The Mindful Movement Podcast and Community

Our guest, Julie Reisler, is an author and Life Designer. Her book, “Get a PhD in YOU, A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery” launched YESTERDAY! Be sure to get your copy today at www.getaphdinyou.com! In her book, Julie authentically shares the extensive personal-growth wisdom that came from her own struggles with body image, relationships, and feeling "not enough." Right off the bat in the interview with Sara, Julie gets vulnerable about her emotional overeating, breakdowns, and her struggle with masking her inner voice. Her self-discovery lead to the belief that she can only give to herself what she needs first and then she is able to give to others.

Episode 007 Rachel Wilson Yoga, Meditation, and Physical Fitness is a Lifeline Rachel is a teacher, educator and yoga therapist with over 12 years of experience.  She is the founder of Om My Yoga Studio and Om My Yoga teacher training Academy located just outside Harrisburg Pennsylvania.  Rachel teaches Classes, workshops, and retreats that draw upon her education and experience in a number of different areas including Yoga, Aerial yoga, Acrobatic yoga, Pilates, athletics, mental health studies and yoga therapy. Her eclectic background comes through in her teaching style. Rachel admits that yoga was not originally her career path.  She shares her story of using yoga and marathon running to help with a very stressful time in her life and reset and clear her head during struggles and depression.  Rachel says, “yoga and meditation, tending to physical fitness, felt very much like lifeline for me.”  Her knowledge and interest level since she was 20 have grown explosively and parallel her obvious passion for what she does. She talks about the special 6 month journey she leads for groups of around 30 people who are investigating yoga as a life healing modality or as a teacher education. Rachel talks gratitude, second chances, unlimited opportunities as well as openness to opportunities or tragedy.  “Even if your first or second plan doesn’t work out, all this is just opportunity.  You can always just take another path.”  Rachel’s tragic story of a million gallons of water flooding one of her studios and her outlook on moving forward gave me chills hearing it.  “Adversity, loss of things or plans, doesn’t need to be something that totally rocks my world.”  Follow along with her journey to see where her next chapter takes her and her business. Giving credit to her parents, Rachel shares some of the big lessons they taught her.  “Generosity can change lives.” “Your character is more important than the things that you have.”  “You can love someone unconditionally with your flaws and create community and create support.” Tara Brach from the pages from her book, “Radical Acceptance,” was an meaningful teacher for Rachel.  Deborah Adel, Author of “The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga’a Ethical Practice,” is another mentor Rachel gives credit to. Mindfulness according to Rachel: “Being willing to be in touch with the present moment sensations.  The joy and the simplicity or the ache and the pain that’s happening in this moment.” “An essential pause that is taken.”  “Mindfulness can be found in the most exciting and energetically charged moments of success, but it also can and needs to be found in the mundane and the painful.” Be sure to listen to the end to hear Rachel’s great advice to live a life of your dreams.  Additionally, learn about this valuable non-violent question can make a huge difference in relationships, at work, at home with your family: “what can we do different to make this work?” Resources: http://ommyyoga.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ommyyoga/ https://www.facebook.com/acroOMies/ https://www.facebook.com/rachel.m.wilson.14

Tom's definition of mindfulness is “Being present to what is without getting taken out by your internal story or interpretation.” You can learn about Tom’s vast and varied background in the movement industry including somatics, bodywork, Feldenkrais and Pilates. And after more than 30 years into his career, Tom says he feels more curious now than ever.

This weeks episode includes a vulnerable moment where I share a learning experience. Then I get right into the interview with Chantill Lopez, the founder of Skillful Teaching, an international online resource for Pilates Instructors.

Lesley Logan is a fun, upbeat, and very knowledgeable interview guest on this episode of the Mindful Movement that is packed with value and information. Lesley wants to help studio owners around the world because, “The more they do, the more people are doing Pilates, the better, I think, the world is because the more people who do Pilates, the more connected they are to their bodies, and their souls and the better human beings they are, so it’s my way of helping with world peace.”

