Rob Walker - "The New Yoga"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

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🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Rob Walker, author of the The New Yoga: From Cults and Dogma to Science and Sanity, talks with J about taking a hard look at critical questions and proposing common-sense yoga for the future. They discuss how yoga classes have recently changed, the movement to make yoga classes safer and more inclusive by debunking myths and telling a more accurate history, drawing upon movement science, and six principles that add clarity and encourage further inquiry into the benefits of yoga. This episode is sponsored by Ropana CBD.

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0:00.0	All right. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast, and my name is Jay Brown.
0:17.4	If it so happens that this is the first time you're ever listening, welcome.
0:23.3	Thanks to all the rest of y'all. My guest today is Rob Walker. Rob has a new book out called
0:31.2	The New Yoga, from cults and dogma to science and sanity, and we have a whole big conversation about it.
0:40.3	I will say more on this in just a bit.
0:44.3	First, I think a check-in might be in order.
0:48.7	What's going on?
0:50.5	Like, what are you doing right now?
0:54.4	Maybe you're still in a place where you can go outside and walk around.
0:58.7	I know some people are not.
1:00.2	Some people are on lockdown.
1:03.1	Here in my state of Pennsylvania, we are going into our third week of stay at home.
1:08.9	So we are still allowed to go out for walks. And there's been more people
1:13.8	out walking in my neighborhood than I've ever seen. Of course, everybody's being really respectful
1:18.6	about distance. And often a lot of you in the past would be like in your car on your commute
1:25.5	to work. And maybe you are someone who's on your way to work.
1:29.0	And if so, I'm going to assume you're doing like an essential job.
1:32.9	Maybe you work at the hospital or even just people who are doing deliveries.
1:36.8	I mean, I was at the supermarket yesterday.
1:41.2	And it was the first time I had been in maybe over a week.
1:45.7	Everyone was keeping the six feet distance, except this one guy behind me in line, who was like the one guy who clearly thought, oh, this is bullshit and wasn't following it.
1:57.1	And I was like, really, you're going to make me have to say something?
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