E57 - Jonah Kest: Discovering Your Spiritual Power & Inner Peace Through Yoga
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Jonah Kest delves into the transformative power of yoga, offering insights and practical wisdom for individuals seeking inner peace and spiritual growth. He shares his personal journey, growing up in a yoga family and the profound impact it had on his life. Although Yoga was something he grew up with, it was also something he chose. Jonah shares the steps to following our dharma and aligning to a greater vision of our life.
He sheds light on the process of revealing and healing samskaras, the deep-rooted impressions that shape our behaviors and experiences. Additionally, he shares valuable insights on managing energy, cultivating prana, and playing big at a young age.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
3:03 Prioritizing Clarity of Mind Before Pursuing Your Dreams
5:31 Growing Up in a Yoga Family
8:26 The Steps to Following Your Dharma
11:33 Cultivating Equanimity and Observing Thoughts
20:30 Using Yoga as a Science to Self Actualization
22:19 Understanding the 8 Limbs of Yoga
31:14 Revealing and Healing Samskaras
33:18 Managing Your Energy & Cultivating Prana
36:32 Playing Big at a Young Age
43:45 Creativity as a Path to Enlightenment
48:26 How Yoga is Evolving Globally
52:01 Authenticity as a Content Creator
55:18 Holding a Vision for the Future & Commitment to Growth
1:01:08 Guided Heart-Opening Meditation
1:04:24 Conclusion
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Jonah Kest was born into a Yoga Legacy. With his father, Vinyasa Yoga pioneer Jonny Kest, and his mother, Milla Kest, as one of the first Yoga business owners and Yoga teacher training programs in the midwest - He was destined to follow the path. At the age of three, Jonah was walking the Yoga room with his dad and shortly thereafter he began to learn the importance of a daily practice and evening meditation.
Today, Jonah is a well traveled ashtanga/vinyasa teacher whose classes are both graceful and intense. Impermanence, compassion and humility are just a few of the elements that Jonah seamlessly weaves through each healing practice.
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Website: http://www.jonahkestyoga.com
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| 0:00.0 | Not only are we having the same thoughts over and over again, |
| 0:03.0 | but we're actually addicted to our thoughts. |
| 0:05.0 | You can only imagine what the withdrawal symptoms are |
| 0:07.0 | for breaking one of the biggest addictions we have in our life, |
| 0:10.0 | and that's to the place our mind dwells. |
| 0:11.0 | I think growing up in a yoga family isn't always what it seems. |
| 0:15.0 | Most kids want to do the opposite of what their parents do. |
| 0:18.0 | I wanted to do something bigger than myself. |
| 0:20.0 | Yoga means to steer your life, to create your reality. of what their parents do. I wanted to do something bigger than myself. |
| 0:24.5 | Yoga means to steer your life, to create your reality. |
| 0:26.9 | Stress manifests into disease. |
| 0:31.5 | And if we really want to increase our health, we have to focus on alleviating that stress. |
| 0:34.1 | And one of the best ways to do that is to meditate. |
| 0:36.3 | Keep going inwards. |
| 0:38.7 | Keep going through yourself. There's nothing really outside of you that's going to change you. Ultimately, you're your greatest teacher. The more |
| 0:43.7 | we can trust our intuition and go into that, the more you're going to find benefit. The yogi, say |
| 0:48.7 | every breath is an opportunity to begin again. |
| 0:56.6 | Hello, beautiful beings. |
| 0:57.8 | Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast. |
| 0:59.8 | We get the privilege and opportunity to sit down with a brilliant mind, a deep heart |
| 1:05.4 | and soul to learn more about ourselves and the world around us at deeper and deeper levels. |
| 1:10.3 | My guest today is a dear friend. |
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