Dharma Talk with Henry Winslow

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DT 018: Back to the Roots with Ida Jo and Scott Lamps Jun 28, 2018

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Ida Jo and Scott Lamps are Yoga Acharyas (Masters of Yoga). They are perpetual students of the traditions, methods, and science of yoga and travel internationally to teach. They work closely with Ghosh's Yoga College in Kolkata, India and have published three Practice Manuals describing more than 100 beginning, intermediate, and advanced asanas, pranayamas and pratyahara techniques, plus an in-depth volume about modifying the 26 postures known as Bikram Yoga. Their research, along with Jerome Armstrong, into the history of the Ghosh lineage has yielded 4 publications from Bishnu Ghosh, Dr. Gouri Shankar Mukerji and Buddha Bose.

In this episode, you'll hear from Ida and Scott on:

How a traditional understanding of dharma contradicts the American dream, and how we can reconcile the two and live a yogic life in modern day
Stumbling into the historiography of yoga by accident and their journey to Calcutta, which paved the way for exploration and connection that neither of them had planned or expected
What an individualized, prescribed approach to yoga looks like, and how teachers can apply it to group classes in the US

Announcements:

Sign up for 300-hour Advanced Jared McCann Yoga teacher training this July at Lighthouse Yoga School. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Looking to deepen your practice without the teacher training? Sign up for the 30-hour Yoga Immersion over Labor Day weekend at Lighthouse Yoga School with Jared McCann, Aviad Sasi, and Henry Winslow. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Take a WAYcation this July to Chicago! Join Henry for a fun-filled 4-day weekend of yoga and excursions through Chi-town. Enter code HenryWAYChi (case sensitive) for 10% OFF your 4-day pass: henrywins.com/events

Links from this episode:

Calcutta Yoga: Buddha Bose & the Yoga Family of Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda by Jerome Armstrong on Amazon
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer — Ida's recommended book
From Science to God: A Physicist's Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness by Peter Russell — Scott's recommended book

Get in touch with Ida and Scott!

GhoshYoga.org — Practice manuals, books, teacher training, and resources from Ida Jo and Scott
Ghosh Yoga on Instagram

DT 017: Keep It Ever So Slightly Real with Benjamin Sears Jun 21, 2018

Show notes

Benjamin Sears is an international teacher cited as "a master" by Yoga Journal (Feb, 2017). In 2007 he opened LUXYOGA, a legendary retreat center in the South of France, and now leads Sacred Geometry Vinyasa teacher trainings worldwide. Forever a student, Benjamin is a former athlete who used yoga to heal from a litany of injuries and surgeries and is committed to orienting students towards a healing path. He draws upon empathy, experience, and his studies of Forrest, Katonah, Dharma Mittra, Astanga and Bikram Yoga as well as meditation and movement modalities including the Ido Portal Method to teach what works.

In this episode, you'll hear from Benjamin on:

How to find (and constantly recalibrate) your path through action and avoid paralysis through analysis
Leaving room for improvisation in your life and routine, so that you have a complete arsenal of experiences to draw from, when your circumstances and challenges change
Rumi in era of Instagram, and how to honor and respect a master of his craft
How he developed his signature Sacred Geometry framework, and what compelled him to empower other teachers to share it

Announcements:

Sign up for 300-hour Advanced Jared McCann Yoga teacher training this July at Lighthouse Yoga School. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Looking to deepen your practice without the teacher training? Sign up for the 30-hour Yoga Immersion over Labor Day weekend at Lighthouse Yoga School with Jared McCann, Aviad Sasi, and Henry Winslow. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Take a WAYcation this July to Chicago! Join Henry for a fun-filled 4-day weekend of yoga and excursions through Chi-town. Enter code HenryWAYChi (case sensitive) for 10% OFF your 4-day pass: henrywins.com/events

Links from this episode:

This is Water by David Foster Wallace — Benjamin's recommended reading
The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice byT. K. V. Desikachar — Benjamin's recommended book

Get in touch with Benjamin!

