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Ep. 5 - Unconscious Racism
The Beginner's Mind
09/11/19 • 67 min
What is unconscious racism? White people are often unaware of the racist beliefs that inform their interactions with non-white people. In this episode, host Sarah Dittmore and guest April Harter discuss how these unconscious racist beliefs come to be, how they inform white behavior, and what anti-racism work needs to be done to help white people recognize and heal their unconscious racism. Don't worry - they talk about yoga in there too! How does unconscious racism influence the yoga community? And how can yoga be a tool in anti-racism work? Discover all this and more in this week's episode.
April Harter, LCSW is an anti-racism therapist that helps white people break the rules of anti-racism in order to be authentic in their interracial relationships. Connect with April at aprilharter.com or www.instagram.com/aprilharterlcsw. You can also support her work at www.patreon.com/aprilharter.
Want to connect with Sarah? Reach out to her on Instagram, Facebook. or directly via email at [email protected].
The Beginner's Mind is created in partnership with Shut Up & Yoga.
Check out their new books at www.shutupandyoga.com/books or join the conversation via the new facebook group, Shut Up & Yoga Forum for Modern Yogis.
BONUS! Reactions to Ep. 1 - The Yoga Sutras
The Beginner's Mind
08/02/19 • 29 min
Ep. 1 - The Yoga Sutras with Colin Hall led to a ton of great discussions! In this special bonus episode, Sarah Dittmore reads and reacts to some of the comments, DMs, and emails she received in response to episode one.
Have your own reactions to share? Get in touch with Sarah here:
Email: [email protected]
Ep. 1 - The Yoga Sutras
The Beginner's Mind
07/17/19 • 53 min
Join host, Sarah Dittmore, and guest, Colin Hall, for a discussion on the Yoga Sutras and how they relate to modern yoga. Today we're looking at the history and philosophy of the Yoga Sutras, how this text ended up being a keystone of modern yoga education, and why we think the Sutras have little to do with the practice found in yoga studios today.
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Colin Hall is the director of Bodhi Tree Yoga in Regina, Saskatchewan. Introduced to the study of mysticism in the late nineties, he started teaching yoga classes in 2001 and has been teaching full time ever since. With his background in Religious Studies, Colin studies and teaches a fully integrated approach to yoga that incorporates biomechanics, psychology, philosophy, and storytelling. His classes are hilarious, challenging explorations into the depths of the body and mind. In addition to public classes, teacher trainings, and workshops, Colin lectures at the University of Regina for the departments of Kinesiology, Sociology, and Religious Studies. You can contact Colin through http://www.bodhitreeyoga.com of follow him on his Instagram account, @colinyogin.
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Interested in learning more about the Yoga Sutras? Check out Sarah's article about the topic on Shut Up & Yoga.
Introduction to The Beginner's Mind
The Beginner's Mind
04/23/19 • 14 min
Welcome to The Beginner's Mind, hosted by Sarah Dittmore. Together, we will explore, question, judge, and contemplate all things yoga-ish. Discover what this podcast is all about and what to expect from episodes to come.
Ep. 11 - Ethical Studio Management
The Beginner's Mind
11/13/19 • 48 min
This week, Sarah talks with Bend and Bloom founder, Amy Quinn Suplina. In light of the unionization movement, these two women explore what it means to run an ethical yoga studio and how studios in New York City might be impacted by the move to unionize.
Amy Quinn Suplina
Amy has been teaching yoga since 2002 and founded Bend + Bloom in 2008. She teaches a breath-based, contemplative Vinyasa that challenges us to find space in our bodies so that we can find room in our lives to live well and more fully. She completed her first yoga teacher training with Kimberly Wilson, Simon Park, and Darren Main at Tranquil Space in Washington, DC in 2002 and with Cyndi Lee of Om Yoga in 2005.
Her early days of teaching were balanced by her career in social justice and human rights organizing. Amy believes contemplative practices, like yoga and meditation, are essential components to transform our habits so we can build and embody new skills to manifest what we care about in our lives and the world.
Amy is trained in teaching Trauma Sensitive Yoga by the Trauma Center of Boston and completed the two-year Embodied Anatomy and Physiology course at the Breathing Project with Amy Matthews. She is also a certified Physioyoga Global practitioner. Amy integrates explorations of anatomy and physiology into her class by designing purposeful sequences that weave asana, pranayama, bandha work, and focused inquiry. She is a mentor with the amazing Africa Yoga Project based in Nairobi.
You can connect with Amy on Instagram or find Bend and Bloom on Instagram and at https://www.bendandbloom.com/.
