Cristina & Diego - "Experiencing the World in Barefoot Shoes"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Cristina & Diego, founders of Origo Shoes, talk with J about the philosophy behind barefoot shoes and our relationship to the natural world. They discuss the developmental issues their daughter faced and how that led to barefoot shoes, the detriment of conventional ideas about footwear, specifications that make a shoe barefoot, educating people about the benefits and making the appearance more accessible, doing business according to your values, embracing simple as better, and the benefits of slower living and a return to basic principles.

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0:00.0	All right. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:19.0	Welcome to you, whoever you are.
0:23.0	If you're new to the show, hi, I'm Jay.
0:25.5	Thanks for checking it out.
0:29.5	Everybody else, appreciate you returning.
0:32.4	If you were here last week,
0:36.6	I'm back in the attic just in time because the weather has taken a turn for the dark and dreary here in Pennsylvania.
0:43.5	I'm glad I managed to get us out together into the forest last week.
0:50.9	I received some lovely notes from listeners who expressed appreciation for that.
0:56.3	Thank you for taking the time to do that.
0:59.9	And I've been reflecting on that feeling that I was hoping to bring with me in that intro last week,
1:07.5	that feeling of being with the trees and the river and the leaves.
1:16.0	And I was having a kind of stark realization about it, which is the reason why it feels so powerful to be in nature, to really bring my
1:31.6	attention there and to be with it in a feeling way, is because that so much of my experience
1:39.1	of life doesn't feel like that.
1:43.5	That so much of the modern lives that we are leading,
1:49.7	they don't feel expansive like that at all.
1:54.1	That there's so many barriers and buffers
1:58.7	and just ways that we've been removed from that natural wonder of our
2:08.2	environment, that it's actually become like a discipline that you have to exercise in order to get
2:14.4	yourself to go be with it, to just go be with trees and a river and the leaves.
2:21.2	It's like you have to be disciplined and it's like an effort that you make.
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