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Ruth White - "Teachers, Freinds, and the Sweet Use of Adversity"

Ruth White - "Teachers, Freinds, and the Sweet Use of Adversity"

Update: 2025-07-21
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Ruth White, author of Presence: The Truth of Yoga, talks with J about egos, teaching methods, and meeting the needs of students. They discuss BKS Iyengar's penchant for "waking you up," friendships between teachers and students, masters becoming famous and making money, Vanda Sacaraveli, Dona Holloman, merits of teaching Savasana, succession of lineage, attitudes towards pain, constitutional strength, restorative classes, standardization and individual expression, tendencies towards leaping ahead, and slowing down to come together.

 

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Ruth White - "Teachers, Freinds, and the Sweet Use of Adversity"

Ruth White - "Teachers, Freinds, and the Sweet Use of Adversity"

J. Brown, Ruth White