Podcast appearances and mentions of david keil

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David Keil, President of Franworth, joins the podcast today and he has flipped the traditional sense of franchise industry giveback on its head. Having extensive experience in the franchise space, previously serving as CEO for Haagen-Dazs Shoppes, HoneyBaked Ham, Pure Barre and The Lash Lounge, Keil has recently embarked on his newest mission – Franchise For Good.  In 2020, Keil founded Franchise For Good, the nonprofit division of Franworth, with the vision of helping nonprofit companies scale and expand their impact by leveraging the franchising model. He has discovered that the best way franchising can give back is by using its own scaling best practices to help nonprofits grow. Fast forward to now, Franchise For Good is making incredible strides, growing its nonprofit partnership roster to four remarkable organizations looking to scale for social good. With over 3,700 franchise systems throughout the United States, the franchise model has proven operating system tools and playbooks in areas such as strategy, finance, operations and more that have assisted in scaling businesses in every market. By leveraging this model, along with Franworth's 450 years of combined experience, nonprofits can strategically scale and continue to impact millions of lives.   Key Takeaways: [1:45] - Amidst Covid, David founded a non-profit called Franchise For Good. [3:30] - David was inspired by the short-lived program run by Ben and Jerry's. He realized he could apply the franchise model to the not for profit space. [5:37] - In franchising, we need certain things in place to be successful. Franchise For Good helps non-profits put these things in place. [6:50] - David explains how the Chapter Affiliate Model works for a non-profit. [9:01] - This model benefits everyone involved. [10:20] - Learning to scale has saved many businesses. [11:36] - While some non-profits have figured this out, David realized there was no one providing the help they need to scale and created Franchise For Good. [13:13] - Franworth partners with founders and helps them accelerate their growth. [14:26] - What are the elements that Franworth helps founders put in place? [16:14] - Passion is important, but the knowledge behind scaling is crucial. [17:53] - Franworth began with mentorship in mind. [19:30] - Founders need to know their limitations and go in with operational support. [21:19] - David describes ways they use technology and software to scale. [22:43] - David believes in transparent data. [24:21] - Franchise For Good is a startup and is already seeing success in the non-profits being helped. [26:32] - There is a process to determine if Franchise For Good is the right fit for a non-profit and the community.   Mentioned in This Episode: Franchise For Good

David Keil was introduced to yoga in 1989 by his Tai Chi Chuan teacher. Both the Tai Chi and Yoga practice at the ripe age of 17 began his research into his own mind-body connections. His search continued through massage therapy where he discovered many insights and affirmations of what he had been exploring and finding on his own through his practices. One of the most important elements was the specific understanding of the musculoskeletal system and how fascinating, beautiful, and amazing the body is on the scientific level and how that directly played into and off of his own understanding of the human body. He was given names and explanations for some of the things he had been experiencing and feeling.As an instructor of Kinesiology (the study of movement and musculoskeletal anatomy) at Miami's Educating Hands School of Massage from 1999-2003, David developed a fun, informal and informative style of teaching. By repeatedly teaching incoming students who had no prior understanding of anatomy, David was confronted with the problem of making such a complex and beautiful system accessible and understandable to the average person.David's WebsiteTom Myers Anatomy TrainsDavid's Schedule includes UK datesStillpoint Yoga London This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbyhoffmann.substack.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abby-hoffmann44/message

Ryan Blake chats sport yoga with Helena Shirley.Links mentioned in this episode:Vitality health & fitness website | https://www.vitalityhealth-fitness.co.uk Helena's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/vitalityhealthfitnessSarah Ramsden website | https://www.sportsyoga.co.uk GB triathlon | https://www.britishtriathlon.org Anatomy of movement by Blandine Calis-Germain Keeping your joints young by Sarah KeyFunctional anatomy of yoga by David Keil

David Keil was introduced to yoga in 1989 by his Tai Chi Chuan teacher. From 1999 to 2003 David was an instructor of Kinesiology (the study of movement and musculoskeletal anatomy) at Miami’s Educating Hands School of Massage where he developed a fun, informal and informative style of teaching. As he taught incoming students with no prior understanding of anatomy, David was confronted with the problem of making such a complex and beautiful system accessible and understandable to the average person. In 1999 he was introduced to Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. It was in 2001 whilst presenting his anatomy workshops for the first time overseas in Penzance, UK that he first met John Scott. Two weeks practicing with John was transformational and he realized that he had found his teacher. This began a relationship of both teacher/student as well as a collaborative colleague relationship that continues today. John advised David to go to Mysore, India the following year, which he did. David arrived in Mysore in 2002 where he studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in the “old” shala. In fact, it was the last year that the old shala was used for practice. David was authorized in 2004 and returned yearly for extended visits to Mysore with his wife Gretchen Suarez. They are both Authorized Level 2

