Jeff Patterson Talks About Yielding and the Meditative Arts

Hello, I'm Jeff Patterson, and I'm looking forward to having a productive conversation here with Mike Vardy. Thanks for having me. Welcome to A Productive Conversation. I'm Mike Vardy and on this episode I am joined by Jeff Patterson. He hails from Portland, Oregon, and has over thirty six years of experience and teaching the meditative

Northwest Fighting Arts, Portland Tai Chi Academy, and The yielding warrior. We dive into that. During this conversation, this is where he emphasizes the transformative power of meditative and martial arts practices. Particularly the yielding concept. And yielding is again something we dive into beyond the book, which of course is called the yielding. warrior and he has worked with thousands of students from around the world. Now some of the things that we dive into is the idea of the meditative arts as a foundation for yielding, breaking down the practice into three pillars, and we share what those three pillars are during the conversation. And

Jeff also provides actionable advice for anyone who's curious about Integrating or incorporating the meditative arts into their daily lives. So I'm excited to get started with this conversation. I'm certain you're excited to listen to it. So without further ado. Here's my conversation with Jeff. Patterson.

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