1 hr 3 min
8. An inner lineage with no name, with Angela Farmer The Weeks Well
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- Health & Fitness
Show notes:
In this episode, I sit down for an intimate conversation with the legendary Angela Farmer, known as the creator of the first yoga mat, who has been practicing yoga for 50 years and teaching for nearly as many. During that time, she has learned how to take her yoga journey inward and to listen to the needs of her body to cultivate a practice that she says has no name. Angela and her partner Victor van Kooten were essentially cancelled from the Iyengar Yoga community before we even had a name for "cancel culture." She discusses her experience in Iyengar Yoga, whose focus on alignment has greatly influenced modern yoga, and her journey moving away from it and compares learning deep yoga study to learning the scales of a musical instrument. Although the scales may anchor you in your practice, they are the structure you may eventually move away from as you being to listen to your deepest need to express yourself.
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References:
1. Learn more about Angela Farmer.
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Episode credits:
Original music by Kim's band Governess.
Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.
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For more info on Kim Weeks, visit www.weekswell.com. Subscribe to the Weeks Well newsletter.
Follow us on Instagram (@weeks.well), Facebook (@weeks.well), Twitter (@weeks_well), YouTube (@weekswell), Patreon (Weeks Well), and TikTok (@weekswell).
Copyright © 2022 Weeks Well™.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-weeks-well/support
Show notes:
In this episode, I sit down for an intimate conversation with the legendary Angela Farmer, known as the creator of the first yoga mat, who has been practicing yoga for 50 years and teaching for nearly as many. During that time, she has learned how to take her yoga journey inward and to listen to the needs of her body to cultivate a practice that she says has no name. Angela and her partner Victor van Kooten were essentially cancelled from the Iyengar Yoga community before we even had a name for "cancel culture." She discusses her experience in Iyengar Yoga, whose focus on alignment has greatly influenced modern yoga, and her journey moving away from it and compares learning deep yoga study to learning the scales of a musical instrument. Although the scales may anchor you in your practice, they are the structure you may eventually move away from as you being to listen to your deepest need to express yourself.
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References:
1. Learn more about Angela Farmer.
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Episode credits:
Original music by Kim's band Governess.
Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.
____
For more info on Kim Weeks, visit www.weekswell.com. Subscribe to the Weeks Well newsletter.
Follow us on Instagram (@weeks.well), Facebook (@weeks.well), Twitter (@weeks_well), YouTube (@weekswell), Patreon (Weeks Well), and TikTok (@weekswell).
Copyright © 2022 Weeks Well™.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-weeks-well/support
1 hr 3 min