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NEW YEAR NEW SEASON!
Welcome to Season 2 of How Yoga Changed My Life a Podcast!

To kick off 2024, Mia and Adrienne took a roadtrip to Houston and met up with Alicia Dugar Stephenson (aka @AfroYogaQueen on IG.

Alicia dives deep into her yoga journey, including  how she utilizes Yoga to help manage her Lupus. Her passion and love to share yoga within her community is inspiring!

Show Notes:

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The theme music for this episode, “Cenote Angelita”, was written and produced by Mar Abajo Rio AKA MAR Yoga Music. Dive deeper into this and other original yoga-inspired compositions by visiting bio.site/mcrworks. For the latest updates on upcoming events featuring his live music for yoga and meditation, be sure to follow @maryogamusic on Instagram.

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Joanna Sapir is a business strategist for holistic practitioners, particularly those that integrate multiple modalities.

Joanna's special ability is in helping practitioners set up repeatable systems and processes in their businesses to serve their clients more powerfully, enroll committed long-term clients, and create steady income and cash flow.

In this episode we break down: 

• Joanna’s calling to teach and sharing of her personal story
• Opening a business but not having any business experience
• Figuring out how to make her business sustainable and easy to run
• Allowing wellness professionals to have sustainable business
• Early Integration systems of pricing, packaging and a sales process
• Breaking down pricing in a practical way 
• why other people’s pricing is not as relevant 
• Marketing systems in place are necessary and the difference between Online businesses and in person services 
• Finding the marketing practices that are most ideal for you and your customers
• Measurements for success from clients including ample time for their lives
• Goal of working with solo practitioners at 10-15K a month
• Business Revolution Academy - 1 year process to establish roots of the business and be able to identify values 
• Leadership - ongoing membership and community 
• Benefits of having community versus 1:1 support
• Untapped Power of knowing how to truly read our own intuition and the magic that can happen when you listen to your gut

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Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is a mother of two, a USA Masters National Champion in Olympic-style Weightlifting, and the host of the Business Revolution for Practitioners podcast. 

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Corey Esannason, movement and yoga educator, was starting a family. At the same time, her mother received a devastating diagnosis of FTD, a form of early onset dementia. For many like Corey, the balance of caring for her loved one, her growing family, and still caring for herself was a very real challenge. She learned through experience and on this episode of the Yoga Magic podcast, she shares how community, yoga and simple self care tools helped her and led her down a path to teaching others how to prioritize the wellbeing of the caregiver. 

Learn More About Our Guest...

• Learn more about Corey www.esayoga.com
• Follow Corey on Instagram: @corey_esa
• Learn more about The Associate for Frontotemproal Degeneration (FTD) here

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Connect with Ashley...

• Follow along on Instagram: @yogamagicpodcast and @ashley.sondergaard
• Learn more about Ashley and Yoga Magic at www.ashleysondergaard.com
• Sign up for our newsletter and get the free Self Care for the Cycles Workbook HERE.

Let's Work Together:

• Book a Free 15-Minute Health Coaching Discovery Call | Learn more about health coaching and how working together can help you reach your personal health goals!
• Book a Birth Chart Reading with Ashley | Learn about the key components of your natal chart and how you can work with the energy in your life today during this 40 minute reading.
• Book a Joint Astrology and Human Design Reading with Ashley & Sarah Leverett | During these 1 hour joint readings, Sarah will cover the basics of your Human Design chart including type, strategy, & authority. Then, Ashley will cover the key components of your natal chart & how you can work with the energy of your chart in your life today

This podcast episode is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. By listening to this podcast or watching this YouTube video, you agree not to use this podcast or YouTube video as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others. Always check with your own physician or medical professional before trying or implementing any information viewed here.

In this episode I sit down with Swami Nityananda.  Swami Nityananda has dedicated her life and career to helping humans live in joy and freedom. She has spoken to audiences in ten countries and been a featured speaker on NPR and Radio Ireland among other platforms and podcasts. Her work has been supported by Fulbright grants, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has received other national and international awards. She was consecrated as a Swami by Swami Shankarananda in 2014.

