Practice You with Elena Brower

On ritualizing your practice, developing your interior world, and measuring up for joy, with Abbie Galvin, author of 'Home Practice' and founder of The Studio.

Abbie Galvin is the owner of The Studio, a NYC based yoga studio, teaching Katonah Yoga. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student-base from all around the world. Abbie's instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best self.

Length: 45:44 Timecodes:

0:45 Home Practice Book. Ritualizing your home practice, gaining insight.

4:40 Abbie's home practice and time management.

6:05 Longevity practice. As you get older, your interior life expands.

8:38 The interior shift of mind to the body's intelligence.

9:08 Cocooning yourself in your own breath. Being kind to yourself and using ritual to elevate your experience.

10:02 Grounded being practice as an antidote to the doing culture.

11:20 Ties between the interior organs and the peripheral.

13:07 Kidneys as battery.

14:24 Practical details for setting up a home practice.

16:52 Creating a community of shared public space, with mats facing each other.

18:35 Why there is no Shavasana at the end of a Katonah class.

20:40 Middle of the practice.

23:15 Readings from the Home Practice book.

24:43 Time knows everything. It is through time that you become yourself.

27:45 What you're doing in the silence of the postures to heal yourself.

30:31 Fluency practice.

31:45 Longevity practice.

33:27 Staying with yourself.

34:05 Magic Square on the palm of the hand.

37:10 Nature's intelligence is seen through its' patterns. There is a technique for joy.

38:34 What needs healing right now.

39:45 Favorite view.

42:50 Prayer as a capacity to be with yourself.

The Studio Come of age by Stephen Jenkinson Katonah Yoga Home Practice Book

A home practice addresses the vision and virtue of personal health, wellbeing and long life. A home practice is a commitment to self-care, a ritualized modus operandi for one's participation in a technical integration of mind, body and breath. Engaging in a home practice is a way of addressing the manner in which one personally organizes one's self; developing a determined life, setting goals and following through. Our home practice book will guide you through developing your own home practice.

Practical wisdom for separation and divorce; shifting internal narratives, prioritizing positives, taking the high road, and the importance of the long view.

Length: 43:20 Timecodes:

0:43 Holding a state of being Better Apart by separating with the five pillars: Patience, Clarity, Respect, Peace and Forgiveness.

2:35 How divorce attorneys responded to the book.

5:35 Gabrielle's work as a divorce attorney, and her experience of her own parents' divorce.

7:40 Creating a safe environment within yourself.

9:10 Seeking help if someone is unable or afraid to leave.

10:58 Shifting your internal narrative.

12:45 Finding a counsellor or meditator to set up interim living situations.

13:44 Patience. Slowest is fastest.

17:32 Clarity. Asking for precisely what you need. Acknowledging what you brought to the table.

24:36 Peace. Reconstructing your separation/divorce as a sanctuary of possibility. Peace as a practice. Creating a mantra for yourself.

30:52 Respect for yourself and others. Creating stronger boundaries. Spending more time with things that you happy.

36:46 Forgiveness as a gift to yourself. Recognizing your own humaneness. From contraction to expansion. Acknowledging the reason you came to this person in the first place.

41:25 Masterclass based on the five pillars.

https://gabriellehartley.com/

On the life-changing art of doing less, appreciating more, and savoring the cyclical nature of your life.

As an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and mother, Kate Northrup has built a multimedia digital empire with her husband, Mike Watts, that reaches hundreds of thousands globally. They are committed to supporting ambitious women to light up the world without burning themselves out in the process. Kate teaches data-driven and soul-driven time and energy management practices that result in saving time, making more money, and experiencing less stress. Kate has a membership of over 1,000 entrepreneurs called Origin® Collective that's about infusing more feminine energy into your business and reclaiming your time, and she has also helped over 5,000 students heal their relationship with money with her signature Money Love Course. Her first book, Money: A Love Story, has been published in 5 languages, and her second book, Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms, is now available wherever books are sold. Kate's work has been featured by The Today Show, Yahoo! Finance, Women's Health, Glamour, The Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Wanderlust, The Huffington Post, and more. Kate lives with her husband and business partner, Mike, and their daughters in a cozy town in Maine.