DT 016: Spread the Service with Rachelle Knowles Jun 14, 2018

Show notes

Rachelle Knowles is an Atlanta-based yoga instructor and the founder of Cultivate Union, a community non-profit organization that promotes sustainability, access, and equity in the Atlanta yoga community. Rachelle's work is anchored in the belief that mindful movement and awareness practices are the most democratic tools available for collective healing and positive social change.

In this episode, you'll hear from Rachelle on:

Why yoga should be treated as a legitimate profession, and what she and her non-profit organization are doing about it
What it means to "democratize" yoga at multiple levels, and how yoga teachers with alternative voices, interests, and relationships can access financial resources to continue their education and commitment service
How to reroute your brain toward intentionality and away from reactivity by changing a setting on your phone
Getting inspired by movers and shakers in your community and bringing the same energy to your own zone of genius and passion

Announcements:

TIME SENSITIVE — Enter to win a Liforme travel mat, $50 Airbnb credit, and virtual private lesson with me: henrywins.com/giveaway
Sign up for 300-hour Advanced Jared McCann Yoga teacher training this July at Lighthouse Yoga School. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Looking to deepen your practice without the teacher training? Sign up for the 30-hour Yoga Immersion over Labor Day weekend at Lighthouse Yoga School with Jared McCann, Aviad Sasi, and Henry Winslow. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Take a WAYcation this July to Chicago! Join Henry for a fun-filled 4-day weekend of yoga and excursions through Chi-town. Enter code HenryWAYChi (case sensitive) for 10% OFF your 4-day pass: henrywins.com/events

Links from this episode:

The Giving Kitchen — one of the non-profits that inspired Rachelle to create Cultivate Union
Yoga Buzz — another non-profit that inspired Rachelle to take action
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown — Rachelle's recommended book on Amazon

Get in touch with Rachelle!

DT 015: Face the Battlefield with David Danon Jun 07, 2018

Show notes

David Danon is a multi-faceted yogi with 40 years of practice and over 20 years of teaching experience. In that time, he has founded a clothing line, earned a pilot's license, built motorcycles, and followed a number of other creative pursuits, perhaps all fueled by his deep questioning of authority and the status quo. After a cancer diagnosis in 2012, he embarked on a journey of research and experimentation into the world of traditional and alternative treatments of cancer, which has recently culminated in the release of his new book, Life, Yoga and Cancer: Lessons From the Battlefield.

In this episode, you'll hear from David on:

What yoga, dharma, and improvisational jazz have in common, and why children have a unique advantage to progress in almost anything
Why creativity is overrated when it comes to sequencing, and the value of consistent repetition in both teaching and practice
Dealing with hypersensitive students in class, and what David focuses on to get students to either fall in love or stay in love with yoga
How he used the tools he learned in yoga to respond to a cancer diagnosis, and how anyone can face a worthy opponent in the battlefield of life with grace

Announcements:

Sign up for 300-hour Advanced Jared McCann Yoga teacher training this July at Lighthouse Yoga School. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Looking to deepen your practice without the teacher training? Sign up for the 30-hour Yoga Immersion over Labor Day weekend at Lighthouse Yoga School with Jared McCann, Aviad Sasi, and Henry Winslow. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Take a WAYcation this July to Chicago! Join Henry for a fun-filled 4-day weekend of yoga and excursions through Chi-town. Enter code HenryWAYChi (case sensitive) for 10% OFF your 4-day pass: henrywins.com/events

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DT 014: Take Off the Mask with Jered Seibert May 31, 2018

Show notes

Jered Seibert is the founder of Warrior Wear LLC. Last year in 2017, he left his mutual fund sales work to become a full-time entrepreneur, creating yoga products for men. Drawing upon inspiration from yoga service, and frustrated by the lack of brands and stereotypes of male practitioners, he decided to start his own company.

