Episode 43: Conversations about life, yoga, philosophy between Dora and Cam - episode 1

Spira Power Yoga's Podcast

Dora is the owner of Spira Power Yoga; she teaches mindfulness, resilience, and burnout prevention classes and yoga teacher trainings.
Cam is a yoga student at Spira Yoga who is seeking a new journey at midlife.
We sat down and recorded a few casual conversations about life, yoga, philosophy, and books.
This recording is our first conversation. Enjoy!
Below you will the timeline:
- Gratitude
1.35 Orientation to place in life
2.15 Involuntary nature of interest
2.55 What about this studio drew my attention
3.30 description of something "missing"
4.12 Autopoietic
6.30 the persistent draw of yoga practice
7.50 Hard to put a finger on it
8.27 difference between yoga and manipulative bodywork
10.15 sacred nature/all in one place at one time
10.15 Operation of imagination
11.55 Loving attention
12.39 Maya - illusion
15.15 Teacher
15.70 What is real (figure it out?)
16.45 Assertion: growth only happens under adversity
17.30 Love and grief
18.15 lila, dukkha
18.41 Figuring it out
18.45 Trickster
18.73 Deadly serious game (nobody gets out alive not even Jesus Christ)
20.15 Everyone is a teacher
20.22 Definition of adult: taking responsibility for one's actions in an honest manner (that's teaching
20.55 Useful pattern of behavior (not necessary to figure it out)
21.62 Joy of sharing motivates teaching
21.74 Not cling the o outcome
22.12 Attempt to manipulate blocks flow of information
22.71 Not feeding the beast limits a certain growth (maybe good future conversation
24.70 "Beast " of capitalist culture/ teaching as opposed to "following"
25.02 Teacher shows way (not one you "follow ") from the book Desikachar - The Heart of Yoga
25.62 Sticky nature of popularity
26.02 Quality of exchange with students after closing "robust" studio.
27.12 Fundamental motivation to act
28.02 Sense of wonder
29.72 Paradox of the world
30.92 The journey is the point
32.02 we mentioned author Jonathan Haidt , The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind
32.02 Book mentioned; Fourth Turning
35.42 Relationship between the state of physiology and familiarity with the
36.07 Culture and nature (epigenetic brothers; error to separate)
37.47 Put a pin in nature/nurture dialog
39.16 What is truly necessary ("real need")
40.12 Living necessity/need for order
41.40 Attempt to come back to topic of Fourth Turning and the hopeful message that we are at the end of a speculum (a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population).
43.32 Proposition: we carry history in our bodies (attribute nose comment to Sadhguru)
43.32 What do we (mid-life and elder) need to let go of, and what are the essential elements of history that the youngsters are ignorant of? Need to "hold space for something greater."
44.47 timeline of yogic teaching
46.32 The nature of how we create love and foster relationship does not change; we (as a species) sometimes forget how; that's what changes.
46.47 Nature of verbal language
47.62 Fear of and clumsiness with emotion
50.82 Communicating is "the practice"
52.52 Perception of, "not being right" as a primary threat
53.32 Beauty of living yoga: allow self to tease back reality
54.42 Responsibility to create as little harm as possible