Dan Vekhter - "Neurology, Spirit, and Finger Smoothies"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Dan Vekhter talks with J about his work as a neurologist, the nature of consciousness and recognizing spirit. They discuss Dan's blog writing during medical school, the demands of being a doctor, the sorts of cases he works with and the role he plays in peoples lives, the limitations of existing protocols, what spirit is and where it might fit in the healing process, materialistic viewpoints that squelch reverence, his poem entitled: "finger smoothies," and reaffirmation of an uncomplicated path towards deeper understanding and humanity.

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0:00.0	All right. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Welcome to you. Thank you for listening to this, the first episode of 2022.
0:27.2	I hope that this holiday time has treated you well. I hope that there was some joy in it for you.
0:36.1	If not, I hope that you're doing okay nonetheless.
0:41.9	And while time does not really exist, I do still find it useful sometimes to use this arbitrary
0:51.9	marking of the calendar year as a vehicle for taking stock and
0:59.4	setting intentions.
1:03.8	And I have to say, it seems like the yoga world got the memo this year that trying to sell discounted memberships
1:15.8	in January capitalizing on New Year's resolutions and everybody feeling fat after eating
1:22.4	all this shit that we ate over the holidays. That feels tone deaf and I don't see people doing it. And I don't think
1:32.2	we did it last year either because everybody was so scared and everything was happening. But for years
1:37.9	and years, those of you who've had yoga centers who have just been around in the yoga world,
1:42.1	no, every year, there's always the New Year's resolution promotions.
1:47.1	And I did it for the first couple years I had a yoga center.
1:50.4	And then I swore it off.
1:52.2	Those of you've been on my email list for long enough, might remember.
1:55.0	I wrote about it.
1:55.8	I was like, I'm done.
1:56.7	I'm not doing this anymore because it just felt so wrong that we do this,
2:00.6	that we use this
2:02.4	arbitrary thing to sell these memberships.
2:05.5	And then they all stop coming in February.
2:08.5	Anyway, so it seemed like this year, I didn't see it.
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