It's a big project to steady the mind, with Swami Asokananda
This episode is such a great reminder of how great a practice Integral Yoga is—how deep, earnest, and sincere its roots. Swami Asokananda embodies this practice in all of his being, in every syllable. My conversation with him here, which we recorded about a year ago and I'm releasing for the first time, is amazing for teachers and for anyone seeking to deepen or better understand their yoga practice. We talked about many things, including how the reward of teaching is the act of teaching itself and what a master class is. We also talked about how every practice can be a revelation if you let it happen and how silence can be the teacher. One thing I found so compelling is the idea of the information-silence ratio: the idea that a teacher in a yoga class is masterful when she/he/they knows how to balance the "ha" of the teaching and the "tha" of the learning ("Ha" meaning the sun or action side of the practice and "tha" being the moon or receiving side).