Blue Beryl: The Body in Classical Hathayoga 5 September 2024

PodcastBlue Beryl
TitleThe Body in Classical Hathayoga
Date5 September 2024

Blue Beryl: The Body in Classical Hathayoga

Thanks to Pierce Salguero and Lan Li for interviewing me on their podcast series!

Show Notes

In this episode I sit down with Ruth Westoby a scholar, teacher, and practitioner of yoga. We discuss Ruth’s work on the body in early hatha yoga texts. We talk about the broad diversity of approaches to the material body in these sources, including their ideas about gender, the cultivation of powers, and approaches to liberation. Along the way, we touch on yogic sex, practices to stop menstruating, and the courageous work that modern practitioners have been doing to expose abuse by yoga gurus.
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
Mallinson and Szántó, The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla (2021).
Articles on guru abuse: Anneke Lucas, Karen Rain, Amanda Lucia.