Branden Collinsworth | Activate Your Potential Through Yoga

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Yoga teacher and human-performance coach Branden Collinsworth knows what it means to push your potential. Through his journey with movement, he unlocked the perseverance to escape poverty, the tenacity to achieve an Ivy League master’s degree in psychology, and the capacity to connect to the self. Now the Nike trainer is showing us how the skills learned through yoga can help us transcend our own limits. On this episode, he tells us why yoga is a missing link in sport performance and how it bridges the gap between the internal and the external. He also gives us simple steps for turning a flow into a daily habit.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Demorda Rosen for Time NBA All-Star and member of the Chicago Booth.
0:05.6	And you're listening to Train, Body and Mind.
0:08.7	Let's all be part of the progress.
0:10.9	Oh, hello.
0:12.0	Welcome to Train, Body and Mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic fitness.
0:17.0	I'm your host Jacqueline Byer.
0:19.0	Each episode, I connect with the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,
0:23.6	movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:26.6	What we like to call the five facets of fitness.
0:29.5	Today, I'm talking with Nike trainer and yoga instructor Brandon Collinsworth, who's
0:33.9	known around the world for his innovative approach to incorporating yoga into high-performance
0:38.8	sports training.
0:40.6	Yoga is a deep dive into the inner world.
0:46.9	And what we do here, the seeds we plant, the kindness that we embody, the way we talk
0:52.8	to ourselves, the way we savor each moment, the way we drop into presence, these all inevitably
0:58.4	show up on our external expression, whether it be in our relationships or being our athletic
1:03.8	pursuits.
1:05.0	And that's what I really think yoga does is I think yoga is the great connector between
1:09.5	the outer and the inner as within, so without.
1:14.7	Every once in a while, if we're lucky, we come across someone who's unforgettable.
1:19.8	Often in the world of sport, it's their talent and accomplishments that amaze or inspire
1:23.5	us.
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