Andrea Ferretti is a risk-taker and explorer. After my conversation with her, I would also throw in the word futurist. She's one of the first people I've talked to who legitimately seems to be pondering where yoga might go in the next few decades and beyond. Throughout her career, she has sought to work for fast-changing communications outlets describing health-span practices. She first wrote for women.com in the mid-90s, which led her to work as an editor at Yoga Journal. Then, inspired by the podcast Serial, she launched her own popular podcast Yogaland in 2015. In the last few months she has pivoted to long-form content on Substack. Andrea says this about her time at Yoga Journal, which feels a lot to me like a description of our conversation and even of all my conversations on Practicing Well: “We were just trying to speak yoga language and be authentic.” I loved this conversation and hope you do too.
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Terms:
1. Utthita triknoasana: triangle pose
2. Salamba sirsasana: headstand
3. Salamba sarvangasana: shoulderstand
4. Utthita hastha padangusthasana: extended hand-to-big-toe pose
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References:
3. Sarah Powers
5. Yoga Shala
7. women.com
8. JJ Gormley
10. John Schumacher
11. Barbara Benagh
12. John Abbott
13. CorePower Yoga
14. Maty Ezraty
16. Sally Kempton
17. The Roll Model, by Jill Miller
18. YogaWorks
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Episode credits:
Original music by Kim's band Governess.
Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.
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