Mike De Masi - "Learning from Srivatsa Ramaswami"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Mike De Masi, student of Srivatsa Ramaswami, bassist for Ali Omar El-Farouk, and founder of the Worldwide Krishnamacharya Yoga Community Facebook Group, talks with J about honoring the many different traditions of yoga. They discuss Mike's early studies and inquiring into the teaching of T. Krishnamacharya, the experience of learning from Ramaswami's elucidations on Patañjalayoga, Vinyasa Krama, the nuance of the breath in āsana practice, and finding vehicles for dialogue so that we can learn and grow from one another.

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0:00.0	All right, button pressing has commenced.
0:14.0	Time space has been bent.
0:17.6	And here we are.
0:19.8	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:23.4	My name is Jay Brown.
0:25.3	Welcome to anybody who's new here
0:27.2	and all the rest of y'all.
0:30.0	What's up?
0:31.4	How are we doing?
0:33.7	How are you holding up
0:35.0	against the strain of it all?
0:39.3	I shouldn't assume that it feels like a strain to you.
0:41.9	Maybe it doesn't feel like a strain to you, but the weight of the world.
0:48.6	What do I mean by that?
0:49.8	Do I really feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders?
0:52.7	No, but I feel the weight of what happens in the world.
0:59.3	I guess that's just a very modern phenomenon that we have any awareness about what's going on around the globe, that when I think about what's happening in the world, it's not just like my neighborhood,
1:11.4	you know, it's the whole world.
1:15.1	I guess I try to stay aware about what's going on in our geopolitics, and it certainly seems to trickle
1:27.4	down into even my local government's decisions
1:30.1	and what happens on state levels and the national level here in my country.
1:37.4	I guess, you know, for me, I just feel like there's so much obvious lying and misdirection on so many levels.
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