59 min
Conversations about life, yoga, philosophy between Dora and Cam - episode 1 Spira Power Yoga's Podcast
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- Alternative Health
Dora is the owner of Spira Power Yoga; she teaches mindfulness, resilience, and burnout prevention classes and yoga teacher trainings. Cam is a yoga student at Spira Yoga who is seeking a new journey at midlife.We sat down and recorded a few casual conversations about life, yoga, philosophy, and books.This recording is our first conversation. Enjoy!Below you will the timeline: - Gratitude 1.35 Orientation to place in life 2.15 Involuntary nature of interest 2.55 What about this studio drew my attention 3.30 description of something "missing" 4.12 Autopoietic 6.30 the persistent draw of yoga practice 7.50 Hard to put a finger on it 8.27 difference between yoga and manipulative bodywork 10.15 sacred nature/all in one place at one time 10.15 Operation of imagination 11.55 Loving attention 12.39 Maya - illusion 15.15 Teacher 15.70 What is real (figure it out?) 16.45 Assertion: growth only happens under adversity 17.30 Love and grief 18.15 lila, dukkha 18.41 Figuring it out 18.45 Trickster 18.73 Deadly serious game (nobody gets out alive not even Jesus Christ) 20.15 Everyone is a teacher 20.22 Definition of adult: taking responsibility for one's actions in an honest manner (that's teaching 20.55 Useful pattern of behavior (not necessary to figure it out) 21.62 Joy of sharing motivates teaching 21.74 Not cling the o outcome 22.12 Attempt to manipulate blocks flow of information 22.71 Not feeding the beast limits a certain growth (maybe good future conversation 24.70 "Beast " of capitalist culture/ teaching as opposed to "following" 25.02 Teacher shows way (not one you "follow ") from the book Desikachar - The Heart of Yoga 25.62 Sticky nature of popularity 26.02 Quality of exchange with students after closing "robust" studio. 27.12 Fundamental motivation to act 28.02 Sense of wonder 29.72 Paradox of the world 30.92 The journey is the point 32.02 we mentioned author Jonathan Haidt , The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind 32.02 Book mentioned; Fourth Turning 35.42 Relationship between the state of physiology and familiarity with the 36.07 Culture and nature (epigenetic brothers; error to separate) 37.47 Put a pin in nature/nurture dialog 39.16 What is truly necessary ("real need") 40.12 Living necessity/need for order 41.40 Attempt to come back to topic of Fourth Turning and the hopeful message that we are at the end of a speculum (a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population). 43.32 Proposition: we carry history in our bodies (attribute nose comment to Sadhguru) 43.32 What do we (mid-life and elder) need to let go of, and what are the essential elements of history that the youngsters are ignorant of? Need to "hold space for something greater." 44.47 timeline of yogic teaching 46.32 The nature of how we create love and foster relationship does not change; we (as a species) sometimes forget how; that(continued)
Dora is the owner of Spira Power Yoga; she teaches mindfulness, resilience, and burnout prevention classes and yoga teacher trainings. Cam is a yoga student at Spira Yoga who is seeking a new journey at midlife.We sat down and recorded a few casual conversations about life, yoga, philosophy, and books.This recording is our first conversation. Enjoy!Below you will the timeline: - Gratitude 1.35 Orientation to place in life 2.15 Involuntary nature of interest 2.55 What about this studio drew my attention 3.30 description of something "missing" 4.12 Autopoietic 6.30 the persistent draw of yoga practice 7.50 Hard to put a finger on it 8.27 difference between yoga and manipulative bodywork 10.15 sacred nature/all in one place at one time 10.15 Operation of imagination 11.55 Loving attention 12.39 Maya - illusion 15.15 Teacher 15.70 What is real (figure it out?) 16.45 Assertion: growth only happens under adversity 17.30 Love and grief 18.15 lila, dukkha 18.41 Figuring it out 18.45 Trickster 18.73 Deadly serious game (nobody gets out alive not even Jesus Christ) 20.15 Everyone is a teacher 20.22 Definition of adult: taking responsibility for one's actions in an honest manner (that's teaching 20.55 Useful pattern of behavior (not necessary to figure it out) 21.62 Joy of sharing motivates teaching 21.74 Not cling the o outcome 22.12 Attempt to manipulate blocks flow of information 22.71 Not feeding the beast limits a certain growth (maybe good future conversation 24.70 "Beast " of capitalist culture/ teaching as opposed to "following" 25.02 Teacher shows way (not one you "follow ") from the book Desikachar - The Heart of Yoga 25.62 Sticky nature of popularity 26.02 Quality of exchange with students after closing "robust" studio. 27.12 Fundamental motivation to act 28.02 Sense of wonder 29.72 Paradox of the world 30.92 The journey is the point 32.02 we mentioned author Jonathan Haidt , The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind 32.02 Book mentioned; Fourth Turning 35.42 Relationship between the state of physiology and familiarity with the 36.07 Culture and nature (epigenetic brothers; error to separate) 37.47 Put a pin in nature/nurture dialog 39.16 What is truly necessary ("real need") 40.12 Living necessity/need for order 41.40 Attempt to come back to topic of Fourth Turning and the hopeful message that we are at the end of a speculum (a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population). 43.32 Proposition: we carry history in our bodies (attribute nose comment to Sadhguru) 43.32 What do we (mid-life and elder) need to let go of, and what are the essential elements of history that the youngsters are ignorant of? Need to "hold space for something greater." 44.47 timeline of yogic teaching 46.32 The nature of how we create love and foster relationship does not change; we (as a species) sometimes forget how; that(continued)
59 min