User:Phonis/Sandbox

1. What is Yoga 2.0?
Based on the concept of Web 2.0, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0, which identified the transformation of the web from a static, one-way medium to an interactive platform of user-generated content, Yoga 2.0 is a handle to help collect and understand the similar changes that have been taking place in the world of yoga. It is a means to correlate the ideas arising from the radical exploration of yoga philosophy, practice, and culture that have been simmering for the last four years in studios, gyms, cafes, blogs, ashrams, discussions boards, salons, and dreams.

It's best expressed through a series of dichotomies:


 * yoga 1.0 is internal work; yoga 2.0 is relational work
 * yoga 1.0 is a thing; yoga 2.0 is a process
 * yoga 1.0 is vertical; yoga 2.0 is horizontal
 * yoga 1.0 is identity; yoga 2.0 is utility
 * yoga 1.0 is dogmatic; yoga 2.0 is developmental
 * yoga 1.0 is apocalyptic; yoga 2.0 is evolutionary
 * yoga 1.0 is read-only; yoga 2.0 is wiki
 * yoga 1.0 says "I think, therefore I am"; yoga 2.0 says "We are, therefore we create"

2. Who/where/when was the name coined?
Scott Petrie and Matthew Remski are the parents of the term and currently facilitate the presentation and embodiment of the 2.0 gestalt at the first Yoga 2.0 class/seminar/discussion/workshop at RYA in Toronto, Ontario, http://www.renaissanceyoga.ca/AYPP.html. Feedback and participation is essential to the class -- it's so 1.0 for teachers to sit at the front and pontificate!

They first presented the Yoga 2.0 concept publicly at the Yoga Festival of Toronto in 2010 and published the first booklet/mala on the subject about the same time.

3. Resources
http://yoga2point0.com/wordpress/