Awe Stories

Awe Stories

By Amy Green
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Awe Stories episodes

  • Finding Your True Essence
    Episode 15

    You will walk away from this episode feeling alive and reconnected to your truth!  Randall Simpson from ITSA Life discusses the value and and power of intuition, daily rituals that support our connection to beauty, the importance of creating beauty in the world around you, how parents can support the development of self-inquiry and intuition, and feeling in love with the life you live.  Randall shares ways to connect, or reconnect, to your true essence and being, reminding us that it has been there all along, we just need to slow down, pause and listen.  

    "I have been fortunate enough to connect and share all over the world since 2010 in the realms of yoga, bodywork and healing. I specialize in spiritual understanding of mensuration, womb healing, fertility, conception and conscious relationship & I am about to embark on my  Doula training with IBU Robin Lim, CNN hero of the year in 2011 for Gentle Birthing & changing Birthing throughout the Globe, she is an amazing influencer of mine at present. Expanding my natural intuitive wisdom of our lifes birthing process and unified family raising is the clear next step in the unfolding of my souls growth and planet offering.

     I began working on international Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2011 and have run my own international 250hr Teacher trainings with 3 levels of course degrees since 2014. I have educated and advocated in universities within California to do with energy psychology and its moving presence through our mind and body. I have worked immensely with children and young people through our ITSA Life offerings, amongst having had the pleasure of providing health and therapy within Mental health hospitals within Western Australia. We continue to run these offerings out of our ITSA life space here in Bali.

    HELP has been a key word embedded in my soul as an inspired love action since forever, with intention to, do all I can for the planet in anyway shape or form to Heal. Enable. Love. Prosper. We all have a unique key word that is within us and awaiting to be communicated.

    In realizing and valuing the life I was given, choosing not to waste time in attending to anything that doesn't serve its treasuring worth has been the priority. What’s so amazing is by choosing it, I light up, my soul dances and my heart sings beyond measure. It is when I am connected with this, the life I experience each moment is bliss. As someone who connected to dance and movement from a young age, I really understand life as the dance moving through us and our highest calling is expressing this. By rooting through our presence, returning to our being and embodying conscious essence, we will allow this dance of life to gracefully awaken our planet Earth. I have a saying When She moves, we move… just like that. She representing Love (not a male or female) but rather the togetherness of yin and yang which creates conscious relationship “for without he, she can not exist and without she, he can not be” – Randall Simpson

    For the Love of IT, Live your dimensional life worth living

    From Heart, Through Earth

    Randall Simpson

    • Creator & Co owner of ITSA Life and all of its dimensional programs & modalities with my partner Daniel Young
    • Creator of Abode Healing Yoga & 250hr Accredied Teacher Training Courses
    • Master in Reiki Usui& Seichem Healing
      • Master in Cosmic Body Work
    • Author of The Edition, Mindful Awareness Guide

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    Finding Your True Essence
    Randall Simpson
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    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • Daily rituals and the how to integrate them into your life
    • Creating a beautiful world around you
    • Journaling and the value of self-inquiry
    • Parenting in ways that support critical awareness and development of intituion
    • Listening more and doing less
    • Choosing a way to be each day by listening to your essence
    • Women uplifting women, the feminine divine
    “When I really decided to listen, I do not go through the day without doing anything that I do not choose to do.”
    — Randall Simpson, ITSA Life
    Resources

    Website:http://www.itsalife.com.au/welcome/

    Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/itsalifeinstyle/

    FREE Offerings to our Listeners:

    *Free copy of ITSA Life:Mindful Awareness Guide

    Link here:http://www.itsalife.com.au/new-cover-page/

    Submit the order form (say you are a listener of Awe Stories podcast and you will be sent the ebook for free)

    *Complimentary Access for 1 week to our Life InStyle Community Programs Our:Elemental Awakening Offerings

    Link here:http://www.itsalife.com.au/itsa-life-instyle/

    You will be able to choose 1 of the 5 programs and experience its essence for 1 week (Mention that you are listener of Awe Stories podcast to receive this offering.)

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    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Brendan Mayer for providing the music in our episode.  To find the latest album release Long Story Short, head over to iTunes.

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  • The Power of Stillness
    Episode 13

    October 15 is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day,
    I am 1 in 4.

