Rolf Gates: How Spiritual Friendship Allowed Me to Exit the Cave of Craving

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Rolf Gates is a yoga teacher, counselor, and author who cofounded the Yoga, Meditation, and Recovery Conference and currently teaches at Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center. With Sounds True, he has published the audio program Meditations on the Mat: Practices for Living from the Heart and co-wrote the children's book Yoga Friends. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Rolf about his unique background as a former US Army Airborne Ranger and addictions counselor, as well as how those experiences brought him to contemplative practice. They discuss how yoga can soothe both mental and physical agitation, bringing the mind and body into greater harmony. Finally, Rolf explains how he discovered the power of prayer and opening to grace, and why that discovery led him to embrace gratitude as a way of life. (63 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, guest is Rolf Gates.
0:44.3	Rolf is a leading voice of modern yoga philosophy and practice.
0:49.0	He's the co-founder of the Yoga Meditation and Recovery Conference, a teacher at Spirit Rock Insight
0:56.2	Meditation Center, and he's also on the Advisory Board for the Yoga Service
1:01.2	Council and the Veterans Yoga Project,
1:04.0	a former Addictions Counselor and U.S. Army Airborne Ranger
1:10.0	who has practiced meditation for over 25 years,
1:13.6	Rolf brings his eclectic background
1:16.8	to his practice and his teachings.
1:18.8	What sounds true,
1:20.4	Rolf has released a new audio program called Meditations From the Mat.
1:26.0	Practices for Living From the Heart, where he teaches about the fundamental skills of being from the map and into the world.
1:36.0	In this episode of Insights at the Edge,
1:39.0	Rolf and I spoke about how just one caring person can increase our resiliency and the many gifts that can come from spiritual friendship.
1:50.0	We also talked about how Wolf learned to soothe himself and care and calm himself through the practice of yoga and through managing contracted states in the body, and how from this he learned that if the body lets
2:07.7	go, the mind will also let go.
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