Techniques for Reframing Perfectionism with Tias Little

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

There's a special place in my heart for Tias Little. I studied with him many years ago and the vivid imagery and metaphor he used had a profound impact on the way I think about the body. He's also got this dry, dry, dry humor that I love. In the years since I studied with Tias, he has started doing dharma talks and one of them inspired this episode.

You see, I think most of us are perfectionists. And, as much as I love to put in a hard day's work full of drive and goal-crushing, perfectionism doesn't lead to happiness. It's an illusion of control that (mostly) takes us out of the present moment and into a myth of life being neat, tidy, and complete. It can also bleed into our relationships with those we care about most -- friends, partners, children -- creating conflict and suffering that's unnecessary.

In this episode, I ask Tias how we can use yoga and Buddhist psychology to become aware of our perfectionist tendencies and reframe them. Over the past few weeks since our conversation, Tias' words have stayed with me and helped me find more freedom and ease. I hope it does the same for you.

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0:30.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 102 of Yoga Land.
0:35.0	I'm so excited to share this interview with you today. It's with T.S. Little who is just someone I
0:44.7	respect so much and he is wonderful to listen to, wonderful to learn from.
0:50.8	Tis is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and he directs a school with
0:56.2	his wife Suria called Pragna Yoga. You can find out more at progeny yoga.
1:00.8	And Tius is the author of three books, The Thread of Breath, Meditations on A Due Drop, and Yoga of the Subtle
1:07.5	Body. Ties has a very long relationship with yoga, and I asked him about that in the beginning of the interview.
1:14.6	His mother started doing yoga first and so he watched his mother and then took up a
1:20.1	Yangar practice and then eventually a stronger practice.
1:23.2	But he is really his own type of teacher.
1:26.8	He's trained in many different modalities.
1:28.8	He's a licensed therapist.
1:30.5	He's done in-depth training in cranial sacral. He's influenced by Ida Rolf and
1:35.9	Felden Christ. He's also a meditator and a student of Tibetan and Zen Buddhism.
1:42.6	And he also has a master's degree in Eastern philosophy.
1:46.0	So he's got a lot to say, and he weaves
1:49.8	all of these different studies together
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