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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)
