Ruth White - "Teachers, Freinds, and the Sweet Use of Adversity"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Ruth White, author of Presence: The Truth of Yoga, talks with J about egos, teaching methods, and meeting the needs of students. They discuss BKS Iyengar's penchant for "waking you up," friendships between teachers and students, masters becoming famous and making money, Vanda Sacaraveli, Dona Holloman, merits of teaching Savasana, succession of lineage, attitudes towards pain, constitutional strength, restorative classes, standardization and individual expression, tendencies towards leaping ahead, and slowing down to come together.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:13.1	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.7	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.3	If you are new here today, let me welcome you.
0:23.3	Everyone else, what's up?
0:26.6	How's everybody doing?
0:28.5	And let's really be honest about it.
0:30.4	Let's take a moment to check in with ourselves and ask, how are we?
0:38.7	How are you feeling today?
0:42.6	And you know what?
0:43.9	If it's not that great, let's just admit it.
0:47.4	I have observed that there is often an impulse in us,
0:50.3	especially in yoga teachers,
0:52.6	where when we're assessing how we are doing, we want to paint it
0:59.5	in the best possible light. We want to be looking in the direction of healing. We want to be
1:04.5	looking in the direction of things going better. We don't want to be brooding on that which is not going right.
1:13.3	We want to focus on all the things that are going well rather than focusing on the things
1:18.4	that are not.
1:20.1	And that's a very natural impulse and often very useful.
1:26.8	But I also think sometimes there's sort of a taboo around admitting when we're not doing so well.
1:35.4	That's something I've tried to do on this show over the years is at least admit when things feel hard or I'm not doing that well.
1:46.0	And on some level, just when I assess my own body, like my own pain levels,
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