Practice and All Is Coming by Remski, Matthew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright DEDICATION AND THANKS Table of Contents READ, REFLECT, PARTICIPATE CONTENT WARNING “I’M NOT EVEN SURE HE KNEW MY NAME” INTRODUCTION

What This Book Will Do A Map (Beginning with Where I’m Coming From) Using the Language of Cultic Studies, Carefully Male Violence in Modern Yoga About the Title Voices That Spoke Out Self-Care While Reading This Book Reclaiming “Victim”: Solidarity and Spirituality

PART ONE: LEARNING TO LISTEN

That Time I Silenced My Friend Recognition and Denial, Outside and Inside Denial and Recognition: Micromoments Pre-empting Denial, Nurturing Recognition

PART TWO: TWO SURVIVOR STORIES

Isolation and the Personal Sphere The Yogi Who Disappeared A Mutual Friend, A Shared Story Personal Pain, Structual Harm

PART THREE: DEVELOPING DISCERNMENT

“No One Joins a Cult” Deception and Its Role in “Bounded Reality” Listening to Mysoreans Yoga Beliefs, Yoga Marketing, Yoga Knowledge The Strange Case of the Yoga Korunta On the Antiquity of “Vinyasa” and the Sequences Is Ashtanga Yoga a Parampara? Teaching That Flows from One Empty Vessel to Another Parampara As “Intimate Bond” Are Adjustments “Traditional”? “Tradition” and “Force” The “Mulabandha Adjustment”—Or Sex That Is Not Sex “Openings” or Rationalizing Injury and Intrusion “Yoga Therapy” The Conundrum of Pain, Therapy, and Transcendence The Deception of Guruji

PART FOUR: DISORGANIZED ATTACHMENTS

Overview Cult Analysis Models: Starting with “Deception, Dependence, Dread of Leaving” Attachment Theory Primer My Experience at Endeavour Academy Familial Projections Disorganized Attachment: Quotes from Ashtanga Materials

PART FIVE: A LONG SHADOW, BRIGHTENING

Bargaining with History and the Present Alleged Assaults, Following a Pattern Alleged Rape in Mysore “I Sat on Guruji’s Lap All the Time” Jois’s Echo in the Culture of Implied Consent: Example from a popular book Adjustments and Sexualization of Practice Bargaining at an Ashtanga Conference Struggling to Listen Listening

PART SIX: BETTER PRACTICES AND SAFER SPACES: CONCLUSION AND WORKBOOK

Towards “Networks of Empowerment” Better Practices: Personal Skills The PRISM Model Safer Spaces: Tools and Strengths in a Post-Lineage World

APPENDIX 1: A TRANSCRIPT APPENDIX 2: INTERVIEWEE STORIES APPENDIX 3: REQUEST TO KPJAYI FOR AN APOLOGY NOTES