EP 07 - Becoming Sane in the Yoga Circus - Q&A - a podcast by Mark Whitwell

In this episode, Rosalind takes the position of the everywoman yoga teacher, interviewing Mark on a lot of the questions and concerns people have as yoga teachers in our modern yoga scene.

Rosalind and Mark discuss:

• The initial habit to put teachers on a pedestal and how we undermine it.
• What is “the Mick Jagger effect”?
• Dealing with embarrassment of being associated with the ‘yoga industrial complex’ and fear of not being able to give people what they have been led to believe yoga is.
• Do people really want their breath? Do they want intimacy? Or just stimulation?
• Toxic positivity and "yoga speak" in the yoga industry
• What is the “yoga teaching voice”?
• What does it mean for a yoga teacher to be ‘vulnerable’?
• Is charging for your yoga classes bad?
• Should you leave your day job to become a full-time yoga teacher?
• Nerves and feeling like a fraud as a teacher and how to deal with such feelings.
• Adjustments: What is going on in adjustment culture and where to go from here.
• Do I have to know all the asanas and amass "expert" knowledge in order to teach yoga?

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