{"id":8248,"date":"2023-05-26T07:59:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:06:38","slug":"ivan-interview-on-the-yoga-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/26\/ivan-interview-on-the-yoga-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Interview on The Yoga Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was a guest on Dr. Laurel Trujillo\u2019s podcast The Yoga Hour. We had a delightful, far reaching conversation on sacred poetry, healing, the importance of inspiration to feed the spirit\u2026 and the path of longing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theyogahour.com\/episodes\/sacred-poetry-insight-and-inspiration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Yoga Hour<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.theyogahour.com\/episodes\/sacred-poetry-insight-and-inspiration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n\u2013 Introduction to Ivan<br \/>\n\u2013 Short meditation by the host<br \/>\n6:15 Poem:  a star, a tree\u2026<br \/>\n7:40 The Longing in Between<br \/>\n\u2013 The path of longing<br \/>\n\u2013 spectrum between longing and union<br \/>\n10:42 continues<br \/>\n12:30 Poetry and prose<br \/>\n16:22 Poem:  Navajo Prayer<br \/>\n\u2013 restored in beauty<br \/>\n\u2013 healing and wholeness<br \/>\n\u2013 bridge or meeting point between earth and heaven<br \/>\n22:20 How to form a relationship with a poem<br \/>\n\u2013 Poem as participation in the breath and consciousness of poet<br \/>\n29:25 Poem by Yogacharya O\u2019Brien: OM<br \/>\n32:53 What does \u201cchaikhana\u201d mean?<br \/>\n\u2013 Teahouses along the Silk Road<br \/>\n\u2013 Connection of East and West<br \/>\n\u2013 Sufi story of Tea as the drink of initiates<br \/>\n36:10 Mystics<br \/>\n\u2013 The word \u201cmystic\u201d preferred to words like, saint or sage<br \/>\n\u2013 Free from cultural baggage<br \/>\n\u2013 Avoids dogma<br \/>\n\u2013 Someone who seeks the living truth, not just following rules<br \/>\n40:17 Poem:  Last night as I was sleeping\u2026<br \/>\n43:34 Metaphor and describing the indescribable<br \/>\n\u2013 Mundane awareness can work with simile<br \/>\n\u2013 Expanded awareness witness union, the interconnectedness of things<br \/>\n\u2013 Real metaphor emerges from this realization<br \/>\n\u2013 This is what sacred poetry emerges from<br \/>\n46:27 Poem by Yogacharya O\u2019Brien: Satsanga<br \/>\n48:02 Through poetry the illuminated state becomes contagious\u2026<br \/>\n\u2013 How poetry conveys the sacred experience<br \/>\n52:30 Poem: One Thread Only<br \/>\n53:07 Inspiration is essential food for the spirit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was a guest on Dr. Laurel Trujillo\u2019s podcast The Yoga Hour. We had a delightful, far reaching conversation on sacred poetry, healing, the importance of inspiration to feed the spirit\u2026 and the path of longing. The Yoga Hour https:\/\/www.theyogahour.com\/episodes\/sacred-poetry-insight-and-inspiration 0:00 Introduction \u2013 Introduction to Ivan \u2013 Short meditation by the host 6:15 Poem: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,102,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-ivans-story","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8258,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/8258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}