Yoga Magic

In this episode, Ashley shares her recent journey through pregnancy loss, her spiritual discoveries and the specific things she did to take care of herself through the process.

Ashley chats with women’s empowerment coach, modern mystic, and astrologer, Natalia Benson. By fusing the spiritual world with practical tools for empowerment, Natalia Benson has helped more than 2,000 private clients make meaningful choices and changes in their lives, and guides over 50k followers on Instagram.  She works in corporate wellness with major institutions and also on a personal level via private coaching, panels, and lectures.

Ashley and Natalia discuss all things astrology and money manifestation from a body, mind, soul approach. Natalia shares what a money story is as well as her personal money story, the power of the subconscious mind, why you need both subconscious and conscious to change your story, rest and rejuvenation, and how having faith in the process allows us to have pleasure in the process.

The magic of travel is something many are blessed to experience but the magic in living nomadically can elevate the human experience and one's own spirituality as shown by Todra Payne. Todra is an American writer traveling the world without a plan other than to learn what makes us different, and similar. Todra travels full time in order to immerse herself in new cultures, befriend locals and other nomads, and have fun, memorable experiences. Her goal is to be a global citizen, with an open mind and an understanding heart.

Ashley and Todra discuss Todra’s path to becoming a full-time nomad and what her life looks like currently, how travelling has changed her world views, becoming her authentic self, her experience as a black woman traveling as well as an American, her spiritual journey and what self-care looks, and why full-time traveling isn’t for everyone.

Ashley is joined by LA-based author, certified reiki master, motivational speaker, meditation teacher specializing in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and wellness hotel owner, Kelsey Patel. Kelsey provides a variety of tools, techniques and resources that she uses in her private practice and workshops across the globe to help others live a more authentic, peaceful and joy-filled life.

In this episode, Ashley and Kelsey discuss burnout and how to find more balance in life, her journey to wellness, getting curious about patterns, triggers, and fears, different ways to move through burnout (checking in with your mental and physical body), prioritizing versus avoiding, and what self care looks like to Kelsey in this season of her life.

Ashley sits down for a conversation with social media coach and self-love advocate, Ava Beilke to discuss self-love and boundaries when it comes to social media. Ava is dedicated to helping others live a better life through guided realization that self-love is the foundation to all pursuits including marketing yourself. Ashley and Ava discuss the unique beginning of her career in social media, how to see through inauthenticity online, why it’s important to understand the type of content you want to consume and how to figure that out, how to create boundaries around social media so you can have an overall positive experience, as well as when and why you should be taking social media vacations.

Community Conversations | On these Tuesday episodes, we'll share real stories of community building through the lens of wellbeing. Throwing out the rules and just opening up to the lessons we can learn from one another.

Ashley sits down with returning guest, Sara Schultz, to get an update on motherhood, self care and the inherent challenges of simply being a woman. Check out episode #2 to hear our first conversation with Sara. Sara is a brand builder, the founder of ThisFem™, co-founder of the The Merry Hour®, a new mama, and all around badass human.

For more information on today's guest, our sponsor Odele, and upcoming Yoga Magic events, click through to the episode webpage. Check out Yoga Magic on Instagram at @yogamagicpodcast.

This week Ashley is joined by Natalie Cooper to discuss self-healing. Natalie is the host of the Mind Your Own Life podcast and sheds light on her journey in self-healing, what self-healing is, how we can invest in ourselves and our well-being. In 2013 Natalie was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and two years later began experiencing new and more severe symptoms that led to multiple ER visits as well as brought along intense fear and anxiety. After six months of intensifying chest pain, debilitating vertigo, weakness, numbness, brain fog, gait issues, and finally, vision loss, she was diagnosed with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. What felt like the worst day of her life actually turned out to be one of the most transformative as she decided right then and there that she did not want to be sick anymore and made a deal with herself to take full responsibility for her health in a way she never had before. Her diagnosis catapulted into an empowering educational journey about the human body and the inherent and sacred capabilities we have, as humans, to self-heal.

Ashley is joined by entrepreneur and co-founder of BLNCD Naturals, Allison Vaillancourt. After ten years of managing and developing talent for work in major fashion markets from New York to Paris, through her model agency, Ignite Models, Allison craved a change. A detour into yoga and meditation training inspired her to move into the wellness industry and let her to founding BLNCD Naturals in 2019. Allison is currently the creative vision behind BLNCD Naturals, handling day-to-day operations while managing marketing, design and sales initiatives for all aspects of the company.

Allison and Ashley discuss Allison’s transition from running a fast paced talent agency into the wellness space, how her daughters anxiety led her learning the many medicinal benefits of CBD, the intricacies of running a product based business and what the BLNCD team looks like, why CBD is an incredible skincare ingredient, what to look for in CBD brands and what to avoid, and how Allison performs self-care.

Community Conversations | On these Tuesday episodes, we'll share real stories of community building through the lens of wellbeing. Throwing out the rules and just opening up to the lessons we can learn from one another.

Today, Ashley sits down with friend, talented yoga teacher, and professor of leadership Aaron Asmundson. Having worked at the University of Minnesota for over 20 years, Aaron has extensive experience teaching students and facilitating programs centered around leadership development experiences, including courses, retreats, immersive cohort experiences, and study abroad programs. Additionally, Aaron completed his first yoga teacher training in 2015 and has been teaching yoga classes ever since.

Together in this conversation with discuss the ways leadership shows up in Yoga, how Aaron's journey of recovery from alcoholism and addiction intersect with the teachings of Yoga and why we can continue to be show up as better Yoga teachers for all.

For more information on today's guest, our sponsor Odele, and upcoming Yoga Magic events, click through to the episode webpage. Check out Yoga Magic on Instagram at @yogamagicpodcast.

In this episode Ashley is joined by Dr. Cassie Wilder, a registered Naturopathic Doctor (NMD) serving the greater Twin Cities area. Dr. Wilder’s passion is empowering her patients through education, understanding, and support through their healing journey. She emphasizes individualized patient care and employs a variety of modalities in order to tailor treatment to her patients needs. She believes in an integrative approach to medicine and is up to date on conventional treatments for disease as well as naturopathic in order to offer a holistic approach to achieve health goals and meets her clients wherever they are in their health journey.

Ashley and Dr. Cassie discuss what integrative medicine is as well as what it does and doesn’t include, hormone imbalance and root causes of it, the truth behind birth control, conscious parenting when it comes to sex health and how to teach young girls about their bodies to make more informed choices, gut healing, environmental exposures, postpartum hormonal imbalance, external and internal stressors, and so much more.