49. Does a Yoga Teacher Need to be an Advanced Practitioner?
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.
Barbora Sojková [+]
University of Oxford
Barbora Sojková holds a DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sanskrit) from the
University of Oxford where her research focused on human-animal relationships in Vedic
Sanskrit literature. She works as an academic librarian at the All Souls College, Oxford, and as a Sanskrit cataloguer at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. She is a certified yoga teacher and trainer focusing on history and philosophy of yoga.
Description
The eventual aim of contemporary practice is much more likely to be longevity within rather than liberation from the body. But the more implicit assumption that is also continuous between premodern, modern and contemporary forms of yoga is less recognised. This is that mastery of the practice signifies the authority to teach others.