Summer Series Ep 5: Is it possible to balance effort and ease?

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We've gotten several questions from listeners about how to find the right balance between working hard and surrendering during yoga postures. How to find that elusive balance of two seemingly conflicting ideals, whether on our yoga mats or in our lives, leaves many of us scratching our heads.

Like so many things in yoga, the answer is complicated. But in this episode, Jason and I share some of our insights and do our best to tackle the question.

Here's what we cover:

* What Patanjali wrote about the idea of effort and ease in The Yoga Sutra and how Jason interprets it

* What Joel Kramer meant by "playing the edge" in yoga postures and how Jason and I approach the concept

* Practical advice for when to work hard and when to back off

* How to tell whether physical limitations are in the structure of the joint or the soft tissue

Show notes: http://jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode111

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 111 of Yoga Land.
0:04.5	I know what you are.
0:07.5	It's also episode five of our summer series and as you'll hear me say when I start talking to
0:16.4	Jason, yay Jason's all on I want like a little backtrack back what am I looking
0:22.3	for the word I'm looking for background sound of like
0:25.3	clapping that cheers that Jason's on. You'll hear me talk about the fact that in hindsight
0:31.4	I could have done this episode first.
0:33.8	Editorial as an editor, always editing myself,
0:37.4	it's pretty annoying.
0:38.4	I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about these things.
0:41.6	But this, I think, is a very foundational idea and episode when I think about what it means to create a sustainable practice and it's based on two questions that we, well, I read two questions that we got from
0:54.0	listeners, but we actually got several more iterations of these questions and they
0:59.8	basically are around the idea of A, how do I balance effort and surrender, what does that mean, and what is that?
1:07.0	How do I know when I've gone past the balance point?
1:11.0	And then B, how do I really engage in progressing in my practice
1:17.1	without overdoing it in my body structure so as it sometimes does with my dear husband it took me a little bit of
1:27.3	convincing I feel in the beginning of this episode to get him on board with directly answering these questions. But rest
1:36.2	short by the end of the episode he offers some really great straightforward
1:41.1	direct answers.
1:42.8	And I got to talk about Joel Kramer,
1:44.8	which is always just, you know, I don't know, makes me happy.
1:48.1	I haven't thought about Joel Kramer in a long time,
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