Practice And All Is Coming

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Embodied Wisdom Publishing

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491_9780473472078

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How do we co-create safer yoga and spiritual communities?Through dogged investigative work, careful listening to survivor storiesof assault and abuse, and close analysis of the cultic mechanisms at playin the sphere of Pattabhi Jois’s Ashtanga community, Matthew Remski’sPractice and All Is Coming offers a sober view into a collective and intergenerationaltrauma.It also offers a clear pathway forward into enhanced critical thinking,student empowerment, self-and-other care, and community resilience.Concluding with practical tools for a world rocked by abuse revelations,Practice and All Is Coming opens a window on the possibility of healing—and even re-enchantment.While Mathew Remski is the courageous, insightful, and compassionate author of this informative, challenging, and thought-provoking book, this book is clearly a group effort. Equal parts theory, training manual, expose, and memoir, Practice and All is Coming ... is a foray into the difficult topics of personal agency, spirituality authority, and cult dynamics. In addition to his clearly articulated understanding of the problems inherent in many spiritual schools, Mathew provides hope for healing the confusion and anguish that arise in the heart of sincere practitioners when they are betrayed by the revered powers in which they have placed their trust. If you practice or teach yoga, please consider this book an essential companion on your path.Christina Sell, author of Yoga From the Inside Out, My Body is a Temple, and A Deeper Yoga.This text is a formidable contribution and necessary, painstaking collaboration that took incredible courage and fortitude to bring to light. It plays a critical role in allowing yoga to move forward in our generation and the next, to reframe what it means to practice yoga, and how. It encourages our yoga community to begin to move out of the darkness of its history of sexual assault, self-harm, and guru as god worship, and i

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