Hey everyone, welcome to YogaLands Yoga Teacher Companion. I'm your host, Jason

Crandall. In every episode to date, we have talked about the more overtly

physical components of practicing and teaching yoga. And obviously the yoga

practice, the yoga tradition, has a much broader set of dimensions, including a

broad, in fact a vast set of philosophical parameters. And so many teachers

including myself, many students including myself, want to figure out a more

efficient and honest and sincere and effective way of incorporating yoga

philosophy into the awesome environment. We want to incorporate yoga philosophy

into teaching and we don't quite exactly know what to do. The other thing I want

to acknowledge is for me there's a certain degree of I don't exactly know how

to say it, but intimacy or nuance or even kind of insecurity and depth in

talking about the philosophical parameters in a class as opposed to just

saying, engage this, lengthen this. There's a certain rawness and vulnerability

I think to communicate some of these dimensions because of their point

in agency. And I think because we don't want to do kind of a miscarriage of

justice to the teachings of the yoga tradition. So a lot of us will just kind of

backpedal and avoid it entirely. But so many people want to include these

teachings. And so I think I can give you a fair amount of advice about how to

most honestly and skillfully incorporate yoga philosophy into your teaching.

And the first thing that I want to bring up even before I kind of give you the

tips is I just want to tell you that it is not mandatory to teach yoga

philosophy in your awesome classes. It isn't. In fact, from Patanjali's

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