Gary Kraftsow - "What is Viniyoga?"

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

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🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Gary Kraftsow, founder of the American Viniyoga Institute, author of Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation, talks with J about his precedent-setting career in yoga and yoga therapy. They discuss his relationship to TKV Desikachar and the impact it had on his teaching, why the efforts to create a national organization were thwarted, the story behind him using the name Viniyoga, TKV's son, yoga in healthcare, the definition of yoga therapy, and the true spirit of the teachings. This episode is brought to you by YogaAnatomy.net.

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0:00.0	So I just finished another one of my teachers class, which is my weekly online interactive video
0:11.0	call that I've been doing. I've been talking about it in these top of the podcast spots because I want
0:17.0	more and more people to find out about it and to get in on it.
0:23.5	Tonight, we talked about the coolest stuff.
0:30.1	First, we talked about cultural appropriation and whether or not it's okay to chant and to say namaste and do people do it and do they not do it and why.
0:35.1	We also talked about how to choose a teacher training. Someone joined who's not a
0:40.2	teacher yet. They've just been practicing a long time. They wanted to find out about how to
0:44.0	choose teacher training. So we had some discussion of that. And we also talked about the connection
0:49.3	between introsception and non-duality. Yep. we talked about that. But more than anything, what people have
0:58.7	been finding is that there is a sense of community online where we can really talk about stuff
1:05.8	and podcast listeners get in on the conversations. And I add my two cents, as I am off to do, as you know,
1:13.7	and it's just been incredibly rewarding.
1:16.3	And you are welcome to join in on it.
1:19.2	I want to encourage you to do so.
1:21.3	It's the J. Brown Yoga Teachers class.
1:24.4	You can find it at J.Brown Yoga.com.
1:26.9	Thank you. class. You can find it at jbrownyoga.com.
1:42.4	All right. What do you say? Think we should do this?
1:46.0	I mean, you've hit play.
1:48.0	I've hit record.
1:51.8	So we might as well, right?
1:56.1	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
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