011. Rama Jyoti Vernon on Uniting the Body for Peace

Nov 6, 2020

Rama Jyoti Vernon is an international yoga teacher, founder of numerous organizations, and the author of two highly influential yoga books. Rama first discovered yoga in the 1950s, when it was still being confused with yogurt in the US, and she later taught yoga to Indira Gandhi’s cabinet ministers in India, brought B.K.S. Iyengar to teach in the US, and was the force behind the founding of Yoga Journal. We discuss her experience going to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and later to the Middle East, to do peace mediation work. Tune in to take a breath and realize that you don't need to become empowered - you already are.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How collective fear can be much greater than what is presently occurring in one’s life
• Real female empowerment
• What we can learn from asana and philosophy in yoga practice
• Spending 8 years in the Soviet Union as a peace activist, even meeting Gorbachev and Putin along the way
• Rama’s two books: Yoga: The Practice of Myth & Sacred Geometry and Yoga Sutras: Gateway to Enlightenment
• B.K.S. Iyengar's Book: Light on Yoga
• The founding of Yoga Journal: https://www.yogajournal.com/

More about Rama:

• Rama's website: https://www.rama.yoga 
• Rama’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_Jyoti_Vernon