#PracticeWithClara Podcast

Welcome to the #PracticewithClara podcast where Clara and Stephanie unpack philosophy and all things related to yoga. This week’s theme was Earth, where we talked about the benefits of committing yourself to something, healing through your history, and the exist being as important as the entrance with the yoga poses.

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0:47  - A 30-Opportunities Yoga Challenge

Features and benefits of the 30-Opportunities Yoga Challenge with the #PracticeWithClara Team.

5:10 - Benefits of Committing Yourself to Something

Definition of Sadhana and the importance of creating a daily practice and committing yourself to something.

6:53 - Balancing Summer Fire with Earth

Balancing the fire and heat of summer with the Earth element.

7:33 - How to Enter and Exit Yoga Poses Safely

Clara deconstructs how to come out of Wheel Pose (Urdhva Dhanurasana), Shoulder Stand (Salamba Sarvangasana), and Headstand (Sirsasana) to protect the neck.

12:20 - The Exit Being as Important as the Entrance

Why we slow down and try to become more aware of how we move through the yoga postures as well as events in our day-to-day.

18:00 - Grounding to Endure Difficult Experiences

Clara talks about her process and ability to endure while she was in labor with Karmen.

22:55 - Healing Through Your History

The Importance of identifying your roots, our ancestors, and all those who sought the practice and asked the bigger questions before us.

29:14 - What We Choose to Preserve and Pass On

Clara talks about the qualities and gifts her parents instilled n her as a child, and what’s important to her to pass on to Karmen.

Rob Brezsny’s, The Shadow School, delves into the darker side of ourselves to learn more about what it means to be human and accept who we are.

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Welcome to the #PracticewithClara podcast where Clara and Stephanie unpack philosophy and all things related to yoga. This week’s theme was community, where we talked about our teachers, sources of inspiration, and how to stay connected as a global community at this time.

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Welcome to the #PracticewithClara podcast where Clara and Stephanie unpack philosophy and all things related to yoga. 

This week’s theme is creativity where we discussed the importance of collaboration and tools to build your creative process.

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Welcome to the #PracticeWithClara Podcast where Clara and Stephanie share their unique perspectives on philosophy, yoga, and how to run a business as a yoga instructor. Today’s discussion focused on the power of routine with japa mala, the effect of mudra, and the significance of 108.

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2:05 - Japa Mala How-To

The traditional way to take japa mala.

5:50 - Prayer vs. Bling Beads

The significance of having separate prayer beads for japa mala and mala you wear.

8:50 - How to Count Cycles of Mantra

Demonstration of the two ways to count cycles of mantra keeping track of the number using your hands.

10:58 - The Significance of 108

Why the number 108 has such spiritual and numerical significance.

13:21 - The Power of Repetition

How chanting or repetitive movement for a period of time creates the space to transform you.

17:22 - How Mudra Affects the Energy Body

Using mudras to create a particular mood in the body and instigate change.

21:08 - Offer for Frontline Workers

We’d love to offer 3-free months on the #PracticeWithClara site to all frontline workers at this time.

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Welcome to the #PracticeWithClara Podcast where Clara and Stephanie share their unique perspectives on philosophy, yoga, and how to run a business as a yoga instructor. Today’s discussion focused on mantra, including the how, when and why to include in class; lineage and authenticity; and the shift in energy through vibration and sound.

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2:04 - Mantra for Saraswati

Chant for Saraswati, the muse of creation, and goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and speech.

6:42 - Offering Mantra to Students

How to offer mantra to students with a few book recommendations to guide your process.

11:48 - Mantra as an Anchor

Starting class with mantra to anchor your class and ground for students, and yourself.

15:52 - Unique Ways to Offer Mantra

How mantra can be taught through two styles, melody or metronome, to invite others to join.

17:30 - Sanskrit in Yoga classes

The recipe to create by placing pure intention into the sound to shift and transform through the quality and expression of the mantra.

The vibration we feel in mantra to express our collective energy and remind us of our shared experience.

30:36 - How to Set Positive Affirmations

Selecting words in any language you prefer to create positive affirmations to focus the mind.

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Welcome to the #PracticeWithClara Podcast where Clara and Stephanie share their unique perspectives on philosophy, yoga, and how to run a business as a yoga instructor. Today’s discussion focused on Tantric Philosophy and the creative feminine energy of Shakti, modes of expression, yoga alchemy, and reintegration after self-isolating.

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2:27 - Tantric Philosophy

Creative feminine energy expressed in the universe as Shakti and how to awaken the creative force within.

4:40 - Goddess of Expression

Embracing Saraswati, Goddess for creative expression and communication.

7:18 - Yoga Alchemy

We are the alchemists of our own experience, understanding the power of inner transformation in shifting how we feel.

10:04 - Modes of Expression

Shifting how you feel through exploring different modes of expression through physical activity, art, and verbal communication strategies.

