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Anthony Benenati, founder of City Yoga and That's Not Yoga®, shares his personal evolution from his earliest experiences with yoga to developing a practice that meets each individual where they are. In this conversation, he explores breaking limiting ideas about yoga, uncovering its deeper meaning, and building genuine human connection through mindful movement. He also reflects on how curiosity, learning, and purposeful steps can lead to lasting change. This is a conversation about healing, empowerment, and finding a practice that truly serves you. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co mailto:beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/#follow-subscribe-free.In this episode you will learn about:Anthony's journey into yoga and the pivotal moments that shaped his path.Breaking common stereotypes and misconceptions about yoga.Understanding the true purpose of yoga beyond the poses.How yoga fosters authentic community and connection.The power of desire, knowledge, and action in creating transformation.Episode References/Links:Anthony Benenati's Website - https://thatsnotyoga.comAnthony Benenati's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thatsnotyoga Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg - https://a.co/d/3edLCLcGuest Bio:Anthony Benenati is the founder of City Yoga, The first Anusara yoga studio in California and That's Not Yoga® , a culmination of three decades of study and practice in the Hatha Yoga tradition. Anthony's philosophy is simple; fit the yoga to the student, not the student to the yoga. He believes that it isn't about the style of yoga you practice, rather, the effectiveness of that style for your body. Yoga practice should help you transform, not cause more suffering. Anthony draws from a deep knowledge of the different classical styles of modern yoga and other modalities to construct a path of healing and transformation for their student. Anthony has trained in Kundalini, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara and Viniyoga. He specializes in Yoga Therapeutics and tailors the practice so your body uses its natural movements to heal itself from pain and suffering. He has taught globally and has trained thousands of students. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. https://lovethepodcast.com/BITYSIDEALS! DEALS! DEALS! 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If yoga is about anything, it's about setting meaningful boundaries.Lesley Logan 0:12  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 0:51  All right, Be It babe. I am so stoked for you to hear today's interview. Our guest today is actually a dear friend of Brad and mine, and he is a person we have quoted on the podcast before, and he's someone we said, we have to get him on the pod. And guess what? We did it. And also, I can't believe this is the first time he's on the pod. I feel like he'll be a regular conversation, because it's just really fun to hear him share his perspective, and he is an amazing yoga teacher. And this is as much of a yoga podcast as it's not a yoga podcast episode, because we talk a lot about what really is yoga, and what does it mean to have a yoga practice, and what is it trying to teach us? And if you think you know what yoga is I'm gonna challenge you to listen, because I think it's really easy for us to have been fed something that it's not and then not realize, like, the amazing benefits that it has. And so I'm not gonna say anymore, because this episode is just one of my favorite it's gonna go hands down and one I'll quote in the future. And I knew that when I brought him on, I just knew that we would have an amazing conversation, and this is hopefully going to entertain, educate and inspire you. So here is Anthony Benenati. Lesley Logan 2:09  All right, Be It babe, I'm really excited. This person is actually a dear friend, like I know I've said that about some guests, but usually they're a dear friend of like, a couple moments. This person I've known for like, 10 years, and Brad has known him much longer, he's been a regular in our lives. Anthony Benenati, you are one of the best yoga teachers I know, but also so much more than that. Can you tell everyone who you are and what you rock at? Anthony Benenati 2:33  Well, first of all, thank you for having me on. What an honor. Who am I? Anthony Benenati, you said my name. I am, believe it or not, a yoga teacher, a professional yoga teacher. I've been doing this for 32 years now, which, when I tell people that I teach yoga, they they have immediate this vision of what that might be. Lesley Logan 2:56  Yes, you should be in white. Anthony Benenati 2:59  I should be in white or. Lesley Logan 3:02  With a glow. Anthony Benenati 3:04  It's not very serious or, right? Everybody has their assumptions of what yoga is, which, my job is to help educate and instruct on what the practice truly is versus what it has become. The practice that sort of everybody knows now, versus really, what it truly is and what its goal is.Lesley Logan 3:29  Yeah, I feel like we could also, like, talk about that for hours, because I had someone send me a reel of a guy on a Reformer with a, like, stationary bike in his hands and feet. And it was a joke. It was like an April Fool's joke. And he was like, okay, guys like, this class, we get cardio and core and like, he's holding the bike, he's it's obviously a joke. But like someone sent it to me, and I'm like, the fact that this is so hilarious that people who've never done Pilates before are sending this to me, tells me that what people think Pilates is has strayed far from what Pilates is. So I feel like I can understand that. And I find myself constantly educating people a little bit like, well, that yes, those are Pilates exercises and so, but it's not the inherent reality of it is. And so I feel like I understand that plight, that that journey you're on, in a little bit. Anthony Benenati 4:18  You and I have had this conversation many times before, because you're so close to the source of it, and and that's what I love about what you do, what you teach, and where I am, and what I teach, is that there's a lineage, and you're very close to the source, and the closer you are to the source, the more authentic the teaching, the further down the line you get disconnected from that core source. Then everything starts to get watered down and miscommunicated. Lots of stuff gets forgotten. Lesley Logan 4:55  Yeah, well, it's like the game of telephone, like, I mean, like when you play that game in school, like, you, the further it goes down the line. Anthony Benenati 5:03  The more warped it gets. Lesley Logan 5:04  Yes, yes. And it's funny, but also, like, that is the reality. Can we take a step back? Because, like, a yoga instructor of 32 years, that is a long time. And I think, like, there's not many of you. I mean, there's many of you, probably in India places, but like, there's not many of people who've had that many decades and and have studied the way that you have like, did you grow up like doing yoga? Did you want to be a yoga teacher?Anthony Benenati 5:32  No, this story is, is pretty remarkable. No, I did not grow up with yoga. In fact, I didn't really understand what yoga was until I was literally introduced to it after I moved here to L.A. So I've been in L.A. since 1991 before that, I was in the military. I was in the Air Force. And when I was in the Air Force, I was a competitive power lifter, and I played sports all my life. So my body was pretty wrecked in my 20s. I had a shoulder surgery and a knee surgery already, and I remember I was waiting tables, and I had met this girl, and I was taken by the way she sort of carried herself. She was she walked very upright, almost Royal. And I thought, you know, it's L.A., everyone's moving to LA to become an actress. And I thought, okay, this girl, right, she's like telling her family, I don't want your money, I'm moving to L.A. and I'm going to be an actress. So I asked her, and she laughed in my face, and she lifted up the back of her shirt, and she showed me a 13-inch scar on her spine. And she told me that when she was young, she had this incredible S curve in her back, and she was in a full body cast from her neck all the way down through her torso. And I said, oh, my God, that that sounds painful. And I said how do you move? You can't, I haven't seen you bend. She goes, I can't. The only thing I can bend is my hips. I can turn my hips, but I cannot bend my back. I said, well, what do you do for relief? And she said, I do yoga. And I was like, Well, explain what's that and how does that help you? And she said, I'd love to explain it, but I don't think I can. Why don't you just come to a class? So I did, and you know, me then, I was really big. I had all this muscle mass, right? And I went to my first class, and I could not finish, could not finish the class. It kicked my butt. And I was so, my ego got, got triggered. And one of the things that's important for me as a teacher now when I teach my students is that there is, yoga doesn't see things in good and bad. Yoga see thing, sees things in does it work or not? And at the time, ego served me, because it made me go back, and it made me go back and it made me go back. At the time, the reasons because I think I was going to get it, and that's fine for whatever, for whatever reason someone enters into the practice is fine, you're there. That's the important part. We can work on the why and the why always evolves as you get along through the practice. But for me, I tell people, ego brought me to yoga and it it kept me there.Lesley Logan 8:34  Yeah, I think, isn't it interesting, like, because I'll have I work with teachers, and they're like, oh, I don't want to work with people who want to lose weight. And I'm like, I, you don't have to promise them anything you can't do. But if, if that brought them into the space, I would much rather you a non like someone who's not going to manipulate or use them or lie to them to be the safe landing for them to find a movement practice that can help them love the body that they have, you know? So I'm not here to be I won't take you if you want to lose weight. I'll just say, here's the science of weight loss, here's how I can fit in and and here's how I don't, you know, but this is what we can do together and like building that trust. And if that's what brought them in, and that's what got them to keep coming at the beginning, but then they stay coming because of how it makes them feel, and then they become a person who doesn't worry about that, because they actually care more about how they feel than how that what the scale says. Like, to me, that's kind of like that same thing. Like, I think too often people are wanting to turn away that negative energy, that negative energy in air quotes, because that's not what something is. But really it's like, you can't just, you don't, we don't get to decide how people come to us. Anthony Benenati 9:48  Right. Lesley Logan 9:49  All we can do is like, kind of be a space for them to evolve and learn the what, what, what they wanted, what they're here, what we can teach them. Anthony Benenati 9:57  Yeah, I'm glad that you said that. I'm glad that you said that to create the space, because that's exactly what it is, isn't it? It's like we want to create a safe space for them to explore them, and not come in with this bunch of judgment that I'm putting on to them so that they feel uncomfortable. I want them to feel as comfortable as they can. Starting anything new is difficult. We all know that. Let's not make it harder. Lesley Logan 10:22  Yeah, yeah. I also like that you said there's like, there's not bad or good.Anthony Benenati 10:28  That's a radical, that's a radical idea for people. In the West, we are programmed this is good and this is bad. I can even hear, you probably hear this in your students' languages too. Oh, that's my bad side, or I have a bad leg, or I have a bad shoulder. And I'm careful with that, careful with the languaging. It's not bad. It may be injured, it may be weaker, it may be tighter, but that doesn't mean it's bad.Lesley Logan 10:55  Yeah. And I, well, I, there was a years ago, like years ago. I can remember where I was driving, but I can't remember the name of the podcast, I was in traffic on San Vicente trying to get to Wilson Boulevard, and I was listening this podcast, and they talked about how, like, we have to be mindful of how we talk about our body, because our body is listening. And they have done studies that, if you like, say, I gained weight, I'm someone who can't lose weight, like, I I'm fat. All this your bod, those people who say that they actually have seen that they produce fat cells, like, that's what they do, right? Versus like, they also, like, told people, like, oh, you had this knee surgery. And the person goes, oh, I had knee surgery, so my knee is better. They didn't have knee surgery. They literally didn't give it to them. They just pretended they put them under they had controls, don't worry there's other things, but. Anthony Benenati 11:42  The placebo effect. Lesley Logan 11:44  What you tell your body like really does matter and and I studied with BJ Fogg, who's the found who wrote Tiny Habits, and he's really the leading scientist on habits that everybody has been stealing from and, not stealing, it's the wrong word, they probably study with them, but at any rate, he said there's no such thing as a bad or good habit. Everything serves you. Every like the habits you don't like about yourself, if you don't like that you scroll on the internet. If you don't like that you binge-watch NetFlix that they'll all the habits we have serve us, they provide something because your brain actually doesn't want to be around anything that causes judgment or shame. So it, it's seeking, like, oh, like, maybe it's comfortable for you to it's soothing to just binge out and watch something you get you get to avoid the other thoughts you have, or with certainty, which we all are looking for and and so he said, If you so, you can't ever say I have a bad habit or I don't want to have good habits. They're just all habits. And then there might be habits you prefer and habits you'd like to get rid of. Anthony Benenati 12:42  Right. I think in the context of the yoga conversation, yoga would simply ask, do your habits serve you? And that's another way to say it, right, whether it's good or bad, is it serving you? Lesley Logan 12:54  Yes. Anthony Benenati 12:55  So maybe at the end of the night, you've had a really shitty night and you need a drink, and most people would go, oh, my God, you teach yoga. You don't drink, right? There's another stereotype. Lesley Logan 13:06  Yeah. Anthony Benenati 13:07  But does that drink serve you in that moment? Is it going to control you? Is it going to take over? No. May it take the edge off and allow you to process the things that you're going through? Sure. Are there other ways to process it? Yes. But not everybody can just be like, you know what, I'm super stressed, and I'm just going to sit and meditate. That's not that's not realistic. Lesley Logan 13:30  Yeah, yeah. Anthony Benenati 13:31  It's not realistic for somebody, you have to meet people where they are, yeah, yeah, and make the changes gradually. Lesley Logan 13:38  Well, I mean, do you have to meet yourself where you are? Anthony Benenati 13:41  Well, yes. True.Lesley Logan 13:44  That's a bigger, that's so huge. I just, you just mentioned something I thought it would be really good timing, like, since there is the stereotype of what yoga is, especially in the West, especially in big cities, oh, actually, even now, because the way things work in rural areas. It's just franchises so like so, what is yoga really?Anthony Benenati 14:08  Okay. How long is this podcast?Lesley Logan 14:11  We can have you back for another. We can split it up. Anthony Benenati 14:13  Part two. On its most basic level, yoga is a practice. It's been, well, the iteration that we know as yoga today has only been around a couple of 100 years prior to that, prior to the last 5000 years with yoga, yoga has been a ritual, a path, a practice to transcend the known or the physical, to transcend it to, instead of saying I am my body, yogis back then would say, I am not my body. And then they would use the practice to try and extricate themselves from their body. So, a free soul, you can think of it that way, the soul that inhabits me is limited by this physical boundary, and I'm going to use the yoga practice to liberate myself from this physical, literally, prison, is how they thought of it. But things evolved, and as things do over hundreds and thousands of years, consciousness changes, and societies evolve, and mindsets change, and even language changes. So yoga now has become a physical practice to help the body and the mind connect. So there's a saying that if you keep the body to cool the mind, most people, they start thinking a lot when they stop doing. And that's why a lot of people are just doing all the time, do, do, do, do, do, and there's no room for thinking. And then when they stop doing, all of these thoughts start coming up, and they don't know how to deal with them, so they just start doing again. Which is, I guess, a way of pushing things down so that you don't have to deal with it. Lesley Logan 16:05  Yeah, yeah. Anthony Benenati 16:06  Yoga gives us a invitation to try something else. Iit's a, it's an invitation to be like, how does my body work? And how does it work better? And not for the sake of the practice itself, but how is it going to help my life? Even if you do yoga every day, let's just say you do 30 minutes of yoga every day. There's 23 and a half other hours. What else are you going to do? Hopefully your yoga practice is serving that.Lesley Logan 16:37  Yeah, yeah. 30 minutes everyone is 2% of your day. If you want to do the math, it's 2% so if you can't give 2% of yourself to something that helps you become better, the other 98% like, I love that. I love the way that you described it. I think that it's really true. And I think it kind of like takes it away. Because I think people get caught up in the process of yoga, the poses, or the styles, and that's just all process which no one really, like, in the world of marketing guys, sells nothing. No one cares about the process. They care about the transformation, the the idea of like, you know, you said, like, breaking free of this limiting thing that would be like the thing, the promise. Let's go back. You, we kind of got, you got the ego kept you going to yoga. Why did you, like, did you know you wanted to be a teacher? Like, did you, I, because I had the same thing. I went to Pilates kicking and screaming, to be completely honest, and I thought it was a bullshit infomercial workout. And then I loved it, and then I kept going back, because I felt really good. And it wasn't till someone said I should be a teacher that I even thought about being a teacher. So how did you become a teacher? I mean, like, 32 years, take us back.Anthony Benenati 17:46  That's exactly, that's exactly, right, it was my teacher at the time that had told me. He told me after class. Now this was, you know, maybe a year, year and a half into starting with him. But he said, you know, because we've had multiple conversations, not just in the classroom but outside, we'd go and have tea or whatever. And he goes, have you ever thought about teaching yoga? And I said, absolutely not. I mean, why would I? Why would I do that? I barely know the practice. He says, I understand that, and I can get you more information, but I see something in you that I think will help other people. And I think what he saw, and after teaching a whole bunch of teacher trainees myself, the most effectual teacher is someone who understands how people get to the practice. And what I mean by that is if, for instance, if I grew up in the yoga tradition and my parents were teachers, and I had been doing yoga all my life, and I never really understood the struggle of a tight body, of not being able to do the poses, of not understanding the language, of having no connection to yoga, whatsoever. Then I couldn't offer that to anybody else coming into the practice, because I would, I, some of the teachers that I train who are super flexible, for instance, they never understand what it's like not to be so it's hard to have empathy for the student that is having a very difficult time doing the most basic movement. And I think empathy is such an important factor to be a great teacher, you have to be able to put yourself in their shoes. Lesley Logan 17:47  Yeah, yeah. Anthony Benenati 17:47  Or barefoot as it, in the yoga studio.Lesley Logan 17:47  Yeah, yeah. I agree. Like, I think, I think, you know, I used to be embarrassed by, like, how I thought so negatively about Pilates, and when I realized it was actually probably the way that made people trust to even try it out, like, I also thought it was bullshit. So, you know, I got it. And then the other thing, like, I do have one of those hypermobile bodies, but I fractured my tibial plateau right before I met and I remember, like, all this fear about, like, what that meant for my Pilates practice, what that meant for my weight training, my running, everything right? Was like, fear going on. And then I also realized in my own healing, how easy I was giving it to people with knee surgeries. Because I was just like, okay, like, don't move this in time thing and so I have an injury, I was like, oh, there's actually a lot of things they can do. There's like, so much like, and there's also so much they can't do, but like, you know, like, we don't have to, like, push them, but at the same token, like, we can challenge this body because it got injured for a reason. There was an imbalance, and that's why that happened.Anthony Benenati 18:11  Correct, correct. And we're here to address that imbalance, right? A lot of times, yoga is translated as union, which is a very simple, and it's not a direct translation. The root word of yoga is actually thousands of years old, and it's yuj, Y-U-J and it means to yoke. Now this is an old fashioned term. You know the yoke when they used to yoke the horse to the cart or the ox to the cart. Lesley Logan 21:02  I'm nodding, because I did do the Oregon Trail, and that is where I learned yoga. Anthony Benenati 21:06  Okay, there you go. So that's the image that I want people to have here, and it's very important, because what you have, so yoga, at that point, becomes an action. It's a verb. It's not just a noun. What is it? But what is it doing? It's joining. But what is it joining? It's joining two different things, right? The cart and the horse. Now, alone, these two things serve purposes, don't they? But if you connect them, then you can do incredible things that neither one of these things could do by themselves. So in the yoga practice, we say one and one never equals two. It always equals three, because there's you, there's the thing, and then there's the thing you guys are creating. So it's you and Brad as individuals, and it's your marriage, which is a living entity. And it has a life of its own. And if you don't feed and nourish that third thing, not only will it die, but then you're broken apart again.Lesley Logan 22:15  Yeah. Yeah. You should become a counselor as well.Anthony Benenati 22:18  What do you think after class is about? When people feel comfortable with you, they come after class and then they start telling you about deeper issues, right, things that not the body, but the why, the why that they're here. Why are they struggling? Why are they having a hard time? I was actually listening to one of your previous podcast this morning, as we were taking me and my wife were taking a walk, Ashley, around the lake here, and we were listening, and it was the client, or the person you had on that had stage four cancer. Lesley Logan 22:54  Oh, yeah. Anthony Benenati 22:55  And I remember you said something, and it was very astute. You said that. Well, you didn't know how many, and I looked it up, we have about 60,000 thoughts a day, and you said about 95% of them are negative, right? And it's true. It's like we have these same repetitive thoughts all throughout the day, and the majority of them, the vast majority of them, are negative or repeat from the day before and the day before and the day before. And at what point do you start addressing this and start changing the narrative? Yoga is the invitation to start learning that you can that there is an issue first and then the tools to change them. Lesley Logan 23:43  Yeah.Anthony Benenati 23:45  So I love yoga as a verb, as an action, not just a thing like we can name it, and you can't just name it and make it yo. You can't just put goats in the room and call it yoga. It's not. Lesley Logan 24:01  Yeah, I'm with you on that. I mean, like, because it's cute everyone and so don't at me. It is adorable, and if it gets people in, sure, but also, like, you're now paying attention to the goat, not you, which is like, another distraction that, you know, I think, like, I think, I think it's really easy, people want to distract themselves from all that's going on. Like, first of all, you've been a teacher since the 90s, so in L.A., which means use your studio was around during lots of things. Like, you know, I don't, I don't remember when, like, the riots were, if your studio is open, but then there was, like, 911 and. Anthony Benenati 24:46  The riots werre '92 so it was just after I got here, so I opened the studio in '99 so 911 happened for us, and that was a remarkable time. Obviously, the next, Gulf War happened, and lots of other things. And, you know, the studio became a community. It became a place for people to go, even if they just wanted to sit and be in the room, let alone practice. I remember the practice after 911 people just wanted to sit and gather and cry and talk and rage and not move. They didn't want to move their bodies. They just needed community. They felt so detached.Lesley Logan 25:24  Yeah. I mean, I wasn't any, I wasn't in a practice at the time, but I remember, because we were in California, so you're so removed, but you're not, you know? And so I can see how, like, your space can be that. And I think, like, it's so cool and also so big to have us to do a practice that can be so many things for people. It can be the community that they need, it could be the safe space that they share, and it can be a constant, like, it's there, no matter when things are good or when things are bad. And we don't have a lot of those things, right? Like, there's not there's not a lot of places or things you can do even when times are good and when times are bad, and I know you're gonna tell me good and bad, but like, you know, in the in the happier, joyful times versus, like, the sadder times.Anthony Benenati 26:09  Right, now we're in a really difficult time, and we've been here before. 2008 we were here the last time this particular President was in office. We were here. And we go through these cycles, and they're not unlike other cycles throughout the history of life, and we will have more. And it's not always positive, it's not always happy, it's not always on the incline. Sometimes it takes a dip. And you and I both know that that's really where you're tested. You're tested in the dips. You're never tested when things are great, and you're never going to change when things are comfortable either. Change only happens when you're uncomfortable.Lesley Logan 26:47  Yeah, it's really true. One of the my favorite things that you would bring up when we were in class is talking about, like, you know, you can't have love without hate, the equal opposite. And I was hoping you can, like, dive into that a little bit for us. Because I think, one, I actually think since these several moments of 2008 and 2016, and and now it's really easy for people to not see good and so it makes me go, like you guys, like you're seeing all the hate. Like, are you recognizing it's equal opposite. But I also, like, I think it's hard. I think people are always waiting for another shoe to drop, as opposed to, like, noticing when things are are also going well. But anyways, I wanted to know if you could, like, just share a little bit about that, because my listeners haven't heard that, and it was my favorite things. Like, Brad brought up your, like, Saturday morning classes today in a call with people, and he said, like, there'd be like, 50 people in this room, and you know, like you would often bring that up, and it was always around the same time that, like, something not great was going on. We all just felt it, whether it was in the city or the world. And like, you have to remind yourself of those things. Anthony Benenati 27:53  It ties into the whole good and bad thing, because it's a reframing of thought. Like, you have to really reframe this idea that even, even if it's something that you don't like, it's serving something. So it's a basic function of physics, like, things wouldn't exist if it didn't have an opposite, right? You wouldn't know joy if you didn't know pain, you wouldn't know laughter if you didn't know sadness, you wouldn't have anything to reference it to. So your capacity to love is directly related to your capacity to hate, to feeling these negative, quote, negative feelings versus these positive. They're there to balance each other out, and it's the idea is that it's your choice which one you want to feed. You remember Star Wars, right? Think about the force. The force is this, is this neutral thing, and it's how you choose to use it. They were all using the same force. But the lesson was, am I going to use this to help empower and further and engage, or am I going to use this for selfish and personal and destructive reasons? Same energy, how do you use it? So rather than wasting your time on whether something is good or bad or right and wrong, it really serves you to think, is this serving me? Because, like you said earlier, at some point in your life, it served you, whether it was to keep you safe when you were a child, for instance, maybe you were in a really bad home life, and you learned coping mechanisms. You learn, for instance, maybe how to shut it out, right, and how to go into your own cave, which is, which is very easy for me to do. If things get too much, I tend to remove myself and go back into this little cave. Well, you can't do that when you're in relationship. Yeah. Well, you certainly can't do that for very long, right? You need tools like, yes, I need to go take 10 or 30 minutes to myself, but I'll be back. It's that communication, to let that other person know I'm not leaving you. I'm not not communicating with you, but I do need to take care of myself. So it's changing, the languaging around this. So it helps me to think, for instance, this bad time that we're having right now, it's temporary. Now, temporary may mean years.Anthony Benenati 27:55  Yeah, I know I had a like, a thing, like, like, a little mantra card that's, everything, everything, everything is temporary. And I'm like, and temporary does not mean two seconds, two minutes, two weeks.Anthony Benenati 30:02  Exactly. There is no time limit on temporary, but it will end. Things always do. Things always change, but it was helpful to me to look at kind of life in that different way. I wasn't raised like that. I was raised as a Catholic, so it was always guilt and shame and right and wrong and very linear thinking, very black and white thinking, very dualistic, instead of this idea that maybe it's not so black and white, maybe there is the gray. And I think we're all learning that extremism on either end is not the path. So, far right or far left, we're not going to get anywhere because we're isolating. We have to find a way to start communicating again and finding common ground and stop making other the problem. Lesley Logan 31:41  Yeah, yeah. Anthony Benenati 31:43  That's my that's my I think that goes on and off the mat. Don't look at your body as a bad thing. Don't look at it as something that you need to conquer or change, or that somehow there's something wrong with you. How can I enhance myself? How can I make me who I am, and everything that I am that may not be somebody else, but very unique to me. How can I make myself even better, a better version of me, not, not somebody else. I don't have to be somebody else. I just have to be the best me I can be.Lesley Logan 32:18  Yeah. That makes me think of like, I interviewed a happiness strategist, and I was like, you know, I was like, this is interesting, because, like, like, can you be happy all the time? And she's like, well, of course not. She's like, like, she's like, she's like, but she said your ability to be happy is as directly related to how uncomfortable you can get, like, how comfortable withuncomfortable. You can get like, that's, can you like, what's your resilience? And she, you know, and I think, like, I think a lot of people have been outsourcing so long how they feel based on, like, what's going on out in the world, and not going back to like, how can I make myself the best version? Because we can affect the people around us more easily when you were talking about other it made me think you guys Google the Heineken commercial. It's quite long, but they literally took, like, people of opposite extremes and like, they took a guy who, like, voted against gay marriage, and then they took a lesbian and they put them in a room together, and they have to, like, build a desk, right? And like, and they, a table, or they build something. And the guy, like, this one guy is like, completely, I got this. I like, I can do these things, right? And she's like, and like, so they have to work together to build this thing. And like, each personal strengths have to do it, and then they have to sit down and have a beer. And at the end, the people who like when they interviewed them before they met the person they're building with, it would be like, I don't understand transgenders. I think they have to know rights, blah, blah, blah. And then they meet someone who's transgender, but they just built this desk together, and you watch this person go, well, let's have another drink and like, so it's really fascinating that, like, if we can actually stop, you know, being on the opposite sides, we can actually be together, and you get to know people, you're more likely to hear them and listen to them and realize we're kind of like what you think has been influenced by so much, by other people who are louder and you you actually love people who are around you more than you know, you know? And so I think that's what's so beautiful about a yoga class, or even Pilates classes, they can attract people from all sides of a spectrum and have a shared experience. And you know, because, and the more they get to know themselves, the more ideally, and this may be the idealist in me, like they think about caring for others, because they can, because once you've, once you've taken care of you, you actually have the capacity to actually care about other people.Anthony Benenati 34:45  Oxygen mask, baby. It's all about putting on your oxygen mask, right? You got to put yours on first. You can't help anybody else if you're passed out. But I like what you said there, too, because Yoga does want to meet people where they're at. I remember, I had this woman in class. She always sat up front and in the beginning of class, at that time, we would chant the sound of om in the beginning of class, just to settle the class and get things going. And she would never chant, and that's fine. You don't have to, right? It's again, everything's an invitation. But she did come up to me after class one day, and we had a conversation, and I asked her why, and she says, well, you know, I'm a devout Jew, and I feel like I'm sort of disrespecting my tradition if I'm doing something I don't understand. And I said, well, I'm so glad that you brought that up. First of all, yoga doesn't care what you believe. You can believe you know, Orange is God, and you can still practice. Yoga doesn't require a belief, it just requires a willingness. And I said, well, you're a devout Jew, so what are you comfortable saying? And she said, well, shalom. And I said, Well, what's in the middle of shalom? And she said om. And I said, exactly. So from that point on, we would chant om, and she would chant shalom, and she would just hold the om. It, for some reason, it gave her permission. It was totally fine with everybody else, and then she felt included. That was a wonderful story. Lesley Logan 36:19  I love that. I think also giving people permission, right? Like, I think that's what, you know, people can have permission to move their body, but also be in practice. Like, that's why it's called a yoga practice, and I think that's what it does so well, something that, like, I call it a Pilates practice, and there are a lot of people like me who call it practice, but there's also a lot of people who don't understand that, and they don't call it that, and they're like, I gotta get this. And it's like, no, what are you talking about, like, you're never gonna like, you don't get that. Like, it's your body. Your body's different every single day. Like, there are days like, at 6am I do Pilates, and at 8am I work out with you, and my body between those two hours is very different. And I'm like, whoa. I, what happened on my dog walk that this is no longer an option. I do, I do like that. Okay, I want to go into, because I think, like, you have had so many chapters in your yoga career, and what how you are, how you are teaching yoga now, is very different than what you did for the majority on your studio and things like that. Like we talk about some, be it till you see it moments and like, kind of like, what your what are you being till you see it, right now?Anthony Benenati 37:20  You're right. I did go through a lot when you when you have a studio for that long, you know, you go through a lot of changes, including me and my original partner, we split, and then there was that moment where you had to decide who's going to fight for this, who's going to get the studio, because we both wanted it, and that was that was all about desire. Do you really want this? And how bad do you want it? And then after that, there were other things that came up every time you're being tested. And you will be tested no matter how committed you think you are to whatever it is that you think you want, you're going to continue to be tested. And it just is a way to reaffirm, do I really want to be it? Do I really want to do this? For me now, you're right. It is different. My body is different. My practice is different, and not in a bad or a good way, just different. This is the different body than it was when it was in my late 20s. Being it now is, for me, is really being about being authentic, being authentic to the moment, being authentic to my students, but really being authentic to my own inner voice. And every time I get on the mat, the first thing I tell my students is, listen, listen to your body. It's going to tell you something different today than it did yesterday. If you come onto the mat with an agenda, most of the time, you're going to be disappointed, because you don't know that your body's ready to do those things that day, that particular day, maybe you need something completely different than you thought. We have to be open to that. And then the day I decided that my time of studio ownership was over, that was a tough one. That was a really hard day. But the moment I decided to make that shift, I felt so much more freedom. Yoga had changed, you know, it really had become corporate. At this point, it was being completely watered down. People were barely doing teacher trainings and leading yoga classes, and it just became too much of a struggle to do the business of yoga versus being the teacher. You know, when you own your own business, you never are not working. That's the thing. It's 24/7 right? You don't get to clock out and go home and forget about it. Lesley Logan 39:50  Yeah, there's a reason why I like, watch White Lotus. I'm like, because I'm not where I can't work and watch White Lotus like, this is me being awesome. That's how it serves me. Even if it, like, gives me a little stress and anxiety, I'm like, but I'm not working, so I get it, no, like, I mean, like, yeah, and then I I, I'm where I'm married to someone I work with. So it's never, it's never off. Yeah, but I, thank you for sharing that, because, I mean, like, I think a lot of people, there's an aspiration to start something or do something or own something. But as you said, you've evolved. Not only has yoga evolved, but you've evolved. Your body has changed. And I think sometimes we forget that as we evolve, we outgrow some roles, you know, and like, just like you outgrow clothes, like you outgrow, like you outgrow a role, and it's like owning a studio serves such a good purpose, like a good purpose at the time, like you had a partner and a family and, like all these things. And then it also got to a place where it's like all this is changing, and I have, too, you know, but that's so hard to like, because it's like a light switch. Anthony Benenati 40:58  Yeah. Well, you know, I had felt it, but not really paid attention to it. And you know how your body does, your body will jump in there and it'll call your attention. And I literally had my one and only panic attack at that moment. It was like, oh yeah, this is a sign you are not in a good place. This, this, this, it's time to get out. It's time this, this had run its course. And that was a hard decision to really give up the thing that you worked so hard to create. But it was also learning that that was separate from who I was, that we were not inextricably connected, that we were these individual things, and we did create a third thing, but that third thing was dying, and it was time to change into something else.Lesley Logan 41:46  Yeah, yeah. What are you most excited about right now?Anthony Benenati 41:51  Oh my gosh, we are empty nesters. That's the most, 25 years of being a parent.Lesley Logan 41:59  I had someone I just interviewed. She's like, I'm a bird launcher. She's like, I've launched all my birds. They're all birds. They're all launched. Like, the positive of that.Anthony Benenati 42:10  It is so true. We are so excited about this next chapter for us, which is freedom in a lot of different ways, right? I mean, you're never not the parent, but they don't need you every day anymore. They need you when they need you and and happy to be there when they do. Like this morning, my youngest called from college, and she stayed on the phone for over an hour. And she just needed feedback. She needed to connect. She didn't necessarily need a ton of advice. She just, you could feel that she needed connection. For now, for me, it really is about this next chapter. Your lives are a bunch of chapters, and at being, you know, 50, I'll be 58 this year. It's a very I know, right? Yeah, I can't believe it myself, but this idea now that I can make choices solely for me or solely for us as a couple and not oh my god, what are we going to do with the kids, and is this child going to come? Or are they not going to come, or are we going to do this all together, that we can make these choices for ourselves, I'm really excited about that. That's the personal aspect of it. Professionally, professionally, things have changed, you know, ever since covid, everybody went online, and which is great. It's a great way to connect to everybody, but I still feel the need to be in the classroom, yeah, and we do those in persons, and we do those yoga retreats, and we do those monthly workshops, just so that people can have that feeling of connection and community again. Lesley Logan 43:52  Yeah, I think that's why we do our tours, too. Like, I love being online, because I can impact people without having to travel as much. And also, like, I need to see bodies in three dimensions.Anthony Benenati 44:03  Right. How do you make an adjustment with you can't see and touch? Lesley Logan 44:06  No, I'm literally going so if I was there, I would hold your arms still. Imagine I'm like, is your child around? Can they grab your arms and hold them? Hold their hold their arms. Okay. Now go.Anthony Benenati 44:18  That's so good. Lesley Logan 44:19  You know, but like, I think, I think that's why, like, I like the idea of, like, really reframing what's good or bad. Because, like, I think it could be so easy, like, back before the pandemic, like, oh, online is terrible. You can't have those things. But we, Brad and I used to, like, call you just be on the phone. Because I was like, I can't handle the traffic. I can't but I want you. So just, just be on just be on speakerphone, and we'll mute ourselves, and we'll be, you know, but like, when the pandemic happened, I was like, oh, I love this, because now I can have access to the people, I don't live in the same town as you, and I, Brad and I still get to have that practice with you, and I think, but also, yeah, we miss, like, actual hugs and actually seeing people, and you have to be more intentional. But I think that that, I think then we are more intentional, you know, so that is also cool.Anthony Benenati 45:08  Yeah, we really mourned the day you guys left.Lesley Logan 45:12  When we moved from L.A. to Las Vegas was during the pandemic, and we didn't actually have a mourning, because nothing was actually happening in person, the more like it was a year and a half later when things opened back up and we were not part of the opening back up that was like, so it was a delayed mourning, a delayed grief for us. Okay, obviously, we're gonna all catch up, guys. We're gonna take a brief break, find out how people can find you, follow you, do yoga with you. Anthony Benenati 45:39  Great. Lesley Logan 45:40  All right, Anthony, where do you hang out? Like, are you on the Instagram? Or is there just a simpler way? How can people do yoga with you or learn more about what you're doing? Where do you where can they go? Anthony Benenati 45:52  Well, they can go to my website, which is, thatsnotyoga.com and of course, there's a story behind that, because that's a pretty bold statement, which was intentional. One of the misconceptions about yoga is that anything goes, right, and that is so far from the truth. If yoga is about anything, it's about setting meaningful boundaries. So if you take a bunch of energy and you narrow it, you're going to increase the flow of that energy. Just think of water. Take a lake. Narrow the boundaries. It becomes a river. Narrow the boundaries even more, becomes a raging river. So most people think that if you limit their choices, then you're limiting their freedom. But I call it the Cheesecake Factory theory. Walk into a Cheesecake Factory and you sit down, and they literally throw you down a book. And they're like, okay, what do you want? And you can have anything. The book is like, an inch thick. And I just get overloaded because there's too many choices. I much prefer to go to a restaurant where they just print the menu that day and there's six things on it, and you can have this, this or this, and I'm like, great, I'll have that. The narrowing of your choices actually gives you more freedom, because you're constantly saying no to a bunch of things while you're saying yes to a limited amount of things, right? Like being in marriage, you're saying yes to Brad and no to everybody else. It's this process that continues throughout your entire day, right? What am I letting in? What am I consciously keeping away? I love that understanding.Lesley Logan 47:42  I love that. So you guys just so you know, because he didn't say it, but I'm gonna say it for him. Brad and I can do yoga online with this man. You do it three times a week. I try to show up twice a week when I'm there. And Brad, we're getting him on the 8 am wake up call. We're working on. Do you remember? Do you remember when he used to do it 6 am? I think we have to remind him that he used to do 6 am yoga. Anthony Benenati 48:03  Absolutely. Lesley Logan 48:03  When the bed was further away from the studio was the the thing. So you guys can do that. You can find that on, on, thatsnot yoga.com. You kind of just gave us a Be It Action Item. But I just want to see like, if there's any other bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted steps people can take to be it till they see it. Anthony Benenati 48:18  Okay. The the, the the triad, the triumvirate that we like to follow in the practice, is desire, knowledge, action. Those are my Be It moments. To break it down, you got to want to do something, then you have to learn how to do it, and then you do it, this whole idea of just do it, that's not going to work. Just doing something without knowing how to do it can cause you harm doing something and you don't have the real desire to do it, you're not going to put your best effort in. If you do those three things in that order, you can pretty much do whatever you want to do. You've got to want to do it. You got to learn how to do it, and then you simply have to do it, and you have to commit to doing it over and over and over again to create that meaningful change. Those are my action items. And the thing is, is, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. That's the thing. You're, exactly, more freedom. And that's whole, that's yoga's goal. Yoga just wants you to be more free. But that doesn't mean no boundaries. It means establishing meaningful boundaries, boundaries that are going to channel you in the direction you want to go. And guess what, people, you can always change your mind. You can always change your mind.Lesley Logan 49:48  I mean, that is like that needs to be on people's walls. Because I find like, you know, like, imagine if you never gave yourself permission to change your mind. You might, you might, the world might have lost a yoga teacher that day, because you would have had a panic attack and then a burnout, you know, like, you can change your mind on your schedule, you can change your mind on your goals. You can change your mind on lot of things, like, you know, and that is for the perfectionist, listening. That might be the hardest thing you learn.Anthony Benenati 50:14  I'm speaking to you, perfectionist.Lesley Logan 50:17  Yeah, oh my gosh, Anthony, obviously I could talk to you for hours. And clearly Brad is like itching to walk in this room, you guys, so we gotta let him in so you can say hi to his friend, but thank you for being here, and thank you for just sharing so much of your wisdom. I continue to learn from you. Always. I can't wait to learn more. Someday we're gonna do a joint Pilates, yoga. That is my dream. That is my vision. Maybe on the Summer Tour. Maybe you'll be our L.A. event. So see, you guys, let us know what your favorite takeaways were. Let Anthony know in thatsnotyoga. Let the Be It Pod know and share this with a friend who needs to hear it, because that's how everyone wins. You know, we all can take away something from this, and I'd love to hear what yours are, and you know what to do, until next time, Be It Till You See It. Lesley Logan 51:02  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. 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He's come in twice, and I'm like, um. Anthony Benenati 52:24  What's up, buddy? Brad Crowell 52:26  I wanted to say hi. Lesley Logan 52:27  Yeah. Okay, alright, one second, let me get to those Be It Action Items. Okay. We'll talk.Transcribed by https://otter.aiSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, I'm joined by yoga teacher and global mindfulness facilitator Josh Blatter. We talk about his teaching journey—from the yoga studio to his work with Peace on Purpose, a program that supports United Nations staff working in some of the most high-pressure environments in the world.Josh shares:Why questioning long-held beliefs is vital for yoga teachersStudying in the Viniyoga lineage and the individualized approach to yogaWhat it was like to study at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in ChennaiHow Vedic Chant is a powerful part of his personal practice -- and how challenging it is to learnPeace on Purpose and his recent trips to Bangladesh and PakistanHow Josh teaches in high-stress environments and how cultural sensitivity shapes the workAdvice for yoga teachers on staying inspired, grounded, and financially afloatA guiding principle for sustainable teaching and caregiving (this one's a huge lightbulb moment for me!)Thank you, as always, for listening and sharing the podcast.If you'd like to keep up with us, subscribe to our newsletter at: jasonyoga.com/newsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Für Yoga muss man nicht jung, dehnbar und schlank und rank sein. Yoga ist sogar für Patientinnen und Patienten geeignet. Allen voran Brustkrebsbetroffene profitieren von Yogakurse. Kein Wunder, Yoga ist ein ganzheitliches Bewegungskonzept für Körper, Atem und Geist. Die diplomierte Physiotherapeutin und Yogalehrerin am Engeriedspital in Bern unterrichtet jeden Donnerstag Brustkrebsbetroffene. Obwohl der Yogakurs allen Krebsbetroffenen, Männern und Frauen offensteht. Dabei unterrichtet sie ein ruhigeres Viniyoga, bei welchem viel geatmet wird. Bei Viniyoga wird das Yoga den Praktizierenden angespasst. Yoga kann Krebs nicht heilen, betont die Yogalehrerin, aber es gibt - gerade bei Brustkrebs - Studien, die zeigen, dass Yoga gegen die Nebenwirkungen der Krebsbehandlung helfen kann. Besonders bei krebsbedingter Fatigue kann Yoga helfen.  Yoga kann auch Patientinnen und Patienten im Anfangsstadium von Multipler Sklerose helfen, bei Herzbeschwerden oder Verstimmungen.