Episode 003 Interview with Jessie Kates, Yoga and Life from the Heart Jessie Kates is a yoga teacher, Lululemon Ambassador, and a Wonderlust presenter, instructor trainer as well as a wife and mom. It is her passion that sets Jessie apart among the large number of yoga teachers in the area. Jessie doesn't hold back. She is eloquent, edgy, and offers a fresh new perspective to the current landscape of yoga. She sees things differently, presents them differently, and is leading hundreds of students each week to new dimensions of growth and freedom in their personal lives. Jessie has an inspiring way of looking past teaching just the execution of yoga poses and encourages her students to dig deeper into their experience on the mat with her and uncover the ridiculously worthy divine person that is flowing and breathing in the present moment. It is the uncovering of what comes beyond the physical poses that she brings out for students in all of her classes. Jessie does what she does so well because of her desire to cultivate authentic relationships. On the show, you can hear about Jessie’s experience moving from the toxic environment of a career in sales and event planning and switching into practicing and teaching yoga at just the right time in her life. She shares her “ah-ha” moment in her relationship with yoga that leads her to explore the why of her practice. You won’t want to miss her vulnerable exploration of the choices she and her husband have made that have led to a very challenging time in her life. She shares how her relationship with her husband is always growing in the same direction because they always strive to be kind and to show respect to each other. “Mindfulness keeps, for me, helping me to tap back into the art of letting myself flow through life in a way that’s open and aware.” “Be more trusting of the guidance of your body and your heart.” Jessie is passionate about getting yin yoga out to the public because it had such a profound effect on her. For those of you who don’t know much about this style of yoga, Jessie describes it as “the practice of passive release to the deeper layers of the connective tissue in the body.” It is a more introspective style of yoga that brings a deeper sense of calm. For Jessie, balance is so important as a teacher, so in order to continue to bring yin yoga to the population in her area, she decided to develop a training in her approach to this style. She describes the training as, “Looking at mindfulness and the art of living live with more presence through the lens of yin yoga.” There are some great nuggets of advice Jessie shares for both practitioners in the mindful movement industry as well as anyone out there that wants to live mindfully. You won’t want to miss this one! Resources: Jessie Kates website JFK yoga on Facebook JFK yoga YouTube Channel JFK yoga on Instagram The Mindful Movement Facebook Community The Mindful Movement YouTube Channel

Joe is a trainer extraordinaire and a coach of coaches. Joe is the owner of Optimum Performance Training Institute in Columbia, MD, as well as a Senior StrongFirst Instructor. Joe offers so much to learn on this episode including some valuable information about the new method of human restoration he is pioneering with his co-worker Corey Beavin. Hear about Joe’s interesting 20-year journey in the world of movement for himself as well as using movement for improving human performance. Joe talks about his philosophy for optimal living which includes psychology, nutrition, recovery and movement restoration. You don’t want to miss this one! Listen in on the vulnerable conversation regarding the real art of changing lives!

Laura loves what she does and is blessed to love a lot of things!  Join us on this episode to learn where Laura’s heart takes her, what she is grateful for, and where she is able to serve others to fulfill her.  She is an inspiration and has many bits of motivational value during this interview.  Hear her entrepreneur journey and her spiritual journey.  Laura shares her personal experience with death around her and how she was able to use it as a teacher for life and how it influences her.  Laura speaks about the benefits of the support of a mastermind group for those who are on their own in business and encourages listeners to start their own with actionable steps to do so.  Additionally, learn tips for a mindfulness practice in your current world.  Finally, get some great insight into Laura’s book, “Conscious Entrepreneur,” which is actually for anyone looking to live consciously, not just the entrepreneurs out there. Valuable Quotes from Laura: “When you do follow what you love, the space gets made in your life for those things.” “Impermanence is part of life and if we don’t learn how to be ok with the changing tides, and we don’t learn how to find a way to adapt to that, we suffer so much.” “Being mindful is really about bringing your full awareness to whatever you doing and being aware of both internal and external factors.” “I want to create a space in my life that allows me to suffer less because I’m not as attached to what’s happening.  Things can come and go with that non-judgement.” Resources: @LauraCCannon on instagram Facebook.com/lauraconsciouscannon How to Find and Follow your Calling in 7 Simple Steps for FREE from Laura LauraCCannon.com/offers http://lauraccannon.com/articles/book/the-conscious-entrepreneur/ TheMindfulMovement.com The Mindful Movement Community on Facebook The Mindful Movement on YouTube

Welcome to the Mindful Movement Podcast, the show for those who want join the movement of helping professionals who use mindful practices in their work and life; or for those individuals who are simply interested in learning to live mindfully.