Michael de Manincor- "Kaleidoscope of Wisdom and Science"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Michael de Manincor, founder and Director of The Yoga Institute, is a student of TKV Desikachar that J met earlier this year and reconnected with for this conversation about the study and transmission of yoga, and the kind of science that supports it. They discuss Michaels trajectory and perspective on the evolution of yoga industry and profession, the PhD research he is doing, Patanjali, competencies for yoga teaching and yoga therapy, and the possibility of moving our understanding of yoga forward. This episode is brought to you by YogaAnatomy.net.

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0:00.0	How many of you listening to this are registered with the Yoga Alliance because you worry that if you weren't registered with the Yoga Alliance, you would miss out on financial opportunities.
0:13.2	But you know that what you had to do to get that certificate, that that 200 hours, that's not what made you a good teacher.
0:20.7	You know that. But there's just this, that's not what made you a good teacher. You know that,
0:22.2	but there's just this way that things have been done. And the idea that it could be done differently
0:28.0	seems impossible. And it ties into so much. It ties into one of the things that we were talking
0:34.1	about in my weekly teacher's class this week. This thing that yoga
0:38.0	teachers still to this day tell people to do when they tell people to square their hips off,
0:43.3	whether it's in a twist or in a standing warrior pose, the squaring your hips. She was asking
0:49.5	why, why do teachers say that? And they ask that, if you ask a teacher who teaches that, very often they will give you some answer like, oh, you're trying to have Tadassin in the hips.
0:58.6	And it's the answer that they got in the teacher training.
1:01.9	And if you delve more, if you say, but why, why do we want that?
1:05.8	There is nothing else there because everything got boiled down to a standardized answer and that's the issue.
1:15.2	So we were hashing this out this week and we were trying to figure out, is there another way?
1:21.3	Is there another way we can language our classes? Is there another way we could organize ourselves as an industry, as a trade.
1:29.6	And more than anything, just to get clear about what we're doing and why we're doing it.
1:35.8	And if that's something that you're interested in, you're welcome to join us.
1:40.1	It's the J. Brown Yoga Weekly Teachers class.
1:42.4	You can find it at j.Brown Yoga.com.
1:57.6	Okay. Hello.
1:59.6	How are you? How's it going?
2:02.0	How's your drive or your walk or your breakfast or whatever you're doing right now?
2:07.6	It's lovely to be with you.
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