Yoga, Parkour and the Love Based Practice with Jeppe Skovgaard | EMP Podcast 69

Hello and welcome back to the Evolve Move Play Podcast! This week our guest is Jeppe Skovgaard, a long time parkour practitioner, yogi, and the founder of Rört, a mixed-modality movement facility in Copenhagen.

Jeppe’s story has a lot of similarities to my own, we both spent the early part of our careers demanding too much of our bodies to the point that we experienced some serious repercussions. Thankfully we both took our experiences as a cue that we needed to change the way we approach our practice and our health.

For Jeppe, yoga was the answer, so we go into his experience with parkour and yoga and what he’s learned in the interaction between those things. We also talk a lot about the need to balance yin and yang, and the idea that movement can give us something much more deeply meaningful than just external performance.

So I think if you are interested in the themes of spirituality that have been coming up in the last few episodes, this will be a really good one for you.

There’s no mysticism, but there is a lot of respect for the idea that we can aim our practice at something more than simply external, subjective metrics of skill and fitness. Let’s take a good look at how movement influences the way we build character, communities, and meaning in our lives!