There is so much to say about this episode! You will want to have a pen nearby, as the quotable quotes are nonstop. Gary Kraftsow is one of the master teachers of our time, and he's here to talk about yoga, chakras, and becoming your own guru! His wealth of knowledge is beyond compare, and this conversation will show you what a vast array of yoga topics and techniques that are available to us on our own personal journeys. I hope you are inspired to learn more, and definitely look into a training with Gary. He makes these elevated topics personal and relevant.  Here are some of the key moments to listen for: 6:20 Gary's whole life inner journey through all the traditions 8:35 “The journey is about the path up the mountain.” 10:30 Vedic chanting 12:30 Chanting activates our own wisdom; Using mantra as deep transformation 16:15 Connecting to lineage (Do you need to be given a mantra by your teacher?) 18:00 Let's talk chakras!! 21:00 A practical image of the chakra system 30:00 What happened when Gary came out of a coma? 34:00 Jess gets an answer to her big Yoga Sutras question 39:00 Learn about Gary's teacher training 47:00 What is the difference between wisdom and knowledge? 52:00 A story about a yogi demon, and what happens at the moment of your death About Gary Kraftsow Founder and Director of the American Viniyoga Institute. Gary Kraftsow has been an innovator in the transmission of yoga for health, healing, and personal transformation for over 40 years. He began his study of yoga in India with T.K.V. Deśikācar in 1974 and received a Viniyoga Special Diploma from Viniyoga International in Paris, France in 1988. Gary graduated with a BA, Magna Cum Laude, from Colgate University in 1976 and received his Masters Degree in Psychology and Religion from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1983.  Around that time, he opened Maui School of Yoga Therapy.  In 1999, he founded the American Viniyoga Institute, LLC.  Since then, he has become a renowned speaker and teacher of the Viniyoga methodology at many conferences and schools nationally and internationally. Read more about Gary: https://viniyoga.com/about/gary-kraftsow/ Learn more and connect with Gary Kraftsow:  https://viniyoga.com/about/gary-kraftsow/ Teacher and Yoga Therapist training: https://viniyoga.com/train/viniyoga-foundations-program/ https://viniyoga.com/train/ https://www.facebook.com/AmericanViniyogaInstitute https://www.instagram.com/americanviniyogainstitute/ https://www.youtube.com/c/GaryKraftsowViniyoga More about Jess: Website jessgoulding.com Resources: Chakra Savvy: Reset Your Life Game Plan ⁠Chakra Savvy Quickie Quiz⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠Chakra Check-In Self Assessment⁠ ⁠ Chakra Savvy Cheat Sheet ⁠ Embodiment Online Course. Harness the energy of chakra one, and set a new foundation built on connection, gratitude, and trust in the world. Use coupon code PODCAST! More resources, links, and a form for thoughts and questions are at ⁠Jessgoulding.com/podcast.⁠ Connect with Jess:  Facebook⁠⁠, @jessgyoga, and the Jess G Yoga Facebook Group, ⁠⁠ Instagram⁠⁠, @jessgyoga   YouTube⁠⁠ @jessgoulding LinkedIn: Jessica (Jess) Goulding  @jessgyoga TAGS awareness,  mindfulness,   self study,   svadyaya,   self awareness,    chakras,    yoga,   yoga therapy, self improvement, transformation, spirituality, self help, yoga, meditation, philosophy, psychology

