On And Off Your Mat

For this episode, I sat down with Adell Bridges. Adell is a yoga teacher who has travelled the world to share her love of yoga. Her background as a gymnast plays a meaningful role in the playful and creative style of her teaching, which she intertwines with pranayama, yoga philosophy, and anatomy to take the physical practice into a journey of inner awareness and acceptance. Adell trained in India before teaching in Asia, Europe, Central and North America, sharing her own yoga journey in hopes of inspiring and serving others in theirs.MY 5 BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:1- Let your why lead your presence online. Know what is your intention and own who you are and you'll 2- The physical part of the practice is a tool to come in a state a yoga.3- Joint hypermobility affects all the connective tissues in the body caused by a disruption in the collagen. It affects your joint, but also your skin, your blood vessels, your gut lining. 4- Whatever movement you don't do, you loose.5- Transitions are just a series

This episode is part of our PREMIUM subscription. To get access to it, visit Patreon.com/onandoffyourmat and become a member. On the 5$ tier, you get one new exclusive content every month, like this episode with me on self-care, plus the other regular episodes in the video, uncut and uncensored format. With the other tiers, you can also have access to some or all the classes I’ve been recording and continue to record during this shelter in place.In today’s episode, I talk about self-care. What is my definition of self-care, why I think it’s important, and what is actually looks like beyond bubble baths and candles… You feel inspired and empowered in your own practice of self-care. This episode was requested by a few Patreon members. Thank you for the request and please continue to send them my way.Know that as you become a PREMIUM member, Your contribution ripples to thousands of people every month, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis, helping cover production cos

For this episode, I sat down with Yogarupa Rod Stryker. Rod is a world-renowned yoga and meditation teacher, guiding and sharing his wisdom for 40 years. He is the founder of ParaYoga®, and the author of The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom. He is the creator of one of the most comprehensive online yoga trainings in the world and most recently, the app Sanctuary, a premier destination for all levels of those wanting to experience the life-changing practices of meditation and yoga nidra, Rod has dedicated his life to improving lives through his lectures, writing, practice, teaching, leadership, service and family life.MY 5 BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:1- Hierarchy in teaching doesn't have to be informed my patriarchy or dominance. The role of a teacher is to lead by definition, but to eventually make themselves obsolete, by empowering their students so they can walk away and stand in their own wisdom and capacities.2- Ultimately w

For this episode, I sat down with Robert Sturman. Robert is a dedicated yoga practitioner and photographer capturing the timeless grace and embodied mindfulness of yoga in his work. His stunning repertoire of portraits runs the gamut from yogis perched on rocks surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, to African orphans practicing yoga in Kenya, to breast cancer survivors, bare-chested and scarred. In addition, Sturman has worked extensively photographing war veterans who have embraced the practice of yoga to heal PTSD, first responders and more. He has been an Official Artist of the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2008 United States Olympics. MY 5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:1- Photography is a way to pay attention, recognize, see, and acknowledge to the person you look at.2 - Photography can be like positive propaganda. You can share new ideas that will become the norm. You can change the world through the images you take. It's the most influential form of communi

This is on and off your mat podcast, exclusive episode #62: Yoga Nidra. This episode is part of our PREMIUM subscription. To get access to it, visit Patreon.com/onandoffyourmat and become a member. On the 5$ tier, you get one new exclusive content every month, like this meditation, plus the other regular episodes in the video, uncut and uncensored format. With the other tiers, you can also have access to some or all the classes I’ve been recording and continue to record during this shelter in place.With today’s episode, you get a 25 minutes reclined guided meditation, perfect to relax fully during the day or to get ready for bed. Thank you for the request and please continue to send them my way.Know that as you become a PREMIUM member, your contribution ripples to thousands of people every month, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis, helping cover production costs and simply help me continue to offer this podcast, which I love to do so. I truly appreciate you.Suppo

