Mugs McConnell - "Letters from the Yoga Masters"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Mugs McConnell, author of Letters from the Yoga Masters, talks with J about the correspondence and lessons she received from Dr. Hari Dickman. Mugs shares the history of her relationship to yoga, how she ended up having access to over 700 letters from yoga figures such as Paramhansa Yogananda, Ramana Maharshi and Swami Sivananda, what to make of so many gurus falling from grace, whether we can separate teachings from teachers, and the earnest inquiry at the heart of yogic understanding. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:11.7	The time has come.
0:13.6	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.7	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.5	How are you?
0:19.9	Are you an old friend, a new friend?
0:23.2	Either way, thanks for choosing to listen.
0:28.6	Mugs McConnell is here today, and I will tell you about that in just a bin.
0:35.2	First, I'm just wondering how everyone's doing. Are you starting to go out again?
0:43.7	I guess it depends on where you are, but seems like there's a slow emerging coming from out of the
0:52.2	quarantine.
0:57.5	I'm wondering if people are starting to teach classes again.
1:00.2	I know a few centers have opened up,
1:04.3	and I've just been really wondering what that's like.
1:08.4	I have one friend, Kel, out there in the Gold Coast.
1:14.9	Shout out to you, Kel, and I know she reopened, and I asked her,
1:20.6	did anybody show up? And she said, yeah, actually, I mean, they had to limit class,
1:23.4	they have all these safety protocols, they have to employ like a whole plan.
1:28.7	But she said it was sold out. Pip came back. And we can debate whether that's a good idea,
1:31.5	to guess depending on where you are.
1:34.1	But for me, I found it encouraging.
1:37.2	Made me feel like,
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