EP 22 - On Board the Yoga Bus with Joseph Lauricella - a podcast by Mark Whitwell
from 2021-04-23T13:18:50
As yoga studios shut down across the world, yoga teacher Joseph Lauricella came untethered from his Chicago teaching space, yet he wanted to find a safe way to be in Nature and continue to share practices of breath and intimacy with yourself with people.
The ‘The Yoga Bus’ project was born.
Continuing public education into Yoga as spiritual practice, so much more than fitness.
Joseph Lauricella is the author of 3am Bull Rider, a memoir about living on the road across the United States in 1995, Codi and the Maple Tree, a children’s book based on his experiences rescuing a wolf cub and living with him and 42 other wolves for a year.
In addition to being an author, Joseph is a master yoga teacher and bodyworker, which inspired him to write and publish: Postures, Prayers, and Poems: A Yoga Journey Through Earth Body and Soul, which he reads us a poem from in this podcast.
Joseph currently lives on the Yoga Bus with his two Chihuahua Yoga dogs and is working on his next book. He has a degree in Sociology and Native American Studies and is deeply influenced by mentorship within Lakota traditions, as well as his own Roman Catholic Italian immigrant family background.
Mark and Joseph discuss teaching in a natural, non-patterned way, just sharing, how to adapt to changing circumstances and where the motivation to do so comes from.
As well as Yoga as a reminder of the state of unconditional love, handling overwhelm of worldly patterning, and being on the road with the Grateful Dead as a template for the Yoga Bus.
Joseph and Mark talk about Roman Catholic Italian origins and how this mixes with Yoga, and discovering Yoga as a Catholic — do Christians need Yoga?
And finally Joseph reads us the poem ‘Breath’ from his book Postures, Prayers and Poems.
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