Historically, during times of political and cultural strife, people become more interested in self care. That means that right now, self-care is an incredibly important and popular topic (to the tune of 9 million hashtags on Instagram!). Self care means different things to different people. It’s not all bubble baths and mani/pedis (although, there’s certainly nothing wrong with those!)
I think of yoga as a radical form of self care because yoga builds self-awareness — of your unique constitution, your needs, your strengths, and the parts of you that require extra attention and shoring up. That’s why I decided to focus on self care for this episode. It’s a live episode recorded at the prAna store in San Francisco, with yoga teacher and astrologer Susannah Freedman and nurse practitioner Caitlin Hildebrand.
We talk about:
- How remembering one’s purpose can be a motivation for self care
- Teaching yoga as a form of self care
- What yoga philosophy says about self care and how we can apply that to modern life
- The line between self-care and self-obsession/narcissism
RECOMMENDED AND RELATED LINKS
Self-Care: A Working Definition from The New York Times
Episode 125: Yoga and Astrology – When the Stars (and Your Chakras) Align
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