In this episode, you'll hear from Jered on:

Why he's made it his mission to change the narrow image of yoga for male practitioners, and the importance of finding your "why" as an entrepreneur in any space
How he struggled to take off the mask he wore for years as an insurance salesmen, and why authenticity is especially important in the yoga community
How developing a quality of sensitivity has helped him build connections and create a movement larger than himself

Announcements:

Sign up for 300-hour Advanced Jared McCann Yoga teacher training this July at Lighthouse Yoga School. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Looking to deepen your practice without the teacher training? Sign up for the 30-hour Yoga Immersion over Labor Day weekend at Lighthouse Yoga School with Jared McCann, Aviad Sasi, and Henry Winslow. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Take a WAYcation this July to Chicago! Join Henry for a fun-filled 4-day weekend of yoga and excursions through Chi-town. Enter code HenryWAYChi (case sensitive) for 10% OFF your 4-day pass: henrywins.com/events

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DT 013: Practice Checking In with Jared McCann May 24, 2018

Show notes

Jared McCann is an international yoga teacher, two time national and 2013 world asana champion. He has studied yoga extensively with Dharma Mittra, Anna Forrest, and Mary Jarvis and has decades of practice in Ashtanga, Bikram, Dharma, Forrest, and Iyengar yoga combining all disciplines together in his signature vinyasa series. Jared is the founder of Lighthouse Yoga School in Brooklyn, New York. He leads teacher trainings year round and can be found teaching classes at home and across the globe.

In this episode, you'll hear from Jared on:

The words Jared's guru (his grandmother, Honey) spoke to him to pull him out of an existential crisis during which nothing in life mattered
How yoga asana complicated his childhood meditation practice, and how asana can prepare all of us for the challenges of life and death
Deciding when to "wake the sleeping" and when to be patient and allow people to have their own process
Why Jared decided to open a yoga studio, even though he believed it was a poor business decision

Announcements:

Sign up for 300-hour Advanced Jared McCann Yoga teacher training this July at Lighthouse Yoga School. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Looking to deepen your practice without the teacher training? Sign up for the 30-hour Yoga Immersion over Labor Day weekend at Lighthouse Yoga School with Jared McCann, Aviad Sasi, and Henry Winslow. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Take a WAYcation this July to Chicago! Join Henry for a fun-filled 4-day weekend of yoga and excursions through Chi-town. Enter code HenryWAYChi (case sensitive) for 10% OFF your 4-day pass: henrywins.com/events

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DT 012: Humble the Resistance with Jeanne Heaton May 17, 2018

Show notes

Jeanne Heaton's journey began with the deep realization that if she were to save her life she would need to change it, entirely. After years of debilitating heroin addiction and homelessness, a painful attempt at rehabilitation, and eventually surrender, she discovered hot yoga and realized 'this' was the missing ingredient to her recovery, and that it could be the missing ingredient to everyone's recovery. She received a scholarship to Bikram Yoga Teacher Training in 2010 and went on to co-found the non-profit, 'One Posture at a Time' with Pure Action.org in Texas and Fuel Hot Yoga in Georgia. Jeanne is currently drafting her upcoming book, From Junkie to Yogi, Finding Freedom One Posture at a Time.

In this episode, you'll hear from Jeanne on:

Striking parallels between the 12-step program and the practice of yoga, and how yoga fills a critical missing link in the traditional addiction recovery process
Why addiction is not a problem of the brain, despite popular opinion, and what addiction is truly a symptom of
Why the one person you can't stand or you think you're most different from could be your absolute best, most important teacher
The simple psychic shift Jeanne made (and continues to practice daily) that unlocked the present moment

Announcements:

Sign up for 300-hour Advanced Jared McCann Yoga teacher training this July at Lighthouse Yoga School. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Looking to deepen your practice without the teacher training? Sign up for the 30-hour Yoga Immersion over Labor Day weekend at Lighthouse Yoga School with Jared McCann, Aviad Sasi, and Henry Winslow. Get 10% OFF your tuition with code HENRYWINS: henrywins.com/events
Take a WAYcation this July to Chicago! Join Henry for a fun-filled 4-day weekend of yoga and excursions through Chi-town. Enter code HenryWAYChi (case sensitive) for 10% OFF your 4-day pass: henrywins.com/events

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DT 011: Back in Balance with Michael Fine May 10, 2018

Show notes

Michael Fine's life was tragically altered on the morning of April 14, 2010, when driving to work, he was struck head on by a truck, resulting in the traumatic amputation of his left arm at the shoulder. After the accident, Michael found some relief from Chronic Residual Limb Pain Syndrome through a combination of Hatha Yoga and medical cannabis, both of which he has championed as a teacher and advocate. Michael believes there is no "magic bullet" to pain relief but rather a regular regime of various modalities, all working in unison, to treat the entire person, body, mind and spirit.

