The Yoga Writer Podcast

How can you show up online and share in these difficult times, when we're more connected than ever before? If you're a Yoga Teacher, Wellness Practitioner, Healer, or Creative Soul who wants to connect online, it can be daunting to feel like what you offer is trivial. Yet our contributions matter. Stories, poems, art, music, meditation, spirituality: these things uplift us, nourish us, and help us remember our shared humanity.

I'd say that's damn important in times like these.

If you're a yoga teacher, wellness practitioner, or creative of any kind then you don't want to miss this interview with Fi Simler! Fi is a Trauma-Mindful Business Coach & Social Media Marketing Expert who helps wellness pros grow their business in a way that feels really, really good. 

We cover the 3 Biggest Fears entrepreneurs face when showing up online and how to remedy these common struggles, including the Fear of Being Seen and the Fear of Being Vulnerable. Fi offers practical, actionable tips to get you inspired, so you may want to take notes!

Instead of New Years Resolutions, what if we centered our days on this question: "What am I devoted to?" This episode of The Yoga Writer Podcast explores devotion as a way of being and the Hindu myth of Hanuman as a symbol of devotion. We look at how Hanuman's leap of faith in the Ramayana echoes our own leap of faith in living with great uncertainty. 

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Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, follow, rate & review. Today we explore the myth, magic, & history of the Winter Solstice, with 7 Rituals for you to honor this Yin time of year on December 21st.

The secret of manifesting that goes beyond The Secret (and why cliche manifestation practices don't work), Soul Contracts, past lives, the Akashic Records...this conversation with modern mystic Amy Dascola covers the cosmic gamut! Amy brings these mystical teachings down to earth. 

American Book Award Winner Ira Sukrungruang is the author of four nonfiction books, including his latest memoir This Jade World, from University of Nebraska Press. This inspiring conversation was true medicine for my soul -- and I hope it is for you, too. We discuss love and loss through divorce, Ira's time as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, the nature of desire and how to determine if your wants are even your own (or if they are society's), confronting oneself in meditation and on the page as a writer, the power of vulnerability, and so much more.

Book Reading for This Jade World by Ira Sukrungruang on 9/24 at Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg, Florida

Did you know the Amondawa people of the Amazon don't have a word for time? In this episode, Melissa Carroll explores how words influence your reality. 

The power of language is viewed through the lens of mindfulness, metaphor, what words you use to speak to yourself, and how we may begin to reframe our vocabulary to shift our relationship to our bodies and the natural world.

Melissa references Robin Wall Kimmerer and her brilliant book Braiding Sweetgrass, as well as poet Natalie Diaz.

Spirituality + Consumer Culture: Can your self-image and your Higher Self coexist? Can the yogic precept that you are perfect as you are coexist alongside the work needed to grow and improve? How the classic advertising formula of "not good enough" sabotage our journey?

In this episode, Melissa explores how we can coexist in spiritual and material realms, with one foot in the meditation hall and one foot on the bustling city street.

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