Length: 45:56 Timecodes:

0:44 Money a Love Story

2:33 Do Less Self-worth and how we interact with commodities such as time and money.

8:32 The only way to create a new system is to be it.

9.25 Knowing which actions are the 20% that will yield 80% of your results.

10:43 How motherhood can help us care less about what others think.

11:30 Identifying and prioritizing actions that lead to your biggest wins.

15:24 On the cyclical nature of things. Using the four predictable energy phrases, to honor how you feel and organize your time.

23:07 On trusting that your body is your home.

Assignment: Think about someone with whom you have felt deeply at home. Describe in detail. Consider that you could potentially feel that way within your own body.

27:12 Menopause, Adolescence in reverse. The Wisdom of Menopause by Dr. Christiane Northrup.

28:46 Reverse engineer your schedule to reflect your core values. Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu.

33:13 Receiving help. Making it a practice. Asking in advance.

35:20 Simplifying.

37:25 Identifying energy leaks.

40:46 Magic of sleep.

42:14 What needs healing. Prioritizing pleasure.

43:11 Favorite View.

44:20 Prayer as trust.

https://katenorthrup.com/

Artist and meditation teacher Gemma Gambee Lewis on the work that helps us share the most primary inner state, and taking meditation into our actions in the world.

Gemma Lewis is a meditation and spiritual teacher nurturing the integration between the spirit and the mind. After a 20-year career in international fashion modeling, trend forecasting, and brand building, Gemma is most at home when sitting in meditation and teaching what this practice has generously given. She classically trained for more than two decades in the traditions of Yoga, Bhakti, the Vedas, Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism. When she is not meditating, she's wrapped up in other creative pursuits like drawing, painting and deep-diving brand strategy work in the fashion, art, design, and film industries.

https://www.gemmagambee.com/

Co-Founder of Flavorpill and EVRYMAN Sascha Lewis on creating community, leadership, the experiential evolution of what it means to be a man, and becoming full-spectrum humans.

Length: 59:30 Timecodes:

1:25 Yoga on the Great Lawn. Flavorpill. Reggie Watts. Buddy Wakefield.

5:00 Yoga at MoMA. Pipilotti Rist exhibit. Michael Rothman. Art of Yoga at the Guggenheim.

8:48 How can culture be more accessible? Quiet Mornings at MoMA.

10:58 Evryman organisation. Dan Doty. Men from all walks of life. Permission to be raw and emotional.

21:17 Men's work at highschool, prisons, military. Aaron Blaine.

24:53 Me Too movement. How are we going to evolve? Men learn by doing and experiencing.

30:55 Committing more time to family. We yearn for presence. Full spectrum human.

32:57 Difficult moments. Slowing down. The power of knowing that we're heard.

33:50 Creating the container for this work. It's a practice.

35:25 Co-ed groups. Wanderlust Wellspring. Beautiful displays of humanity.

37.00 Collective healing journey. Evolution.

37:49 World War II. Trauma. Fathers.

40:33 Critical work. Meaningful connections. Change is in our hands.

42:58 Unravelling micro-traumas. How are you really feeling?

45:20 Men are leaning in. All denominations. Support and accountability.

47:54 Self-worth. Work statements. What is your edge?

51:53 Favorite view.

53:56 Prayer as a sense of reverence.

57:27 Men's Emotional Leadership Training (MELT). Esther Perel.

Evryman organisation

Men's Emotional Leadership Training (MELT)

Wanderlust Wellspring

Yoga at MoMA

On prioritizing the behaviors that lead to awakening. On the kindnesses, and the softening. On breathing as physiological healing.

Length: 58:29 Timecodes:

0:45 One simple thing. Overcoming the divided self. Our untapped potential.

2:54 Hierarchies in yoga. The unknown. Yoga is a practice of knowing who you are. Listening so we know what to do.

6:52 Reading Siddhartha at 15. Who am I? What am I doing here? What do I do next? Self-referral.

9:35 Being established in your awareness.

10:28 Listening and prioritizing.

12:42 Eight limbs of yoga as responsibilities. Spontaneous behavior of an awakened person.

17:20 Distracted mind is not a bad thing.

18:00 The energy that is watching.

