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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Jonathan Foust: The Issues Are in Your Tissues

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Foust is a longtime teacher of yoga and meditation who has guided learners at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC for more than 20 years. He is a featured presenter for Sounds True's Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Jonathan discuss the practice of body-centered inquiry—specifically the surprising ways it can be applied to pain. Jonathan explains how he has worked with body-centered inquiry to explore his own migraines, and how he has discovered a curious freedom therein. Finally, Jonathan and Tami talk about using body-centered inquiry for decision-making and interrogating the self-made obstacles to our own freedom. (61 minutes)

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This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

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At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio

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learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.

0:14.3

At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves

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as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,

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offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Jonathan Faust. Jonathan is a senior

0:45.9

teacher and former president of Cropalu Center for Yoga and Health, as well as a guiding

0:51.4

teacher with the Insight Meditation community of Washington, D.C.

0:56.0

and a founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute in Washington, D.C.

1:01.0

A workshop and retreat leader for more than 20 years. He's been featured

1:05.9

in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Yoga Journal, and more. With sounds

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true, Jonathan Faust has created the audio program, body-centered inquiry,

1:17.0

meditation training to awaken your inner guidance, vitality, and loving heart.

1:23.0

He's a featured guest teacher at the ongoing mindfulness meditation teacher certification

1:29.9

program led by his wife, Tara Brock, and also Jack Cornfield, a program that's produced by Sounds True.

1:38.0

In this episode of Insights at The Edge, Jonathan Faust and I spoke about the technique of focusing as developed by

1:45.8

Eugene Genlin and what it means to locate the felt sense in our experience, inquire into it, and then also experience a felt shift.

1:58.2

We talked about applying body-centered inquiry to physical pain, and how Jonathan has worked deeply for many years

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using body-centered inquiry to explore his own migraines and what he's discovered which might surprise you in the process.

2:16.7

Jonathan also led us through a body-centered inquiry practice for making decisions.

2:23.0

And finally, we talked about how to use body-centered inquiry

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