I love Mind Body Green! It such a great resource and read for anyone looking to improve their life.

MindBodyGreen.com is a yoga and wellness lifestyle website, started by Jason Wachob. As Curator and one of the founders of MindBodyGreen, Jason’s goal is to make wellness and yoga accessible. After years of successfully trading equities on Wall Street, and traveling around the country running a national organic cookie company, Jason was told that he required back surgery. He opted for yoga instead of surgery and is now completely healed.

Jason is a contributor to The Huffington Post and has been featured in the The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He has a BA in History from Columbia University, where he played Varsity Basketball for four years. Jason lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife.  He’s on Twitter: @JasonWachob

I had a chance to chat with Jason, during a recent trip to New York. He is fantastic, and an extremely hard worker! I’m so stoked he started this blog, and continues to make it an incredible resource for everyone.

I especially love the interviews and the yoga videos.  There lots more resources for wellness on the site, including nutrition, yoga, celebrities, teachers, workshops, and retreats.

Enjoy reading through this awesome site!

Website: www.mindbodygreen.com

Twitter: @mindbodygreen

FaceBook: MindBodyGreen

“Do no harm.  No harm in what I’m eating, what I’m drinking, what I’m thinking”. Kris Carr

Jake over at Wanderlust, sent me this video from Kris Carr’s talk at the Wanderlust Speaker Series.

Wanderlust is releasing speakeasy videos from their Vermont and California festivals. The speakers include (but are not limited to) Kris Carr, Majora Carter, Maty Ezraty, Jonas Elrod, Robert “Skip” Backus, Seane Corn, Shiva Rea, John Friend, Vikram Gandhi, Elena Brower, Chris Sacca, and more!

Their first video from Kris Carr’s inspirational speakeasy session in Bondville, Vermont on “Crazy Sexy Life”. As you may or may not know, Kris is a New York Times best-selling author, motivational speaker, and wellness coach. Kris has also appeared on Oprah, The Early Show, The Evening News with Katie Couric, Good Morning America, and many more top-tier network news shows.

Kris is a cancer survivor who is has healed  herself by eating a plant based diet. After watching this video, and reading Kris’ book, Crazy Sexy Diet, I started juicing, and released animal products from my diet.

I feel so much more energetic, calm, lighter, and yes, kinder.  I was at the cusp of making these choices, to a kinder diet, and making kinder more ALIVE choices in my life.  The idea of eating dead flesh, started to feel wrong to me.  I asked, “What would help me vibrate higher, longer?”.

A couple of days later this video came into my email box, and the idea of no harm, and the tongue as our internal yoga mat, makes absolute sense.  It’s like I’ve known this all along, but didn’t have the courage to finally embody.  I am ready.  I am so very grateful for Kris’ book, and her telling her story and sharing so much healthy knowledge with the peeps.

I am so stoked!  And, so excited to have more energy, feel lighter, and be doing less harm.

“Make juice, not war.”  ”Change your plate, and you will change your fate”. – Kris Carr

In Yoga Peeps Episode 85, Jennifer Wolfe, Doula and Prenatal Yoga Instructor, discusses her best selling prenatal dvd, poses for breech baby turning, and ones to avoid, to set intentions, finding where the intensity is in a pose or in pregnancy, exploring with consciousness, the fear/tension/pain cycle, how pleasure reaches the brain before pain, knowing what’s best for you based on how it feels, the idea of oneness – nonseparateness – that we are all connected, and to listen to your own inner teachings.

Listen Here: YogaPeeps_JenniferWolfe_080110.mp3

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Show Notes

Jennifer Wolfe Shownotes:

Doug Swenson – Vinyasa Flow Yoga

DVD: Prenatal Yoga

Podcast Topics:

doula, hypnotherapist, best selling prenatal dvd, poses for breech baby turning, and ones to avoid, set itentions, where is the intensity in a pose or in pregnancy, explore with consciousness, fear/tension/pain cycle, pleasure reaches the brain before pain, knowing what’s best for you based on how it feels, oneness – nonseparateness – we are all connected, listen to the inner teachings

Books she loves:

Krishnamurti

Music she loves:

Deva Premal

Jai Uttal

Twitter:@prenatal yoga

Facebook: Jennifer Wolfe Prenatal yoga

Website: www.jenniferwolfeyoga.com

Podcast Music: Guruji, from Sharon Gannon’s new album, Sharanam.