We Break Down: 

• Background Story and  Awake Yoga Meditation Center
• Every human has that connectedness 
• Finding your own entry points into meditation 
• Offering all thoughts into the light 
• Breakdown of Kriya Yoga 
• Discussion to help navigate the daily challenges of life 
• What it means to be a Swami 
• Breaking down mastery of Self
• Relationship to Teacher and Student
• Energy gets amplified when we mediation in community
• Personal challenges 
• Intergration of University Teaching and Awake Yoga Meditation Center 
• Overview of Awake Meditation Center 
• Vision for self going forward
• Untapped Power of Light and Kindness

Connect with Swami Nityananda  on instagram @awakeyogaandmeditation or on facebook @awakemeditationcenter

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In today's episode I dive into networking and some of things I have learned to help build meaningful connections in your business and in your life. 

Breaking down:

• Top five tips for meaningful networking
• Letting go of expectations and outcomes
• Connecting back to your authenticity and intuition 
• Releasing the idea of building transactional connections
• Trusting your own divine timing 

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Kim Sin is a Corporate Yoga Entrepreneur and the Marketing Director at EvolvMe. They offer courses and services in all spiritual and enlightenment modalities from some of the most trusted practitioners in the world — and a nurturing community to support every step of your spiritual journey.

Together in this episode we explore:

• Kim's background story and her personal practice with all different styles of yoga
• Initial fear of public speaking
• Feedback and positive reinforcement from students and teachers
• Journey into teaching after Yoga Teacher training
• Moving into corporate yoga through the help of a mentor
• Shifting from private and public teaching into corporate yoga 
• Kim's work with over 450 companies
• Making corporate yoga more accessible
• The challenges that can come from teaching beginners
• Benefits of personal reflection at the end of a teaching practice
• Reflections and lessons learned from teaching in the corporate space for over 10 years. 
• Benefit of finding some sales hustle 
• Untapped Power: Do things together

Check out Kim @ evolvme.com
Instagram and facebook 

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Yoga is a tool that helps bring connection to our bodies, the communities around us and to highest expression of who we want to be. Today's guest Chelsea Roff is sharing how Yoga is also one of the most impactful tools in eating disorder recovery. Chelsea is the founder of Eat Breathe Thrive. She is a yoga and mindfulness instructor, research collaborator, and thought leader in neuroscience and integrative health. An eating disorder survivor, Roff has an intimate understanding of the depths of human suffering and the conditions necessary for individuals and communities to thrive. She created Eat Breathe Thrive 10 years ago and today has helped more than 7,000 people from over 42 countries on their recovery journey.  

In this episode we discuss...

• Chelsea’s personal experience with an eating disorder and yoga as tool for healing
• The nuance of why yoga traditionally wasn't used in eating disorder recovery
• The combination of service and community in addition to a physical yoga practice as a part of a holistic recovery experience
• How yoga helps us notice our personal patterns on and off the mat
• Meditations that can help connect with the body
• How yoga can help people not only recover but also PREVENT eating disorders
• Chelsea’s opinion on how yoga teachers can best support their students who might be struggling with an eating disorder
• The deeply personal journal of self care and how to be discerning about health and wellness culture while in eating disorder recovery
• Eat, Breathe, Thrive's classes, workshops and resources for anyone that is struggling with an eating disorder

Learn More About Our Guest...

• Learn more about Chelsea and Eat Breathe Thrive: https://www.eatbreathethrive.org
• Follow along on Instagram: @eathbreathethrive

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Connect with Ashley...

• Follow along on Instagram: @yogamagicpodcast and @ashley.sondergaard
• Learn more about Ashley and Yoga Magic at www.ashleysondergaard.com
• Sign up for our newsletter and get the free Self Care for the Cycles Workbook HERE.

Let's Work Together:

• Book a Joint Astrology and Human Design Reading with Ashley & Sarah Leverett | During these 1 hour joint readings, Sarah will cover the basics of your Human Design chart including type, strategy, & authority. Then, Ashley will cover the key components of your natal chart & how you can work with the energy of your chart in your life today.
• Book a 1:1 Cosmic Self-Care Session with Ashley | Learn how to use your astrological birth chart to personalize your self-care routines, rituals and practices with this 60 minute session and customized self-care plan.
• Book a Birth Chart Reading with Ashley | Learn about the key components of your natal chart and how you can work with the energy in your life today during this 40 minute reading.

This podcast episode is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. By listening to this podcast or watching this YouTube video, you agree not to use this podcast or YouTube video as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others. Always check with your own physician or medical professional before trying or implementing any information viewed here.

