Dan Alder - "A Modern Story of Translating Patanjali"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Dan Alder, coauthor of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras For the New Millennium: A Translation for the Modern Mind, talks with J about his story of owning a yoga center and translating Patanjali. They discuss taking over a studio in 2010, keeping the business model simple and offline, negative impact of intro offers and memberships, becoming obsessed with yoga philosophy, meeting his co-author Shree and undertaking a translation, interpretation of the eight limbs, a case for renunciation, Ishvara, nonduality, and a passionate embrace of inquiry.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:12.8	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.0	My name is Jay Brown.
0:17.7	Welcome to anybody new and everybody else.
0:21.4	What's up? Thank you to whoever you are for listening today.
0:27.0	If you were here last week, apparently I am not the only one who felt like the new year came in with a discouraging turn.
0:39.0	I got some notes from people,
0:41.6	other people who had random pain flares and then other challenges and then,
0:47.0	oh my, let's not even for a moment look at the news.
0:54.4	It's all so tragic and horrible and really feels like a beginning of a challenging year, as I was saying, last week.
1:09.1	And I wish I could say that my own pain flare was doing better, but it's really not.
1:17.6	Oh gosh.
1:19.2	Here's what happened, you see.
1:21.5	I did everything right for maybe five or six days.
1:26.6	And then when I woke up two days ago, I was really feeling better.
1:31.2	I was so happy.
1:32.1	I'm like, all right, I'm on the mend.
1:34.5	And then I did the exact same thing I've done so many times before,
1:39.8	which is as soon as I start to feel better,
1:43.0	I go back to doing too much too quickly and I re-aggravate the situation.
1:48.3	And, you know, it's honest enough.
1:50.3	It's like there's stuff that needed to be done at the house.
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