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Learn More On Demand Courses Available Now with a Wisdom School Membership Become A Member Upcoming Course: Transforming Complex Trauma — The NeuroAffective Relational Model with Brad Kammer In this course students will: Learn a more humane outlook on human suffering Develop a framework for shame and self-sabotage Gain basic skills for addressing complex trauma Practice exercises to support post-traumatic growth Learn More #Modern Yoga#Practice#Research#Yoga#Yoga Teacher The Future of the Yoga Teacher: Introducing A New Editorial Research Project By Jacob Kyle Throughout 2023 at Embodied Philosophy, one of our editorial and research themes will be connected to this question: “What is the future of the yoga teacher”? This is at once a practical, professional and philosophical question. Go to story My Decalogue of a Decade By Kerry Porter Is Occultism “the Metaphysic of Dunces?” An Occultist Confronts Modernity By Mitch Horowitz Practicing Contentment in a Consumerist World By Kristen Krash Joe Loizzo on The New Mind-Body Research & the Yogic Science of Integration (#158) By Jacob Kyle This episode is a taste of a deeper dive with Dr. Joe Loizzo in our upcoming 30-hr Certificate Program, “Buddhist Psychology in the Nalanda Tradition,” co-presented with the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. Listen now Latest from Yoga Philosophy See all #Cultures #Practice #Psychology Ancient and Modern Ritual: A Creative Approach to Working with Grief, Loss, and Change Creative healing methods, including ritual therapy, offer us ways to address all kinds of grief: subtle to catastrophic, known and unknown, recent and historical. By Samantha Black #Philosophy #Practice #Rasa #Traditions #Yoga Pratipakṣa Bhāvana: Cultivating the Opposite as a Celebration of Our Humanity The Oxford Dictionary defines passion as a strong and barely controllable emotion. Many so-called positive emotions fit that bill. So what happens if we experiment with touching sorrow in times when we feel the most euphoric of highs? Cultivating the opposite in all situations, even in times of elation, prepares us for the inevitability that we will at some point feel the lowest of lows. By Tara Lemerise #Aging #Practice #Yoga #Yoga Teacher Fifty and Aligning Turning fifty, with its sea waves of hormonal change, brings much new information to the mind. You can feel some brittleness emerge and the pliancy of the joints realign. You are (or, I am) less interested in the farthest and deepest reaches of a pose, for example, but rather in the intricacies of the steps of the subtler body on the way there—on the way anywhere. By Kim Weeks #Interdisciplinary #Practice #Somatics #Yoga #Yoga Teacher My Yoga is the Right Yoga: and Other Outrageous Shit We Let Ourselves Believe I’m not convinced my yoga is better than your yoga because I am not in your body or your life or your circumstances or family constellation. I do not know where you come from or what makes you tick. I do not know what your body “needs”. By Livia Shapiro Latest from MindBody Studies See all #Practice #Psychology #Yoga #Yoga Teacher My Decalogue of a Decade I started attending classes because I had reached a place in my studies where I needed personal feedback about the experiences I was having. I took group classes for about one year before being approached to teach. I was completely ignorant of the culture of yoga building in the West and its historical context in the East. I was only interested in the practice as a psychology… as a way of spotting and shifting patterns of thought and behavior. By Kerry Porter #Cultures #Interdisciplinary #Occult #Practice #Research Is Occultism “the Metaphysic of Dunces?” An Occultist Confronts Modernity Yet materialism, which has dominated our intellectual culture since the Victorian age, covers fewer and fewer bases of life in the twenty-first century. The natural sciences are increasingly defined by quantum data, interdimensional formulas, and fields like neuroplasticity, which uses brain scans to demonstrate the capacity of thought to alter neural matter. Our ordinary reference points of life are in greater flux today than at any time since Darwinism upended what it meant to be human in the Victorian era. By Mitch Horowitz #Interdisciplinary #Spirituality Feminism and Spiritual Citizenship “What does spiritual citizenship look like through a feminist lens?” By Alka Arora #Ethics #Research #Spirituality A Less Obvious Problem: Spirituality As Bypass Existence is bondage to bodily experiences of emotion, excrement, illness, pain, and death. By