the thrill of getting over embarrassment: from awkward to confident teaching yoga & everything else
Episode description
5 steps to let go of your embarrassment whether that’s in life, teaching yoga, or creating. Let’s talk embarrassment, fear, perfectionism, how to be confident, self-compassion, awkward people, self-conscious people, and why highly embarrassed people are also often highly judgmental people. Public speaking is a major part of teaching yoga, so let’s dissect in thrilling detail how we can confidently share what we know.
“The minute that we stop overstating our own self-importance, the embarrassment and tightness of trying to uphold some image of yourself, starts to fade away.”
Included: Gene key 26 by Richard Rudd: moving from pride to artfulness to invisibility.
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Time stamps:
00:00 intro
01:00 tulip story
06:30 Myke Towers tomato face embarrassment
10:00 confidence teaching yoga
12:00 don’t “just jump”
13:00 your best is not good enough yet
15:00 the art of getting over embarrassment
16:15 freestyle sponsors:
18:50 OfferingTree
20:25 Yoga Trade
22:30 TEND
24:30 5 steps to overcome embarrassment
26:00 Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
30:30 defense vs offense in embarrassment
34:00 step 1: be seen as dumb
36:30 Adam Sandler and David Letterman
42:00 judgmental people
43:50 step 2: play with contrast
48:00 step 3: face physical fear
49:00 teaching yoga embarrassing stories
55:00 pre-teaching tangible action to take
56:30 step 4: stop restraining yourself
59:00 decisiveness
1:02:00 step 5: turn pride into art, and become invisible
1:06:00 artfulness quote
1:11:00 invisible, why do we want to disappear
1:12:45 when you make yourself self-important
1:15:00 you don’t need a life ring