In Episode 84, Clive Mayhew, the Founder of Yoga Aid, and Lara talk about the cultural differences of giving, Yoga Aid in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, US, Wanderlust in Tahoe in July, to raise money for Off the Mat into the World, how yoga has changed his life, and how making time for it changes everything, honesty, authenticity in your life, and how to enjoy life, by serving others.

Listen Here: YogaPeeps_072110_CliveMayhew_YogaAid.mp3

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Show Notes

About Yoga Aid

Website:

www.yogaaid.com

Yoga Aid present at the Asia Yoga Conference – Hong Kong

Yoga Aid present at WanderLust, to raise money for Off the Mat into the World

Yoga Ambassadors – People who organize

Yoga Leaders – People who teach

Mark’s Teachers:

Swami Saraswataji

Mark Whitwell

Baron Baptiste

the Yoga community

Books He Loves:

The Element, How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Ken Robinson

Bihar Yoga Books

Path to Holistic Health, BKS Iyengar

Music he Loves:

David Bowie

Krishna Das

Ty Burhoe

Sacred Earth, Australia

MC Yogi – Free MC Yogi, Give Love Download at YogaAid.com

Podcast Music:

Give Love, MC Yogi

In this episode, Michael and I talk about his desire to be for health instead of sickness, yoga connecting you to you, the best teachers connect you to you,  how you tune into you, advice for teachers-Do a lot of yoga, tuning into yourself rather than tuning out, paying attention, to stop separating things into their parts, and instead see the whole – “eating the avocado”,  music being a direct path in, a mood shaper, intellectualizing things can really stand in the way of actually experiencing them, when you can hear your own body it’s easier to take good care of yourself – yoga is a great tool for tuning in, the poses come from you when you’re ready, not from mimicking others, and lots more! Click the link below to listen and “tune in”.

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Show Notes

About Michael

Books:

Michael Pollen – In Defense of Food

Tara Stiles – Slim Calm Sexy

Osho – Love Freedom and Aloneness

Ram Das – Still Here

Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha

Carlos Castaneda – Journey to Ixtlan

Piper Kerman – Orange is the New Black

Music:

Willie Nelson

Lynyrd Skynyrd

John Lennon

Krishna Das

Website:

www.stralayoga.com

Twitter:

www.twitter.com/michaeltaylor8

www.twitter.com/tarastiles

Jason Wachob – www.MindBodyGreen.com, twitter.com/mindbodygreen

Peeps he wants to hear interviewed on YogaPeeps:

Michael Pollan

Tara Stiles

Jason Wachob (MindBodyGreen)

Nadya Andreeva

In this episode Claire and Lara talk about Sufism, seeing people as love –  all consuming love, the wonderful discipline involved in a daily yoga practice,  Tantra, to intend, parenthood improving her teaching, the feeling state – the bhavanam, feel yoga instead of “doing it”, to find the authenticity in each one of us, the most important point of the practice is union with the divine, to stay inspired, refining Vinyasa Flow Yoga, her work for Yoga Journal, Shaktified Women’s Retreat, Satya, Santosha, Sdvayaya, Surrendering, her inspirations, her dvd and her writing.

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Show Notes

About Claire

The Pursuit of Happy Hips DVDs available at:

Amazon

Rei

Lululemon

Blissology.com – all sequences available online

Camp Moomba for Kids impacted with aids – Yogathon, Yoga Aid, Global Mala

Influential Teachers:

Joseph Campbell – The Power of Myth

Dalai Lama

Gioia Irwin

Susan Aposhyan – Body Mind Psychotherapy

Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad

Nadia Toraman

Deepak Chopra

Books:

David Suzuki – The Sacred Balance

David Hawkins – Power vs Force

Music:

Eoin’s Top Yoga Tunes

Website:

www.eoinfinnyoga.com

Podcast Music:

She’s Coming Deep Down, Azoora

In this episode Eoin and Lara talk about Hammock Enlightment, Blissology – the art of being happy, balancing with the web of life, love as a force in the universe like gravity, his work with Lululemon and Olympic athletes, his new DVD The Pursuit of Happy Hips, as well as Everyday Yoga shot in Bali (coming soon), 200+hr Yoga Alliance Teacher’s Training on Vancouver Island, opening yourself up, getting into your natural environment, superflow – the practice of moving in ways that traditional yoga practice doesn’t allow, the chakra system, dealing with anger and conflict with Love, nature appreciation, seeing the light in people’s eyes, rating the prana in your food, gratitude, teaching in the US, and connection on Facebook.

