The Globalization of Yoga with Andrea Jain
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, I speak to author and religious studies professor Andrea Jain about her book, Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture. Her book is one of the best I've read in terms of tracing the globalization of yoga without oversimplifying it or vilifying modern yoga's evolution.
We cover a lot of ground in this interview. Here are some highlights:
- Is it true that yoga is of Hindu origin and, if so, does that mean that Is the way we practice yoga in the West cultural appropriation?
- How can Western yoga practitioners educate themselves about cultural appropriation and practice in a way that is respectful to the culture where yoga originated?
- Jain makes the case that yoga shouldn’t “belong” to any one group of people.
- We talk about “Godmen” and why the relationship between teacher and student opens the door to abuse of authority in yoga as well as other groups.
- Jain makes the case that yoga as it is practiced today could be considered a religious practice. And we go into the pros and cons of looking at it that way.
- She also gives us an overview of her next book, Peace, Love, Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality, which will be available in September.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 200 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:07.6 | Today my guest is Andrea Jane. |
| 0:09.6 | Andrea is Associate Professor of Religious studies at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts. |
| 0:16.1 | She's also the editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and she's the author of two books, |
| 0:22.1 | selling yoga from counterculture to Pop Culture |
| 0:25.0 | and Peace Love Yoga, The Politics of Global Spirituality. |
| 0:29.0 | In this interview Andrea and I talk about her first book, |
| 0:31.5 | The Selling Yoga Book, and we already have an interview |
| 0:34.4 | scheduled to talk about her forthcoming book, The Peace Love Yoga Book, that is |
| 0:39.5 | coming out at the end of July. And I have not had a chance to see the alley for that book yet so I'm really |
| 0:47.0 | looking forward to it and looking forward to what she has to say and what she's found from her continued research into the topic of yoga. |
| 0:55.8 | Just as a side note, Andrea will be teaching for Jason's upcoming advanced teacher training, |
| 1:00.9 | which is module 3. |
| 1:03.2 | And the training starts online July 13th. |
| 1:06.0 | We have just a few spots left, |
| 1:07.5 | so if you're interested in learning more |
| 1:09.3 | or joining the training, you can go to our website |
| 1:11.9 | at Jason Yoga.com and click on 500 hour training to get the details. |
| 1:17.0 | So as I listened back to this interview I wish I had spent like two to three hours talking to her because I really just |
| 1:25.5 | scratched the surface of so many different concepts and aspects of her book and so I |
| 1:32.2 | invite you to read the book. It's a great well researched book. I think |
| 1:37.9 | it should be foundational learning for anyone who considers teaching yoga in the West. |
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