Daniel Simpson - "Exposing Truth in Yoga and Beyond"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Daniel Simpson, former foreign correspondent and author of The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga’s History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices, talks with J about exposing truth in both journalism and yoga. They discuss Daniels experience of writing for the NY Times after 9/11, why he decided to leave behind a career in journalism and pursue yoga scholarship, what we actually know about the origins of yoga, and making clear distinctions between what texts say and what we choose to do with them. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	All right, we're doing this. I hit a button, you hit a button. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:22.2	If you're new to the show, let me welcome you.
0:26.1	If you're returning, thank you for doing that.
0:30.3	How are we feeling?
0:32.6	Is it safe to ask?
0:35.9	I have a fun and thought-provoking conversation to share with you today.
0:43.0	I'm talking to Daniel Simpson.
0:45.7	I'll tell you about that in just a bit.
0:49.1	First, though, I really want to have a little bit of a check-in this week, if that's okay.
0:55.6	If you're new, sometimes this happens.
0:58.7	I like to do a little check-in.
1:01.0	Some people like it, some people don't.
1:03.0	If you're not into it, it's fine.
1:04.9	You can skip ahead.
1:07.7	But I don't know about anyone else.
1:10.5	My week had some ominous signs, like there was some weird omens.
1:19.7	In my gut, I was feeling like we have yet to really see the impact of these extended shutdowns.
1:30.1	And I feel like I had my own personal examples that felt like omens, like bad omens.
1:40.0	And strangely enough, let me just say this first, before I take us into the darkness,
1:46.8	that on an internal level, I'm actually doing okay, pretty good. In fact, the mouth pain I'm happy
1:54.2	to report is better. I've been having really fruitful practice. Shout out to all the people listening who attend my
2:02.7	live stream classes. I've got a group of people coming to my live stream classes right now that
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