Julie Smerdon - "Shared Practices and Saving Graces"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Julie Smerdon returns to talk with J about meeting the challenge of life's crossroads and the difference between trust and faith. They discuss recent health scares and forced moves, dealing with death and grieving, working through challenges in front of students, reassessing professional direction, prayer as listening, relationship to divinity, forms of personal practice, gym culture and work-out mentality, woman over fifty feeling invisible, getting back to in person teaching at smaller scale, and the sensitivity to hold space for togetherness.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we are. |
| 0:12.9 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
| 0:16.2 | My name is Jay Brown. |
| 0:18.3 | If this happens to be your first time here, let me welcome you. Everyone else, |
| 0:25.2 | what's up? How are we feeling today? Or actually, you don't have to answer that. You know, |
| 0:34.7 | given the state of things right now, when someone says, how are you feeling, |
| 0:41.1 | it could be a potentially very confrontational question. I mean, I meet it as just like a general |
| 0:47.8 | greeting of niceties, whatnot, but I actually do mean it. When I say, how are you feeling? |
| 0:53.5 | I do want us to actually take a moment |
| 0:55.2 | to check into that. And the reality is, is that if there's really difficult things going on or |
| 1:03.0 | challenges that are maybe more than you can totally take in all at once right now for whatever |
| 1:10.3 | reason, given the resources you have, |
| 1:12.6 | then someone asking you to feel into how you are right now. |
| 1:16.6 | How do you feel could actually not be a good thing if you're just trying to get through, |
| 1:22.8 | you know? |
| 1:25.0 | So listen, you don't have to know how you feel |
| 1:28.1 | if that doesn't seem like an appropriate inquiry for you in this moment. |
| 1:33.8 | But I am asking myself that. |
| 1:36.3 | And if you've been around the show of late, you know, |
| 1:39.5 | I've been really seeing if I can do a little assessing of what's going on in a broader yoga world or with other |
| 1:50.1 | yoga teachers and other places in the world. I feel sometimes like it's a really lonely |
| 1:57.5 | profession being a yoga teacher. You're kind of on your own in it and we do the |
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