Advanced Practices Access

6/10/2026

Ashtanga Tech

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For a few years, I ran a gate. I decided when you were ready. I kept the criteria to myself. And I handed out the good stuff only after you'd earned it. It took me longer than I'd like to admit to see how broken that was.

Altri episodi di "Ashtanga Tech"

Critical Thinking & Bias
14/10/2026
8:09
Every teacher has biases running in the background. The only question is whether they run the show undetected, or whether you drag them out into daylight. For years, I didn't drag mine anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
13/10/2026
8:32
I used to be a good teacher. Knowledgeable, attentive, students got technically proficient under my watch. And then I'd go on vacation, and their practice would fall apart.
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Transparency & Leadership
12/10/2026
8:50
If your community can't run for two weeks without you, you haven't built a community. You've built a dependency. And you probably think that dependency is your value.
Toxic Teachers Steal Make Subjectivity Objective
11/10/2026
8:33
There's a specific move a bad teacher makes, and once you can name it, you can't stop seeing it. They take their own opinion about your body — a guess, a projection, a preference — and they hand it to you as fact.
Peer Support & Community
10/10/2026
10:05
For years, every single relationship in my shala ran through me. Student to teacher. Student to teacher. Student to teacher. I was the hub, everyone else was a spoke, and if I wasn't there, the wheel fell off.
Your Subjective Experience Is Yours
9/10/2026
6:57
There's a line between what you feel in a posture and what everyone else thinks you feel. In Ashtanga, that line has been crossed so many times that most practitioners forgot it was ever there.
Student Autonomy & Motivation
8/10/2026
8:05
Most yoga students can't practice without a teacher in the room. Take the teacher away, and the whole thing quietly falls apart. And that's not the students' fault. It's what they were taught.
Succession Strategy
7/10/2026
7:40
You will leave your community. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not by choice. But you will leave it. The only real question is whether anything survives after you're gone.
Advanced Practices Access
6/10/2026
7:51
For a few years, I ran a gate. I decided when you were ready. I kept the criteria to myself. And I handed out the good stuff only after you'd earned it. It took me longer than I'd like to admit to see how broken that was.
Objective Assesment
5/10/2026
6:30
Here's a sentence that sounds like expertise and usually isn't. Your hips aren't open enough. It has the tone of a measurement. It's an opinion in a lab coat.

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Ashtanga Tech

Altri episodi di "Ashtanga Tech"

Critical Thinking & Bias

Motivational Interviewing

Transparency & Leadership

Toxic Teachers Steal Make Subjectivity Objective

Peer Support & Community

Your Subjective Experience Is Yours

Student Autonomy & Motivation

Succession Strategy

Advanced Practices Access

Objective Assesment