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Hacking the Self.org

  • Feb 2, 2018
  • 1 min read

Ashtanga Yoga

Guest Bio: Mary Taylor teaches the Ashtanga Vinyasa method of yoga as taught by her principal teacher, the late Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. Mary and her husband, Richard Freeman, teach workshops, retreats and trainings at home in the United States as well as internationally. Mary is also heavily inspired by the Buddhist tradition and serves as a caregiver within hospital settings as part of the “Being with Dying” program through the Upaya Zen Center.

Shownotes:

In my conversation with Mary we explored the following topics:

  • Ashtanga Yoga as a practice of self transformation

  • Showing up for your practice; the need to be honest with ourselves

  • Reconciling Eastern, Western Perspectives. Holding paradoxical points of view.

  • How Psychology, and the ego, differs in Eastern and Western worldviews

  • The importance of ritual

  • and more…

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