Join David Keil for a fascinating conversation about Yoga and Anatomy. In this episode we discuss anatomy in relation to the Ashtanga Yoga practice. David Keil was introduced to yoga in 1989 by his Tai Chi Chuan teacher. Both the Tai Chi and Yoga practice at the ripe age of 17 began his research into his own mind-body connections. His search continued through massage therapy where he discovered many insights and affirmations of what he had been exploring and finding on his own through his practices. As an instructor of Kinesiology (the study of movement and musculoskeletal anatomy) at Miami’s Educating Hands School of Massage from 1999-2003, David developed a fun, informal and informative style of teaching. David was introduced to Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in 1999. But it was in 2001 that he met John Scott in Penzance, UK, presenting his anatomy workshops for the first time overseas. It was also John who told David to go to Mysore, India the following year, which he did. David arrived in Mysore in 2002 where he studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in the “old” shala. In fact, it was the last year that the old shala was used for practice. David was authorized in 2004 and returned yearly for extended visits to Mysore with his wife Gretchen Suarez. They are both Authorized Level 2 and grateful for their time in Mysore, meeting Patabhi Jois and studying with R. Sharath, his grandson, over the years.All of David Keil's offerings are here - https://www.yoganatomy.com/yoga-anatomy-courses/His book, Functional Anatomy of Yoga is here- https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Anatomy-Yoga-Practitioners-Teachers/dp/1905367465/For those that want to learn their muscles visit - https://3dmusclelab.com/

#017: Greg Nardi Scott talks to close friend and colleague Greg Nardi on his life as an Ashtanga yoga practitioner and teacher.  --- In this podcast we talk about the sexual abuse commited by Pattabhi Jois on a number of his students over the years. While this conversation centers Greg's experience, it is not meant to detract from the victim's experience. We acknowledge the sexual abuses and other abuses of power that have happened in the Ashtanga community and the ways in which community members can be trained not to see the abuses that happen in plain sight. This denial serves to hide the abuse and creates a culture that is unsafe for victims. It is our hope that this conversation will help those who are also in a process of reckoning with their relationship to yoga practice and community.  Below are links to the victims testimony and others of relevant interest: Karen Rain’s #metoo testimony Jubliee Cooke’s #metoo testimony Anneke Lucas’s testimony  Silenced Voices - A panel discussion involving Karen Rain, Jubilee Cooke and others on sexual abuse in the yoga community.  --- Greg Nardi believes in the healing power of yoga for all. His style of teaching empowers students to discover the approach to the practice that is most beneficial for them. He has been practicing yoga since 1996, and is a 500 hr E-RYT with Yoga Alliance. He is currently director of Ashtanga Yoga Worldwide where he teaches workshops in yoga practice and theory internationally, and is co-director of Grassroots Yoga where he teaches in his home of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His work draws on his knowledge of the oral traditions of yoga, having studied Sanskrit chanting and yoga philosophy in Mysore, India. He also travelled to KPJAYI thirteen times, the first trip was in 1999. He was later authorised by Pattabhi Jois to teach Ashtanga yoga. He has studied extensively with teachers in North America and Europe, and he draws on his personal experience of practice, as well as his ongoing self-study of academic research in contemporary and traditional yoga. Greg resigned his authorization from KPJAYI in 2018. He now works with his colleagues at Amāyu yoga, developing an organization and learning pathway for Ashtanga teachers to help create safer spaces for yoga practitioners. Amāyu’s work is consent driven, practitioner centered, and based in practitioner empowerment. You can find out more about Greg’s teaching schedule here _____________ Empowerment through Ashtanga Yoga - Greg Nardi Scott and Greg have a deeply open and honest conversation on the evolution of yoga in Greg’s life. They have been close friends since 2013 and share in a moving conversation how the devotional aspect of yoga became a central part of Greg’s life and how Greg has shifted direction since he left KPJAYI. In this intimate conversation Greg shares: How he was drawn to the spiritual aspect of yoga from the very beginning. How he explored different yoga traditions, such as Jivamukti, before settling on Ashtanga yoga. The pull he felt to travel to Mysore, the home of Ashtanga yoga. His early misconception that ‘gurus’ have godlike aspects, and how until recently this formed a big part of his life and belief system. The immediate connection he felt when he first met K Pattabhi Jois. The romanticised image he had of Mysore during his first few trips there. How he witnessed K Pattabhi Jois’ abusive treatment of women, and his growing disillusionment with his teacher. The problems with his initial response to Karen Rain’s 2017 #metoo statement, and how he’s learned and evolved since then. How he had to let go of his conception of K Pattabhi Jois as his ‘guru’, and how as a response he changed his whole teaching process, rejecting the authoritarian model of the Ashtanga yoga teaching method. How the challenges of the last few years have shown him what yoga really means to him, and that things falling apart have helped him to feel more connected to himself. His belief that creating connection and personal agency for practitioners is key for developing Ashtanga yoga.   ‘This is such a rich conversation. It shows how one can use their personal agency in their own practice to see that the light can grow from there, not anywhere else. Greg is one of the most considerate and compassionate teachers I’ve met and I’m so proud to call him a friend. We’ve had many conversations over the years and I’m so pleased that his wisdom, intelligence and insights are now available. He has really found a way to navigate himself into a new way of being after the huge disappointment he felt from his teachers behaviour.’  Scott Johnson - August 2020    If you enjoyed this podcast then you might also enjoy Scott’s conversations with Ian Cheney, David Keil, and Mark Robberds.  

