Bernie Clark on the Benefits of Yin Yoga

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The thoughtful and articulate Bernie Clark joins us on the show this week! Bernie is perhaps best known for his influential Yin yoga teachings as well as his books, The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga, and Your Body, Your Yoga.

When Jason and I shared our thoughts about Yin Yoga at the end of season 1 (episode 147), we hadn't expected it to be so polarizing. After seeing Bernie's response to the episode in one of his forums and after listening to you, our listeners, we asked him on the show.

We covered a lot of ground in this episode: Bernie clarified Yin's origin story, he shared how Yin benefits him personally (and how he complements it with strength-training), as well as how he guides (even flexible students like Andrea) to discern their edge in poses. The big takeaway from the conversation? We landed on more points of agreement than points of difference. The one point of difference that remains is whether or not lengthening ligaments is a good idea. And if you'd like to research that further, check out the show notes.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti, and this is episode 154 of Yoga Land.
0:04.4	Today my guest is Bernie Clark.
0:14.0	Bernie Clark has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1998.
0:19.0	Prior to that, he worked at one of Canada's oldest and largest high-tech companies.
0:23.6	He has a strong interest in the convergence of embodiment and science.
0:29.2	And many of you also know Bernie as a prominent yin yoga teacher.
0:34.4	At the end of last season season one, episode 147,
0:37.6	Jason and I did an episode where we kind of talked
0:40.6	through Jason's take on yin yoga and it got a mixed response in the
0:45.6	community and we got a lot of requests to talk to Bernie so you asked we
0:49.8	listened and this is a conversation with Jason, Bernie, and myself.
0:54.4	One of the reasons we wanted to talk to Bernie is because we felt like after doing
0:59.3	that episode and seeing some of the responses like, hmm, probably would have been better before we went through some of the
1:06.3	potential pitfalls of Ian to have Bernie on together with us so we could ask him directly, you know, about some of our concerns
1:15.6	and so that we could also kind of highlight the benefits. I think that Jason wanted to highlight the benefits
1:19.7	in his episode and that was our intention, but it wasn't necessarily perceived that way.
1:24.4	And I think another reason that was really helpful to have Bernie on at the same time is that you'll
1:29.5	see that there's convergence on issues more than there is differences of opinion.
1:35.2	There are still some differences of opinion, but that's okay.
1:39.0	Can we all agree in the yoga community that it's okay to have differences of opinion. I think it's
1:44.3	important that we agree that that's okay because that's how we grow. I mean I
1:49.3	guess I should say I think it's okay to have differences of opinion as long as you stay open and as long as you talk to people directly and as long as you're respectful.
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