In this episode with Erich Schiefelbine, we talk about handling high stress with surfing and yoga, how being a missionary in Ecuador inspired him to fight for social justice and become a lawyer, why he teaches yoga in Spanish, and his secret to finding peace. Erich will expand your horizons, sit back and enjoy!
Episode Highlights:
- Handling high stress through yoga and surf
- Surfing, the ocean based version of yoga
- Peace is found through self care
- From missionary to activist
- Yoga en español
- Being in the water is the activity
- From punk skateboarder to lawyer to surfer
[00:00] How to handle high stress
[05:21] A mission in Ecuador
[10:35] From Missionary to Activist
[15:54] Becoming a Lawyer
[16:57] Yoga en Español
[22:34] Being in the water is the activity
[29:45] From punk skateboarder to lawyer to surfer
Quotes from Erich:
"Being present, in my humble experience, is where peace is found, that self care is found. If you can stay present with what you're doing, you're going to minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, week by week experience one of the greatest human virtues you can find."
"I couldn't imagine prior to that time in my life that Texaco, a US company, would come down, find these oil reserves, pull it up to the surface and refine it, next to a community, into their main water supply and leave the by-product and the refinement water in these pits, or next to the river, or where these people get their water from until you actually see it."
"The journey from not being able to touch your toes, to touching your toes, there in lies the richness, the fulfillment, that unbound consciousness, that's the experience."
Get in touch with Erich
- Instagram @erichyoga
More about Christine Foerster
- christinefoerster.com
- Instagram @christinefoerster
11/29/22 • 34 min
Wilding Fifty: Surf Tales - Episode 6: The 360 View with Erich Schiefelbine
Transcript
Christine: Hi Erich.
Erich: Good morning.
Christine: Good morning. Thanks so much for joining me today.
Erich: My pleasure.
Christine: So you are a lawyer and you said that surfing and yoga help you to see the stress of what actually being a lawyer is, which is dealing with other people's problems. And you are paid in a sense to handle other people's stress, but then you in turn handle it through surfing and yoga. Could you elaborate on that a little?
Erich: Yeah, by nature
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