Matt Lombardo on Spiritual Bypassing, Cults, and Recent Yoga Scandals (#15) By Jacob Kyle Posted on May 4, 2016 #Ethics#Yoga About the Guest: Matthew Thomas Lombardo is a popular yoga teacher and teacher of teachers in New York City and Brooklyn. Matthew has been teaching yoga and meditation in NYC since 2003. He is a PURE Yoga teacher trainer with weekly classes at both Pure East and West. Matt is also an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, tours Europe regularly and been featured in the NY Times, Harpers, Haute Living, OMstars and Prague and Bali Spirit Festival. Take the podcast with you Subscribe in your favourite app Read more like this #Ethics #Research A Less Obvious Problem: Spirituality As Bypass Existence is bondage to bodily experiences of emotion, excrement, illness, pain, and death. By Serenity Tedesco #Philosophy #Yoga 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 #Ethics #Interdisciplinary Re-Membering Our Relation to the Earth Soil for Ecologically Sound Cities Climate Emergency, Pandemic, Racial Injustice – all point to humanity’s fatal error. Humanity is not the superior species on the Earth nor is any particular human group more superior than others. By Jean Gardner #Psychology #Yoga The Anxious World: A Physiological Exploration of an Embodied Perspective Our primary stress comes from living in shame and fear, often resulting from misidentification with the image/objective world, and often with the past traumas and experiences where we were forced to react to ordinary situations in survival mode. By Chris Walling