Erin Taylor: Rest Is a Power Stance - R4R 430
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Erin Taylor has been teaching yoga for over twenty years, helping high-performing athletes to excel at their sport. She’s taken what she’s learned from training Olympians and Ironman champions and applied it to other areas of life, not only for elite performers, but for everyone. Her most recent book, “Move, Rest, Recover,” explores one of the most neglected elements of well-being, recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running for Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:16.9 | Together we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run and discover ways it helps us become better people. |
| 0:23.3 | Whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run |
| 0:25.8 | while the rest of the world still sleeps, |
| 0:27.9 | or befriending the strangers next to you at the start line of a race, |
| 0:31.4 | we are here to connect with others who see running |
| 0:34.1 | as the common thread that weaves our lives together. |
| 0:37.1 | Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people from all walks of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello, my friends, welcome to episode 430 of the Running for Real podcast, |
| 0:52.3 | and while we are over halfway through the month, this is the first interview of 2025. |
| 0:59.0 | If you listened to the update last week, you will know that I pushed last week's back |
| 1:04.3 | in the true spirit of what this episode is about. |
| 1:08.3 | I really wanted us to go through this together to learn how to |
| 1:13.6 | take better care of ourselves, to not be so afraid of that word rest and recovery. It's something I've |
| 1:19.0 | really been trying to embrace. And actually, as of me recording this intro here, today's the first |
| 1:24.9 | day I've actually felt close to being recovered since the beginning of the year, really. |
| 1:30.5 | So I want to encourage you as you listen today, you're going to feel some resistance. |
| 1:36.4 | You're going to feel some yeah butts coming up. |
| 1:38.8 | Try to just embrace, to let it be, to listen, let it sink in. |
| 1:45.0 | So if you can not multitask for this one, great. |
| 1:48.0 | I want to introduce you to Erin Taylor. |
| 1:51.0 | Erin founded Athletes for Yoga in 2010. |
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