Ashish Kothari argues yoga is a complete science covering physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health, not just exercise. Modern studios focus only on the body, missing the spiritual and emotional work that actually addresses stress, anxiety, and loneliness.
The science of yoga is a very ancient science and it is thousands of years old and it's really a holistic science. It has physical, mental, spiritual, emotional. In fact how the physical practice is only 2 if not 3 out of the 180 plus yoga sutras. And yet as we see yoga practice today in studios because of the space, because of what people are showing up for, it's predominantly physical practice and what we are hungering so much in the world now is and we are struggling with is this high degree of stress, anxiety, loneliness, lack of meaning, lack of hope, just the world appearing darker. I mean there is such a need and such a power in really bringing back those elements of the spiritual emotional beyond just physical well being practices that we practice in studios. And that's when you know, we were like oh my God, wouldn't it be amazing because these nine practices as I mentioned show up in yoga all over the place.
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