Gary Kraftsow shares his background and experiences studying with Krishnamacharya and Desikachar. He discusses the teachings he received and the impact they had on his life. He also talks about the relationship between Krishnamacharya and Desikachar and their teaching methods. Kraftsow explains the concepts of Viniyoga and Vinyasa and how they are applied in yoga practice.  www.viniyoga.com | @americanviniyogainstitute Connect

Todd McLaughlin interviews Stacy McCarthy, a yoga teacher and kinesiology professor. Stacy shares her journey into yoga, from her first experience in a yoga class to becoming a dedicated practitioner and teacher. She discusses the evolution of her practice and teaching style, emphasizing the importance of adapting to the needs of students and finding a balance between discipline and creativity. Stacy also touches on the impact of technology on the yoga industry and the need for consistent practice and self-reflection. Overall, she emphasizes the transformative power of yoga and the importance of finding one's own path.Visit Stacy on her website: https://www.yoganamastacy.com/Follow her on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/yoga_namastacy/Key Takeaways:Stacy McCarthy's yoga philosophy is grounded in welcoming inclusivity, encouraging practitioners to approach the mat regardless of their background.Her teaching style has evolved from the strict discipline of Ashtanga to a blend that incorporates alignment, mind-body harmony, and the softer aspects of practices like Viniyoga and Iyengar.The practice of yoga, according to McCarthy, is a life-long journey that yields more health and happiness when approached with consistency and authenticity.Adaptability is honored as a cornerstone in Stacy's career, illustrated by how she has embraced the technological shifts affecting yoga instruction.Thanks for listening to this episode. Check out:

Mary Bue is a songwriter, Nada yogi, traveler, runner, vegan, retreat guide, music + yoga teacher based out of Minneapolis, often roaming this beautiful world. Named Best Songwriter of 2020 by City Pages, her music touches upon archetypal themes of the human condition: love, loss, triumph, dreams, and the natural world. A longtime student of yoga and psychology, Mary weaves sacred subject matter into her songs, seeking of deeper levels of consciousness, and deep concern for the environment mixed into her sometimes crass, real-world hue. Mary Bue is a registered yoga teacher (e-RYT 500), an indie musician, and a teacher in the Viniyoga tradition, a breath-centered, flowing practice that believes in adapting postures to fit the whole person (not forcing a person to fit into a posture!). Mary received her certification at Whole Life Yoga in Seattle, WA by Tracy Weber, (student of Gary Kraftsow, student of T.K.V. Desikachar) and her 300 hour from Yoga Center Retreat (formerly Yoga Center of Minneapolis). In 2020, Mary received an additional 200 hour certificate in Nada Yoga (the Yoga of Sound) from Nada Yoga School in Rishikesh India. Connect with Mary marybue.com instagram.com/MaryBueMusic Patreon.com/marybue Where to connect with Andrea Website: https://andreaclaassen.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/seasonalandrea Seasonal Living Collective: https://andreaclaassen.com/seasonal-living-collective Andrea Claassen Bio Andrea Claassen is an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, RYT 500 hour yoga teacher, and Wild Woman Circle leader who has been in the wellness space since 2007. Her mission is to help you start to live a cyclical life by living in alignment with the seasons using Ayurveda as your guide. She does this by teaching her Peaceful Power Practices centered around movement, mindfulness & mother nature through an Ayurvedic lens. You can hear more from Andrea on her Peaceful Power Podcast where she aims to deliver actionable takeaways for you to live a more holistic lifestyle. Connect with Andrea on her website at www.andreaclaassen.com

Are you searching for meaning in a world driven by instant gratification and constant change? Join me in a conversation with Dr. Kausthub Desikachar on the Timeless Teachings podcast. Discover how an ancient lineage, dating back to the 8th century, can provide grounding and purpose in today's fast-paced society. Explore the essence of yoga as a path to connect with your higher purpose and learn how to find balance in the modern world. This discussion uncovers timeless wisdom and offers insights into tradition and spirituality that endure amid the chaos of our times.IN THIS EPISODE(00:00) Introduction and Dr. Kausthub Desikachar's Background(02:48) Challenges and Privileges of a Traditional Yogic Upbringing(05:31) Embracing Challenges as Opportunities and Life Lessons(09:03) Understanding the Concept of Yoga and Connecting with Higher Purpose(11:32) Dr. Kausthub's Role in Transmitting Tradition and Balancing Tradition in the Modern World(15:58) Reflections on Modern Yoga Trends(18:11) The Value of Sustainable Traditions in the Dark Era of Consumers(23:26) Closing RemarksOUR GUEST: Dr. Kausthub DesikacharDr. Kausthub Desikachar is the successor and current lineage holder of the classical Viniyoga tradition of T Krishnamacharya & TKV Desikachar. He is an acclaimed yoga teacher,  yoga therapist, healer and spiritual adviser.  His objectives include the sharing of the authentic teachings of Yoga to the modern era, as well as building bridges between different healing modalities to promote physical, emotional social and spiritual health. For more than twenty years, Kausthub has taught a multitude of students and teachers around the globe and has conducted numerous teacher and therapist training programs. Connect with him: https://www.kausthubdesikachar.com/https://www.viniyoga.com.sg/YANA FRYYana is the founder of the Timeless Teachings Podcast. She is a global speaker, impact coach, wellness retreats facilitator, spiritual teacher, co-author of three books, award-winning poetess, and truth illuminator who inspires, empowers, educates globally.Yana has been interviewing thought leaders and change makers since 2015 . You can find more of her thought-provoking interviews on YanaTV, an online talk show that amplifies the voices of impactful, influential and conscious people of Singapore.  CONNECT with the Host ►Linktree: https://linktr.ee/yanafryLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanafry  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yanafryFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yanafry—-Timeless Teachings by Yana Fry is a top 3 Spirituality podcast in Singapore. We talk about human advancement, self-mastery and achieving your full potential.

Season 3 is all about the HOW TOs of running and, in this episode, Stephanie talks to body whisperer Sharon Boon about the importance of movement and how runners can benefit from more curiosity about the different ways they can move and experience movement in their bodies. Enjoy this episode and thanks for listening.  To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2qkf9F-3jiU About Stephanie: Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner's Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). www.instagram.com/thecookierunner/ www.thecookierunner.net About Sharon: Sharon Boon brings a wide range of practice to the field of running - Exercise Science degrees, RRCA & USATriathlon certified coach, certified strength & conditioning specialist, Pilates & Viniyoga instructor, craniosacral therapist and licensed massage therapist. Having been through 10 years of chronic pain, she understands the need for daily commitment to self to be your best. Her goal is to bring movement to as many people as she can, make that movement as effortless & efficient as possible, and keep the joy in going forward. www.instagram.com/ambermoonstudiotexas www.ambermoonstudio.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/runnersroundtable/support

Carrie Heeter, Ph.D., RYS200 and meditation designer in the tradition of Viniyoga has written a fascinating book called ‘An Inside Look at Meditation: Experiences for healing, support and transformation.” Amy and Carrie discuss what it means to have an interactive meditative experience and how this might be different than what most of us think of when we imagine going into meditation. It is a co-creation that can be guided by the meditation facilitator/ designer but leaves space for the meditator to create an experience in their own mind that can lead to self-discovery, transformation and even mental and physical healing. Carrie is a Research Scientist, a developer of Virtual Reality games and has authored over 100 books and peer reviewed articles as a scholar at Michigan State University for 27 years. Get ready to have your mind blown and heart opened in this interview. ·     Amy asks Carrie to help us understand what interactive gaming technology and this type of meditative experience have in common.·     Carrie describes several different meditative practices that she has experienced, as well as designed for her students.·     The intended outcomes vs. what really happens in the mind and heart of a person who has committed to this type of meditative practice is explained.·     We discuss what are the short-term effects of this type of meditation, and what are the longer-term outcomes if one should choose to continue regularly for months or years.·     The importance of having a seasoned mentor is discussed, and the training required to become proficient at creating both group meditative experiences and individual practices as a yoga therapist in the viniyoga tradition.·     The breakdown of what you could expect if you were to give this type of meditation a try and how you could get started.If you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF's for download.Topics you can choose from include: Yoga Therapy & Mental HealthYoga Therapy & Physical HealthSocial Justice in yoga & Yoga TherapyYoga/Ayurveda ToolboxYoga & Indian PhilosophyGlobal & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribe Check out Amy's website If you are interested in the (free) Optimal State 12-Day Meditation Challenge contact Krishna@TheOptimalState and she will give you information about how to join us starting June 2023. Contact Carrie Heeter:www.yogamindtools.com

O joginach-najemnikach, ascetach, którzy od lat żyją z ręką uniesioną w górze, joginach, którzy zakopywali się żywcem, o historii jogi i trzech współczesnych szkołach jogi posturalnej (czym się różni Joga Iyengara, od Ashtanga czy Vinijogi?) rozmawiam z religioznawczynią doktorką Matyldą Ciołkosz.Książkę "Thinking in Āsana. Movement and Philosophy in Viniyoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga" możecie zdobyć tu: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/thinking-asana/Podcast Religioznawczy można wspierać przez konto na Patronite: https://patronite.pl/podcast-religioznawczy/descriptionŚledźcie mnie również na FB, IG, Spotify i TikToku!W nagraniu wykorzystano utwór muzyczny "Long Note One", którego autorem jest Kevin MacLeod oraz "Bass Recorder Meditation" autorstwa Daniela Heikalo–m (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Heikalo/Classwar_Karaoke_-_0034_Survey/18_Bass_Recorder_Meditation) oraz "Mystery" autorstwa "The Lovely Moon". Oba utwory na licencji CC 3.0.Autorem Podcastu Religioznawczego jest Mikołaj Kołyszko.

Marcel has a conversation with Stacey Loop, a Yoga Therapist and Yoga Teacher of Viniyoga. Stacey talks about alignment in her personal and professional development. She shares the story of how she identified “play” as the driving force in her work and how recognizing this opened up a world of new opportunities. Learn about identifying alignment in your work and how to practice coming from that alignment. Learn  how to come from function over form and how this simple approach creates new options for working with your alignment. Marcel and Stacey also discuss coming from "the inside out", and how opportunities can actually be distractions. Stacey shares how she identified “her people”, and learned that “the movement of the breath” tells a story. You can learn more about Stacey at her website www.loopoflight.com.

