166: Do We Want AI in Yoga? with Lizzie Lasater
In this episode of The Mentor Sessions, I’m joined by Lizzie Lasseter for a wide-ranging conversation about teaching yoga in a rapidly evolving world. Lizzie is a designer, educator, and second-generation yoga teacher with over 20 years of experience. As the daughter of Judith Hanson Lasseter, Lizzie grew up immersed in the Iyengar lineage, while also carving out her own path as a teacher, business owner, and working parent of six-year-old twins.
Together, we explore lineage, embodiment, and the increasingly complex role AI is playing in the yoga world.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
how Lizzie’s work is intentionally structured around the rhythms of family life and nervous system regulation
the realities of parenting young children while teaching yoga
our discussion of hypermobility, joint stability, and the ways dogmatic alignment language can contribute to pain rather than healing
all about Lizzie’s use of AI in her business including how AI supports her writing process and assists with course notes and student learning
a discussion of what gets lost when editing is outsourced, the difference between processing ideas and producing content and the risk of generic, “flattened” language
some concerns about the future of AI and yoga
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