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

In today’s episode I sit down with Maria Mayes a well-being coach and teacher who helps her clients find the freedom that only inner peace can offer.  She is the founder of Take 5 and is on a mission to help others take their power back from anxiety.  

Together in this episode we break down: 

• Maria’s journey into overcoming anxiety and transitioning from the tech space into the yoga space. 
• Maria’s process for seeking out different ways to handle anxiety
• How Maria found her baseline for inner peace 
• Launch of Take5 in November of 2020 and moving full time in this work 
• Examining limiting beliefs and stepping into the place of trust with detachment. 
• Difference between going all in and going half way in 
• Maria’s process for trusting herself through consistency and daily practices
• Unwinding of the continuous doing and being comfortable with being
• The practice of catching yourself quickly for your own self awareness
• The importance of having curiosity and finding your own way in to meditation
• Maria’s break down which led to her breakthrough
• Importance of being physical comfortable in the body prior to meditation
• Maria shares her outcomes that come when working with clients of Self awareness, being fully present, and compassion. 
•  Maria walks through a Take5 Meditation break 
• Learning how to dialogue with your body
• Practicing continued acceptance with self when it comes to choosing to embark on certain trainings
• Challenges in running own business and finding what works for you 
• The importance of scheduling in time to step into inspired space for creativity
• Untapped Power of full presence and the collective Untapped power of Breath 

Connect with Maria @take5health or check out her upcoming offerings:

Course coming out in October: Chakras and Chardonnay mindfulness around drinking

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On today’s episode I will be breaking down the power the resides in words and language and why I believe finding the right words that work for us is so important.  I will also dive into how you may experience a disconnection with certain words and there meaning and how this doesn’t mean there is something wrong with you, Trust ME!  

Having awareness to this gives you permission to find others words that align more authentically with you.   

• The Importance of choosing words that resonate with you
• What to do when feeling disconnected from certain words
• Going on auto pilot with your words and come back into a practice of awareness
• Handling not have a connection to certain words
• Finding trust in yourself through your words
• Moving out of the assumption that words have one meaning for everyone. 

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In this episode I sit down with Amy Zellmer an award-winning author, speaker, traumatic brain injury survivor, and Editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine. She suffered a life-changing traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a slip and fall on black ice. Since then, she has published four books that focus on concussion and TBI and, in 2019, began publishing The Brain Health Magazine.

Together we explore:

• Amy’s journey into Yoga through a brain injury 
• Entering the world of brain injuries and understanding the limitations from the rest of the society
• Amy’s journey through online teacher training 
• Online Yoga with the brain injury community
• Breaking down the benefits of the online community for individuals with brain injuries - allowing people to stay connected 
• How to handle spaces that are not accessible
• Importance of understanding the needs of students if using the language of accessible yoga
• Accessible Yoga and Body Positive Yoga 
• Resourcing and recommending other teachers based on their strengths
• Know your audience
• Marketing and being in integrity with the language of accessibility
• Having the right resources for people to be supported
• Amy’s journey into acquiring the MN Yoga and Life Magazine 
• How Imposter syndrome showed up for Amy when she started her journey with the Yoga Life Magazine
• Practices for working through imposter syndrome - Meditation, self work and Reiki 
• Lessons Learned from the community 
• How perfection and the desire for more training can hold us back 
• Letting go if people don’t like you and understanding our own validation patterns
• Vision for the MN Yoga + Life Magazine being published twice a year and would like to grow it until 3 times a year 
• Amy shares her personal vision and what is ahead
• How busyness can show up as an avoidance mechanism
• Untapped power of educating the yoga community on brain injuries

 References: 

• MN Life + Yoga Magazine 
• Amy's Yoga Classes 
• Instagram Amy Zellmer 

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On today’s episode I will be breaking down what I mean by personal responsibility and why I believe it is essential when it comes to understanding ourselves, understanding our finances and understanding how we show up in relationship to others.

- Understanding our relationship to blame
- Owning our choices and life fully and completely
- Questions to consider:
Where am I blaming someone else to avoid taking responsibility for myself?
 Where am I wanting to discredit someone else in a effort to build up myself?
- Examples of what it looks and sounds like to avoid taking personal responsibility.
- How busyness, conflict and drama show up as avoidance patterns to personal responsibility.
 
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In this episode I sit down with Melanie Klein C. Klein a sought after empowerment coach and respected thought leader in the areas of radical self-acceptance, authentic empowerment, and supercharged confidence.   Her acknowledged expertise has enabled her to write, edit, or contribute to nine books in whole or in part on these topics, including the groundbreaking and award-winning anthology, Yoga & Body image.   The latest in her body of work, Embodied Resilience through Yoga, was published in September 2020. 

