Thought as medicine in yoga, with Doug Keller
I decided to keep going with Doug Keller, whose first talk with me continues to be one of our most popular episodes. We did a minor review of his first talk, which was as dense and captivating as this one. Then, Doug explored what became a set of expanded precepts whose inclusion into modern practice could, in my opinion, change the game. These are 20 yamas (restraints) and niyamas (observances), rather than the 10 that nearly every yoga teacher at least touches on in a teacher training. Doug points to the Natha Yogis, who in the 9th-10th centuries carried on with these behavioral suggestions for living a good life and, in doing so, embraced the tradition in yoga of practicing, experimenting, sitting with those experiments, and practicing some more. I think it's time in modern yoga to consider some grounded experimentation and reflection as Doug and I explored here. We got into politics, social issues, and all kinds of other aspects that I hope delight you as much as the last episode did, and as both have delighted me.