    I am beyond grateful to share with you our latest episode which features Lindsay Gibson.  She shares her courageous journey through stillness and learning how to be with herself, her past trauma, and find her source of joy.  Lindsay became numb and lived in denial after a traumatic experience at 16 years old.  She shares how she lived in fear, in flight, and often experienced flashbacks, nightmares, and disassociated. When she became a mother for the first time, she poured herself into motherhood, continuing to live in the denial of the traumatic experience.  After the stillbirth of her son, Joseph, grief overwhelmed her to the point where she could no longer deny being present with her emotions and allowing herself to fully feel her love, and her loss. Trauma sensitive yoga became a regular practice and supported her journey back to joy.

    Lindsay is an Author, Motivational Speaker, Trauma/Fertility Yoga Instructor and Fertility/Birth Psychology Specialist; helping to bring light back into people that promotes inner healing. She is the creator of her "Joyful Conception" coaching/yoga series for mamas who are trying to conceive, specializing in 'rainbow' pregnancies. This class is done via phone or live for Connecticut residents. She spends most of her time taking care of her two “blondie” daughters and all that motherhood entails. She’s also a mother to her angel son above, whose love shines through her every day. Her greatest passion is writing to inspire through my heart and through Spirit. She is currently working on her first book, an inspirational memoir, "Just Be: How Her Stillborn Son Taught Me to Surrender." Due to release March 2018.

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    The Power of Stillness
    Lindsay Gibson
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    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • Staying busy to distract from our true self
    • Her traumatic experience 
    • Living with trauma, flashbacks, nightmares, and disassociation
    • Joyfulness of motherhood
    • The stillbirth of her son, Joseph
    • Lucid dreaming and how her dreams influenced her
    • Living in fear to living in joy
    • Being disconnected from the mind and body
    • The practice of yoga and trauma sensitive yoga to reconnect with her body
    • Developing a softness and compassion towards her trauma experience
    • How her stillbirth gave her the gift of reconnecting with herself
    “I developed a softness, a compassion, that overcame me.”
    — Lindsay Gibson- Healthy Mama, Happy Baby
    Resources

    Websites:http://lindsaymariegibson.com/

    www.healthymomhappybaby.com

    Instagram: @AuthorLindsayGibson

    Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/authorlindsaygibson/

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    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Brendan Mayer for providing the music in our episode.  To find the latest album release Long Story Short, head over to iTunes.

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  • Mindful Parenting and Zen Pig
    Episode 13

    Featured in this episode is Mark Brown, from Zen Pig.  He shares his perspective of moving through the world throughout his early 20's without mindfulness, how his practices of affirmations, meditations, and the like have supported him to develop into the person he aims to be in the world, and now as a parent.  Upon having his son, Mark and his wife created the Zen Pig series to support the growth of mindfulness and emotional development for children.  Mark shares his experiences as a parent utilizing mindfulness, how it shapes him as a parent, and the breathe of life it has given to him as a result. Mark Brown is writer and speaker passionately helping others awaken to a life of purpose, presence and intention. Born in Hampton Roads, VA over 30 years ago Mark Brown now resides in booming Nashville, TN with his wife Amy and son Noble.

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    Mindful Parenting and Zen Pig
    Mark Brown
    “It is a must, I do not think I could be the parent I would want to be without mindfulness.”
    — Mark Brown, Zen Pig
    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • Mindfulness
    • Mindful parenting
    • Emotional intelligence and development
    • Children's media and the deficit of content that nurtures emotional intelligence
    • Mastermind groups and their value for supporting your work in the world
    • Meditation and mindful practices 
    • Male gender norms and yoga
    • Miracles and transformations that occur with presence
    Resources

    Websites:

    •  www.ZenPigBook.com
    • www.TheInnerSpaceProgram.com

    Instagram: @ZenPigBook

                      @Markofthecosmos

    Facebook:  Facebook.com/zenpigbook

                       Facebook.com/markofthecosmos

    YouTube Channel

    Carl Sagan Website

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    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Brendan Mayer for providing the music in our episode.  To find the latest album release Long Story Short, head over to iTunes.

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  • Yoga Awareness Month: A Power-full Flow
    Episode 12

    September is International Yoga Awareness Month, which means each episode this month will feature different practices and practitioners of yoga to share with you how and what yoga is a transformative self care practice.

    So much beautiful wisdom comes from Leanne Woehlke who is the Chief Officer of Possibility at Epic Yoga, a Baptiste power-yoga studio. Leanne shares with us her journey to getting on her mat and beginning her yoga practice, the fear of starting a new practice and obstacles that can get in the way, walking through being a caregiver to her husband who had cancer while being a new mother, being okay with not being the person for everyone, her beautiful practices of joy and self-care, and enjoying life by inviting quality of life and always being up to something more and bigger in life.

    Leanne Woehlke… my story.

    I have been on a quest for health and wellness for as long as I can remember. In 1998, I left a stressful job corporate job and travelled to India in search of answers and a deeper meaning in life. When I got there, I realized I could have found what I was looking for right at home. The problem was, my mind just wasn’t still enough, and I wasn’t listening, or asking the right questions.

    My yoga mat has been a path to the center of truth. It has been my vehicle for self discovery for over 22 years.

    The Back Story… 

    I have a Master’s Degree in Experimental Psychology, which opened the door to a career in Drug Development. I dismissed the freedom and flow my soul craved in exchange for a corporate consulting job and the promise of “security.” I had a “good” job and made “good” (six figure) money, but I was, miserable! Many days I woke up nauseous and dreading going to work. 

    After the birth of my daughter, I hung up my corporate suit to pursue a life of balance, focused on the people and things I loved. Ah, finally, a life on my terms! This sounded like pure paradise, until eleven days later, my husband, my rock, my BFF, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. My research skills were put to the test as I scoured the internet for alternative treatments and reviewed traditional protocols. Within weeks of being “cured” he was in the middle of a major relapse. The cancer was back, and with a vengeance.

    Two rounds of high dose chemo, back to back stem cell transplants, lots of supplements and alternative healers, later my husband was cancer free. It was a long, crazy, twisty road, with many miracles sprinkled along the route. He remains cancer free to this day. During this time my practice kept me grounded in the present moment. This experience only deepened my desire to learn more about health and wellness, from both the physical and the psychological aspects. 

    In 2011, I opened EPIC YOGA, with the intention to help others uncover their own version of an inspired life. I wanted to share hope and inspiration in an attempt to help others find more peace, health and balance in their lives, both on and off their yoga mat. 

    I am a 500 Hr Certified Baptiste Yoga Instructor and Affiliate Studio Owner. I have completed a Health Coach Certification program and am a Sanoviv Health Advisor. I am also a Certified Fire Walk Instructor.   

    Most days you can find me at EPIC, where I teach classes, lead retreats and run Yoga Teacher Training programs. If I’m not there, I am likely at a Middle School Volleyball game, or on the lake, where I recently completed sailing lessons. 

    If you are what you should be, you’ll set the world on FIRE! 

    - St Catherine of Sienna

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    A Power-full Flow
    Leanne Woehlke
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    “What do you want to create, and setting your vision on that. What do you need to give up. And how are you ready now, however you are is perfect. ”
    — Leanne Woehlke, Epic Yoga
    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • Celebrating the small moments in life
    • Times in life when you need to pull in and hunker down
    • Being a caregiver for her husband when he was diagnosed with cancer
    • How yoga, breath, and presence supported her
    • The Baptiste methodology and practice
    • Her yoga journey and study along the way
    • Being ready now- try out something new!
    Resources

    Epic Yoga Website

    Epic Yoga Facebook

    Epic Yoga Instagram

    Baron Baptiste Website

    Baron Baptiste Foundation- and Africa Yoga Project

     

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    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Brendan Mayer for providing the music in our episode.  To find the latest album release Long Story Short, please visit here.

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  • Yoga Awareness Month: Turn Up the Music and Flow
    Episode 11

    September is International Yoga Awareness Month, which means each episode this month will feature different practices and practitioners of yoga to share with you how and what yoga is a transformative self care practice.

    With lots of joy and laughter, join Emmy Singer from Inner Light Yoga to hear about the practice of music based vinyasa. Emmy shares her experience of music being a source of connection, healing, and release. She shares some of her favorite artists and music to flow to, how to allow yourself to let go and be free on your mat, and begin to blossom and have fun in yoga. She discusses finding this practice through a moment of letting her wall down after a season where she felt lonely and lost. Emmy shares her passion for the practices of cathartic movement and giving yourself the permission to get messy and lost in the process of exploring your body and releasing what no longer serves you, and find all types of beautiful shapes and ways to create movement in your body to build greater self-love and appreciation for your body and self.

    Emmy Singer is the founder & f-word enthusiast of Inner Light Yoga who believes in positive energy, the collective of people, genuine vibes and the power of puppies. She met yoga in 2008 and it was nearly love at first flow. With a heartbeat for storytelling and pulse for music, she moved to Nashville in 2011 to pursue her music industry dreams. Emmy learned to balance her role running digital for a roster of country artists by maintaining her life-giving yoga practice. Taking her passion one pose further, Emmy trained to be a certified yoga instructor and following her open-heart and renewed spirit transitioned from music to teaching yoga full-time. After Emmy married Lee, a skilled entrepreneur with a love for a good back-beat flow class, in 2015, the newlyweds’ dream of opening a fitness business together took them to California. While out West, Emmy’s love of music and yoga collided when she came across a new style of music-based vinyasa and dove head first into training specifically for this movement focused practice. They both were inspired by the West Coast, but Nashville was calling their hearts home. Filled with gratitude for the open arms of Nashville and passion for bringing music-based yoga to this beautiful community, the Singers moved back to Music City to open Inner Light Yoga.

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    Turn Up the Music and Flow
    Emmy Singer
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    “The simplest thing first to start is find your favorite song, turn it on, close your eyes, and let some stuff move around.”
    — Emmy Singer, Inner Light Yoga
    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • Movement, dance, and yoga
    • Yoga becoming a lifeline for her during college
    • Moving to California with her husband and feeling lonely and lost
    • Finding a movement-based vinyasa class and falling in love
    • Exploring your body and self-love through small moments of sweet, loving-kindness
    • Cathartic movement and the value of play in yoga
    • Moving through grief with music and yoga
    • The importance of taking pauses in your day to reset
    Resources

    Inner Light Yoga Nashville Website

    Inner Light Yoga Facebook

    Inner Light Yoga Instagram

    Turn the Music UP

    Emmy Singer Instagram

    The Class by Taryn Toomey

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    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Brendan Mayer for providing the music in our episode.  To find the latest album release Long Story Short, please visit iTunes.

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  • Yoga Awareness Month: Kids Yoga
    Episode 9

    September is International Yoga Awareness Month, which means each episode this month will feature different practices and practitioners of yoga to share with you how and what yoga is a transformative self care practice.  Ashley Ray is the founder of Habitat Yoga, a specialist in kids yoga, partnering with schools, libraries, and community centers throughout Middle Tennessee to bring yoga and meditation classes to preschoolers through teenagers. She shares her passion for kids yoga, growing up in a single parent household, regulating her anxiety and perfectionism, what to expect in a kids yoga class, developing and sharing self-regulation, mindfulness, meditation, and yoga practices with children and how these practices show up in the lives of the children she works with.  

    Ashley Ray has been teaching yoga to adults and since 2013. After gaining her 200-hour Yoga Alliance certification, Ashley completed specialty training in hot yoga, vinyasa yoga, and kids yoga. With a wide range of experience in various styles of yoga, Ashley customizes each class to her students' needs and goals, catering to a variety of levels. Incorporating some light-hearted humor, motivating guidance, and a technical focus on postures, Ashley creates balanced, yet challenging, classes that encourage students to trust and explore the strength and flexibility of their body.

    Ashley's favorite classes involve working with children from preschool through high school. Known for her positive attitude and upbeat energy, Ashley engages the children in developmentally appropriate poses, games, discussions and lessons. Her knowledge of yoga principles, fitness and alignment provides a strong foundation to teach and inspire young minds. After years of teaching kids yoga, Ashley created the Habitat Kids Yoga Teacher Training and now trains new kids yoga teachers throughout the country.

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    Kids Yoga: Yoga Awareness Month
    Ashley Ray
    “A lot of my practice comes through play.”
    — Ashley Ray, Habitat Yoga
    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • What to expect in a kids yoga class
    • How to invite mindfulness, meditation, and yoga as practices with children
    • The value of play with innovation
    • Navigating anxiety and perfection
    • Avoiding discomfort by eating, studying more, playing video games, people pleasing
    • Being prescribed a yoga practice to manage anxiety during college
    • The value of yoga in schools and working with teachers
    Resources

    Habitat Yoga Website

    Facebook

    Instagram

    To learn about upcoming Kids Yoga Teacher Trainings with Ashley Ray  www.habitatyoga.com/teacher-training

    Meditations for Kids

    Hot Air Balloon

    The Friendly Whale

    Storytime Guided Meditation

    Yoga for Kids

    Habitat Yoga

    Cosmic Kids Yoga

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    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Brendan Mayer for providing the music in our episode.  To find the latest album release Long Story Short, please visit iTunes.

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  • Yoga Awareness Month: Yoga Therapy
    Episode 9

    September is International Yoga Awareness Month, which means each episode this month will feature different practices and practitioners of yoga to share with you how and what yoga is a transformative self care practice.  Jasmine Rausch is the founder of ROOT Yoga Therapy, based out of Los Angeles, CA. Jasmine shares with us her struggle to find her passion, her practices of yoga and meditation, ultimately finding her calling as a Yoga Therapist, how she was able to free herself from chronic pain and asthma, and how she approaches healing with others from an integrative medicine approach- addressing the whole person instead of one particular symptom or area of the body.  Listen to hear Jasmine's recommendations for starting your own yoga practice and where you can find Yoga Therapist's near you to explore greater healing.

    Jasmine Rausch is a Certified Yoga Therapist based in Los Angeles, California. She received her bachelor’s degree in communication studies from California State University, Northridge and earned her credentials in Clinical Yoga Therapy from Loyola Marymount University, the first and only university accredited in the United States. She is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and the National Yoga Alliance (YA). Jasmine’s company ROOT Yoga Therapy has both a private clinical practice and on site corporate yoga therapy programs passionately committed to mind body health. ROOT works with individuals and organizations to create specific plans, educate on how environmental and lifestyle factors contribute to overall health and share tools to improve well-being and quality of life.  Jasmine and the ROOT team work with a range of chronic health conditions from chronic pain and autoimmune disease to anxiety and depression.

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    Yoga Awareness Month: Yoga Therapy
    Jasmine Rausch
    “Some of the most gentle practices are the most powerful.”
    — Jasmine Rausch, ROOT Yoga Therapy
    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • What is a yoga therapist
    • How a yoga therapist differs from a regular yoga practice
    • Struggle to feel passionate about work and trying to find your calling in life
    • Moving through grief and trauma
    • Using meditation and yoga as healing practices
    • Living with chronic pain and asthma
    • The concept that change and discomfort exist together
    • Influential teachers and mentors
    Resources

    To learn more about Jasmine and ROOT visit rootyogatherapy.com. 

    To stay up to date on yoga therapy tips, research and insights- subscribe to Jasmine's weekly blog “A ROOT Awakening” (http://www.rootyogatherapy.com/blog/).

    For your daily dose of yoga therapy and to learn quick and easy tools to improving health follow her on IG @rootyogatherapy_

    Listeners, Jasmine has graciously offered a free 15- minute consultation. Please contact her at www.rootyogatherapy.com/contact and mention "Awe Stories Podcast on Yoga Therapy" in the inquiry.

    Lastly, Jasmine has teamed up with Silly Yogi Apparel (www.sillyyogi.com)  Listeners can receive 15% off their purchase when using promo code ROOT.

    Meditation apps recommended:

    • Headspace
    • Calm

    Find a Yoga Therapist near you:

    • www.iayt.org

    Recommended reading:

    • The Presence Process- Michael Brown
    • A Full Catastrophe Living- Jon Kabot Zin
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    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Brendan Mayer for providing the music in our episode.  To find the latest album release Long Story Short, please visit here

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  • Hope within Heartbreak
    Episode 7

     Michelle DAvella is the founder of Pushing Beauty.  Michelle is a breathwork coach and facilitator of The Desire Map.  In this episode, Michelle discusses living in the world as someone who feels deeply, trying to use her mind to think through or push past her emotions, until she ultimately  stopped hiding from her feelings- stepping out of shame and into her own power.  She shares her recent heartbreak and how she has used self-care practices to fall in love with herself and live a life transformed valuing both her mind, her heart, and her intuition.   

    Edited from Michelle's website:

    YOU CAN ONLY HIDE FOR SO LONG

    Pieces started to fall around me. I was flailing in my career. Money wasn't flowing. I was picking fights with my boyfriend. I didn't like my living situation. Deep inside I felt this horrible feeling like I wasn't living the life I was here to live.

    Looking back I can see a very clear path at that time in my life. Every aspect of my life was unfolding and pointing me onto that path. I began to pick up on it and started to move forward, and I met my greatest teacher: my own breath. I was lead to begin a Breathwork practice and since that day my life has never been the same. 

    At the time I remember thinking, "How the hell is breathing going to change my life?" Oh, but it did. It dramatically did. This breathing technique was not about relaxation. It was about healing. It was about opening my heart. It was about discovering myself. And that's what I did.

    WHO I AM NOW

    Writing about my past feels like another lifetime. And it kind of is. I'm now a Breathwork teacher, mentor, writer, and Desire Map facilitator. Every aspect of my life has transformed. But most importantly, now I love every ounce of me. 

    I can be seen by others without shrinking myself down. I don’t worry about what other people think about me. I don't worry about trying to do it all right because there is no such thing as a right way. I trust myself to make the choices that are best for my life, and I don’t spend my energy questioning myself afterward. I’ve developed a healthy balance between using my mind and my heart. 

    Don't let this lead you to believe that my life is pain-free. I went through a terrible heartbreak this year, but my growth has allowed me to learn tremendously from it. I worked on keeping my heart open. I took the time to heal, as long as it needed. I paid close attention to the wounds the pain was pointing to. I took deep care of myself, like I work to do every day.

    I DON'T THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO LOOK DEEPLY INWARD, I THINK IT'S NECESSARY.

    It's necessary if you want to relieve your anxiety, if you want to let go of your pain, if you want to accept yourself, if you want to feel any bit better than you do right now. Turning inward and walking straight through the pain you're hiding from is the only path to true happiness. 

    This path of looking inward is challenging because of the deep feelings we’ve suppressed and need to process. It’s challenging because the ego is hella strong and will do anything it can to dupe us into taking the easy route. 

    If you’re reading this and you’re struggling in the depths of darkness or you know you’re not living the life that is meant for you take a look at my offerings. This life is not an easy path, but I promise you that if you show up to do the work and if you face it all wholeheartedly, what is on the other side is so worth it.

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    Healing within Heatbreak
    Michelle DAvella
    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • The meaning behind "Pushing Beauty"
    • A culture of living in our minds and pushing away our feelings
    • What happens when we decide to step into feeling
    • Practices of self care that supported her healing
    • Shame, guilt, and negative self talk
    • Her first breathwork practice
    • Empathy and being present with feelings
    • Finding balance between the mind, intuition, and feeling
    • Hope beyond heartbreak
    • The value of community and importance of self-reliance
    • Practices of core feelings for her day from The Desire Map
    Resources

    Instagram- @pushingbeauty

    Facebook- @pushingbeautynow

    Website- www.pushingbeauty.com

    Danielle Laporte

    The Desire Map

    Michelle has an upcoming Breathwork + Heartwork with The Desire Map workshop coming up, here are some details if you are interested in learning more:

    Breathwork + Heartwork with The Desire Map is a four-week virtual workshop where you'll release limiting beliefs and discover what you want most out of your life. Based on the best-selling book The Desire Map, we get straight to the heart of the matter: How you want to feel? At the end of this workshop, you will walk away with your Core Desired Feelings and use those to guide your life decisions in your career, your body, your creativity, your relationships, and your spirit.

     

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    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Massood Taj for providing the music in our episodes.  To find more of his music, please visit his website here.

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  • Embracing the Healing of Nature
    Episode 7

    Kristy Gungler is the founder of Three Planted Seeds.  In this episode of Awe Stories, Kristy shares with us her experience of reconnecting with the love of nature, finding yoga during a pregnancy after miscarriage, mothering through postpartum anxiety, and how the tools of mindfulness, essential oils, and yoga keep her grounded and connected so she can show up as her best self. Kristy also shares ways that she has passed these traditions and tools along to her children, getting them excited about sharing yoga with their friends and using essential oils for healing. 