20:25 Reorganization of the brain and yoga poses.

24:24 Eddie's daily practice.

24:52 Breath as the easiest way to move inwards. Resonance Breathing. Nostril Breathing. The Breathing App

35:06 Strengthening and balancing the nervous system.

40:21 It is actually hard to be kind and peaceful. Why we need these practices.

41:55 The Vagus Nerve and heart health/ inflammation/ emotion. Vagal Tone, the smooth flow of current to/from the brain and gut. Dr Stephen Porges Physiological basis for transcendence. Posture, Breathing, Vocalization and Behaviour.

52:44 Inflammation.

53:13 Favorite view.

53:44 What Prayer means to Eddie. Invitation.

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Dr Stephen Porges The Breathing App https://eddiestern.com One Simple Thing Episode 14, referencing some of our discussion The Breathing App (it's free and brilliant)

Gabrielle Bernstein is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Universe Has Your Back and has written five additional bestsellers. She was featured on Oprah's SuperSoul Sunday as a "next-generation thought leader," and The Oprah Winfrey Network chose Gabby to be part of the "SuperSoul 100," a group of 100 people whose vision and life's work are bringing a higher level of consciousness to the world. The New York Times identified her as "a new role model." Gabby appears regularly as an expert on The Dr. Oz Show and co-hosted the Guinness World Record largest guided meditation with Deepak Chopra. Her seventh book, Super Attractor, comes out in September 2019. For more on her work, visit gabbybernstein.com.

Length: 34:15 Timecodes:

1:34 How Gabby inspired Elena during her recovery. May Cause Miracles book

4:00 Reframing. Re-aligning. Allowing rock bottom to be the place where the light enters.

5:50 If it isn't real, it can't be shared.

7:03 Being authentic and vulnerable, but also knowing when not to be.

9:28 The Universe Has Your Back. To teach is to learn.

10:29 Addiction Recovery. Spirit Junkie How this book helped Elena to feel comfortable talking about Spirit.

12:37 Judgment Detox

14:01 Small steps can get you to where you need to be.

14:40 What inspired Gabrielle to create Spirit Junkie Masterclass. Yogi Bhajan: "I am not here to create disciples, i'm here to create teachers."

18:30 When you earn abundantly for the work that you do, you can make an even bigger impact on the world.

19:45 Remembering that your healing is your message and your teaching.

20:17 Marketing as a way to provide help where there is a need.

21:45 How to be abundant doing the work you feel called to do.

23:43 How Gabby holds space as a teacher. Knowing how to open to the light, while also having boundaries.

28:16 Postpartum anxiety. Importance of seeking help. Postpartum Support International . The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook

32:00 Gabby's favorite view.

32:50 Prayer as conscious contact with a higher power of your own understanding.

May Cause Miracles by Gabrielle Bernstein The Universe Has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein Spirit Junkie by Gabrielle Bernstein Judgment Detox by Gabrielle Bernstein Postpartum Support International The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook Learn about Spirit Junkie Masterclass

On refining our inner dialogue, personal integrity, transparency in relationships and parenting, letting your shortcomings be funny, and navigating the space between conditional and unconditional love.

Lauren Handel Zander is the Co-Founder and Chairwoman of Handel Group®, an international corporate consulting and life coaching company. Her coaching methodology, The Handel Method®, is taught in over 35 universities and institutes of learning around the world, including MIT, Stanford Graduate School of Business, NYU, and the New York City Public School System. Lauren is also the creator of inner.u: Learn to Human BetterⓇ , the online coaching course that teaches the entirety of The Handel Method, which has been used by dozens of celebrities, CEOs, and entrepreneurs since 2004, and she is the author of Maybe It’s You (Published by Hachette Book Group, April 2017), a no-nonsense, practical manual that helps readers figure out not just what they want out of life, but how to actually get there. She has spent over 20 years coaching thousands of private and corporate clients, including executives at Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Vogue, BASF, and AOL. Lauren has been a featured expert in The New York Times, BBC, Forbes, Women’s Health, Dr. Oz, and Marie Claire and she is a regular contributor to Businessweek and the Huffington Post.

