Dan Alder - "A Modern Story of Translating Patanjali"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ ? minutes
Summary
Dan Alder, coauthor of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras For the New Millennium: A Translation for the Modern Mind, talks with J about his story of owning a yoga center and translating Patanjali. They discuss taking over a studio in 2010, keeping the business model simple and offline, negative impact of intro offers and memberships, becoming obsessed with yoga philosophy, meeting his co-author Shree and undertaking a translation, interpretation of the eight limbs, a case for renunciation, Ishvara, nonduality, and a passionate embrace of inquiry.
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