WISDOM NOW

Rose Lamont & Ritual Studios
WISDOM NOW

The concept of wisdom has long defied easy definition and measure, although many scholars agree that one essential feature is its paradoxical nature. Fruitful paradoxes are those which offer an avenue of thought that leads to a better understanding of what is true. Thank you for listening to the Wisdom Now Podcast My name is Rose Lamont. I’m your host and the co-founder of Ritual. In this podcast, I talk with spiritual teachers, philosophers and insightful people from many different walks of life to learn more about their stories of inner transformation and how we can learn to navigate life with skill and grace. Now, let me share their wisdom with you.

Episodes

  1. MAY 31

    Reclaiming our relationship with food using Ayurveda with Myra Lewin from Hale Pule

    Myra Lewin is an Ayurveda practitioner and Master Yogini with more than 100,000 hours of Yoga teaching experience spanning 30+ years of practice. In 1999 Myra founded Hale Pule Ayurveda and Yoga, a center for education and healing. Today Myra guides thousands of students blossoming into Ayurveda counselors and advisors and guides clients 1:1 through health consultations and energy healings. Myra oversees Agni Therapy, Hale Pule’s foundational program that instills balance and vitality into modern life with the principles of Ayurveda and Yoga. In this episode we discuss our lost connection to our food sources and how we can heal our bodies, minds and lives by repairing this relationship, utilising the wisdom of Ayurveda. Show Notes: ✨Myra spoke about her personal experience with finding Ayurveda and how it transformed her life. ✨How the Industrial Revolution transformed our eating habits and our relationship to food ✨How food is our primary relationship that sets the foundation for all other relationships ✨ How what we eat is in a very practical sense who we become ✨ How bringing consciousness into our relationship with food is a form of spiritual practice ✨How our modern relationship to food has resulted in a general loss of connection to who we are and how to look after ourselves. ✨ How being connected to our food sources brings us closer to nature herself. ✨ Food as a form of ritual or spiritual practice that offers us an opportunity to deepen our connection to our true Self.

    1h 12m
  2. Ordinariness: The highest spiritual attainment - Wisdom with Mark Whitwell. Part 1

    11/28/2022

    Ordinariness: The highest spiritual attainment - Wisdom with Mark Whitwell. Part 1

    In this episode Rituals founder Rose Lamont talks with Mark Whitwell, a world renowned teacher, author and direct student of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), a man revered around the world as the ‘teacher of the teachers’ and ‘the father of modern Yoga.’ Mark shares his profound and embodied wisdom on how we can stop seeking for answers outside of ourselves and how we can all begin to participate more deeply in our own lives and existence. And as Mark so  eloquently and compassionately sates:  "life is not a dedication to working on oneself toward some future ideal" .. "you are the power the cosmos".  Key Conversation Points:  - Mark's journey to India in the 70's and his experience meeting his teachers.  - Yoga -   'a social dynamic of disempowerment' ?  - 'A teacher is no more or no less than a friend'  - Yoga - 'a struggle towards a future attainment' a creation of male orthodoxy  - The sickness of spiritual seeking and the cure to constant seeking.  - The origins, current state and trajectory of modern yoga in the west.  - What it means to have an authentic yoga practice. - Marks connection with U.G Krishnamurti, T.K.V Desikachar and T. Krishnamacharya - Mark's relationship with T.K.V Desikachar and the origins of his book - The Heart of Yoga  - The lineage and principles of T. Krishnamacharya  - How to stop seeking and start participating in your yoga and life.  - The seamless process of asana, pranayama and meditation  - Mark's illuminating conversation one of his teachers and subsequent student - the spiritual teacher Ram Dass About Mark:  Mark Whitwell has taught yoga for over four decades throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, Fiji, and Aotearoa-New Zealand, and is the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar's book The Heart of Yoga. First ‘dropping out’ of New Zealand society and travelling to India in his teens, this was the beginning of a lifelong love affair that took him into the orbits of many of the great masters of our time, known and unknown, including falling in love with Swami Muktananda in the early seventies and accompanying him around Australia. But it wasn’t until Mark met Krishnamacharya and Desikachar in Chennai (then Madras) in 1973 that he discovered a practice that could make his inspirational experiences stable and comprehensible: Yoga. Desikachar and his father were living as ordinary humble people, sharing their meals on the floor of their home, not posturing as superior beings or powertripping. Mark fell in love with this and with the Yoga he received.