For this episode, I sat down with J.Brown. J is a yoga teacher, writer, and podcaster. He is at the forefront of a quiet yoga revolution, based in healing, that seeks to change the dialogue and direction of yoga practice in the west. His writing has been featured in Yoga Therapy Today, the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, and across the yoga blogosphere. His podcast is internationally renowned for raising the level of conversation around the practice.MY 5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:1- The point to do one-on-one is to adapt the practice to the needs of the students. In a group class, if you use simplicity and repetition in the sequence, students get to know what is coming and if you offer tools so students learn how to individualize the practice, you can as a teacher walk around, and help in a way that the group practice becomes closer to a personal, one-on-one practice.  2- Less is more. Simple breathing and simple movement can have huge impact. They teach yo

For this episode, I sat down with Bethany C. Meyers. Bethany is the founder of the online sensation, the be.come project, is a master instructor and entrepreneur with a message known for inclusivity and body-neutrality. Their unique approach to movement awakens clients in profound ways. Meyers’ voice stands apart in the fitness world as a leader in dismantling beauty standards. They are also a champion of the LGBTQ+ community.MY 5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE:1- Language affects the way we move. Use your words to honor where your bodies is, connect to how you feel and choose what serves you best, what is right for your body. Shame and punishment do not yield long term results.2- Body neutrality is respecting our bodies no matters how you feel about it that day.3- Ask yourself why you need to comment on someone else's body appearance and how often you do it, why you do it and how it might impact them. You have no idea about what they are going through. 4- Gender is more complicated t

This episode is part of our PREMIUM subscription. To get access to it, visit patreon.com/onandoffyourmat and become a member.With this episode, you get a 30 minutes full body sequence video flow to follow along and do at home with me. This one was also a request! If you have requests please let me know about them, I'm happy to create content just for you!Know that as you become a PREMIUM member, your contribution ripples to thousands of people every month, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis, helping cover production costs and simply help me continue to offer this podcast. I truly appreciate you.You get one new exclusive episode a month, plus the other regular episodes in the video, uncut and uncensored format.We are also adding new tiers, if you want regular video classes, you'll have more options. Stay tuned and visit patreon.com/onandoffyourmat for more details.Ok! That’s it for now. Stay tuned for our next episode!Thank you guys, until next time!Support t

For this episode, I sat down with Judith Hanson Lasater. Judith has a Ph.D in East-West psychology, she’s a trained, Physical Therapist and has been teaching yoga since 1971. She trains students and teachers throughout the United States as well as abroad. She is the co-founder of Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a founder of the Yoga Journal magazine and is president of the California Yoga Teachers Association. She has written eight books, including her most recent one called: Restore and Rebalance: Yoga for Deep Relaxation.MY 5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE:1- Restorative yoga is remembering to be still every day. When we are still, silence arises. When silence arises, fear melts away. When fear melts away, there's space for spontaneous gratitude, joy, compassion and empathy. From there's an integration of our being.2- You can't force yourself to relax, but you can carve out 20 minutes a day to do nothing. Doing nothing is the best thing you can do for yourself. It's a radical

For this episode I sat down with Trina Altman.Trina is the creator of the programs Yoga Deconstructed® and Pilates Deconstructed®, which we’ll talk about today. On top of her public, privates and online classes and courses, Trina has presented at Kripalu, the Yoga Alliance Leadership Conference and Yogaworks, among others. She also created and taught a Pilates continuing-education course for physical therapists and was part of the faculty for the Brain Longevity conference at UCLA.MY 5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE:1- Body weight activities, repetition, and low variability adds more risks for injury. Play with load, range of motion, direction of movement, plane of movement, open chain/close chain, orientation to gravity, intensity, tempo, etc.2- There's huge value in one-on-one lessons. You can learn faster and get an individualized, customized, personalized approach to your movement. Progression is faster, there's more possibility for leaning and it's easier to avoid injur

