How a Dislocated Toe Made Him a Yoga Teacher | Chris Walker
Chris Walker went from a 220lb athlete in the middle of an affair to teaching yoga in Bali. What happened in between rebuilt him.
Chris doesn't fit the yoga stereotype, and he knows it. He was an athlete who hadn't been bad at anything physical since he was a kid, and he ended up on a mat in London at the lowest point of his life: an affair, a marriage ending, three weeks of drink and drugs across Eastern Europe, and a dislocated toe that kept him out of the gym. What he found there changed everything, and he's honest about the parts of the wellness world that are pure performance.
We get into why fighting all the time and never fighting are equally damaging, why stress is the price of anything worth having, how some preachers ended up flying private, and the two questions Chris asks anyone stuck in a bad place, from the coach who won't get on camera to the business owner hiding from social media. If you've been avoiding the hard thing, this one's for you.
Chapters
0:00 Coming Up
0:12 Intro: Who Is Chris Walker?
1:37 The Moment He Couldn't Look in the Mirror
7:26 Is Yoga Spiritual or Just Exercise?
12:19 The Yogi Who Went Back to the Gym
14:34 What “Connected” and “Coming Home” Mean
18:06 Makeup Sex vs Talking About Your Values
21:54 Why Nothing Good Comes Without Stress
24:52 Real Suffering, Entitlement and Meaning
31:02 His Mum, His Dad and the Baptist Church
33:02 Preachers, Private Jets and Nonprofits
35:41 Every Religion Is Saying the Same Thing
39:39 The First Step Out of a Bad Place
41:57 Where to Find Chris
Chris Walker is a yoga teacher based in Bali, where he teaches at The Yoga Barn. He runs workshops and classes around the world, is building an online yoga community focused on human connection, and hosts his own podcast, The Walker Way.
Follow Chris:
Instagram: @chrisscottwalker.official
Website: https://training.walker-way.com/
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