Highlights

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2:19 Alice tells us about her background growing up in Melbourne
3:05 Did Alice always know that she wanted to write?
6:51 How yoga works on the teacher as well as the students?
7:07 How Alice discovered yoga in Williamstown
8:50 Alice thinks about teacher training
9:55 What spurred Alice into making the ultimate white girl life change (becoming a yoga teacher)?
10:12 Starting a career in television.
12:23 Alice describes the teacher training course she chose and the mix of teachers from different lineages
14:08 How yoga helps us navigate the storms of life!
16:45 The parallels between doing a 12 step program and yoga teacher training.
20:13 How did Alice reconcile being an atheist with the concept of a higher power?
21:50 Alice’s story about seeing the divine in everything.
23:13 “What a cosmic antidote to a sex predator”
25:27 Did Alice have any dilemmas on what to leave in her memoir and what to change?
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33:37 Did writing Bad Yogi feel like a continuation of Alice’s teacher training and recovery?
34:48 “Writing is a spiritual practice for me - I feel really wanky saying that”
35:07 “Teach from the scars not the wounds”
38:17 Was there a particular moment that inspired Alice to write the book?
39:33 Perfection and perfectionism - the shadow side of the yoga community.
43:42 Alice speaks about her experiences at an ashram and the abuse that she discovered there in her later research
45:51 The true meaning of “Bad Yogi”
48:51 How do we navigate group mentality when it arises?
52:20 Is the humour a way of masking vulnerability?
54:57 Has Alice’s opinion of the yoga world changed since writing Bad Yogi?
1:00:00 Alice’s one core lesson for the world
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