it helps us understand

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