Allie Middleton is deeply attuned to the future possibilities that might be. She has been meditating and practicing yoga for over 45 years and is the author of Yoga Radicals - a curated set of inspiring stories from 36 pioneers in the field. The book emerged from a conference that brought together a collection of a truly remarkable and diverse set of yoga practitioners from around the world.
As a certified yoga teacher myself, I'm aware of the way in which our culture has reduced yoga to a purely physical set of practices to stretch, build strength, and develop resilience and calm. While that is true, it’s only one tiny aspect of a much deeper, multifaceted prism of possibility that yoga practitioners are committed to.
Allie describes yoga as a way to move from "me consciousness" to "we consciousness," the recognition that all of us are sharing one moment in our one planet's history, and it's possible to embark on a path of social change through personal transformation. The 36 amazing folks that she interviews in her book represent the diverse ways in which we can begin to listen to what's here in our minds and hearts without trying to plan, strategize, fix, or save.
If you feel some sense of that there's more to yoga than getting your stretch on and breaking a good sweat - that in fact there are unbreakable threads that connect all of us in the midst of the many stories that divide us and position us as opponents - you've got to check out Yoga Radicals by Allie. And this conversation is a good starting point.
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