About this series

Yoga is the single largest cultural export India has made. Outside India, it is taught in studios in 195 countries, practised by tens of millions, and substantially reinterpreted by a tradition of Western teachers — some of whom have spent decades learning from Indian masters in Mysore, in Pune, in Rishikesh, in Bihar — and others of whom have not.

The Yoga Conversation is the Diaspora Dreams interview series with the teachers, scholars, and practitioners who carry the tradition forward outside India — Indian-born teachers running studios abroad, second-generation diaspora practitioners, Western teachers in named lineages, and the studio teachers who do the daily work in cities where most of the diaspora lives.

The conversations below are published. New interviews are being approached on the same terms — careful editing, factual review by the subject, and a recurring question we now ask each one: what does the West most misunderstand about yoga, and what does it most often get right?