For more inspired edutainment, visit: www.bebettermedia.tv

Key Points, Top Takeaways and Memorable Quotes - 

“You can pivot.” 9:08

“These are things you can’t do, but what can you do?” 10:35

“Identify your fear, write it down, say it out loud.” 12:14

“You’re right, there is always someone better than you, so why not learn from them?” 19:06

“Learn the rules, so you can appropriately break them.” 34:00

“There is something about you sitting with your body and then it relating back to something in your life.” 48:29

“Don’t wait until you’re broken, constantly try and nourish and help yourself.” 55:16

“There’s always something we can learn from each other.” 1:01:18

“It’s okay to be sensitive.” 1:02:33

“Don’t be afraid to shine.” -Wendy @ 1:05:19

Guest Bio - Mar is a movement teacher of many types: yoga, barre, pilates for all ages and many demographics. Growing up in the sports world with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis has given her a different perspective on overcoming injuries and illnesses to continue celebrating one's body. Along with growing up playing volleyball, swimming, and water polo in high school she also obtained a degree in public health and worked on the medical staff for the University of Arizona football team. Her love of sports and healing led her to yoga where she's been able to work with so many beautiful souls and bodies. 

Show Notes - 

0:00 - Coming Up on ‘What I Meant to Say’

0:23 - WIMTS Podcast Intro

0:47 - Welcome to Marissa

2:52 - Early Sports & Family Background

11:12 - Working Through Things You are Scared Of

18:10 - There’s Always Someone Better than You

20:15 - Yoga Teachers are Humans too

22:59 - Teaching Kids Yoga & More

25:43 - How to Model the Process of Trying & Evolving

31:00 - Perspective on Generational Messaging 

35:20 - Be Better Commercial

35:53 - Find What Works and What Doesn’t

38:45 - Telling My Parents About Yoga

43:59 - Life is a Dance Between Stability & Mobility

49:40 - Journey with Rheumatoid Arthritis 

58:58 - Where I End and Other People Begin

1:02:00 - One Piece of Advice to Your Younger Self

1:05:05 - Wendy’s One Piece of Advice

1:07:25 - Thank You

1:08:28 - WIMTS Podcast Closing

Links & Where to Find Mar -

@mrodi

Troy is a yoga teacher, author, and social entrepreneur who is continuously excavating the human experience while aiming to make God more accessible, discover what it truly means to embody love, and aid humanity in realizing that we are far more connected than we have been led to believe.

Together in this episode we explore:

• Troy's Introduction to Yoga and relationship to God
• Connecting to God out of the context of religion 
• Working with redefining what God means to you
• Being inclusive and not leaving anyone behind 
• Practicing Yoga in an intentional way
• How to use the asana as a moving meditation
• How the mind creates separation and our ability to love
• The importance of taking the Yoga off the mat
• Understanding attachment to the body 
• Impact of our words and our personal accountability and responsibility
• Breaking down self love and the serving of others 
• Asking the question what is being loved?
• Importance of connecting to breath and creating a space for this
• Having honesty as a teacher to make a decision of where/ how to teach
• The importance of integrity and teaching in a way that aligns with you
• Standing in yourself and creating trust with your students
• Responsibility of being a leader as a yoga teacher
• Troy’s Definition of forgiveness “Forgiveness is believing that someone can do and be better even when they don’t realize they need to be”
• Finding the courage to look at the areas of our life that are not in alignment
• Creating a relationship to privilege and using it to serve others

Links to follow Troy:

Instagram 
Facebook 
Free online Classes & Content 

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In today's episode we will be focusing on what is standing in the way of full acceptance for your life.

Breaking down:

- The daily practice of stillness and meditation
- Revisiting the Yoga Sutras
- How acceptance can show up as a yoga teacher and student
- How acceptance can show up in relationships
- Learning the practice of acceptance
- Our relationship to patience and acceptance

I would love to hear how you feel about this question and this practice? 
Are you accepting your life exactly as it is or are there areas where you feel it is not possible?

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Welcome to Season 4!

In this episode I will be exploring what is coming for Season 4 of Untapped Power in 2023.

- Yoga Teacher Conversations with a focus on authenticity and integrity
- Exploring the Open Ended Questions
- Uncovering and Investigating your relationship to trust

What questions are you contemplating in 2023- Reach out and let us know!

