Hi everyone, it's Arundati and welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I hope you are enjoying summer wherever you are. I wanted to give you a quick heads up. Starting next week, I will be traveling for about three weeks. You will still get an episode every week. In fact, I'm going to be rerunning some of our most popular

episodes, which I believe you will get a lot of value from. And in August, we celebrate four

years of this podcast. So there's a lot of content that we have created. So I want to bring

some of that back and put it right on top of the podcast list for you.

So, and once I'm back, we will resume podcasting with new episodes as usual.

On the show today, we're having an in-depth conversation about social media and yoga.

And I know, I know some of you are in love with social media. Some of you do not like it and you're not on it. But I want you to keep an open mind because I have Daniel Simpson on the show today. And he is the author of Truth of Yoga. That's an accessible guide to yoga history and philosophy. He teaches yoga and related topics at the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies.

And in his previous career, he actually used to be a foreign correspondent with Reuters and the New York Times. And these days, he's using all those interview skills to host his own podcast called Ancient Futures.

In fact, I recently heard an episode on Ancient Futures.

I was looking at another guest and I came across that episode.

But I did not put the two and two together until this morning.

So Daniel and I are talking about not just the pros and cons of social media.

That I think is very simplistic.

And most of us already know that.

But we're looking at what are the effects of consuming yoga on social media?

Short form content learning versus long form content.

And how to have better ability to discern and critically

think and understanding your own goals and how to use the medium to meet those goals and more

importantly, how to measure success in yoga or a success in your studies, right? And is that

bearing fruit? So we go through all these layers

in this conversation. It is something that you should listen to. If you are on social media,

if you are not, or if you're one of those teachers who told me that you've shut social media

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