This is part of a series taught by Lex during "Stay at Home" due to Covid-19. Her intention is to offer teachings directly applicable to the current situation we are all facings across the world. True leadership isn't a great "Ra ra ra!" cheerleader mentality but rather staying open under pressure and being open enough to allow the moment to call forth in you whatever is needed. Lex draws inspiration from watching governors in the US lead us through the pandemic, and takes note of how we all can step up to the plate in our own homes and "lead by example" of the teachings. www.lexferrier.com
This is part of a series taught by Lex during "Stay at Home" due to Covid-19. Her intention is to offer teachings directly applicable to the current situation we are all facings across the world. What is really essential? This seems to be a current hot topic of conversation in our day to day lives, while many of us may be watching what we thought was essential to our lives (and to the world) fall apart by the seams. Lex reminds us how essential it is for us to be willing to fall apart individually to hold the world together during this time. www.lexferrier.com
This is part of a series taught by Lex during "Stay at Home" due to Covid-19. Her intention is to offer teachings directly applicable to the current situation we are all facings across the world. In this episode, Lex continues to speak to the importance of facing one's limitations during this time, and how important it is to fill the openings we experience by doing so with that which we are deeply passionate about. www.lexferrier.com
This is part of a series taught by Lex during "Stay at Home" due to Covid-19. Her intention is to offer teachings directly applicable to the current situation we are all facings across the world. In Auspicious Openings Lex speaks to the "exam" we are all currently in due to the pandemic and how important it is for us all to face our limitations head-on as they arise because facing our limitation IS THE PROCESS to realizing our limitlessness. www.lexferrier.com
Who hasn't experienced the crushing feelings of rejection? Because of these experiences in the past, most of us will do just about anything and everything to avoid facing our fear of rejection. Lex draws inspiration from the popular Ted Talk, "What I Learned from my 100 Days of Rejection" and parallels the teachings to the asana practice emphasizing the importance of staying engaged and being willing to ask the question, "WHY?" www.lexferrier.com
We feel we should meditate but the mind says, "Later...there's plenty of time." Yet whenever we want chocolate the mind says, "NOW!! NOW!!! Get it now!" Lex explains the importance of spiritual practice and how it supports us in finding our center and keeping our hearts open. This helps us live as more compassionate and selfless individuals with both the people closest to us and also strangers. www.lexferrier.com
There is a longing inside of us to have a powerful revelation - to clearly see if the "right" answer is "yes" or "no," to shift drastically in our perspective of how we view ourselves, someone else or even life itself, or to find that missing puzzle piece we've been searching for for years. Inspired by Lex's recent experience during a silent meditation retreat in Hawaii, she gives listeners a glimpse into what being in the bliss of one's mantra is like and how mantra mediation can help anyone drop into the magic of the moment. www.lexferrier.com
Things take time. There's a process to respect and allow to unfold without our interruption. Yet there are times where we end up treating the process of yoga and meditation like rush hour - we are rushing to get somewhere, most likely to the peace and happiness oftentimes delivered at the end of a practice, yet in the the "rushing" we end up missing the whole point of spiritual practice. In this episode Lex emphasizing the importance of non-doing to create the space needed to respect the process of nature and allow our lives to unfold without pushing or forcing things to happen. www.lexferrier.com
No matter how blissful and beautiful our relationships are, sooner or later we will have to face the "relationship mirror." The moment when once we looked at our lover or child and saw only the things we loved about them, to then facing the reflection of all the areas in which we ourselves need to grow, change and evolve, the ways we are showing up completely unenlightened. Lex talks us through how it is essential not to look away from this mirror to recognize there is no separation between us, to see ourselves in another and to catch a glimpse of our shared beauty. www.lexferrier.com
Have you ever asked yourself, "What is spirituality? What does it mean to be a spiritual person? What does it looks like?" Lex points listeners towards the source of finding their own inner answers to these questions, as she highlights the importance of spirituality in the formless rather than the form. Drawing inspiration from her own personal encounters and the story of Hanuman, Lex highlights that "true spirituality is being in service to others." www.lexferrier.com
