Blue Beryl
Intelligent conversations about Buddhism, Asian medicine, and embodied spirituality.
Podcasting since 2022 • 27 episodes
Blue Beryl
Latest Episodes
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
BONUS: Awakening the Body, with Willa Baker (Rebroadcast from 2023)
Today I sit down with Willa Blythe Baker, a writer, translator, and teacher of meditation based on Himalayan Buddhist tradition. We talk about Willa’s early discovery of Buddhism with her mother, her time living as a nun, and our shared experie...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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57:45
Nondual Psychosomatic Chinese Medicine, with Brandt Stickley
Today I sit down with Dr. Brandt Stickley, associate professor of classical Chinese medicine at the National University of Natural Medicine. We talk about Brandt’s approach, which he calls “nondual psychosomatic medicine.” We also explore how p...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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49:00