Video: Ashtanga: Healthy Ambition for Collaboration Instead of Competition

This is a video about Power Dynamics in Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga. Reach out if you want some coaching for you practice. https://michaeljoelhall.com/coaching

00:00 Introduction to Shifting Power Dynamics in Ashtanga Yoga
00:06 The Guru-Disciple Model of the Past
00:23 The Rise of Critical Engagement
00:40 The Need for Autonomy and Self-Organization
00:57 Reckoning with Past and Present Abuses
01:07 Empowering Students in Modern Practice
01:20 Evolving Authority into Responsibility
01:30 Building a Partnership in Teacher-Student Relationships
01:39 Moving Forward: Mutual Respect and Earned Trust

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[su_quote]”This practice, its different. It doesn’t ask you to *give up* anything. A house holder practice, and all that.” I laughed, and responded “except dinner.” — a dialouge with a good friend, on ashtanga yoga. also: bullshit 🙂 [/su_quote] Every Sunday afternoon in Mysore, Sharath holds a conference. It’s a little bit of Q&A time, a little bit of lecture, and a whole lot of Ashtanga Family Time. The Boss’s kids often interrupt. It’s generally very crowded. And, its always really nice. Sharath has done enough of these now that he sometimes finds a deeper question hiding inside the banal. Conference would be much shorter, some might say for the better, if the bit of Q & A were to be removed. But. every so often…