Rod Stryker - "Knowledge, Power and Devotion"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Rod Stryker, founder of ParaYoga, talks with J about the formative events that shaped yoga becoming part of popular culture and the spiritual underpinnings that call it into question. They discuss Yoga Works and the 80's LA Scene, Manny and Alan Finger, westernizing the message, seeking vs career choices, branding and creating empires, defining Tantra, teacher/student relationship, guard rails in the pursuit of truth, nonduality and divinity, science of energy management, mapping out the nature of mind, and a singular vision of the heart.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:13.1	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.2	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.0	Welcome to anyone who's here for the first time today. Everyone else,
0:23.7	what's up? What's up? I'll tell you what's up. I'm coming to you from Manchester, England.
0:30.1	At least the moment in which I am recording, I'm in Manchester, England in a lovely little room provided to me by my dear friend Jamie.
0:41.0	Shout out to you.
0:43.9	Six hours ago, I finished my workshops here.
0:47.6	And regular listeners know it's very significant.
0:50.4	This is the first time I've done any international travel, much less in-person teaching, really.
0:57.1	I haven't been doing any live in-person workshop since January 2020, really.
1:04.5	And it was a big deal for me.
1:06.2	If you remember, I said to myself, I have to at least get a few in this year.
1:10.6	If I'm ever going to do
1:12.0	this where I travel and get in a room with people, I got to exercise the muscle. It has really
1:18.6	atrophied. It's been so long and it felt so hard to do, but I'm so glad that I did. It was really
1:26.2	a significant and fantastic weekend.
1:29.6	And those of you listening who were there,
1:31.7	shout out to you.
1:32.4	Thank you so much for coming and participating.
1:35.5	It was deeply important for me.
1:37.9	I really was in need of renewed direction and purpose and meaning. And I felt that I found my way to that
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