Yoga and Religion with Troy Hadeed

There are many ideas about whether or not yoga is a religion and I love having conversations that explore all sides of the topic. In this episode, Troy Hadeed joins to to share his experience as a religious person who practices yoga and how he...

Show Notes

There are many ideas about whether or not yoga is a religion and I love having conversations that explore all sides of the topic.

In this episode, Troy Hadeed joins to to share his experience as a religious person who practices yoga and how he sees the relationship between them both.

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Troy is a yoga teacher, author, and social entrepreneur who has taught yoga internationally for over 15 years, and has founded several successful businesses, including a hemp store, a waste oil recycling business and a yoga studio.

He has walked coast-to-coast across central America, navigated the world on a ship, spent prolonged periods in silence and darkness, and is continuously seeking to make sense of the human experience.

Topics:

-How yoga found Troy

-He talks about his unlikely yoga mentor

-What does practicing yoga really mean?

-The embodiment of yoga from a religious standpoint

-The difference between being told of God and knowing God

-Why divinity isn’t religion

-Redefining what God means to a person

-Understanding wrongs done in the name of religion

-How yoga is spiritual but not religious

-Why deepening his relationship to breath felt like praying

-The relationship between yoga and religions like Hinduism