Monica Voss - "Vanda Scaravelli and Esther Myers"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Monica Voss, co-owner and director of Esther Myers Yoga Studio, talks with J about her studies with Vanda Scaravelli and Esther Myers. They discuss her discovery of yoga through Esther and their transition from traditional Iyengar to Vanda's approach, structure and freedom, individual agency and creating your own language, the three fundamental principles behind Vanda's teaching, unwinding, elongating with wavelike pulsations of the spine, tapping into outer realms through poetry, and staying true to your convictions.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we are, you and me, and our respective points in time space,
0:22.3	brought together because you chose to just push play and listen.
0:29.0	I'm grateful to you for that.
0:32.3	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:35.0	As you probably know, my name is Jay Brown. Welcome to you, especially
0:40.4	if this is your first time here. But for everyone else, what's up? How's it going? How are we
0:48.7	feeling? I'm happy to say that things are a little bit better for me.
0:55.8	You know, as you know, some of you've been listening.
0:57.8	It's been a rocky time.
1:00.1	And I'm knocking on some wood, but everything was a little bit better this week.
1:07.7	And I am immensely grateful for that.
1:14.0	Of course, I mean, my own personal being, my own personal body's been a little bit out of commission. I think I mentioned I sprayed
1:18.7	my ankle really bad last week, and it wasn't like a kind of just, oh, stepped on it weird, but like,
1:27.0	it's a long story, I'm not going to tell,
1:28.6	but my body got moved in a way that it wasn't able to move, and there was a loud pop,
1:34.6	and then my ankle swelled up real big, you know? And I would say it's about, I don't know,
1:41.2	75, 80% healed at this point. And I could have rested it more than I did.
1:46.5	But it's healing up.
1:47.8	It's going to be fine.
1:48.9	I didn't break nothing.
1:50.8	But it's just amazing when life does that to you and when it does that to you
1:58.5	and the circumstances around that and the messages that one might get, you know?
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