54 min
Outside The Studio: Using Yoga to Recover from Illness and Discover Your Purpose with Pamela Seelig Outside The Studio with Tessa Tovar
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- Alternative Health
On episode 44 of Outside The Studio:
Using Yoga to Recover from Illness and Discover Your Purpose with Pamela Seelig
Summary
Yogi Pamela Seelig joins Tessa to discuss her journey from Wall Street to yoga. They explore what it is like to experience yoga’s mystical effects for the first time, the ultimate objective of yoga, transformative sutras and what they teach us about being human, and ideas about how you can incorporate a daily yoga practice in your life.
Pamela Seelig is the author of Threads of Yoga: Themes, Reflections, and Meditations To Weave Into Your Practice. In 1991, an illness took Pamela away from Wall Street and towards yoga. She practises yoga to soothe her illness. Tune in to discover why yoga had a lasting impact on her life so much so that she decided to completely shift her career.
Timestamps
(00:00) Who is Pamela Seelig?
(01:46) Why she moved from a Wall Street career to a career in yoga.
(03:14) Experiencing seeing lights for the first time. OR Experiencing the mystical side of yoga for the first time.
(10:35) What is wrong with the commercialization of yoga (what is yoga beyond movement?) OR What lots of people and companies get WRONG about yoga.
(17:00) Navigating the different interpretations of the sutras and adapting them for modern life.
(22:07) The most profound sutra of 196 sutras.
(29:28) The myth of the end of suffering. OR Do enlightened people still suffer?
(34:37) “What is all the fuss about yoga?” (and why Pamela wrote her book).
(41:40) What is Pamela working on now?
(45:08) 3-week meditation course to teach you how to meditate.
(46:12) Learning about yoga before the yoga information influx.
(47:50) You are not a prisoner of your mind.
5 Key Takeaways
1. We experience the world with our 5 senses, but there is much more to our being than that. The physical part of our experience is just the tip of the iceberg.
2. Ultimately, yoga is for quieting the mind. The purpose of quieting your mind is to discover yourself and seek your purpose.
3. It is hard to misinterpret many of the sutras when it comes to the core ideas. It gets fuzzier when you go deeper, but the overall principles are pretty clear. The sutras are like a guidebook for what it means to be human.
4. One of the most transformative yoga sutras is one that teaches you that you are not your thoughts. Our thoughts are not necessarily true. Believing that you are just your thoughts creates an artificial separation between your body and your mind.
5. Maintaining steadiness and consistency in your yoga practice makes a big difference. There’s a significant difference in how yoga affects you when you do it consistently.
Links
Connect with Pamela Seelig:
Website: https://pamelaseelig.com/
Threads of Yoga: Themes, Reflections, and Meditations To Weave Into Your Practice: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611808790
Details on Pamela’s courses: https://pamelaseelig.com/practices
Connect With Tessa Tovar:
Website: https://tessatovar.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-tovar-baa27613
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TBenedicktus
On episode 44 of Outside The Studio:
Using Yoga to Recover from Illness and Discover Your Purpose with Pamela Seelig
Summary
Yogi Pamela Seelig joins Tessa to discuss her journey from Wall Street to yoga. They explore what it is like to experience yoga’s mystical effects for the first time, the ultimate objective of yoga, transformative sutras and what they teach us about being human, and ideas about how you can incorporate a daily yoga practice in your life.
Pamela Seelig is the author of Threads of Yoga: Themes, Reflections, and Meditations To Weave Into Your Practice. In 1991, an illness took Pamela away from Wall Street and towards yoga. She practises yoga to soothe her illness. Tune in to discover why yoga had a lasting impact on her life so much so that she decided to completely shift her career.
Timestamps
(00:00) Who is Pamela Seelig?
(01:46) Why she moved from a Wall Street career to a career in yoga.
(03:14) Experiencing seeing lights for the first time. OR Experiencing the mystical side of yoga for the first time.
(10:35) What is wrong with the commercialization of yoga (what is yoga beyond movement?) OR What lots of people and companies get WRONG about yoga.
(17:00) Navigating the different interpretations of the sutras and adapting them for modern life.
(22:07) The most profound sutra of 196 sutras.
(29:28) The myth of the end of suffering. OR Do enlightened people still suffer?
(34:37) “What is all the fuss about yoga?” (and why Pamela wrote her book).
(41:40) What is Pamela working on now?
(45:08) 3-week meditation course to teach you how to meditate.
(46:12) Learning about yoga before the yoga information influx.
(47:50) You are not a prisoner of your mind.
5 Key Takeaways
1. We experience the world with our 5 senses, but there is much more to our being than that. The physical part of our experience is just the tip of the iceberg.
2. Ultimately, yoga is for quieting the mind. The purpose of quieting your mind is to discover yourself and seek your purpose.
3. It is hard to misinterpret many of the sutras when it comes to the core ideas. It gets fuzzier when you go deeper, but the overall principles are pretty clear. The sutras are like a guidebook for what it means to be human.
4. One of the most transformative yoga sutras is one that teaches you that you are not your thoughts. Our thoughts are not necessarily true. Believing that you are just your thoughts creates an artificial separation between your body and your mind.
5. Maintaining steadiness and consistency in your yoga practice makes a big difference. There’s a significant difference in how yoga affects you when you do it consistently.
Links
Connect with Pamela Seelig:
Website: https://pamelaseelig.com/
Threads of Yoga: Themes, Reflections, and Meditations To Weave Into Your Practice: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611808790
Details on Pamela’s courses: https://pamelaseelig.com/practices
Connect With Tessa Tovar:
Website: https://tessatovar.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-tovar-baa27613
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TBenedicktus
54 min