In this episode, Kat and Christy interview Lauren Aune, Enneagram 4 regarding shame. Shame often tries to convince us we are not enough, but in this episode Kat, Christy and Lauren talk about their own respective journeys to overcome shame. Lauren completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training program at Southern Soul Yoga in Chattanooga, TN in 2018. This life-changing experience led her to teach yoga and dedicate herself as a lifelong student of yoga, Ayurveda and Bhakti. Lauren is proudly sober for nearly three years and has a passion for supporting women in recovery. She empowers women to find purpose and deeper meaning in their life through sobriety. Off my mat she is a mother to an amazing daughter and enjoys spending time in nature, having soulful conversations, building community, gardening, writing, reading, listening to inspiring podcasts and living with intention and purpose. She currently facilitates creative clusters and leads women through “The Artist Way” process. She is also the co-founder of a private community for women in recovery called “The Healing Hive." If you would like more information about the Artist Way process or Healing with the Hive, she can be found on Instagram @LaurenAune, @joyfulbodyyoga, or @healing.with.the.hive. You can also connect with her on Facebook via Lauren Aune or email her a [email protected].

On this episode of Enneagram+Yoga, Kat and Christy interview Katharine Howe Toledano. We talk with Katharine about being an Enneagram 7, her recent yoga school experience and speak with her about the strengths and fallabilities of all 9 types as yoga teachers. You don't have to be a yoga teacher to listen, because the gifts and struggles of each type will likely relate to your experience in your respective job. Rev. Katharine Toledano is a spiritual seeker, yogi, journeydancer and a Type 7 enneagram enthusiast. After starting her career as an architect, Katharine attended Yale Divinity School and became an ordained minister. She worked at Erlanger Hospital for six years as a chaplain for the oncology unit and later for Women and Children. She trained at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health to become a JourneyDance Guide and leads transformational movement classes in Chattanooga. Most recently, she has nearly completed 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Chattanooga Yoga School. She currently leads the open-minded, inclusive and caring congregation at Pilgrim Congregational Church, UCC in downtown Chattanooga.

http://www.pilgrim-church.com.

Katharine has two grown daughters and lives with her husband, three cats and one new puppy in North Chattanooga. For more information on JourneyDance Home | JourneyDance

or email Katharine at [email protected]

During this episode we feature a representative for each Enneagram number to share beloved gifts they have received and holiday gift ideas for each of the 9 types. Type 5: Dr. Jerry Wagner is a psychologist and Enneagram coach. He is also the author of the Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles: an Introductory Guide; the Wagner Enneagram Personality Style Scales (WEPSS); and Two Windows on the Self: the Enneagram and the Myers-Brigg. Jerry offers wonderful workshops and trainings and you can find more information about him at http://enneagramspectrum.com. Type 6: Chrislyn Choo is an Emmy winning diasporic storyteller and certified Enneagram coach. Chrislyn will support you in healing from ancestral trauma and help you cultivate strong roots as you adventure through the changing seasons of your story. If you would like to book a session with Chrislyn please contact her at: https://www.chrislynchoo.com/contact Type 7: Kevin Smith- He is the husband of Enneagram+Yoga co-host, Kat Smith. He was a guest during Season one of Enneagram+Yoga. Type 8: Brittany Williams has a master's degree in marriage and family therapy. She teaches yoga at Yoga Landing and the Sportsbarn. She also teaches private yoga classes that can be booked at https://www.yogalanding.net/. Type 9: Tracy Carlson teaches yoga at Yoga Landing & the Sportsbarn. www.sportsbarn.net. www.yogalanding.net Type 1: Enneagram+Yoga co-host, Kat Smith. https://www.theyogasmith.com/ Type 2: Enneagram+Yoga co-host, Christy Bonner. https://www.mindbodyandspiritcare.com. Type 3: Andrew Fisher- He is the husband of Enneagram+Yoga co-host, Christy Bonner. Type 4: Billy Doidge Kilgore writes for the Washington Post, Good Men Project, Scary Mom and other online publications. Check out some of his work at: https://muckrack.com/billy-doidge-kilgore/articles

In this episode, Kat and Christy interview Susan R, Latta LMFT, FT, who is a Marriage and Family Therapist. She has a Fellow in Thanatology (the study of death and dying). Susan is an Enneagram 2 and during this interview we talk to Susan about ways that each of the 9 types deal with grief. As we look at how each of the 9 types grieve, we are not just looking at grief as exclusively death. We can grieve in a plethora of ways, such as in the midst of a move, divorce or job loss. Susan has worked in several private practices, a psychiatric hospital and most recently spent 19 years as the Director of Grief services with a local hospice in Chattanooga. She brings a wealth of knowledge in the world of death and dying and has a passion for teaching as well as working with individuals and groups that have had a significant death in their life. Susan is from California where most of her family continues to reside and loves to visit family and the Pacific Ocean when she is able to do so. Susan has a private practice in Chattanooga.  She can be reached at 423-362-1094 or [email protected].

