Hamish Hendry - "Enduring Early Morning Mysore Self-Practice"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Hamish Hendry, owner of Astanga Yoga London and publisher of Pushpam Magazine, talks with J about tirelessly teaching a daily Mysore program in London for over 25 years. They discuss the purpose of chanting, avoiding dogma, finding Ashtanga Vinyasa in the late eighties, becoming authorized or certified back when and how it changed, ways in which he has evolved as a teacher and runs the center to stay in line with his beliefs, and the humble consistency of always remaining true to a deep and abiding commitment to service.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:13.1	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.2	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.9	Let me extend a welcome to you if this is your first time here. And a warm thank you
0:24.8	to all those returning. What's going on? What are you doing? Like right now. I know I've said this
0:33.8	before, but I often have this thing happen right when I push record,
0:39.5	which is I imagine what you're doing right now.
0:44.7	It's almost like a movie montage that runs through my head for a quick moment.
0:50.2	Like, are you the person who is up late at night listening to this before you go to sleep?
0:58.9	Or are you the person who is driving in your car on the way to work?
1:04.1	Or maybe you're the person who is at the gym on the treadmill or sitting at your breakfast
1:10.5	table? I just imagine that there is, is at the gym on the treadmill or sitting at your breakfast table.
1:12.4	I just imagine that there's all these infinite possibilities about who you are and where you are
1:19.9	and what you're doing right now.
1:22.7	And there's one thing in common in all of those scenarios.
1:33.5	You are listening to this. It's a beautiful thing. I'm very grateful to you. Thank you for being here. And I don't know about you, but it seems to
1:41.2	me like whatever luster the holidays into the new year may have had seems to have kind of already worn off.
1:49.8	Feels like we're right back into the grind again.
1:53.6	Although I try not to think of it as a grind.
1:57.1	I try to feel like I can move with fluidity, but it certainly feels like a grind.
2:05.5	And there's a lot of good things on the table for this coming year, but also seems to me
2:12.7	challenges and uncertainties.
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