This episode is part of our PREMIUM subscription. To get access to it, visit Patreon.com/onandoffyourmat and become a member.In that episode, we explore 3 ways to get assistance in making decisions. We can ask the mind and the body for intuitive guidance by using different styles of a question, and observing the information we receive in sensations, imagines, sounds, words, feelings to get clarity on the next right action for us.Know that as you become a PREMIUM member, Your contribution ripples to thousands of people every month, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis, helping cover production costs and simply help me continue to offer this podcast. I truly appreciate you.You get one new exclusive episode a month, plus the other regular episodes in the video, uncut and uncensored. Ok! That’s it for now. Stay tuned for our next episodeThank you guys, until next time!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/on-and-off-your-mat-yoga-podcast. See acast.com/priv

For this episode I sat down with Karen Newell. Karen is the co-founder of Sacred Acoustics and co-author with Dr. Eben Alexander of the book Living in a Mindful Universe :A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness. As an innovator in the emerging field of brainwave entrainment audio meditation, she empowers others in their journeys of self-discovery. Creating and recording binaural beats and other sound patterns, she teaches how to connect to inner guidance, achieve inspiration, improve wellness and develop intuition.MY 5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE:1- Delta brain waves are associated with deep sleep, Theta are associated with deep mediation, Alpha is for focus and concentration, and Beta, is the state we are in thinking and going about our days.2- The sounds don't affect the physical body directly but change your awareness of your body, your level of identification with the physical and non-physical parts of yourself, it affect the mental, energetic, emotional and spiritu

For our 54th episode, I sat down with Rebecca Urban. Rebecca, known in yoga circles as "Bex," has led Yoga and Pilates classes since 2000. As a child, Bex was introduced to many spiritual teachers and practices, igniting a thirst for spiritual insight and physical well being that has inspired her all of her life. Her father introduced her to meditation at age 4, by 6 she was visiting the Insight Meditation Society, Massachusetts. In 1983, Ram Dass came to her family home to gather with a group of psychologists about a book he was writing. At 12, Bex had the honor of meeting the Dalai Lama and presenting him with a rose. Since 2003, Bex has worked one-on-one with clients in her own private space and online at UrbanGlo Studio, where she offers sessions in Pilates, Yoga, Reiki and intuitive healing. 5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE:1- You might be rolling your mat at the end of the practice and it will be unrolling in front of you all day long.2- Why do you need to wait that the plane is crashing to pu

This episode is part of our PREMIUM subscription. To get access to it, visit Patreon.com/onandoffyourmat and become a member.In today's episode, I go over pretty my whole life story from birth to now. I’m talking really openly about my struggles with anxiety, depression, eating disorder, and chronic illness, and i finish by sharing my hopes for the future.Know that as you become a PREMIUM member, Your contribution ripples to thousands of people every month, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis, helping cover production costs and simply helping me continue to offer this podcast. I truly appreciate you.You get one new exclusive episode a month, plus the other regular episodes in the video, uncut and uncensored. I hope you enjoy!Thank you guys, until next time!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/on-and-off-your-mat-yoga-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For our 52nd episode, I sat down with Alexandria Crow. Alexandria is an internationally respected teachers’ teacher who leads teacher trainings and workshops around the world. Through her Yoga Physics methodology, her in-person continuing education workshops and online DeConstruct to ReConstruct Course, as well as her 300 hour teacher intensive, she aims to clearly explain the what, why’s and how’s of asana, meditation and yogic philosophy making the practice approachable for everyone, of every level and of every walk of life. As a former competitive gymnast, she fell in love with yoga but through a series of significant and unforeseen injuries her practice and teaching has dramatically evolved to focus on sustainability and accessibility.5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE:1- We have to stop being afraid to do what is wise for us instead of what we were told was the advanced pose. Be skillful and let go the rules. Investigate and make an inform decision instead of relying on the "pre-fa

