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Michael Joel Hall
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Keep the practice. Lose the guru. Michael Joel Hall on Ashtanga yoga without the authoritarianism — consent on the mat, systems over dogma, and how to practice for yourself. Each season is one course: Ashtanga Without a Guru, Practice for Yourself, The Mind-Body Organism, Culture and Context, Foundations of Praxis, and Executive Systems.

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  1. Episode 1

    Tristana Method as a Stock-Flow-Loop Structure

    Lose your gaze, and your breath follows it out the door. Then the posture goes too. In this practice, things don't fail one at a time.

  2. Episode 2

    Series as Subsystems: Primary, Intermediate, Advanced

    A posture was never a test you pass or fail. It's a reading. The pose is just the thermometer.

  3. Episode 3

    Cultural Infrastructure: Teacher–Student Relationships and Room Norms

    A student forcing through pain is usually not a broken body. It's a broken room.

  4. Episode 4

    Emergent Properties (Insight, Agency, Resilience)

    I once went looking for enlightenment inside Marichyasana D. I figured if I could just bind the arms tightly enough, something would crack open. Wrong pose. Wrong address entirely.

  5. Episode 5

    The System Always Kicks Back

    You're not broken. The system is doing exactly what systems do. Those are two very different problems, and we spend our lives confusing them.

  6. Episode 6

    The System Inside of You

    The bureaucracy isn't only out there in the world. It moved into your body years ago, and it's running your hamstrings.

  7. Episode 7

    Escaping the House of Many Rooms

    You can't escape systems. You can only learn to dance with them. Everything else is just a more exhausting way of losing.

  8. Episode 8

    Prana and the Bathtub: Systems Thinking for the Ashtanga Practitioner

    Your energy is not a battery you charge overnight. It's water in a bathtub. Filling and draining at the same time, every minute you're alive.

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Keep the practice. Lose the guru. Michael Joel Hall on Ashtanga yoga without the authoritarianism — consent on the mat, systems over dogma, and how to practice for yourself. Each season is one course: Ashtanga Without a Guru, Practice for Yourself, The Mind-Body Organism, Culture and Context, Foundations of Praxis, and Executive Systems.

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  • Creator
    Michael Joel Hall
  • Episodes
    170
  • Seasons
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Michael Joel Hall
  • Show Website
    Ashtanga Tech