Carling Harps on Yoga Community, Collective Liberation & Joyful Movement

In this episode, Carling Harps shares her journey through 15 years of teaching yoga and how her practice has evolved over time. She reflects on cueing, identity, accessibility, and learning to trust the different seasons of practice. Carling speaks to the importance of yoga community, joy and play in a movement practice, and why there is no self-liberation without collective liberation. 

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Time Stamps:

00:00 intro

01:10 offering tree 

04:02 when you think about yoga, what do you see?

06:25 consistency in yoga practice 

08:00 trusting the different seasons of your practice

11:00 identity in yoga

12:25 the misconception that yoga will heal you

14:41 hyper-individualism in yoga

16:51 self-realization vs self-obsession

18:00 “there is no self-liberation without collective-liberation”

20:14 fostering yoga community 

26:00 walking alongside your students

28:55 cueing, alignment, & injuries 

36:38 diversifying your movement practice 

40:36 weightlifting & energy

46:23 play & joy in movement as an adult

48:37 as yoga teachers, what is our responsibility to address what’s going on in the world?

52:27 do you think yoga can change the world?

56:10 both systemic change and individual change

01:00:00 yoga is political

01:02:22 expand your yoga worldview

01:08:00 billboard question