Universally Seeking

Jewel High is a Certified Laughter Coach based in Dallas, TX who specializes in laughter therapy. Her mission is to improve lives and evoke the feeling of happiness by presenting the possibility of freedom through laughter. She believes it is our birthright to enjoy life, create, and receive all that our hearts desire. Jewel High is a wise, dynamic woman who has been healing people with her presence, guidance and laughter her whole life. Jewel High doesn't do laughter, she is laughter!

 

In this episode:

- A glimpse into Jewel's childhood, and how she used laughter to cope

- Hitting her breaking point at her corporate job

- Jewel’s serendipitous path to discovering laughter yoga

- What is Laughter Yoga? And how does it support our health?

- The history of laughter yoga

- How to discover your true essence

- Guided laughter experiments led by Jewel

Mama, teacher, author, speaker, and Double Diamond leader with doTERRA, my mentor Elena Brower has taught yoga and meditation since 1999.

Her first book, Art of Attention, has now been translated into six languages, and her second book, Practice You: A Journal, is now a bestseller from Sounds True. She's contributed to Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen and more.

Practice with Elena on Glo.com, listen to her globally-beloved Practice You Podcast at practiceyou.com, and find her calendar and blog at elenabrower.com

Want to refine your broadcast in mere minutes?

Stream her newly-released spoken word collaboration with Above & Beyond on Spotify here (https://spoti.fi/2lGsWBI)

 

Navigate the gems in this episode :

4:00 Defining femininity

6:00 How to deliver boundaries with grace

7:30 How to align what we want with who we are

9:40 Abandoning self-sabotaging behaviors

13:30 How to be magnetic in your life

14:50 Benefits of ‘Marie Kondo-ing’ your life

16:00 How to honor your personal environment

20:15 What to do when things feel overwhelming in your life

22:00 What’s distracting you, through the lens of the Yoga Sutras

23:00 The “grand misunderstanding” of protective behaviors

25:00 Using emotionality as a weapon to get what we want

26:15 What is equanimity?

28:30 Your wound is your gift

32:28 When it’s hard - don’t fall asleep.

36:00 How to honor loved ones who’ve passed

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the US age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population. (Source: ADAA)

In this episode, guest Ingrid Helander, LMFT and Author of 'Calm Your Worr...

Tool: 3 Simple Language Shifts for a more Intentional Life

Jai-Jagdeesh's journey as a singer began nearly 25 years ago, in a temple in India.

Spending her formative years in Northern India - and traveling as a musical representative for Yogi Bhajan's foreign education program - set the foundation for a deep devotion to the sacred texts of the Kundalini yoga tradition & the Sikh faith. Between then and now, her innovative spirit has walked many artistic paths: actress, classical Indian dancer, photographer, and writer. With music at the forefront, she is effervescently expressive.

Jai-Jagdeesh’s unique combination of sacred sounds and soulful authenticity continues to connect deeply with audiences as she records, tours, plays festivals, and gives vocal workshops around the world. Her debut album, 'I Am Thine', a combination of sacred mantras and powerful English lyrics, was released in the summer of 2011 to record sales and acclaim. Her second full-length studio album, 'Of Heaven & Earth', climbed up to #6 on Billboard's New Age Music chart within the first few weeks of its release. Her two Kundalini mantra meditation CDs, 'The Expansive Spirit' (2012) and 'Miracles Abound' (2015) are designed as practices, and are full of deep, transformative resonance.

With ‘Down Come The Walls,’ a groundbreaking new studio album released in May of 2018, Jai-Jagdeesh continues to inspire great courage in fans around the world, opening hearts and uplifting spirits everywhere she goes. To find her out on the road, visit the tour (https://www.jaijagdeesh.com/save-the-date) page.

 

FREE RESOURCE

Meditation to clear karmas from the arc line

Facebook Livestream led by Jai-Jagdeesh on this practice

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Find Jai-Jagdeesh on Tour! Visit https://www.jaijagdeesh.com (https://www.jaijagdeesh.com/)

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SHOW NOTES

7:30 What is Kundalini Yoga?

9:30 Authenticity as Service

11:40 Meditation as a daily cleansing practice, like a shower

12:50 What is a Kriya?

