Less Show, More Soul.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2014
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
So, we're having a bit of fun in August, calling it the "GLP Summer Jam."
Instead of our longer interviews this month, we're doing a full month of short and sweet visual essay jam sessions. It's a great way to get you thinking about bigger questions as you shift your energy down a bit, slow down and take some time to explore the bigger ideas that'll let you set up the second half of the year with a sense of greater purpose and alignment.
Plus this 2 to 5-minute format is perfect for viewing on vacation or on the go!
First up is a visual essay version of something I wrote a while back entitled "Less Show, More Soul." It'll take you on a quick journey to the Mexican Riviera and a big lesson I learned in a very public way. One that I still explore on a regular basis. It's about coming from a place of integrity and service, rather than posturing and theater.
Big takeaway...
An audience stays as long as you perform. A community stays as long as you serve.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Good Life Project, where we take you behind the scenes for in-depth candid conversations |
| 0:10.6 | with artists, entrepreneurs, makers, and world shakers. |
| 0:15.1 | Here's your host, Jonathan Fields. |
| 0:17.7 | It's 2002, Mexican Riviera, and I'm sweating almost violently. |
| 0:29.7 | Barefoot in the middle of a tile, that's Ruth Palapa, feet from the rolling surf. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm there with a yoga wonderkin, Baron Baptiste, and the fame Pure Ten singer, Christian |
| 0:39.7 | Ados, aka KD, about 100 sweaty humans trained to become yoga teachers, and we practiced, |
| 0:45.3 | and we moved, and we twisted and grined, and stretched, and we shaked, until we can no |
| 0:50.2 | longer move, and his pounding, fruit is abundant, but all I want is caffeine, and a fan, maybe. |
| 0:57.2 | And on the last day, something different happens. |
| 0:59.8 | Baptiste begins to call postures. |
| 1:02.2 | And minutes in, his number two takes over the call, up dog, and then down dog, and |
| 1:06.9 | fingers wide, and palms kiss the mat, and he cags, number three, who then takes us |
| 1:11.1 | through sunset mutations, and I kind of start to see a pattern, and I know it's coming. |
| 1:15.5 | Three others on his team, and they take the teaching baton as we flow, and a hundred |
| 1:19.6 | new ball bodies, posed by pose through the super morning air, and Baron steps in to |
| 1:24.6 | lead us again. |
| 1:25.6 | But I've done the math, 90 minutes remain, who's going to lead now? |
| 1:29.8 | So I stand in Namaskar Mountain, posed, erected the mat's edge, and hands and prayers, the |
| 1:34.6 | universe sweats through me, just waiting, and I look at Baron, and I want to go first. |
| 1:40.8 | Because I catch his mind, he smiles, he nods, so I step off my mat, and I begin to stock |
| 1:46.4 | the room, inhale, I incand, and the next few minutes are surreal. |
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