Today Kat and Christy interview,

Saffron Baggallay, all the way from South Africa about the Somatic Enneagram! She is an Enneagram 7 and is an internationally acclaimed narrative Enneagram coach. The Enneagram explains how our behaviors and personality manifest in our bodies. In this episode on the Somatic Enneagram, we explore how the Enneagram informs our embodied awareness. Listen until the end for a body scan meditation that will help you practice tuning into the body and paying attention to it. Our guest for this episode, Saffron, has an Honors degree in Sociology and Theology from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland (1998), and a MADA degree from WITS, in South Africa (2006). As well as being a human behaviour expert, Saffron is a veteran keynote speaker, facilitator & coach and has assisted thousands of corporate & coaching clients grow leadership communities inside their organisations by developing themselves through personal mastery. Her focus is on teaching people how to build self-trust and self-respect, which are fundamental skills in modern business. Saffron has developed a unique personal mastery-based approach, which she offers both online and offline. Please visit www.saffronbaggallay.co.za to sign up for a class!

Kat and I were so privileged to interview, Jessica Jollie, who has been practicing and studying the many facets of yoga for over 25 years. For close to a decade, she has poured her heart and soul into the studio, school and community, Yoga Landing. She is an E-RYT 500-hour registered Yoga Alliance teacher and a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist. She guides classes, workshops, private therapy sessions, retreats, and teacher trainings and is passionate about helping others. She wholeheartedly supports any form or perspective that awakens clarity, strengthens and heals the body and energizes the spirit. Jessica also has a master's degree in counseling. Check out www.yogalanding.net or www.jessicajollie.com

In this episode, Kat and Christy interview Dr. Beth Capecchi about the Enneagram and the Five Love Languages. Dr. Capecchi has a private practice called Grounded Counseling and is the host of the Never Perfect Podcast. Beth completed her undergraduate and master’s degrees at Vanderbilt University and her doctoral degree at the University of Tennessee. She worked with the college population at University Counseling Centers for 5 years and then returned to Chattanooga, where she was born and raised. Since returning to Chattanooga 17 years ago, she and her husband, Remo, have had 3 children and she has been working in private practice.

Beth enjoys working with adolescents and adults on a variety of issues, including relationship issues, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, family issues, grief, addiction issues, family of origin issues, trauma work, identity work, and other issues.

Beth’s greatest interests, apart from spending time with people, of course, include art, yoga, sports, food, holistic medicine, religious and philosophical discussions (NOT politics), watching her kids sports activities, farmers markets, decorating, antiquing and thrift store shopping. During this episode we talk about each Enneagram number and explore if there is a particular love language each Enneatype is more likely to have. Every episode ends with a short meditation.

On this episode of Enneagram+ Yoga Kat and Christy Interview, Anthony Prince. Anthony is a musician, a yogi, wellness coach and mindfulness teacher. An athlete most of his life, he first fell in love with yoga in 2014, but after taking a powerful yin yoga class on a bright New Year’s Day in 2016, he realized there was more to it than the physical aspects. From then on, Anthony knew he needed to become a teacher and in 2020, as the world transformed, he received his CYT-200hr Yoga certification from Tough Love Yoga in Atlanta, GA. Through several years of self-development as an artist on the road, Anthony learned the importance of self-growth through self-love and compassion and incorporates these ideals in every aspect of his teaching.

Since starting his journey through yoga, Anthony has made it his soul’s purpose to commit himself to the service of others by providing wellness coaching through the lens of yoga as a foundation to uplift the spirit, encourage radical self-expression, address unaddressed trauma, and to create a new sense of balance in personal well-being.

If you are interested is doing some private yoga classes with Anthony contact him at

[email protected]

or on Instagram Ig @ mindfulrhythmwellness

In this episode Kat and Christy interview, Brittany Young. Brittany is an educator, certified yoga instructor and practitioner, blogger, and lover of all things enneagram. Recently she and her sister started a lifestyle and faith-based blog together centered around habits of mindful living.

