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🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Nick Beem, co-founder of Grateful Yoga, talks with J about the implications of yoga as ritual vs technology. They discuss the contrasts between Nicks training in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and ParaYoga, why framing yoga as a set of tools for self improvement is lacking, becoming fatigued by intellectual gyrations, intention empowering practice more than some universal metaphysics, recognizing our animistic ancestry and a More Than Human world, and learning to ride the slippery edge where doing and surrender blend together.
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0:00.0 | All right, button pressing has commenced. |
0:15.7 | The time space between us, between me sitting here recording and you listening has been bridged. |
0:25.8 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. How's it going? Who are you? Are you new? |
0:34.3 | Welcome. Have you been here before? Welcome back. Appreciate whoever you are. |
0:43.2 | I am wondering, as I sit here this day, I'm wondering, is anyone who is listening to this feel as though their life has gone back to normal? |
1:00.1 | I know that's a loaded question. |
1:04.9 | But I look around and it seems like there's other people whose lives have returned to some kind of |
1:12.2 | normalcy and they seem to be feeling good about stuff. I have just been in such a high level |
1:20.9 | of crisis. Those of you who have been around, you know, I'm going through a lot and it continues |
1:26.0 | to be so up and down. I remember when stuff |
1:31.9 | first started happening with my daughter and I was talking about it on the show. I said, |
1:36.9 | I think it's going to be some rough waters. Well, I had no idea how rough those waters could get, |
1:43.2 | my friends. |
1:48.8 | I suppose if you are someone who feels like things are going well for you right now, |
1:52.0 | I don't mean to make you feel shitty about that. |
1:54.6 | That's a beautiful thing. |
1:55.7 | I would humbly suggest that you count those blessings and hold them dear. |
2:03.4 | But if you're more like me and everything still feels pretty messed up on whatever levels it might meal messed up for you, |
2:14.4 | and you're looking around and thinking, am I the only one? |
2:18.7 | Is everybody okay but me? |
2:21.7 | I feel like I want to say, no. |
2:25.2 | You're not the only one. |
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