Podcasts: For Teachers

Yoga, Rules, and Freedom

26 November, 2024
In this podcast, I explore the intricate balance between rules and freedom in yoga and life. Is following a rule in a pose truly "wrong," as one teacher suggested? Or do structure and principles provide the foundation for safety, grace, empowerment, and beauty? Drawing from Ashtanga yoga, cooking, music, and wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Vasistha, I examine the essential role of rules while honoring the need for individuality, creativity, and adaptability.

Ask Me Anything, Four Questions from Students

21 April, 2024
In this month's podcast, David answer four questions from students. See the notes for the questions.

Do Your Practice and All Is Coming?

13 October, 2021
In this podcast I discuss the often misinterpreted Ashtanga saying: “Do your practice and all is coming”.

New Ideas for Adjustments in Ashtanga

19 August, 2021
In this podcast I speak how, in Ashtanga yoga, physical adjustments have been the exclusive means of correcting a pose whereas giving verbal cues or using props to adjust have been tabooed or discouraged. Experience has shown that significant harm or imbalance results from giving only physical adjustments and that is why I discuss the need for a new paradigm of adjustments that calls for the teacher to have skill enough to work with a balanced combination of all three of these excellent means (physical, ver

Holy Equanimity and Skill in Action

26 February, 2019
In this Asana Kitchen podcast David discusses two empowering perspectives the student can utilize to extract knowledge out of their practice.

Learning to Direct Desire

31 May, 2018
Drawing from the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, and Hatha Yoga Pradipika, David discusses what yoga philosophy has to say about perceiving, expressing, and restraining desire. This talk was given at the DG Mysore Intensive in Great Barrington May of 2018.

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