Stay ConnectedContent and conversations for times of transition and change.
Join me in discussion with renowned luminaries and dear friends to explore life’s myriad transitions, our understandings and our responses. What does it mean to be present, to shift our perceptions, to engage with the world meaningfully, with dignity and care? With respect for the ancient practices and the modern wisdom that continue to inform and elevate our exchanges, each episode is an invitation to Practice You.
Copyright: © 2019 Elena Brower
On the changing ecology of the yoga world, the importance of mentorship, and how we mature as teachers.
Amy is a yoga teacher, author, and earth activist. Her caring approach brings ancient wisdom to modern seekers, both on and off the mat. She shares her passion for yoga, health, and earth conservation, through her writings for Yoga Journal, Organic Life, Prevention Magazine and others. She is a featured teacher on Glo.com and a pioneer for advanced yoga education, serving both students as well as fellow yoga teachers. In 2012 she co-founded 90 Monkeys, a professional development school that has enhanced the skills of yoga teachers in 65+ countries internationally. In 2016 she co-authored the book, The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga, which has become a staple in yoga teacher trainings around the globe.
The Art of Studentship and Yoga Mentorship Come of Age by Stephen Jenkinson Stasher Bags Wild Aid NRDC Blue Sphere Foundation SeaLegacy
90 Monkeys Teacher Training programs - The mission of 90 Monkeys teacher training programs is simple: To change the world through providing yoga instructors and studios the tools to be the gold standard for yoga in your community.
"The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga" book - This indispensable and inspiring book guides both new and established professionals toward maximizing their impact as teachers and achieving their career goals.
On the real breaking points, perils and virtues of honest parenting, creating more time for adventure and more space to be ourselves.
Vanessa Cornell founded NUSHU Society through a personal need for a soulful community of women interested in exploring the self through powerful ideas and practices. Through events based in New York, NUSHU Society creates a space where women can feel safe to connect deeply, try new things, have fun and learn. Our collective goal is to lead a passionate, authentic and joyful life. Other passions include surfing, rock climbing, wine and contemporary Japanese ceramics. Vanessa lives in New York with her husband and five children.
Length: 46:54
[1:46] - Bringing people together. [2:32] - Maternal health. Christy Turlington. Every Mother Counts. [5:30] - On maintaining her identity and honoring her voice, as a mother of five. [12:02] - Paying attention to your needs as a small act of rebellion. [15:09] - Founding Nushu. Gathering women together. Allowing space for vulnerability. On going first. [21:33] - On noticing what underlying values are at play: achievement vs. resting. [23:14] - Energy Medicine and kids. [26:48] - Bedtime with family. [29:33] - Spending time apart from kids. [30:38] - What needs healing. On loving our whole selves. [34:30] - Favorite view. Finding flow. [36:13] - Prayer as a connection to source. Meditation. [40:06] - Surfing as a way to feel alive. Fear vs physical sensation.
ResourcesNushu Society Every Mother Counts Energy Medicine by Dr. Jill Blakeway Calm app Daybreaker
On mothering as hosting a human, lessons learned from repeating history, and remembering that what we're healing was never broken.
Length: 43:02
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Rebekah "Bex" Borucki is a mother of five, TV host, meditation and yoga guide, birth doula, and author of You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life: Simple 4-Minute Meditations for Inspiration, Transformation, and True Bliss (Hay House 2017) and her brand new book, Managing the Motherload: A Guide to Creating More Ease, Space, and Grace in Motherhood (Hay House 2019). Her mission is to make mental health support and stress management tools accessible to all. For more information, visit MotherloadBook.com.
Resourceshttps://bexlife.com Managing the Motherload: MotherloadBook.com Private Facebook community: BlissedInCommunity.com You Have 4 Minutes to Change your Life by Rebekah Borucki Voice Lessons for Parents by Wendy Mogel Ph.D. Getting to Hell Yes by Alexandra Jamieson and Bob Gower Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson Handel Group and Lauren Zander
On the education and empowerment of adolescent girls as one of the keys to the future of the world.
