A story of love, loss, and the path of motherhood with Anne Cushman

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

I've talked a lot on the podcast about how motherhood has changed my yoga practice. I know first-hand how easy it can be to fall into the trap of mom guilt and feeling like you just can't keep up with your practice and the demands of your family life.

So, I'm so excited to share this episode with Anne Cushman with you. Anne writes beautifully about motherhood as a spiritual practice in her new book, The Mama Sutra: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood.

Anne shares:

* The creative process of writing a book, why it took her until her son went off to college to finish her latest book, and how her yoga and meditation practice helped her to be kind to herself through the whole process

* How, in many ways, motherhood is such a good way to experience spirituality. Plus, how it differs from the types of spirituality practices that have been traditionally passed down by men.

* Anne shares some profound insights for people who feel that they "should" be spending more time on their yoga mats or meditation cushions

* Her retelling of the birth of Siddhartha, the Buddha, from his mother's perspective

* How she coped with experiencing a full-term stillbirth and the anxieties that come with getting pregnant again after a tragic loss

Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode157

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 157 of Yoga Land.
0:09.2	Today my guest is Anne Cushman.
0:11.6	Anne is gosh she preceded me at as I feel like I spent the first two to three years there reading all of her amazing work and learning
0:26.5	from her in that way. She doesn't even know that. But it was really a delight to have her on the
0:30.7	show. She has written a new memoir called The Mama Sutra. And it is one of my
0:37.8	favorite things I've read in so very long. Anne is a yoga teacher, she's a meditation teacher,
0:45.0	she directs the mentoring component of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
0:49.0	Certification Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
0:52.0	in Northern California.
0:53.4	And her writing is exquisite and real and insightful,
0:59.0	and in speaking to her in this interview,
1:01.6	she was also so insightful.
1:04.1	I think this is one of the only interviews
1:06.8	where I kind of ramble on a bit,
1:09.5	probably just out of my excitement to talk to her. So enjoy the interview with Anne. Well, Anne, I'm so
1:19.2	happy that you're here to talk to us today. I have already gushed to you about your book, but it truly is the
1:26.2	best thing I've read all year. I just tore through it and I think for anyone,
1:31.9	whether you're a mom or not who has just taken part in the
1:36.5	Yogic and Buddhist spiritual experience it's just really resonant. It's a really
1:41.2	lovely book so thanks for being here. really talk through some of the many themes that you touch on in the book and you know you managed to
1:58.9	eloquently talk throughout the book about how you've utilized your yoga and meditation practice throughout your
2:05.9	mothering and how it truly came to life in the process of mothering.
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