Laugh with the Three Monkeys as we recap our first full year of podcasting! We chatter about some of our favorite episodes and guests, our plans for the future and of course, topics for 2025!

This was originally our Podcast + Wine episode, but two monkeys showed up sans vino, so only one got tipsy (just kidding, no monkeys were harmed during the recording of this podcast!).

Join us while we crack ourselves up and hopefully share some laughs with you too! 

Welcome to our penultimate episode of 2024, focusing on setting intentions!

Michelle, our curious monkey starts us off with a summary of her mentor Lorin Beller's Intention Wheel practice. We discuss setting goals or making resolutions versus creating intentions and how intentions can be touchstones for making decisions throughout the whole year, helping us to meet goals.

Amy reviews her recent inspirational phrases (such as "Simply Relentless" and "Live Fearlessly Motivated") and how they impacted her years, how she's feeling now, and what might be in store next! Lara might actually be able to convince her to start a practice of meditation and yoga!

We chatter about how the last few months of the year can set the tone for your next year's goals and plans, and why mindset is so important!

After this episode, our last 2024 show will be a fun recap (with wine, so who knows what will happen), then we'll be sharing our intentions in the new year, so stay tuned! 

Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys!

Join the Three Monkeys as we discuss “Letting Go”, what that means to each of us, and how we deal with the Three Ring Circus that most people deal with in their everyday lives.

For some, letting go is releasing control of things we can’t control. For others it’s not sweating the small stuff.
It could mean allowing past regrets or actions to stay in the past, in others words focus forward!  It’s different each we go down many rabbit holes! Enjoy the performance!

Now that we're fully immersed in the holiday season, our thoughts have turned to perfectionism and how it can impact our lives!

While holiday planning and events can certainly bring out the perfection princess in many of us, we also examine how the appearance (many times false) of perfection can affect us. We chatter about Jamie Lee Curtis, Instagram-worthy pics, and the idea of the perfect life, training program, or meal prep. The monkeys examine practice and progress over perfection. We touch on the idea of how always striving to be perfect can lead to setting unhealthy and unachievable goals.

Join us to hear our takes on all this and more. And guess how many times this copy was edited to make it perfect! 🙂

Welcome to November, the unofficial start of the Holiday Season, or wait, is it? Does the season seem to begin earlier every year? Doesn't it feel like we're being reminded about the impending hustle and bustle even before Halloween?

Join the monkeys as we discuss it all in our Holiday Survival episode. We talk about the various pressures we all feel, how we cope, and what we've learned over the years (what is a Saran Wrap ball you say?).  And we offer tips and tricks that may even work for you! Set an intention to listen, learn, and have the most chill holiday season ever!

Listen as the three chimps chat about all the training, courses, and workshops we've taken or experienced over the years! What we find valuable, what we like or don't like in a course, and what we think makes a great workshop!

We get off track on the subject of learning, teaching, and our various abilities to retain information! 

And guess what? Focus and Deep Work come right back into the convo!  Guess our Yoga monkey is going to finally have to finish that book!

The monkeys chatter about their various experiences with Retreats (or lack of as it turns out for Amy!).

We laugh about our first group retreat to Belize that actually wasn't (listen to hear all about it...), the trips we did take and loved and what makes a retreat great.

Shout outs to Lorin Beller Retreats and Yoga In Unique Places! Let us know where our next retreat should take us!

Listen as the monkeys discuss some of their faves when it comes to listening and reading, and yes, audiobooks count as reading! We gab about some of the podcasts we have listened to and loved, or are currently following.

Each monkey shares their favorite books list and we discover how our differences make us such a good trio! We cover classics and current titles, fiction and nonfiction, books on breathing, sleeping, eating, and more!

This is a lighthearted, fun look into our different personalities and what makes us each tick, and we hope you take home a few suggestions of new reading and listening material.

Join the Monkeys as we chatter about the concept and book Deep Work (by Cal Newport).

Deep work is a state of peak concentration that lets you learn hard things and create quality work quickly.

Our various personalities shine through as we see who can focus and who finds it challenging!

Can you guess which monkey finishes the book and which one of us can’t even get through the preface?

Listen as the monkeys jump into this very broad subject matter, inspired by the book Breath by James Nestor.

Begin with an entry level breathing meditation led by Yoga Monkey Lara, then jump into the book's premise and some of its most interesting theories. How significant is mouth or nose breathing to our health? Can the way you breathe change your life? Have you heard of mouth taping, Nadi breathing, breathwork, or the Wim Hof method?

These are just a few of the items that pop up as we let our monkey minds jump from topic to topic!