self, study, reality and how they intermingle with Edward Clark

Edwards is one of the most knowledgeable teacher the west has to offer. If you are at all interested in yoga you should come and hear what he has to say on the subject... if you are a teacher I would say it is your duty to do so. 

when asked what he wanted to focus this day long seminar on his response was-

A common critique in the contemporary yoga academic literature is that “the scene” has become debased by an overemphasis on the physical – an emphasis that is seen to diminish the loftier, spiritual dimensions of practice. There may, indeed, be much that is accurate in such a description. There may, however, be unfair presumptions underlying this conclusion. One such presumption is that the body is not instrumental in spiritual pursuit; it is a cage enmeshing and entangling the soul with the tether of materiality and only…