    1h 1m
  3. Practice and all is NOT coming - Wisdom with Mark Whitwell. Part 2

    11/28/2022

    Practice and all is NOT coming - Wisdom with Mark Whitwell. Part 2

    In this episode Ritual's founder Rose Lamont talks with Mark Whitwell, a world renowned teacher, author and direct student of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), a man revered around the world as the ‘teacher of the teachers’ and ‘the father of modern Yoga.’ Mark shares his profound and embodied wisdom on how we can stop seeking for answers outside of ourselves and how we can all begin to participate more deeply in our own yoga and existence. And as Mark so  eloquently and compassionately sates:  "life is not a dedication to working on oneself toward some future ideal" .. "you are the power the cosmos".  Key Conversation Points:  - Mark's journey to India in the 70's and his experience meeting his teachers.  - Yoga - 'a social dynamic of disempowerment' ?  - 'A teacher is no more or no less than a friend'  - Yoga - 'a struggle towards a future attainment' a creation of male orthodoxy  - The sickness of spiritual seeking and the cure to constant seeking.  - The origins, current state and trajectory of modern yoga in the west.  - What it means to have an authentic yoga practice. - Marks connection with U.G Krishnamurti, T.K.V Desikachar and T. Krishnamacharya - Mark's relationship with T.K.V Desikachar and the origins of his book - The Heart of Yoga  - The lineage and principles of T. Krishnamacharya  - How to stop seeking and start participating in your yoga and life.  - The seamless process of asana, pranayama and meditation  - Mark's illuminating conversation one of his teachers and subsequent student - the spiritual teacher Ram Dass About Mark:  Mark Whitwell has taught yoga for over four decades throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, Fiji, and Aotearoa-New Zealand, and is the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar's book The Heart of Yoga. First ‘dropping out’ of New Zealand society and travelling to India in his teens, this was the beginning of a lifelong love affair that took him into the orbits of many of the great masters of our time, known and unknown, including falling in love with Swami Muktananda in the early seventies and accompanying him around Australia. But it wasn’t until Mark met Krishnamacharya and Desikachar in Chennai (then Madras) in 1973 that he discovered a practice that could make his inspirational experiences stable and comprehensible: Yoga. Desikachar and his father were living as ordinary humble people, sharing their meals on the floor of their home, not posturing as superior beings or powertripping. Mark fell in love with this and with the Yoga he received.

    57 min
  4. Physiology alters psychology -  Wisdom with Abbie Galvin

    11/25/2022

    Physiology alters psychology - Wisdom with Abbie Galvin

    In this episode Rose chats with Abbie Galvin an author, teacher and passionate student of life about her personal story with yoga and how she has used Katonah yoga to transform her body, mind, relationships and entire way of interacting with the world.  "so much of it is fighting our first nature which his habit"  "From the subtle patterns like our sleep cycles and digestive cycles, to more obvious patterns like the seasons or aging, we are part of the natural world. Our job in yoga is to manipulate the patterns that don't serve us, and to cultivate and develop new ones that help us function better. And because the narrative of our lives is reflected in the body, changing physiology alters psychology. The third principle underlies the discipline of esoteric training: repetition of techniques.  By virtue of repetition , one potentially develops insight" Topics Covered:  - Abbie's personal story with developing her yoga and finding Katonah Yoga and Nevine Michaan.  - What hold's us back from developing an effective yoga practice - First nature, habit and why we find it so hard to change.  - Breaking our linear patterns of learning that we develop from childhood. - Can we change our bodies in old age ?  - How she uses the patterns and maps of Great Nature to navigate her body, mind and life.  - Self-inquiry and exploration to navigate conflict with ourselves and others.   - How our physicality effects and transforms our psychology.  - Abbie talks about how her 60's are her best years yet.

    1h 5m

About

The concept of wisdom has long defied easy definition and measure, although many scholars agree that one essential feature is its paradoxical nature. Fruitful paradoxes are those which offer an avenue of thought that leads to a better understanding of what is true. Thank you for listening to the Wisdom Now Podcast My name is Rose Lamont. I’m your host and the co-founder of Ritual. In this podcast, I talk with spiritual teachers, philosophers and insightful people from many different walks of life to learn more about their stories of inner transformation and how we can learn to navigate life with skill and grace. Now, let me share their wisdom with you.

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