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Today's special guest is Psychotherapist, Yoga Therapist, Trainer,  and Author Joann Lutz who is joining to speak about her model of care, Nervous System-Informed, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (NITYA),  as well as what the Polyvagal Theory is and how to use it in teaching yoga, and her book, Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone!

Joann Lutz, MSW, LICSW, C-IAYT, E-RYT,  YACEP, is the developer of “Nervous-System Informed, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga" (NITYA) and has been training mental health professionals internationally for 10 years, as well as offering a certification program in this approach. She is the author of the book, Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone, (Handspring, 2021), and a speaker at major conferences.

Connect with Joann Lutz ✨
Book: Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone
Website: www.joannlutz.com

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Chelsee Ramos is the yogi shuffler. A dancer and yoga teacher, Chelsee is raising consciousness with yoga and dance through Elev8ed Movement. Follow Chelsee at @inher.space and @elev8edmovement on instagram to learn more.

The GodXP Spiritual Fitness Podcast: Level up your spirit, realize more power. Join us as we talk consciousness, spirituality, mental health, psychedelics, psychotherapy, self-realization, and personal development to inspire advancement in our lives.  This is the #1 consciousness expansion show. Together we share stories and seek to discover applicable truth and wisdom for life. With your host Anthony Polanco: Music artist, depression recovery author, and former Christian missionary-turned-meditation coach. Follow us on Social Media: @wearegodxp on Twitter, IG, Facebook and https://www.godxp.com

Glo instructor Khetanya Henderson interviews fellow Glo instructor Ivorie Jenkins. A former professional dancer for film, television and stage, Ivorie fell in love with yoga and meditation as pre-performance rituals during her time as a dancer with Cirque du Soleil. 

Khetanya and Ivorie’s conversation compares their experiences as dancers and yogis, as practitioners of an art form that is at its center outward looking, and a spiritual practice that is at its center inward. Ivorie discusses her early career influencers, her work with Cirque du Soleil, and a soulful trip to India that held some surprises for her. She reads from a blog about the experience and ends the interview with a short practice. 

Links:

Ivorie Jenkins website

Ivorie on Instagram

GLO classes:

Ivorie on Glo

In today's episode I provide so more details on the FREE Webinar being offered on November 9th. 

Have you ever had any of the following thoughts in the past year?

• I don’t make enough money.  
• My job doesn’t pay me enough.  
• I can’t ask for what I am really worth because I won’t get it.   
• I feel guilty asking for more money. 
•  I don’t deserve it, there’s someone working harder than me. 
•  I am not smart enough or I don’t have enough credentials. 

Then this could be for you.   It is not a formula.

Learn more and Save your Spot! 

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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 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 this episode I sit down with Laura Haehl an intuitive guide, yoga instructor, Reiki master and hypnosis practitioner.  She loves to help people activate their inner oracle, specifically by learning to make intuitive decisions.  

Together in this episode we explore: 

• Laura’ s journey into yoga that started with a VHS tape
• Uncovering energy healing through coming up against a food allergy
• Discovering her business today of moving into your own intuition and how she incorporates yin and reiki 
• How Laura followed the no she was hearing within herself 
• What happens when doubt and fear creeps in 
• Laura’s decision to take a full time job and it creates more centering for her in her personal business
• Challenges that arise when running your own business and staying in your center
• How just focusing on the business created too much pressure
• Laura flipping the script and making her business a side hustle well taking a full time job
• Breaking down the energy around running a business 
• Where am I placing my mental and physical energy and being specific with time 
• Importance of getting honest on the type of work you want to do 
• Figuring out what works for you without getting distracted by what already exists 
• Continuing to ask yourself do I really love this
• Why accessing the truth can also be extremely challenging
• Laura’s practice of accessing her own truth through Intuitive decision making 
• Feeling what is in alignment for your own flow and giving yourself permission
• Building up trust within self 
• Learning to shut out the noise and find a place of self inquiry and reflection
• The power in doing inner work and processing emotional wounds and trauma leading to uncovering the true self 
• How to face adversity and darkness when it arises
• The importance of being gentle with yourself and incorporating the practice of Yin Yoga
• Continue to be disciplined in your business to keep it on track
• Trusting the timing as it arises
• How to handle having a curious mind and being distracted
• “Your stuff my mat” - the practice of knowing what is yours
• Finding people who are aligned with your message and making sure your message is authentic
• Untapped Power of all being intuitive being 

You can connect with Laura  @lauratheintuitive


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