“Not everybody’s ready to deal with their shit.”
This week we’re back with a TREAT for y’all in the form of our very first interview with the loved legend herself, Jenny Smith, who has been teaching the two of us the ways of kundalini yoga for a few years now. First, a quick heads up as we had some technical issues with the sound on this one, so find a quiet space where you can crank the volume and let’s get into it!
We start the episode chatting to Jenny about what Kundalini yoga is and how she got into it herself. Hear first-hand how Jenny found this practice at a time in her life when things just weren’t making sense and she knew something was missing. We discuss what a typical 90-minute class with Jenny entails and how, for some of us, our egos fight the work that’s involved in strengthening the mind/body connection.
From there we get a mini-history lesson on how Kundalini traveled from the East to the West via guru Yogi Bhajan, and the discussion opens up conversations about power dynamics in the yoga community, the science behind kundalini and it’s specific type of breathwork (prana yama), and explanations of traditional kundalini rites and rituals like wearing white and head-wrapping.
The episode wraps up with an intense conversation on consciousness and the human experience. Jenny shares how this path gave her answers to questions she’d never had answers to, and our pair offer up their own experiences of transformation in class and out. We end the episode with a mini breathwork session to give y’all a taste of what you might find in a Kundalini class, and an agreement that no matter what consciousness looks like to any of us, the defining factor throughout seems to always come back to love.
Interview Recorded 13/12/2020
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