When the System Treats You Like Data

When external systems collapse, the practice becomes meeting what’s actually happening instead of clinging to what was promised

Guys! Let’s start with a BONUS issue focused on handstand, right HERE! Functional Ashtanga Range Conditioning- Handstand A handstand is a line. That’s it. Spine, shoulders, wrists, hips — all stacked. The hard part isn’t strength. It’s that every joint in the chain needs enough range to get there, and most of us are short somewhere. This is the Functional Range Conditioning approach to building one. 🦴 The Big Questions Three joints run the show.

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Yoga Filter: Algorithms, Translation, and Who Controls What We Know

Michael Joel Hall reflects on who controls information and how algorithms sort, predict, price, and exclude, arguing they don’t remove bias but relocate it into opaque systems that resemble an old “digital caste” logic. He highlights Matthew Luko’s work translating government bureaucracy as a model for yoga teachers demystifying practice and notes his new “Tech Support Tuesday” answering Ashtanga questions. He connects this to real-world community as an antidote to tech-driven loneliness, describing how the yoga club mirrors “incidental intimacy” found in run clubs and other offline meetups. He then turns to memory research showing scientists can delete or alter mice memories, questioning what happens if suffering is removed, and contrasts deletion with yogic practice: working with samskaras, acceptance, and changing one’s relationship to pain rather than erasing it.

00:00 Weekly Theme Setup
00:15 Algorithms And Bias
00:25 Algorithms & The Digital Poorhouse
00:47 The Question Mark Suit Man
00:50 Translators And Yoga Teachers
01:04 Yoga as Translation
01:32 Tech Support Tuesday & Real Life Meetups
02:13 Deleting Memories
02:37 Joyce Carol Oates & Identity
03:08 Who Controls What We Know
03:12 The Thread: Who Decides?
03:19 Closing And Next Steps
03:21 Where Are You Going?
07:50 The Digital Poorhouse
09:34 All Eight
12:34 Forget About It

This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I just started hatha yoga classes and would like to learn more about the history and all… can also be india culture or hinduism. submitted by /u/Complete-Currency240 — via r/ashtanga Here’s the full Tech Support post with all links: Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I just started hatha yoga classes and would like to learn more about the history and all… can also be india culture or hinduism.

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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question Mine would be that it doesn't matter if you're not flexible for all poses, most if not all of them can be modified. submitted by /u/YogaGoApp — via r/ashtanga Our Response The OP's answer is great — flexibility doesn't matter, most poses can be modified. That's true. But my advice to past-me would be different. Stop trying to be good at it. I spent years treating practice like a performance review. Every morning I'd roll out my mat and grade myself.

Read more: https://ashtanga.tech/tech-support/whats-one-piece-of-advice-youd-give-to-your-past-self-when-you-first-started-yoga/
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We spent this week thinking about information — who controls it, who translates it, and what happens when the systems meant to organize our lives start sorting us instead.The Digital Poorhouse maps how algorithms don’t eliminate human bias, they just move it somewhere we can’t see it. Automated systems price, predict, and exclude with a precision that would make any historical gatekeeper jealous. The mechanism is new. The shape is old.

Read more: https://theyoga.club/systems-suits-and-who-gets-to-know/
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The discomfort of remembering our past judgments is evidence of growth, not failure—it shows us the cultural scripts we’ve learned to question.

Looking back at how we judged others reveals how much we've grown in understanding consent, compassion, and complexity. From America's Next Top Model: Reality Check – Shandi's Story on rollingstone.com

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Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/when-your-past-self-makes-you-cringe/
Original source: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/americas-next-top-model-reality-check-netflix-shandi-1235505370/
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Concepts: Svadhyaya · Ahimsa · Dharma · Shadow

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