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About Eoin

Crissy, from Indego Africa emailed me this week, and told me about their awesome new yoga bags.

She wrote,  ”We are Indego Africa – a social enterprise part of the Fair Trade Federation that makes high-quality, gorgeous handicrafts that empower women artisans in Rwanda to lift themselves out of poverty.  While our Yoga Bags are versatile and beautifully made, these products also tell a great story.  All proceeds go towards training programsfor the women in entrepreneurship, management, literacy, computers, and microfinance. Many of our remarkable women care for several children and are the sole providers for their households”.

Check out their newest style of yoga bags, just in time for Mother’s Day. These fantastic bags are handcrafted from Dutch wax cloth and have a zipper all the way up the side for easy packing and unpacking, plus a separate pocket for wallets, keys. You can learn more about their products and see photos and videos of the amazing women at www.indegoafrica.org.

I love this bag, and the women who made it.

Happy Mother’s Day!

ShowNotes:

DVD AM/PM Yoga Rodney Yee & Patricia Walden

Influential Teachers:

Rodney Yee

Patricia Walden

Shiva Rea

Ana Forrest

Sharon Gannon & David Life

Books:

Light On Yoga, BKS Iyengar

Meditations from the Mat, Rolf Gates

Thich Nhat Hanh

Music:

Stan Richardson

Yoga Soul – Various Artists

Lewong Gachong – Wind Flutes

Thai Yoga Massage – Energy Work, Acupressure, light yoga stretches

Yama/Niyama: Ahimsa

Limb: Svadhyaya (study of scriptures & self)

The Yamas and Niyamas, Deborah Adele

Love to Hear:

Shiva Rea

Podshow Music: Africana, by 1000psi

Website: http://www.essenceyoga.net/danasmith-rogers.htm

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SE_Yoga

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/yogadiva3

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/yogadiva76

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=355825325

In this episode Dana and Lara talk about Thai Yoga Massage, being the Yoga Diva, a Reiki Master,  her group Life Coaching online, starting where you are, being grateful for your experience, allowing your yoga to happen, challenge in Hanumasana, practicing detachment, ahimsa, Pranayama – to help and ease asthma, her message: the spiritual essense of yoga is you, to release judgements, and to seek the love and light in life.

Listen to the Interview: YogaPeeps_DanaSmith-Rogers_050310.mp3

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Shownotes

About Dana

Eoin Finn, a Vancouver based superflow surfin’ yogi Blissologist, just released a new DVD, The Pursuit of Happy Hips.  I caught up with him this week and asked him about it.

Lara:  Hi Eoin, It’s been a couple of years since our first interview, what have you been up to? How was Bali?

Eoin: Bali was amazing and so inspiring.  We spent three and a half months there last year.  Even though I love what I do, mostly when we were there we were filming.  We filmed an epic 6 yoga routines and 6 meditation routines for an upcoming project called “Everyday Yoga and Meditation.”  It’s was a huge undertaking to say the least but Bali is no place  where you really want to work; the internet is slow, the pace of life is slow, it’s hot and there is so much yoga and surfing to do.  It was nice to go back this year with little agenda except to really relax and enjoy what we love as individuals and as a couple.  If you have never heard of it, you have to go to the Bali Spirit Festival next year for 5 days of Yoga, Dance and Music.  It was amazing to teach and share in the energy there.

Right now, I am just enjoying being home, surfing, doing yoga, taking in the culture of Vancouver and spending time in my hammock under all these amazing cherry blossoms.  May is going to get busy editing again.

