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Seane Corn is one of the most influential people in modern yoga. Her journey in yoga teaching and service work started after her teacher training and at the moment she "niched" into a student group she believed she could help.

Eddie Stern has been a spiritual seeker and curious contemplative his whole life. He has spent most of his time in the Ashtanga Yoga tradition and was a student of Pattabhi Jois, but along with many in the school, he has worked hard to heal traumas and elected to expand his view of practice participation in the world for the greater good.

Kino MacGregor manages to walk a fine line between the scroll-stopping stuff of Instagram and the deep practice of belonging, discernment, and freedom in yoga. If you do just take her in on Instagram, I wonder if you look past her flawless yoga asanas and pictures of the far-flung places she teaches, and read what she writes about her practices and experiences.

Rob Schware and Chelsea Roff are doing so many interesting things in yoga that I don't know where to start.

Richard Rosen wrote The Yoga of Breath in 2002, after he had been teaching for 15 years, and just before he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. He has a lot to say about the nature of the breath, and our conversation was the first of what I hope will be many on this podcast.

Beryl Bender is an iconoclast. She took the Ashtanga Yoga teaching tradition and translated and made it accessible for westerners. She wanted the phrase to describe strength (versus just flexibility), appeal to men, and show that yoga could be a workout. I

Andrea Ferretti is a risk-taker and explorer. 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.

I wanted to bring Barbara Benagh and John Schumacher back onto Practicing Well to take the conversation on yoga lineage further. They have been teaching yoga for decades—100 years between the two of them—so I brought them back to talk about what it means to be an elder in this craft.

As a model of 40+ years, Colleen Saidman Yee admits to being hyper-competitive and needing to be at the center of her classes and her universe. She found yoga in the late 1980s and has been teaching it since the 1990s.

Gail Parker is a trailblazer, and the paths she's opening up are those not in the exterior world but of the interior body.

For many in modern yoga, Cyndi Lee’s name needs no introduction. She started practicing yoga in New York with Sharon Gannon and David Life, who founded the Manhattan-based Jivamukti methodology.

Doug Keller is like some other guests I’ve brought onto the podcast; he hews to a lineage with no name, though if you had to pin him down, or label what he teaches, you *might* be safe putting him in the Tantra category or “lineage.”