Pay attention to this one! For those out there who claim to be Yoga experts, I’m not. Before I started writing this book, some people had said, “She shouldn’t write that book!” Why? Probably because the thought of me writing a book about Yoga sparked anger in them. Maybe they’ve spent years perfecting their crow pose, or perhaps they studied under a famous Guru. They might have a Yoga business and don’t want others to know that poses aren’t the magical factor. I’m here to say that whatever your stake in the Yoga world is, embrace it. My book is about becoming an expert in how Yoga changed my life; that is what I hope reading my book can help others to do. When I took courses in Shamanism, the teacher said a Shaman would never call themselves a Shaman. At first, I wondered why, but then he said that others who had the benefits of the Shaman’s work could call them Shaman. That makes sense. If you have a favorite Yogi who has helped you somehow, then embrace calling them Yogi. I have a person who has helped me, and I’ll share a story about him.
When it was time to write my PhD Dissertation, I thought I had the perfect plan. I submitted my prospectus, which the program director quickly denied. I wanted to research Yoga as a Women’s Population Health Intervention, but the problem was that there was no Public Health research on Yoga. I had two professors assigned to my dissertation committee, and one of them wrote her dissertation on Exploring Yoga as a Holistic Lifestyle for Sustainable Human and Environmental Health. Other than that, nothing substantiated my project. I searched everywhere, looking for just one public health article on Yoga, and then I found it! Yoga Research and Public Health: Is Research Aligned with The Stakeholders’ Needs? By Avinash R. Patwardhan. I didn’t know who he was, but in my mind’s eye, I saw him doing Yoga research in some remote area of India. I rewrote my prospectus based on his article’s recommendation that more public health research on yoga should be done. My prospectus was approved! When my dissertation was completed and published in November 2019, I got a message from Dr. Patwardhan. He wasn’t far away in India but nearby at George Mason University. Long story short, we met and have since become friends. I call him Yogi.
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