Edward Clark and Laurie A. Greene - "Grappling with Self and Other"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Edward Clark and Laurie A, Greene, co-authors of Yoga and the Body: The Future of Modern Yoga in the Studio and Beyond, talk with J about interrogating assumptions from within and without yoga traditions. They discuss the ancient origins of yoga, perspectives in theater arts, distinguishing asana and vinyasa, meaning making, reasons for having a body, trauma, emotions, postural attitudes, evolving language in teaching, risk aversion and intensity of inquiry, empathy, being honest communicators, and experiencing every day awe-inspiring beauty.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.4	And if anyone listening is here for the first time today, let me welcome you.
0:24.4	Everyone else, what's up? I hope the moment is finding you reasonably well. And I find myself in a sort of retrograde moment here.
0:40.4	First of all, it's late, and those of you who've listened for a long time know that
0:45.8	I stopped recording intros and outros late at night some while back, and I got myself
0:51.9	into a different pattern, but this weekend has gotten away from me.
0:56.7	My 16-year-old daughter had a party here at my house last night
1:00.5	that, let's just say, didn't go all that well.
1:06.4	I mean, it wasn't terrible, but let's just say,
1:18.4	I gave my daughter a lot of room to hang herself, and she kind of did.
1:24.4	I will tell you about that a little bit on the other side of today's conversation.
1:34.3	If you want to hear about my 16-year-old daughter's party that she had last night, you can tune in on the other side and I'll tell you what happened. But because of that,
1:40.7	everything got a little bit out of whack. And it's late at night on Sunday before this has got to go out early Monday and I haven't found myself here in quite a while.
1:47.4	And the other thing that I find myself coming back round again, maybe it's because I'm doing it
1:54.3	late at night, is this feeling when I hit record of wondering what you're doing right now. Like it's late at night
2:03.5	for me and I'm in my attic. But what are you doing right now, the person that's listening to this?
2:10.5	And I have all these little scenarios that I imagine in my head. Some of you are maybe driving to work.
2:16.8	Some of you are like sitting at your table maybe having
2:20.0	like a coffee or a tea or some of you are maybe having a walk and you've got me on headphones.
2:26.4	I don't know, but I imagine different scenarios that you might be in. And then I wonder about you and your yoga practice maybe because I think that's the
2:39.4	thing that brings us together here is that for some reason or another we care about yoga.
2:46.6	Probably because you have a practice that you've done and you feel like you've gotten something from that practice
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