This week I'm joined again by Kate Plummer, one half of @phoenix.yoga. Kate is a highly experienced senior Yoga teacher teaching from the Viniyoga perspective. Born in the UK she now lives in rural SW France and teaches alongside her husband, Marc. If you have an idea of what a Yoga teacher should be, you'll probably find they don't conform to it!Get Kate's new e-book for some extra ideas on how to combine the Viniyoga approach with your Yoga teaching here: https://phoenixyogafrance.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a0514012e0534070e6a6609be&id=8155349540Book a time to talk about working 1:1 with me here: https://go.oncehub.com/45mincoaching Learn more about working 1:1 with me here: https://www.amymcdonald.com.au/coachingLooking to make your own simple, super user-friendly all-in-one website? Check out Offering Tree (and scoop up some awesome savings) here: www.offeringtree.com/amyCloud Sangha is an intimate meditation community. Together we practice and cultivate kindness, compassion, and wisdom. Try for free here: https://www.cloudsangha.co/amymcdonaldSupport this show via Patreon and get access to more goodies here: https://www.patreon.com/AmyMcDonald

Chase Bossart is a Yoga teacher and a yoga therapist, and has been studying yoga for over three decades. And for the majority of that time he has studied with Guru TKV Desikachar, son of T. Krishnamacharya — who is often referred to as the Father of Modern Yoga. Altogether, he has spent more than 4 years in Chennai, India studying a wide range of yoga and yoga therapy topics with Mr. Desikachar and the teachers at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in the Viniyoga tradition. Chase spent six years at the Healing Yoga Foundation in San Francisco as Director of Education & Yoga Therapy. In 2013, he founded the Yoga Well Institute in Mill Valley, California, where he continues his mission of teaching yoga philosophy, yoga therapy and his insights on Eastern vs.Western models of health and disease. In this episode, Chase discusses Yogic Anatomy and the approach of yoga for therapy. We especially loved his commentary on the Koshas. To learn more about the Yoga Well institute, please visit their website: https://www.yogawell.com Also if you are looking to deepen your practice, then look up their program - 'Deepen Your Yoga Program: A 300 hour Practitioner's Training' on the website. They can also be found on Instagram at: @yogawellinstitute This audio and video podcast is brought to you by Eka Meditation. Eka is a yoga and meditation app from India. We also organise daily meditation and yoga classes on zoom. Learn more on our website: www.ekameditation.com You can download the eka app from www.ekameditation.com and use the code 'RADIO' for a week's free access to the app. Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ekameditation&hl=en_IN&gl=US IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eka-yoga-for-mental-health/id1490547025 You can register here for free trial to our live zoom classes: https://eka.practicenow.us/ Follow us - https://www.instagram.com/ekameditation/

In this episode we will explore Yoga & The Path Less Trodden with Kate & Marc Plummer of Phoenix Yoga based in the wilds of Southwest France. Kate and Marc teach ViniYoga and are also self-proclaimed “Yoga Nerds”  who have chosen to take the path less trodden. We will get to know them and learn all about ViniYoga! And why taking the path less trodden can be fulfilling and frankly cool! Connect with our guests Kate & Marc of Phoenix Yoga:  www.instagram.com/phoenix.yoga/ Website: www.phoenixyogafrance.com/welcome Facebook: www.facebook.com/PhoenixYogaFrance Any other links:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCiK_cN9uduVLQCv9iNxa5Dg (Phoenix Yoga) Connect to Yoga And... Podcast Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/yogaandpodcast Please write us a glowing review wherever you get your Podcasts yogaandpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: yogaandpodcast Earth Commons: https://earth-commons.com Use promo code: YOGAAND to get 10% off your next order! Help the Ukraine: https://www.razomforukraine.org Support the Ukraine Military: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/ Yoga Knees: https://yogaknees.com Use promo code: YOGAAND to get 10% off your next order! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yogaandpodcast/message

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Have you heard of Viniyoga? What about Tirumalai Krishnamacharya or T. K. V. Desikachar? In this fun interview with co-Yoga nerd Kate Plummer of Phoenix Yoga France we talk about teaching, studying, becoming better and Kate's unlikely love affair with this particular lineage. It's a good one!Follow Kate and Marc on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/phoenix.yoga/Learn all about their 60 hour YTT here: https://www.phoenixyogafrance.com/viniyogatrainingSupport this show on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/AmyMcDonaldBook yourself a 90-minute intensive and save $150 using coupon code March22 at www.amymcdonald.com.au/intensives

Healing Ourselves The next three episodes of this series focus on the Three Wheels of Healing we offer at the Women's Center for Healing and Transformation: Healing Ourselves, Creating Community, and Healing The World. In this episode, Celeste Kelly, Entrepreneur and Women's Transformational Coach, talks about her passion for lifting up women, and how that is a catalyst creating ripples through time. Sadani Janet Houtz, Yoga Therapist and MELT Method Instructor, shares about her path of healing the body, in big and subtle ways, as it supports physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. To get involved, receive the e-newsletter, or support the vital work of this 501-C3 non-profit, visit womenscenterforhealing.org. Intro and Exit: Anitra Smith-Senegal, Director, Women's Center for Healing & Transformation Guests: Celeste Kelly, Entrepreneur, Intuitive, and Women's Transformational Coach, https://www.she-clan.com/, and Sadani Janet Houtz, Yoga Therapist and Yoga Educator, Viniyoga and Kripalu Yoga Certified, https://www.womenscenterforhealing.org/yoga-for-stress-relief.html Sponsor: Shirley “Toni” McCord, CPA, APAC, www.tonimccordcpa.com Music by: Ana Chandler, Patricia Stout, Grace Treffinger, and Cecilia Whitehurst Music Team: Carolyn Burns and Leslie Wolf Abita Springs, Louisiana USA Podcast production by: threetwentystudio.co

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast  243: What Yoga Texts Should I Read? with Chase Bossart   Description: Many yoga teachers are eager learners and always seeking to expand their knowledge about yoga. However the multitude of texts (and their various translations) available can feel overwhelming and daunting to approach. In this episode, Chase Bossart shares his recommendations and expertise around some of the must-read yoga texts.   Chase Bossart is the Director of the Yoga Well Institute, an organization dedicated to yoga, meditation, and holistic health in the tradition of Viniyoga. Chase studied under the tutelage of TKV Desikachar, son of Krishnamacharya who is often described as the father of modern yoga.   Chase shares his insights on how to take the yoga sutras into challenging times, the three fundamental texts he suggests yoga teachers read, and why these are so important for yoga teachers as a foundation in their practice and their teaching. Chase also explains why having a teacher to guide you in your study of the texts can be helpful, and whether yoga teachers need to know Sanskrit and all of the texts to practice or teach yoga. Shannon and Chase also discuss cultural appropriation, how and why yoga has changed so much in its practice in the East vs. West, and much more.   If you have ever wondered what texts you should read to deepen your knowledge of yoga and yoga philosophy, or how the teachings of yoga apply to our daily lives, this episode is for you.   Key Takeaways: [4:25] Shannon introduces her guest for this episode - Chase Bossart. [6:37] Shannon gives a shoutout to Schedulicity. [7:47] Shannon reads a review from a listener. [11:25] This interview was recorded on the 20th of January, Inauguration Day in the US. Shannon and Chase discuss the state of things in the US at the moment. [13:03] How have the yoga sutras held Chase through the challenges we have faced recently? [19:20] What are the main texts that Chase recommends that yoga teachers read? [22:14] Chase explains a little more about the Yogasūtra, and Haṭhayoga Pradīpika. [25:26] These texts are not easy to read or understand. Chase talks about the traditional way that people would go about learning these texts. [28:40] Not everyone can live with and learn these texts under the tutelage of a teacher. What can they do instead? [34:12] Chase shares his recommendations on how yoga teachers can approach these texts. [37:37] Does studying with one teacher mean that we are automatically limiting ourselves to just one person's ideas? [39:08] Chase shares more about the three texts he recommends for yoga teachers. [46:09] Context is not well understood in yoga. [47:33] What is Chase's reaction to someone who just wants to practice yoga and believes that yoga's teachings will come through to them in their practice, without reading the texts? [53:53] What are Chase's thoughts on bringing yoga from the East to the West? Shannon and Chase discuss the topic of cultural appropriation in yoga. [60:27] Where should yoga teachers who want to study yoga texts start?   Links: Chase Bossart, Yoga Well Institute The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Episode 053: Yoga Mentors and Lineage with Chase Bossart The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Episode 242: Mantra & Chanting with Melissa Shah The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Episode 232: Five Steps to Effective Content with Shannon Crow [Part 1] Schedulicity (Coupon Code: CYT2MONTHS) Yoga Bodies, Yoga Minds by Chase Bossart The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, by T. K. V. Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga: Lectures on Theory and Practice, by T. K. V. Desikachar, John Ross Carter, and Mary Louise Skelton What are We Seeking?, by Martyn Neal and T. K. V. Desikachar In Search of Mind, by T. K. V. Desikachar The Connected Yoga Teacher Facebook Group   Gratitude to our Sponsors, Schedulicity, and Pelvic Health Professionals.   Quotes from this episode: "The yoga sutras are very clear that you don't have a lot of influence over what happens."   “Do what you need to do to maintain your equanimity because that is the determining factor in how you respond, and how you respond is going to determine what happens to you next.”   "I think it's so important that people take time to become familiar with yoga as a path, yoga as a way of interacting with the world."   "Yoga, like cooking, is experiential knowledge. Like music or dance. It's not just something that you know, it's something you do."   "It's important to build a foundation before we add lots of stories."   "Another part of difficulty in yoga is that context is not well understood."   "We should be, at least, having a fundamental idea of what is yoga as a practice and as a life philosophy, rather than just what is yoga as an exercise class or some huff and puff."

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The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 242: Mantra & Chanting with Melissa Shah   Description: As a white yoga practitioner who may have trouble with Sanskrit pronunciations, you may have wondered how to approach using mantra in your practice. You may have wondered - What if I can't pronounce the words correctly? Does pronunciation matter? When is it acceptable to use mantra or Sanskrit chants in my classes? Melissa Shah has answers to these questions and more.   Melissa works to make yoga accessible through yoga therapy, mentoring yoga teachers, and mantra, which she has practiced since childhood. She is passionate about bringing yoga and Ayurveda back to its roots, and reclaiming representation within the wellness community. Currently, Melissa works individually with clients offering yoga therapy in the Viniyoga tradition and offers weekly community chanting and pranayama classes.   Melissa sheds light on what exactly mantra is, and talks about the benefits and importance of mantra in yoga. She also shares her perspective on getting the pronunciations right when saying mantras, and how we can navigate incorporating mantra into our practice and classes in a way that is mindful, respectful and intentional.   Key Takeaways: [4:55] Shannon introduces her guest for this episode - Melissa Shah. [6:52] Check out the hot tip of the week from Schedulicity. [9:37] Where did Melissa's yoga journey begin? When did she start practicing mantra and chanting? [13:01] Did Melissa ever have a period of time where she rejected yoga, having started at such a young age? [16:38] What is the definition of mantra? [19:02] Are mantras always in Sanskrit or can they be in English?  [21:03] What's the difference between kirtan and mantra? [25:46] How should yoga teachers approach the pronunciation of Sanskrit words in mantra? [30:38] What is the science behind mantra? [35:36] Where the tongue lands in the mouth has an impact on the body. Melissa explains more about this in relation to mantra. [41:28] How does Melissa approach people who may feel uncomfortable with chanting and mantras, or like it collides with their beliefs or religion? [45:10] Learn more about mantra and chanting from Melissa at her classes, and also check out some resources she has available on her website. [47:13] Melissa closes the interview with a chant.   Links: Melissa Shah Melissa Shah's Online Class Schedule Find Your Breath Online - Membership and Online Library The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Episode 240: Pelvic Health for Everyone with Shannon Crow The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Episode 241: Bhakti Yoga & Kirtan with Kamini Natarajan Schedulicity (Coupon Code: CYT2MONTHS) Conscious Marketing for Yoga Teachers with Tristan Katz The Connected Yoga Teacher Facebook Group   Gratitude to our Sponsors, Schedulicity, and Pelvic Health Professionals.   Quotes from this episode: "What kind of intended effect do you want the mantra to have?"   "Depending on where the individual you're working with this at and what they'll connect to the most, you can give them other kinds of sounds."   "When you're in a position of power, especially as a white person in a wellness space, when you're in a position of power like that, what you do, other people model."   "It means something when you don't put in the effort. It's a micro aggression and it does mean something and it does cause harm."   "I wouldn't say that not being able to pronounce something the perfect way is an excuse for not using it at all." "You don't necessarily have to know what the mantra means to get its benefit."

Ciao and Welcome to Life in Lucca with Andrea This week I chat to my very special friend, Debbie Charlett, who I actually met here, in Lucca. Debbie is a yoga teacher, and not only has she travelled extensively around Tuscany, amassing a wealth of experience, she also fell in love with Lucca along the way. She has had many an adventure and it's been great fun sharing some of those adventures with her. In fact, Debbie recently realised her dream and bought an apartment in the historic centre of Lucca. So, whether you're planning to visit Lucca, or thinking of buying your own apartment, this episode has lots to offer, not just practical advice, but also fun experiences. Connect with DebbieIf you would like further information, or to enrol on Debbie's Viniyoga sessions, her contact details are:M: +44 (0) 7976552481E: debbie.charlett@ntlworld.com Debbie's RecommendationsThe Walls, Lucca, walkAnfiteatro, Lucca, drink or mealTorre Guinigi, Via Sant'Andrea, 41 Lucca, viewPalazzo Pfanner, Via degli Asili, 33 Lucca, gardensVilla Reale di Marlia, Villa Reale di Marlia, Via Fraga Alta, 2, Marlia, house and gardensBoccherini Music School, Piazza del Suffragio, 6 Lucca, an evening concertRistorante Il Mecenate, Via del Fosso, 94 LuccaPasticceria Meucci, Via Vittorio Veneto, 12 LuccaPasticceria Regina, Via Papa Giovanni XXIII, 7 (outside the walls, Porta San Elisa)Gelateria Veneta, Via Vittorio Veneto, 74Gelateria and Chocolatier, Caniparoli, Via San Paolino, 44 Favourite Italian word/phraseIncredibile – Incredible (the Italian pronunciation emphasises the word, making it more powerful) About the HostAndrea has travelled the length and breadth of Italy. Having fallen in love with Lucca, she now spends a few months there each year.SupportIf you've enjoyed the episode, please support this podcast by buying the equivalent of a coffee or two, if you can, at: ko-fi.com/lifeinlucca your donations really do help. Subscribe and Review: If you've enjoyed listening to Life in Lucca with Andrea it would be lovely if you could take a moment to leave a review and share your comments. You can SUBSCRIBE to the show on the various platforms APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE PODCASTS etc... SponsorIf you are looking to sponsor the show, please get in touch at: lifeinlucca@hotmail.com Connect with me:If you would like to connect with me, I would be delighted to hear from you, you can find me on:Website: https://lifeinlucca.podbean.com/ E:mail: lifeinlucca@hotmail.comInstagram: andreas_life_in_lucca Twitter: @mountains46 Production: Joel at Northern Powerhouse Media www.npmedia.co.ukBoccherini Music School Lucca Train StationPalazzo Pfanner Garden at nightPasticceria Regina Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the website of Phyllis Moses - I began my exploration and study in the Viniyoga tradition over 40 years ago. I've cultivated specializations in trauma sensitive yoga, and am a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) through International Association of Yoga Therapists. I have developed yoga programs for addiction recovery centers and led prenatal yoga courses in hospitals, and am available for consulting on developing trauma sensitive yoga programs for organizations that understand movement is crucial to overall health, quality of life and recovery. I have a somatic based orientation to yoga, meaning practices that bring you into relationship with your own body. They lead you towards embodiment, towards knowing and being with the wisdom of the body. Whether you're looking for personalized yoga and yoga therapy, a state of the art technology to enhance circulation, blood flow and energy, or you're an expecting Mom seeking tools for a peaceful birth, I tailor an embodied experience that fits you. Serving Vancouver, WA and the greater Portland area, physically; everywhere else ~ digitally! I bring compassion, presence and decades of experience to my private sessions. https://www.hypnobirthingandyoga.com/ https://www.wildwomenandmagic.com/ Robin Lim & Birth Nonprofit

El padre del Yoga Moderno. En esta entrevista que me hace Coty a mí - Gonzalo Rico Peña. Te comparto la historia que aprendí y me contaron la familia y alumnos directos de Tirumalai Krishnamacharya quienes hoy día también son grandes maestros. Te compartiré anécdotas de su vida y obra. Te contaré por que es considerado el padre del yoga moderno, por que tantos grandes maestros se han iniciado/aprendido con él y han diseminado por todo el mundo sus enseñanzas. Por que hay tantos estilos distintos de Yoga que provienen de él? Ashtanga vinyasa o conocido como "las series de Mysore", la alinieación del estilo de Yoga BKS Iyengar, el Yoga holistico tipo hatha yoga de Indra Devi, el Viniyoga o Yogaterapeutico de TKV Desikachar y Rama Mohan, el Power yoga, Dinamic Yoga o Vinyasa krama de Srivatsa Ramaswamy... todos que provienen de la misma fuente. Tirumalai Krishnamacharya: Una leyenda. Que lo disfrutes! Gonzalo Rico Peña www.yogabaires.com.ar

In this episode I had the opportunity to interview Chase Bossart. Chase is a Yoga Therapist and Director of the Yoga Well Institute. We spoke about his background and experience in yoga and yoga therapy, we delved into what is Viniyoga and some of the tenets or values of the Viniyoga lineage, and we discussed the role of breathing and meditation in Yoga Therapy.Explore meditation and breathing with the Yoga Well Institute. Go to www.yogawell.com/free-month and sign up for free, today!Support the show (https://innerpeaceyogatherapy.com)

In this episode, in conversation with Beth Spindler, Yoga Therapist, Teacher and Writer, we discuss Beth's incredible work treating trauma and fear through yoga and the Vagus nerve.   World recognised Yoga Therapist, Beth Spindler began teaching yoga in 1976 and has been utilising yoga as a healing modality since then.  Holding the highest certification in the field she is a fountain of knowledge and wisdom. Her book, Yoga Therapy for Fear, Treating Anxiety, Depression and Rage with the Vagus nerve along with other techniques is recognised in the Yoga therapy community as an important text for those studying in the field. She is a frequently featured writer and presenter for Yoga International and leads retreats worldwide.   She has practiced yoga since childhood in the Sivananda tradition and had the honour of living with her teacher in Eknath Easwaran's community in the early 80s, she then studied with Senior Iyengar teachers for many years.  It was here that her love of yoga therapy began. Later she discovered the joy of fluid movement in Anusara, Ashtanga, and Prana Flow as well as Kundalini Yoga. Her background in yoga therapy also involved training in Phoenix Rising and Viniyoga of Desikachar lineage. She lived and practiced yoga therapy at the Himalayan Institute where her studies were in Sri Vidya Tantra,   She has trained hundreds of teachers, practiced yoga therapy in hospitals, universities, ashrams, retreat centers, clinics and schools. She currently lives in Springfield, Missouri.   About Beth Spindler C-IAYT, ERYT500 Yoga Therapist, Teacher, Writer Author of Yoga Therapy for Fear, Treating Anxiety, Depression and Rage with the Vagus Nerve and Other Techniques www.TeachtoInspire.com Instagram: beth.spindler https://www.facebook.com/Beth-Spindler-Yoga-Therapy-189154434442388/?fref=ts https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-spindler-eryt-c-iayt-a2ab1014?trk=hp-identity-name https://twitter.com/SpindlerBeth   We are delighted to are a discount code for you: FROMTHEHEART20, valid on all products on the Singing Dragon website (www.singingdragon.com). This discount has no expiry date.   ***   From The Heart is a podcast about Yoga, Mindfulness, healing and wellbeing from Dawn Lister and Daniel Groom, founders of Anahata Yoga Centre, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK. Conversations in this light hearted, kind and honest podcast series brings together people who have found ways to practise self-care in their lives, by sharing their knowledge, experiences and insights. Anahata is a heart centred and nurturing Wellbeing Studio in Leigh on Sea, Essex. Specialising in Yoga, Pilates, Yoga Therapy and mindful meditation. They offer expert tuition in small groups run by qualified and specialist professionals, who are experts in their field. Many of their teachers offer skills which support members of the public affected by long term health conditions, which may affect them physically, mentally and or emotionally. www.anahatayogacentre.com Follow Anahata Yoga Centre on Instagram and Facebook at @anahatayogacentre.