16:45 The impact of keeping a small daily commitment to yourself

20:40 The Buddhi mind

24:10 What was happening in Jai-Jagdeesh’s life when she began recording ‘Down Come the Walls’

26:00 Racial tension and the work of dismantling “other-ness”

38:15 The Three Minds – Positive, Negative, and Neutral

44:40 The “gap” between awareness and action

45:10 What does “bowing at the altar of the Self” mean? Why is that important? + Exploring societal guilt

47:45 Honoring the divine that lives within

48:30 The 10 light bodies

49:15 Karma, and where it is believed to be stored in the body

Orphaned in her early teens and shuttled between foster homes, Tatiana Forero Puerta found herself in her early twenties in New York City, suffering from PTSD and OCD, anorexic, self-harming, and suicidal. She says yoga was the tool which healed her scars, opened her soul to forgiveness, and allowed her to reconcile herself with a past that had threatened to snuff out her light and her life.

Tatiana is now a mama, writer, philosopher, and yoga teacher living in New York City. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, she is a graduate of Stanford, NYU, and Columbia universities. She has taught philosophy and yoga for a decade, including her post as an adjunct faculty member at New York University and the City University of New York. A columnist for New York Spirit, Park Slope Reader, and Elephant Journal, Tatiana is a recipient of the 2017 Pushcart Prize for poetry and a finalist for Blueshift Journal’s prize for writers of color.

Tatiana is also core faculty at Peaceful Generation Now, a NewYork-based mindfulness program focused on bringing mindfulness practices to educators and school administrators in the New York Tri-state area, with the hope of cultivating peaceful classrooms.

In our conversation, we discuss the deeper philosophy and roots of yoga and its application through personal examples of how our practice has led us to greater insights & understandings. We share perspectives on the difference between doing yoga vs. doing so with the aim of using the practice of yoga as a light to increase our capacity for healing and recognizing our true potential.

Stay tuned until the end of the episode to find out how to win a free copy of Tatiana’s book, Yoga for the Wounded Heart

Winner to be announced Monday 4/8/19 at 8pm CT

To contact Tatiana or attend a workshop near you, please visit her website:

http://yogaforthewoundedheart.com

My Story, my 'why', and what's in store for Season 2

Marissa Knox is a PhD candidate at University of Texas at Austin with a research focus in self-compassion. She is a trained Mindful Self-Compassion™ teacher, a program developed by Dr. Kristin Neff, Ph.D. who is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, being the first one to research, define and measure compassion over a decade ago.

Our conversation explores self-compassion, offering an approach you can use in your own life to meet yourself with kindness and understanding when confronted with personal failings or difficulties. We also discuss how this practice can impact all parts of your life, and help you spot the “treasures” being offered.

Marissa teaches yoga and meditation online, and on retreats. Join her online for a 2HR LIVE workshop on July 8, 2018, ‘The Path to Self-Compassion and An Open Heart’.

To learn more and to register for the live online event, visit http://themindoasis.org/class/rest-in-love-the-path-to-self-compassion-and-an-open-heart

To learn more about Marissa, including her upcoming retreat, visit marissa-knox.com

 

Resources mentioned in this interview:

‘The Gifts of Imperfection’ by Brené Brown

‘Wherever You Go, There You Are’ by Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘Autobiography in Five Short Chapters’ by Portia Nelson

Marissa Knox is a PhD candidate at University of Texas at Austin with a research focus in self-compassion. She is a trained Mindful Self-Compassion™ teacher, a program developed by Dr. Kristin Neff, Ph.D. who is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, being the first one to research, define and measure compassion over a decade ago.

Our conversation explores self-compassion, offering an approach you can use in your own life to meet yourself with kindness and understanding when confronted with personal failings or difficulties. We also discuss how this practice can impact all parts of your life, and help you spot the “treasures” being offered.

Marissa teaches yoga and meditation online, and on retreats. Join her online for a 2HR LIVE workshop on July 8, 2018, ‘The Path to Self-Compassion and An Open Heart’.

To learn more and to register for the live online event, visit http://themindoasis.org/class/rest-in-love-the-path-to-self-compassion-and-an-open-heart

To learn more about Marissa, including her upcoming retreat, visit marissa-knox.com

 

Resources mentioned in this interview:

‘The Gifts of Imperfection’ by Brené Brown

‘Wherever You Go, There You Are’ by Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘Autobiography in Five Short Chapters’ by Portia Nelson

Angie Knight has studied yoga, shamanism, and other healing arts for over 16 years, both nationally and internationally, but her main teacher has been her own practice, personal experiences, and life itself.  She considers herself a student of life and has learned to embrace what is happening in the moment as the ultimate guide to awakened living. For years, she has coached and supported others in transforming their pain into their power, trusting their own inner guidance and living an authentic life.

Angie shares some of those life experiences that awakened, transformed and led her to surrendering the “seeker” within.