Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘Lady Day and John Coltrane’ shuffled into my headphones as the train pulled into my stop. Practical guidance on how we can contribute towards making yoga more inclusive is interwoven with a heartfelt account of Nadia’s own personal journey.

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I had an eye on the clock – we were already 15 minutes behind schedule, so I had to get things going. In late 2022 Peter released his latest book of translations, Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women, co-translated with Rebecca Nie. Meditation might feel impossible – scary even – particularly for anxious, depressed, and restless people or those who have leaned on various unhelpful crutches like I have. For example, you can mention they are exploring their own satya , or truth, and engaging in vichara and svadhyaya as they self-reflect. And, so she is in this manifesto trying to come up with a solution that takes yoga into the future (and belong to everyone).If you enjoyed this podcast then you might also enjoy Scott’s conversations with Pamela Weiss, Sarah Powers and Frank Jude Boccio. I shuffled to one end of the dining table and stared at the salad on my plate, hoping she wouldn’t notice me.

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I’ll also be taking aim at the billion-dollar wellness industry to reveal what lies beneath the airbrushed aesthetic of slim-limbed bendy practitioners sporting bum-sculpting leggings that dominates yoga’s image worldwide. Just as you may do a land acknowledgment to honor the land you are teaching and practicing on and all those who live there, as we will describe below, do a spiritual lineage acknowledgment. By turns poignant, funny and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto charts Nadia’s own love story with the practice; shares how it helped her through heartbreak, grief, and mental-health struggles; and explores how it can help you too.

The course ran over five days and on the third day, a guest author was invited to join us and share their work. When I think about yoga like that it opens up endless possibilities that are far more compelling than being able to do a handstand (though of course practising that is fun too). Oxford Mindfulness Foundation Wikipedia Books "This conversation with Dr Mark Williams gives a beautiful insight into one of the foremost leaders in the field of mindfulness over the past 40 years. In her book,'The Yoga Manifesto 'Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping.

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Despite my initial sense of feeling overwhelmed, the longer I sat there, smiling in an effort to warm everyone to me, the more I unexpectedly started to feel at home. Founder of the Highland Yoga Collective, Fiona Palmer, said: "We are so excited to be hosting Nadia this Friday as part of her Yoga Manifesto Tour. It may look like yoga is everywhere and that everyone is doing it, but accessibility remains a stubborn issue – on the whole, classes are expensive and many people aren’t getting through the studio door because they simply can’t afford it. It’s a good challenge to anyone involved in yoga (regardless of how white, bendy, thin or female we are), and asks us all to examine our relationship with yoga and the associated yoga industry today. Teenagers are all the same really: cocky, confident, insecure; asserting their place, but also shying away from it.Classical yoga is grounded in the sage Patanjali’s eight limbs philosophy, which offers a suggested code of conduct to live in a moral way. In the mid-1980s he commenced annual travels to India, where he studied with various yogic and tantric masters, traditional Indian sadhus and ascetics. Yoga’s mainstream adoption by the masses is undoubtedly positive – it’s what its Indian forefathers would have wanted. It's also encouraged me to go back to some of the earlier books I read on yoga and consider how I approach my practice going forward.

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Teacher training that fails to impart this crucial understanding further distances yoga from its roots. To move the conversation forward, it’s imperative we understand why yoga has become out of reach for some of those who need it most – and find ways to make it available to more people. In your way, ground yourself in the widened awareness of the present moment and a sense of unity and connection that yoga offers us. So the practice has never been a miracle cure when the chips were down for me and there were certainly times I wanted to give up on yoga but perhaps it didn’t want to give up on me. Many themselves travelled the world to spread its message and I’m sure they would have encouraged foreigners visiting India to go back to their communities and share what they’d learned.Remember, traditionally, namaste is said at the beginning of a meeting with another highly respected person, not at the end. I regularly led classes for people from vulnerable communities like this through a charity, but I had not yet taught teenagers.