Leadership and Yoga Carling Harps on Yoga Community, Collective Liberation & Joyful Movement
In this episode, Carling Harps shares her journey through 15 years of teaching yoga and how her practice has evolved over time. She reflects on cueing, identity, accessibility, and learning to trust the different seasons of practice. Carling speaks to the importance of yoga community, joy and play in a movement practice, and why there is no self-liberation without collective liberation.
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Time Stamps:
00:00 intro
01:10 offering tree
04:02 when you think about yoga, what do you see?
06:25 consistency in yoga practice
08:00 trusting the different seasons of your practice
11:00 identity in yoga
12:25 the misconception that yoga will heal you
14:41 hyper-individualism in yoga
16:51 self-realization vs self-obsession
18:00 “there is no self-liberation without collective-liberation”
20:14 fostering yoga community
26:00 walking alongside your students
28:55 cueing, alignment, & injuries
36:38 diversifying your movement practice
40:36 weightlifting & energy
46:23 play & joy in movement as an adult
48:37 as yoga teachers, what is our responsibility to address what’s going on in the world?
52:27 do you think yoga can change the world?
56:10 both systemic change and individual change
01:00:00 yoga is political
01:02:22 expand your yoga worldview
01:08:00 billboard question