Tori Lunden - "How Not To Teach Yoga"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Tori Lunden, author of How Not To Teach Yoga: Lessons on Boundaries, Accountability, and Vulnerability - Learnt the Hard Way, talks with J about the need for yoga teachers to take an honest look at themselves and have the courage to evolve. They discuss Tori's progression from social work into yoga, being a wannabe guru, the pros and cons of charisma, the manipulation of people pleasing, boundaries and accountability, authenticity with skill, self-righteousness, humility, inclusion, and challenging ourselves to grow and do better.

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0:00.0	Okay, I hit record. You hit play. You know, that means this is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:24.9	My name is Jay Brown, and I appreciate you doing that.
0:26.2	I appreciate that you've hit play.
0:27.3	Thank you.
0:29.7	Welcome to you, whoever you are.
0:42.9	Not going to lie, it feels inappropriate to try and bring some big fun energy to the intro this week.
0:53.4	I've been really doing my best to not let the anxieties and fears that we're dealing with overshadow too much of what happens when I'm
0:57.3	speaking to you because I want to try to resonate the energies and songs that I want to hear
1:05.0	and not be echoing the horrors that are instilling so much dismay.
1:13.5	But it was freaking hard this week. It was overwhelming the uptick.
1:18.8	And I'm sure I'm not the only one who felt it.
1:23.7	And it's interesting because we were talking on the show a few weeks back about
1:29.4	fields of collective energy and experience. And I'm sure we're all reading the same news
1:39.2	story, so we see what's happening and there's reasons for concern perhaps and then there's also something
1:49.3	else I want to propose because I turned away from the news for a couple days this week. I just
1:55.6	like I can't pay attention to that for a while and try to really focus on, like I'm saying, the songs
2:03.7	I want to hear. And it was not easy. I felt it was just all around me, the kind of sadness and the
2:13.1	fear and it was very hard to escape it.
2:18.9	And what I observed was that the moments in which I was able to really relinquish this effort of trying to be in the world and just feel my way into the experience of my wondrous life in this moment.
2:44.9	The brief glimmers of time that I did find my way there this week were very intense, that given how difficult
2:57.1	it was to actually tame all those vritis, all the fluctuations and, again, just fear and all of it just to see if I could sort it and direct my
3:13.2	attention to this feeling of me and in those moments it was just like a golden light shining down.
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