Whole Life Yoga Podcast

Sep 14 2024 21 ep. 30 mins 2

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Bringing the ancient, timeless, perennial teachings of yoga to vivid life. Unscripted talks on whole life yoga. Considering life through a yogic lens. Exploring the yoga of the whole human being with reference to the classic Sanskṛt texts of the yoga tradition, mythology, poetry, literature and music, and to movement, meditation, kīrtan and the yoga of sound and song, language and communciation. www.jamesboagyoga.com

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On the Bhagavad Gītā - All the cows - sarvo'paniṣado gāvaḥ...

Sep 14 2024 30 mins

This episode considers some of the rich layers of meaning encoded in one of the Sanskṛt verses that is traditionally sung before study of the Bhagavad Gītā:Sarvo’paniṣado gāvaḥ dogdhā gopālanandanaḥ |Partho vatsaḥ sudhīrbhoktāḥ dugdhaṃ gītāmṛtaṃmahat ||All the upanisad-s are like the cows, Kṛṣṇa, joy of the cowherders, is the milker. His dear frie

Love Story: On intuition, fear and learning with William S Whorton

Aug 29 2024 52 mins

In this fifth conversation with William S Whorton, I ask him about his success in avoiding some of the ways human beings sabotage their own lives that he became keenly aware of as a teenager. I also asked Bill about his marriage. When I worked with Bill at Chulalongkorn University, I was aware how many of the students were so moved and inspired by the way he spoke of his beautiful

Heed Your Conscience - Thanking the Teachers 1 - Mrs Eggleston

Jul 28 2024 18 mins

In this first 'thanking the teachers/thoughts on the guru' episode, I give thanks to my third year junior school class teacher, Mrs Eggleston. During my schooling I was fortunate to have some wonderful teachers. I also encountered and survived others whom I would describe with different types of adjective. But I had enough great ones to help me learn at least to some degree how to

On Enchantment & the Transcendent: the only white boy in the 2nd Baptist Church w/ William S Whorton

Jun 21 2024 49 mins

In this fourth conversation with William S Whorton, I ask him about one of the formative experiences of his life that I have had the privilege of reading about, Bill's first encounter with the TRANSCENDENT through the music that came into his life as he walked past the Second Baptist Church one Sunday in his hometown as a teenager. Bill then went on to become the only white member

On initiation and transformation: The Marine Corps and the Bhagavad Gītā with William S Whorton

Jun 05 2024 45 mins

I enjoyed this third conversation with William S Whorton, co-translator with Acharn Tassanee Sinsakul of The Bhagavad Gītā published last year by Uppsala Books: https://uppsalabooks.com/bg on the 65th anniversary of Bill's first day of training in the Marine Corps. It is a privilege to listen to Bill and receive some of the fruits of a lifetime of seeking and practice on the WAY

EVERY DAY... the dawn brings a blessing

May 25 2024 23 mins

Yoga practice is EVERY DAYAs Rabindranath Tagore, translated by William Radice said it:Every day, the dawn Brings a blessingTo whatever is still growingTowards the SunRabindranath Tagore - Sparks/ Sphuliṅga, 31Yoga practice is an every day affair.An all day, every day endeavour.A day and night, summer and winter ever new commitment.As Tagore’s words remind us, ‘every day, the

On Intensity - Tīvra

May 22 2024 23 mins

Sometimes people have the misperception that yoga is about 'chillaxing' or 'going with the flow'. Yoga is about balance. Sometimes of course, taking things easy and going with the flow is the optimal way of being, but if we just go with the flow, it won't be long before we are tipped over a waterfall, lacerated on razor rock or stranded in an oxbow lake...Yoga practice is about get

On mastery and apprenticeship

May 21 2024 21 mins

A fairly freewheeling episode in which I share thoughts on mastery and apprenticeship. In recent weeks I have had the privilege and joy to share in person with several long term colleagues whom I had not seen for some time. More than once this topic came up. It seems in the world today that genuine mastery of a particular art, craft or discipline is perhaps rarer than only a short

Yoga āsana - what's the story?

May 19 2024 26 mins

Āsana literally means 'seat', the seat not just of our physical body, but of our whole psychic reality. Yoga techniques seek to cultivate a seat of awareness that is steady and clear, so we can move through the rich opportunities of life with greater poise, ease and in ways that can help us keep learning along the way. These days, āsana, or yoga posture practice, is one of the wa

Satya ṛta bṛhat - yoga and the mountains - conversation with Clare Nicholls

Mar 26 2024 27 mins

This May 8-12 2024 I will be collaborating with Clare Nicholls on a living the yoga sūtra-s immersive retreat during which we'll explore how we can embody the practical, whole life teachings of yoga. In this conversation, Clare and I share some of our ideas, motivations and experiences of teaching, practising and studying with nature as the guru. This includes a mention of the tea