Andrea Jain on her new book, "Peace Love Yoga"
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Religious Studies professor Andrea Jain is back on the podcast -- this time to talk to Jason about her new book, "Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spiritualization." Jain's book explores the connection between global spirituality and neoliberalism. While Jain acknowledges that yoga is healthy practice, she's concerned by the ways in which modern yoga (she uses the U.S., Canada, and India as examples) has been commodified and packaged to encourage complacency (think: "good vibes only" culture) and often overshadows the action that's required to create a more equitable world. It’s an eye-opening interview hosted by Jason. (PS: To hear the previous interview with Andrea Jain focusing on her book "Selling Yoga," listen to episode 200)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 215 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:09.0 | Today's guest is author and religious studies professor Andrea Jane. I have had Andrea on the show before |
| 0:16.6 | last time we spoke about her book selling yoga from counterculture to pop culture and |
| 0:21.2 | this is a book that I think is a must read for every yoga teacher out there. |
| 0:26.4 | It's one of the best books I've read in terms of tracing the globalization of yoga without |
| 0:31.2 | oversimplifying or vilifying, quite frankly, modern yoga's evolution. |
| 0:37.6 | This time she is being interviewed by Jason for her newest book which is called Peace Love Yoga, the Politics of Global Spirituality. |
| 0:45.7 | Andrea is obviously an academic, she's a professor, and so this book is dense and hard to summarize in a pithy way, but essentially what Andrea attempts to do is to look at global spirituality and how it supports neoliberal capitalism in the way that it's packaged. |
| 1:10.0 | So it can be a little, it's easy to get defensive right when we're in the yoga community and we are hearing someone |
| 1:18.0 | offer a critique of certain aspects of our culture and community but Jason and I both appreciate Andrea so much. |
| 1:25.6 | She is not in the community, so it's actually easier for her to be a bit more objective. |
| 1:32.4 | She has more space to easier for her to be a bit more objective. |
| 1:32.6 | She has more space to step back and make connections |
| 1:37.5 | that she sees. |
| 1:38.8 | And there's just a lot to learn from her. So enjoy the episode. I can't wait to hear what you think. |
| 1:46.3 | Also, I forgot to say, the previous episode that Andrea and I did together was episode 200. |
| 1:50.8 | So go back and listen to that one too. I think you will enjoy hearing |
| 1:54.2 | Jason in the role of interviewer again. This is something he's enjoying more and |
| 1:59.0 | more these days and he does a great job. |
| 2:02.9 | You get to hear him in his previous lifetime |
| 2:07.0 | as an activist and a philosophy major. |
| 2:10.1 | So enjoy the interview. |
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