If you’ve always felt like yoga was less about doing and more about being, or if you’ve been curious about how to embody the divine feminine more, listen in. To discuss these topics, I sat down with Abiola Akanni, a leader in the field of yoga. She has cultivated non-performative spaces that encourage individuals to use the practices of yoga and mindfulness to enhance their lives and bodies. Abiola is also an emotional intelligence coach, supporting high-achieving Women of Color navigating their experience of high-functioning anxiety.
If you’re ready to start practicing yoga beyond the poses and disrupt the western-world’s performative approach to yoga, tune in this week. Abiola is sharing how to start practicing yoga in a way that feels more freeing and aligned with your values while weaving in the concept of embodying the divine feminine along the way.
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Non-Performative Yoga™ and the Divine Feminine, with Abiola Akanni

A self-help podcast for yogis and HSP ready to let go of overwhelm and stress so that they can transform their sensitivity into a superpower. Join me to build your awareness, become embodied and turbo-charge your growth. Learn from the most inspiring and accomplished yoga teachers and coaches in the world with their personal stories, best-kept secrets, and most valuable tools and strategies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I'm sure you've been told to feel your feelings before, but have you ever been told how? There's a process I use with my coaching clients to help them feel and process their emotions and trauma, so they can heal the past, leverage their sensitivity, and transform their lives, and I'm sharing it right here on today's show.

 Discover how to feel more fearlessly, be yourself more fully, and access more joy in your life. Learn why healing means truly feeling your emotions, and I show you a step-by-step process to stop getting lost in escapism when uncomfortable emotions are present, and instead show up for yourself with care, nurturance, and love.

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Feel It to Heal It, with Erika Belanger

Meli is a dream interpreter who helps sleep-deprived and stressed individuals uncover the root cause of their anxiety through dream work. She helps people address suppressed emotions while providing them with the tools to release these emotions with a process she calls cosmic dream alchemy. 

 Gain a foundation in what your dreams mean, and what you can do with the messages you receive afterward. Meli shares her three steps to alchemize and process your emotions through the subconscious mind with dream work, and she even walks us through a whole process, as an example, using one of my own dreams so you can see it in real time.

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Using Your Dreams to Process Your Emotions with Meli, The Dreaming Yogi

If you experience chronic stress, regularly feel tension in your body or discomfort in your joints,  this episode if for you.
Today we are learning a body yanta. Body yantras are powerful proprioceptive practices, where your nervous system gets to map out where you are in space to move away from chronic holding patterns. This practice allows the NS to realign the bone structure of the body to induce more relaxation.
This micro-movement meditation is a harmonizing practice that organically helps you reprogram the way your skeletal system as been responding to your perceptions, internal stories and traumas.
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PREMIUM | Body Yantra

Dylan Werner is a renowned yoga instructor and author known for his expertise in breathwork meditation, hand balancing, and movement. He founded Myofascial Integrated Alignment and Myofascial Integrated Stretching, which are asana-based systems that combine scientific principles with movement to improve overall health and posture.

 Discover why we breathe, how to breathe, and the way the breath is capable of influencing us emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Dylan shares pranayama exercises, and you’ll learn how to sequence your pranayama, just as you would sequence an asana practice.

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The Breath: Eastern Philosophy and Nervous System Science, with Dylan Werner

My guest this week stepped out of mainstream society as a punk artist, and later in life as a monk, to find truth, joy, and purpose in answering life’s big questions of self-discovery and transformation. I sat down with Raghunath, earlier known as Ray Cappo. Raghunath has been on a spiritual quest his whole life. He practices and teaches Bhakti yoga, and he’s a spiritual storyteller. Raghunath hosts the podcast Wisdom of the Sages and is the author of the book From Punk to Monk: A Memoir.

 Start your journey of remembering who you are and what truly matters. Raghunath and I discuss why nothing outside of you can bring wholeness and capital 'L' Love into your life, and Raghunath shares how he believes we can make the most of our lives and find our purpose one small act at a time.

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Non-Performative Yoga™ and the Divine Feminine, with Abiola Akanni

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