276: Find Your Cozy Place

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Danish people regularly score as the happiest people in the world, but it's a small, flat, wet country; taxes are ridiculously high, and the weather is generally bad. So what's going on?

What do the Danes know that we don't? Among their secrets is a concept called Hygge, the experience of pleasant togetherness that is an ever-present part of Danish culture from food and family, to home and meal times. It's that cozy, contented, supportive feeling you get at a holiday dinner—only the Danes do their best to create this feeling daily. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll learn how to add some Hygge to your life.

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Listen & Learn:

Hygge: the experience of pleasant togetherness
Why the Danes are the most content people in the world
How to make your daily life special and significant
Why we should optimize on quality of life not the bling of life
Why the digital age creates this burning desire for human connection

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Louisa Thomsen Brits was born in Uganda to a Danish mother and English father. Louisa is a mother of four, an amateur naturalist and wild swimmer. She has been a radio restaurant and arts critic and a tribal belly dance teacher. She writes about the art of living, the nature of things, our common life and the rhythms and rituals that unite and define us all. Her recent book is called, The Book of Hygge, The Danish Art of Living well and is available on Amazon and major booksellers.

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0:00.0	I get a lot of calls and emails from listeners saying hey Lucas I'm considering becoming a yoga teacher
0:04.6	How do I know if it's a good choice for me? It's not something that I could ever answer you have to ask yourself
0:09.5	But I always encourage people to take a look at their behavior.
0:12.5	How are you treating yoga in your life?
0:14.3	How much priority are you giving it?
0:16.2	When I look at the best trainees, the best graduates from my training programs,
0:20.3	it's always the ones who become complete yoga fanatics.
0:23.0	To give an example, people often start off with a day job
0:26.0	and they're going to yoga a couple times a week
0:28.0	and then it's three times a week and then it's every single day.
0:30.0	Then they're leaving work early to catch their favorite teachers class
0:33.4	they're dragging all their friends and family and relatives to yoga class that's
0:36.6	when you know you've kind of crossed over and this hobby has become a total lifestyle
0:41.1	and that's usually the time when I tell people hey sit down and
0:44.3	think about if you'd like to make a career doing this now for some people it's good
0:48.2	as just a fanatic hobby but for some of us we just can't resist and we need to figure
0:52.0	out a way to make it our livelihood as well.
0:54.8	The good news is that when I first started teaching, there weren't really many great options
0:59.2	in terms of making it your livelihood.
1:01.2	These days, there are great options. I've been a yoga bum now for
1:04.0	you know 14 years and I've really made it work and I have thousands of
1:08.4	graduates and lots of them are way more successful than me doing interesting things
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