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Yogaland Podcast

Richard Rosen on Patanjali in Modern Yoga Practice

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Yoga, Yogaland, Health & Fitness

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Richard Rosen is a yoga scholar and teacher who has authored five yoga books that are well worth reading. I talked to him about his most recent, "Yoga FAQ, Almost Everything You Need to Know about Yoga -- from Asanas to Yamas." This book is rich with tons of historical info and yet, Richard is refreshingly honest about how traditions change and evolve. We focus mostly on his Patanjali's Yoga Sutra -- who was Patanjali? Who was Vyasa? And why is this text a seminal part of modern Western yoga? Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode39/

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Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 39 of Yoga Land. On today's episode I had so much fun and the great honor of

0:49.2

interviewing one of my favorite favorite people in Yogoland, Richard Rosen.

0:55.6

I remember meeting Richard.

0:57.8

I remember the first time I met him very clearly,

1:01.7

just being at the Yoga Journal office in Berkeley and feeling like a

1:05.3

very green editor and just pretty nervous and Richard is so warm and so

1:15.0

like to get to know and he's also like and to get to know and and he's also so

1:20.0

so knowledgeable.

1:22.0

He's the author of four other books, The Yoga of Breath, Yoga for 50 plus,

1:27.0

Praniama Beyond the Fundamentals. He's a wonderful Priama teacher and original yoga.

1:33.5

And he started practicing in 1980.

1:35.4

That's actually the first thing I asked him about

1:37.1

is the origins of his practice.

1:39.2

He did his teacher training at the Original Yengar Institute in San Francisco and in the late

1:44.4

80s he co-founded Piedmont Yoga Studio with Rodney Gee and Claire Finn and that is the studio

1:50.7

where Jason did his teacher training many years ago so Jason trained under

1:57.2

Rodney and Richard and Mary Pafford and several other teachers were on that staff as well

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