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15 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this podcast excerpt, the speaker reflects on contemporary yoga teachings that heavily stress repetitive physical practice. They reference a well‑known quote attributed to Patabhi Joy—"practice, practice, practice"—and note that even B.K.S. Iyengar highlighted how physical yoga helped him recover from tuberculosis. Both figures, however, claim that their methods stem from ancient Indian yogis. The speaker expresses a sense of betrayal, feeling that the narrative of yoga’s ancient lineage and its therapeutic claims have been misleading to practitioners.

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Patabhi Joy will say like, practice, practice, practice. That's like a very famous quote from Patabhi Joy, and he's talking about the physical practice, or practice and all is coming. They put this like really heavy emphasis on the physical practice. And like even Iyengar said that the physical practice of yoga helped him to heal from tuberculosis and being sick. And but they all said that this yoga practice was from the ancient yogis of India. I feel really lied to. I feel like all of us have been lied to.