19. Theodora Wildcroft | Post-Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo

In this episode Dr. Theodora Wildcroft discusses her new book,
Post-Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo (2020). We explore the
historical shifts that have been reshaping yoga in the west: from
the ways schools of yoga have been forced to pivot after the
deaths or public denouncements of their charismatic
founder-gurus, to the need of modern practitioners to seek out
eclectic sources in their education beyond a single voice of
authority, and how both recent historical research and social
movements have undermined old systems of power in the yoga world,
leaving us to wonder if we are indeed in a "post-lineage" era of
yoga?

Speaker Bio
Theodora Wildcroft is a teacher, trainer, writer and
scholar, and the author of the new book Post-Lineage Yoga: From
Guru to #MeToo (Equinox 2020). Her research considers the
democratization of yoga post-lineage, and the many different ways
yoga communities are responding to concerns about safety in
practice. She is at the forefront of the movement for trauma
sensitivity, diversity and inclusion.

In 2019, she completed her PhD with the Open University in
Religious Studies, with the thesis title: Patterns of authority
and practice relationships in ‘post-lineage yoga.’ An
accomplished writer with two decades of experience in group
facilitation, she not only delivers compelling lectures and
inspiring writing, but holds careful and thoughtful spaces for
groups and individuals to deepen their knowledge, share
experiences and acquire new skills. 

Links 


http://postlineage.yoga

https://www.wildyoga.co.uk