Curious Ones By Yandara

This week we have the inspiring Yogrishi Vishvketu on the podcast speaking about how the yogic path can help us live in alignment in all aspects of life and how to make the most aligned decisions. He and our host, Yael Ginzburg, also spoke about how to maintain a consistent practice, the purpose of the Guru- disciple relationship and more.

Yogrishi Vishvketu is a Yoga teacher trainer who has studied and practiced Yoga for more than 40 years, training more than 5,000 yoga teachers around the world. He has authored two books, founded Anand Prakash Yoga Ashram and Akhanda Yoga Institute in Rishikesh, Shree Jungle Ashram Yoga Retreat in the foothills of the Himalayas, Haldi Rani, a Turmeric company sourced from local farming communities in fair trade, and a school for 300 underserved children in India.

Anand Prakash Yoga Ashram’s website

Akhanda Yoga Institute’s Instagram @akhandayoga_institute

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Ed Ankowiak, resident therapist at Yandara, has been studying and practicing Traditional Medical therapies, especially from Asia, for 25 years. His areas of specialization include Acupuncture/Moxabustion, Manual Therapies, the interface between Martial Arts and Medicine.

This week Ed and our host Yael Ginzburg spoke about learning from the physical, more obvious, about the more subtle layers of experience. The practical lessons we can learn from the therapies he has studied include- Learning how to breath through the survival responses of fight, flight or freeze to respond in an intentional way, setting boundaries and detecting the tension that accumulates in the body from emotional and physical trauma. This allows us to diagnose physical symptoms in order to understand the subtle layers of experience and then healing.

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Living in the western world brings us many challenges. The Ego is tempting and the cultural norms lead us on a path that cherishes material wealth and outward appearances. Ultimately this way of being leads many people to suffering.

This week the wonderful Jacqueline Michelle and Govind Das spoke with our host Yael Ginzburg about a different path. The path of Yoga. The path of living with the divine at the center of our lives. Simply redefining success can lead us to understand that wealth is not material.

The yoga path can create space between the divine and the ego while using the ego to serve the heart and embrace our humanity.

They also spoke about cultivating our personal practice and a community in order to sustain our connection during day-to-day life, raising children in a spiritual family and more.

Govind Das and Jacqueline are husband and wife yoga teachers and wonderful kirtan artist from California, where they own a studio named Bhakti Yoga Shala.

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Bhakti Yoga Shala’s Instagram @bhaktiyogashala

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Sridhar Silberfein, entrepreneur and event producer, is the founder of Bhakti Fest- a world renowned festival for spirituality that has hosted world class teachers, artists, and thought leaders, including Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, Krishna Das, Radhanath Swami, and many more. He has studied Hatha Yoga, philosophy, and kirtan with Swami Satchidananda and others.

In this conversation with our host Yael Ginzburg, Sridhar speaks about the time needed for dreams to develop and manifest, the lightness of success and failure, not letting others discourage us from doing what we want, the importance of having a foundation of unconditional love and spirituality, his relationship with Guru Ama, and more.

Join their next retreat at Yandara this coming November!

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This week our host Yael Ginzburg speaks with Lopon Tashi, a Buddhist monk from Bhutan, who is the director of the Enlightenment Stupa and community center project in Baja, MX. Tashi completed nine years of studies of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy at the Shechen Monastery in Nepal where he recieved his Lopon degree and lived for 17 years.

In this episode you will learn-

The Enlightenment Stupa’s website

The Enlightenment Stupa’s Instagram @enlightenmentstupa.bcs

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Nina Jaeger first came to Yandara at the age of 48 to participate in the 200 hour ytt. It is here on the beach that she realized that her calling was to bring yoga to the 50+ community.

In this episode Nina and our host Yael Ginzburg speak about the beauty of practicing yoga later in life.

They also spoke about giving over our wishes and trusting that the right things will show up, the way we are able to influence those around us by simply showing up, listening to what is right for us in each moment, being able to say no and more.

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In the third episode with Christopher Perkins, co-founder and lead teacher of the Yandara Yoga Institute, he and our host Yael Ginzburg unpack a topic that is an important pillar of the yogic philosophy and our way of finding clarity in order to live in peace- the Kleshas. The Kleshas are the different causes of suffering in the human experience. By becoming aware of these obstructions we are able to recognize the moments of misperception that arise and choose our response accordingly.

They also speak about an integral part of the Yandara teacher training which is the Vision quest-

There are a few different layers to learning. There is learning that comes from information that we are given from teachers, and there is learning that we receive from finding enough silence to allow the knowledge to arise from within.

Here they present a practice that is meant to allow wisdom to arise.

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This episode, with the sweet Chelsea Winters, is a gentle reminder to follow our hearts. After completing her yoga teacher training at Yandara, Chelsea, who was working as a real estate agent in Colorado, realized the way she was living was unsustainable. In a brave move, she decided to choose the scary, more aligned path for her, and open a yoga studio.

Chelsea and our host Yael Ginzburg speak about finding the courage to change directions no matter what field your in, intentionally choosing where to invest our energy, letting authenticity lead the way, redefining success, and more.

Chelsea is the owner and founder of Anahata Yoga & Wellness studio in Colorado. She is a yoga teacher, reiki practitioner and enjoys all aspects of meditation, breath and Kundalini yoga.

Chelsea’s website

Anahata Studio’s Instagram @anahatayogaco

Chelsea’s Instagram @chelseawintersyoga

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In Hindu philosophy it is said that the Universe was created by Shiva, unmanifested consciousness and Shakti, manifested consciousness. In our reality we can find many, if not all aspects of life follow this same balance.

This week our host Yael Ginzburg speaks with Solana Prema and Rama Torres about the masculine and feminine aspects that we each have within us and especially within the structure of relationship.

There is a dance between taking time for ourselves to work on our inner world and working on the togetherness of relationship. Breaking out of the mold of what a man or woman ‘should be’ and letting our intention dictate our actions allows for conscious relating. Relating with each other while recognizing the line between compromising and staying true to ourselves. Also, recognizing the difference between facts and opinions. This allows us to bring the philosophies of yoga and conscious being into all aspects of life.

We also spoke about how to navigate a partnership where the partners are on different places on the path of inquiry.

Solana Prema Torres is a yoga and meditation teacher, breathwork facilitator, marriage and family therapist and holistic psychotherapist and coach.

Rama Torres is a yoga and meditation teacher, breathwork facilitator and conscious filmmaker.

Solana Prema’s Instagram @solana.108

Rama’s Instagram @rama.sutra

Solana Prema & Rama’s website pranicflowyoga.com

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This week on the podcast we are going deeper into the energetic world.

Our wonderful guest, Allison Eaton, who is an international teacher of yoga, Reiki and meditation, training teachers for many years, speaks with our host Yael Ginzburg, about the more subtle aspects of consciousness and life.

They speak about channeling, Reiki, accessing the Akashic records, how to develop energetic abilities, in what ways can we connect to them to receive guidance, learning to differentiate between the information we receive, evolving and developing our intuition and more.

Allison’s website

Allison’s Instagram @allisonclaireeaton

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