For our 51st episode, I sat down with Noah Mazé. Noah co-founded his school, The Mazé Method with his wife, Tracy, nearly a decade ago. Together they have pioneered training content to enhance and sharpen the skills of yoga teacher around the world. Noah serves as faculty for teacher trainings internationally, and acts as a consultant to corporations developing yoga education programs. He is a regular presenter at Wanderlust Festivals and contributes to publications including Yoga International, Yoga Journal and more. He offers online classes at Yoga International, Wanderlust TV, and OmStars, and offers a vast array of online content via his own site.5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE:1- Teacher trainings are not only for students that want to be teachers. You can have other goals in that learning experience. A 200H is just scratching the surface. There's always more to learn. We are never really done being a student of yoga, even when you are a certified teacher.2- Being a good teacher is being authe

For this episode, I sat down with Sally Kempton. Sally is a widely respected teacher of meditation and spiritual wisdom. She has spent over four decades practicing, teaching, and writing on meditation and spiritual philosophy. Sally spent 20 years as a swami in a traditional Vedic order of monks. Sally is the author of the best-selling books "Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga" and of "Meditation for the Love of It,”, and an audio program called Doorways to the Infinite: The Art and Practice of Tantric Meditation. She is on the faculty at Esalen and Kripalu, teaches meditation on the websites Glo.com, Gaia.com, and Yogajournal.com, and is a contributing editor at Yoga Journal. Sally teaches online courses and seminars on meditation and spiritual philosophy, and leads retreats and workshops in the U.S., Canada and Europe.5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE1-We are in the middle of a shift in global consciousness. You can see as a curse, a result as our global carelessness or

For our 49th episode, I sat down with Heidi Kristoffer. Heidi is the creator and producer of CrossFlowX™,Microsoft Bing Fitness Yoga & MSN Yoga, and wellness expert for and contributor to multiple online platforms. She was rated one of the: Hottest Trainers in America by Shape Magazine, most inspiring yoga teachers in the world by DoYouYoga, and most popular instructors in NYC by RateYourBurn and ClassPass. Heidi can often be seen featured as an expert on television and in magazines worldwide. Her goal is to make yoga, health, strength, and whole, happy living accessible to everyone.5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE1- Yoga teaches you that you are enough. No effort required. Remember this and show up exactly as who you are. Being yourself is the only way to be truly inspiring. Draw from your own experience, from what matters to you, what drives you. 2- Learning inversions and arm balances is a gift to build confidence, capability, strength and independence. 3- Never make an im

For our 48th episode, I sat down with Tommy Rosen. Tommy is an internationally renowned yoga teacher and addiction recovery expert who has spent the last two decades immersed in recovery and wellness. He holds advanced certifications in both Kundalini and Hatha Yoga and has 28 years of continuous recovery from addiction. Tommy is one of the pioneers in the field of Yoga and Recovery. He is the founder and CEO of the Recovery 2.0. A program that includes Online Conferences, Group Coaching , a recovery coach training, international retreats and workshops, a podcast called the Power hour and a critically-acclaimed book Recovery 2.0: Move Beyond Addiction and Upgrade Your Life5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODEThe energy of addiction is an inter-generational tread that builds patterns of behavior that are created intending to solve challenging and complex emotional issues in the family. As we grow up, we continue these patterns of behaviors. Addiction is any behavior you continue despite it

For our 47th episode, I sat down with Henry Winslow. Henry is a dedicated yoga practitioner whose teaching is rooted in the Ghosh, Ashtanga, and Dharma Yoga traditions. In 2018, Henry took first place in the International Yoga Sport Federation's World Championships, and started to host his own podcast called Dharma Talk and in 2019, he launched the Henry Yoga app, a 40-day program for anyone looking to get serious about yoga, no matter their budget or schedule.5 BIGGEST TAKE-AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE1- The competition is about your mind vs your deeper sens of self. It's not about pinning yogis against each others.2- Never place limitation on yourself based on assumptions. You can have whatever you want in this life as long as your interested and engaged in the process.3- It's impossible to be out of your dharma. Dharma is an evolution of your life and your soul in this embodied life. Every step you take on your path leads to the next. 4- Yoga is a critical practice in understanding who you ar