Blue Beryl
Intelligent conversations about Buddhism, Asian medicine, and embodied spirituality.
Podcasting since 2022 • 29 episodes
Blue Beryl
Latest Episodes
Meta-Practice, with Volker Scheid
PLEASE NOTE: Shortly, we will be changing our name to Black Beryl. Your subscription will automatically update and no action is necessary on your part. Thanks for your continued support! Today I sit down with Volker Scheid, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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50:43
Bonus: Embodiment and Pedagogy, with Frances Garrett (Rebroadcast from 2023)
In this episode I sit down with Frances Garrett, a scholar of Tibetan culture, history, and language. We talk about Frances’s interests in embodiment and movement, and how her experiences as ballet dancer, surfer, and rock climber connect with ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:00:58
Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
Today I sit down with Blue Beryl's producer, Lan A. Li, a historian of Chinese science, medicine, and the body. We talk about their life-long practice of qigong, the limits of academic critique, and the integration of divergent epistemologies i...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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55:21
The Body in Classical Hathayoga, with Ruth Westoby
In this episode I sit down with Ruth Westoby a scholar, teacher, and practitioner of yoga. We discuss Ruth’s work on the body in early hatha yoga texts. We talk about the broad diversity of approaches to the material body in these sources...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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52:09
Yoga, Disability, and Animism, with Theo Wildcroft
Today, I sit down with Theodora Wildcroft, a researcher, anthropologist, and long-time teacher of what she calls “post-lineage yoga.” We discuss Theo's ethnographic research on yoga in the UK, focusing on its connections with animism, paganism,...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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58:13