Have a Seat: Jason and Andrea Talk Meditation

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Why don't you have a seat and stay awhile? If you think meditating is boring, hard, pointless, or too time consuming, this episode is for you!

This week, Jason and I discuss everything meditation. We unpack why it's important for yoga students to meditate. Plus, we'll give some practical tips for to start if you're new to the practice (or start again if not very consistent). We promise, you'll be glad you did!

PS: Jason just launched a program on yogaglo called, "I Don't Meditate." It's six classes and we think it will convert even the biggest meditation skeptics. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/meditate_with_jason

Highlights from this episode:

* The difference between a person's identity and their habits + how to unravel those to make meditating seem more possible

* Some of the common fears (and excuses!) that keep people from meditating

* Why meditation is an important part of a well-rounded yoga practice and if there's anyone who shouldn't meditate

* Jason's approach to teaching seated meditation and how it's similar to how he teaches asanas

* Plus, we talk about our personal meditation practice, who we've studied with, and how it's helped us

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 103 of Yoga Land.
0:12.0	Today I can't believe it has taken me this long to do an episode about
0:16.7	specifically about meditation but here we are finally after years of me thinking about it and thinking about how much I love
0:26.7	meditation, it's finally here. So today, Jason and I talk about his new program
0:32.4	for Yoga Glow.
0:34.3	It's called I Don't Meditate and the Don't is crossed out.
0:38.7	It's a little harder to talk about than to see it.
0:41.4	And essentially, this program is geared toward people who feel
0:45.3	that for whatever reason, they're not a meditator.
0:48.8	They can't do it.
0:49.8	They're not good at it.
0:51.2	They don't have the time.
0:52.4	They don't want to incorporate it into their
0:53.9	yoga practice, yada, yada, yada.
0:56.7	Essentially, it's just looking at all of the obstacles that we sort of set up for ourselves
1:01.8	and breaking them down. And obviously the program also has a
1:05.2	practice component. You can find that program at yoga glow.com slash programs. I haven't done it yet, but I'm very excited to do it. I think this is great
1:17.4	timing for me that he's doing this program right now because you've probably heard me say on
1:21.2	the podcast before like my sitting practice is inconsistent.
1:24.6	I still am not consistent since I had my child.
1:27.4	She's five and a half now, you guys.
1:29.8	But in my defense, I had a child, and I know there are a lot of you like this out there who could not sleep if I got up earlier than her in the morning.
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