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Kim is the founder of Life Full Yoga. Kim is a Yoga and Pilates Instructor as well as a Wellness Coach. She works with people who are seeking to transform their lives by feeling more focused and energized, more peaceful and calm, and grounded and strong mentally and well as physically. She has Masters of Divinity from Harvard in 1996 and soon after became certified to teach Yoga and Pilates. She combines the elements of the body, mind, and spirit. Kim grew up with scoliosis with a back brace and struggled with her body but was also introduced to combining some Yoga with her Physical Therapy. She also struggled with low blood sugar which impacted her in school as well as multiple moves due to her parent's divorces. Through changing her diet and believing in herself she was able to finally excel in school and even go on to Harvard. Clients appreciate her down to earth style that incorporates the body, mind, and spirit. Kim is inspired by the teachings of the Viniyoga style, and her past teachers who taught Iyengar and Kripalu style yoga. Kim is also inspired by yoga philosophy and the ancient sacred texts of yoga. Her ability to adapt and commitment to working with the body, mind, and spirit helped her and her family through their home being destroyed by a fire and the daughter's cancer diagnosis, treatment and survival. She is also the co-founder of Childhood Cancer Kids which brings Yoga to children with cancer which has been nationally recognized such as on the Today Show. www.lifefullyyoga.com/courses use code word for FREE gift THRIVE www.childhoodcancerkids.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thriving-in-chaos/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thriving-in-chaos/support

Do you practice anti-racism daily? What does appropriation look like in the Western wellness setting? What questions can you ask yourself before deciding on a yoga or meditation teacher? In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts in multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this video, Jill interviews Melissa Shah, MPH, yoga therapist. Shah recounts her experiences as an Indian-American within the Western wellness world and the need for her own journey with trusting her heritage - learning to be enough. She explains her journey towards understanding that teaching yoga is not about making people like you and the need to take a step back and honor the culture it came from. Melissa (she/her) deeply believes in applying the culture and teachings of yoga to bring to light the long standing disparities in wellness spaces. She is passionate about bringing yoga and Ayurveda back to its roots, and reclaiming representation within the wellness community. Melissa also utilizes her background in public health to integrate yoga into schools and clinical settings. Currently, Melissa works individually with clients offering yoga therapy in the Viniyoga tradition. She offers weekly community chanting classes, as well as pranayama classes for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). Her offerings focus on the intersection between yoga and social justice, and how to tune into our true self and dharma (calling, purpose) when it comes to taking action toward what we believe in. Visit her website: www.findyourbreath.net Follow on Instagram @findyourbreath Avoid spiritual bypassing by Melissa Shah Soul Review: Racism & Disney Ruby Sales Interview Avita Bansee on IG: @yogawithavita ** You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism. Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change Find the Conscious Anti-Racism book Join her Conscious Anti-Racism facebook group Follow her on: Instagram at www.instagram.com/jillwenerMD Twitter at www.twitter.com/jillwenerMD Facebook at www.facebook.com/jillwenerMDmeditation LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jill-wener-md-682746125/

Brett Larkin is the founder of Uplifted Yoga, an online yoga and meditation community, empowering students to personalize their practice and ignite their best life on and off the mat. She's instructed at top studios, companies like Google and Pinterest, and leads the world's most interactive online yoga teacher training programs. She teaches to a social media following of over 400,000 people. Her content on YouTube is streamed for three million minutes each month.  Brett, how are you today? Brett Larkin: I'm well, thanks so much for having me. Excited to be here. Vincent Ferguson: Well, thank you for taking time out from your busy schedule to be here today. But before we talk about your company, Uplifted Yoga, tell my listeners more about your personal journey into health and wellness. Where did it all begin for Brett Larkin? Brett Larkin: I'm someone who has suffered a lot of anxiety, especially in my late teens and early 20s. I felt panicked all the time for no reason. It's hard for me to even really remember back on that period of my life, because I can't even remember how I was functioning, honestly. And for me, yoga ultimately became this doorway that led to a completely different experience of reality, where I was able to be fully present, let go of a lot of the fears and negative predictions, and kind of figure out how my mind had been patterned since I was really young and kind of rewrite a new narrative for myself. So for me, it's been very much both a physical practice, but also something that really changed the way I see the world. There's so much rich philosophy in this practice as well for those who are interested in that. Vincent Ferguson: So what was it about yoga that attracted you to that type of training? Brett Larkin: Well, it's interesting because I was a big naysayer of yoga, maybe like some of your listeners. Vincent Ferguson: Okay. Brett Larkin: As a child, I was a ballet dancer. I was very into kind of hardcore dance and very intense training. So I always thought yoga was sort of for losers who just wanted to stretch and sing, and I kind of naysay the whole thing, but then I had a dance injury and I started exploring Pilates. And I had a boyfriend at the time who said, "Hey, this is interesting. You are really into Pilates." And he and I have been kind of dabbling in a little bit of meditation. "So, Pilates and meditation, why don't we try yoga? That would be really great for you. It makes a lot of sense." But I was like, "Absolutely not. That's for weak people. I'm super strong, I'm a dancer." But he kind of encouraged me to go. Brett Larkin: And so, my first yoga experience was with Bikram yoga, which some of your listeners may be familiar with or have done, it's super hot, I think it's 105 degrees or more room to do a set of postures. There's a mirror so you can really analyze your form and it's a very intense experience. And so, that actually was the yoga that resonated with me the most at first, because it was kind of the most familiar to me in that it felt like a really intense dance or training experience type of class with the mirror and everything. So that was sort of my gateway, my first yoga experience. Brett Larkin: So it was very much about the physical and the sweat and everyone's different and is going to find a different style of yoga that meets you where you are in this moment. So I always really encourage people, don't write off yoga like I did until you try a lot of different styles because there's so many flavors out there. More than I think people are even aware of. And of course, that first Bikram journey led to then a much deeper exploration where I ended up eventually trying every style and studying with every school and it spurred a whole exploration from there, but that was my initial starting point. Vincent Ferguson: Bikram yoga. Wow. Brett Larkin: Yeah. Vincent Ferguson: Every time I hear it, I cringe, because I know it's very hot. Brett Larkin: It's so hot. It's funny because I mean, I haven't done Bikram yoga now in probably 10 years, but that was my entry point. So that's another thing I encourage people to be open to is the style of yoga you start with, or that you might be attracted to initially might not be the one you end up sticking with long-term. So it's important to have an open mind and kind of be ready to go on the journey. Vincent Ferguson: And I was going to ask you what type of yoga would you recommend for a beginner to try? Because I think if someone exposed me to Bikram yoga right away, that would have turned me off completely. Brett Larkin: Right. So my recommendation as strange as it sounds, would be to do a lot of experimentation. I think one of the things I see happen a lot is someone will go to the yoga studio closest to their house, or they'll do one YouTube video routine. And if they don't like it, they kind of just write off yoga as a whole, which would kind of be like writing off speaking when you've only sampled one language. Think about how many languages there are in our world and dialects and things. So I really, really encourage people to kind of approach it like you'd approach finding a mate. You're going to date a bunch of different people and sometimes it's going to work out and sometimes it's not and you just want to have fun. So, to kind of sample a lot of different styles... And I actually have a little challenge on my YouTube, where it's called “Find Your Style.” Brett Larkin: And I introduce people to five different styles over five days, because that was one of the things that I saw really prevented people from enjoying this practice. They just kind of have one impression of it and then think that was the whole story. When really, there's Restorative, there's Vinyasa, there's Hatha. Even within that Hatha word, there's Ashtanga, there's gentle yoga. There's Viniyoga. I mean, it just goes on and on and on. So I really believe there's something for everyone. And I think you need to really think about who you are, what your background is. Brett Larkin: If you're more that intense athlete person like I was, trying to do yin or gentle yoga, it's probably just going to be too far from where you are right now to maybe appreciate it. So you might want to start with a more athletic style, like Bikram or Ashtanga. If you're someone who has no fitness background whatsoever, those styles are going to be insane, right? You might want to start with yin, or even restorative yoga, or something very beginner gentle hatha, just to kind of gently get your body moving. So it's really like a dating game, I guess. Date all the styles of yoga. Try all the teachers in your area. Vincent Ferguson: I like that. Brett Larkin: Yeah. That's my biggest tip for everyone. Vincent Ferguson: Great tip. I like that advice, I truly do. Now, would you say that yoga is a lifestyle or just a way to exercise and meditate? Brett Larkin: Oh, that's such a loaded question. It's so interesting because when we look back at a lot of the ancient texts, what we see is that yoga was being written about as a means to achieve enlightenment. Right? Or a means to connect to whatever is beyond this plane of consciousness that we live in. And that the physical postures and the breath are all kind of a tool, a medium for that bigger aim. And then over the years, a lot of the physical piece of yoga got fused with a lot of the aerobics movement that was happening in the 70s and 80s. And there's sort of a modern yoga that's emerged that's in many ways quite different than what we see displayed in the yoga sutras or the hatha yoga pradipika or something like that. Brett Larkin: So, it's really what I think, is it's what you want to take out of it. If you just want to use yoga to improve your breathing and just really think of it as a breathing practice or a mindfulness practice that helps with stress reduction, you can view it through that lens by putting on that pair of glasses and looking at the body of work that is yoga through that framework. And there's so many great mindfulness-based programs or anxiety reduction programs, many that have huge scientific studies from major universities behind them now. Brett Larkin: For other people, right, you might be actually drawn to yoga because of the spiritual side of it. Right? You're kind of resonating with maybe the chanting or what's called Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion. You're looking to connect to something bigger, and that's available too. Then others are more, I just want to use this for cross training. Right? This is something that is going to improve my overall fitness and they're more focused on the postures. So it's kind of this buffet where again, finding the right teacher and the right style is so important because different styles bring in more, like Kundalini yoga, for example, which I do a lot of now is pulling in a ton of the chanting, the spirituality, all those things. So if someone's not interested in that, that's not going to be the right style for them right now. Right? Brett Larkin: So it's a buffet. And so I think you can make it a lifestyle, you can make it a religion if you want to, or you can really just see it as something like Pilates or breath work that is helping whether it's cross training or helping with anxiety. Pull out what works for you and try not to label the practice as a whole. Vincent Ferguson: So, basically yoga can be mental, spiritual, or physical. Brett Larkin: Yeah. And I think in its most beautiful form, it's all three, but that's not always... People aren't always either ready or wanting that. In which case you can completely divide it up. And like I said, it's like a buffet. Just take what works for you and leave the rest. Vincent Ferguson: Huh. Again, excellent advice. Now, do you associate yoga with Hinduism? Brett Larkin: Well, that goes back to a little bit what we talked about earlier, where, when we look at the origins of yoga, it did develop in India, Southeast Asia and these countries later, much, much later than when the yoga texts were written by the Brahmin sages. Much, much later, these are areas of the world that developed into different religions. Right? We see Buddhism, we see Hinduism, but most of the yoga texts, and I'm not as much an expert on this as some people like some of my teachers, but they predate a lot of what these religions look like now in the modern world. So, I think you can practice yoga without dabbling in Hinduism at all. For those that are interested in those connections, there are certain texts and gods and goddesses and chants where you can forge that connection. So again, it's really up to you. Brett Larkin: Again, I think the biggest maybe thing that I hope to share is yoga as a word, what does that even mean anymore? Right? It almost... It's like if we took a word like aerobic exercise, I mean, there's so many different forms of how that looks. A long time ago, we probably didn't even need to do it because we were hunter gatherers and running around all the time and then it emerged and it looked like fencing or something. And then it changed. And then it looked like a gym or kind of some of the stuff we see now. It's the same with yoga. Even the way yoga was practiced in the ancient times was so different depending on what region it was practiced in. For example, up in the Himalayas originally, where people were relatively safe, they were up in the mountains, cave dwelling, they practiced a very meditative type of yoga that was focused more on kind of the spiritual aspects and seated meditation. Brett Larkin: If we look at people who were living more at the border where the Mongols were at these times, thousands and thousands of years ago, their yoga was much more like what we see as Ashtanga yoga today. Very athletic because the military was actually doing it. It was training for them because they lived in a place where war was constantly breaking out and they needed to defend themselves. So even when we go way back in time, it's not like there's one style or one definition of what these practices are. It was very much variable based on people's kind of lifestyle and what, again, they needed to take out of the practice or what made sense to take out of the practice. I don't know if that's helpful to think about, but- Vincent Ferguson: It is, it is. Brett Larkin: It's a broad perspective. Keep a broad perspective is what I say. Vincent Ferguson: Amazing. Yes. So it's not just one piece, it's a broad potpourri or whatever they call it. You know what I'm saying? Brett Larkin: Yeah, exactly. Vincent Ferguson: Now in yoga, you often do you often hear the word chakra. Brett Larkin: Chakra, yes. Vincent Ferguson: Yes. What are they and how do they affect our daily lives? Brett Larkin: So chakra is, I think of them as programs, they're considered energy centers. So, some of your listeners may be familiar with traditional Chinese medicine or acupuncture, which is really mainstream now. I think most insurance even covers acupuncture. So, the Chinese medicine system, they work with these acupuncture... They call it meridians, right? These lines in the body. And the yogic system, instead of calling those channels meridians, they call them nadis. But it's the same thing. It's basically a pathway of energy in the body. So there's the heart meridian, the liver meridian, all these things. So the systems are the same, just using different words. Brett Larkin: And then in the yogic system, a chakra is where we see a lot of these meridians or nadis intersecting. So if you imagine a rotary in a busy street or town, right, where all the cars are coming together, all the roads are coming together in this big rotary. Those areas of the body get pulled out in the yogic philosophy as these energetic hubs. And the word chakra literally translates to wheel or disc. And I think of them as like a program, because each of them resides in a different area along your spine and sort of governs a different... Saying it's an area of your life is an oversimplification, but deals with a different realm of how you interact with the world. Brett Larkin: So for example, your root chakra at the very base of your spine is very much associated with your sense of safety. Your security. Are your needs being met? Are you getting enough food? Are you getting enough sleep? Things like that. While something like your throat chakra, which is obviously much higher up, is dealing with how well do you communicate? How well do you listen? Do you have trouble speaking up? Or are you kind of the over-boisterous type who doesn't let other people get a word in edgewise? Right? So each of us have these unique energy centers that are manifesting in different ways, that kind of result in how our life unfolds, right? Brett Larkin: So you might just be like, "Well, that's my personality. That's the way I am." But what yoga kind of teaches us is if you want to investigate these energy centers or work with them, you can kind of reprogram them. So just like when you sometimes get an update, I have an iPhone, but I think Android is the same. Every six months, there's a new operating system, right? Download the new system. So, we can be unaware of these energy centers and just operate the way we do. Or we can be like, "Hey, I want to rewrite my programming around safety and getting enough sleep. Or I want to rewrite how I act and give and receive love in relationships by working with my heart chakra." Brett Larkin: So it's just an opportunity to bring more awareness into your life. And then the beautiful thing about the chakra is you can work with them physically by doing Athena, you can work with them on a meditative level, on a spiritual level. So kind of like we talked about before, there's a lot of different ways you can tap into them. Or you can say, I'm not interested in the subtle body. This is, we're now in the realm of the subtle body of yoga. I just want to stay focused on the athleticism, the yogic postures. For those who don't resonate, they don't even have to go there. Right? It's kind of just this other layer of the practice that you can tap into if you choose to. Vincent Ferguson: I like it. I like it a lot. Can practicing a certain type of yoga, bring abundance into your life or the chakra bring abundance into your life? Brett Larkin: Oh, I definitely think so. Yes, yes, yes. I love working with this theme of abundance and abundance comes ultimately from gratitude. They're linked. So in order to attract abundance, we need to shift into feeling grateful and a sense of gratitude. So there's lots of wonderful practices that can help with that. There's classes on that specific theme. One of the biggest things that yoga helps with is just helping slow us down. So we can't be grateful if we're rushing or stressed. Or I don't know, maybe someone out there can be, but I know for me, when I'm rushing and stressed, I'm not in a state of gratitude or reverence. I'm usually not being very kind to my family members who are near me. So, counteracting that rushing and counteracting that stress and anxiety I think is so pivotal as a first step, to even allow someone to slow down. Right? Step into those feelings of, what am I grateful for? Brett Larkin: And what really separates yoga from all other forms of exercise is the focus on the breathing, the breath. So, no matter what style you use, if people are feeling overwhelmed listening to this, honestly it kind of doesn't matter because all the styles have this common thread of using the breath to calm the nervous system; to shift into what we call the parasympathetic nervous system, which is more of our rest and digest functions, instead of being always on kind of stressed out, orange alert, which is where we live most of our lives by default, just because of the way our society is set up and functions. So much is being asked of us, especially with technology, and we're bombarded with information. Vincent Ferguson: Yes, we are. Brett Larkin: So, that's the biggest thing. Just doing any kind of yoga, really doing the breathing. And if you commit to it, you'll see after most yoga classes you feel calmer. Right? You feel more grounded. You're feeling more in your whole body instead of just living up in your head with all your thoughts spinning. And that's usually how people are like, "Oh, I like this feeling," and how they end up coming back to classes. Vincent Ferguson: How do you find a good yoga instructor? What should you look for? Brett Larkin: It's a great question. I think someone who's talking a lot about the breath would be really important. I think someone who is constantly kind of challenging you to play, instead of saying the posture has to look just one way, kind of giving you a couple different options. That's what I really like and look for in instructors. So instead of it being really dogmatic and rigid, kind of being more about finding your personal edge, because a lot of these athena, these kind of an alphabet of the yoga postures are going to look different on different people. Right? Depending our height and our weight and our background and our prior athletic experience. Brett Larkin: So I think someone who's really encouraging you to explore rather than saying you have to get to this exact thing, is something that I would recommend looking for. Someone who's talking a lot about the breath. And then, honestly, just someone who resonates with you. That's the most important thing. We all are going to have different teachers who resonate with us at different points in our journey. So your job is again, to just kind of do that dating work I talked about and find the one who's going to meet you where you are right now. Vincent Ferguson: Yes, yes. That was really good. Now, Brett, you're not just another yoga teacher or instructor. You are what we call the gold or platinum standard, the creme de la creme of teachers. But from where and from whom did you get your training? Brett Larkin: So I studied with Alan Finger, who is such an incredible teacher. He was the original co-founder of Yoga Works, which is a huge yoga chain that some people may be familiar with. So he was the person I originally did my training with in New York, and he has just a wonderful background in Viniyoga, it's called. And he has a lot of knowledge about tantra, which isn't anything... You say tantra and people think like tantric sex and weird stuff. No, it's really a deep knowledge of the ancient yoga texts and philosophies. So I absolutely love his work. And Anodea Judith is another huge teacher of mine and inspiration. So she's kind of the world's authority on the chakra system. And she has a PhD. She's done a lot of work integrating the chakras into her work with patients as a psychotherapist. Brett Larkin: So, she is an incredible resource and has lots of books on the chakras for people who are interested. I love... Some of my other teachers Guru Singh, Kia Miller, Elena Brower. Different people again, who resonate with you at different moments. So I think it's really important to find that teacher who resonates with you and then learn as much as you can from them. Embody what they have to share, make it your own, and just keep building your own experience. So yeah, those are some of the people who've been highly influential for me. Vincent Ferguson: So everyone had someone to help them get to where they are today. Correct? Brett Larkin: Absolutely. And in the teacher training programs I run now, that's a lot of what we work on, right, is helping you find your own unique style, your own unique voice. Figuring out what different parts of this lineage and this practice you want to blend together. Do you want to teach something that's very spiritual or do you want to veer away from that? These are all choices that even as instructors, we end up needing to make. Yeah. Vincent Ferguson: I see. Now you call your business Uplifted. Brett Larkin: Yes. Vincent Ferguson: Where did that come from? I don't know. Tell me. Brett Larkin: I don't know either. It's when I started my initial... I mean, it just kind of came to me when I was originally starting my own yoga community and kind of my own style. I noticed that one of the things I was really seeing within the community before it had an official name was just people being so encouraging of one another, kind of really lifting each other up. All the programs and everything I do online is extremely interactive. So whether it's through our app or the trainings, you're not practicing alone. It's always very community-based. If you're moving through a program, it's cohort based, meaning you're with the same students going through an experience at the same time, even though we're online. So there's just a huge comradery. And then, obviously Uplifted is how I feel when I do yoga or after I do yoga. So, that's kind of where the name came from. It just kind of came to me one day. Vincent Ferguson: You followed your gut, your feelings, and you went with it because now it's extremely successful. And how did you get to this point though, Brett? What inspired you to turn your yoga expertise into a business and make it so successful online? Brett Larkin: I think, life is so interesting because I originally started posting videos online because I was too nervous to teach in person. So originally- Vincent Ferguson: You, really? Brett Larkin: Yes. Yes. So back in 2011, it was almost a cop out because I was still trying to build my confidence to audition for studios and that kind of thing. So I ended up teaching a lot online because for me that felt less scary somehow. I didn't really think anyone would watch any of the videos I put up. Now, the YouTube channel has over 400,000 subscribers. Vincent Ferguson: Amazing. Brett Larkin: So it grew madly over the course of time. But I think, kind of how I mentioned before, the community and the connection with the students and seeing how the training, whether it's a training plan they're doing in the Uplifted membership, kind of something smaller that we designed for students, or the full certification program. I think for me, what's most rewarding is really seeing how it affects all areas of their life. I mean, most people who come out of our programs or a part of the community say that the way they're speaking to their kids and their partner is different. The interactions, the relationship, it's a complete shift, not just on the yoga mat, but in kind of how they're experiencing reality, the world. Brett Larkin: Like the same thing I experienced as a young person, once I started having some of these breathing techniques and tools to help me cope with a lot of the anxiety and stress I was feeling. So, I think that's what really drove me. I never really set out to be, "Let's make this a business." It was always, how can we just help and serve more people and connect with more people and grow the community? And I think that's part of what ultimately has made the business successful because it was never really about building some corporate thing or the money or anything like that. It was always sort of just a passion of mine. Almost like a side project and then it just kept getting bigger. And now obviously, it's my full project, but that was never my intention. So, I'm just so grateful to the community because I think it's not just me. It's like A, the team; my team that now supports everything we do. And then our entire infrastructure of all our graduates, all our alumni, all our students. I mean, they're just the most incredible people. Vincent Ferguson: Do your students come from all across the country or any one particular area? Brett Larkin: They come from all over the world. It is so incredible. Vincent Ferguson: The world. Brett Larkin: Yes. I was in the Facebook group for one of our trainings yesterday and it's like, Poland, Russia. We've shipped our training manuals to Zimbabwe. It's crazy. And then, of course, I mean, we have a lot of people in the United States, but I would say 30-35% international and from everywhere. It's amazing. Vincent Ferguson: Unbelievable, Brett. Brett Larkin: Yeah. Vincent Ferguson: Wow. I knew you were a rockstar, but wow. That's amazing. Brett Larkin: Well, it's really fun because it makes the training experience so incredible because you're getting these perspectives from people all over the world, which is so different than just doing something that's local. I mean, that has a beauty to it too, but I think that's been something. I mean, every time we run a training, I learn so much from the students. I always tell them that. Right? Because they just have such different backgrounds and so many diverse ideas and it's just, really makes it really rich. Yeah. Vincent Ferguson: But is there a problem because of the language barrier? Brett Larkin: No. One of the things that a lot of our international students appreciate is everything is recorded. So, when you sign up for a training, you get prerecorded content, whether as a student or a teacher, there's a lot of prerecorded content. So they can re-watch, they can slow down. But even everything that we do live is, they also get recordings to all of that. And then they have the manual to follow along. So for a lot of them, they're more comfortable with written English as opposed to spoken. So obviously, you need to know English. I mean, otherwise it's not going to work. They've said it's actually really nice because if something's confusing, they could just rewind. Right? Or listen to it again, which makes it in some ways better than actually a live training where you don't have that option to press pause. Vincent Ferguson: Wow. What an amazing model, business model, that you have going and I can speak for hours about it because it's just very, very exciting to me and interesting how you were able to do this. But at this particular time our country and the world is going through the Coronavirus pandemic, and it's been a very challenging time, mentally, spiritually, physically, and financially for some people. But are more people turning to yoga to help them deal with the stress of these times? Brett Larkin: I think so. I mean, just looking at pure data, we saw a huge spike in the interest in yoga, the interest in online yoga, the interest in online yoga trainings during this time of the pandemic. A lot of that is because a lot of people who I think didn't consider studying online suddenly were sort of forced to because there was no other option. Vincent Ferguson: Yes, of course. Brett Larkin: But I do think there's a bigger theme of people realizing that we need support structures. We need a home practice more than ever that really supports us during these times of intense stress. And if you look at everything with yoga, from the 1950s until now, it has only grown, it has never dipped. Whether we look at the success of Lulu Lemon or yoga studios or the interest in the keyword online. I mean, it just goes up and up and up because I think it's just becoming more mainstream, and more and more people are figuring out that they can kind of connect with it in whatever way they want. And that it's really the ultimate life hack to deal with uncertainty, anxiety, and coming back to the breathing and all the science that's backing up how important that is. So, I think it's growing because of the pandemic, but it was growing before that, and I think it's just going to keep growing. Vincent Ferguson: Well, I think so, too. And as I shared earlier with you, before we started recording the interview, I run a nonprofit organization whose focus is on obesity prevention for families, especially children. Do you recommend yoga for children as well? And if so, what age should parents introduce yoga to their kids? Brett Larkin: I definitely recommend yoga for kids. I do yoga with my own. It's wonderful, wonderful and you can just introduce it simply by inviting... I mean, even when you just invite a child or anyone to take a deep breath, that's yoga. Right? That's a core yoga concept. So for kids, I think what works best is, or for little kids, is to do the different poses that relate to the different animals, like lion's pose or butterfly pose. They absolutely love that, because it's just like you're playing around on the floor and kind of introducing them to the idea of moving their body. And then songs and music are a wonderful, wonderful way. There's so many great yoga kids' albums that again, just get kids moving, acting like animals. And then before bed is always a really nice time. Brett Larkin: I always invite my son to do deep breathing with me before bed. He doesn't even know we're doing yoga. Right? We do deep breathing. I put my hand on his belly. I encourage him to breathe into his belly. Something we see with people who have different medical conditions or maybe are struggling with obesity is often that they're a reciprocal inhibited breather. So if you're a reciprocal inhibited breather, what that means is your diaphragm isn't operating in a way that's the most anatomically efficient for your body. And it means that you're not getting as much oxygen, as much breath, as you could be. It's like you're getting 20 or 30% instead of say 80 or 90% each time you breathe in. Which leads to short, shallow, rapid breathing over time, that can just end up feeling normal unless we kind of counteract and try to correct that. Brett Larkin: So, people can Google or look up diaphragmatic breathing or belly breathing, but that's something that I would work on for yourself, but also really with your kids because it calms them down. And it's kind of insuring that they're going to have a breath pattern that... And what's interesting is breathing in this way has actually been linked to reducing obesity. Vincent Ferguson: Really? Brett Larkin: Yes, and restorative yoga as well. There's been great studies on this. So, I think a big takeaway for the obesity focus is it doesn't have to be hardcore athletic yoga that helps reduce or aids in weight loss, let's say. Actually these restorative, simply lying down, focusing on your breath-based practices, have a huge effect as well in weight loss. Yeah, it's incredible. Vincent Ferguson: This was an awesome interview, Brett. Where can my listeners find out more about Brett Larkin? Brett Larkin: So you can simply Google my name, Brett Larkin. You'll find YouTube videos, you'll find our website. Or upliftedyoga.com will get you to kind of our members' area. I have over a thousand free videos on YouTube, so you can practice with me any time. And then if you want to go deeper, we have so many courses and designed experiences with a lot of interaction for both students, the student community, and people who are looking to teach. So, that would be the next step. I'd love to practice with some of your listeners on YouTube. So hopefully they can look me up, Brett Larkin, and find a class that works for them. https://www.brettlarkin.com/300-hour-online-yoga-teacher-training/   Vincent Ferguson: And on social media- Brett Larkin: Yeah. Mainly YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. So, yeah. And the same, Brett Larkin yoga will get you there. Vincent Ferguson: Perfect. Now Brett Larkin, let me just say on behalf of my organization, Body Sculpt of New York and Six Weeks to Fitness, I truly want to thank you for coming on my show today. Brett Larkin: Thank you so much for having me. It's been a pleasure. Vincent Ferguson: You are amazing. To my listeners and readers, I truly hope this program was informative and encouraging and inspiring, and that you will continue tuning in to our Six Weeks of Fitness podcast. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for the show, please leave them on my Six Weeks to Fitness blog at www.sixweekstofitness.com or email me at vince@sixweeks.com.

