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Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 71 of Yoga Land.

So today's going to be a solo episode.

I have had a lot of things on my mind that I've wanted to talk about and

write about and I am now making time to do that. So today I wanted to talk about the practice

and the importance of self-compassion and some of the research

that's been done about it. I am most familiar with compassion and the teachings

around it from the Buddhist tradition. It also appears in the yoga sutra.

It's the Sanskrit word for it is Karuna.

And I was really excited a few months ago

when I came across self-compassion

in some Western psychology studies. I have always had a strong interest in psychology

and positive psychology and Buddhist psychology.

And I'm just, it makes me really happy

that these different modalities, including yoga wisdom,

are becoming more and more interwoven and integrated. So I want to talk about my

understanding of self-compassion and my thoughts on how to include it in your

yoga practice and why it's so beneficial. I think a lot of you will relate to this. When I was growing up, it was always

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