Daniel Simpson - "How Traditional is Your Yoga?"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
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🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Daniel Simpson, author of The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga's History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices, talks with J about the origins of physical practice and what connects modern yoga to its ancient roots. They discuss the tendency of historical figures to invent things but still present them as being very old, influences that led to a modern postural approach, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, tantra, distinguishing Nivritti and Pravritti from duality and nonduality, and defining yoga by questioning the how and why more than the what.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we are. |
| 0:13.1 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | My name is Jay Brown. |
| 0:18.3 | Who are you? |
| 0:20.3 | Are you new around here? If so, nice to meet you. Welcome. |
| 0:27.0 | Everyone else, what's up? I hope that in this moment your life does not feel like it's in crisis. And if it does and you're using this |
| 0:41.6 | as a distraction, then I'm with you. If you've been around for the last few weeks, you know, I'm |
| 0:49.0 | kind of going through it right now in my own home. And it's amazing how earlier in the week |
| 0:56.1 | I had what I thought was the worst day I've ever had as a parent. And yet it got worse. I mean, |
| 1:06.9 | it's incredible what you can get through, what you wouldn't have ever thought you could get through |
| 1:13.0 | and then you get through. And I'll check in with you on the other side. If people want to hear a |
| 1:19.2 | little bit about what's been happening with that, I'm happy to share some of it with you on the |
| 1:24.5 | other side of today's talk. Just to say thanks to everybody for your continued prayers. |
| 1:29.9 | Please keep them coming because we're still having a lot in front of us. |
| 1:37.4 | And yeah, what I was going to say is that the situation, life being so fucked up, I'm sorry, is no other way to say it, |
| 1:51.9 | it's kind of like jet fuel on my yogic inquiry or something. I'm so grateful for the outlet of practice and teaching and conducting conversations |
| 2:07.6 | and facilitating inquiry. It's so meaningful to me and it feels like in the last few weeks with |
| 2:15.2 | everything going on, |
| 2:20.6 | some of that work that I've been doing feels deeper than ever, |
| 2:26.4 | and I feel like I actually have more clarity about what I do and why as a yoga teacher than ever before |
| 2:29.3 | and all the time that I've been doing this. |
| 2:31.4 | And it's strange that such a feeling of clarity could also |
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