In this episode in EN, I'm interviewing my friend Evelyn Einhäuser, a yoga therapist who has immersed herself in the ancient yogis teachings for several years in India, about her journey and how she found her purpose in the path of yoga. She shares her insights about what blocks us women from fulfilling our potential and how to overcome these obstacles. Here is what we cover: - 3'40: why Evelyn chose to leave a successful career in beauty magazines to embrace a spiritual path - 10'07: How to address the dilemma of staying or leaving mainstream institutions in order to "be the change we want to see in the world" - 12'30: How she found her path after leaving her job, including within the world of yoga itself; and her advice to you if you are trying to figure out your purpose. - 19': The spiritual dimension of yoga which we don't quite know yet in the West and what it has to offer us. - 25'30: What allows true awakening and evolution of consciousness: hardcore meditation or going through tough stuff in life? :D - 29'30: How to reach that level of surrender that really allows spiritual evolution? - 32'20: What is Viniyoga, the particular yoga path which Evelyn practices? - 37'30: The patterns that Evelyn sees in women that prevent us from fulfilling our potential; and her wise and useful advice on how to transcend them. (this will particulary speak to you if you are looking for your purpose, or feel like expressing yourself creatively in one way or another.) - 46'30: How to access and tap into your Desire to find the momentum to act and persevere. - 49'18: How to be a conscious entrepreneur (yoga teacher, coach, therapist...) and make a good living: how Evelyn navigated this challenge and lessons she can share. - 54'14: Her encouragements -- that will warm your heart --, to you if you share your voice and message on the web/social media, or are considering doing it. Enjoy the episode and let us know below which piece most resonated with you! My coaching programs are dedicated to empowering conscious women to break free from self-doubt, access clarity and confidence to bring their purpose into manifestation. Contact me here to receive all info: mgatconsciouswomancoaching.com Find Evelyn at www.yogaforawakening.net

On today's episode, we meet with Kristine Kaoverii Weber, who created the program "Yoga Ethics for Transforming Racism" with Kiesha Battles. Kristine is an internationally recognized Yoga Therapist and Yoga Teacher trainer who has presented internationally and founder of the Subtle Yoga, the first training for behavioral health professionals in the country. Kristine has trained thousands of people around the world since 2003. Her journey with Yoga began in middle school when she joined the "Yoga Club" that one of her teacher's provided. She remembers the transformational experience she had. Yoga continued to be a constant in her life when she moved to Washington, D.C to San Francisco, and on to Japan to teach English. From there, she was drawn to explore Yoga even more and decided to tour India for 2 years. After her experiences in Ashrams and with her teachers, she knew she had to share what she learned to those struggling with mental health upon returning to the States. Subtle Yoga was born in 2006 and in 2009, she began presenting at the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville. Kristine is married to a Licensed Clinical Social Worker/Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist so many of their conversations have centered around the intersection of Yoga and Mental Health. Back then, Yoga wasn't as trauma-informed as it is today and she found a niche in training Mental Health professional Yoga to bring to their clients. In 2012, she started her first 200-hour training that was also supported by a major continuing education provider. She continued to find how powerful it was to put Yoga training in the hands of professionals who were already trauma-informed and had strong ethics. It has been her mission to bring more professionalism to Yoga. She began offering courses online 2 years ago and her reach continues to broaden. Kristine's Subtle Yoga is accessible, person-centered, low-risk, and low-cost as an intervention. It can be applied in a therapy space, Yoga studio, gym, etc. One of her teacher's, Gary Kraftsow(Viniyoga), has influenced her development of Subtle Yoga. There are lots of repeated poses and moving with the breath. Kristine thinks about sequencing poses in regards to the nervous system. "I think about my sequencing in terms of where do we want to take the nervous system; do we want to go in the direction of energy and nourishment, do we need to stimulate the system a little bit, do we need to go in the direction of letting go and lightening or helping folx to feel more relaxed." Fast forward to 2016, Kristine was asked to speak at an Integrative Health Conference in Charlotte, NC right after Keith Lamont Scott was murdered. She found that no one was talking about the protests and what was happening right outside the conference. She decided to speak to social, economic, and environmental determinants of health that account for the majority of health outcomes. "I've felt very passionate about social justice for a long time and I see it as intimately connected to the Yoga process." Earlier in 2020 when the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum, Kristine reached out to Kiesha Battles, a former student of hers, and asked if she would be willing to collaborate on a course regarding racism as viewed from the lens of the Yamas and Niyamas, the yoga ethical principles. "Where they really shine is when you operationalize them and you think about them in terms of a particular problem, in this case racism, and then really how do I use these ethics to take right action in the world?" In her career, Kristine has been influenced by Gary Kraftsow, the founder of Viniyoga, Susan Andrews, a Yoga teacher in Brazil, Gabor Mate's book "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts," Bessel Van Der Kolk's book, "The Body Keeps the Score," Barbara Frederickson's book, "Love 2.0," and her husband Brett Sculthorp. In Charlotte, Kristine is inspired by Kiesha Battles, a Yoga Instructor, Samantha Leonard of Davidson Yoga Therapy, Sherry Lyerly Tarner, of Pure Wellness and Healing, all of the owners of Yoga Studios navigating COVID-19, and Dr. Lisette Holland, a Physical Therapist. Kristine wants to help others heal because she has received so much from Yoga and for her, there is no other choice but to give it back. Her advice to those seeking healing is to find a good therapist and trust yourself. Find more about her program, "Yoga Ethics for Transforming Racism."

Gustavo Ponce, Director y Fundador de Yogashala Chile y Yogashala Wellness Center (Canal Om). Fue embajador de Chile en Japón hasta el año 1990. En 1972 se inició en Yoga durante su primer viaje a India. Introduce en Chile los métodos Iyengar, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga y Viniyoga, luego de haber estudiado en India por muchos años directamente con los profesores Yogendra, BKS Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois, K. Desikashar y otros importates en India y en el mundo. Se ha inspirado a crear sus propios métodos; Dinamic Yoga, Prana Shakti Yoga, Sattva Yoga, Axis Yoga y otros. Entre los años 1985 y 1998 tuvo enseñanza directa de BKS Iyengar en el Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Institute de Pune, India, además de talleres en Londres y Rishikesh. Ha sido un gran aporte en la difusión y enseñanza del Yoga en Chile y ha formado a grandes profesores y también ha inspirado a muchos practicantes para que sigan su búsqueda en el mundo del Yoga. En ésta conversación hablamos sobre Qué es Yoga para él, cómo fueron sus inicios, su trayectoria, el aprendizaje directo en esos años con los grandes maestros de India. Cómo es su mirada sobre los métodos, sobre todo del Iyengar. Cómo fue el paso por el cáncer hace unos años y el aporte del yoga en esa sanación.

