It feels at once difficult and incredibly easy to describe Sarah Powers and her work. She’s yet another beautiful embodiment of the intention of this podcast. A multidisciplinary practitioner, teacher, innovator, woman, mother, and global citizen, she offers 35 years of some of the deepest and most committed messages of interpersonal insight on how best for our species to thrive. This, all while we learn to survive and face the consequences of climate change and the many distractions we have invented to look away from ourselves, each other, and the planet.
All of this has to do with the ground, as she describes in our conversation, of practice. One of the founders of Yin Yoga, author of Insight Yoga (2008) and Lit from Within (2021), and co-creator—along with her husband, Ty Powers—of the Insight Yoga Institute, her teachings are, in my mind, central to the importance and impact of modern yoga.
Share this episode and Sarah’s work with everyone you know. The sound of her voice alone is worth taking in. That’s before you get to the import of her message, her life’s work. Enjoy!
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Terms and references:
1. Sarah Powers
2. Insight Yoga, by Sarah Powers
3. Lit from Within, by Sarah Powers
4. Ida: one of the nadis, or channels of energy. Ida is the left channel, which has a moonlike nature and feminine energy.
5. Pingala: one of the nadis. Pingala is the right channel, which has a sunlike nature and masculine energy.
6. Sushumna: one of the nadis. Sushumna is the central and most important channel.
8. Ty Powers
9. Iyengar yoga: a style of yoga, founded by B.K.S. Iyengar, focusing on the structural alignment of the body through the poses.
10. Ashtanga yoga: a style of yoga, popularized by Pattabhi Jois, consisting of six series with a fixed order of poses.
11. YogaWorks
12. Erich Schiffmann
13. Bernie Clarke
14. Paul Grilley
15. Paul Grilley on The Weeks Well
16. Psychosynthesis: a type of psychology focused on a purposeful future, giving individuals the capacity to reorient their lives in the direction of meaning and values.
18. Vipassana: an ancient meditation technique focused on self-observation.
19. Tantric: a type of Buddhism that focuses on mystical practices and concepts as a path to enlightenment.
20. Dzogchen: utilizes methods of meditation and yoga that help one fully awaken from illusions of self and reality that cause suffering in life.
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Episode credits:
Original music by Kim's band Governess.
Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.
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