{"podcast":{"title":"Deepen Your Yoga Practice","slug":"deepen-your-yoga-practice-7000189","podcast_index_feed_id":7000189,"rss_url":"https://feeds.castos.com/0pxmg","website_url":"https://deepen-your-practice.castos.com","image_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/66ba3e93ca38b7-69875388/images/podcast/covers/c1a-1vg11-kpdoo2d0bpr9-bpbzmh.png","author":"Lauren Leduc","episode_count":96,"summary":"Deepen Your Yoga Practice is a podcast dedicated to helping you explore the many layers of yoga, both on and off the mat. Hosted by Lauren Leduc, founder of True Love Yoga, each episode delves into topics like anatomy, philosophy, meditation, and the deeper spiritual aspects of yoga. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or just beginning your yoga journey, this podcast offers insightful conversations, expert interviews, and practical guidance to help you enrich and elevate your practice. Join us as we journey together to deepen our understanding and experience of yoga.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T00:19:03.638646+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deepen-your-yoga-practice-7000189"},"episode":{"title":"Is Modern Yoga “Real” Yoga?","slug":"is-modern-yoga-real-yoga","published_at":"2026-02-23T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deepen-your-yoga-practice-7000189/is-modern-yoga-real-yoga","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deepen-your-yoga-practice-7000189","url":"https://deepen-your-practice.castos.com/episodes/is-modern-yoga-real-yoga","audio_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/66ba3e93ca38b7-69875388/2349538/c1e-x0pddi1rjr3s4w9w3-mkg9nw96t78q-ihvm6a.mp3","summary":"In this solo episode of Deepen Your Yoga Practice, Lauren Leduc explores five of the most commonly repeated myths about yoga history—and offers a clearer, more honest perspective in their place. Drawing inspiration from Doug Keller’s Yoga History course, Lauren dives into the real roots of yoga, from Vedic texts and Śramaṇa traditions to modern postural yoga. She explains how yoga evolved over centuries as a diverse family of practices—not a single, unchanging system—and how understanding its historical complexity deepens our personal and teaching practices. If you’ve ever wondered where yoga really comes from, or questioned how modern vinyasa fits into an ancient lineage, this episode will challenge, inspire, and expand your view. Sources Mark Singleton, Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice (OUP). James Mallinson & Mark Singleton, Roots of Yoga (primary sourcebook). Geoffrey Samuel, The Origins of Yoga and Tantra (Cambridge).","meta_description":"In this solo episode of Deepen Your Yoga Practice, Lauren Leduc explores five of the most commonly repeated myths about yoga history—and offers a clearer,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":889,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/deepen-your-yoga-practice-7000189/episodes/is-modern-yoga-real-yoga/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deepen-your-yoga-practice-7000189/is-modern-yoga-real-yoga.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}