Las vibraciones de los mantras y cantos Védicos pueden darte sus beneficios en todos los aspectos de tu ser, deben ser esenciales en tu práctica de Yoga.

Chase Bossart is a teacher and practitioner of Viniyoga, a holistic approach to yoga, and the founder of Yoga Well Institute, at Yogawell.com. We speak about balancing your system (mental and physical), coming alive, and Chase shares a breathing technique for calming your system and reducing anxiety.

Viniyoga ist kein Yogastil, sondern eine Methode. Das Ziel ist, dass jede Person nach den individuellen Bedürfnissen und Fähigkeiten Yoga ausüben kann. Der Körper wird also nicht in eine Form gepresst, sondern die Form orientiert sich am Körper. «Der Viniyoga hat für mich die Schönheit, dass er jeden Menschen so nimmt, wie er ist», sagt Ivana Egloff, Yogalehrerin und -therapeutin in Baden. Ganz unterschiedliche Menschen können zusammen Yoga ausüben. Dabei finde sie es besonders wichtig, dass wir unsere Selbstwahrnehmung fördern und verbessern. Was macht man beim Viniyoga? Viniyoga ist eine Methode, wie Yoga unterrichtet wird. Ob der Fokus der Lektion auf der Atmung, Körperkraft, Beweglichkeit, Meditation oder sonst wo liegt, hat mit der Unterrichtsart wenig zu tun. Wer eine Viniyoga-Lektion besucht, schaut die Positionen nicht bei der Lehrerin ab, sondern hört den Hinweisen zu und setzt diese so um, wie es für den eigenen Körper geht. Allenfalls auch mit Hilfsmitteln. Für wen ist Viniyoga? Für Personen mit körperlichen Beschwerden oder Einschränkungen, auf die beim Yoga Rücksicht genommen werden muss. Für Personen, die gerne selbst spüren, was geht und was nicht, sich selber fordern, sich aber auch selber bremsen. Für Personen, die ihre Selbstwahrnehmung stärken, sich auf ihren Körper und ihren Geist einlassen wollen. Für wen ist Viniyoga nicht? Für Personen, die besonders akrobatische Yogaübungen suchen. Für Yogabegeisterte, die Positionen abschauen oder manuell von der Lehrerin in eine Position geschoben werden wollen.

Como la Ciencia Espiritual del Yoga se convierte, a través de tu práctica, en el arte de conectar con tu Luz

Did you know how important your breath is besides sustaining life? Learning techniques of "Yoga Breath" can: Help prevent stress. ... Keep calm and relax. ... Set fire to those calories. ... Level up your energy. ... Use your lungs to the full capacity. ... Do more yoga to balance your heart rate after performing strenuous yoga. ... Improve digestion. We have an amazing guest, Gary Kraftsow, who will talk to you about the science and techniques of this often overlooked method of breath control. ..and as a bonus, we have our very own Stacey Loop joining in who is Modern Holistic Health's Yoga Breath Therapist! Gary Kraftsow has been a pioneer in the transmission of yoga for health, healing and personal transformation for over 40 years. Gary has successfully developed protocol for two National Institutes of Health studies: “Evaluating Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain” and “Yoga Therapy for Generalized Anxiety” In1983 Gary opened Maui School of Yoga Therapy.  In 1999, he founded the American Viniyoga Institute™, LLC - where he is not the Director and Senior Teacher.  Since then, he has become a renowned speaker and teacher of the Viniyoga methodology at many conferences and schools nationally and internationally. ******************************************************* What you need to know about TribeTalk - TribeTalk LIVE is a community platform to ask questions to health experts, and give and receive support from your community. - TribeTalk is FREE - You can join TribeTalk LIVE by PC, MAC, or mobile device by going to https://tribetalk.modernholistichealth.com  - Learn more on how to participate by visiting our website or Facebook Page https://www.modernholistichealth.com https://www.facebook.com/ModernHolisticHealth/

Como la práctica de Yoga te ayuda a reconocer la fuente del estrés y te brinda maravillosas herramientas para sobrellevarlo

Legendary yoga teacher Gary joins me to discuss, yoga therapy, self-care and COVID, breath work, Viniyoga, the multi-dimensional model of being human, breath-centric asana, sankya, lineage and innovation, preparing for death, resilience and loss, being happy and resting in pure awareness. A practical and deep one, relevant to our times. Viniyoga.com

Se dovessimo scegliere una scenografia per fare da sfondo al nostro incontro - purtroppo virtuale in questo tempo ancora sospeso - con Caterina, sarebbe un tappeto dorato di foglie di Ginkgo. Proprio il Ginkgo, in cui la natura sembra ricordare la sintesi yogica della duplicità nell’unicità, l’unificazione degli opposti, rappresenta l'associazione nata dal desiderio di condividere e promuovere la spiritualità, il benessere olistico e la ricerca delle proprie radici, dell’unione con il tutto. Caterina ci porta per mano a conoscere l'intreccio tra yoga e antropologia: il suo sguardo di ricercatrice si sposta dal campo "esterno" dello studio delle popolazioni indigene argentine a quello "interno" della ricerca spirituale. Ci racconta la pratica del Viniyoga e l'importanza del non attaccamento per viaggiare leggeri sul sentiero della vita. Yoga come medicina, chiave di accesso al luogo del cuore e guida nel percorso archetipico e trasformativo alla ricerca della propria essenza. Il libro: Arnaud Desjardins. La via del cuore Link utili: https://www.ginkgoyoga.it/

J’ai pu échanger avec Lola Mallein au début du confinement, et je lui en suis reconnaissante car Lola a un parcours comme on en voit peu dans l’univers du Yoga, entre respect des traditions et désir de faire découvrir cette pratique ancestrale à un plus grand nombre.Je dis souvent pendant notre conversation que je suis fascinée, et pour cause : Lola baigne dans le yoga depuis sa plus tendre enfance (sa maman est professeure de Hatha et Lola a commencé à enseigner dès ses 21 ans) ; elle a suivi un grand nombre de formations, et en 2018, elle a reçu le titre de Yogacharya (Maître en Yoga) de la Fédération Francophone de Yoga à Montréal.Je m’estime chanceuse d’avoir pu discuter avec Lola, même si des milliers de kilomètres nous séparent !Pendant l’épisode, on parle de…Les fondements du Viniyoga, depuis sa signification jusqu’à ses grands principesLe parcours de Lola et sa découverte avec le Yoga“Une indienne dans un corps de Française” ou les nombreux voyages de Lola en IndeLe confinement, cette période de Kali Yuga, “l’âge sombre”Les livres que Lola recommande, dont cette version de la Bhagavad Gita d’Amma et les tomes 1 et 2 du Docteur Chandrasekaran, YogathérapiePour en savoir plus sur Lola, je vous invite à découvrir son site internet via ce lien ainsi que sa chaîne Youtube.Bonne écoute !

For over 20 years, Bossart was the private student of T.K.V. Desikachar studying Viniyoga. Bossart is a certified International Association of Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500 yoga teacher. Bossart is also the Director of the Yoga Well Institute and Co-Director of Yoga as Therapy North America (YATNA). Today, Bossart travels around the world to present workshops and trainings on yoga and yoga therapy. Bossart also regularly develops yoga interventions for scientific research, and he formerly served as the Director of Therapy and Education at the Healing Yoga Foundation in San Francisco. In this episode, we talk with Bossart about how yoga influences our physical bodies and what the true meaning of yoga really is. Listen in as we discuss how yoga was brought to the west and how it influences our prana.

Nikki Engels is a Personal Health, Clarity, and Fitness Coach for women. Nikki has dedicated her career to helping women stay active and healthy through teaching fitness classes and kickboxing. She took this dedication further by getting certified in Viniyoga and writing her book, Clarity: Crack the Code to Healing Body, Mind, and Emotions from the Inside Out. By writing about her story of transformation, Nikki teaches others that they, too, can go through a journey of healing through natural methods and techniques. Nikki joins me today to share her journey through transformative healing. She explains how negative emotions manifested in her body and how she decided to heal herself. She illustrates how she learned about the concepts of energy space and heart-brain connection, as well as how activities such as journaling and meditation helped her heal. She also describes the relationship between food and emotions and underscores the power of gratitude and visualization.   “Bad things happen but you have the choice whether you’ll let them wreck you or push through it.” - Nikki Engel   Today on the #SpohnTrained Personal Development Podcast: Nikki’s story of trauma and transformative healing The poisonous nature of anger and how negative emotions manifested in Nikki’s body What people need to do when they experience a traumatic event Why you need to decide to take care of your own healing How Nikki discovered the concept of energy space How journaling, meditation, and visualization helped in Nikki’s healing The relationship between food allergies and emotions Why Nikki advises people to travel The Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Techniques that improved Nikki’s health and emotions The power of gratitude How Clarity can help someone through a healing journey   Resources Mentioned: Gratitude and the Science of Getting Rich Resetting Your Emotions by Dr. Devi Nambudripad Say Good-Bye to Illness: A Revolutionary Treatment for Allergies & Allergy-Related Conditions by Dr. Devi Nambudripad   Connect with Nikki Engels: Nikki Engels Clarity Workbook Clarity Book Collective Group Clarity Book on Facebook Email: ClarityHealingBook@gmail.com     Get More #SpohnTraining Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the #SpohnTrained Personal Development Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts, subscribe to the show, and leave an honest review. Don’t forget to visit our website and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube for even more content and inspiration. Share your favorite episodes with your friends and colleagues to help us inspire and motivate more people to create positive change in their lives.

Como el Yoga demuestra ser una práctica libre de dogmas y totalmente inclusiva y universal

Hoy recibimos en el podcast a Luz Albor, profesora de Viniyoga, formada por Claude Marechal en la Escuela ETY Viniyoga España y acreditada por la Junta de Andalucia para la trasmisión del yoga en Europa. Hoy vamos a hablar de “Las percepciones”; o sea, la forma que tenemos de interpretar cada uno las experiencias que vivimos. #Ámameporfavor #SergioAmado #recursos #ayuda #percepciones #espiritual #mensajes

Hoy recibimos en el podcast a Luz Albor, profesora de Viniyoga, formada por Claude Marechal en la Escuela ETY Viniyoga España y acreditada por la Junta de Andalucia para la trasmisión del yoga en Europa. Hoy vamos a hablar de “Las percepciones”; o sea, la forma que tenemos de interpretar cada uno las experiencias que vivimos. #Ámameporfavor #SergioAmado #recursos #ayuda #percepciones #espiritual #mensajes

As a Pediatrician and Allergy & Immunology specialist with a Masters in Public Health, I have always had a deep interest in both U.S. and developing world medicine, health care, and innovation. Since 1992, I've served in South America, Asia, Africa and the Americas, engaging in volunteer medical service through service organizations such as Curamericas, International Medical Corps and Health for Humanity. I've worked in the U.S. on health access and grass roots public health programs with NICHQ, Texas Pediatric Society, and Refugees Northwest. While I am mentoring trainees in clinical medicine and public health, I also help find their place with volunteer advocacy opportunities, specifically with a special focus on pediatric obesity, injury prevention, environmental health, and international health. My training and experience in Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Relief and Wilderness Medicine, combined with my life long deep interest in Space Medicine has forged a diverse and dynamic map in my career. I'm passionate about helping trainees and health professionals activate and advocate on social media and use this valuable tool to promote health, inform the public about how to make medical decisions based on reliable information from reputable sources, and engender collaboration across disciplines. I combine treatment modalities from mainstream allopathic medicine with the best of traditional healing practices via Functional & Integrative Medicine philosophies to treat the whole person in their environment. I've been an avid yogini since my teenage years. Some years ago I noticed that I had begun using yoga poses and breathing techniques in treating my patients in the clinic setting. I might teach an athlete with an injury a therapeutic pose to relieve pressure on a joint or stretch tight muscles, or guide a teenager suffering from panic attacks through a calming pranayama breath practice and meditation. Noticing that I had begun to use yoga as a therapeutic modality prompted me to pursue training as a yoga teacher formally and I enrolled in a Hatha Teacher Training program in Viniyoga, the parent lineage of Yoga Therapy. Since graduating from that intensive 9-month-long 200-hour program in 2009, I have furthered my yoga education by training in the Kundalini tradition through Radiant Child Teacher Certification, and also by completing advanced studies in Yoga Anatomy and Alignment, as well as Pranayama and Meditation. I also became certified in Prenatal Yoga in 2014 as part of a 500-hour advanced Yoga Therapy Training program. I find yoga therapy to be an extension of my work as a healer, a tremendously rewarding experience and a wonderful opportunity to share the benefits of yoga - which I consider an ancient self-healing art. I consider it vital to immerse in nature and prescribe nature therapy as a part of healing. I love to dance, enjoy fitness and outdoor sports, exploring nature, healthy cooking and baking, and learning new languages!

Sabes si realmente estas practicando Yoga? por que es importante tener claridad acerca de esta disciplina espiritual?

Ram Giri Baba aka Randall O'Leary is the founder & director of Swara Yoga Academy. In 2006, after many years studying with his Guru in India, Randall was initiated into the ancient Indian spiritual order of Sadhus and is honoured to share many unique tools from his sacred tradition.On this episode we discuss Randall's entry in to Yoga. The power of physical practice & how important it is to build proper foundations in both life & Yoga. We touch on the nature of Yogi's, who are traditionally "serious rebels". How nothing is off limits when it comes to expanding consciousness. The importance of humility & staying open & curious. Randall gives some great advice to anyone who wants to improve the deeper layers of their being. Please enjoy this wide ranging & free flowing conversation.Randall’s Wisdom from this talk: Advice: Begin with the physical practice.Becoming aware of fragmented energy & learn how to redirect the mental energy towards things in life that are important.Patience: Take a step by step approach to life & to Yoga. Don’t rush it. Make it smooth - make it beautiful.Keep exploring, keep engaging with the practice & it will keep opening.There is room for everyone in Yoga. It’s a sanctuary for everyone. Make it yours.Yogi’s are traditionally serious rebels. Willing to do almost anything to expand themselves & explore.The teacher is there for the student. The teacher is there as a guide to help you find your flow.Yoga is what’s called a Vidya, which means a “timeless knowledge”. It will keep bubbling away in many forms as the ancient tradition of Yoga evolves.Yoga is strong. It can make you as easily as it can break you. Perhaps more easily.The essence of our life force is the breath. Prana or breath is a fundamental part of Yoga & life, make a practice of it.Find a teacher that resonates with you. Perhaps if you are a man, seek a male teacher. Keep going & accept where you are on the path. Over time if Yoga is practiced correctly it will transform the deeper layers of the practitioner. Accept where you are & keep going.Randall’s Upcoming Courses & Offerings:Foundations of Swara Yoga 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Traininghttps://swarayogaacademy.com/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training/ EXPLORE THE MYSTICAL WORLD OF BREATH AND YOGA ENERGETICShttps://swarayogaacademy.com/pranayama-yoga-teacher-training/ About Randall O'Leary:Founder and Director of Swara yogaRandall has been a dedicated explorer of Yoga since 1991. Alongside his studies of classical Hatha Yoga, Randall has studied a variety of styles including Iyengar, Jivamukti and Viniyoga. Randall began teaching in 1995, and began the Jungle Yoga Teacher Training School which delivered 200 Hour & 300 Hour Teacher Trainings for over 10 years, merging into the Swara Yoga Academy in 2018. Randall’s teaching style is primarily focused on cultivating an asana practice that builds & sustains a high level of Prana – our life force energy. Inspired through his studies of Tai Qi and Viniyoga, Randall shares his unique approach to Pranayama, which he called Swara Yoga. This system gradually deepens into Advanced Pranayama sequences which allow his students access to a comprehensive, embodied understanding of the infinite power within the breath. Randall’s classes are enriched with philosophy stemming from his studies of Hatha Yoga, Tantra, Ayurveda & Indian Mysticism, and are balanced by his unapologetically playful nature and love for Reggae music.In 2006, after many years studying with his Guru in India, Randall was initiated into the ancient Indian spiritual order of Sadhus and is honoured to share many unique tools from his sacred tradition.It is his aim to inspire every student to pursue a practice that is overflowing with energy and joy, that spills out into their world and transforms their relationship with life itself.Find out more about Randall’s offerings at www.swarayogaacademy.comShow Notes/Links :Randall O'Leary - www.swarayogaacademy.comSwara Yoga Academy on Instagram This episode is brought to you by the Yoga Brotherhood - www.yogabrotherhood.netRecorded on site at the Yoga Barn in Ubud - www.theyogabarn.com

Nowadays meditation has jump from spiritual origins to a medical treatment, how this happens?

India, es la madre de la ciencia espiritual del Yoga, y nos anima a ir siempre al origen, ese lugar intimo donde la sabiduria reside.

