Many years ago (though not too many, 'cuz she is super young), Elsie Escobar and her family emigrated to the United States from El Salvador. As you might imagine, it changed her life. Not only was she in a new country with a new language and new customs...but she was presented with new opportunities that simply didn't exist in her home country.

To say Elsie has made the most of those opportunities would be a massive understatement. She turned her love for yoga into a podcast and that podcast into a career. Today, Elsie is a leader in an industry that is seeing explosive growth...partly due to the trail she blazed all the way from El Salvador.

Elsie Escobar does a little bit of everything. She works as a community manager for Libsyn, hosts her own podcasts—including “She Podcasts” (a podcast about podcasting from the female perspective and FOR women)—and also teaches yoga…which, ironically, is what first got her into the podcasting space to begin with.

SHOW NOTES:

1:32 - Elsie has a lot of podcasts. And is very bendy.

4:00 - A live event (and a very dull guest) set the stage for Elsie's worst interview ever.

7:37 - How do you decide between bailing on an interview and pushing forward? When is it worth it?

9:19 - This entire episode was recorded on RINGR. Tim in his studio. Elsie on her phone!

10:05 - As a little girl, Elsie and her family came to the United States from El Salvador. Learn how that changed her as a person and as a podcaster.

13:51 - Elsie loves her some Twitter. Check her out @yogeek, @shepodcasts, and her employer @libsyn.

Before Season 4 of Podcasting 101 starts, I thought I'd do a quick show to say hello, and let the world know that we're back! 

In this episode you will hear from some really great podcasters like Dave Jackson from The School of Podcasting. You'll also hear from Elsie Escobar of She Podcasts and The Feed, Libsyn's very own podcast. 

Jordan Harbinger of The Art of Charm graces us with his presence to discuss all things podcasting as well. 

If you like what you hear I strongly urge you to go back into the Podcasting 101 archives and download the full episodes...along with the whole library as well. Why not!?

If you love this show and would like to help me to continue to produce it...please head on over to www.patreon.com/monkeypoostudios and give as little as a dollar a month! 

Thanks for listening and supporting the show! 

Aligning and Re-Aligning

My baby girl has recently started having solid food. She got constipated. One would imagine that the only thing that it would affect, would be her demeanor, as she was pretty uncomfortable. In fact, this constipation made other things come out of alignment. She was unable to process her food properly because nothing was really moving :( She threw up. A lot. This made me very worried, as she had never done that before! This is this week's yoga class theme. Listen to find out what my very wise Randy had to say and how it all turned out :) Oh yeah, the class was recorded on April 22 at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association

Thank you all for your comments!

Just to let you all know. I'm plan on supplementing the live yoga classes with little extra episodes sprinkled here and there. Since the yoga classes themselves are so long, I never want to make my intro more than 6 minutes, as you really need to be getting to practicing! Given this predicament, I've decided to address emails, questions and feedback that I get from you guys in another supplement of the podcast, this is going to be all about Elsie's Yoga Kula, meaning both YOU GUYS (your feedback, your questions, etc) and a little bit of extra sharing on my part, thoughts, focused classes, or practices, or even news about yoga products or any other online yoga tools that I have found helpful.

What do you think about that? Let me know!

To add just a bit more to my plate I have started a new website/business :) YoGeek.Me. I have posted my very first blog post there: Top 10 Ways That Technology Empowers Yoga Professionals. Check it out! I would love for you to leave your comments, especially if you are a yoga teacher or maybe someone that simply feels a bit awkward with technology!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE LOVELY MAMAS OUT THERE!!!!!

You all know how to reach me:

• email me- eyogaclass (at) gmail (dot) com

• leave me a message- 310 651 6238 (I'd love to play you guys on the episodes! Plus you can promote your stuff that way!)

• or comment on this blog!

Other ways to connect with me:

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I'm going to stop saying that I'm going to post more episodes more often. I absolutely don't know! Agh! Mind you, I'm now all set up technically, finally! I've been recording more consistently, so now it's just a about editing and posting :) I have recorded more than one class, and I'm refining my workflow so that I can TRULY post more episodes. I'm sure you all know by now, I'm a new Mom. My little baby is 7 months as I write this post. She has now settled into herself more, which is allowing me time to step into my own self. The only time that I have to upload, edit, post, etc. is when Hunter is sleeping. Those naps are the sacred time when I can do fun stuff like this podcast, PLUS all of the gazillion things that I have to catch up on: dishes, showers, general clean up, answering emails, paying bills, you get the picture. All I can say is that there aren't enough hours in the day to do ALL that I want to do. My life continues to ebb and flow and my biggest focus is on always remembering to constantly re-align....OH, that's the next episode!

