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me while my students are trying to practice

me while my students are trying to practice

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Sep 15, 2025

Who won’t let you criticize them? Ready for another organizational red flag? Leadership that won’t allow criticism, of course! If we don’t encourage a multiplicity of viewpoints, we are inherently narrow sighted. If you must hold the same view as leadership in order to get a say, you are being controlled. I do not like…

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Aug 15, 2025

Yoga is a straightforward path towards liberation from narrowmindedness and the suffering it brings. Some teachers miss the mark— oops— by confusing success in shapes vs an expanded consciousness capable of holding boundless compassion. A good teacher combats cognitive dissonance and spiritual bypassing by openly discussing advantages AND lamenting the disadvantages inherent in each of…

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Aug 15, 2025

There was a slide towards authoritarianism inside of Ashtanga yoga communities world wide in the 2010s. It happens. Heres how to look out for it in your community. Catch the whole thing on my youtube.

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