š”For the month of August, we're re-releasing a few of our favorite podcasts from the 2023 season so far. Enjoy listening (or re-listening!) to these talks and, as always, tell us your thoughts and send over guest ideas.
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Seane Corn is one of the most influential people in modern yoga. Her journey in yoga teaching and service work started after her teacher training and at the moment she "niched" into a student group she believed she could help. When she met her students at Children of the Night, a non-profit serving girls between 12-17 who had been sex trafficked, she says they served her, rather than the other way around. Since then she has taken her career into many important areas of the yoga market: She has raised millions of dollars for the various organizations she has founded and/or served (see: Off The Mat Into The World), written a popular book (Revolution of the Soul), and continued to teach her heart out. Now, after 25 years of teaching yoga, she is starting a teacher training program. In this conversation, taped in May, we dove deeply into the shadow work she has done to evolve her practiceāto drive her pain into purpose. Seane talked to me about how wonderfully adjunctive both psychotherapy and the map of the energetic body have been as she continues excavating and embracing the fact that a spiritual path means recognizing that weāre all capable of hurting and being hurt.
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Terms:
1. Vagus nerve: responsible for the regulation of internal organ functions, such as heart rate and respiratory rate, as well as vasomotor activity, and certain reflex actions, such as coughing
2. Tantrika: relating to Tantra (a practice using yantra and mantra to experience the union of the positive and negative forces within an individual)
3. Prana: the vital energy
4. Chakras: seven energy points running from the base of the spine to the crown of the head
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References:
2. ā Revolution of the Soul, by Seane Cornā
4. ā Yoga Sutras of Patanjaliā
6. ā The Weeks Well episode with John Schumacherā
7. ā The Weeks Well episode with Rob Schwareā
9. ā The Weeks Well episode with Eddie Sternā
10. ā The Weeks Well episode with Stephen Copeā
11. ā Off the Mat Into the Worldā
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Episode credits:
Original music by Kim's band Governess.
Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.
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