Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 39 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I hope you're doing well. I'm just sitting by my window enjoying the sunshine and I wrapped up a wonderful conversation with my guest today, Theodora Wildcroft, who's the author of Post-Lineage Yoga, Guru to hashtag Me Too.

Theo is a yoga teacher, a yoga teacher trainer, a writer, a scholar, and who's doing

innovative research in the democratization of post-lineage yoga and the evolving practice of

teaching yoga for community health.

She's also the author of this new

book, as well as a visiting fellow at the Open University and a project coordinator at the SOAS

S-O-A-S Center for Yoga Studies in the UK. This conversation of post-Linage yoga has always been

something that's piqued my interest.

I've personally been part of lineages when I lived in India.

I've seen the beautiful side of it as well as the very ugly side of lineages.

So it was really fascinating for me to get this conversation going with Theo.

Theo being a researcher has an approach, a structure and a way of

communicating, which is just refreshing. I definitely think we need to make more space for high

quality research in the yoga world. A lot of researchers are already doing this work. We just need

to bring it into mainstream focus and conversations.

And because we will benefit as yoga teachers. And you'll hear me say this in the episode as well.

Sometimes we're so close to yoga, to our own interpretation of yoga, that we can be rather

close-minded or we look for people who want to be in our own echo chambers. So having

conversations like this with researchers who really put in almost years, if not a lifetime of

effort in doing this is really valuable. In today's conversation, we chat about what is post-leinage

yoga. The difference between styles of yoga and lineages

and how to identify whether you belong or you're practicing in a lineage or you're in a style of

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