17:58 - Return to the Heart

Creating balance within between the masculine and feminine energies to give space to come back to the heart where we’re able to acknowledge and express ourselves.

27:16 - Questions for Expression

What will you take with you, as you reintegrate post-social-distancing, and what is asking to be expressed right now?

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Welcome to the #PracticeWithClara Podcast where Clara and Stephanie share their unique perspectives on philosophy, yoga, and how to run a business as a yoga instructor. Today’s discussion focused on Vishudha- the throat chakra- and its relationship to expressing vulnerability, Vinyasa Yoga, and the value of yoga events, workshops, and advanced training for students.

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1:37 - Meditation for the throat chakra

Meditation and breath to stimulate, Vishuddha, the throat chakra, with Brahmeri Breath.

5:03 - Vulnerability and the throat chakra

How to connect to your voice and express your inner vulnerability.

6:49 - Pranayama for spring allergies

Khapalabhati breathing to ignite the inner fires and clear any stagnation or spring allergies.

9:54 - Why Vinyasa Yoga?

How Clara came to Vinyasa Yoga, where she studied and who she practiced with, as she established her seat as a teacher.

14:15 - Cultivating a home practice

How to cultivate a home practice of yoga that may lead you off your mat.

15:50 - Empowering students to take the practice home

Why the goal of yoga teachers is to work themselves out of a job.

18:59 - Benefits of a YTT if you don’t have a desire to teach

The benefits of taking yoga teacher training for yogis who may not wish to teach and the opportunities that may present themselves as a result.

24:07 - Yoga off the mat

What our practice looks like currently with social distancing, on and off the yoga mat.

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Welcome to the #PracticeWithClara Podcast where Clara and Stephanie share their unique perspectives on philosophy, yoga, and how to run a business as a yoga instructor. Today’s discussion focused on YogaTeacher Training programs, Clara’s key learnings and takeaways, the influence of Yoga Alliance, how to foster intimacy with students, creating sacred space as a facilitator, and the effect of COVID in shifting training to online platforms.

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4:17 - Why to Lead Smaller Groups

The benefit of leading smaller groups in YTT to create intimacy and build relationships.

7:22 - What’s Involved in Clara’s 300-hour YTT

Clara shares the history of her 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training program, from inception to present.

8:12 - How Clara Frames Her 200 and 300 Teaching Programs

Clara breaks-down the difference between the 200-hour and 300-hour YTT programs.

11:00 - What is Yoga Alliance?

Introducing Yoga Alliance, the governing body of yoga, and the costs and benefits.

14:40 - Questions to Consider Before Leading a Training

What to sit with as a teacher, if you’re contemplating hosting a yoga workshop and/or training.

16:20 - The Importance of Continued Learning

The benefit to teachers who continue to take workshops and yoga training.

18:02 - Clara’s Takeaways Leading YTT

Two of Clara’s key learnings hosting her 200 and 300-hour YTT programs over the years.

22:16 - Co-Creating Sacred Space

How to hold space for students and be a bomb facilitator at your training.

26:27 - Online Learning

How yoga schools and teachers are pushing online learning with COVID.

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Welcome to the #PracticeWithClara Podcast where Clara and Stephanie share their unique perspectives on philosophy, yoga, and how to run a business as a yoga instructor. Today’s discussion focused on motherhood, Clara’s process in asking for help and exploring vulnerability as a new mother, how to honour your inner truth, Durga’s origin story in providing one with courage, and how to access the unstuck heart, Anahata chakra.

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4:04 - Durga’s Presence in Clara’s Truth

How Clara harnesses the power of Durga in honouring her process and inner truth.

6:19 - Asking for Help and Expressing Vulnerability

How to ask for help from your community and surrender to what simply is at that moment.

11:15 - Connecting to Your Inner Warrior

How Clara is channeling Durga at this time to honour her transition into motherhood.

13:37 - The Unstruck Heart

Anahata, the heart chakra, and what the unstruck means in relationship to accessing our inner vulnerability.

14:42 - Durga’s Birth Story

Clara shares Durga’s origin story and how the powerful female Goddess is a representation of surrender and courage.

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Welcome to the #PracticeWithClara Podcast where Clara and Stephanie share their unique perspectives on philosophy, yoga, and how to run a business as a yoga instructor.

Today’s discussion delved into Clara’s favorite philosophy books, with Tantric, Indian, and Buddhist teachings, we touched on Ayurvedic Medicine, and how to balance the subtle body.

1:28 - Clara’s top Philosophy & Poetry Recommendations

18:16 - How to Create Harmony with Ayurveda

19:34 - What to do to balance VATA energy

22:12 - What to do to balance PITTA energy

24:04 - What to do to balance KAPHA energy

32:32 - How to Harness the Power of Durga  

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