Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 235 of Yomaland.

So we're back. This has been a really long hiatus for me from the podcast. I think the

longest one I've ever had since launching a little over five years ago and it felt really good.

We have a lot of changes which we talk about at the beginning of the podcast

and we're just kind of settling in and it feels great to be back. It felt great to have a break,

kind of rest my brain a little bit, get back into my creative self and now it is equally

fabulous to be back. So today I'm joined by Jason and we have a conversation about how he feels

it's important to train his teachers as well as encourage his students to be independent thinkers,

to think critically and to use self inquiry with this practice as a guiding force.

So within the context of this conversation we talk about the importance of viewpoint

diversity, the importance of being a teacher who can handle and in fact encourage your students

to train with other teachers and to see other perspectives and it really represents the values

that both Jason and I hold about education in general and just the value of seeing education

as a process of lifelong learning, seeing engaging in that process as a way to state open,

to stay empathic and to actually enjoy yourself and be a lifelong learner.

Before we get to the interview I want to mention that Jason will be holding a few online workshops

this fall that you might want to take part in. The first one coming up is his art of yoga sequencing

and that is set to happen October, the weekend of October 8th. You can join our wait list and

I will send you more information once it's available. If you go to jsonjoga.com slash sequencing

and I will make more announcements. He's also doing the preventing injuries training and the return

to your center training for yoga teachers in the fall and I'll make more announcements as those

trainings become available to you. Okay, enjoy the conversation with Jason. Hi Jason.

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