Learn to Human Better with my coach and dear friend Lauren Zander.
Register for a lifetime subscription to Lauren's online coaching course, Inner.U.
Find a special course discount for $75 off AND an offer for a complimentary coaching consultation at handelgroup.com/elenabrower.

Your Inner.U subscription includes: 12 audio coaching sessions from Lauren Zander, 1 free private coaching session with an HG coach, 14 homework assignments, and the interactive Promise Tracker to accelerate your accountability and track your promises and consequences.

Learn to Human Better with my coach and dear friend Lauren Zander. Register for a lifetime subscription to Lauren's online coaching course, Inner.U. Find a special course discount for $75 off AND an offer for a complimentary coaching consultation at handelgroup.com/elenabrower.

Your Inner.U subscription includes: 12 audio coaching sessions from Lauren Zander, 1 free private coaching session with an HG coach, 14 homework assignments, and the interactive Promise Tracker to accelerate your accountability and track your promises and consequences.

On the web: HGLife.Coach
Facebook.com/HGLifeCoaching
On Instagram @handelgroup

Length: 53:09
Timecodes:

0:45
Introduction to Lauren Zander and The Handel Group

3:38
Habits and inner dialogue.

7:00
Lauren teaches personal integrity (keeping promises to yourself) and transparency.

9:30
Make a promise. Make it public. Be held accountable and pay a consequence.

11:30
Having integrity with anything you consider a vice, because it can get in the way of your vision.

12:40
Relationships: Maybe it’s You Bodegas and what each person is accountable for.

17:23
Know the truth of the division of labor in a relationship. How do we operate brilliantly together?

22:10
On not trying to change your partner.

24:45
Difference between conditional and unconditional love.

33:35
Parent Letter exercise and how it can restore unconditional love.

37:45
Asking your child at the end of the day, “what could i have done better?”

40:25
On being allowed to tell the truth and to make mistakes. The importance of saying sorry.

41:13
Inner.U course Having a sense of humour about what’s dark. Making new promises as a relationship grows.

46:07
What Prayer means to Lauren. Connecting to the subconscious and imprinting dreams.
Neville Goddard. On imagination being God.

47:40
The Commune course with Lauren . Jeff Krasno (founder of Commune and co-founder of Wanderlust
Scott Schwenk

Learn to human better with Commune
Commune courses
Maybe It’s You by Lauren Zander (https://amzn.to/2EOZMHc)
The Power of Imagination. The Neville Goddard Treasury

On Nature as musical instrument, pauses as assets, honouring the elders, everyday ceremony. Includes a bonus track of Ram Dass x East Forest.

Derived from the German translation of his last name, East Forest (aka Trevor Oswalt) creates a hypnotizing brand of music for old souls that blends achingly emotional wordlessness, ambience and contemporary classical touches with a touch of pop sensibilities and electronic flavors. Based in Boulder Utah, Oswalt performs internationally and is armed with a live show that is continually evolving; sometimes performing solo, sometimes with a string section, and often with theatrical elements and cinematic projections. With experiences offering music in a hospice, as well as backpacking explorations throughout the wilderness of the world including the Amazonian jungle searching for spiritual answers, his music is a connected journey that's been dubbed "a revelatory excursion in sound" (Under The Gun) that invites listeners to "go on a journey of self discovery" (Earmilk). He's been featured on NPR's Second Stage and Tiny Desk Contest, and shared the stage with artists ranging from Trevor Hall to Crystal Bowersox (Amer. Idol), Bluetech to Moby. His 2016 collaboration with MC YOGI, Ritual Mystical, went #1 iTunes Electronic, #8 Billboard Dance and #2 Billboard New Age.

EAST FOREST's newest release, "RAM DASS" is a full length album releasing in collaboration with the acclaimed spiritual teacher. In June 2018, East Forest was invited to Maui to record brand new teachings from Ram Dass. After capturing these words of wisdom East Forest returned to his studio to compose the soundtrack to beautifully support each songs' subject. Covering topics such as dark thoughts, nature, the soul and so much more, these songs are full of inspiration. The album will release in four "chapters" throughout 2019, culminating in a full length release on August 9, 2019. Trevor Hall and grammy nominated artist, Krishna Das are among the featured artists who make guest appearances on the 14-track album.

