Scholars and practitioners hold nearly opposite, contradictory positions when it comes to the roots of sūrya namaskāra practice. But new research sheds some light on the practices of sun salutations.
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Marketing is a bad word for many of us, evoking images of sleazy commercial manipulation. But if we have something that really helps people, we need a way to let them know it’s available. So here are some non-cringe ideas for yoga teachers whose goal is helping people, not making money.
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Despite the fact that most Western Yoga teachers are women, we don’t often hear much discussion of gender or gender inequality in the yoga world, perhaps because of the unhelpful separation between the personal and the political that persists in our society. New Zealand-born, U.S.-based Mark Whitwell is on a mission to change that. We interviewed him to find out about his Yogic approach to gender equality, and how this necessarily entails a critique of masculinity and a vision of a more equal world. Interviewed by Rosalind Atkinson.
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We are given much information about the behaviour of Weinstein and those like him, and analysis of why it’s harmful. There is even recognition that men like him are obvious and particularly toxic examples of an issue that runs right through society, affecting us all, rather than individual moral failures. But why we are facing this failure of the masculine in the present world? And what we can proactively do to heal and move forward?
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