Yoga: Fly Your Own Plane with Jill Lovato | Yoga Scussion Preview

January 07, 2026 00:02:53
Yoga: Fly Your Own Plane with Jill Lovato | Yoga Scussion Preview
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Yoga: Fly Your Own Plane with Jill Lovato | Yoga Scussion Preview

Jan 07 2026 | 00:02:53

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Brendon Orr Gina Clingerman

Show Notes

Jill Lovato, managing owner of Blossom Yoga in Cheyenne, Wyoming, describes yoga as "a practice to become"—stripping away expectations, labels, and protective layers to step into who we truly are. In this Yogascussion Preview, Jill talks with Gina and Brendon about how her goal being to help others fly their own yoga planes. The full episode releases next Wednesday.

Topics: Becoming vs evolving, yoga philosophy, non-duality, presence and awareness, wholehearted practice, teaching philosophy, reading the room, Ayurvedic principles, gunas, nervous system regulation, accessibility in yoga, community building, running a yoga studio in Wyoming, empathic teaching, intuitive teaching, yoga for parents, teenagers and yoga, modern disconnection, felt sense practice, protective layers, ego barriers, poetry and yoga, science background and yoga, zoology and yoga, AARP yoga classes, business of yoga

About Yoga Scussion: Yoga Scussion is a dynamic podcast that goes far beyond the yoga mat. Each episode brings together passionate practitioners, teachers, experts, and thought leaders from various backgrounds to dive deep into the rich, nuanced world of yoga. Hosted by Brendon Orr and Gina Clingerman, the show explores yoga’s intersection with philosophy, wellness, culture, personal growth, and social issues. Expect authentic, thought-provoking discussions, personal stories, and insights that challenge and expand your understanding of what yoga has meant in the past and what it means today. In each week’s Yogascussion, Gina and Brendon are joined by guests and paid member listeners to share in a collective discussion about what yoga is, what it’s not, what it was, what it wasn’t, what it is becoming, and what it can be.

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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Like, I, I happen to be a yoga teacher, but really what I want to do is to, like, teach you to fly your own plane. Yoga is, you know, we teach these. [00:00:10] Speaker B: Classes now with 10, 20, 50 people. [00:00:14] Speaker A: How, you know, big. [00:00:15] Speaker B: A big group of people all arriving differently, right. [00:00:19] Speaker A: Their own experiences, their own state, right in that moment. And we're offering them a one size fits all approach. And that's never, that was never the intention of yoga. And even though I really do sort of to nod to the tradition of yoga, I think it's important, I am aware that. [00:00:39] Speaker B: Accessibility and tailoring it to. [00:00:43] Speaker A: Individual needs is really how people are. [00:00:45] Speaker B: Going to, as I say, become like. [00:00:48] Speaker A: You can even do that through the lens, right. [00:00:50] Speaker B: Of yoga. [00:00:52] Speaker A: I use Ayurvedic principles all the time and just sort of reading the room. [00:00:56] Speaker B: Like the gunas, you know, what's in this room? [00:00:59] Speaker A: Is it Thomas? Is it rajas? [00:01:01] Speaker B: Are these people in some sort of like heightened pitta dosha state? [00:01:07] Speaker A: Or are they all like vata, or are we kind of kapha, you know? And then from there I try to. [00:01:13] Speaker B: Offer yoga to meet, like yoga, asana. [00:01:16] Speaker A: Pranayama, Dhyana, meditation, like to meet people where they are. And that's really, that's what, as a teacher, that's really what I'm trying to do. And then they can take it anywhere. They don't need me anymore to do that. They'll just come, they'll just keep coming to the studio because their friends are here. [00:01:32] Speaker C: Yeah, well, that's community. Yeah, yeah. [00:01:35] Speaker D: I love that you're speaking to this because this is something that I don't think we speak to very much with people who are yoga teachers versus being a student in a class is that. [00:01:45] Speaker C: Like we, we read the room energetically and we're, we're like looking out like, what are all these bodies saying to me? [00:01:54] Speaker D: And so there takes. It's like a certain level of, I'm. [00:01:57] Speaker C: Going to use this word, but like a certain level of empathic intuitiveness, you know, that you, that you like either already have. [00:02:06] Speaker D: Maybe you're already an empath. And I think a lot of people who are empaths end up becoming yoga teachers because we want to help people, you know, we want to help people feel good in their bodies and have a safe place to be themselves. But and this goes into a question that I did write down was like, about living in the world we live in right now that can be really divisive and chaotic. [00:02:26] Speaker C: And do you feel like your experience. [00:02:28] Speaker D: As a yoga teacher and as a. [00:02:30] Speaker C: Practitioner like, helps you kind of feel. [00:02:33] Speaker D: That out and then offer that to students? Or does it help you feel more grounded? [00:02:38] Speaker C: Or can you speak a little bit. [00:02:40] Speaker D: About that kind of process of like, yeah, I'm looking out and I'm seeing. [00:02:43] Speaker C: All this stuff, and then from there, I'm pulling from this wealth of knowledge. [00:02:48] Speaker D: In my brain to be like, how. [00:02:49] Speaker C: Do I meet the people who are showing up? [00:02:52] Speaker A: Yeah.

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