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

In this episode I sit down with Lindsay Miller host of the Stress Nanny Podcast.  Lindsay coaches women and children on how to use mindfulness to live with more creativity, connection, confidence and calm.   

In this conversation we explore:

• What happens when the things don’t go as planned
• Learning to loosen the hold on the plan and focus on resilience
• Navigating the grief of pregnancy loss and finding the words to communicate as a family
• Learning to find the language to navigate grief with children
• Dealing with stress to increase resilience 
• Finding the tools to work with families and kids to support resilience
• Helping families with tools to deal with stress
• Finding the strengths of your family first and discovering if there are complimentary skill sets
• Looking at life like a puzzle and learning to overcome grief 
• Learning to accept and acknowledge what arrives in life unexpectedly 
• Adding structure and ease to the plan as an entrepreneur
• Discovering what feels in flow and moving forward in that direction 
• Moving towards what is resonate vs. going with the exact plan
• Learning to trust fully into the authentic self and seeing where the expertise is emerging 
• Making a pivot in your business based on what is in front of you vs. what you had planned for
• Finding the place of flow as a way of living
• Creating a course and testing the market as you go
• Marketing as a key part of course development
• Engaging in conversation to understand why things don’t work for certain people and not automatically thinking it is the financial piece 
• Coming back to authenticity 
• The power that resides in networking
• Developing reciprocal relationships and supporting each others work through our own unique skill sets
• Learning to value our time and our own financial needs
• Understanding how much it can be costing you to show up in certain spaces 
• Instead of feeling overwhelm make your next interaction a space where you own your value
• Benefits of having other people around you who are owning their value for support and accountability
• Personal untapped power of writing and the collective untapped power in regulating our nervous system through the tools of yoga

With her podcast, courses and coaching, Lindsay unlocks the potential in any situation and inspires clients to live life on purpose.  

Connect with Lindsay @thestressnanny or visit her website.

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To connect with Amanda follow her on Instagram @astrojny or visit amandastrojny.com and schedule your free connection call today.  

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In this episode I sit down with Eric Klein one of the few people on the planet to be both a best-selling leadership author and an ordained lineage holder in a 5,000 year old yoga tradition.  For the past 35 years, he was worked with over 25,000 people in a wide variety of corporate settings.   

We discuss:

• Eric's Journey into yoga at a young age and his classical awakening at the young age of 16
• No recipe for finding your purpose - we are all on our own time table
• How less options helped him to stay focused and how it can feel more challenging today to find your dharma 
• Shadow side of traditional structures only one way to do it 
• The different factors that draw us into the path 
• How there can be mixed motivations bringing us to the path 
• Finding a way to make money with yoga
• Learning how to integrate the yoga teachings with leadership
• Balance your soul - coming into harmony with your manifestations
• The gift of listening and asking questions
• Be Curious about what your heart is feeling fear around
• Challenges with only teaching yoga due to the current business model
• What it means to have an authentic business 
• Fierce honesty as part of the path
• How lying to yourself prevents you from getting the thing you desire most
• Tuning into our own wounds that need healing or callings that need to be filled
• Shifting from the external to internal
• How the astrological chart is a reflection of your souls needs
• Learning to trust your own BS Meter
• Learning to understand the part of you that is pulled when you are wounded
• Tapping into your own personal power - what do you know to be true
• Untapped Power of contentment through this moment of experience
• “ To rest in the completeness of this breath”

Eric’s book You are the Leader You’ve Been Waiting For: Enjoying High Performance and High Fulfillment at Work won a Nautilus Book Award as a world-changing book promoting positive social change and responsible leadership.

He currently has the following programs: What’s Calling You, The Meditation Habit, Healing Family Karma all offered trough Wisdom Heart .

Follow Eric's work on Instagram  or on Facebook 

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To connect with Amanda follow her on Instagram @astrojny or visit amandastrojny.com and schedule your free connection call today.  

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In this episode I break down personal discernment over judgement and why it matters so much.   

Breaking down:

- Personal Discernment and why it is so important
- Asking yourself what aligns with me and why? 
- Understanding your own decision making process
- One beneficial practice you can start today
- Connecting to Yoga and remembering to stay on your own mat
- Letting go of judgment
- Bringing the power back to the self through personal decision making
- Learning to take full responsibility for yourself and your decisions
- Trusting your Intuition and allowing it to awaken 

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In this week’s episode I sit down with Jennie Lee a Nautilus Book Award wining author of 3 books: Spark change: 108 provocative questions for Spiritual Evolution; True Yoga: Practicing with the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment; and Breathing Love: Mediation in Action.  She is a spiritual coach and certified yoga therapist who has counseled private clients for over 20 years. 

Together we explore:

• Jennie Lee’s multi layered journey through yoga for the past 25 years
• Inspiration for her books 
• The importance of having a personal practice as a yoga teacher
• Moving beyond the knowledge into the living of information
• Using the Yamas and Niyamas as a checklist to bring back balance
• Learning to have compassion with the self
• Importance of Self inquiry and self assessment from an honest perspective 
• Importance of experimenting enough for yourself to know you have found your right path
• Having a personal process for vetting teachers
• Deeper exploration into the word Guru and what it really means
• How to deal with fighting the world standard of positioning yourself as a subject matter expert
• Importance of not giving away your power
• Exploring your own values and how you live your values in all different contexts
• The collective and individual untapped power of love 

You can connect with Jennie at: https://www.jennieleeyogatherapy.com

https://www.facebook.com/JennieLeeYogaTherapy.StillnessInMotion
https://www.instagram.com/jennielee_author/?hl=en

Resilience & Intention Coaching Series:
 http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eillk6jl12c79bb3&llr=xvtt8ocab

Article on Gurus:
https://www.yogapedia.com/2/6720/lineage/guru/what-makes-a-true-guru

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https://www.untappedpower.net/

To connect with Amanda follow her on Instagram @astrojny or visit amandastrojny.com and schedule your free connection call today.  

