Soft Jaw Podcast: Recent Episodes
Soft Jaw Productions
Soft Jaw: Yoga Unhinged is an ongoing, candid conversation about the benefits as well as some of downsides and dilemmas of modern yoga between Reagan Louise, a certified yoga instructor returning to the practice with PTSD and Post-Concussive Syndrome from a serious car accident, and Jyoti Devi, the daughter of Australia’s first yoga-guru who feels like the misfit in most yoga classes she attends. What began as a mutual commitment to get back on the mat, became a dialogue about what the what Yoga even is, how the practice affects our experience of our bodies (& our self-hoods), and what we think about contemporary yoga culture. Yoga has come to mean many different things, but what does it really mean? Like, really?
In this special HALLOWEEN release, Jyoti shares her experience doing her dad's yoga DVD for the first time since his death, we wonder what even is the truth (like, is Reagan's shirt UGLY?!) in relation to the Yama Satya, and discuss truth as a means of building community. And we talk being in relationship to death as a practice. Spooooooooky, but also, ya know, just real true.
Are video games yoga? To medicate or not to medicate for pain - both physical and mental. Reagan and Jyoti continue their candid conversation about yoga, trauma, life and practice. And Bridge Pose.
In this episode Jyoti Devi & Reagan Louise talk pigeon pose, periods, divorce & trauma, & Reagan rants a bit about yoga rhetoric...
Jyoti & Reagan begin their candid conversation about yoga with their current yoga relationship status, their yoga origin stories, and discuss yoga as privilege and the need for diverse yoga experiences.