Entrepreneur, bookkeeper, and yoga practitioner Chimoa Njoku shares how she utilizes mindfulness practices to help her clients develop a healthy relationship with money and increase their profits. This conversation also explores Chioma’s experience in overcoming historical myths about prosperity for Black people, and how she supports others to do the same.
Rev. Melissa Moorer-Nobles discusses how the art of living in joy has supported her in meeting many of today's challenges. We also explore how the practice of joy inspired her to create InJoy-OutJoy program to help others open their lives to joy.
Manuela Baron, creator of The Girl Gone Green, shares how she found her voice through social media and fostered a community for inclusive social change and eco-friendly, sustainable living. Manuela seeks to inspire others to consider their impact on the planet and look to the future with a sense of hope. In this episode, she shares her ongoing journey toward a “zero waste lifestyle.”
Artist, curator, and Yoga Nidra teacher Sharon Burton joins host Maya Breuer in conversation about how she used yoga to spark her creative spirit during the COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckoning in 2020. Sharon shares how her practices of Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra help her and her clients overcome negative beliefs and stereotypes that have prevented them from flourishing as artists.
Jacoby Ballard discusses his new book, A Queer Dharma, and the influence of Buddishm in his yoga practice and teachings. He also shares his thoughts on the impact of the social justice movement in the yoga community in an insightful conversation with sangha host and Yoga Alliance’s Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement, Maya Breuer.
Davine Del Valle discusses how integrating TOY ®The Other Yoga can impact all aspects of life and relationships, helping to transcend our unexamined automatic responses and learn to choose action based in awareness.
Judith Hanson Lasater discusses her new book for teachers of all experience levels, Teaching Yoga with Intention. She shares wisdom gained in over fifty years of teaching yoga and how she has embraced her own humanity to become a more effective teacher.
Dr. Robert Saper, yoga teacher and Chair of the Department of Wellness and Preventative Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, discusses how integrated yoga and medicine can dismantle systemic racism by addressing chronic illness in the BIPOC community.
Pamela Stokes Eggleston and Amina Naru, Co-Owners of Retreat 2 Spirit, share the impact of a contemplative yoga practice on both self-reflection and leading a community with host Maya Breuer.
Yoga practitioner, teacher, teacher trainer, and therapist Susanna Barkataki joins host Maya Breuer for a thoughtful and thought-provoking conversation. Susanna details how her path of personal exploration through yoga led her to incorporate activism and social change into her daily practice as well as the yoga teacher trainings she leads.
Lorena Saavedra Smith shares her insights on yoga and mindfulness for mental health to address trauma in the Latinx community. In this conversation, Lorena and Unity in Yoga host Maya Breuer talk about what is meant by “immigration and migration trauma” and how it is experienced in many communities.
Fazilah Bazari shares teachings and perspectives on neuro-linguistic programming–the importance of self-care and body movement.. Heard Here: Active City Ports Moresby: https://www.activecityportmoresby.com/ Pathways to the Spirit; 100 Ways to Bring Sacred into Daily Life
Unpack yoga and self-care in this conversation. Here, Dr. Solmaz Behtash shares how she found yoga, and explores insights on her daily yoga and meditation practices. Listen in as she shares how they support her as a physician and parent.
Denise Alston and Eduardo Guedez discuss how yogic practices can be embraced as a path of inquiry to uncovering one’s passion for activism and action. Listen in as they share how deep listening, presence, and holding the space during times of uncertainty can make a huge difference. Heard here: https://www.parayoga.com/teacher/denise-a-alston-ph-d/
Maya Breuer and Rev. angel Kyodo Williams share perspectives on igniting communities for more awake conversations. Listen to Rev. angel Kyoto Williams, referred to as "the most intriguing African-American Buddhist” by Library Journal, and learn more about Zen Buddhism, The Four Noble Truths, and transformation in these changing times. Heard here: Links: https://angelkyodowilliams.com/ Audio Course - Belonging. August 31st - https://www.soundstrue.com/products/belongingMindfulness Course - https://www.mndflcertification.com/Publications: Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
Tennessee Valley Healthcare System members Charles V. Noel, Stephen D. Graham, and Hailie Cochran share the history and experience of creating and offering a whole health program. Hear how this program offers complementary care and free yoga teacher training programs for veterans, their families, caregivers, and the community. Heard Here: Tennessee Valley Healthcare System US Department of Veterans Affairs Pathways to the Spirit; 100 Ways to Bring Sacred into Daily Life The Path of the Yoga Sutras: A Practical Guide to the Core of Yoga with Nicolai Bachman
Spouses Fawn and Matt Anderson share on the art of friendship and their podcast, Our Friendly World. Hear about their awakening to the value of friendship and the importance of making and sustaining real-time connections with others. Their podcast helps cure loneliness and disconnection by creating personal connection through good old-fashioned conversations and personal stories with awesome guests.
Ava Wolf is back to explore the value of night-time dreams, liminal waking experiences, and even “ordinary” waking experiences to solve problems and discover allies. This community sangha reveals how mediation and active dreaming can help us recognize future challenges and opportunities, maintain health, reveal life patterns and themes, communicate with the departed, inspire creativity, unlock mysteries of relationships, and ultimately, reveal a larger Purpose.
Unity in Yoga host Maya Breuer comes together with Give Back Yoga’s Chelsea Roff and well-known US-based yoga studio YogaWorks’ Justin Temple. Learn how Chelsea and have teamed up to increase access to yoga teacher training.
Unity in Yoga host Maya Breuer comes together with Kate Herrera Jenkins (on her Pueblo Feast Day) to discuss Native Strength Revolution and their teacher trainings within indigenous communities. Native Strength Revolution’s mission is “healing indigenous communities one yoga class at a time!”