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024 - Instagram Friends and Storytelling with Leonel Franco May 19, 2020

Show notes

Instagram has brought the coolest people into my life. Leonel is one of those people. As a yoga teacher and longshoreman, Leonel lives in Vancouver, B.C. We talk about teaching yoga, the importance of passion behind teaching, taking responsibility for our responses, and wrap it up with one of Leonel's passions, telling stories of yoga poses. You can hear the delight in his voice! Listen in to hear the story of Ganesha and Hanuman.
Mentioned in this episode:

Troy Turi: www.turiyoga.com (Savoir Yoga YTT)
Jolene Bayda: www.jolenebayda.com (Savoir Yoga YTT and Yin YTT)
Pepe Danza: world-renowned flute player and drummer. Can be found on Spotify and YouTube.
Shakti Mhi: original YTT and also Jolene and Troy's YTT teacher. @pranayogacollege on Instagram

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Oregon Coast Women’s Retreat: Sept 11-14, 2020
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

023 - Guided Meditation: Trust the Flow May 12, 2020

Show notes

Creating a seated meditation practice has changed me. It has made my head more clear, my trust in myself more grounded, and given me focus on gratitude, resilience, and joy.
In this meditation, I lead you through a river visualization. Are you in flow with your life? What does it feel like when you are? What does it feel like to fight it?
Use this meditation to give yourself a pause, a reset, to remind yourself that you are exactly where you need to be.
Reach out and connect with me to schedule a 1:1 teacher talk or learn more about my teacher mentorship program.
RETREAT WITH ME!!!
Oregon Coast Women’s Retreat: Sept 11-14, 2020
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

022 - What does alcohol have to do with yoga? Apr 29, 2020

Show notes

In this conversation with Pamela Price, we learn there are four messages our brains are programmed to seek. Knowling these, it becomes easier to see why we choose what we do. Paying attention to our "why" gives us the ability to shift from our regular, ask how it's serving us, and rise with more awareness. While we talk a bit about alcohol, this conversation gives perspective to look at any habit you have.
Pamela Price is an Alcohol Free Coach and Yoga Teacher. Her program Nourished Warrior is a supportive group and individual experience that supports you wherever you are, gray area drinkers included.
Connect with Pamela - Instagram, Nourished Warrior Program
Reach out and connect with me to schedule a 1:1 teacher talk or learn more about my teacher mentorship program.
RETREAT WITH ME!!!
Oregon Coast Women’s Retreat: Sept 11-14, 2020
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

021 - Teacher Talk: Moving Your Classes Online Apr 13, 2020

Show notes

Over the past week, I've led 8 live group conversations with about 40 yoga teachers around the world, from Nashville to the Dominican Republic to South Africa to Bahrain to North Dakota. This episode is a culmination of topics that were talked about every single time. Bottom line...your gift is you and learning something new can be both fun and uncomfortable. If you are considering moving your classes online, this is for you.

Reach out and connect with me to schedule a 1:1 teacher talk or learn more about my teacher mentorship program.
RETREAT WITH ME!!!
Oregon Coast Women’s Retreat: Sept 11-14, 2020
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

020 - Get Loud, Get Dirty Mar 24, 2020

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A response to our current situation with COVID-19: the way emotions create tension in our bodies makes movement, expressing through our voice, and finding a connection to the Earth vital to living creatively and full of joy.

In this episode: joy, how cold water affects your body, finding ways to get loud in order to process your emotional and mental process, ideas how to connect with the earth even if you cannot currently touch it, and how using all of this to fuel creativity can bring fulfillment.

Quote read from "The Book of Joy" with the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Doublas Abrams: "Discovering more joy does not, I'm sorry to say, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily, too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreak without being broken."

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Oregon Coast Women’s Retreat: Sept 11-14, 2020
Tulum, Mexico Co-ed Retreat: Nov 3-8, 2020
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

019 - Is Yoga Masculine or Feminine with Chris Miller Mar 10, 2020

Show notes

I've been highly interested in the balance of masculinity and femininity within each of us. In this episode, my friend Chris Miller and I talk about this necessary paradox, how as yoga teachers and practitioners we experience both sides, and how the polarity of the two is required within relationships.
Connect with Chris - Instagram, Website
People mentioned in this episode:
John Wineland - Instagram, Website
Juliet Allen - Instagram, Website

RETREAT WITH ME!!!
Oregon Coast Women’s Retreat: Sept 11-14, 2020
Tulum, Mexico Co-ed Retreat: Nov 3-8, 2020
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

018 - This All Ends: Death and Living Well Feb 25, 2020

Show notes

Children are teachers. This week Bonnie shares a conversation about death with her 8-year-old. She talks about the way Instagram is small windows into each others' lives, watching a virtual friend die, hearing about cancer from another, and the way connection is part of living well.

Stuff mentioned in this episode:
Danielle Doby
Radio Lab: The living room (NOT This American Life)
RETREAT WITH ME!!!
Oregon Coast Women’s Retreat: Sept 11-14, 2020
Tulum, Mexico Co-ed Retreat: Nov 3-8, 2020
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

017 - Talking to Kids About Sex Feb 12, 2020

Show notes

How we pay attention to our own sexuality and sensuality as adults can make for a stronger ability to connect with our children as they navigate the same.

If we want our kids to be able to have healthy, safe, pleasurable, and confident sexual experiences in their bodies, that begins with parents. The way we, as adults, explore and embrace our own sexuality directly impacts the way we can show up for our children. Bonnie shares about her goal to normalize the conversation around sex, bodies, and relationships for her kids and encourages others to look for places to let these conversations be part of everyday life.

Stuff in this episode:
Authentic Sex with Juliet Allen - all of them and episode 88 with John Wineland (also look him up on IG)

The Knowledge Project - episodes 71, 62, and 66

RETREAT WITH ME!!!
Oregon Coast Women’s Retreat: Sept 11-14, 2020
Tulum, Mexico Co-ed Retreat: Nov 3-8, 2020
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

016 - Failure: An Opportunity to Refine Your Approach Jan 30, 2020

Show notes

If you aren’t feeling inadequate in some way at some time, then maybe you aren’t getting big enough. Do not apologize for taking up space. This is an episode for those who are ready to rise.
Stuff in this episode:
Quote: "Failure is an opportunity to refine your approach" from Carly Stevens Brittain. On Instagram as @carlysb.
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website
The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

015 - Do Not Play Small with Dani Bulgrien Jan 21, 2020

Show notes

After almost 5 years of knowing each other through instagram, Dani Bulgrien and Bonnie finally meet in person! Dani currently trains and teaches in China. They talk about things worth having require challenge, when something’s hard it means we should try it, and the practice of knowing what you really want.
Enroll for Bonnie's yoga teacher mentorship at www.bossyogapdx.com/mentorship
Dani Bulgrien: Instagram
Bonnie Week: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website
The music for this episode is Threads by The Light Meeting. You can listen to more of their music at www.thelightmeeting.com.
Photo: Jess Keating
Producer: Marcus Strange

Weekly stories by email from Bonnie HERE

Connect with Bonnie: Instagram, Email (hello@bonnieweeks.com), Website

Produced by: Grey Tanner

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