On Leadership in Yoga
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today, Jason and I dive into the topic of leadership in the yoga community. People love their yoga teachers--so much! And while there’s a lot of good that comes from that, it can also set up an unbalanced power dynamic. We talk about the student-teacher power differential and some of the circumstances that put yoga teachers at risk of (knowingly or unknowingly) abusing their power.
Then, we get into our thoughts about how to know when to trust a yoga teacher, some of the problems with blindly following a yoga lineage, and subtle (but powerful) ways yoga teachers can step down off the pedestal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 220 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm here with Jason. Hi Jason. |
| 0:10.5 | Hi, Jason. Hi, Andrea. I was trying to be a little different. I'm here with Andrea. So we are here. Oh my gosh we are |
| 0:18.9 | inching ever closer to Christmas. We're in the middle of Hanukkah, it's holiday season. |
| 0:25.0 | It is holiday season. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, and before we get started, I wanted to just give a quick plug for your programs again that we have out there. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, I also want to acknowledge my daughter. |
| 0:37.0 | We have a gremlin in our house right now. |
| 0:40.0 | Our daughter is in the other room and she is playing vigorously online with a friend. |
| 0:45.6 | Yes. |
| 0:46.6 | We'll put it that way. |
| 0:47.6 | There's a perfect little gremlin growl in the middle there. |
| 0:50.3 | Did you want to put a plug in? |
| 0:51.5 | Did you say you want to put a plug in for the two courses that I have coming up? |
| 0:54.4 | That's what I said. Okay. Yes. I'm having really short-term memory issues today. |
| 0:58.9 | Like I have been for 46 years, but they're hitting me hard today. |
| 1:03.6 | Two things coming up, quick shameless plug. |
| 1:05.8 | Module one of my advanced training is coming up. |
| 1:09.6 | It starts in February, where about three quarters full in terms of registration with it, and then a |
| 1:16.4 | return to your center course, which is just a much smaller, lighter lift, practice |
| 1:21.3 | base course, really designed for teachers to come back to their |
| 1:24.8 | practice and you can find all that information on our site so the advance training |
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