Yoganomics® • the blueprint of yoga •

Since the beginning of Yoganomics, I’ve done my best to embrace empathy and understanding for things that I feel are important. Issues such as Africa, yoga education and Human Rights. I have been in the center of social media for yoga and many of my own interests.

In 2009, I was one of the few yogis who successfully advocated for yoga teachers concerning the most important aspect of teaching yoga: Yoga Education. Along with the help of a handful of other non-corporate yoga teachers from NY, TX, WA, LA, and CA, we successfully challenged the way American yoga teachers qualify, quantify and teach yoga — (specifically regarding the credentialing of yoga teachers & Yoga Alliance).

Most, if not all, of the changes people saw in 2013 are directly due to our diligence. Even though the questions we raised are still mostly unanswered in today’s yoga atmosphere — we brought the issues considered to be the most important and valid issues facing yoga today — to the forefront of both the American and the international yoga community.

Personally, I feel yoga teachers are too economically invested in the current system of generality to be specific enough for real growth. Anyone who teaches yoga knows that nothing about yoga forces us to fit inside a commercial definition of homogenized yoga — It is essential that yoga teachers understand that if they specifically choose to hide behind the confines of a topical credentialing process such as Yoga Alliance, they are doing a disservice — not only to their practice, but to other teachers in the yoga industry.

If you are unsure of what that means — it is directed at the current trajectory that yoga is on — where those who claim to be shaping “yoga education,” have actually — in fact — kept yoga stagnate for almost twenty consecutive years.

I want people to look past the veil of hijacking tags, cheap yoga marketing techniques, corporate inauthenticity and see things as they really are, but even I will admit that people are only as conscious as they want to be.

Stay engaged and be authentic… The integrity of yoga is at stake… so be willing to risk — even at your own expense. The larger issue of yoga being a lasting and intelligent autonomous field is more important than any one person’s shelf life.