Untapped Power: Insights and Wisdom for Collective Transformation in the Yoga Community

In today's episode I share my thoughts and emotions behind choosing to take a permanent pause from the podcast and from my business. 

I appreciate you being here in this space for listening and for being a part of this community and I look forward to connecting with you again sometime in the future. 

For right now I am taking a pause from social media so feel free to reach out directly with any questions via email @ [email protected]

Thank you for sharing time and space with me it has been an honor and a gift.  

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In today's episode we explore the practice of self care.  How can we incorporate it into our everyday and allow it to be manageable?   Exploring how self care requires discipline, routine and self awareness.

Highlights from the episode:

• How self care be sabotaging 
• Awareness to your financial connection to self care
• Self care as a form of distraction or disconnection
• Simple ways to achieve self awareness: mediation, stillness, gratitude, journaling, time in nature
• Finding ways to connect for 5, 10 or 15 minutes a day 

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Natalie Bedard is  a resilient single mother and founder of Lift OneSelf, guiding others towards self-discovery. Natalies transformative journey is filled with profound mindfulness and self-awareness through the exploration of actionable steps towards unlocking your true potential.

Together in this episode we share:

• Natalie’s journey through personal transformation over the past 10 years
• A guided meditation for grounding the nervous system
• How to have radical honesty with the self
• Handling trauma in the nervous system
• The importance of having safety with self
• The practice of engaging with the self 
• Practices to bring the body back online
• Our relationship to power and attention 
• How we can fall asleep to life and tools to wake ourselves up
• Relationship to the ego and the importance of befriending it
• Wisdom that arises through personal experiences
• Natalie’s untapped Power of listening

To connect with Natalie on facebook at liftoneself or instagram @liftoneself.

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On today's episode we break down the power in our own lessons learned and why our own personal experiences are worth revisiting. 

Highlights from the episode: 

• Revisiting your own experiences even the challenging ones
• Important questions to ask yourself:  What could I have done differently?  Where had I expected I different outcome than what I received?
• Selling and marketing of your own experiences 
• Creating more self awareness

Reach out and let us know how this episode resonated with you!  

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Ann Swanson is the author of the internationally bestselling book SCIENCE OF YOGA, which has been translated into over 15 languages. Her new book, Meditation for the Real World, illuminates the fascinating science behind meditation with step-by-step practices to help you find peace in everyday life.

In this episode we breakdown:

• Background coming into book writing and the science of yoga
• New Book: Meditation for the Real World
• Different meditation practices and tools 
• Using meditation for spaces of transition 
• Gratitude practices and the practice of Kindness
• Exploring the negativity bias
• Challenges of meditation for people 
• Power in one minute meditations and finding glimmers in each day
• Finding time to meditate and to create discipline in the practices
• Creating a mediation practice for life Changes and challenges
• The importance of leading by example and meditation techniques for yoga teachers
• Breakdown of Ann’s new book to make meditation adaptable and mangeable 
• Ann’s vision forward for herself and the book
• Untapped power - intuition

Give Ann a follow @scienceof.yoga

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In today's episode we break down 5 keys to confidence in your finances to empower yourself and your relationship to your money. 

Highlights Include:

• Building confidence within yourself 
• Putting the decision making into your own hands 
• Knowing and practicing your values
• Defining clearly your yes and no 
• Having integrity and transparency
• Personal Discernment
• Knowing your worth beyond a number 

Interesting in discussing more let's chat for an introductory call

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In today's episode I sit down with Rachel Friedman, MSW, ERYT 500, YACEP, founded the Somatic Coach School, Beyond The Yoga Mat, and Soma Power Yoga where she helps people learn how to elevate their lives through the power of yoga and somatics. She also supports yoga facilitators, therapists, coaches, and healers to integrate somatic skills into their practice and build a conscious-based business to provide life-changing results for their clients.

Together we discuss:

• Rachel's personal story from traditional therapist into somatic therapy
• Owning a Yoga studio three times and what she has learned
• What to look for in a business partnership and the importance of highlighting your own strengths, weaknesses and work ethic
• Benefit of learning basic business skills for owning a yoga studio 
• Rachel’s number one tool for creating a profitable yoga studio is community 
• Transition into somatic work and how it is different from traditional therapy
• Understanding why we are so disconnected from our bodies
• Learning to process emotions and orient oneself
• Importance of pausing and having reflection
• Finding a coach that is the right fit for you- what to look for 
• Untapped Power of our Sensitivity 

Rachel believes our bodies hold the wisdom and medicine we need to heal and live an incredible human experience — one where we learn to feel all emotions.  You can find her on instagram @rachelbfriedman.

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Welcome Back to Season 7 of Untapped Power, we will be breaking down what is in store for Season 7:

• Always do your best and let your best be good enough
• Embracing change
• Striking balance between work and family
• Staying true and aligned to your values 
• Relationship to discipline 

Excited to be back with you and bringing you some exciting guests.  

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Today's episode provides you with a breakdown of Season 6 reviewing the exciting guests we have had on the show along with a series of engaging solo episodes.

Inviting you to tune back in to any of the episodes that you missed.

We will be taking a short break and will be returning with Season 7 in March, until then I invite you to stay connected.

Join the Self Awareness Collective ~ Next Call happening on February 21st at 7EST! 

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In today's episode I sit down with Tejal Patel (she/they)  a first-generation Indian American yoga teacher, writer, podcaster, and community organizer. Tejal’s aim is to educate and empower individuals and groups around the world to practice yoga holistically and through a social justice equity lens.

We explore: 

• Tejal's background Story & beginning Yoga Teacher training in 2012
• Seeking community through South Asian Teachers
• Practicing Yoga through a lens of advocacy, belonging and equity
• Integrating Social Justice into the Yoga Practices
• Understanding the barriers to the yoga practice for people
• Exploring accessible and pricing 
• Integrating authenticity and capitalism 
• How to find a balance with keeping integrity in the practices and making a living
• Using strategic planning and flexibility to forecast what is possible and the power in exploring your numbers 
• Inviting in the idea of Mutual Aid for people that have more to give
• Exploring the overwhelm that can come from bringing social justice into the yoga practices 
• Inviting in the uncomfortable and owning your own self awareness
• Finding a process system when you feel like you have done enough and how to find resources to move yourself forward 
• Starting to broaden your scope and expand your perspective
• The power in continuing to try, learn and grow
• “Both” and “and” can exist together  - expanding your network of receiving information 
• Asking the question of what you think the practice of yoga is?
• Exploring where you get information and if diversity exists
• Untapped power of connecting and being a connector to increase our sense of belonging 

Tejal can be found decolonizing wellness with the revolutionary Tejal Yoga Online, a primarily South Asian teacher-led yoga space, with the abcdyogi interactive community, an online hub for healing and learning, and through the Yoga is Dead podcast, e-book, and signature cultural appropriation training.

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