Aug 28, 2018
Natalie Kuhn is the Vice President of The Class by Taryn Toomey—an interdisciplinary physical practice that exercises mind, body, and spirit. The Class is constructed to push you to your own limitations while asking you to tune in and question it all; creating space for the deeper questions to arise and providing perspective to let the questions be the answers.
Unsurprisingly, The Class has quickly become a phenomenon as people have felt (if just momentary) reprieves from our culture of compressing, repressing, and turning away from uncomfortable emotional experiences, and Natalie plays no small role in this. Natalie is also a poet, in the way that she views the world and in the way that she describes it.
I first heard her speak a few days after deciding that I was going to start this podcast and I instantly knew that I wanted to share a little piece of her perspective with y’all.
IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:
The Class by Taryn Toomey—what it is, how it became what it is, what Natalie’s role is, and how she found herself in it How Natalie’s background in acting, dancing, and performing combined with her background in and exposure to psychological and spiritual studies perfectly guided her to her current position in the Class and in life How the body stores emotions Trusting the small voice that is your intuition What “following your dream” looks like and consists of What is failure? What is success? Plus so much more…
QUOTES
“In the class, you engage your body in a particular way as the instructor guides you through the witnessing of your thoughts, patterns, feelings—what might be just under the surface.”
“I think accountants have just as much creativity as artists, it’s just that their mind uses their creativity in a much more formulaic way.”
“There’s a reason we say that the issues are in the tissues.”
“If you’re unsure, if you’re in that state of confusion, don’t do anything. Keep the stasis. Sooner or later that confusion is going to clarify, but only if you let that confusion stay confused. If you’re spinning, why would you take a step and start running in a certain direction? You want to cool the nausea, right the horizon, and then take a step forward before you gallup apace.”
“If I had quit back then because I was unhappy wiping down a stranger’s yoga mat, there’s absolutely no way I would have seen the dream come to fruition. At the core was the non-negotiable.”
“If we look back on that time where this picturesque image of success was created, did you have all of the information back then? Probably not.”
“The notion of failure and success just needs to be dissolved into what is. What is actually happening right now. And is that congruent with your being?”
RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE
Mentioned:
The Class by TT
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
Mary Oliver
John O’Donahue
David Whyte
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
The Archetype Diet by Dana James
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
The Sea in You by David Whyte
Connect with Natalie:
Website: The Class by TT
Instagram: @thisisnatalie
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