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Category Archives: Yoga
Decoding Jews Who Embrace 3HO
ChatGPT says: Jews who embrace 3HO are not casual spiritual shoppers. They are engaging in a high-risk alliance substitution, often without fully realizing it at the outset. 3HO, founded by Yogi Bhajan, is not thin spirituality. It is a full-stack … Continue reading
Decoding Yogi Bhajan
ChatGPT says: Harbhajan Singh Puri’s rise in the United States was less about yoga technique and more about becoming a coalition broker between seekers, institutions, and cultural elites. In the late 1960s and early 1970s there was a broad Western … Continue reading
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Decoding Alexander Technique
Why isn’t the Alexander Technique more popular? ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory gives you a clear, unsentimental answer. It is not that the Alexander Technique doesn’t work. It is that it does not solve the status and alliance needs that drive … Continue reading
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Decoding Yoga
ChatGPT says: People don’t love yoga because it is safe or even especially effective. They love it because it performs social, moral, and status functions that modern alliances desperately need. Here’s the decoding. First. Yoga is danger that flatters rather … Continue reading
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Guru Jagat and the Breath of Fire (12-5-21)
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White Women, Yoga Pants, And Race
From the Chateau: On my travels to the four corners of the globe, I’ve noticed something very telling about the casual fashion choices White women make within different contexts. Yoga pants, as most of you know, have been staples of … Continue reading
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Be Careful With Your Yoga
Chaim Amalek writes: “Yoga is about flexibility, which you need if you are forever ruled by others and need to adapt to your latest conqueror as were the Indians who invented it (Aryans, Muslims, British, etc.). It is not for … Continue reading
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The Hot Sikh
So I was talking to this hot Sikh at yoga and as I became comfortable, I returned to my normal cutting self, and she told me to watch it or I’d lose “my conversation privileges.” How low have I fallen … Continue reading
David Deida – Sexual Therapy, Sexual Yoga, & Spiritual Practice
David Deida is one of my favorite thinkers. He seems to carry a lot of tension in his shoulders. David: “You can be entirely dysfunctional therapeutically, psychologically and emotionally, you can be a wreck and still be a master yogi.” … Continue reading
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What’s The Training Difference Between An Alexander Teacher And A Yoga Teacher?
A typical yoga teacher has taken a course of about 200 hours, often done in 12-hour stretches on weekends. An Alexander Technique teacher trains for three hours a day, five days a week, 36 weeks a year, for three years … Continue reading
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