Unveiling our Traumas with Adam Keen
“I think the only meaning in suffering is to share it with others, and in sharing my experience with others I find meaning in it.”
Summary of Episode:
Jenn speaks to Adam Keen founder of Keen on Yoga and Podcast about traumas, philosophy, narratives, and food! Adam talks about his earliest memories of suppressing his emotions, his first encounters with Indian philosophy and yoga, his favorite philosophers, and why he believes it is important to create your own understanding and narrative story. By sharing your suffering you can find meaning in it and that we can all learn from each other in this lifetime.
At the time you go back to the trauma, it kind of welds up again, up to a point where one suppresses trauma, but at a certain point it catches up with you.
About Adam Keen:
Adam has been practicing Ashtanga yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2004. He is one of few practitioners to have completed the Advanced A (third) series in Mysore, India, under the guidance of Sharathji Jois. In 2012 Adam received level 2 authorization to teach the intermediate series.
He has taught and lived primarily in London, with short stints in Vancouver, Spain, Crete, and India, as well as teaching workshops internationally. Adam’s primary influence on the way he teaches is Mark Darby. Affectionately known to everyone simply as Darby, he taught Adam a way to practice safely and effectively (while keeping with the Mysore Style) that he has been sharing with his students ever since.
Adam is committed to facilitating the individual's experience of yoga, his teaching is approached with a lightness of touch and an open mind. Having practiced daily for over 25 years you come to realize two things; how little you know, and, how there is no one way to do things. It is from this perspective that Adam shares his suggestions with clarity and **humility.
Outside the sphere of yoga, Adam is a continuous student of philosophy as well as having worked previously as a vegetarian chef. A prodigious thinker and writer; when not in the kitchen, you can read his thoughts on social media as well as on the Keen on Yoga Blog.
