As you may be aware, I have been offering monthly workshops wherein I discuss various aspects of yoga philosophy. I started these monthly workshops about two years ago with the main intention of providing a summary of the yoga philosophy and psychology as given by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. Even though that continues to be the main focus, based on suggestions from the participants, I have also presented a summary of the Bhagavad Gita as well as that of Kundalini Tantra in a few of the sessions.
In order to preserve these talks for future reference, especially by the participants, I have been making an audio recording of these discussions and sharing them with the participants. I have now decided to share these audio recordings will all the readers of my blog who are interested in developing an understanding of the underlying concepts of yoga. After doing some online research, I found out that the best way to share audio information is through the medium of podcasts. Further research made me realize that creating podcasts and presenting them to the blog readers involves several steps, some of them not quite straightforward. As a result my "project podcast" kept getting postponed since I could not dedicate the required amount of time to set it all up.
Ironically, the snow/ice storm that hit the Raleigh area in late January of this year came in as a blessing in disguise. Because of the storm, I had to cancel all my yoga classes as well many other commitments that I had. That gave me the time that I was looking for to dig deeper into the "what and how" of podcasting. It took me a few days to set everything up and finally create a blog page for the podcasts as well as a podcast channel on itunes. One of my dear friends, Margaret, who already has a podcast channel, helped me iron out some of the finer details.
Now that I have the podcasting technique streamlined, it is a matter of converting all the audio recordings from the past into podcasts. This involves some basic editing of the audio files so as to remove some unrelated segments that get added during a live discussion. I also like to add a preamble to each talk wherein I briefly describe the specific topics discussed for that session. Then it is a matter of uploading the talk to the server and presenting it on the blog as a podcast post. I have started adding one or two podcasts to the blog every week.
Please visit any of these two links to listen to the podcasts:
Podcast page on my blog
Podcast channel on itunes. You can subscribe to this channel to receive automatic updates when a new podcast is added.
I would love to hear your feedback on these audio recordings. I would appreciate any suggestions or comments that will help me make these monthly sessions as well as these podcasts more useful. I would love to hear from you if you would like me to discuss a specific topic in one of the upcoming sessions.
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