Thriving after Addiction podcast with Gregor

I’m on Erin’s Geraghty’s Thriving after Addiction podcast in two episodes.

In the first part we talk about body/ mind split versus embodied spirituality and how I developed my anatomical approach to asana. The need to become empty of ambition and replace it with an attitude of pure/ divine love. Yoga as an act of self-love. Why the change of our behaviour towards others in yoga is more important than how great our postures look. You will the first episodes by going to

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/taa147-interview-gregor-maehle-yoga-spirituality-addiction/id1091420582?i=1000433649617&mt=2

Part 2 was very information dense and we covered a lot of interesting things. After looking at liquifying the body in relation to addiction we also touched:

Limitations of joint range of movement and taking flexibility too much
How intense practice can help dissolving obstacles and when you are going too far
Questioning the validity of your sources of information
The importance of practising asana, pranayama and meditation side-by-side and it’s connection to trauma and the triune brain
How conditioning and subconscious imprint has impacted our evolution and history
How by seeing ourselves in our “enemies” we can’t but start loving them (and us)
Why neither meditation nor asana alone by themselves are not enough
Why a code of conduct is important and how it can backfire
Why starting yoga with asana (rather than inner/higher limbs) is a good idea
The importance of asana to counter our society’s tendency to disembodiment
Yoga’s stance towards Vipassana
Yoga’s core approach to meditation and how it gets us to recognizing that we always have choice, thereby increasing our freedom