Stefan Camilleri kindly shares his personal story of back pain, and his journey to healing through yoga and becoming a teacher. A chronic pain cycle led him to consider medical interventions such as burning nerves. Given his own father's wheelchair bound condition from failed spinal surgery, he chose another way and pursued the labyrinth of postural yoga as a route to healing. He now demonstrates a wise and responsible voice which guides prospective teachers in the synergy style and with a primary consideration of healthy and safe postural awareness.We touched on the origins of modern postural yoga from the perspective of our shared origins of teaching as "the only male teacher on the timetable".Our host briefly mentioned how appropriation happens in the yoga world. He claimed it as an entitlement as master's of the universe, in that statement was inferred all humans. This led us onto the questioning of Western culture's desire for intense exercise and the conclusions we're able to interpret.The benefits and drawbacks of Yin yoga.We get into Simon Borg-Oliver's evolutionary yoga journey and how this non-mainstream approach is often interpreted as so radical, it's not yet currently widely accepted.Disclaimer: Host Yogastef was asking about pulling the knees into lotus, not as a recommendation but expecting it would be picked up as a hazard in a response which in fact went in another direction. Clarification; Yogastef does not recommend going into lotus unless it can be done without the use of the hands.Stefan Camilleri and Yogastef discuss supplementing the Synergy practice with other exercise forms. And how intense exercise may be the 'Soma of the people', as we try to decrypt that balance between what is wanted and needed from a physical yoga practice.We talked about how we try to utilise NVC (non-violent communication) principles to convey a somewhat upstream effort to share the benefits of Synergy yoga's approach in light of the misconception many people have that yoga practice is a physical act. We learnt from each other in this conversation, such a great exchange. It was a special privilege to hear about the quality of Stefan's trainings which you can discover here https://lankayoga.lk/200hr-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka/

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