Less Show, More Soul.

少做秀,多做灵魂。

Good Life Project

自我完善

2014-08-07

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So, we're having a bit of fun in August, calling it the "GLP Summer Jam." Instead of our longer interviews this month, we're doing a full month of short and sweet visual essay jam sessions. It's a great way to get you thinking about bigger questions as you shift your energy down a bit, slow down and take some time to explore the bigger ideas that'll let you set up the second half of the year with a sense of greater purpose and alignment. Plus this 2 to 5-minute format is perfect for viewing on vacation or on the go! First up is a visual essay version of something I wrote a while back entitled "Less Show, More Soul." It'll take you on a quick journey to the Mexican Riviera and a big lesson I learned in a very public way. One that I still explore on a regular basis. It's about coming from a place of integrity and service, rather than posturing and theater. Big takeaway... An audience stays as long as you perform. A community stays as long as you serve. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Welcome to Good Life Project, where we take you behind the scenes for in depth, candid conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, makers and world shakers.

  • Here's your host, Jonathan Fields.

  • It's 2002 Mexican Riviera, and I'm sweating, sweating almost violently barefoot in the middle of a tile thatched with palapa, just feet from the rolling surf.

  • I'm there with a yoga wonderkin, Baron Baptiste, and the famed Kirtan singer Krishna Das, aka KD, and about 100 sweaty humans trained to become yoga teachers.

  • And we practice and we teach and we move and we twist and grind and stretch and we shake until we can no longer move.

  • And my head is pounding.

  • Fruit is abundant, but all I want is caffeine.

  • And a fan, maybe.

  • And on the last day, something different happens.

  • Baptiste begins to call postures and minutes in.

  • His number two takes over the call up dog and then down dog, and fingers wide and palms kiss the mat.

  • He tags number three, who then takes us through sun salutations, and I kind of start to see a pattern.

  • I know what's coming.

  • Three others on his team, then they take the teaching baton as we flow, and 100 nubile bodies pose by pose through the soupy morning air.

  • And Baron steps in to lead us again.

  • But I've done the math.

  • 90 minutes remain.

  • Who's going to leave now?

  • So I stand in Namaskar mountain pose erect at the mat's edge and hands in prayer as the universe sweats through me, just waiting.

  • And I look at Baron.