Philip Goldberg - "Maha Lineage and The Life of Yogananda”

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda and The Life of Yogananda, talks with J about the long arc of yogic spiritual teachings migrating into western culture, and some of the important figures and moments that have shaped its progression. They discuss the roots of yoga’s export to America and the impetuous for writing American Veda, his new book on Yoganandya and why it was the perfect follow up, the importance of tradition and the democratization of yoga. This episode is brought to you by YogaBooksWholesale.com and Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	this week in my weekly teachers class, we started out with a discussion on different ideas
0:07.5	about our bodies and how the science behind human anatomy is not settled and is evolving.
0:15.7	In that context, we talked about sequencing and the efficacy or lack thereof of sequencing that is based
0:24.5	on body parts. We also talked about credit checks. I don't know about any of you. Have any of you
0:30.6	yoga teachers out there ever been asked to have a credit check before you got a job teaching yoga?
0:36.1	Well, someone in the group was.
0:38.3	And lastly, we talked about a set of safety protocols that I've been using to help make my
0:45.0	classes safer. If any of this stuff sounds interesting to you and you want to get in on it,
0:50.5	I invite you to participate. It's mostly podcast listeners. It happens live every week,
0:55.4	and if you can't make it there live, you can send in questions and watch it on the replay.
0:59.3	It's the J. Brown Yoga Teachers class. You I sure hope so because that's what you're going to get. My name is Jay Brown. I am very grateful that you're
1:31.2	choosing to listen. Thank you. How is it going? How was your week? Those of you who were with me last week,
1:38.2	went by quick, right? Fast. What are you doing right now? I wonder sometimes what you're doing right now while you're
1:48.2	listening to this. I don't know, running in your car probably podcast are usually like car drives.
1:57.1	I know sometimes it's like you're on your way to teach a class right now, right? Are you running late some?
2:01.8	I hope not.
2:05.6	Well, you know what I've been thinking about?
2:08.1	I was like thinking just now before I hit the button to record.
2:13.7	What should I talk about?
2:14.7	I don't know.
2:15.5	The first thing that came to my mind is this expression.
2:18.6	And I have spoken about this before, but it was many years ago that I think that I spoke
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