Michael Lear - "Trager Approach and Ashtanga Yoga"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.3 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Michael, Lear, founder of Pangea Yoga and Yoga4Drummers, sits down with J to talk about his unique mix of Trager Approach and Ashtanga Yoga. Michael was born in Easton PA, the town that J moved to a few years ago. They discuss the early yoga scene there and his relationship to Ashtanga Yoga, his work with integrative somatic therapies, how he ended up doing service work around the world, transference of healing through nervous system communication, and the pure joy of rocking out. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Hello there, you, whoever you are. Nice of you to stop by. |
| 0:18.6 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | My name is Jay Brown. |
| 0:23.2 | And if you're listening to this right when it's being released, then it's only a day or two before Christmas. |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm hoping that everything's going okay so far. |
| 0:35.1 | Like, I hope the drive was okay, or the flight didn't get delayed, |
| 0:39.6 | or you're not already fighting with your family, |
| 0:43.5 | or, you know, if you're like me, you're not at home, |
| 0:46.6 | and you're trying not to eat too much. |
| 0:50.5 | No, really. |
| 0:52.2 | I do enjoy this time of year. Many of you who have been around over the years know |
| 0:57.8 | that I always go to my in-laws in Virginia and there have been tumultuous years where me and my |
| 1:06.5 | father-in-law blew up Christmas, going to fight about politics. And then over the last few years, |
| 1:13.2 | though, we've all really settled into a very lovely time together. And I'm recording this the |
| 1:19.5 | day before I leave. I'm going to leave tomorrow and head up there. And hopefully try to shut |
| 1:26.2 | off some. I got like a little bit of work to do, |
| 1:29.2 | but I'm really trying. |
| 1:30.6 | I'm really trying to make myself turn off some of that stuff for a little while. |
| 1:36.7 | Like it's going to be okay if I just take a day or two to not do it all, right? |
| 1:43.4 | To just hang out with my family i also know that this |
| 1:51.0 | time of year can sometimes be rough for people maybe you don't have family to be around maybe |
| 1:57.6 | you're by yourself and maybe this time of year doesn't feel so special for you and |
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