Aug 24, 2026 · 1 hr · 10 segments
J gives himself space to air out some of the burning questions he has been pointing to of late. He discusses the in's and outs of wisdom teeth removal, complimentary alternative medicine, claims and…
See, and that's what, that's what s- made the bigger questions start to come in, you see.
When you start a podcast, and you're on Apple Podcasts, which is sort of like, has a monopoly on distribution of podcast RSS feeds, you have to choose, like, a category of what your content is.
So this podcast is listed under Health and Fitness, but then there's subcategories that you choose from underneath Health and Fitness.
And this podcast is categorized as Alternative Health because I wanted to signify that the show was about contemplative aspects.
Like, it wasn't just, like, me doing classes or, like, you know, talking about fitness.
So for a long time, I've identified as someone who is doing yoga practice that operates in kind of this alternative space where we're not just looking at symptoms, right? We're looking at the whole person, the kosha model.
Like, nowadays, it's like a lot of the people in the yoga therapy world, the way they talk about yoga or yoga therapy being, like, looking at the whole person and approaching it different than just, like, a Western medicine view, to me, that's just yoga.
You know, that's the viewpoint that I've learned in terms of relating to my body and health and helping other people do that.
And the fact is, when it came down to it with my own kid, there's no way I can win the argument.
Like, us alternative health yoga teachers over here We're not gonna win an argument if like the medical f- professionals are saying this.
Like yoga was sold to the masses as this alternative, like sometimes all-encompassing way to address your health.
I just recently saw this, this video of Bikram in his heyday, like being interviewed, and he was saying like, "Yoga is gonna awaken all of your muscles and all of your bones, and every cell in your body is going to be awakened." And like he was sort of selling it in his way, like his grand way, you know.
And yes, he's an extreme example, but even all of the other yoga masters that brought yoga here and that were so esteemed and now so many have fallen from grace, they all made incredible claims about yoga.
Not just about what it could do for your physical health, but what it provided as possibility for like spiritual awakening and enlightenment.
And we made all kinds of justifications for selling yoga in ways just to get people in the door, right? As long as it gets people in the door, then they have the potential to get to these like really important, deeper things about yoga that we're hoping to bring into the world.
Because underlying is this belief that yoga has transformative power, and if we can get more people to practice yoga, we can shape the world, we can shape the way society is.
That was a driving force behind people like marketing themselves into what we now call like the yoga industry, you know.
This is an ancient, sacred wisdom source." Again, like an alternative to, you know, the limitations of a Western mindset or Western medicine.
See, and that's what, that's what s- made the bigger questions start to come in, you see.
When you start a podcast, and you're on Apple Podcasts, which is sort of like, has a monopoly on distribution of podcast RSS feeds, you have to choose, like, a category of what your content is.
So this podcast is listed under Health and Fitness, but then there's subcategories that you choose from underneath Health and Fitness.
And this podcast is categorized as Alternative Health because I wanted to signify that the show was about contemplative aspects.
Like, it wasn't just, like, me doing classes or, like, you know, talking about fitness.
So for a long time, I've identified as someone who is doing yoga practice that operates in kind of this alternative space where we're not just looking at symptoms, right? We're looking at the whole person, the kosha model.
Like, nowadays, it's like a lot of the people in the yoga therapy world, the way they talk about yoga or yoga therapy being, like, looking at the whole person and approaching it different than just, like, a Western medicine view, to me, that's just yoga.
You know, that's the viewpoint that I've learned in terms of relating to my body and health and helping other people do that.
And the fact is, when it came down to it with my own kid, there's no way I can win the argument.
Like, us alternative health yoga teachers over here We're not gonna win an argument if like the medical f- professionals are saying this.
Like yoga was sold to the masses as this alternative, like sometimes all-encompassing way to address your health.
I just recently saw this, this video of Bikram in his heyday, like being interviewed, and he was saying like, "Yoga is gonna awaken all of your muscles and all of your bones, and every cell in your body is going to be awakened." And like he was sort of selling it in his way, like his grand way, you know.
And yes, he's an extreme example, but even all of the other yoga masters that brought yoga here and that were so esteemed and now so many have fallen from grace, they all made incredible claims about yoga.
Not just about what it could do for your physical health, but what it provided as possibility for like spiritual awakening and enlightenment.
And we made all kinds of justifications for selling yoga in ways just to get people in the door, right? As long as it gets people in the door, then they have the potential to get to these like really important, deeper things about yoga that we're hoping to bring into the world.
Because underlying is this belief that yoga has transformative power, and if we can get more people to practice yoga, we can shape the world, we can shape the way society is.
That was a driving force behind people like marketing themselves into what we now call like the yoga industry, you know.
This is an ancient, sacred wisdom source." Again, like an alternative to, you know, the limitations of a Western mindset or Western medicine.
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