Sally Kempton - "Obedience, Tantra, and Subtle Body"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Sally Kempton, author of Meditation for the Love of It and Awakening Shakti, talks with J about different paths in yoga and opening the subtle body. They discuss the 70's yoga scene, Swami Muktananda and her "30 years in obedience," why she left the ashram life and became a householder, asceticism and tantra, personal enlightenment vs collective good, spontaneous kundalini experiences and goddesses, "the magical level," and the mystical elements of yoga that people are usually reticent to talk about. This episode is sponsored by Moonclerk.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:13.3	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.4	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.3	How you doing?
0:20.3	Are you new? If so, hi, welcome. Everyone else? It's one of
0:28.5	those weeks, y'all. It's one of those weeks where I'm making this happen by the hair of my
0:34.8	chinny chin chin.
0:41.3	It's like a last-minute situation here.
0:46.1	Honestly, about 20 minutes ago, I was falling asleep because I was in my backyard working on the fence all day
0:51.0	in the hot sun, 90-degree hot sun, working my ass off. And I have no energy.
0:58.8	I'm very low energy. Not usually the kind of energy level I would want to be bringing to
1:07.6	this intro, but what are you going to do?
1:11.5	Show's got to go on, and, you know, sometimes you just, you do what you got to do.
1:17.4	You make it happen, right?
1:18.3	I'm sure you're doing that in your life in lots of areas, too.
1:23.5	So, here we are.
1:27.1	And I have a wonderful story, actually, for you, about working on the fence today.
1:34.9	But I'm going to save it for the other side of today's conversation.
1:39.2	So if you want to stick around to the other side, I got a little story about the fence.
1:48.1	For now, I just want to introduce you to today's talk with Sally Kempton. If you've been around for the last few weeks,
1:55.2	you have probably noticed that there's a very particular thread that I've just been pulling
2:00.4	on it. I keep asking everybody about it
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