No doubt self-acceptance is one of the most essential and indispensable practices you will meet on your path of personal growth. In this intimate episode, Mae shares her personal experience with grief as something that largely helped to expand her capacity for acceptance. In addition, Mae shares another, more recent kizuki about her self-acceptance practice. It was a sneaky, insidious aspect of her practice that, metaphorically speaking, brought her to her knees in repentance.

Mae Yoshikawa

Mae is an author, yoga & meditation practitioner, teacher, and mother. In 2006, Mae became the first Japanese woman to be authorized by the founding school of Ashtanga Yoga in India. In 2016, Mae was awarded the “Yoga People’s Award” for her remarkable social impact in the wellness field. She is known as the face of adidas yoga as well as being the founder of ⁠MAE Y⁠, a premier online community service. Her upcoming book, Kizuki: Realizations Beyond Time and Death encapsulates her life-changing journey of a metamorphosis of identity after the sudden loss of her husband in 2018.

Website: ⁠ https://maey.live/⁠

Instagram: ⁠@maeyoshikawa