In fact, Brittany first learned about the enneagram from her sister! It took her about 2 years to settle on her number, but now she is quite sure she is (and always has been) an enneagram 9. Check out: www.annieandaudrey.com These are some of the questions we asked Brittany you may want to reflect on: 1) Enneagram 9's tend to avoid conflict. Is this true for you and if so how are you working on being more assertive, even if it is uncomfortable?

2) Like Enneagram 2's, 9's can struggle with boundaries and saying no and speaking up more for their own needs and wishes. What are some ways the Enneagram has helped you work on boundaries?

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The deadly passion of the Enneagram 9 is sloth. Sloth is not only complacency, but also the tendency of 9's to not fully engage with life, their desires or even their vocational pursuits. How does sloth show up in your life?

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The arrow of health for an Enneagram 9 is the Enneagram 3. What is a yoga pose that helps you feel more energized and confident, like a healthy 3? 5) What parts of you is the Enneagram helping to heal or even awaken?

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Enneagram 9's are in the Anger triad of the Enneagram, but they tend to disown and repress their anger and it can come out in more passive ways. Is this true for you and if so, how are you working on owning and feeling your anger and communicating it in healthier ways? 7) Comfort and harmony can be very important to a 9. Are they for you? If so, how do you create them in your own life?

8) As an enneagram 9, do you often feel misunderstood? If yes, in what way(s)?

9) Just like 2’s, 9’s have strong desire to have relationships. Is that true for you? What relationships have been the most challenging and/or rewarding?

10) What are some mindfulness tools that are your go to for recharging and decompressing? In short, what is your self care protocol?

11) What myths about enneagram 9 would you like to shatter?

12) 9’s tend to be homebodies. Is it true for you? Is it the same with your yoga practice? Do you prefer a home practice over one in the studio?

In this interview we spend time exploring the Enneagram & Yoga with Michelle Dunn-Loveless. She is a recovering rebel with an outlaw spirit, your typical Enneagram 8 who lived life in the fast lane and has been cultivating growth towards her inner two since the birth of her darling daughters. This passion to leave an imprint on the world led Michelle into teaching where she taught in the public schools for over ten years. A life-long learner and educator, Michelle earned her masters in education, a 200-hour yoga certification, and most recently a 500-hour certification specializing in Kundalini Yoga. She teaches paddle board yoga with Outshine Adventures, Yin + Meditation and Kundalini Yoga at Yoga landing. Not only does Michelle teach, she and her wife own Outshine Adventures: Eco Tours + Travel to inspire others to adventure differently.  Full-time, Michelle works as an educator at a local nonprofit that removes barriers to birth control by providing education, outreach, and access to free birth control - proving to the world she can do it all! Here are some of the questions we asked Michelle of you want to spend time meditating on them. 1) What does being bold mean to you?

2) How challenging is it to let your walls down? 3)

Do you resist being vulnerable because vulnerability equals weakness?

4) Oftentimes, passion and intensity of 8’s is wrongly perceived as aggressive and controlling. How do you deal with this misconception, especially as a woman?

5) Advocacy, fairness, honesty, authenticity are just few things that are very important to an 8. What area of life would you like to leave the most impact in?

6) Oftentimes, 8’s struggle with asking for help. When was the last time you asked for help? What was it for? How did it make you feel?

7) Sometimes 8’s struggle with showing emotion out of fear of being weak. When was the last time you got really emotional? What was it about? 8) Enneagram 8s struggle with vulnerability. What are some emotions that you wish you had expressed to others in the past, but have been too afraid to?

9)Enneagram 8's are known for loving the intensity of a good argument and like a 1 they can be prone to black and white thinking when they argue. Is this true for you and if so how do you tone down the intensity in an argument and also the need to be right?

10) The arrow of growth for the Enneagram 8 is the two and so 8's benefit from softening their hearts. What yoga pose opens up your heart and moves you from being a bear to a teddy bear?

11) The deadly passion of the Enneagram 8 is lust. This lust is necessarily sexual and can most often be defined as a lust for power and control. How has the Enneagram helped you to let go of power and control and be more collaborative?

12) The needed childhood message of the 8 is you will be protected or you will not be betrayed. Were either if those messages ones you could have heard more of as a child or even as an adult?