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In this episode I break down the practice of cultivating self confidence and being seen for your most authentic self 

Breaking down:

-What it means to be truly confident in the self
- your relationship to being seen
- External validation and how it affects confidence
- Alignment of internal dialogue 
- Awareness to the self
- Questions to sit with for yourself:

• How do you take time to see yourself?  
• Are you patient and kind in your process of seeing yourself fully and completely?
• Do you like to be seen or do you prefer to hide?  
• What about yourself are you afraid to show or display to the world for fear of what others might think or say?  
• Where are you holding back from your most authentic self?

- Stepping into uncomfortable spaces 

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In this episode I sit down with Andrea Claassen an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, RYT 500 Hour Yoga Teacher and Wild Woman Circle Leader who has been in the wellness space since 2007.  Her mission is to help people slow down, tune in, and connect with themselves again. 

Together we explore:
 

•  Andrea’s personal journey through Yoga and fitness and how her burnout led to choosing herself and her business 
• The process for starting a business and saying yes to clients
• Transitioning from Personal Training into Ayurvedic
• How a Yoga Retreat and Yoga Teacher Training led into Ayurvedic studies 
• Creating a sense of balance through Ayurvedic
• Incorporating yoga and Ayurvedic with PT clients
• Varied approaches in marketing through the last 10 years
• The power in growing a business through word of mouth and locally making connections
• Mixing and matching approach to making business work
• Getting confident in trusting yourself
• The benefits of waiting for the right opportunities 
• Building connections and networking without attachment
• Benefits of referring clients 
• Process for new clients into Ayurvedic
• Different mindfulness techniques to slow down 
• Small practices for people to incorporate daily
• Coming into your own tipping point
• Becoming aware of habits and finding replacements
• Tuning in and listening
• Process of learning to trust yourself again and again 
• Releasing the strictness and rules around food and exercise 
• Awareness to the Seasons and connecting to body
• Andrea’s New Book - Divine Body Wisdom - Connecting seasons, lunar and menstrual cycles
• Understanding your menstrual cycle and incorporating supportive practices
• Learning for yourself and having your own personal experience
• Untapped power in slowing down and tuning in and discovering what is right for you

Andrea’s favorite place to be is wandering through the woods with her family.  You can connect with Andrea on her website at www.andreaclaasen.com or @sesaonallivingmamas.  Andrea also has her own podcast: Peaceful Power 

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To connect with Amanda follow her on Instagram @astrojny or visit amandastrojny.com and schedule your free connection call today.  

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In this week's Friday episode I share with you an unedited portion of our conversation from our live community call.   

We dived into the topic of inclusion and diversity in the Yoga Community and together we tackled some of the questions such as:

• Am I doing enough?
• Is my teaching inclusive of all people and how can I ensure that my classes welcome diversity?  
• Do I feel yoga is inclusive and is diversity present in my classes?  
• Am I aware of my own bias? 

We talk together about:

• Personal awareness
• Being welcoming of all
• Awareness to Personal Biases
• Integration into daily teaching 

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In this episode I sit down with Cara Griffin founder of Breath & Barefeet Yoga.   Cara has been teaching yoga since 2009 and her modern approach synthesizes numerous disciplines to adapt to individual and cultural needs.   Cara specializes in hip and pelvic mobility and offers 1:1 prescriptive performance training, group classes, programs, and retreats annually.   

Together we explore:

• Cara’s personally journey into yoga at the age of 15
• Learning to integrate different yoga lineages and releasing the all or nothing approach
• Accepting there are many paths forward in yoga
• Benefits from continuously  learning
• Personal Vulnerability and self exploration
• Aligning the body and mind to release subconscious pattering
• The gift of solitude and self compassion
• Perfection in the science of yoga and imperfection in the self
• Taking personal ownership and responsibility
• Letting go the need to be right or to save others
• Overcoming traditions set by culture
• Learning to trust your own process and to ask for what you need 
• Activism through Yoga and the Benefits
• Cara’s personal program: Free your Pelvis
• Releasing any shame around your story to move into empowerment
• The untapped power of Compassion

Cara is a certified Pranic Healer, environmental activist, and an accomplished multi-disciplinary artist.  Cara is passionate about advancing societal inclusion and transformation by sharing access to movement healing arts.   

 You can access Cara @ free_your_Pelvis or visit her website @https://breathandbarefeet.com/

Free your Pelvis Workshop https://breathandbarefeet.com/projects-1

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To connect with Amanda follow her on Instagram @astrojny or visit amandastrojny.com and schedule your free connection call today.  

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In this episode I break down the importance of creating your own balance and peace when it comes to Capitalism & Yoga. 

Breaking down:

- Accepting Capitalism
- Learning to find your own balance and peace
- Accepting others for their decisions and circumstances
- How much money is enough money for you?
- Asking yourself some questions:
What do you need to do for yourself?
Do you have the money right now to support yourself and your basic needs of food clothing and shelter?
Do you want to make more money?  If so, why? 
What would you like the money for? 
-Staying in your own lane
- Avoiding the desire to escape by trying to fix others and how they choose to spend their money.

I would love to hear your thoughts always by joining our Community or signing up to be a member of the facebook group! 

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In this episode I break down how what it means to show up in Seva, selfless service and why all service has benefit. 

Breaking down:

- Having clear intention behind the service
- Removing any guilt from not doing enough
- Relationship between service and Money
- Selfless Service ( Seva)
- The role of ego, expectations, results
- Different ways to serve
- Finding the right action to take for yourself
- Awareness to your relationship to service

I would love to hear the ways in which you are showing up in service!

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