Episode 36: Honoring Lineage and Becoming a Teacher with Jayme Sweere
“We are tip-toeing around a lot of things that don’t actually support folks in their healing, and they definitely don’t support folks to become stable enough and regulated enough to facilitate healing for another person.”
-Jayme Sweere, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with her girlfriend, Jayme Sweere, C-IAYT, ERYT200&300, CPT, MBA. Jayme's approach as a Yoga Therapist is to utilize and apply power, wisdom and wholeness inside the yoga tradition along with knowledge of human development and movement science. She applies Ayurveda and functional movement screening techniques in her assessments to make a practice prescription that is just right for you and where you’re at. There's no substitution for hard work but there is so much power in precision action and that is what makes these personalized assessments so useful for a practitioner to make the most of their time and effort. Jayme looks at habit patterns and how they are manifesting in your body and helps you implement a daily practice so you can begin to experience life in a new way. Jayme can help take what once may have seemed complicated and make it profoundly simple. She is endlessly fascinated by the mind-body connection and the human experience. The practice of yoga has turned the world into a laboratory and Jayme into a scientist. This inquiry is what drives her and every project she undertakes. She loves to share her experience as a student of life as both a therapist and trainer of teachers. In this episode, Madison and Jayme speak on her experience of becoming and being a yoga therapist, the nuances of leading, teaching and being trauma-informed, what repatterning developmental movement has to do with healing and thriving and so much more.
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In this episode we have a conversation about:
Jayme’s journey from pro-basketball to discovering yoga
What living in an ashram taught her about community, devotion and practice
How Jayme became a Yoga Therapist and how Yoga Therapy differs from being a yoga teacher
Jayme’s take on being a “trauma informed” practitioner and why the over-use of this language brings her pause in her trainings
Why the capacity to self-regulate while holding space is imperative as a practitioner
What repatterning developmental movement has to do with healing and thriving
How discovering your true Enneagram is beyond typology
What Jayme means by “the work” and how the work shapes our relationship
Bursting the false-illusions of the spiritual path
How to stay in integrity as a teacher, leader or practitioner
Teaching, coaching and leading as a way to help others see themselves clearly
The importance of having a teacher and devotion to lineage
Why Jayme has a Guru, is also her own Guru, and how to reconcile power dynamics in teacher-student relationships
Sacred circle and being mirrored in a teacher-student relationship as a path to radical self-honesty and wholeness
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Where to find more of Jayme:
Website: https://jaymesweere.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaymesweere
