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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Stephen Cope: Yoga and Psychological Health

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2012

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Tami Simon speaks with Stephen Cope, a psychotherapist who studies the relationship between Western psychology and Eastern contemplative traditions. Stephen is the founder and director of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living, the largest yoga research institute in the West. With Sounds True, he has created the audio program Yoga for Emotional Flow: Free Your Emotions through Yoga Breathing, Body Awareness, and Energetic Release. In this interview, Stephen speaks with Tami about deeper dimensions of yoga, including how yoga helps us undo core patterns of aggression and craving in the body. Stephen also discusses “riding the wave,” a process for leaning in and fully experiencing emotion. (61 minutes)

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You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Stephen Cope. Stephen is a psychotherapist who studies the relationship between Western psychology

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and the Eastern contemplemplative Traditions.

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He's the founder and director of the Cripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living,

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the largest Yoga Research Institute in the West.

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With Sounds True, Stephen has created an audio program called Yoga for Emotional Flow.

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Free your emotions through yoga breathing, body awareness, and energetic release, where he details

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the psychology behind the difficult circumstances we create for ourselves through improper handling of our feelings and he shares a

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prescription for effectively relating to anger, fear, grief, joy, and other challenging emotions from a yogic point of view.

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In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Stephen and I spoke about a process called

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Riding the Wave, which allows us to lean in and experience completely

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