Andrew Eppler - "BNS Iyengar and Mysore Yoga Traditions"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Andrew Eppler, director of Ashtanga Yoga Studio and visionary behind the Mysore Yoga Traditions Film and Conference, talks with J about BNS Iyengar and the Mysore Yoga Traditions. They discuss how Andrew discovered BNS Iyengar, stepping with the right or left foot, influence of western teachers, distinguishing vinyasas, origins of Patabi Jois sequences, Nathamuni Sampradaya, illusion or reality, God and Self-realization, learning from elders, Krishnamachrya leaving Mysore, and a love of yoga that transcends culture and social class.

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0:00.0	All right, the time has come round, and here we are.
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0:41.4	I don't know about anyone else, but I've been finding it increasingly more difficult
0:48.3	to fend off deep feelings of dread or hopeless feelings because there's a strange mix that I observe
1:04.3	in my own experience and what I can observe of others right now where there's like a relief that things are definitely better.
1:13.7	The shock and awe of pandemic years is in a rearview mirror.
1:21.2	And so in some regards, it feels like definitely better, at least not like in a constant state of
1:30.7	triage anymore. However, despite all of the
1:38.7	getting on with it that's happening, there seems to me to be a very high level of anxiety that's just
1:51.3	percolating underneath. It kind of comes out here or there in people's
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2:00.3	It just seems like
2:02.1	things feel both better
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