Serenity Tedesco On Demand Immersion 21-Day Yoga Challenge On-Demand access to 21 new yoga classes A variety of yoga styles – from hatha to vinyasa yoga Bonus Course “Demystifying the Teachings of Yoga” Access to 2 Sound Baths with Shawn Moore Learn More Recent Podcast Episodes See all Joe Loizzo on The New Mind-Body Research & the Yogic Science of Integration (#158) This episode is a taste of a deeper dive with Dr. Joe Loizzo in our upcoming 30-hr Certificate Program, “Buddhist Psychology in the Nalanda Tradition,” co-presented with the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. By Jacob Kyle #Interdisciplinary #Research Ashtanga Yoga in Sutras and the Gītā: A Comparison with Edwin Bryant (#157) Edwin Bryant is the professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University. He has published eight books, and authored a number of articles on the earliest origins of the Vedic culture, yoga philosophy, and the Krishna tradition. By Jacob Kyle #Traditions #Yoga Is the West Ready for Tantra? with Andrew Holecek (#156) In this episode, author and Embodied Philosophy faculty, Andrew Holecek, is in conversation with Stephanie Corigliano and Jacob Kyle, as they discuss Andrew’s article, “Is the West Ready for Tantra?” an article released in the latest issue of Tarka. By Jacob Kyle #Practice #Traditions Sally Kempton on Following the Nondual Path of the Divine Feminine (#155) Sally Kempton is a master of meditation, yoga philosophy, and practical tantric philosophy. In this episode, Sally talks about Goddess practice as a spiritual technology and provides guided practices experiencing the divine feminine through the breath, being seen by the divine, and a formal meditation on the goddess Lalita. By Jacob Kyle #Practice #Traditions Nikki Costello on the New Yoga Classroom (#154) Nikki Costello is an educator with 30 years of teaching and training experience in the Yoga and Wellness industry. She works at the intersection of social justice and Yoga with a focus on facilitating new models of embodied leadership. By Jacob Kyle #Pedagogy #Yoga Rabbi Rami Shapiro on Living the Golden Rule (#153) Rabbi Rami Shapiro PH.D. is an award–winning author of over thirty-six books on religion and spirituality. Rami co-directs the One River Foundation, is a Contributing Editor at Spirituality and Health magazine, and hosts the magazine’s podcast: Spirituality & Health with Rabbi Rami. By Jacob Kyle #Spirituality #Traditions Christi Myers on Ketamine Therapy (#152) Christi Myers is the Founder and CEO of Flow Integrative, a ketamine psychotherapy practice that helps clients deal with mood disorders and substance abuse. By Jacob Kyle #Healing #Interdisciplinary Yoga World Past, Present & Future with Nikki Vilella (#151) Nikki Vilella started teaching at Kula Yoga Project in New York City in 2005 and opened Kula Williamsburg (alongside Schuyler Grant) in 2010. By Jacob Kyle #Practice #Yoga Is Academia a Religion? with Marcy Braverman Goldstein (#150) In this episode of the Tarka Journal Podcast republished on the Chitheads Podcast, Stephanie and Jacob speak to colleague and friend, Marcy Braverman Goldstein about an article she wrote for the Scholar-Practitioner Issue of Tarka, titled “Is Academia (Like) a Religion?” By Jacob Kyle #Practice #Traditions Yoga & Western Esotericism with Anya Foxen (#148) In her research, Anya Foxen focuses on the intersection of South Asian yogic and tantric traditions and Western esotericism and metaphysical spiritualities. By Jacob Kyle #Philosophy #Yoga The Tao of Now with Diane Dreher (#147) Diane Dreher, Ph.D., is a bestselling author, researcher, and positive psychology coach. This conversation focuses on her latest book, The Tao of Inner Peace. By Jacob Kyle #Philosophy #Traditions Gavin Flood on Hindu Monotheism & the 12 Kalis (#146: Radical Theology Series) Gavin Flood is the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and author of the recent books Religion and the Philosophy of Life; Hindu Monotheism; and The Truth Within, a History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. By Jacob Kyle #Philosophy #Traditions Matthew Fox on Creation Spirituality (#145: Radical Theology Series) Theologian and activist, Matthew Fox, is reviving Creation Spirituality which blends teachings from the Christian mystics with science, the arts, social justice, environmentalism, and ideas from other spiritual traditions worldwide. By Jacob Kyle #Spirituality #Traditions TARKA Journal Discover our latest issues or become a monthly subscriber to access all digital and/or print content. 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