L: I know you have an awesome new DVD you just released, The Pursuit of Happy Hips. Tell us about it.

E: The Pursuit of Happy Hips turned out better than we could have expected.  It came about from my 6 years of working with Olympic Athletes and lululemon elite ambassadors.  They all really love the benefits of yoga because it brings balance back to their lives and to helps them excel at their activities.  Because they travel so much they asked if we could make them a DVD they could do on the road.  This was the original inspiration.

These athletes have insane fitness levels so sometimes they want a yoga routine that is challenging for their fitness, but sometimes they are just tired from training and traveling so the yoga needs to be more restorative.  As a result some routines are more mellow and some are physically challenging.

Also, even on the more challenging routines, I went deep into alignment and took a slower approach.  My deal with the athletes is that if they ever hurt themselves when they were training on the road, I would do their competition for them.  I didn’t have much desire to go off a ski jump doing a million flips or go down a bobsled run headfirst so this slow, detailed approach is key.

I also love the music and the audio tracks laid down by other teachers to Olympians Tracey Delfs and Insiya, my wife.

The DVD is so good for the general public and not just Olympians.

L: Why the Hips?

E: First off, we don’t just focus on the hips only making sure the routines address the needs of all parts f the body and mind, but there is definitely an emphasis on hip opening and balancing.

The original idea for this hip focus comes from the athletes themselves.  Most of the Olympians talked about restricted range of motion in their hips them because they use their legs so much as such a power source.

On a  deeper level, the pelvis is functionally the foundation for the spine, and so much of our health is related to our spine.  It is also the connecting place between the upper and lower body and it is a place where culturally we feel so many taboos.   In a really simple sense, opening up the hips is such a fast track to deep bliss and that’s what we are all about.

L: The DVD is shot so well, with scenes in Whistler, and Vancouver.   Absolutely gorgeous.  I love practicing outside with you guys every week at my home with the DVD.  Tell me about the different sections, Easy Street, World Champion Hips, Hot Chocolate, All Downhill – How are they different?

E: Yeah, as I mentioned some routines are super mellow and some really challenge your fitness.  We expanded on the ski map idea and rated the routines in terms of green dots for the more mellow ones and black diamond for the more challenging.  I am big into nature and even though it makes for extra challenges shooting outdoors, I think great scenery is the key.  A big part of Yoga for me is about connecting to Nature.

The great thing about this DVD is we started with 2 1/2 hours of routines that get edited down into sub routines. Our past DVDs have had about an hour and a half, so there is tons of different material for each routine

We also have 2 others coming up on the new blissology.com website when it launches in mid May.  One of them is free with thePursuit of Happy Hips DVD called ‘Tantric Trail ‘ and the other is ‘Double Diamond Hips’ which, as the name suggests, involves super deep hip opening with half and full lotus variations.  I’ve been testing it a lot this week and I feel high every day!

L: What’s coming up for you?

E: Always lots.  I was listening to Deepak Chopra’s Radio show and he interviewed the author of a book called ‘Well Being, the Five Elements’ and he said that only twenty percent of the population enjoy their work.  That’s insane, because my work is my art and my offering, I love it.I think one of the main things I want to do is get the Blissology idea out in the world since I feel it is a key philosophy that can help give voice and momentum to the environmental movement and bring more kindness into the world.  I just got a U.S. Visa which is amazing because I have never been able to teach in the U.S so I really look forward to sharing what I do there.  May is going to find me in our Vancouver Island home a lot where we will be surfing, yoga-ing and editing the Every Day Yoga and Mediation DVD series.  We may line up a couple of classes in Cali.

Mostly I want to write.  I seriously pray every time I get on a plane that the plane can not crash until I write some of the books I have in mind.  It is my life mission to get it down on paper.  Writing is my big, big passion.I also want to practice and spread Hammock Enlightenment.  I think it key for saving the world.  I want to set up our relaxation sites in different cities we visit.Other than that, spending time with Insiya and considering starting a family… Wow, did I say that?!?

Thank you so much for chatting with us today.  People can find you at your blog and website, www.eoinfinnyoga.com, where you have more free yoga downloads, info about your Teacher Trainings, and YES Retreats.  You’re also launching www.blissology.com, which we’ll look out for in the coming months.

