Hi everyone. I'm back from spending three wonderful weeks in India and I have an updated version of what yoga is like in India today. So let's get to it.

Hi everyone. I'm Arundati and you've just tuned in to the Let's Talk Yoga podcast, your ultimate online destination for learning about yoga. Whether you're a seasoned

yoga teacher or a curious yoga student, there's something for you here. Let this podcast be your

virtual yoga school. We offer insights, inspiration and loads of nerdy exploration of yoga along the way.

But first, who am I?

I'm an Indian immigrant yoga teacher

living in America for the past decade.

I have my own yoga school here in Seattle.

And I'm also a Bollywood choreographer.

And I've nurtured a thriving yoga community at my studio

as well as a global yoga audience through my courses and this podcast.

Through this podcast, I intend to create a space for you, the yoga student and yoga teacher,

to learn about yoga in depth.

Think of this as your online yoga school, free teacher training coming to you every week.

So grab your cup of tea and let's jump in.

If you remember in 2012, I wrote a blog post. In fact, it was the first blog post I ever wrote

and it was about the differences between yoga in India versus yoga in America.

Little did I know that that blog would go viral overnight and this was when going viral and

being on trend weren't concepts we heard of every day. Today the landscape is different because

of how social media works and going viral is something that happens literally every

day many times over. But back in the day, you rarely saw a yoga blog go viral. And it took me by

surprise because I was not qualified to write about yoga. And the only thing I thought I could write

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