Grief, Mr. Rogers, & Holding Space with Adam Hocke
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week, my guest is U.K. based teacher, Adam Hocke. Adam -- like Jack Workman in episode 221 -- is serving as a mentor in Jason's current online teacher training program. Adam is such a talented teacher in his own right -- balancing thoughtful and precise vinyasa yoga with his unique brand of warmth and humor. Adam and I spoke about many things but the common thread was one of my very favorite topics: emotions. He shared how yoga helped him through devastating grief, how he endeavors to incorporate self-compassion into vinyasa classes, and how he surrendered his role as a theatrical showman to become a yoga teacher who holds space for his students to feel their feelings and experience their own yoga.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 224 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.6 | Today, my guest is Adam Hoke. Adam was on a previous episode of Yoga Land. You can go check |
| 0:14.6 | him out on episode 181. That was an episode that I did with Jason and with another UK-based |
| 0:21.3 | teacher, Adam Hustler. And I will have Adam Hustler on again soon. Because I am going to feature |
| 0:27.0 | each of the people who are mentoring Jason's online students in the virtual 300-hour training |
| 0:34.8 | this year. So he has 11 different mentors who are doing breakout sessions with their mentees |
| 0:41.7 | and Adam Hoke is one of them. He is also obviously a fantastic teacher in his own right. He is |
| 0:46.9 | based in the UK. He started his yoga practice in New York and I really enjoyed getting to know Adam |
| 0:55.2 | better through this interview and I know that you will too. I got so much out of talking to him. |
| 1:00.7 | He talks about how he started out. He has a theater background, a fellow theater geek like myself |
| 1:06.3 | and I'm sure so many of you out there listening. And he talks about the beginning of his teaching which |
| 1:11.1 | was over 10 years ago and how, you know, it was more of a performance-based thing. He's always |
| 1:16.9 | loved Vinyasa Yoga. But he talked about how he's really grown over the years and how he tries to |
| 1:22.8 | help people learn to embody self-compassion in his classes, in his Vinyasa classes which is, |
| 1:30.8 | I think, not an easy thing to do to really actively try to teach people how to do that. So he |
| 1:36.8 | shares how he does that and he also shares how he endeavors to truly hold space for people. |
| 1:47.6 | And again, what's what I loved about talking to him is he's so thoughtful. He's really |
| 1:52.4 | thought about a structure, a soft structure, right, but a structure for how to do that. |
| 1:58.7 | If you are not in Jason's online training and you want to study with Adam Hoke, |
| 2:03.0 | he has a great website with live stream schedule, on-demand classes, courses. He has a podcast |
| 2:10.0 | called Yoga with Adam, which is Austin of classes. And he is also co-leading an immersion, a 15-hour |
| 2:17.9 | immersion with Naomi Anand, May 21st through the 23rd. And he says, it's our brand of restorative |
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