You can pick up a copy of the DVD at Amazon.  To win a FREE copy of Eoin’s new DVD, look for Eoin’s audio interview coming out here on Yoga Peeps next week, with details on how to win.

Show Notes:

Bisbee Yoga Festival

Unlimited Thought, San Antonio, Texas

Influential Teachers:

The Living Yoga program.com, Austin, Texas

Charles MacInerney, Ellen Smith

Angela Farmer

Vanda Scaravelli

Erich Schiffman

Yamas/Niyamas:

Satya – Truth

Books She Loves:

Happy Yoga, Steve Ross

From the Inside Out, Victor Van Kooten

Light On Yoga, BKS

Jivamukti, Sharon Gannon David Life

Awakening the Spine, Vanda Scaravelli

Music She Loves:

Heated classes: Moby, The Republic Tigers

Irish and English Folk music – fiddle and flute – boppy celtic stuff

Shooglenifty

Huge Crowd Teaching: Listen to Yourself and your own Body, like coming home

Love to hear on YogaPeeps:

Donna Farhi, Erich Schiffman

Podcast Music: Wild Mountain Thyme, Brobdingnagian Bards

Websites:

www.Flagstaffyogafestival.com

www.virtualtarotschool.com

In this episode Laura and Lara talk about Kundalini, Tarot, Archatypes of Universal Experience, The Flagstaff Yoga Festival, childcare at the festival, making the festival accessible for everyone, parenting as the deepest yoga you can do, filling your own cup first, finding your own path in yoga, bringing in all types and paths of yoga, handstand difficulties/benefits, waking up the endocrine system, open your eyes and really listen to the truth being revealed, how can I serve?, bones growing in spirals, and your own experience being the mightiest.

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Shownotes

About Flagstaff Yoga Festival

It’s my understanding, you cannot do for others or the Earth, without first doing for yourself. Everything ripples out from there.  Which is why I’m so excited about these yoga peeps in New York City.  Doing yoga, dancing, raising their vibration, and rippling that out to the world.  That is truly where all of the healing of Planet Earth begins.

Here’s what Social Workout wrote about this gathering, “Earth Day celebration at The Standard, produced by our friends at Flavorpill: Note the wood-paneled “Highline Room” above, with picture window looking out at sun setting over New Jersey. That’s Elena Brower of Virayoga fame at the front, talking about the the Hindu goddess Kali. After deep savasana, a crowd of conga drummers files in with deejay. Ensued: Yogis dancing barefoot, drinking coconut water, and eating organic chocolate. Meanwhile, downstairs in the biergarten, well-dressed financiers drink wheat beer and eye the various Ferraris left casually at the curb”.

I’m stoked that practicing yoga in a beautiful venue, with an awesome yogin (Elena Brower), is just as popular, as sipping cocktails and Ferrarris.  Therein lies a shift.

Peace, and Happy Earth Day.

I had wonderful time speaking with Jane Austin, PreNatal Yoga teacher, at Yoga Tree, in San Francisco a couple of months ago.  I found her to be relaxed and cheerful, with a sort of inner confidence.  Such an important combo for me, and for women in pregnancy, as we are going through a massive life expanding transition in our lives.

Round about the time I chatted with Jane, I found out I was pregnant, with my second child.  I was elated, but with that elation comes all the intensity of having another life grow inside you – extreme fatigue, nausea, insomnia, massive discomfort doing just about everything and anything, especially towards the end, when the baby inside is so big.

That being said, I am so happy to be pregnant, and to be of service to the beautiful life inside of me, and to have to ability to expand to birth him!

As with any massive discomfort, I am always looking for ease, and freedom, which is why I was so stoked to get Jane’s new PreNatal Yoga DVD.  Jane, a childbirth educator, doula, midwife, has been teaching prenatal yoga in SF for 15 years.  She was such a joy to practice along with.  Her constant smile infuses confidence in even the most unsure, and awkward mama-to-be.

