How Helpful is Knowledge?
A conversation for the Study Yoga summit about academia
Following on from last week’s podcast with Amy Landry, here’s part of the interview she and I recorded for the Study Yoga summit, which runs until Friday, May 3 (you can stream the conversations for free, with an optional upgrade to access recordings).
We dive deep into knowledge from multiple angles, reflecting on the value of academic study as well as some drawbacks. No one knows how much we don’t know about the history of yoga – not least because most of the evidence comes from texts, while most of the teaching was orally transmitted from guru to student. So is it better to defer to traditional lineages? As we discuss, it’s not an either / or question…
The first half of the recording follows below, along with a transcript. To hear the rest of our chat – along with contributions from fourteen other teachers – and to access a community with bonus live sessions, visit the summit site here.
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