In this episode we break down: 

• Melanie’s journey and background into Yoga starting in 1996
• The importance of being Clear in your knowing 
• Having an embodied experience of the Yoga and the desire to share the practices with others
• Transition into speaking/ Academics and also incorporating the practices of yoga
• Melanie’s advocacy work and her calling which led her to follow her light. 
• The importance of Tending to the spark and light inside of you
• The practice of stillness and how it can help tend to the spark 
• Intersection of yoga and social justice 
• Having courage and fortitude to listen to ourselves even when others encourage a different direction. 
• Breaking down the Inauthenticity of how yoga has been displayed through marketing images
• Melanie’s dedication and inner calling to be a part of Social Advocacy work and her mission of “Individual transformation for collective liberation”
• Asking the question of What can we offer the collective?
• Power in owning your YES completely
• Implementing Collaboration and Community not just talking about it. 
• Not operating from a deficiency model and breaking down the power over model 
• Owning that we can both serve and receive 
• The Importance of having a bigger vision and purpose without taking yourself out the equation 
• Striking your own balance and trusting generosity will come back

Based on over two decades of professional and personal work, Melanie integrates her backgrounds in mindfulness and embodied wisdom with her academic expertise and advocacy work. In this way, she offers her 1:1 coaching clients a holistic and unique pathway to personal freedom and prosperity, one that is customized and designed to each individual.

References and Links: 

Yoga + Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery and Loving Your Body: http://www.yogaandbodyimage.org/

Yoga Rising: 30 Empowering Stories from Yoga Renegades for Every Body: http://www.yogarisingbook.com/

*Both the websites above include a free downloadable discussion guide.

Yoga, the Body and Embodies Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis : https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498528030/Yoga-the-Body-and-Embodied-Social-Change-An-Intersectional-Feminist-Analysis

Embodied Resilience Through Yoga: 30 Mindful Essays About Finding Empowerment After Addiction, Trauma, Grief and Loss https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780738762494

Personal Website: http://www.melaniecklein.com/

Instagram: @melmelklein   

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On today’s episode I will be diving into the practice of letting go from this deeper place of acceptance and how it is only from this place that our flow is able to occur.  We will discuss why I believe letting go is on an ongoing and evolving practice and how allowing for flow doesn’t necessarily mean perfection.  Flow can be messy.   

Breaking down:

- Moving away from an idolized place of letting go and surrender
- Letting go with true acceptance free from judgments and conditions
- Walking through the practice of having true acceptance
-  Example of letting go with money
-  Letting go and the connection to understanding the self. 

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In this episode I sit down with Jennifer Kreatsoulas, PhD, C-IAYT, is a certified yoga therapist specializing in eating disorders and body image. She is a sought-after international speaker and former host of Real Body Talk, an online interview talk show. Through her virtual school, Yoga for Eating Disorders, Jennifer offers individual yoga therapy, groups, classes, and continuing education and mentoring for professionals. 

Together we explore:

• How Jennifer came to yoga through eating disorder recover and her relapse after having children
• Shifting out of a career as a medical writer into figuring out what was next
• Jennifer's path into Yoga Therapy & Breaking it down 
• The power in admitting and asking for help
• Difference between teaching a traditional yoga class and a yoga therapy class
• Difference between yoga therapy and traditional therapy 
• Walking through an example with a client 
• Yoga Therapy can work with people with specific health conditions
• Jennifer shares her personal thoughts on choosing between Traditional therapy and Yoga Therapy 
• Engaging with our bodies not just talk our way through it 
• Importance of language in the yoga space and moving away from language that includes "should" 
• Untapped Power - New and expansive ways of creating community

Links mentioned in the show:

• Angela Prior Workshop in November- Integrating Yoga into the therapy room 
• Yoga & Eating Disorders Mentoring Group - New Cohort open in September
• Yoga and Eating Disorders Community through facebook

Jennifer is the author of Body Mindful Yoga and The Courageous Path to Healing. Her writing has been featured widely in print, broadcast, and online media.

Get in touch with Jennifer at Yoga For Eating Disorders or follow her on Instagram @yogaforeatingdisorders

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On Today’s episode we will explore the best ways to handle a situation where you don’t know as well as why it is so important to have these experiences and have confidence in saying you don’t know.   We will go deeper into your relationship to being wrong and not knowing everything and explore how to soften into uncertainty.

Breaking down:

- How you respond to not knowing or having an answer
- Benefits of asking additional questions
- Gaining a level of trust
- Awareness to our own judgments and limitations
-  Compassionate inquiry questions to sit with for yourself:
The question to sit with for yourself as a teacher/ leader is are you okay with not knowing?Does that idea of not knowing leave you feeling as though you need to prove or justify?
Do you feel inadequate as a person or teacher when you don’t know?
- How to handle being wrong
-  What it means to be wrong in a leadership role

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In today's we will explore how to find a balanced relationship to discipline. 

Breaking down:

- The importance of discipline in society
- Opening up the possibility of disobedience and defiance
- Finding your unique balance point to discipline and disobedience
- Staying present to whatever arises
- Clarifying questions for measurement
Am I saying one thing and doing another? 
Am I judging myself while trying to be present to what is in front of me?
Am I curious to what I require without wishing it were different?

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In today's we will explore how to navigate your finances as times continue to be challenging. 

Breaking down:

- How to get started
- Importance of having full acceptance for your current situation
- First step of creating a budget
-  Coming back to clarifying questions: How does it feel for me when I do a budget?  Why do I have resistance to creating a budget?Am I afraid to uncover careless spending habits?
- Exploration into Guilt and Shame
- Steps to move yourself forward when you are around.
- Five powerful questions to ask yourself.
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