Length:43:16 Timecodes:
2:05 How Girls on Fire Leaders was born.
6:24 Girls on Fire Leadership Camps. Samburu. The power of using your voice.
9:36 What drew Eileen to this work. Women and poverty. India. Kiva Fellowship (https://www.kiva.org). Manipur. Microfinance. Leadership potential.
15:40 Work with Shofco https://www.shofco.org/. Access to nature. Karura forest. Mind expansive experiences. 19:09 Partnering with other organisations. Community involvement.
20:56 High numbers of HIV among adolescent girls. How leadership programs decrease these numbers.
21:35 Collaboration.
22:30 doTERRA Healing Hands foundation is matching donations to Girls on Fire Leaders before September 15th 2019.
24:14 Workshops with boys. How do we lead with empathy and love?
26:52 Makesh teaching classes using Practice You book.
27:52 Leadership in community. Girls on Fire Leaders asking important questions.
31:21 Outcomes of Girls on Fire Leaders since 2014. Vision. Design thinking.
36:00 What needs healing. Voice.
Assignment: Consider how the trauma you endured as a child could become your greatest teaching in your work.
38:44 Favorite view.
39:42 Prayer.
40:28 Ways to be involved.
Resources: http://www.girlsonfireleaders.com/ The Collaborative Habit by Twyla Tharp.
On aromatherapy as a path to activating our innate balance, understanding tissue states, and the study of Aromatic Medicine.
Foundations of Aromatherapy Course Aromatic Medicine Certificate Course. Marguerite Maury's guide to Aromatherapy. Shifting the Paradigm: Thomas Easley of the Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine. If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
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On the confluence of effort and grace, the benevolent forces at play, and the electric walkway of this life.
On ritualizing your practice, developing your interior world, and measuring up for joy, with Abbie Galvin, author of 'Home Practice' and founder of The Studio.
Abbie Galvin is the owner of The Studio, a NYC based yoga studio, teaching Katonah Yoga. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student-base from all around the world. Abbie's instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best self.
Length: 45:44 Timecodes:
0:45 Home Practice Book. Ritualizing your home practice, gaining insight.
4:40 Abbie's home practice and time management.
6:05 Longevity practice. As you get older, your interior life expands.
8:38 The interior shift of mind to the body's intelligence.
9:08 Cocooning yourself in your own breath. Being kind to yourself and using ritual to elevate your experience.
10:02 Grounded being practice as an antidote to the doing culture.
11:20 Ties between the interior organs and the peripheral.
13:07 Kidneys as battery.
14:24 Practical details for setting up a home practice.
16:52 Creating a community of shared public space, with mats facing each other.
18:35 Why there is no Shavasana at the end of a Katonah class.
20:40 Middle of the practice.
23:15 Readings from the Home Practice book.
24:43 Time knows everything. It is through time that you become yourself.
27:45 What you're doing in the silence of the postures to heal yourself.
30:31 Fluency practice.
31:45 Longevity practice.
33:27 Staying with yourself.
34:05 Magic Square on the palm of the hand.
37:10 Nature's intelligence is seen through its' patterns. There is a technique for joy.
38:34 What needs healing right now.
39:45 Favorite view.
42:50 Prayer as a capacity to be with yourself.
ResourcesThe Studio Come of age by Stephen Jenkinson Katonah Yoga Home Practice Book
A home practice addresses the vision and virtue of personal health, wellbeing and long life. A home practice is a commitment to self-care, a ritualized modus operandi for one's participation in a technical integration of mind, body and breath. Engaging in a home practice is a way of addressing the manner in which one personally organizes one's self; developing a determined life, setting goals and following through. Our home practice book will guide you through developing your own home practice.
