Welcome to Ashtanga Dispatch: The Podcast Episode 5 and meet Aliya Weise of Ashtanga San Diego and #ThePeoplesAshtangaYoga.

Aliya is one of those impassioned people who speaks from the heart - straight to the heart. In fact, his essay, The Call To Mysore, featured in the first Ashtanga Dispatch Magazine received more tearful notes of gratitude from readers than any other featured article. Students who had felt excluded, disenfranchised, and not worthy - the very ones, I suspect, Aliya had hoped to reach.

In this podcast, he speaks to them again. And to me. From his ardent stand for any/every student's ability to be a practitioner of ashtanga yoga, all the way to a controversial online conversation thread had in a closed FB group about Parampara, the traditional teacher-student transmission of teaching, and … well — me.

Spoiler alert: I cry. And get ready, because you might too. But don't worry, it's the happy kind.