Articles – Page 52 – Matthew Remski

January 18, 2014

Update: What Are We Actually Doing in Asana?

Somehow, it seems, we would all like to be undone. But then here come the orthopedic surgeons, who are all telling us that long-term health sometimes requires tightening up. The problem is that I’m not sure that we know what we want.

January 6, 2014

What Are We Actually Doing in Asana? (introducing the WAWADIA project)

The postural influence of Hatha yoga, once used for a kind of physical self-destruction to release an immortal, post-human self, remains embedded within a contemporary movement practice that promises opposite goals. Very few of us – at least consciously, and there’s the rub – pursue modern postural yoga in order to break ourselves down. The essence of the therapeutic drive is recuperative and tonic. But do we really know that asana meets this need, given its history?

January 1, 2014

How I Teach Yoga Philosophy

The most repeated question for me, applied to every yoga-claim about the origin of the world or consciousness or the nature of the internal self-sense, is “How is this idea useful?”

December 29, 2013

How I Teach Ayurveda

First of all, I don’t really teach. I used to think I was teaching, back at the dawn of my nine-year span of leading this course. […]