Frey Faust - "Freedom, Pedagogy and The Axis Syllabus"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

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🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Frey Faust, creator of The Axis Syllabus and author of 101 USELESS EXERCISES...and what to do instead, talks with J about increasing awareness through an exploration of physiological or biological principles. They discuss his departure from the NY dance scene, pitfalls of standardization and funding, addressing pain by compiling information about the body that ended up contradicting conventional notions, form, fractals, symbols, stretching ligaments, and checking our own perceptions to be clear on what vision of reality we are working with.

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0:00.0	All right, red lights on. You hit play. You know what that means.
0:16.1	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. If you're new, welcome. If you're
0:23.6	returning, what's up? What's everybody doing? What are you doing like right now? Are you taking a walk?
0:32.4	Are you at the gym? Are you at your breakfast? Are you having a cup of coffee? Whatever it is, I appreciate you
0:42.3	bringing me into your world in this moment that you're choosing to listen to the show.
0:49.7	Thanks. And you know me, those of you have been around, I don't like to bullshit you, and those of you've been listening, know my life is in quite a bit of personal crisis right now.
1:05.6	My daughter is struggling and it's been really scary, y' it's been really scary i'm not going to lie
1:13.8	i think there's a lot of things that are happening that feel really scary right now not just
1:19.8	inside my house but outside my house too and it's easy it's easy for me to get completely overwhelmed by it.
1:27.8	In fact, it has been quite all-consuming.
1:32.1	I've been basically just coming up for air to, like, teach classes and record this show.
1:38.5	It's such a mixed bag. On some level, I'm like, maybe I should take some time off.
1:43.1	Maybe I shouldn't be continuing to, like, work when I'm like maybe I should take some time off. Maybe I shouldn't be continuing to like work when I'm being so depleted in other ways.
1:50.5	But at the same time, it's also like a saving grace.
1:55.7	It's like where I get to resonate in the way that I wish for my soul to resonate.
2:03.4	And it's like kind of keeping me sane and hopeful in a time when it's like never been
2:14.6	more challenging to be that way.
2:18.4	So here I am, we carrying on.
2:23.2	And I really do believe those of you have listened, you know, I've talked about this for years and years.
2:31.8	I don't believe that life is as fixed as we are led to believe.
2:37.7	The way things happen and the way they unfold,
2:42.3	they do so in a way that is beyond my ability to fully comprehend.
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