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The Yoga Uncensored podcast is a series of candid and irreverent conversations between two maverick yoga teachers and their occasional guests. Imagine Patanjali and Arjuna having a beer down at the local pub. Cain Carroll and Mark Tanaka take a critical look at the world of modern yoga, exposing assumptions, trends and biases that too often hinder the transformative potential of yogic practices. What you'll hear is an unrehearsed barrage of insights, tangents, rants, alternatives, and occasi ...
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Is yoga making you hypermobile? Is the physical practice of yoga actually wrecking your body? Is it even good for you? That depends on what you are looking to achieve through the practice of yoga asana. Functional movement. Structural integration. Connective tissue restructuring. Sexy abs. Get ready for some uncensored yoga myth busting.…
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In traditional contexts, the place where we practiced yoga was treated as a sacred space. There was an emphasis on how we conceptualized and treated the spaces we practiced in. There was a reason for this: it transformed the inner experience of the practitioner profoundly. How do we approach the modern yoga studio, the teacher student relationship,…
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Cain and Mark tackle a challenging exploration of how to relate to anger from a yogic perspective.Anger is a powerful and potentially destructive emotion. Many of us don't know what to do with anger. Some of us express it recklessly. Some of us repress it or deny its existence completely. When we approach yoga and meditation from a self-reflective …
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We think yoga needs a software update and a serious reboot. Collectively, we are in desperate need of deeper education and maturity around all things yoga. How can we think differently about the future of yoga? How can we develop a culturally relevant context for the further development of yoga without losing yoga’s rich history or succumbing to th…
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Historically, Yoga has brought peace to the land of the self through making friends with the dictator: our ego.Yet Yoga in the context of modern consumer culture is at risk of feeding and growing some of our destructive ego tendencies. Are we creating better and more improved, rigid and fragile egos through our yoga practice? If we are not careful,…
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WTF is Asana?What the heck is the point of practicing yoga poses? Is the physical practice of yoga just gymnastics with spiritual bling? Does standing on your head make you more enlightened? Does doing the splits make you a happier person? In this episode we discuss the cultural lens through which we come to understand the application of yoga postu…
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“I’m not flexible enough to do yoga.” "I'm not young enough.“I don't feel sexy in yoga pants." “I don’t have six pack abs like those other yoga dudes.” As yoga teachers, we hear these heartbreaking statements from would be yoga students all too often. As sad as it is to admit, yoga has become highly influenced by the impossible ideals of the fashio…
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Karma is a word that is thrown around loosely in spiritual circles, but the topic rarely explored in depth. The concept of karma has a variety of subtle definitions and distinctions, depending on the tradition or vantage point you're approaching it from. The idea of karma goes well beyond just the notion of having "good karma" or "bad karma." Conte…
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Mark and Cain launch into a candid talk about the state of yoga in the modern day.These are the topics we hit:How do most people view yoga? Where is yoga going? Where do we want it to go? How is capitalism influencing yoga? What are we losing in the modernization of yoga? What's the benefit of this western yoga renaissance? What's the impact? As mo…
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