Scott interviews David Keil, a long term SYL friend and collabarator, about his life and evolution into becoming one of Stillpoint's most loved visiting teachers and a highly sought after yoga anatomy educator. David Keil is a yoga teacher, yoga anatomy educator and entrepreneur who is changing the way we integrate with and learn yoga anatomy. He has written a yoga anatomy book, called Functional Anatomy of Yoga, created a set of highly successful yoga anatomy online courses, he facilitated a yoga research project assessing the yoga asana practice on physical health and injuryand has also just launched a groundbreaking new anatomy learning tool called 3D Muscle Lab. David lives in Miami and travels globally teaching yoga and anatomy. You can find more about David's work here _____________ Owning Your Practice Scott gets under the skin of David Keil, looking deeply into David's journey from starting yoga at 15 through to becoming, what Scott calls him, one of the most skilled Ashtanga yoga teachers and yoga educators teaching today. David has taught at Stillpoint Yoga London since 2010 and in this conversation shares his journey through yoga practice and teaching in a beautifully open and honest way David's skill has always been to be able to help find people's agency in their yoga practice. This podcast get's behind why that is, how David ultimately sees practice and why we love him here at Stillpoint. The conversation covers: how David got in to contemplative practice through self hypnosis/meditation. how David used these techniques to change his school grades. how David got into yoga through practicing Tai Chi. how David began Ashtanga yoga how David started his yoga anatomy workshops how David met John Scott. how David moved to studying in Mysore how David looks at his own practice. how David's practice has been a contemplative process what David wants to get people to understand through teaching anatomy how David helps people to take responsibility for their own yoga practice _____________ Show notes Teachers Mentioned John Scott, Ryan Spielman, Lucy Crawford, Joey Miles  

As an anatomy teacher and neuromuscular therapist - David has spent most of his career working with people in pain and helping them find a way out. And as the person who literally wrote the book on Yoga Anatomy, it makes sense that yoga students in particular - often with an injury or other physical issues - look to David for answers. At the same time, answers are something David seldom gives. Instead, he’d rather hand the power back to students - encouraging them to do their own exploring and experimentation: 1. Figure out what position makes it feel better relative to what body position makes it feel worse. So you know. 2. Give yourself permission to change the way you’re practicing so you can get closer to that position where it doesn’t hurt. Until you understand more, figure out more. 3. Once things calm down, start exploring even further and widdling things down Look for David's 3-D animated kinesiology course for anyone who wants to learn their muscles, functional movement, and how the asanas fit together. Visit https://3dmusclelab.com Ashtanga Dispatch is all about creating and supporting community - and this podcast would not be possible without the help of good friends like you who share our mission. Please visit ashtangadispatch.com/donate to learn ways you can help and contribute. The Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast is edited, produced, and hosted by Peg Mulqueen along with Meghan Powell. Music by Marc Pilley.

How do some companies create loyalty between themselves and their employees while others watch talented staff and executives click through a turnstile? According to the guys who founded LinkedIn, the secret to corporate loyalty lies in creating a tour of duty framework. I recently interviewed David Keil (pronounced Kyle), founder and chief executive of QASymphony. We talked about how he's applying the tour of duty concept at his company. David discovered tour of duty on a flight to Vietnam when he opened the book The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by LinkedIn founders Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh. Technology companies are particularly vulnerable to high turnover, so when Hoffman and Yeh started LinkedIn, they decided their new company would be the outlier. That's why they created a tour of duty.

