Exploring Meditative Martial Arts with Jeff Patterson
Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser
Dr. Ron Kaiser
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this enriching episode of REJUVENAGING with Dr. Ron Kaiser, Dr. Ron introduces listeners to Jeff Patterson. Jeff is the founder of Northwest Fighting Arts and the Portland Tai Chi Academy. With over 36 years of experience practicing and teaching meditative martial arts, Jeff delves deep into the concept of the Yielding Warrior, a unique approach that integrates physical, mental, and emotional yielding to help individuals become better versions of themselves.
Jeff explains how yielding in the martial arts context means redirecting force rather than confronting it head-on, and how this principle also applies to mental and emotional realms.
He outlines various meditative practices, including sitting, standing, and walking meditations, Tai Chi, Qigong, and yogic postures. He stresses the importance of turning inward, maintaining a daily practice, and the evolving nature of meditative arts.
Jeff highlights the benefits of a consistent meditative practice, such as improved physical health, mental clarity, emotional stability, and overall well-being. He advises listeners to start with practices that resonate personally, whether it's sitting meditation, Tai Chi, or Qigong, and emphasizes the adaptability of meditative practices to suit individual lifestyles and goals.
In his conversation with Dr. Ron, Jeff discusses how different groups, including those struggling to relax, athletes, older adults, and children, can benefit from meditative practices. He provides examples and anecdotes to illustrate the transformative power of these practices.
Jeff also talks about his book, "The Yielding Warrior," and his online programs. Listeners can access these resources to start their own meditative journey by visiting theyieldingwarrior.com.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to enhance their mental, physical, and emotional well-being through the meditative arts.
Resources:
https://www.facebook.com/NWfighting
https://www.instagram.com/northwest_fighting_arts/
Buy "The Yielding Warrior" on Amazon
The Yielding Warrior by Jeff Patterson - Audiobook - Audible.com
Jeff Patterson - Owner - Northwest Fighting Arts | LinkedIn
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, so yielding is one of the many concepts in the meditative and martial arts. |
| 0:07.0 | And I look at yielding as three different directions or past that you can integrate these strategies of |
| 0:15.0 | yielding into your life. So we have physical yielding, mental yielding, and |
| 0:20.8 | emotional yielding. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Rejuven Agent with Dr. Ron Kaiser. This is a podcast designed to help you lead your life enthusiastically, today, tomorrow, and every other day. I am your host, Ron Kaiser, positive health psychologist and coach, keynote and TEDx speaker, and also author of the |
| 0:46.4 | Triple Award winning book Rejuvenaging The Art and Science and Growing older with enthusiasm. |
| 0:53.5 | As lessons to the podcast know, |
| 0:55.4 | my goal is to always bring you guests |
| 0:57.7 | who lead their own lives with enthusiasm |
| 1:00.5 | and have different ways of helping us to become better versions of ourselves. |
| 1:05.0 | And today we have a really unique guest who I think you're all going to find |
| 1:11.0 | to be not just interesting, but very helpful on a practical basis. |
| 1:17.1 | Jeff Patterson is from Portland, Oregon, and he has over 36 years of experience practicing and teaching the meditative and martial arts. |
| 1:28.5 | He's the founder of the Northwest Fighting Arts, Portland Tai Chi Academy Academy where he emphasizes the transformative power of |
| 1:37.2 | meditative and martial arts practices, particularly the yielding concept, which I think will probably be pretty new to many of us. |
| 1:47.8 | He's published two books and has made hundreds of instructional videos. |
| 1:54.4 | He is the founder of the Yielding Warrior online program |
| 1:58.8 | and has worked with thousands of students |
| 2:01.4 | from around the world to help them become better versions of themselves. |
| 2:07.7 | And today's going to share that expertise with us. |
| 2:10.8 | So Jeff, welcome to rejuvenating with Dr. Ron Kaiser. |
| 2:15.0 | It's pleasure to have you with us and really looking forward to our conversation. |
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