1:45 How Trevor began making music to recreate the feeling of infiniteness from experiences with Psilocybin.

10:35 Recognising plants and fungi as tools that are there for us.

12:19 Work with Ram Dass on album

13:52 Maharajji Neem Karoli Baba. Ram Dass. Krishna Dass.

15:25 Chapter 2, Your Guru. Ram Dass. Relevant teachings. Love everyone. Tell the truth.

17:38 What it was like recording with Ram Dass. The Spiritual Whitehouse. No one is on the outside.

22:28 The importance of witnessing and honoring the elders.

25:59 Ram Dass' Trust and Devotion. Loving awareness.

28:16 Live concert as an opportunity for ceremony. Planting seeds in people's consciousness.

31:10 Building bridges. Making things attainable for anyone.

33:55 Forgiving himself. Being ok with it all. Ease. Maybe there's really nothing to do. Being conscious is enough.

35:55 It's all sacred. It's all prayer.

38:15 Meditation courses scored by East Forest.

38:47 I am loving Awareness track closes out the podcast.

eastforest.org Cultivating Spiritual Intelligence Audio Meditation Course Art of Attention Audio Meditation Course

On Nature as musical instrument, pauses as assets, honouring the elders, everyday ceremony. Includes a bonus track of Ram Dass x East Forest.

Derived from the German translation of his last name, East Forest (aka Trevor Oswalt) creates a hypnotizing brand of music for old souls that blends achingly emotional wordlessness, ambience and contemporary classical touches with a touch of pop sensibilities and electronic flavors. Based in Boulder Utah, Oswalt performs internationally and is armed with a live show that is continually evolving; sometimes performing solo, sometimes with a string section, and often with theatrical elements and cinematic projections. With experiences offering music in a hospice, as well as backpacking explorations throughout the wilderness of the world including the Amazonian jungle searching for spiritual answers, his music is a connected journey that's been dubbed "a revelatory excursion in sound" (Under The Gun) that invites listeners to "go on a journey of self discovery" (Earmilk). He's been featured on NPR's Second Stage and Tiny Desk Contest, and shared the stage with artists ranging from Trevor Hall to Crystal Bowersox (Amer. Idol), Bluetech to Moby. His 2016 collaboration with MC YOGI, Ritual Mystical, went #1 iTunes Electronic, #8 Billboard Dance and #2 Billboard New Age.

EAST FOREST's newest release, "RAM DASS" is a full length album releasing in collaboration with the acclaimed spiritual teacher. In June 2018, East Forest was invited to Maui to record brand new teachings from Ram Dass. After capturing these words of wisdom East Forest returned to his studio to compose the soundtrack to beautifully support each songs’ subject. Covering topics such as dark thoughts, nature, the soul and so much more, these songs are full of inspiration. The album will release in four “chapters” throughout 2019, culminating in a full length release on August 9, 2019. Trevor Hall and grammy nominated artist, Krishna Das are among the featured artists who make guest appearances on the 14-track album.

Length: 48:48
Timecodes:

1:45
How Trevor began making music to recreate the feeling of infiniteness from experiences with Psilocybin.

10:35
Recognising plants and fungi as tools that are there for us.

12:19
Work with Ram Dass on album

13:52
Maharajji Neem Karoli Baba. Ram Dass. Krishna Dass.

15:25
Chapter 2, Your Guru. Ram Dass. Relevant teachings. Love everyone. Tell the truth.

17:38
What it was like recording with Ram Dass. The Spiritual Whitehouse. No one is on the outside.

22:28
The importance of witnessing and honoring the elders.

25:59
Ram Dass’ Trust and Devotion. Loving awareness.

28:16
Live concert as an opportunity for ceremony. Planting seeds in people’s consciousness.

31:10
Building bridges. Making things attainable for anyone.

33:55
Forgiving himself. Being ok with it all.
Ease. Maybe there’s really nothing to do. Being conscious is enough.

35:55
It’s all sacred. It’s all prayer.

38:15
Meditation courses scored by East Forest.

38:47
I am loving Awareness track closes out the podcast.

eastforest.org
Cultivating Spiritual Intelligence Audio Meditation Course
Art of Attention Audio Meditation Course