Freedom Becomes You with Julian Walker

Music for Tuesday 5:30pm Core & Flow live streams via Santa Monica Yoga. Join us: https://santamonicayoga.com/schedule

Mark's Book, Embodiment: Moving Beyond Mindfulness is out now —this is our chat about it!

Here's the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Embodiment-Moving-mindfulness-Mark-Walsh-ebook/dp/B081Y6SWY7/

Spend some time getting present with your body and breath, then explore this 3 step process:

Honoring The Journey

Receiving The Gifts

Witnessing The Suffering

This is Medicine from me to you with love,

Julian

Starting a new series on chakra psychology, an integrative mind body topic I have been fascinated with for 20 years and taught in depth workshops on for 10 years!

Caitlin is breaking new ground in New York City with her physical therapy informed approach to teaching yoga, movement, and supporting teachers with her "Crossfade" mentorship that really breaks down the anatomy and biomechanics of yoga postures and sequences to strive for beneficial teaching and practice. We had a really fun and thought provoking conversation, and she shared some of her background and the story that led her to be doing what she does now.

Learn more about her work here: https://www.caitlincasella.com/

I loved this conversation with Brooklyn Yoga teacher and teacher trainer, Markella Los. She shared her story, overcoming fear of public speaking, how martial arts led to yoga, and injury led to deepening her studies of anatomy, mobility and strength training, and how psychology informs her work building community and holding space.

This is a fun and thought-provoking conversation with a young man who can't help but synthesize his learning and teaching journey as a yogi and a chiropractor. We talked about yoga, chiropractic, anatomy and the importance of asking "why?"

I first became aware of Garrett because of his really well made short video tutorials on Instagram that explore yoga postures and sequences from clever and therapeutic anatomical angles. follow him there, and check out his website, its great: https://mindfulmvmnt.org/

Cecily Milne is the fascinating and innovative creator of Yoga Detour. I caught up with her this week to hear about her journey through being a dedicated ashtanga student and teacher who struggled with debilitating injuries, to come to the point now of offering teachers continuing education in a science and research informed approach to the moving body. I am delighted to be getting to know this new voice on the #yogarenaissance landscape!

I caught up again with the lovely Brea Johnson on everything she's been up to with creating her online studio, traveling the world offering workshops, the Move With Love challenge, and how her teaching keeps evolving as the #yogarenaissance rolls along..

She's such a generous communicator; open, non-dogmatic, curious, relaxed and humorous. We touched on the process of integrating new information, expanding our understanding and way of practicing, and appreciating the journey as it is...

This is a great listen for everyone, especially yoga teachers seeking to find their way and express their authentic vision.

I wanted to start off this years #YogaRenaissance interviews on Freedom Becomes You with a new friend I have been aware of via that hashtag and the #randomtalkingvideo community on Instagram.

Nazareth is funny, frank, and intelligent in her online presence, and is asking interesting questions about how we approach yoga practice and teaching today. How she has shared her journey of ongoing education and healing around pelvic floor pain has been inspirational to me.

I think Nazareth is embodying the essence of the yoga renaissance movement toward transparency, evolving based on new information, and cross-disciplinary curiosity in a beautiful and accessible way.

Please enjoy my conversation with her!

She teaches in Ephrata, Pennsylvania and you can find her on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/yoga_withnazareth/