She starts out with a meditation connecting with our breath, and our baby, which I loved. Then we moved on to some arm strengthening (for holding our new babies, and our toddlers).  Then came hip openers, which felt absolutely divine.  My particular favorite was the one legged squat, with hip rolls.  After that one, I felt like I had a mile more real estate inside my hips.  Exactly what I want for birthing, and just for all around better posture.  The amount of weight we carry forward in pregnancy can pull our bodies forward and down.  By opening the hips, we stand more upright, are more stable, and can more easily access a full squat, an awesome birthing position.

The class moved on with balancing poses, and came back down to hips and final relaxation, and more baby centered meditation and visualization.  I love this part, because I tend to focus on my body, and forget about the little life growing inside me.  It was so good to connect with him, and to feel him inside of me responding to my love and attention.

Jane feels like a good friend.  Knowing that she has two children of her own, and has been helping women go through the process of pregnancy and birth for over a decade, helps me like her even more, and trust her unconditionally.  She gives us helpful reminders like,

“This is the breath that will birth your baby”

“You are a mother now. See your baby inside of you”

“It’s impossible to birth your baby through buns of steel, you need to get juicy”

The music, is smooth, consistent, and nonintrusive.  The women in the video are all very pregnant, and are real students in Jane’s classes.  She teaches 4x a week in at Yoga Tree, and does Teacher Trainings twice a year.

I practice daily, am a yoga instructor, and have a fairly athletic practice.  I loved this Prenatal DVD practice because as I felt honored, and understood, with where I am now (at 5 months pregnant), where I’m going ( birth), while acknowledged for my strength (as a mother).

In conclusion, I totally LOVE it, and recommend it to all mothers to be, even if it’s your second or third time.  Find Jane’s DVD, and teaching schedule online at: www.janeaustinyoga.com

Thank you Jane!

Brian’s Influential teachers:

Rolf Gates

Michael Gannon

Books he loves:

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra

The Field, Lynne McTaggert

Music he loves:

U2

Sting

Van Morrison

DJ Drez: Los Angeles

Podcast Music:

New Perspectives, DJ Drez

Website:

www.yogavibes.com

On Twitter: @yogavibes

Love to Interviewed on YogaPeeps:

Sharon Gannon and David Life

In this episode, Brian and Lara talk about www.yogavibes.com being the Netflix of Yoga, being a franchising partner for yoga teachers, vibrations that follow us everywhere, clearing your side of the street, finding your passion so you can share it and “Burn Brightly”, (Satya) Truth, Surrendering, and Pranayama.

To listen click:
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ShowNotes

About YogaVibes

In this episode, Jane and Lara talk about Prenatal yoga, her new DVD, a time to slow down and atune with their bodies and the babies inside them, findng your passion, immediate relief for everyone, especially pregnant women, getting yoga access everywhere, letting go, softening, opening, birthing lessons applicable to mothering, silent meditation, creating sacredness in our lives, keep moving forward, and showing kindness and compassion to oneself.

To listen click: YogaPeeps_031310_JaneAustinPrenatal_Interview

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ShowNotes

About Jane

Mentions:

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

Grace Cathedral Labyrinth, San Francisco

Influential Teachers:

Kate Holcombe

The Yoga Sutras

Website:

http://janeaustinyoga.com

Podcast Music: Collision, by Ahmond

Episode 76 is an interview, with Sadie Nardini, of Brooklyn, New York and Lara Hedin, Founder of Yoga Peeps. In this episode, Sadie and Lara talk about Integrity being super fierce, transforming a little bit at a time, core strength vinyasa, how not to leak your energy, her YouTube videos, The Guru is thy Self, core values, what aligns with you, bathing meditation, to contain your life energy, build it and focus it, discovering your core message, your dharma, what you were born to say, the one sentence you would share with the world, the reasons you do yoga, to stop fighting your true nature, and start living with it and for it, Get to know, and Own who you are , Core centering, hugging in, owning the self, and giving that gift to the world.

