#143 Zoë Slatoff - The Practice of Sanskrit

 Zoë Slatoff - The Practice of Sanskrit 
(www.ashtangayogasanskrit.com | @yogasankrit )


Introduction to yoga | One month of led Intermediate with
Pattabhi Jois in NY | Qutting school for Mysore at 21 years old |
Falling in love with Sanskrit | Interest in he texts | Integrated
study with practice | Giving up neuroscience | Inspiration |
Sanskrit for yoga students book | Sanskrit classes online | The
stilling of thoughts | Deeper understanding of Sanskrit


Online classes:


https://ochsonline.org/learning-pathways-sanskrit/


Zoe’s Book


https://www.amazon.com/Yogavataranam-Translation-Integrating-Traditional-University/dp/086547754X/


About Zoe Slatoff-Ponte


Zoë teaches Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy in the Yoga Studies M.A.
program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, as well as
online courses for the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. She has a
PhD in Religion and Philosophy from Lancaster University and an
MA in Asian Languages and Culture from Columbia University.


 Zoë is the author of Yogāvatāraṇam, a Sanskrit textbook for
yoga students, which uses extracts from classical yoga texts to
integrate traditional and academic methods of learning the
language. Zoë is also the Sanskrit editor for Pushpam, and has
done Sanskrit editing for Nāmarūpa and Robert Svoboda's book
Vāstu.


Zoë also taught for many years at her yoga shala in NYC, Ashtanga
Yoga Upper West Side. She discovered yoga at the age of 15 and
has been devoted to a daily practice ever since. She first
traveled to Mysore in 2000 to study with Pattabhi Jois and
Sharath and has returned almost annually. She is honored to have
received Guruji's blessing to teach in 2002, and level 2
Authorization in 2009.


Her PhD centers around a translation of the Aparokṣānubhūti, an
Advaita Vedānta text attributed to Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, which is
particularly relevant to yoga practitioners. It explains how we
get caught up in illusions about our bodies and the world and how
we could instead use practice to help us discover and be more
connected to our essential nature.