In this week's episode I talk about LISTENING. It was all brought about by my latest venture: teaching other yoga teachers/professionals to podcast. I actually did my first 'virtual' workshop! It was very cool. Anyway, within the workshop I explained why I'm partial to an AUDIO yoga class as opposed to VIDEO. Y'all can listen to my intro to find out why ;)

And my new site! YoGeek.Me

Thank you for continuing to listen. I so appreciate you guys very very much.

Enjoy the yoga class!

Here are all the places that you can find me!

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In this yoga podcast, we have a level 2 class! Can you believe it? It has been a while ;)

The class was recorded at Yoga Matrika in Pittsburgh!

Props needed: a yoga block

THE SEQUENCE

Hands and Knees

Downward Facing Dog/Eka Pada Downward Facing Dog/Opening the Hip in Down Dog/High Lunge

Plank

chattarunga

Downward Facing Dog

Uttanasana/Ardha Uttanasana x 3

Tadasana

Surya Namaskar x 3

Crescent Pose

Vira II into Reverse Vira

Trikonasana

Uttanasana with arms interlaced behind the back

Tadasana (with eyes closed)

Vira II into Reverse Warrior (with eyes closed)

Trikonasana (with eyes closed)

Tree Pose

Pincha Mayurasana Prep

Pigeon

Pigeon with Block on top of front thigh

Pigeon with Thigh stretch

Setubandha into Urdhva Dhanurasana x 3

Downward Facing Dog with knees bent into Straight legged

Child's Pose

Supine Twist

Knees to Chest

Savasana

A fun and inventive short vinayasa sequence, which is actually done in Episode 33

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

I keep telling you guys this, but I'm still not teaching publicly, so I cannot post any new yoga classes for you guys :( But I do have one that I just found!!! I just have to take more pics for it, as there are some things that are new, and may be a bit confusing ;) but fun, fun, fun!

I hope to get an actual class up next week! Yipee!!!

So, my way of kinda dealing with this issue is providing you all with some of my prior content on the feed so that those of you who are subscribed can get these videos delivered right to your computer!

I do hope that you enjoy these!

You can listen to it's birth ;) in Episode 33. Enjoy!

A 13 minute Deep Yogic Body Relaxation with an 8 min intro with feedback ;) enjoy!

Something new!

Since I still don't have a public class and therefore no "live yoga class" I decided to do a sweet full body relaxation. Listen up and enjoy allowing the body to let go and release :)

I would so enjoy any sort of feedback from you guys! Especially letting me know if you like this sort of thing, 'cause I tell you chillin' and the 'slow' is where it's at ;)

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emotionally charged Level 1 90 min Yoga class! This was my last class, that I taught in Los Angeles before moving permanently to Pittsburgh PA. So much beauty. So much love. Listen up and give me feedback :)

310 651 6238
eyogaclass@gmail.com

Special Elsie news! Level 1-2, 85 min class. Very slow and methodical because there were a lot of injuries in class that needed to be addressed. Focused and very good. Give it a go when you feel you need time and patience :) Check out www.elsiesyogakula.com for the sequence and a corresponding knee therapeutics video!

Tulsi Tea

Link To Facebook Elsie Tired Video

Dancing Yogini

She Yogini

Level 1, 90 Min yoga class with no inversions and good for beginners.
eyogaclass@gmail.com
310 651 6238

Give me some love! 310 651 6238 or email me eyogaclass@gmail.com
love you all!!!!

ELSIE'S SURVEY!!!!

I'm Back!!!!!!

Hillary Rubin

Mudra Moments

YoGeek Workout (the Bike episode)

Vic Hennegan

Joe Shashaty

Flickr pics of Yoga To Lift Your Spirits

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Mudra Moments

Celebrate your sovereignty by stepping places you haven't gone before. Move out of your comfort zone! A pretty uptempo class. Check out the pics on the site www.elsiesyogakula.com

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Podcast Awards (this one is for you Mike and Inge, love you guys!) 

Yoga to Lift your spirits with Elsie

Yogeek Workout 

verge of the fringe

lance anderson

PUM (podcast user magazine)

Declaration of Independence 

Pixelodeon (do check out he vids and you'll see how cool it all was!!!) 

Ars Technica Article: consumers mistake familiarity with superiority

Insight of the Day 

Elsie's Yoga Class LIVE on uStream

YoGeek Practice on uStream 

follow me on Twitter 

Newest YoGeek Workout Episode 

please visit www.yogeekworkout.com