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Josh & Terry Summers

Josh & Terry Summers

Creative and functional approach to the spiritual path, weaving insights and practices from Yin Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and ancient wisdom traditions

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Interviews with Matthew Remski

In this series of interviews, Matthew Remski explores the conditions of high-demand groups that contribute to the deception of group members, a dynamic whereby members of the group are implicitly or explicitly deceived about the origins and legitimacy of their group and leaders.
 

Matthew Remski: Lighting a Path Forward for Safety and Transparency

September 30, 2019

Josh Summers Podcast, yin yoga, meditation, teacher training, yoga podcast

The themes of power abuse, toxic group dynamics, and victim blaming are important themes for anyone who occupies the space of a yoga mat or a meditation cushion in the modern yoga landscape. Matthew Remski explains what reform might look like as yoga culture moves forward.

Matthew Remski: The Dynamics of Deception and Enablement

September 16, 2019

Josh Summers Podcast, yin yoga, meditation, teacher training, yoga podcast

The Jois family held tightly to its narrative of legitimacy until, well, they didn’t. And this is what is both eerie and fascinating about the recent developments in the Ashtanga community. Here we see, in real time, the efforts of an organization to “brandwash” its unfortunate history.

Matthew Remski: Exposing Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse

July 15, 2019

Josh Summers Podcast, yin yoga, meditation, teacher training, yoga podcast

For over three decades, Pattabhi Jois sexually and physically abused his yoga students, mostly women. This abuse happened in plain sight. To understand how this was possible requires an exploration of toxic group dynamics, methods of deception, and networks of complicity. Matthew Remski explains this all in his book, “Practice and All Is Coming.”

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The Everyday Sublime podcast is the yogi’s companion to a full spectrum spiritual practice. Through interviews, conversations and dharma talks, Josh and his guests reflect on the highs, lows and plateaus of the journey to greater unity.

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Latest Podcast Episodes

  • The Tiger + The Snake Revisited | Dharma Story March 26, 2023
  • The Tiger + The Snake | Dharma Story March 14, 2023
  • Jung + The Rainmaker | Dharma Story March 7, 2023
  • Kisagotami and the Mustard Seed February 27, 2023
  • Ozzie’s Dharma February 22, 2023

Popular Interviews:

  • Bernie Clark: The Science of Yin Yoga
  • Paul Grilley: Psychology, Spirituality and Yin Yoga
  • Dr. Judith Blackstone: Healing Within Fundamental Consciousness
  • David Lesondak: All Things Fascia
  • Dr. Richard Schwartz: Healing the Internal Family
  • Greg Thomas: Race, Jazz and Healing
  • Dr. Ellen Langer: Mindfulness Without Meditation
  • Dr. Judson Brewer: Saving Ourselves From Ourselves
  • Dr. Daniel Keown: Jellyfish, Channels and Qi

Favorite Talks:

  • A Functional Approach to Harmonizing Qi with Yin Yoga
  • Dharma Talk – Seeing and Freeing Patterns
  • Yin Meditation – The Instructions
  • Yin Yoga – The Universal Donor
  • Yin Meditation – The Rhythmic Pulse of Consciousness

Brands we have been involved with:

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Runner’s World
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Yoga U
Yoga Journal

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