Category: Video
Jonah, Matsyendra, Jivana Heyman, and Northrop Frye: Keynote Address to the Accessible Yoga Conference, Toronto, 2018
With Sam Rudra Schwartz, Mary-Jo Fetterly, Matthew Remski, and Jivana Heyman.
Next Accessible Yoga Conference is in Rheinsberg (close to Berlin), in October, 2018: http://accessibleyoga.org/europe/.
Talking about The Walrus Article on Jois with Colin Hall and Sarah Garden on Bodhi Talks Live

Resources:
- The Walrus: Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories
- Karen Rain’s blog.
- Anneke Lucas’ 2010 disclosure (republished in 2016). This is to my knowledge the first public disclosure.
- Bodhi Tree Yoga, Regina, SK. (Thanks, Colin and Sarah.)
WAWADIA: Injury, Touch, Abuse & Trauma in Modern Yoga
In many yoga spaces, teachers and students share the expectation that adjustments are a standard part of practice. But this aspect of modern yoga is marred by an uncomfortable history. At the dawn of the global movement in 1930s India, adjustments in key learning spaces such as the Mysore Palace merged with the somatics of corporal punishment. They conveyed assumptions about spiritualized pain and surrender, delivered through a pedagogy of unquestioned charisma and presumed consent. In combination, these factors have led to decades of blurred boundaries, sexualized touch, and general intrusion. If you’re a yoga teacher and you want to adjust people, this presentation will help you get square with this history first. It will help you think about how you will protect your students from it, especially in an unregulated industry. It will offer guidelines for moving forward in the creation of safe and student-driven yoga education.
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WAWADIA: Indiegogo Pitch Video
Family Wakes Us Up Interview with Waylon Lewis of Elephant Journal
“Walk the Talk” show on 11/25/13.
Family Wakes Us Up: Letter #2 read by Matthew Remski
“Windows, And What We Leave Behind”. Filmed at 889 Yoga on 11/23/13.
Family Wakes Us Up IGG campaign outtakes!
Sweetness from our campaign producer, Ian MacKenzie.
Family Wakes Us Up IGG campaign
Video from the fundraising campaign my book with Michael Stone on the spirituality of fatherhood.
On the Future of Yoga Festival Toronto
Matthew Remski speaks about the future of Yoga Festival Toronto and the Toronto yoga community. Continue reading “On the Future of Yoga Festival Toronto”
Speaking on Proposed Closing of Riverdale Farm
7/21/2011 Speaking at city hall on the proposed closing of Riverdale Farm, a cultural and ecological oasis.