For the next hour, be a fly on the wall as David Keil and I cover the gamut of topics including how we both have changed in the ways we practice and how we look at practice. David calls himself lazy, and me, hippy-dippy. But his laziness is actually efficiency and my more laid back approach these days is simply inviting more ease. In other words, we’re growing and changing. Towards the end of our talk, David and I did touch upon a pretty serious subject: yoga and injuries. In fact, David is right now working on some cutting-edge research into the long-term effects of yoga. With over 2400 participants, David hopes this project will help bring about more meaningful inquiry, both statistically and experientially. You can follow this ongoing project - and if still available - participate yourself, by visiting www.yoganatomy.com/survey Also as a reminder, if you liked this podcast please consider supporting it at www.patreon.com/ashtangadispatch - where, for the price of a cup of coffee, you can help us make the show better and better, while getting access to some cool stuff in the process. We are really committed to keeping this podcast ad-free and also want to ensure it remains sustainable and gets better with time! So if you are inclined, please visit the link above and help support this show. This episode of the Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast was edited and produced by Chris Lucas and hosted by me, Peg Mulqueen.

September 13, 2016 - Founder w a Boss David Keil & Sun Killer Sarah Ellis

If you’re only familiar with David Keil through his Yoga Anatomy website … or through his Anatomy workshops and DVDs … or even his recently released book, Functional Anatomy of Yoga … then I’d say, you have only even barely scratched the surface. For example, did you know it was David who first lured me into a daily Mysore practice — or tricked me, depending on whose telling the story? It was also David who got me through intermediate series with my sanity still intact. (Though this also is debatable, depending on the story-teller!) How about this? David Keil was also the one who convinced me to begin a seated meditation practice and even introducing me to his meditation teacher, the same one I now call mine.

If I could study anatomy for yoga it would be with David Keil.  To put things in context, he attended a workshop with John Scott, as a student back in the early 2000s, and was chosen to return to Scott's workshops as a teacher of anatomy,  for all subsequent teacher trainings, which he continues to do today, year after year.  David Keil has a gift, he can make anatomy interesting and specific to yoga.    Anyone who has watched his DVDs knows that he keeps the boring stuff to a minimun, and gets to what is really important from the point of view of the poses. He also has some very unconventional ways to motivate you, he'll say something like: "What? You have been practicing this posture for 8 years and nothing? Don't you think it might be time to change your approach? And he is right.  Maybe it is time to change approach in things that are not working for us.  Anatomy helps, enormously. After reading David's most recent book my practice was completely transformed.  I would step on the mat and have constant realizations, I'd go: "Oh... THAT is how you do triangle pose"!  or "Ahhh, THAT is what he means".   And just like that, I kid not, by reading a book, on anatomy, practice became like a playground again. Unbelievable as it was, listen to him and you'll get the reason.  The guy is full of energy and passion for deepening the practice right off the bat, from the beginning, from the asana. What We Covered on the Yoga Podcast Episode 1:        I have a ‘bone' to pick with David        What are common misalignments that he sees as he teaches all over the      world        David's revolutionary idea, backed by Patanjali, that asana has the power to transform people physically mentally and emotionally, and why?        His Million Dollar tip on how to ease wrist pain – He gives it for free        Why is it better for women to stay away from pointed tight toed high hells?        David's notes on back pain        Anatomical tips we can use        And finally, David shares what is his favorite yoga book, which he keeps re-reading again and again, and the author is Pattabhi Jois        David's special way of teaching workshops to only 5 people at the time        The ONE thing that took him a long time to understand Books / Authors that David Recommends: Healing Back Pain: The Mind Body Connection By John Sarno Mind Over Back Pain by John Sarno  7 Setps to A Pain Free Life: How To Rapidly Relieve Back and Neck Pain by Robin McKenzie 7 Steps to A Pain Free Life: How To Rapidly Relieve Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain by Robin McKenzie Yoga Mala by Sri K Pattabhi Jois Books and DVDs by David Keil: Functional Anatomy of Yoga: It's cheaper at David's site here, otherwise you can get it in Amazon. My review of the book is here Hands On Adjustments DVD  I wrote a review about this DVD which you can read here Yoga Anatomy DVD Volumes I and II  I also have a review of these here   About David: website  Twitter Workshops Facebook Online Courses

David Keil is an Ashtanga practitioner who has traveled the world teaching his YogAnatomy Workshop to teachers and students. He is a direct student of Shri K. Pattabhi Jois. In this episode we discuss the wonder of the human body and David’s relationship with his teachers. For more information about David go to www.yoganatomy.com The post LG003 – Anatomy of a Yoganatomist appeared first on Ashtanga Yoga with Ryan Spielman.