Wanderlust Speakeasy

Thank you for joining us in for Season 3 as we examined Practice.  

In Season 4, we'll be looking at Intimacy.  We can't wait. 

Season 3 starts 1/4.

Chris Grosso knows firsthand what the cyclical nature of sadness, pain, and despair feels like. A former addict, Chris shares how he found spiritual growth when he was at his most vulnerable in this Speakeasy talk from Wanderlust Stratton 2014. Finding our true spirit, he says, depends a lot on our own unique experiences. But acknowledging both our relative, physical self and our ultimate self can get us there.

Dr. Aviva Romm talks about the relationship between women, their bodies, and the earth in this Speakeasy talk from Wanderlust Stratton 2014. She shares stories of women she’s encountered throughout her work as a midwife, clinical herbalist, and physician that have felt the influence of the outside world on their inner health, whether it’s interpersonal relationships, stress, or the foods they’re eating. We’re getting mixed messages from society about what is and isn’t normal, and what we are and are not capable of, as women. We can take back control.

Meditation is much more than just a way to relieve stress. When approached properly, it sends you on an express elevator to your life’s purpose. This speakeasy will teach you about Active Meditation and give you tangible takeaways that you can use right away to next-level your life, unlock your creativity, and ignite your passion.

Gabrielle Bernstein believes that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies and self-image. In this inspiring workshop, Gabrielle will offer an exciting plan for releasing fear and allowing gratitude, forgiveness and love to flow through us without fail. All of which, ultimately, will lead to breathtaking lives of abundance, acceptance, appreciation and happiness. Attend the May Cause Miracles talk and you can expect incredible transformation as you are guided to make subtle shifts that add up to create miraculous change.

Maty Ezraty joins us in Lake Tahoe, CA to discuss the business side of yoga -- she shares tips on opening a studio, keeping it vibrant, how to keep your teachers and students engaged, and more.

Maty Ezraty was the original founder of Yoga Works in Santa Monica California and directed the Teacher Training Program there for over 16 years. She has studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois 5 times in India , and during 5 of his American tours as well as once in France .She is known for her joyful, engaging and determined approach to teaching correct form. Teaching since 1985 Maty has been a student of many senior Iyengar teachers which reflects in her practice and how she teaches.

From Wanderlust Speakeasy Lake Tahoe 2011

Olympian Gretchen Bleiler learned how to tap into flow state during her experience at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado. Bleiler taught herself how to tap into flow state, or what she calls our own human potential. She believes we are able to tap into it at any time; all we have to do is learn how. Every persons' flow state is unique and different, depending on our own abilities and willingness to explore it. Once we can tap into flow state, all effort ceases—as it did for Bleiler in her X Games run—and things become easeful.

From Wanderlust Aspen Snowmass 2015. 

"I'm not going to tell you to relax, because that's not what I want you to do," shares Dr. Sara Gottfried right off the top of her Speakeasy at Wanderlust Colorado. In her talk on managing cortisol (and thereby stress levels), she emphasizes that her version of reducing stress, "is a much more advanced physiological state [than relaxation]. When you entrain your and sympathetic nervous system (the half that deals with "fight or flight") with your parasympathetic nervous system (the half that does "rest and digest") you are better able to manage your stress. It's about perception and being about to rise above the fray and look more objectively at your own stressors and how you dance with them." From Wanderlust Colorado 2013

Thank you for joining us in for Season 2 as we examined Food.  

In Season 3, we'll be looking at Practice.  We can't wait. 

Season 3 starts 9/7.

Though it's one of the richest nations in the world, the United States has become synonymous with unhealthy eating and obesity. In this talk from Wanderlust’s Speakeasy, Jenny McGruther, real food advocate and author of Nourished Kitchen, explores our country’s difficult relationship with food and how we got to now. Generations ago, new immigrants brought with them traditions of seasonal eating, fermentation, and farm-fresh produce. As time went on, industrialization and war necessitated the use of prepackaged foods for soldiers and trade purposes. Yet after the war ended, these prepackaged foods continued to be celebrated for their convenience and modernity. From-scratch cooking unfortunately fell out of fashion. Now in the present day, we are confronted with the fact that fresh, live, and local will always be the healthiest choice. Jennifer McGruther has made it her mission to bring real food to the masses. After realizing her town lacked a farmers market, she and her husband united local families and the surrounding communities to create one.From Wanderlust Squaw Valley 2015.