Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon.As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia.Conspirituality Podcast attempts to bring understanding to this landscape. A journalist, a cult researcher, and a philosophical skeptic discuss the stories, cognitive dissonances, and cultic dynamics tearing through the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality worlds. Mainstream outlets have noticed the problem. We crowd-source, research, analyze, and dream answers to it.
https://conspirituality.net/
Brief: Yoga Teacher’s Survival Guide (w/Theo Wildcroft & Harriet McAtee)
Matthew is joined by Theo Wildcroft and Harriet McAtee, co-editors of The Yoga Teacher's Survival Guide: Social Justice, Science, Politics, and Power (Singing Dragon Publications), a volume of essays from 16 yoga world contributors.
Three yoga culture critic nerds get into the weeds of how wellness workers and yoga teachers survive and navigate a post-pandemic world that exists at the crossroads of:
- capitalism and spirituality
- medicine and religion
- modern therapeutics and precolonial philosophy and caregiving
- gigwork and care work
Theo is a yoga scholar. Harriet has been training yoga teachers for seven years in a little school in Oxford, UK.
Show Notes
The Yoga Teacher's Survival Guide | Singing Dragon - US
Theo Wildcroft
Harriet McAtee
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices