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Catherine Njeri, yoga teacher and community leader, joins us all the way from Nairobi, Kenya and we are PUMPED to release this episode.

Catherine’s stories and words of empowerment are what you need to listen to. She is one of the facilitators of Africa Yoga Project’s annual 200-hour yoga teacher training in Nairobi and a regular instructor at the Shine Center (which is now hosting virtual, global classes!). Not only does she lead this training, she was the first woman on the Sub Saharan African continent to ever lead a yoga training. Her experience is unparalleled so her insight and teachings are beyond empowering for us, and we think it is for you, too.

Listen to this episode of yoga off the mat, yoga in Kenya, Kenyan culture, and how the simplicity of teaching yoga can go far beyond a calisthenics workout.

Follow her on Instagram here: @catherine_the_yogi

And follow Africa Yoga Project here: @africayogaproject

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses, in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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We finally got him! Regie Ahmad!

Some of you listeners may know Regie well from his transformational yoga classes he teaches at BIG Power Yoga in Houston. If you have not yet been acquainted with Regie, you’re in for a treat because Regie is one of the kindest, most humble, and therefore more empowering yoga teacher we’ve ever met. He really teaches from a place where the practice is 100% about the student and 0% about himself. AND. He’s amazing–AMAZING–at doing handstands and inversions.

It’s an interesting thing to talk handstands on a non-visual podcast and Regie delivers. As you may know, yoga poses are way more than just the poses if you want it to be. Hear what Regie has to say about what a handstand practice can unlock for you and also his sound advice if you’re not so into handstands and inversions.

Follow him on Instagram here: @regieahmad

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses, in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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We’re honored and thrilled to have Cash on the show with the topic he brought to the blanket fort: the black experience. We stand for black lives and the disestablishment of institutions and systems that undermine the well-being and success of black individuals and the black community. In just one little way of using our podcast as a platform for this movement, we are glad to host humans like Cash to deliver on what we are all moving toward. And ESPECIALLY Cash because this guy is a thoughtful, influential, and great speaker!

Cash is a social media influencer and digital content creator and of course, because it’s our yoga-loving show, a yogi! Follow him at @cashgotwings on Insta and here on his YouTube channel!

Please share Cash’s words with anyone you know so that the listening we are all standing for is hooked onto whom its intended for.

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses, in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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At a time when many of us have collectively “come out” as actively anti-racist and strive to listen to the black community, we are more than happy to offer up our platform as another access to hearing black voices. This episode comes to you from Raven Brown, a POC from Denver, also queer, and also a yoga teacher. While those identities lend perspective to her teachings and her learnings, the soul within speaks directly to you, listeners, with the important message of utilizing the practice and teaching of yoga in our lives. And especially in the presence of the Black Lives Matters movement and all that is happening in our world.

Please share her words with anyone you know so that the listening we are all standing for is hooked onto whom its intended for.

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses, in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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A short meditation is the way to go if you’re feeling pressed for time and tempted not to sit in meditation at all today. Janan makes the daunting task of meditation easy, simple, and effective as she has trained extensively in Baptiste Yoga meditation techniques! Tune in for 6 minutes and be with yourself in a way that’ll effect the rest of your day in a great way.

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses, in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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Spend 15 minutes of your day quieting down and tuning in deeply as Maria guides you through a mental practice of Love and Kindness — in Spanish! So many guided meditations exist in English, so now if you or someone else is a Spanish speaker, you can save this meditation to listen to again and again. If you like the ability to meditate using the Spanish language, tell us and we’ll make some more!

Maria is a 500-hr trained yoga instructor with extensive training in meditation. You’ll be left in a peaceful experience after practice with her for 15 minutes. Disfruta!

Dedica 15 minutos al día aquietando tu mente y prestando atención a medida que Maria te guía por una práctica mental de amor y compasión en español   Hay muchas meditaciones guiadas en Inglés, así que ahora si tú o alguien más habla Español, puedes grabar esta meditación para escucharla una y otra vez.  Si a ti te gusta la habilidad de meditar en Español, avísanos y grabaremos más.

María es una instructora de yoga con 500 horas de entrenamiento y ampliamente capacitada en meditación.  Tú te quedaras con una experiencia de paz después de practicar con ella por 15 minutos.  ¡Disfruta!

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses, in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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Many of you know this beautiful, wonderful human being: Sean Silvera @seantsilvera of Baptiste Power Yoga San Francisco! If you don’t, you’re about to!

Sean is a Tier 3 1200-hr certified Baptiste Yoga Influencer and co-owner of @baptistepoweryogasf. Years ago, he served as a Marine and eventually made his way into teaching yoga in his studio, to incarcerated veterans for Prison Yoga Project @prisonyogaproject , and is on the board for Veterans Yoga Project @veteransyogaproject . Together with Dan Nevins @dannevins, Sean runs a program called Unbreakable through the Baptiste Foundation @baptiste_foundation

Sean will move you AND motivate you to make a big difference in our world by doing something as simple as outreach.

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses, in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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How do you get a yoga bod? Do yoga! Mona Heep, fellow yoga teacher and first international BYOBlanket guest ninja, spends some time chatting about the importance of body movement and spending time in physical sensations to shift the mind and emotions. This is a great episode to reaffirm what us current yogis love about the practice and a perfect episode to share with someone whom has not yet experienced the empowerment of yogic body movement!

Mona teaches out to Cologne, Germany and nowadays, world-wide via Zoom.

Follow her on Instagram here: @monaheep and get clued into when you can take her classes virtually!

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses, in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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BIG Power Yoga co-owner, Out Here Yoga co-owner, and LIVE ALIVE Adventures co-owner Laura Rust blesses the mic with her sage words on utilizing the methodology of Baptiste Yoga. She is a leader in the Baptiste community and has facilitated we-don’t-know-how-many Baptiste programs, including both of our assisting courses back in the day! Laura is so clear in her explanation of how you can use Baptiste methodology powerfully during these quarantine times–and really, anytime! This is #whybaptisteyoga makes a difference for us and why we teach it and practice it.

Follow her on Instagram here, along with all her brands: @laurarust @bigpoweryoga @bigpoweryogadenver @outhereyoga @livealiveadventures

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses, in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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Wow, BOTH Sarah Montross and Gioconda Parker, each returning guests, are together on this episode about the complementary practices of “form” and “flow” yoga. This conversation is incredibly insightful and will leave you wanting more–we sure did! They have almost half a century of combined yoga teaching experience, so please enjoy this absolute gift of an episode about the differences+similarities between a form-based and flow-based practice and what that means for yoga in general.

They are two parts of the three part core faculty that will lead BIG Power Yoga’s 300-hour yoga teacher training program starting in August this year (you may remember past guest, Nancy Perry–she’s the third part!)…. the BIG Upgrade! If you live anywhere close to the Houston area, we can’t recommend this training enough!!

Follow them on Instagram here: @sarah_montross_yoga and @giocondayoga

Check out Sarah’s website and Gioconda’s website!

By the way, if you want season 3 swag including coasters, stickers, and more, do something very easy (easier than most yoga poses in our opinion): become an official #blanketninja. How?

Go here: Patreon

You’ll support the show, get cool BYOBlanket swag, and access to patron-only episodes! Also, follow us IG at @byoblanket and be in the conversation with us. Happy listening!

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