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ShowNotes

About Sadie

Sadie’s Favorite Teachers:

A rude guy on the street, a friend, her inner teacher, our Truth (Satya), look for the teachers in your everyday life

Rodney Yee

John Friend

Sally Kempton

Paul Grilley

Favorite Books:

Island, Aldous Huxley

The War of Art, Stephen Pressfield

Favorite Music:

Drumming, Tribe Called Quest, Brown Sugar, D’Angelo, India Irie, Aretha Franklin

Yamas/Niyamas:

Self Study – Svydaya

Focus – Bramacharya

Peeps Sadie wants to hear:

Duncan Wong

Sarah Powers – Balance the energy channels

Books/DVDs/videos:

The Road Map Guide to Your Soul, Sadie’s Book

DVDs:on sadienardini.com, amazon.com

youtube channel: Sadie Nardini Yoga

Website:

http://www.sadienardini.com

Mark Freeth, Freestyle Yoga Project, Birmingham, England.

Mark’s Influencial Teachers:

Kula Yoga Project: Schuyler Grant

David Swenson, David Williams, Mike Nevitts, Richard Freeman, Edward Clark (Tripsichore)

Books Mark Recommends:
Light On Yoga: BKS Iyengar
Asana, Mudra, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha – Bihar
MulaBandha – Bihar

Music:
Alabama 3
Queens of the Stone Age

Peeps He’d Like to Hear on YogaPeeps.com

Edward Clark – Tripsichore Yoga
Kula Yoga Project – Schuyler Grant

Website:

http://freestyleyogaproject.com/about/

Podcast Music:

001-1 acoustic guitar, by 2006 Pl@stic Soul

Episode 75 is an interview, with Mark Freeth, of Birmingham, England, and Lara Hedin, Founder of Yoga Peeps. In this episode, Mark and Lara talk about living in his bus, teaching students of mixed abilities, inspiring people, minor miracles in each class, having a beginners mind, struggles with backbends, and vinyasa krama, breath and movement working together towards a particular end.

To listen click: YogaPeeps_122809_MarkFreeth

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ShowNotes

About Mark

Kelly McGonigal’s new book,  Yoga for Pain Relief
was just released.  You can find it on Amazon.

Kelly is a good friend, and Stanford psychology instructor and prominent yoga teacher, in Palo Alto, California.  In this book, she shows readers how the wisdom of yoga and the latest skills drawn from mind-body research can end the physical and emotional suffering of chronic pain. Yoga for Pain Relief is packed with gentle postures and practical  strategies for ending pain.

This complete mind-body tool kit for healing also includes deep
relaxation practices drawn from the yogic tradition and psychological
techniques for helping you make peace with your body and dissolve
pain. As the ancient practice of yoga releases the hold that chronic
pain has over your life, you will begin to feel more like yourself
again.

About Kelly:

Listen to her YogaPeeps.com interview here.

Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., is an award-winning instructor at Stanford
University in Palo Alto, CA, where she teaches yoga, psychology, and
healthy back classes. She is a leader in the field of mind-body
science and she provides teacher trainings and continuing education
for yoga, fitness, and health care professionals. McGonigal is
editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy and a
frequent writer for publications such as Yoga Journal and IDEA Fitness
Journal.

Visit Kelly Online:

www.kellymcgonigal.com
And on twitter: http://twitter.com/kellymcgonigal

“This book is devoted to teaching you yoga practices that will help
you unlearn habits of suffering and create new healing habits of mind
and body. Yoga emphasizes the innate capacity each person has to
experience health and joy. Yoga practices are the tools to awaken this
capacity and heal your pain.” —Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., from Yoga For
Pain Relief

Deborah Adele: Author, The Yamas and Niyamas, Exploring Yogas Ethical Practice

Yamas: Restraints
Niyamas: Not Restraints

Influential Teachers:

Navata Puri, Mata G – embodies contentment, not to have everything you want but to be needless

Yogi Raj Adjula – shadow work, how we project out our shadows and

Dr Phil Neurenberger: Biofeedback
Yogi Bhajan
Gandhi

Books Deborah Loves:

Love Poems from God, Daniel Ladinsky

Poetry of Rumi

Poetry of Hafiz

Sacrament of the Present Moment, Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Bhagavad Gita

Websites:

www.yoganorthduluth.com

www.theyamasandniyamas.com

www.theyamsandniyamas.blogspot.com

Twitter:

@yamasandniyamas

Podcast Music:

Pathetique Piano Sonata, mvt. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven,  Ajero, Mario