Toby Brooks
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3,186 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Toby Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But as it continued to kind of make its way into more mainstream clinical practice, the thinking was this is better for your health, your long-term, you know, your mobility, your flexibility, it's all gonna be better.
So the thought of you as a college gymnast being better off physically than you were as a yoga practitioner, as a teacher, as as th I mean, was there a stigma associated with like I
I can't be honest because
the ruse will be up and people will know that it's not as healthy as as I've made it out to be.
Like what was that like navigating injury in something that's supposed to be healing?
Yeah.
In athletic training and P T circles, evidence based practice is a thing.
We're always looking for emerging best practices.
But in a discipline like yoga where it's based on thousands of years of of practice, I have to imagine there's tons of resistance to this newcomer coming in and pointing out the obvious.
Like I I love the visual of you, you know, keep your hand up if you're hurting here.
But then
If you're in that person's space, just like you said, like, am I harming my livelihood if if I acknowledge what this person on stage is saying?
Yeah.
I love how you pointed out, I mean, hypermobility and how some people have a maybe a proclivity.
They're they're built to be better at yoga and you've pushed back against this idea of being quote unquote good at yoga.
What do you think our obsession with achievement and advancement and winning, like where does that show up?
in something that isn't supposed to be a competition after all.
There are a couple of magnificent nuggets of wisdom that Alex drops here for us to explore a little bit.
First, I love how she describes what yoga ought to be.
She says it's literally about non grasping.
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