El Yoga te hace un ciudadano global, en el marco de la importante fecha del Dia Internacional del Yoga que celebramos felices en Popayan, hablamos sobre la importancia de la funcionalidad del Yoga, adptandose a cada individuo y sus propias busquedas, disfrutalo, Namaste

El Yoga como Ciencia y entidad viviente puede proporcionarte mucha salud y bienestar, pero esta en riesgo de perder su esencia, por eso es importante mantener presente su verdadera finalidad, la realizacion del Ser

This two part interview features amazing insight into the life and work of musician and yoga teacher, Mark Moliterno. In this episode Mark provides his personal journey to music and to yoga. Mark outlines tenets of yoga and how its correlation to our singing.  Mark Moliterno (MM, E-RYT500, C-IAYT, YACEP, POLY®, FOUNDER OF YOGAVOICE®) is an award-winning professional singer, voice teacher, yoga teacher, IAYT-certified Yoga Therapist, workshop leader, and author. He is a thought-leader in the area of 21st Century vocal pedagogy and a master teacher of both singing and classical yoga. His extensive performing career has taken him to many countries in a variety of leading operatic roles and as a concert soloist and recitalist. Additionally, he has completed more than 1200 hrs of formal study in yoga teaching and yoga therapeutics. A sought-after clinician, he presents YogaVoice® workshops at professional conferences and gatherings internationally. Mark is recognized for his one-on-one therapeutic mentoring and as a specialist in helping people understand and uncover their free, authentic voices. Mark Moliterno holds the BM and MM degrees in Voice and Opera from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where his mentor was the famous vocal pedagogue, Richard Miller. Mark was introduced to yoga in 1985 when he met and studied with Larry Payne, PhD in Los Angeles at Samata Yoga. Over the years he has studied and practiced Viniyoga, Classical Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga and subsequently became an E-RYT500 and Comprehensive Yoga Therapist through the YogaLife Institute of Pennsylvania. In 2016, Mark received the credential, "IAYT-certified yoga therapist", from the International Association of Yoga Therapists and in 2017 he was credentialed as a Prime of Life Yoga® (POLY) instructor. His yoga mentors are Larry Payne, PhD and Robert Butera, PhD. Mark's yoga teaching style is unique and balanced, with detailed attention to the coordinated, responsive awareness of breathing, physical alignment, and mental focus. www.theyogavoice.com  | @theyogavoice Choir Baton Host: Beth Philemon @bethphilemon | www.bethphilemon.com Visit Choir Baton Online: @choirbaton | www.choirbaton.com Choir Baton Theme Song by Scott Holmes

This two part interview features amazing insight into the life and work of musician and yoga teacher, Mark Moliterno. In this episode Mark continues elaborating on this sense of self and sound. Why is singing not a acalming activity for so many people? We often focus on teaching inhalation, but are we intentional about the how and why of teaching exhalation? The voice is an energetic instrument and Mark relates the voice to the different chakras, or energetic wheels that spin to build and disburse energy from the body. Mark concludes with how he integrates the yoga poses into his work as a singing teacher and how we can begin to consider yoga as a technology in which to approach our singing.  Mark Moliterno (MM, E-RYT500, C-IAYT, YACEP, POLY®, FOUNDER OF YOGAVOICE®) is an award-winning professional singer, voice teacher, yoga teacher, IAYT-certified Yoga Therapist, workshop leader, and author. He is a thought-leader in the area of 21st Century vocal pedagogy and a master teacher of both singing and classical yoga. His extensive performing career has taken him to many countries in a variety of leading operatic roles and as a concert soloist and recitalist. Additionally, he has completed more than 1200 hrs of formal study in yoga teaching and yoga therapeutics. A sought-after clinician, he presents YogaVoice® workshops at professional conferences and gatherings internationally. Mark is recognized for his one-on-one therapeutic mentoring and as a specialist in helping people understand and uncover their free, authentic voices. Mark Moliterno holds the BM and MM degrees in Voice and Opera from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where his mentor was the famous vocal pedagogue, Richard Miller. Mark was introduced to yoga in 1985 when he met and studied with Larry Payne, PhD in Los Angeles at Samata Yoga. Over the years he has studied and practiced Viniyoga, Classical Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga and subsequently became an E-RYT500 and Comprehensive Yoga Therapist through the YogaLife Institute of Pennsylvania. In 2016, Mark received the credential, "IAYT-certified yoga therapist", from the International Association of Yoga Therapists and in 2017 he was credentialed as a Prime of Life Yoga® (POLY) instructor. His yoga mentors are Larry Payne, PhD and Robert Butera, PhD. Mark's yoga teaching style is unique and balanced, with detailed attention to the coordinated, responsive awareness of breathing, physical alignment, and mental focus. www.theyogavoice.com | @theyogavoice Choir Baton Host: Beth Philemon @bethphilemon | www.bethphilemon.com Visit Choir Baton Online: @choirbaton | www.choirbaton.com Choir Baton Theme Song by Scott Holmes

Los maestros de Yoga quizás por lo mediática de la sociedad, se están tornando así mismos como un producto, desvirtuando la enseñanza del Yoga.

Today’s class is March’s Free Yoga Sequence from my website! Below is a link if you wish to follow along! This class is to be practiced several hours before bedtime as it is all about energizing the body and mind. This flow is a faster moving flow - leaning toward the intermediate level, not because the postures are difficult but because the flow is vinyasa style. This is a Brahmana Flow, the Viniyoga tradition offers a useful framework that can serve as a starting point in the search for a more contented state, one of ease and well-being. In this tradition, yoga sequences and practices are often characterized as creating one of two energetic qualities: brahmana (expansion) and langhana (reduction). Practices that promote brahmana increase vitality and build energy in the body; those that foster langhana are grounding and calming. Certain postures, like backbends, intrinsically build the energy of brahmana. Others, such as long and quiet forward bends, tend to foster langhana. And still others can develop either quality, depending on your focus, pace, breathing pattern, and intention. NAMASTE!  https://www.lovebreezybreeyoga.com/archives FREE YOGA SEQUENCES AVAILABLE!!! Check out my website for more info! www.lovebreezybreeyoga.com @yogapodcast NAMASTE! Listen to your ownbody’s infinite wisdom during practice, modify poses as you see fit. Grab your mat and a quiet place to listen as you begin your practice.  Props: Blocks, Blanket, Straps. Optional: Knee pads.  Breezy Bree, RYT Registered Yoga Teacher Disclaimer: You are practicing at your own risk. Consult your doctor before beginning any exercise regime including Yoga and Pilates. This recording is for entertainment purposes only. Yoga Teacher is not responsible for any injuries, including death by the listener or practitioner. If you have health concerns contact a healthcare professional or a physician. www.lovebreezybreeyoga.com ---> Did you know you can listen on iTunes, Spotify & Stitcher? Download the Apps today & never miss an episode. Don’t forget to check out my new Yoga Pose Breakdown series and FREE Yoga Classes recorded during live studio practices for your personal practice, just listen & practice!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yogapodcast/message

En el Viniyoga, percibimos lo holístico de la ciencia del Yoga aplicada a lo holístico que es el ser humano, y siempre en adaptación a las necesidades del individuo, buscando la funcionalidad de nuestra enseñanza en la vida diaria de nuestros estudiantes.

About this Episode: Joe and Robin discuss yoga breathing techniques and how modern science has uncovered the truth about breathing practices described in ancient yoga texts. About Robin: Robin Rothenberg has trained yoga teachers since 1999. Certified in both Viniyoga and Iyengar yoga (through 1992), with additional training as a Spiritual Director and Buteyko [...] The post Breathing Tradition Meets Science: Robin Rothenberg appeared first on Icewater Yoga.

Para quienes sienten la ciencia del Yoga como un estilo de vida, pueden transformar el mundo.

En la tradición mas pura de la Ciencia del Yoga es primordial los Cantos Védicos y Mantras, para profundizar en la vibración de todas las capas de tu Ser, dándote grandes beneficios, canta mantras y sé mas felíz...

Mirka Scalco Kraftsow, cofounder of the American Viniyoga Institute, brings her special brand of shakti to the podcast and talks with J about the spirit that guided her to her teachers Gary Kraftsow and TKV Desikachar, and her ongoing journey to bring the teachings of yoga to light. They discuss her childhood in Italy, her time with Rajneesh/Osho, how she met Gary and her relationship with Desikachar, the progression of Viniyoga, and the simple sadana of ordinary life. This episode is sponsored by Yogalifestyle.com and Karmasoft.   This episode is part of our premium podcast subscription. To subscribe and support the show… GET PREMIUM.  

Gary Kraftsow, founder of the American Viniyoga Institute, author of Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation, talks with J about his precedent-setting career in yoga and yoga therapy. They discuss his relationship to TKV Desikachar and the impact it had on his teaching, why the efforts to create a national organization were thwarted, the story behind him using the name Viniyoga, TKV's son, yoga in healthcare, the definition of yoga therapy, and the true spirit of the teachings. This episode is brought to you by YogaAnatomy.net.   This episode is part of our premium podcast subscription. To subscribe and support the show… GET PREMIUM.  

Pranamaya Yoga Wisdom host Tracee Stanley had a chance to speak with Yoga Therapist Evan Soroka. Evan shares her journey from being diagnosed as a teenager with Type 1 diabetes to yoga practitioner and now Yoga Therapist. She is a true inspiration and shares her wisdom on how living with diabetes and practicing yoga can help with resilience and facing the unknown.  Find out more about Evan at her website www.evansoroka.com  Follow Evan on Instagram @evan_soroka  Find out more about Yoga Therapy at Pranamaya           

053: Yoga Mentors and Lineage with Chase Bossart   On today's episode, Shannon invites Chase Bossart who with great warmth and humour shares with us some of his experiences with his mentor T.K.V. Desikachar. Chase discusses the hallmark of Desikachar's teachings that he's very much taken to heart, the importance of mentorship and the sometimes necessary end of this relationship.   Chase was introduced to yoga in 1991 when he took a semester abroad in India as a philosophy major. He was interested in learning more about Eastern philosophy and took a class in yoga theory. This is where he met his mentor T.K.V. Desikachar, one of the class' regular instructors and become immersed in yoga and Desikachar's teachings.   Chase has spent over 4 years in India and several years in China (becoming fluent in Mandarin).  Expanding on his knowledge of Eastern philosophy, Chase earned a Masters degree in Religious Studies with an emphasis in Indian Philosophy in 1996.   Now living North of San Francisco, Chase has travelled frequently to give workshops and training on a wide array of yoga and yoga therapy topics since 2003. Chase teaches courses and workshops in person and provides an online meditation session and online study session of Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad Gita once a week. He is also passionate about pranayama, meditation, chanting and the therapeutic application of yoga therapy. He loves to lead experiential workshops that demonstrate yoga philosophy's practical applications in daily life. 5:25 Studying with his mentor T.K.V Desikachar in India   8:35 Hallmark of Desikachar's teachings is individualized, one-on-one sessions where you participate in your own healing   10:05 The feeling Chase has when teaching to online students and in-person students   12:00 Online Thursday night study of Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita with Chase- study of Sanskrit and most importantly how does that apply to one's life by pausing, responding and sharing with each other   13:10 Incorporating Sanskrit and yoga philosophy in our practice and the importance of finding context for why we do the techniques we do, recognizing that yoga is an intentionally engineered practice with the science behind understanding how the human system functions   18:00 Chase's appreciation for Desikachar's ability to break teachings down and applying them in a practical sense to everyday life   19:05 Importance of taking time to take teachings in- not rushing through training and philosophical texts so a sustainable transformation is possible   20:20 Differentiating between yoga as information and yoga as being (understanding why your life is unfolding as it is, seeing yoga play out in your life, allowing for feedback and study with a mentor)   22:10 The benefit of having a mentor- difficult to digest studies without a reliable outside reference, help you stay on your path, cue you to reflect and the importance of having an established relationship with someone you have faith in and trust   25:20 Chase details some of the more difficult experiences as Desikachar's mentee and how moving through them helped him establish different patterns and the refinement of his person and behaviour   32:30 Chase's belief that teachings should be the main focus- not so much the lineage and T.K.V. Desikachar's hesitancy to give a name to his yoga teachings (named Viniyoga for a period of time) when he very much believed that yoga should flow through someone in an individualized way   36:10 The problem with lineage and putting yoga into groups- divisiveness, can overemphasize form over function   37:45 Desikachar's taught the importance of relinquishing rather than looking at the effort and asanas   39:20 An example of relinquishing- being attached to how things are such as groups you are in, your home, your job and seeing that as primary importance   42:55 When and why a mentorship relationship may end   47:55 The importance of honesty and communication in mentor-mentee bond and when there may be a shift in the relationship   51:00 What mentorship should provide such as understanding how the mentee's  process works and helping to hold space for that process   53:35 Yoga Wells Institute Therapeutic Yoga Trainings   53:20 Importance of teachers undergoing process themselves, doing their own practice with an open, malleable fashion   57:00 Upcoming Yoga Therapy Teacher Certification Course with Chase in Nashville, Tennessee   58:55 Chase's work with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and its importance in legitimizing the practice via accreditation and guidelines   1:02:19 Chase shares what his own practice looks like while gently reminding teachers to find their own way   1:04:20 If you struggle with your own practice- “When you need it the most it's harder to do.”   1:08:40 Shannon's closing thoughts and key takeaways Links   Yoga Well Institute Website   Yoga Well on Facebook   Twitter: The Well Bucket   Yoga Well Institute on Instagram   Email: thewell@yogawell.com- send an email to set up a 30-minute interview process to help find you a mentor   Yoga Therapy Teacher Certification Course   Chase Bossart on J. Brown Yoga Podcast   International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)   Gratitude to our Sponsor Schedulicity  

Je m’appelle Laura Cardoso et je serai l’animatrice de ce podcast, Paroles de Yogis. Un programme qui se veut accessible à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à cette belle pratique du yoga qu’ils soient professeurs, élèves, ou simples curieux désirant en savoir plus. Nous échangerons avec mes différents invités, souvent professeurs mais pas seulement, autour du yoga, de leurs expériences et enseignements. Nous commençons cette série d’Interview avec Emilie du blog My Happy Yoga, qui avec beaucoup de simplicité nous livre son expérience de professeur depuis 3 ans.

Susan Chandler talks with Gary Schroeder, yoga instructor and therapist, about Viniyoga and the practice, research, and health benefits of yoga.

Susan Chandler talks with Gary Schroeder, yoga instructor and therapist, about Viniyoga and the practice, research, and health benefits of yoga.

Tami Simon speaks with Gary Kraftsow, a pioneer in the transmission of yoga for health, healing, and personal transformation for more than 30 years. Gary is a teacher of the viniyoga methodology and founder of the Maui School of Yoga Therapy. He is the author of the book Yoga for Wellness, and with Sounds True has released four training DVDs, including Viniyoga Therapy for Anxiety and Viniyoga Therapy for the Upper Back, Neck and Shoulders. In this interview, Tami speaks with Gary about his work in research on yoga's health benefits, his understanding of the true purpose of yoga, and how that purpose might become a focus for the practice of yoga in the modern world. (53 minutes)

Who is Roy Holman?  I discovered yoga and meditation and began the inner journey in 1995, at a very challenging time in my life, when my life was a mess and I was struggling with depression and an eating disorder.  Yoga helped me ground, center, and find myself.  I’ll never forget the feeling after my first yoga class – it was a revelation. I completed a two year Hands-on, Heart-centered Energy Healing course in Seattle in 1998, then completed a Meditation and Healing teacher’s training course in 2000, and was also ordained as a Minister. I was then certified as a reflexologist in 2005. I am a 500 hour Certified Yoga teacher, in the Viniyoga tradition. The style of yoga I teach is a grounded, breath-connected, meditative, flowing traditional hatha yoga - a meditation in motion really.  My newest passion is for the Awakening process that is facilitated by "Deeksha" which is the Indian word for the Oneness Blessing  .I was initiated as a Oneness Blessing giver in 2011, where we act as conduits to transfer divine grace to help assist the awakening process. I then went to India in late 2011-2012 for six weeks to Oneness University, (photo below) where I studied  yoga, did some deep inner work, and got trained as a Oneness Trainer to train others to be blessing givers.Our goal is to awaken as many people as possible to assist the shift into the Golden Age in 2012 and beyond.

The Path of the Yogi Within Social Networks I’ve been on Twitter since the Spring of 2007, way before it became so CRAZY mainstream. When I first got on Twitter, there were only a handful of people that I had actually met face to face. In fact, the people on twitter that I interacted with were basically all from the podcasting/new media community and 90% of them where out of state or out of the country. There was not one person from my yoga community. That has now all changed. I would say in 2009 the yoga community on Twitter has skyrocketed. I’m in awe of the amazing amount of tweets about yoga, from yoga practitioners, teachers and studios. It’s yoga yoga yoga all the time now! I love it because now I can literally feel my yoga kula around me here in Pittsburgh because many of my Anusara yoga friends in LA and from other parts of the country are now on Twitter, including John Friend (the founder of Anusara Yoga)! Needless to say, that’s some serious growth! In the past 2.5 yrs that I’ve been on Twitter, I have not ONCE had a negative experience with anyone I followed or followed me. In fact I’ve developed some pretty special friendships with some folks on Twitter that I would have never come in contact with otherwise. I’m a bit saddened to say that I’ve had my first ‘negative’ experience on Twitter, and it was with a fellow yogi. This episode’s artwork is a snapshot of the initial dialogue. I think all of us have every right to have our own preferences and opinions about yoga and about what yoga system or philosophy we align with. In fact that goes for your spiritual and religious life. One of my fellow Anusara teachers referred to yoga philosophy as ‘resonant energy’. resonance |ˈrezənəns| noun the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating : the resonance of his voice. • figurative the ability to evoke or suggest images, memories, and emotions : the concepts lose their emotional resonance. • Physics the reinforcement or prolongation of sound by reflection from a surface or by the synchronous vibration of a neighboring object. • Mechanics the condition in which an object or system is subjected to an oscillating force having a frequency close to its own natural frequency. • Physics the condition in which an electric circuit or device produces the largest possible response to an applied oscillating signal, esp. when its inductive and its capacitative reactances are balanced. • Physics a short-lived subatomic particle that is an excited state of a more stable particle. • Astronomy the occurrence of a simple ratio between the periods of revolution of two bodies about a single primary. • Chemistry the state attributed to certain molecules of having a structure that cannot adequately be represented by a single structural formula but is a composite of two or more structures of higher energy. ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French, from Latin resonantia ‘echo,’ from resonare ‘resound’ (see resonant ). Which Yoga Philosophy Is Right? Which Yoga Philosophy is the Best? If a philosophy resonates with you, you will be more harmonious, more sensitive, more open both with yourself and with others around you. You will in fact be able to add more beauty, goodness, auspiciousness to the world through your thoughts, actions and unique presence. You will embed the philosophy so deeply inside of yourself that you will be able to serve those around you and yourself in ever deepening and refined ways. If whatever you choose opens you to recognize the blessing of your life, your wisdom, your auspiciousness, and in turn shows you that you are part of something much Greater, and of the Intrinsic Goodness of life, than you are in optimal alignment. It’s not about which yoga is the best: Ashtanga, Iyengar, Power, Viniyoga, etc, nor what philosophy, Tantra, Advaita Vedanta, Classical, etc. but how do your actions, your thoughts, your words offer the most auspicious part of yourself AT EVERY MOMENT. How do you feel in your own authentic heart, and how well are you able to serve and uplift those around you? If you lock your fulfillment into how other people receive it you will never be fulfilled. We always have a choice. If we do disagree with a particular style of yoga’s philosophy, or teacher, or practice, in what way are you going to communicate that with those around you so that you show through your actions, interactions and WORDS the highest integrity, always aligning to the Highest most Auspicious part of ourselves? Bottom line, do the actions you take make you a better person. Are you being authentic? It’s not easy, especially when confronted by someone that happens to get under your skin Be very mindful of what you put out into the world, especially when it is written down and sent out into the world. It holds power, and it speaks loudly. Love the Feedback! email me- eyogaclass (at) gmail (dot) com leave me a message- 310 651 6238 (I’d love to play you guys on the episodes! Plus you can promote your stuff that way!) or comment on this blog! This week’s class is a grounding Level 1-2 Yoga Class. The class can be modified to be more basic or more advanced by choosing to do the full poses instead of the modification. You are more than welcome to use as many yoga props as necessary to offer you the optimal alignment of your poses. Have your props near you so you can grab them as needed.