Karin Lynn Carlson - "Quitting Yoga and Embracing Prayer"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Karin Lynn Carlson, author of the substack Gristle and bone, talks with J about leaving the yoga profession and the power of prayer. They discuss the pitfalls of a group yoga class context, her decision to wind down her teaching, importance of mentorship, a cultural moment defined by repressed futility, the role of practice in bringing about a state of awareness, her turn to writing and most recent post, triage for despair, acknowledging a higher power, choking on hope, and the way prayer renders us responsibility for our humanity.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we are.
0:13.8	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.9	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.7	Who are you?
0:20.3	Is this your first time here? If so, welcome to you.
0:25.7	All the rest of y'all, what's up? What is good, y'all? And if you need to take a little time to think about that, that's okay. It might not be obvious.
0:38.5	You might have to look carefully to see it, but it's there, I think. I trust. Seriously, how's everyone doing? I hope
0:47.4	this finds you in an okay moment. I wonder how the weather is where you are.
0:57.4	I ask because I'm sweating, y'all.
1:00.8	It's hot in the attic this week.
1:03.9	I waited.
1:05.3	I didn't do it in the morning,
1:07.0	and so now it's late afternoon on a hot summer day,
1:10.4	and I turned off the fans and closed the windows so that we'd get better sound,
1:15.3	and I'm sweating, like, within seconds.
1:20.0	So we'll see.
1:21.1	We're doing a little bit of like a sauna intro here.
1:26.6	I wonder how it is for you.
1:29.1	If your summer is going okay.
1:33.4	I think I was asking last week or the week before if people's lives were feeling normal again.
1:41.1	I didn't get any answers.
1:43.2	Nobody answered me.
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