Guy Donahaye - "History of Guru Worship in Ashtanga Yoga"

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J. Brown

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

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🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guy Donahaye, coauthor of the book: Guruji: A Portrait of Sri K Pattabhi Jois through the Eyes of His Students, sits down with J to discuss the history of guru worship in Ashtanga Yoga, the abuse that was committed, and his feelings about it now. Guy talks about discovering the practice, making it his life pursuit, his experience of Pattabhi Jois, what he knew and has learned about the abuse, the story behind the Guruji book and his decision to remove it from publication, and evolving his understanding. This episode is sponsored by Ropana CBD.

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0:00.0	Okay, we both just hit the button.
0:14.4	And here we are.
0:16.3	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:19.9	My name is Jay Brown.
0:21.5	Welcome and thanks to whoever you are.
0:25.5	Konichiwa.
0:26.5	I am still in Tokyo.
0:29.8	I am adjusted to the time.
0:33.5	It seems to take much longer than it used to for me.
0:37.7	Maybe that's just an age thing.
0:40.6	But I am finally adjusted and feeling like myself a little bit more than last week when I was with you.
0:48.4	Having a wonderful trip, as I was saying last week, it got to a great start, and it has continued the same.
0:54.9	I have noticed one, just like as a side note.
0:58.2	It does seem like Japan has a very strange relationship to cheese.
1:08.1	Maybe I'll say something more about that another time, not today.
1:11.9	But overall, I've been having a wonderful trip.
1:15.7	And one thing that's been really fantastic is actually taking along people who are
1:22.2	subscribed to my live stream subscription.
1:24.8	I mentioned this a while back that we've been beta testing the
1:29.4	live stream 2.0, which is a two-way live stream for a lot of years. It's been a one-way thing
1:36.8	where you can see me, but I can't see you, even though I know you're there. I could never really
1:41.8	see people or like have direct interaction with them in real time.
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