You can connect with Sarah today at:
instagram.com/tbmpodcastfacebook.com/thebeginnersmindpodcast
[email protected]
Thank you to Plum Deluxe for sponsoring this episode. Visit https://www.plumdeluxe.com/ today to order delicious loose leaf teas or join their Loose Leaf Tea of the Month Club for just $10/month! Use the code "TBM10" at check out to save 10% on all purchases.
The Beginner's Mind is created in partnership with Shut Up & Yoga. Check out their books at www.shutupandyoga.com/books or join the conversation via the new Facebook group, Shut Up & Yoga Forum for Modern Yogis.
Tea Time Talk 1 - Cults & Capitalism
The Beginner's Mind
09/02/19 • 28 min
Welcome to the new Tea Time Talks, our casual, mini-episodes about all things yoga-ish. Today. Sarah and special guest Emily Taggart talk about a local cult-like yoga studio and discuss how yoga cults are a result of late-stage capitalism.
You can connect with Emily at https://www.instagram.com/bewellyogini/
Share your own yoga stories today! Reach out to Sarah via any of the following links:
www.instagram.com/tbmpodcastwww.facebook.com/thebeginnersmindpodcast
[email protected]
Ep. 9 - Yoga And...
The Beginner's Mind
10/16/19 • 57 min
This week, Sarah discusses "Yoga And" culture with Tejal Patel and Jesal Parikh. In this episode, the women explore what yoga and is and why it is problematic. Tejal and Jesal share their three-pronged approach to assessing a new type of yoga. 1. Is it safe? 2. Is it mindful? 3. Is it appropriating another culture?
Tejal and Jesal are hosts of the popular podcast, Yoga is Dead, a revolutionary podcast that explores power, privilege, fair pay, harassment, race, cultural appropriation and capitalism in the yoga and wellness worlds. You can connect with them on Instagram or Facebook or email them directly at [email protected]. You can support Tejal and Jesal by joining their Patreon community or supporting them on Venmo at @yogaisdeadpodcast.
Want to connect with Sarah? Reach out to her on Instagram, Facebook, or directly via email at [email protected].
Thank you to Plum Deluxe for sponsoring this episode. Visit https://www.plumdeluxe.com/ today to order delicious loose leaf teas or join their Loose Leaf Tea of the Month Club for just $10/month! Use the code "TBM10" at check out to save 10% on all purchases.
The Beginner's Mind is created in partnership with Shut Up & Yoga. Check out their books at www.shutupandyoga.com/books or join the conversation via the new Facebook group, Shut Up & Yoga Forum for Modern Yogis.
Ep. 6 - Should Yoga Teachers Unionize?
The Beginner's Mind
09/18/19 • 55 min
YogaWorks teachers and teacher trainers have come together to form the first-ever yoga union. In this episode, Sarah interviews Markella, Jodie, and Laurel; three of the New York City YogaWorks teachers; about why they are unionizing and what forming a union would mean for yoga teachers and the yoga industry as a whole. To find out more about the unionization efforts, visit them on Facebook or Instagram. You can also learn more about yoga teacher unionization and find resources at Shut Up & Yoga.
Want to connect with Sarah? Reach out to her on Instagram, Facebook. or directly via email at [email protected].
The Beginner's Mind is created in partnership with Shut Up & Yoga. Check out their new books at www.shutupandyoga.com/books or join the conversation via the new facebook group, Shut Up & Yoga Forum for Modern Yogis.
Laurel Beversdorf, YACEP, E-RYT 500, is an international yoga educator, the creator of Yoga with Resistance Bands classes and trainings and Body of Knowledge anatomy and biomechanics workshops, and a Yoga Tune Up® and Roll Model® trainer. Laurel regularly presents trainings and workshops at locations like Kripalu, YogaWorks, and studios around the world. Her classes blend strength training, rehabilitation practices, myofascial release, and yoga. Laurel has written for Yoga Journal, Shut Up & Yoga, and the Tune Up Fitness blog. A Wisconsin native, she lives in NYC with her husband, baby girl, and two cats. You can connect with her at laurelbeversdorf.com.
