the thrill of getting over embarrassment: from awkward to confident teaching yoga & everything else

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