In this episode, you'll hear from Michael on:

Readjusting to life after a life-altering accident that pushed Michael to a suicide attempt, and the specific yoga sequence that finally provided relief when nothing else could
The simple yet profound mindshift that got Michael through the trials and tribulations of teacher training, after he had already packed his bags to leave early
What Michael and his wife did to earn the hatred of health insurance companies, and how they're helping to bring medical cannabis to the people of Illinois suffering from serious conditions

Announcements:

Sign up for 300-hour Advanced Jared McCann Yoga teacher training this July at Lighthouse Yoga School: henrywins.com/events
Looking to deepen your practice without the teacher training? Sign up for the 30-hour Yoga Immersion over Labor Day weekend at Lighthouse Yoga School with Jared McCann, Aviad Sasi, and Henry Winslow: henrywins.com/events
Take a WAYcation this July to Chicago! Join Henry in a fun-filled 4-day weekend of yoga and excursions through Chi-town. Enter code HenryWAYChi (case sensitive) for 10% OFF your 4-day pass: henrywins.com/events

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DT 010: Live in Joy with Ainsley Ayres May 03, 2018

Show notes

Ainsley Ayres is a silver medalist from the 2015 and 2017 USA National Yoga Championship and in 2016 finished 4th at the World Yoga Sports Championship. Apart from taking her onto the world stage, yoga has helped Ainsley recover from sport injuries and manage depression, anxiety, and ADHD. But above all else, Ainsley finds unending joy in practicing yoga and sees her life's purpose to spread the practice.

In this episode, you'll hear from Ainsley on:

Putting together a cocktail of mantras to overcome self-doubt, build confidence, and find the joy in life
Being honest and unapologetic with yourself about your obsessions, regardless of what "normal" looks like to others
Why she competes in yoga, and why it has never felt antithetical to the nature of yoga

Announcements:

Access my FREE online library of audio workshops: henrywins.com/practice
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Links from this episode:

Join Ainsley for Bend in Bless, a yoga retreat in Mexico at Casa Om
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams on Amazon
Ainsleyayres.com
Ainsley on Instagram

DT 009: Hold Yourself Accountable with Kino MacGregor Apr 26, 2018

Show notes

Kino MacGregor was one of the youngest women ever to be certified to teach Ashtanga Yoga under Sri. K Pattabhi Jois, and since then she has inspired countless people worldwide to take up a personal yoga practice. She is the founder of OMStars, the world's first dedicated yoga TV network, co-founder Miami Life Center, a traditional Ashtanga yoga center which she runs with her husband Tim Feldman in Miami Beach, and the author of several books, all of which aim to make yoga practice and a yogic life accessible to all.

In this episode, you'll hear from Kino on:

Overcoming internal resistance around assuming the role of teacher, and giving yourself permission to share your knowledge
Failures, surrender, and the power of community to effect change
Capitalization of yoga, yogic values in business, and finding a resolution in the Alo Yoga / Cody legal battle

Announcements:

Access my FREE online library of audio workshops: henrywins.com/practice
Get a FREE 14-day trial of ConvertKit + my 3-pronged list building strategy: henrywins.com/ck

Links from this episode:

Om Stars: Get your first month for $1 with code CELEBRATEONE, or your first year for $80 with CELEBRATEYEAR. Offer expires April 30, 2018.
Animal Hope and Wellness
The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice by Georg Feuerstein on Amazon
Kino's author page on Amazon: Browse all of Kino's books
Kinoyoga.com
Kino on Instagram

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