Jodie Rufty is a Senior Trainer and East Coast Director of Trainer Development for YogaWorks in NYC. She has been teaching Yoga since 1995 and is registered to teach through Yoga Alliance at the EYT 500 hour level and has been certified to teach both by Alan Finger in the ISHTA lineage as well as Alison West of Yoga Union and YogaWorks. Jodie co-founded Amrita Yoga Center NYC in September of 2002 and helped launch Nava Yoga Center in Zagreb Croatia in June 2004. She is also the author of “The Art of Yoga Sequencing” published in 2008. Jodie has continued her education with many teachers including Rodney Yee, Genny Kapuler, Desikachar, and Ana Forrest, completing several Training Intensives in 1998, 2000 & 2003. Jodie now resides in NYC where she continues to study, practice and teach Yoga at YogaWorks as well as privately. You can connect with her at jodieruftyyoga.com.
Markella Los started practicing yoga in 2008. After years of faster-paced sports and martial arts, she thought she would find yoga slow and boring. Obviously, she was wrong. In 2015, she completed her first teacher training through YogaWorks under the mentorship of Chrissy Carter and has been teaching full time since. After almost ten years practicing yoga, and only yoga, she developed pain in her hips. More yoga and passive stretching didn't help. Instead, she had to completely rethink her practice, and therefore her teaching, to give her body more strength and stability. This led Markella on a path of discovery, advanced education in anatomy, kinesiology, and biomechanics, and further training. Now she helps people move and feel better while doing the practice they love and in their daily lives. Her teaching style is grounded, light-hearted, and rooted in resilience and exploration. You can connect with her at markellalos.com or on Instagram.
Ep 13 - Yoga & Body Image
The Beginner's Mind
12/18/19 • 67 min
This week, Sarah talks with Melanie Klein about Yoga and Body Image. Melanie C. Klein, M.A., is a sought-after empowerment coach, thought leader and influencer in the areas of body confidence, authentic empowerment, and visibility. With over 20 years experience and notable credits including advising the Santa Monica College Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, working closely with Global Girl Media and running the LA chapter of Women, Action and the Media; she has dedicated her passion, knowledge and coaching skillset to the empowerment of innumerable women through increasing confidence, self-esteem and worth.
She is also a successful and highly acclaimed writer, speaker, and professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies. Her areas of interest and specialty include media literacy education, body image, and the intersectional analysis of systems of power and privilege.
She is the co-editor of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery + Loving Your Body (Llewellyn, 2014) with Anna Guest-Jelley, a contributor in 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics and Practice (Horton & Harvey, 2012), is featured in Conversations with Modern Yogis (Shroff, 2014), a featured writer in Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Mindful Living (Llewellyn, 2016), co-editor of Yoga, the Body and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis with Dr. Beth Berila and Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), Yoga Rising: 30 Empowering Stories from Yoga Renegades for Every Body (Llewellyn, 2018) and the co-editor of the new forthcoming anthology, Embodied Resilience through Yoga (Llwelleyn, 2020). She co-founded the Yoga and Body Image Coalition in 2014 and lives in Santa Monica, CA.
Connect with her:
Melanie: http://www.melaniecklein.com/ or @melmelklein
Yoga and Body Image Coalition:http://ybicoalition.com/ or @ybicoalition
Find her books:
http://www.yogaandbodyimage.org/
http://www.yogarisingbook.com/
You can connect with Sarah at:
instagram.com/tbmpodcastfacebook.com/thebeginnersmindpodcast
[email protected]
Thank you to Plum Deluxe for sponsoring this episode. Visit https://www.plumdeluxe.com/ today to order delicious loose leaf teas or join their Loose Leaf Tea of the Month Club for just $10/month! Use the code "TBM10" at check out to save 10% on all purchases.
The Beginner's Mind is created in partnership with Shut Up & Yoga. Check out their books at www.shutupandyoga.com/books or join the conversation via the new Facebook group, Shut Up & Yoga Forum for Modern Yogis.
Tea Time Talk 2 - Unions for Yogis?
The Beginner's Mind
09/16/19 • 21 min
What's all this talk about unionizing yoga? In preparation for this week's episode about the YogaWorks teachers' unionization effort, Sarah wanted to get an understanding of what yoga teacher working conditions really look like and why someone would want to unionize. In this episode, Sarah talks to Effie Morgenstern, Boston based yoga teacher and participant in the class-action lawsuit against CorePower yoga, shares a bit about her experience and why she thinks unionization might be a smart move for yoga teachers.
You can listen to all our episodes and read transcriptions of the full-length episodes at www.shutupandyoga.com/podcast.
Want to learn more about the unionization movement?
Follow @unionize_yoga on Instagram or learn more about their work at linktr.ee/unionizeyoga.
You can connect with Effie at www.instagram.com/efffervescent
Share your own yoga stories today! Reach out to Sarah via any of the following links:
instagram.com/tbmpodcastfacebook.com/thebeginnersmindpodcast
[email protected]
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