Evolving Traditions – Mike De Masi

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It’s often said that yoga is timeless, but many modern methods are recent inventions. What keeps them anchored in earlier traditions? I recently explored this with Mike De Masi, who runs a discussion group devoted to the yoga of T. Krishnamacharya and his students – from B.K.S. Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois to T.K.V. Desikachar and Srivatsa Ramaswami.

Among other topics, our conversation covered:

* What “tradition” means when so much has changed

* Whether stories told by lineages stand up to scrutiny

* How one relates to other worldviews as a foreigner

* What scholarship on yoga can offer practitioners

* Why critique should be balanced with respect

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RESOURCES

Worldwide Krishnamacharya Yoga Community

Breath of the Gods (a 2012 film about Krishnamacharya)

“The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati” (Birch and Singleton)

The Goddess Pose (a book about the life of Indra Devi)

Srivatsa Ramaswami’s Vinyasa Krama website