Episode June 2, 2025

Peak Performance at Any Age | Christiane Wolf (Dharma Teacher/Doctor/Ultramarathoner)

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Beyond the cliché: listening to your body.

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD is a former physician and internationally known mindfulness and Insight (Vipassana) meditation teacher. She is the author of "Outsmart Your Pain" and the coauthor of "A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness". She is also a senior teacher at InsightLA in Los Angeles. And in her spare time, she runs ultramarathons.

In this episode we talk about:

How to develop and hone interoception
How to do practices like a body scan — and how helpful it can be for all aspects of life
How to shift how we relate to our body
The four foundations of mindfulness — one of the crucial discourses of the Buddha
What a healthy relationship to the body looks like
Translating monastic practices to our modern day lives
How to reduce stress and suffering in the body
Indifference vs equanimity / serenity
Helpful questions to ask yourself in cultivating a new relationship with your body
The four sources of reluctance or resistance to exercise
Discipline vs self-compassion
Unpacking the dysfunction among people who overexercise
What we can learn from injury

Paid subscribers of DanHarris.com will have exclusive access to a set of all-new guided meditations, led by friend of the show Cara Lai, customized to accompany each episode of the Get Fit Sanely series. We're super excited to offer a way to help you put the ideas from the episodes into practice. Learn all about it here.

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