    Kristy first stepped on a yoga mat back in 2006 while pregnant with her first child. She was looking for a way to keep her job-related stress at a minimum. She still vividly remembers how she felt after class. The feeling of peace and joy had such a positive affect on her physically, mentally, and emotionally. And so her yoga journey began.

    As a mother of 2 children, Kristy started to integrate her teachings from yoga into her journey through motherhood. Feeling so connected to this practice and wanting to pass it on to her family and others that in 2011 she received a certificate to teach kids yoga. In early 2013, again followed her heart and enrolled in the Yoga 360 School of Teaching 200 hr CYT Yoga and Ayurveda teacher training. Kristy leads her life by following her heart and passions.

    In addition to becoming a certified yoga teacher, Kristy also holds a bachelor’s degree in science, studying environmental biology and worked as a certified veterinary technician for 10 years. Currently she is studying aromatherapy and completing the requirements to become a 300 hour certified clinical aromatherapist. She is deeply passionate about and connected to all aspects of nature. She often looks to nature as a guide to her life’s journey, and is truly grateful for all it has taught her. She is looking forward to serving others, sharing yoga, aromatherapy and nature’s wisdom.

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    Embracing the Healing of Nature
    Kristy Gungler
    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • Childlike love of nature and discovery
    • The healing properties of nature
    • Sharing healing practices with her children
    • Moving through pregnancy after loss with yoga
    • Experiencing postpartum anxiety and finding presence
    • On becoming a mother
    • Yoga practices that invite grounding and presence
    • Using essential oils for healing
    Resources

    Instagram- @threeplantedseeds

    Facebook- @threeplantedseeds

    Email- [email protected]

    Yoga Glo

    Elena Brower

    Yoga International

    For more information on the use of essential oils, visit here

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    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Massood Taj for providing the music in our episodes.  To find more of his music, please visit his website here.

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  • On Creativity, Courage, and Collaboration
    Episode 6

    In this episode, Joanna discusses the founding and creation of her company Yellow Co., the desire to create work that you love and get paid to do the work you love, the ultimate battle of comparison and self doubt, surrounding yourself with women who are uplifting and open to collaborating and how life changing this work has been for her, and how she grounds herself each day to cultivate creativity and thrive.

    Joanna Waterfall is the Founder of Yellow Co., an organization that exists to empower creative women to become agents of good. With a degree in graphic design and digital media and a background in branding, Joanna believes that creativity, purpose and business should go hand in hand. She has been featured in publications such as The Huffington Post, LA Lady Magazine, Boss Ladies Magazine, Belong Magazine and others. She is motivated by the belief that women can change the world through stepping into what makes them come alive.

    Yellow Co.'s annual conference is coming up August 24-25 in Los Angeles, CA.  This amazing gathering is described in more detail below:

    Join 500 creative, entrepreneurial-minded women in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles for a gathering that is so much more than a conference. This is for the ones who desire to fight for a better tomorrow. The ones who are willing to roll up their sleeves, step out in courage, & use their creativity for good. This is where we come together for the benefit of humankind. With the belief that together, we can spread good and bloom. 

    This conference is for the ones who know they were made to work for something bigger than themselves, & they desire the practical, tangible know how it takes to make that happen.

    Subscribe on iTunes, on SoundCloud below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

    On Creativity, Courage, and Collaboration
    Joanna Waterfall
    “It was like water to my soul.”
    — Joanna Waterfall
    Topics Discussed in this Episode
    • Creativity and how it flows
    • Surrounding ourself with likeminded individuals
    • The power of meditation 
    • How to get unstuck
    • Living our dreams and doing work we love
    • Doubting ourselves
    • Comparison killing creativity
    Resources

    Instagram- @yellowconference

    Personal Instagram- @joannawaterfall

    Mailing List for Yellow Co

    Yellow Co. webpage

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    • #awestories
    Awe Stories is a podcasthighlighting stories, movements, and practices for your soulby Amy Green.Special thank you to Massood Taj for providing the music in our episodes.  To find more of his music, please visit his website here.

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WHAT IS AN AWE STORY... is a story that captures the heart, healing, and hope that lives within all of us. IT ALL BEGINS WITH... a challenge, a obstacle, a problem. Something that has caused us pain,…