Gregor on Ashtanga Dispatch

Here is my podcast episode on Peg Mulqueen’s Ashtanga Dispatch:

Amongst others we covered the following subjects:

if yoga wants to help heal societal and personal problems, then it must become a vehicle for dismantling hierarchical structures.
any relationship between teacher and student that is trying to convey some of the messages of the higher chakras, must transform the relationship between teacher and student as well. The model of teachers clinging to power and their own supremacy, has marred religion of the past 10,000 years.
yoga must become a vehicle for dismantling power and authority itself.
Cult psychology and sociology
Set dogmas versus being open to learning
Projecting mysterious powers on the teacher as replicating our relationship to our primary carer in early childhood
The importance of touch- i.e. adjustment-based teaching
The healing quality of touch and the beauty of the Ashtanga system
My fear that we will not be allowed to adjust anymore due to legal and insurance reasons and why that would be real loss
Why there is more to the global Ashtanga-movement than the cultic hierarchy at its centre
As teachers our goal should be that our students will outdo us, rather than instilling in them belief in our greatness
Why communities of equals should replace vertical, spiritual power structures