39. Does a Yogi Need to be Part of a Lineage?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
Theodora Wildcroft [+]
The Open University
Theo Wildcroft, PhD, is a teacher, trainer, writer, and scholar, whose research considers the democratization of yoga post-lineage, and the evolving practice of teaching yoga for community health. She is the author of Post-Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo and co-editor of The Yoga Teacher’s Survival Guide, an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester, and former Project Coordinator for the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies.
Description
If every student has a teacher, or every disciple has a guru, then logically every student is part of a lineage of teachers, at least in theory. In practice, the relationship between student and teacher can be much more complex. The truth of a practitioner’s claims to lineage is less interesting than the uses to which such claims are put.