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Ashtanga Tech — 170 episodes
Organizational Leadership in the Wild
Leverage Points in Practice & Organizations
Conflict resolution procedures
Complicated Components
Handling Imperfection
Feedback Loops: Reinforcing vs Balancing
Simplicity
Relationships and Boundaries
Friendliness
Stocks & Flows in Human Systems
Patience
Ashtanga Yoga as a System
Faith
Introduction to Systems Theory
Super-Loop: Kriya Yoga
Prana and the Bathtub: Systems Thinking for the Ashtanga Practitioner
Non-Harm
The System Inside of You
Truth-Trust
Emergent Properties (Insight, Agency, Resilience)
Detachment / Less Outcome Focused
Series as Subsystems: Primary, Intermediate, Advanced
Non-Grasping / Less Wanting
The Systems at Play
25 Interventions You Can Start RIGHT NOW
Action Indicates Priority
25 Cult Warning Signs
Systems Thinking and Time: Start Where You Are
Case Study: FRC
Embodiment and Grounding
What Does a Yoga Executive Do?
The Harsh Inner Critic is a Data Denier
Transparency & Open Books as Trust-Building
What is an Indigenous Insight Practice?
Props & MVPs as Tools of Agency
Patience: Collecting Better Data
Language Shifts: Opt-In Commands and Sufficiency Framing
What is Insight?
The Importance of Explicit Communication in Teaching
Yogic Agency: The Power of Choice in Your Practice
Consent Protocols & Safety Guardrails
Vikalpa: Seeing Beyond the Surface
Assisting as Spiritual Practice
The Philosophy of Asana
Keeping Your Self Company
Executives are Accountable: Your World, Your Problems
Critical Thinking for Cognitive Bias
Naïve vs. Deliberate Practice
Understanding Time Delays in Ashtanga Yoga
What is a Yoga Executive?
Integrating Systems Thinking into Ashtanga Yoga Community Support
Wise Practice
Leadership for Transformative Yoga Communities
Samadhi: The Point of All of It
Integrating Systems Thinking into Ashtanga Yoga Community Support
Dharana: Holding the Mind in Place
What is Decentralized Ashtanga?
Ethics as Practice (Yamas & Niyamas)
Kriya Yoga: The Three-Part Discipline
The Five Ways the Mind Gets in Its Own Way
Deconstructing Toxic System in Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga Education
How the Sutras Are Built
The Antics of Systems
Three Metaphysical Frameworks, One Practice
Agentic Ashtanga is a Self Practice System
Patanjali in Context (Not Timeless, Not Isolated)
From Violence to Vision: The Radical Potential of Ashtanga Yoga to Combat Systemic Oppresion
Where Yoga Actually Came From
Autonomy: Agentic Educational Perspectives
Dharana Philosophy
Kriya Yoga
Kleshas Introduction
My Teaching Journey
Ashtanga Yoga as a Dynamic System
Goals and Emergence
When the Well Runs Dry: Burnout, Imbalance, and the Practice of Awareness
Case Study: Systems Collapse vs Anti-Fragile Growth
Ashtanga Yoga and Patterns Over Time
Understanding Feedback Loops
Navigating Volume in Ashtanga Yoga: Avoiding Overtraining, Seeing Results, and Self-Care
Encouraging Emergence by Leveraging Stocks at Threshold
Understanding Stocks in Systems
Applying Stocks and Flows to Ashtanga Yoga
Enhancing Ashtanga Yoga Through Systems Thinking
Simplicity, Complexity, and Complication
Non-Linear Systems Surprise and Delight
Introduction to Systems
Escaping the House of Many Rooms
The System Always Kicks Back
Cultural Infrastructure: Teacher–Student Relationships and Room Norms
Tristana Method as a Stock-Flow-Loop Structure
Balancing the Full Spectrum: Awe, Wonder, and the Joy of the Journey
Bearing Witness is Tough: Yoga and the Path of Authentic Transformation
What is Secular Humanism?
Systems Thinking and Spiritual Practice
You Exist in Context: Honoring the Systems that Hold Yoga Together
Transforming Vikalpas into Realized Goals
The Philosophy of Pranayama
You Can't Manage What You Don't Measure
What is Praxis?
The Power of Sankalpa
Meditation and Mindfulness Introduction
Striving in Yoga
Dharma and Personal Uniqueness
Dhyana: When Concentration Becomes Flow
Pratyahara: Withdrawing Attention on Purpose
Eight Limbs Without the Mystification
The Gita: Yoga in Action
What Yoga Is For
The Many Yogas: A Working Map
Samadhi
Ashtanga Yoga / Eights Limbs of Yoga Introduction and Overview
The Yoga Sutras Overview and Structure
Flexibility and Stretching Issues and Teaching Techniques
Stretch-Related Reflexes
Physiology of Flexibility &Stretching
Accessory Muscles of Respiration
Respiration Introduction
The Vagus Nerve
Stress and Relaxation Response
Nervous System Overview
Joint Movement and Range of Motion
Connective Tissue and Fascia
Cells and Cellular Biology
Epigenetics and Lifestyle Research
DNA, Genes, Epigenetics
How Yoga Supports Health and Physiology
Musculoskeletal System Introduction
Assume Adaptability and Competence
Why Yoga Works
Organizational Leadership
Apprenticeship & Scaling
Source Transparency
Pregnancy/postpartum protocols
Led Primary
Age-specific modifications
Chanting, Generally
Breath & Nervous System
Accessibility and Equity (Shared Ownership)
Invocation
Finances
Critical Thinking & Bias
Motivational Interviewing
Transparency & Leadership
Toxic Teachers Steal Make Subjectivity Objective
Peer Support & Community
Your Subjective Experience Is Yours
Student Autonomy & Motivation
Succession Strategy
Advanced Practices Access
Objective Assesment
Student Safety (Physical + Psychological)
Apprenticeship
Assesment Paradigms
Social media/digital presence
Safety & Consent
Boundary violations response
Language
Subjectivity and Assisting
Accessibility & Props
Scaling strategy
Mental health crisis protocols
Praise & Feedback
Whose Taste? Yours.
Power Imbalance & Authoritarian Drift
Injury management protocols
Cross-cultural adaptation
Youthful Enthusiasm
Defining Taste for Community
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