Yoga101: The Great Ones

About This Class

In this brief but thought-provoking talk, Bryan Kest draws on the shared wisdom of history's most revered figures — Jesus, Buddha, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King — to argue that developing benevolent qualities of the mind is the most essential act for personal and collective wellbeing. He connects modern medicine's understanding of stress-related disease to the ancient insight that inner mental states drive outer conditions. Kest challenges students to shift away from complaint and negativity, which only generate more stress, and instead turn toward meditation as the primary tool for transforming both individual health and the state of humanity. There are no physical postures in this session; it is purely a philosophical and motivational lecture.