Gretchen Rubin: How the Four Tendencies Show Up in Yoga Class

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We've all been there -- in that yoga class where the person next to us is not doing any of the poses the teacher calls out, or in teacher training when someone asks question after question after question after...you get the picture. Do these people drive you crazy? Or, if you're teaching, do you wonder how you can make that rebellious person follow your lead or satisfy the questioner's endless questions?

This week, my guest is New York Times bestselling author, Gretchen Rubin. Her new book, The Four Tendencies, offers a framework for understanding how different personalities respond to both inner and outer expectations. I thought it would be fun to take Gretchen's framework into the yoga room to see how it plays out. We talk about The Rebel -- that person in class who is not doing any of the poses the teacher calls out. The Obliger -- the person who needs outer accountability to help them stick to their inner expectations. The Questioner (my tendency) who asks question after question after...you get the idea. And The Upholder who can tend toward being rigid. As Gretchen says, "Understanding fosters tolerance" and her framework offers ideas for understanding -- and managing -- our own tendencies as well as those around us.

Give it a listen and let me know which type you think you are! Use the hashtag #yogalandstories.

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0:30.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 75 of Yogoland. My guest today is Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen is a four-time New York
0:45.9	Times best-selling author and she's also the co-host of The Happier
0:49.8	Podcast with her sister Elizabeth Kraft. Her most recent book is called The Four Tendencies and it's a
0:56.4	framework for figuring out how you respond to inner and outer expectations.
1:01.5	Gretchen's book is really fun and thorough and it's and the way it's laid out. And as the host of this podcast,
1:14.0	what stood out to me is that when we go to a yoga class
1:18.5	or teach a yoga class or do a teacher training,
1:21.3	we are constantly responding to inner and outer expectations.
1:26.3	So I thought it would be helpful to pick Gretchen's brain about this framework, about her
1:31.8	framework and how it relates to yoga.
1:35.0	So we had a really fun conversation.
1:37.5	She was of course incredibly helpful.
1:40.0	She has so many ideas and so much knowledge.
1:43.5	She's really a font of ideas and knowledge.
1:46.2	So I know you will enjoy the interview.
1:48.8	One more thing before we start,
1:50.4	I would love to know what your tendency is after you listen to the interview or go to
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