David Singleton - "Slower and Longer Inward Looking"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.3 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
David Singleton is a long-time listener and friend of the show and he joins J to talk about relationship to our environment and ourselves. They discuss finding yoga during his wife's illness and passing, discovering the podcast and following along with J's journey, deep love of the outdoors, motorcycles, becoming a fire ranger, operating vineyards, big agriculture, healthy soil, regenerative farming, organic labeling, permaculture, living in harmony with ants, defining success, personal spirituality of going outside, and truly caring for land and people.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we are. |
| 0:13.6 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | My name is Jay Brown. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to you, whoever you are. |
| 0:22.4 | Whether you are here for the first time or you're a returning friend, |
| 0:27.4 | I so appreciate that you're listening. |
| 0:31.5 | I wonder if in this moment that my voice is meeting your ear, |
| 0:39.5 | you would notice your relationship to time. |
| 0:44.8 | Are you in a rush right now? |
| 0:47.5 | Like how much of our time do we feel rushed? |
| 0:53.4 | Or does time feel like something that's oppressive on you that you don't have |
| 1:00.3 | enough of i've talked about time in the past too about how i feel like it doesn't really exist |
| 1:08.8 | and it actually can speed up and slow down. |
| 1:14.1 | Well, I've been thinking about time today. |
| 1:18.0 | Some things feel like they're happening very quickly. |
| 1:21.5 | Took my eldest daughter on another college tour. |
| 1:24.7 | You know, that's happening fast. |
| 1:32.2 | But then at the same time, other things don't feel that way, you know? And when I am in nature, when I'm in the forest with the trees, |
| 1:44.6 | time does something different. Time doesn't feel like that. If I can let go of all of the |
| 1:49.6 | pressing matters that are contingent on time, my mind opens up and I feel things in a different way. |
| 2:03.8 | More on that in just a bit. |
| 2:05.6 | First, before I forget, last week I had my friend Alyssa Mon Verne on and, you know, we |
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