Hitting Rock Bottom and a Turning Point

David describes depression, meeting Shelly, and the scrap-of-paper decision to teach yoga full-time.

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David Swenson is a man who needs no introduction in the yoga world. If you practice Ashtanga yoga, you’ve likely studied his Ashtanga Yoga practice manual, and he recently wrote another book called Only Dead Fish Go with the Flow.

This is his second appearance on the leadership and yoga podcast and his stories are like none other. They will leave you in shock, and sometimes with a laugh, but always with a sense of remembering that anything is possible.

This episode is a reminder of what happens when we follow our dreams and when we persevere. It is the purest form of inspiration for us fellow yoga teachers, and a beautiful reminder that we find life‘s purpose in all the little moments that are always moving like a wave beneath us, propelling us forward, sometimes as if by magic.

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time stamps:

00:00 intro

05:19 stories are the most powerful tool we have as humans

07:19 why create in addition to teaching yoga