Yoga Happiness Podcast by Burgundie

My dear friend and comic book artist, writer, educator, and wonderful human, Victor Dandridge, Jr. shared his journey from teen to today along the road of doing what he loves and sharing it with others. He is an inspiration to me, and I hope to you, too!

In this episode, local yoga teacher, Lauren Strawn and I go off on all kinds of tangents that revolve around the dirty laundry about yoga and how we might best help the image of yoga.

In the last of the series on happiness, we watch Dan Gilbert's TED talk called "The Surprising Science of Happiness" and then we discuss it. What are your thoughts about being able to create our own happiness or choose happiness?

Our discussion goes from the joy that comes from sharing food with others to the loss of pets. In the middle we discuss an article based on a study finding people with more self discipline are happier. What do you think?

We sort of conclude our discussion about whether the pursuit of happiness of the purpose of life and continue to decide of the word should be seek or create or reveal. We continue discussing the simplicity of happiness as a goal.

What do you think?

YOGA TALKS Happiness Part 1 by Burgundie miceli

My interview with Dr. Charles von Gunten was such a delightful experience. He shared the story of how he chose palliative care and how the nurses we worked with gently taught him to unlearn some of the standard practices of care that he had learned for other disciplines.

We discuss the difference between hospice and palliative care, as well as the hospice model and how different it is from other medical specialties. Why can't we treat patients with this kind of care in all areas of medicine?

And we talked about the beauty that can be seen and experienced in the death of a loved one. I've experienced that myself and we talk about that.

I hope you enjoy this discussion.

Honestly, I think this was the best YOGA Talks session yet, even better than Compassion Part 3.

I would love to know your thoughts, questions, comments, so please leave them below or where ever you're launching this from.

Take good care of yourself.

~Burg

In our third conversation about compassion we finally landed on a good discussion which actually caused me to forget about stopping and restarting my camera before it hit the 29 minute mark (it's not a camcorder). We even ran over in the discussion a bit because we just couldn't stop talking!

I hope you enjoy this conversation.

This week, Marianne, Jeremy, and I discuss types of suffering that we mean when we're doing loving-kindness meditations to remove suffering. We discuss our Self-Compassion Test results and thoughts regarding the Naikan practice.

Check out the www.patreon.com/yogahappiness page for more content related to compassion!