Jillian Pransky on Deep, Somatic Listening

Jillian Pransky is a Certified Yoga Therapist, a teacher and an author of the new book, Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind and Open Your Heart. In this interview, Jillian dives deep into the topic of somatic listening; what it is, why it's important, how to do it and the benefits you can expect. Restorative Yoga is an avenue for this type of work and it can be life changing to say the least. Do you experience tension in your body? Do you have unpleasant feelings? Do you feel exhausted? If your answer is yes or sometimes to any of these questions, you'll want to hear what Jillian Pransky has to say in this episode.

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In This Interview, Jillian Pransky and I Discuss...

Her book, Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind and Open Your Heart
How she used to believe anxiety and depression was a choice
Learning to be with the bad wolf
Befriending her bad wolf
That not everything can be fixed
When surrender is needed
Not being able to fix some way someone has treated us
Restorative Yoga
Paying attention to our body and mind so that we're aware of how we shut down and open up and to be with it with openness
Deep listening to yourself can leave you more hard and cutoff or open and tender
The tension in our body signifying the stress response
Paying attention long enough that it softens and shifts
Judging the tension we find in our bodies
Getting curious about the tension we find, breathing into it
Asking "How am I still guarding myself when I don't have to be?" during Restorative Yoga
"Doing Less"
How the busier we are the less we have to feel
Listening is the act of allowing
Love is the act of allowing
Allowing yourself to be supported even when you're active
That which is regular is way better than that which is a lot
A little bit all the time re-wires us
How exhausting it is to be somewhere we're not
Our thoughts are like social media
Forward thinking and past thinking after present moment being
Letting go vs Letting be
Analogy of salt in water: shot glass vs mason jar
"The practice isn't about learning how to stay here but learning how to come back."