Tuesday
April 7, 2026
Spring · 5 entries
Are We Animating the Machine?
Yoga and AI alike invite us to notice how we animate the forms we inhabit—and what parts of ourselves are reflected back. Duan suggests its our presence that animates technologyjust as attention brings asana to life on the mat. From Is AI really consciousor are we bringing it to life? on scientificamerican.com --- Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/is-ai-conscious-or-are-we-animating-the-machine/ Original source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-ai-really-conscious-or-are-we-bringing-it-to-life/ All content: https://mjh.yoga Concepts: Svadhyaya · Satya · Abhyasa · Pratyahara #ashtanga #yoga #ashtangayoga #yogapractice #theyogaclub
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Green Funerals
Choose funeral options with transparency and local care—prioritize honest data, ecosystem impact, and rituals that serve grief over glossy promises. We love a redemptive ending. The body returns to soil, a tree grows from the grave, death becomes compost. Green funerals promise exactly this: natural burials, human composting, alkaline hydrolysis, even those biodegradable pods that turn you into a sapling. It's beautiful. It's also complicated. Hannah Gould and Georgina Robinson wrote something sharp about this in Aeon. They're not against ecological burial—they're against the way it gets sold. The marketing is sleek. The data is often thin. Some of these technologies are still aspirational, others oversimplify genuine trade-offs. --- Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/how-to-become-a-tree-what-green-funerals-promise-and-whats-missing/ All content: https://mjh.yoga Concepts: Anicca · Pratityasamutpada · Aparigraha · Satya #ashtanga #yoga #ashtangayoga #yogapractice #theyogaclub
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The Digital Poorhouse
Automated systems don't remove human bias—they move it, and they hide it from view Automated systems don't remove human bias they move it, and they hide it from view. I grew up in small-town America. The kind of place where you knew the person behind the counter at the hardware store and bought your milk from someone whose name you could actually remember. It wasn’t romantic — it was just how commerce worked. You exchanged money for goods, and nobody was quietly adjusting your price based on what phone you carried or how long you lingered in the dairy aisle. That world is vanishing. --- Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/the-digital-poorhouse/ Original source: https://michaeljoelhall.com/the-digital-caste-surveillance-capitalism-and-the-architecture-of-permanent-inequality/ All content: https://mjh.yoga Concepts: Avidyā · Ahiṃsā · Viveka · Saṃskāra #ashtanga #yoga #ashtangayoga #yogapractice #theyogaclub
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Notice embodied intelligence: attention, breath, and openness reveal cognition beyond narrow neural explanations. Surprising clinical cases invite yogas embodied curiosity: intelligence can reconfigure beyond expected neural limits. From Cases of Unconventional Information Flow Across the Mind-Body Interface on ingentaconnect.com --- Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/when-mind-outruns-the-brain/ Original source: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/mm/2025/00000023/00000001/art00003 All content: https://mjh.yoga Concepts: Chitta · Prana · Samskara · Viveka #ashtanga #yoga #ashtangayoga #yogapractice #theyogaclub
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When the System Treats You Like Data
Pratyahara isn't about escaping the world—it's about reclaiming agency over what gets in There's a pattern running through this week that has nothing to do with asana. It's about what happens when your nervous system becomes a data point—and what yoga practice offers in response.Start with the divide between those who build algorithmic systems and those who get processed by them. One group sets parameters. The other gets reduced to inputs and outputs. Then look at Gen Z women drowning in anxiety—forty percent wanting to leave the country, a third anxious almost all the time. Economic precarity, climate doom, and the relentless hum of being constantly online. --- Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/when-the-system-treats-you-like-data/ All content: https://mjh.yoga Concepts: Pratyahara · Pranayama · Asana · Sadhana #ashtanga #yoga #ashtangayoga #yogapractice #theyogaclub
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