By Melissa Carroll
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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.
How can you show up online and share in these difficult times, when we're more connected than ever before? If you're a Yoga Teacher, Wellness Practitioner, Healer, or Creative Soul who wants to connect online, it can be daunting to feel like what you offer is trivial. Yet our contributions matter. Stories, poems, art, music, meditation, spirituality: these things uplift us, nourish us, and help us remember our shared humanity.
I'd say that's damn important in times like these.
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This episode also includes poetry by the brilliant Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, as well as the AMAZING contemporary poet Ellen Bass.
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If you're a yoga teacher, wellness practitioner, or creative of any kind then you don't want to miss this interview with Fi Simler! Fi is a Trauma-Mindful Business Coach & Social Media Marketing Expert who helps wellness pros grow their business in a way that feels really, really good.
We cover the 3 Biggest Fears entrepreneurs face when showing up online and how to remedy these common struggles, including the Fear of Being Seen and the Fear of Being Vulnerable. Fi offers practical, actionable tips to get you inspired, so you may want to take notes!
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Instead of New Years Resolutions, what if we centered our days on this question: "What am I devoted to?" This episode of The Yoga Writer Podcast explores devotion as a way of being and the Hindu myth of Hanuman as a symbol of devotion. We look at how Hanuman's leap of faith in the Ramayana echoes our own leap of faith in living with great uncertainty.
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Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, follow, rate & review. Today we explore the myth, magic, & history of the Winter Solstice, with 7 Rituals for you to honor this Yin time of year on December 21st.
RECEIVE THE SOLSTICE SPECIAL (good for a limited time)
Winter Solstice Guided Meditation on YouTube
Nadi Shodhana (Channel Cleansing Breath / Alternate Nostril Pranayama)
The secret of manifesting that goes beyond The Secret (and why cliche manifestation practices don't work), Soul Contracts, past lives, the Akashic Records...this conversation with modern mystic Amy Dascola covers the cosmic gamut! Amy brings these mystical teachings down to earth.
Sign Up for Amy's FREE 2-Day Workshop to Clear Your Energy and Align with Your Soul's Purpose
Join Melissa Carroll on 10/21 for a FREE Guided Meditation, Journaling & Shadow Workshop to Break through Your Unconscious Blocks
Or JOIN BOTH of us for our 10/25 Workshop: ReWriting Your Soul Story!
American Book Award Winner Ira Sukrungruang is the author of four nonfiction books, including his latest memoir This Jade World, from University of Nebraska Press. This inspiring conversation was true medicine for my soul -- and I hope it is for you, too. We discuss love and loss through divorce, Ira's time as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, the nature of desire and how to determine if your wants are even your own (or if they are society's), confronting oneself in meditation and on the page as a writer, the power of vulnerability, and so much more.
Book Reading for This Jade World by Ira Sukrungruang on 9/24 at Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg, Florida
https://tombolobooks.com/events
Ira Sukrungruang's website: www.BuddhistBoy.com
Melissa Carroll's website: www.TheYogaWriter.com
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This week we explore the wisdom of poet Rainer Maria Rilke & how Rilke's quote on 'Living the Questions' parallels Patanjali's wisdom in the Yoga Sutras. Rilke writes:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“To live the questions” is radical. Bc how many of us do this? We really don’t, right?
Living the questions means that we can swim and float in the waters of uncertainty. And be ok with it.
Uncertainty isn’t typically a very comfortable place to be — and most of us run from discomfort, into the open arms of distractions, addictions, easy or cheap answers and reassurances.
“To live the questions” is to learn to be comfortable in discomfort.
Rilke is asking us to soften our very human desire to have it figured it out, bc it’s totally futile — we know we can’t know it all. The ancient yogis understood this relationship with the mystery as well.
Join the Patreon community to receive bonus episodes, exclusive videos on Yoga Philosophy, Guided Meditations, Access to Live Online Workshops, & more.
This week we explore the wisdom of poet Rainer Maria Rilke & how Rilke's quote on 'Living the Questions' parallels Patanjali's wisdom in the Yoga Sutras. Rilke writes:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“To live the questions” is radical. Bc how many of us do this? We really don’t, right?
Living the questions means that we can swim and float in the waters of uncertainty. And be ok with it.
Uncertainty isn’t typically a very comfortable place to be — and most of us run from discomfort, into the open arms of distractions, addictions, easy or cheap answers and reassurances.
“To live the questions” is to learn to be comfortable in discomfort.
Rilke is asking us to soften our very human desire to have it figured it out, bc it’s totally futile — we know we can’t know it all. The ancient yogis understood this relationship with the mystery as well.
If you want to manifest your dreams, you've gotta do the inner work first. This episode explores desire, conditioned beliefs, how to uncover your unconscious cravings, the Solar Eclipse as a potent portal for shadow integration, & more. Get instant access to the 2hr Workshop with Melissa Carroll & Psychic Medium Amy Dascola here: The 3 Sacred Keys, Your Shadow, Your Ego, Your Intuition.
You'll experience a guided a magical meditation, journaling, & potent release ritual to let go of the unconscious patterns that sabotage you.
Thank you for listening!
To learn more, visit www.TheYogaWriter.com
Let's connect on ye olde Instagram
If you want to manifest your dreams, you've gotta do the inner work first. This episode explores desire, conditioned beliefs, how to uncover your unconscious cravings, the Solar Eclipse as a potent portal for shadow integration, & more. To join Melissa Carroll & Psychic Medium Amy Dascola for the Solar Eclipse Event, The 3 Sacred Keys, learn more and sign up here.
You'll experience a guided a magical meditation, journaling, & release ritual to let go of the unconscious patterns that sabotage you. The Solar Eclipse is an auspicious moment for aligning with your higher wisdom and tuning into your intuition.
Thank you for listening!
To learn more, visit www.TheYogaWriter.com
Let's connect on ye olde Instagram
The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.