We are all headed to the same place - death. Most of us live ignoring this truth and allowing the mind to create varying degrees of suffering as it resists the impermanence of life itself. Lex closes out our exploration of the Kleshas with the final way the mind creates suffering by it's fear of the unknown and it's refusal to accept the changing condition of the nature of life. Tune in to embrace your fear of death, to finally embrace life itself. www.lexferrier.com
It is natural in the human experience to gravitate towards the things we like and steer away from the things we wish to avoid. Yet this dance of attachment and aversion is never-ending and actually only reinforces the misperception that we are not okay in this moment just as things are. Lex explains the difference between attachment and aversion and how it is necessary for us to learn to stay engaged in our lives without becoming attached, which she refers to this quality as "affectionate awareness." www.lexferrier.com
Contrary to popular psychology, strengthening our sense of self by standing up defiantly for what we need, want and deserve, the yogic path reaches a point when doing so takes us in the wrong direction. Lex breaks down how strengthening the concept of "I-ness" inevitably leads to suffering, and how at any moment - no matter what is going on in your life - you can drop the I-ness and gain the IS-ness of who you really are and directly experience it's intrinsic qualities of peace, joy, fulfillment and satisfaction. www.lexferrier.com
How we perceive things matters more so than what is actually unfolding before us. In this first of 4 episodes exploring the Kleshas, Lex discusses "avidya" and how perceiving in error creates suffering on some level of our existence. Listeners learn how to start calling BS on their own stories and why this is an important part of walking the path of the Yogi, for we must learn to see the Truth in moment to moment if we are to ever know the Truth of life and our own existence. www.lexferrier.com
People are falling in love with this person and that person, this thing and that thing, yet no one is ever reaching the reality of Love itself. Lex offers listeners a fresh perspective on viewing relationships as the playground of opportunity to discover the Truth of Love itself, as the fabric of our own existence. Lex invites us into discovering the beauty in all people and situations by focusing on acceptance as a primary pillar in all our spiritual practices. This commitment to acceptance relieves us of our suffering and keeps us digging in the same hole - one person, one practice, on path - until we reach the reality of Love. www.lexferrier.com
We all will struggle with moments of feeling unworthy, separate or incapable. Lex explains that this is the effect of the "malas" the stains that cover the mirror within our hearts that when clear reflects the Truth of our existence. This episode Lex talks us through how life and yoga will inevitably bring us situations that "unenlighten" ourselves and to view these moments that we wrestle with the voices of unworthiness, aloneness and fear as opportunities to cleanse the mirror within our own hearts so we may catch our glimpse of our resplendent true nature. www.lexferrier.com
We can all agree that "attitude" is a pretty fundamental part of life. Psychology states that attitude is the filter in which we experience our life through, and Lex digs deep into the wisdom of the Upanishads to back up this point and to inspire us all to make a necessary attitudinal shift. Tune in to learn how to adopt the "sacred attitude" both on and off the mat, helping us all to live in the acceptance of what is. www.lexferrier.com
Yoga teaches us that in any moment there is no way for us to truly not belong, that home is where the heart is, and our most sacred home is within our heart of hearts. Lex talks about her recent travels abroad and her realization that no matter the time or space between us, we are always connected because there is really only one of us here! This podcast is about seeing past the illusionary boundaries we perceive between us, and by believing in this seperativity we only feel disconnected and alone. However, the truth remain that no matter the distance between us, our hearts our connected and that we genuinely belong to each other. www.lexferrier.com
How many of us have given up on meditation because we have concluded that we absolutely suck at "quieting the mind?" In this episode Lex eases our worry about our unproductive attempts at stilling the mind by reminding us that no one can actually sit and meditate, the practice is one of sitting and preparing for meditation to occur. Lex speaks to the power of the mind - matrika shakti - and teaches listeners a few tricks to help the endless mind chatter disturbing our meditative moments. www.lexferrier.com
One thing we all have in common is that we will inevitably make a mistake somewhere in our lives. It's called being human! While it's important to hold compassion around this tendency for "human error" with ourselves and with others, Lex reminds us to be very mindful about continuing to make the same mistake over and over again in our lives. She asks us to look at where we are breaking the promises we've made to "never do that again" and how acting in human error over and over again will inevitably lead to tearing little holes inside of ourselves. www.lexferrier.com