281: Meditation for Skeptics
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
"I can't meditate," is one of the most common phrases I hear in the yoga studio. Students somehow feel that since they cannot sit still or calm their mind, they are unable to practice meditation—but the opposite is true. The very fact that you cannot sit still or clear your mind, is exactly why you need to practice.
But how do you learn? And where do you get started?
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet a meditator and innovator who has created the world's first, drop-in yoga center in Los Angeles. Through her book, her studio and her mobile phone app, she is reaching hundreds of thousands with a very simple message: unplug your mind, recharge your soul.
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Listen & Learn:
- How meditation can be as simple as 3 minutes daily
- The 3 things that happen in just about any meditation
- How meditation slows mental and physical aging
- How to find the right practice for you
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Suze Yalof Schwartz is the CEO and Founder of Unplug Meditation (a bricks and mortar meditation center), the author of Unplug: A Simple Guide To Meditation for Busy Skeptics and Modern Soul Seekers, and the creator of the Unplug Meditation App.
In 2012 Suze learned a three minute meditation that completely changed her life and career. Today, Suze's mission is to make meditation simple, powerful and interesting enough so that everyone will want to practice it and experience the benefits for themselves.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Renee. I'm from Linden, New Jersey, and I'm a Yoga Trapeas instructor. |
| 0:07.0 | I discovered the Yoga trapeze on Facebook. Scrolling one day I saw the |
| 0:17.3 | advertisement on the side and it said try the trapeze 30 days for a dollar and |
| 0:21.7 | that it alleviated back pain and I was struggling with my |
| 0:25.0 | back pain at that point in my life and I was desperate and I said let's give it a |
| 0:29.3 | try and I tried the trapeze and I loved it. |
| 0:35.0 | I took the yoga body training in Barcelona in January 2017 and I started teaching about 10 days later when I got back home. |
| 0:46.1 | I had a little bit of a hardship before training with yoga body my my |
| 0:51.6 | inspiration my grandma passed away literally three days before going to Barcelona for the training so not only learning about how to manage my back pain but it also mended my heart for the loss I just had and the women I was surrounded by that |
| 1:06.0 | travel from all over the world to get there to do the training and the teachers |
| 1:09.3 | were tremendous. It was exactly what I needed at that point in my life and I'm forever grateful for that training in Barcelona |
| 1:16.3 | For upcoming course information visit yoga trapeze training.com We've done a lot of yoga talk shows on meditation with different |
| 1:28.1 | meditation teachers different meditation writers and authors and experts this particular show is unique in that we're going to be |
| 1:35.9 | speaking with a business owner someone who started a very unique concept it's a drop-in |
| 1:40.8 | meditation center which is maybe one of the only in the world |
| 1:44.7 | meaning it's just like a yoga studio where you can sign up for a 10 a.m. class and you |
| 1:49.0 | go and take a meditation class. It's in LA and it's working. They're opening a |
| 1:52.3 | second studio and I love the idea. |
| 1:54.6 | People in my world have been talking about this concept forever, but nobody really had the guts to try it because we just didn't think it would work. |
| 2:00.3 | And today's guest is making it work making meditation very |
| 2:04.0 | accessible very fun and non-intiminating which I think is probably one of the |
| 2:08.1 | biggest reasons that we don't get started and we don't stick with it. The |
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