Tiffany Russo is a yoga teacher, mentor, trainer/educator, athlete and world traveler (an advocate of real connection….). She believes that connection creates change and the most important connection to cultivate is the one that we have with ourselves. On this episode she talks about the eight limbs of yoga from Patanjali’s yoga sutras. They are: Yamas, Niyamas, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi.

Learn more and watch the video episodes at https://www.sparkpluglabs.co/podcast-yoga

Nishanth Selvalingam grew up learning yoga at his grandfather’s ashram in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Now a 500-hour certified yoga instructor from YogaWorks, a guitar player, and a teacher at StayOm Yoga and Yoga World Heart he shares with us more about the journey of yoga from east to west starting with the Rigveda to Ramakrishna, to Swami Vivekananda, and Yogananda.

Jeanne Heileman specializes in discovering the needs of an individual and gently guides each student to their own grace and balance. She has been a Teacher Trainer with YogaWorks since 2005. She is a Level II Certified ParaYoga Instructor and a 500-ERYT. She is the founder of Tantra Yoga Flow. 

In this episode she answers questions about yoga.

• What are some ways yoga can help us in our everyday living? Like overcoming fear? Getting comfortable with change?
• How can we use yoga to stop the chatter in our heads that keeps us from doing our best work?
• Is yoga a religion?
• What is yoga for you?
• What are the main paths of yoga? (karma, bhakti, jnana, raja, tantra, hatha)
• Where does the Bhagavad Gita fit into all of this?
• What are the koshas?
• How does one get started with practicing yoga? 

Find Jeanne Heileman online at jeanneheileman.com

To watch the video episode, visit https://www.sparkpluglabs.co/podcast-yoga/what-can-we-learn-from-yoga-jeanne-heileman-02

In this bonus episode, hear from leading yoga instructors and executives as they share their answers to the question, "What is yoga?"

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