Practical wisdom for separation and divorce; shifting internal narratives, prioritizing positives, taking the high road, and the importance of the long view.
Length: 43:20 Timecodes:
0:43 Holding a state of being Better Apart by separating with the five pillars: Patience, Clarity, Respect, Peace and Forgiveness.
2:35 How divorce attorneys responded to the book.
5:35 Gabrielle's work as a divorce attorney, and her experience of her own parents' divorce.
7:40 Creating a safe environment within yourself.
9:10 Seeking help if someone is unable or afraid to leave.
10:58 Shifting your internal narrative.
12:45 Finding a counsellor or meditator to set up interim living situations.
13:44 Patience. Slowest is fastest.
17:32 Clarity. Asking for precisely what you need. Acknowledging what you brought to the table.
24:36 Peace. Reconstructing your separation/divorce as a sanctuary of possibility. Peace as a practice. Creating a mantra for yourself.
30:52 Respect for yourself and others. Creating stronger boundaries. Spending more time with things that you happy.
36:46 Forgiveness as a gift to yourself. Recognizing your own humaneness. From contraction to expansion. Acknowledging the reason you came to this person in the first place.
41:25 Masterclass based on the five pillars.
ResourcesOn the life-changing art of doing less, appreciating more, and savoring the cyclical nature of your life.
As an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and mother, Kate Northrup has built a multimedia digital empire with her husband, Mike Watts, that reaches hundreds of thousands globally. They are committed to supporting ambitious women to light up the world without burning themselves out in the process. Kate teaches data-driven and soul-driven time and energy management practices that result in saving time, making more money, and experiencing less stress. Kate has a membership of over 1,000 entrepreneurs called Origin® Collective that's about infusing more feminine energy into your business and reclaiming your time, and she has also helped over 5,000 students heal their relationship with money with her signature Money Love Course. Her first book, Money: A Love Story, has been published in 5 languages, and her second book, Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms, is now available wherever books are sold. Kate's work has been featured by The Today Show, Yahoo! Finance, Women's Health, Glamour, The Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Wanderlust, The Huffington Post, and more. Kate lives with her husband and business partner, Mike, and their daughters in a cozy town in Maine.
Length: 45:56 Timecodes:
0:44 Money a Love Story
2:33 Do Less Self-worth and how we interact with commodities such as time and money.
8:32 The only way to create a new system is to be it.
9.25 Knowing which actions are the 20% that will yield 80% of your results.
10:43 How motherhood can help us care less about what others think.
11:30 Identifying and prioritizing actions that lead to your biggest wins.
15:24 On the cyclical nature of things. Using the four predictable energy phrases, to honor how you feel and organize your time.
23:07 On trusting that your body is your home.
Assignment: Think about someone with whom you have felt deeply at home. Describe in detail. Consider that you could potentially feel that way within your own body.
27:12 Menopause, Adolescence in reverse. The Wisdom of Menopause by Dr. Christiane Northrup.
28:46 Reverse engineer your schedule to reflect your core values. Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu.
33:13 Receiving help. Making it a practice. Asking in advance.
35:20 Simplifying.
37:25 Identifying energy leaks.
40:46 Magic of sleep.
42:14 What needs healing. Prioritizing pleasure.
43:11 Favorite View.
44:20 Prayer as trust.
ResourcesArtist and meditation teacher Gemma Gambee Lewis on the work that helps us share the most primary inner state, and taking meditation into our actions in the world.
Gemma Lewis is a meditation and spiritual teacher nurturing the integration between the spirit and the mind. After a 20-year career in international fashion modeling, trend forecasting, and brand building, Gemma is most at home when sitting in meditation and teaching what this practice has generously given. She classically trained for more than two decades in the traditions of Yoga, Bhakti, the Vedas, Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism. When she is not meditating, she's wrapped up in other creative pursuits like drawing, painting and deep-diving brand strategy work in the fashion, art, design, and film industries.
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