Great conversations with scholars and practitioners covering a wide range of topics related to yoga, including in Hindu, Buddhist, and Sufi traditions. This is largely about research and has a strong academic leaning. This is not a spiritual podcast, but it is an incredible compliment to add context to spiritual practice.

I have almost entirely positive things to say about this podcast: there is a wealth of inspiring and enthralling information coming from nearly all the interview subjects here, each a strong academic voice from a different access point across the yogas. For me, a yoga practitioner of 20+ years, this series of offerings is especially valuable for its serious academic rigor and depth applied to yogic topics where it’s common to hear a glossier, more faith-based approach, adding wonderful dimension to the journey. It’s also guided by a thoroughly respectful tone which sits right with a devotee like myself. Quality of chosen subjects and their topics is strong across the board. I also find the interviewer a distracting presence for his (rather male-gendered) tendency to bluntly interrupt a subject in the middle of their interesting thought, and it’s doubly distracting to me that it’s *so* much more with female subjects than with the male ones. I noticed it right away and I never fail to find it cringy, clearly the interview subjects do too, and it feels particularly ill-placed on a yogic podcast. The sense is that he’s really excited and just can’t help himself. The interruptions also come attended by “mmm’s” and “uhu’s” which feel like strangulated little suppressions of the urge to burst-in with whatever thought has just arisen irrespective of what is being said at the time, an equally unfortunate unconscious conversational tendency which appears to hound the ladies exponentially more, in a way that seems to warrant further personal examination. I also honor everyone’s unique timeline healing from the ancient toxic masculine element in ours and almost all other cultures and I take no pleasure in any call-out element inherent to the public review process. It was just really prominent and kind of comical and definitely impossible to ignore for me and I suspect I won’t be alone. May all be free from suffering.

Well-conceived and skillfully conducted interviews with leading scholars contributing to the growth of yoga studies as a field of scholarly inquiry. While all who are interested in yoga will likely benefit from listening, non-scholar yoga practitioners may find that the material presented enhances understanding of the historical contexts from which modern yoga emerged.

This is one of the most knowledgable, thorough, indepth, and interesting podcast on this subject. While Iam from India, I know little about much of this history, and this was wonderful. What is amazing about this is the range and variety of speakers, points of view, and approaches....which is hard to come by. Truly multifaceted....and very thoughtful.

I’ve listened to almost all of the episodes now and totally love them. Seth’s questions and comments are illuminating and his choice of subjects inspired. This podcast is helping me catch up on some of the important new research that’s going on now and I hope there are many more episodes to come!

I am really enjoying and learning from this podcast!

Absolutely love these podcasts! Seth brings his passion and scholarship into these interviews delving deeply into yogic topics that even the nerdiest yogi will find compelling.

Seth is an amazing scholar, interviewer, voice of yoga. He brings on the most talented international academic minds of yogic studies. Never before has anyone brought to the forefront the exciting in-depth history, research, and current topics of yoga. Thank you Seth for this wonderful podcast.

Love this podcast, but this particular episode was particularly thoughtful and intriguing. I very much enjoyed Ruth’s tone and cadence. I’m looking forward to her course.

Excellent discussion. It helped me know what to look forward to with YS 109. I’m more eager than ever to delve in.

Love the scholarly nature of this podcast. Very informative. Very nerdy. Absolutely wonderful!

Very much looking forward to listening to future episodes about a subject that I’m passionate about. In a sea of offerings around yoga, Sanskrit and Vedic subjects this podcast appears to offer a focus on depth of study for those of us who identify as life long students. The territory is vast and having a knowledgeable guide is a gift - our host seems up to the challenge. Thanks for a terrific start! The episode featuring A.M. Ruppel, author of The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit was fantastic!

So fascinating, great topics and interviews!! Who knew we know as little as we do about Om? It was really inspiring getting a glimpse into the passion and questions that drive these researchers, and the difficulties and ways of studying current yoga practices in India. Brought such studies off the page and to life, a must-listen!!!

I have never been more excited for a podcast. Seth is connected to some of the most fascinating scholars of Indic religions, asceticism, Sanskrit, classical India and yoga studies. While his own burgeoning scholarship begins emanating its light in this world Seth is a stand for the increasing awareness of the work scholarly heavyweights have already done, are currently engaged in and are thinking about for the future. As interest in yoga continues to grow it is important that we have access to the voices of those steeped in its history, engaged with its traditions as well as yoga’s traditional practitioners. Seth provides direct access to those voices while operating as the space to bridge the depth and detail of yoga’s history with the understandings (often misunderstandings) present in modernity. All explored with humility, approachability and clarity. This is so extremely refreshing in the saturated market of misinformation about yoga.