Haley Laughter - "Indigenous Yoga Inspired"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

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🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Haley Laughter, founder of Hozho Total Wellness, talks with J about the difficulties which affect Native Americans experiencing historical trauma, and incorporating indigenous teachings into yoga practice. They discuss the “assimilation” of Haley’s parents and the effects that had on her early life, giving up the “american dream” to move closer to her Navajo roots, connections between yoga and indigenous philosophy, and utilizing practice to connect with the elements and our existence on the planet. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:12.6	We have just transcended the spacetime continuum and come together in this asynchronous space.
0:24.3	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Welcome to you if you're new,
0:31.4	and thanks to everyone for listening today. How are you? Is everybody doing okay?
0:40.8	Things still feel pretty heavy.
0:44.3	I don't know if that's true for everyone else, but certainly was true for me.
0:49.3	Kind of a lot of shittiness all around.
0:51.8	Everywhere I looked, something shitty. I'm trying to not let my cynicism
0:59.7	get the best of me. Fortunately, I have a wonderful talk today to share with you with
1:07.2	Haley laughter, and I will tell you about that in just a bit.
1:13.5	First, as I was saying, though, it's been a really challenging week to not feel profoundly cynical.
1:23.0	I'll give you one small example, because it's just happened today.
1:29.6	If you've got small children in a public school, then you've probably had this experience where the PTA is always needing to raise
1:36.2	a bit of money to, you know, do the things that the PTA does. And the usual ways in which the
1:43.6	PTA raises that money is to do these sort of fundraising kind of
1:49.4	things where the kids sell chocolate or for instance my daughter's got this event that they're doing
1:57.6	which is like a night out with a parent and a kid,
2:02.0	like maybe even father and a daughter,
2:04.0	to go to like a trampoline park at night,
2:06.9	and they do it with lights, and it's this, you know, this event.
2:10.6	But the event is to raise money for leukemia research, I believe.
2:19.2	And anybody who knows me knows I have a personal relationship.
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