What a fun episode we have today! As many already know, I loooooove astrology, both Western and Vedic, as well as some of the more “woo-woo” esoteric studies, like Human Design. That said, my favorite personality typing tool is the Enneagram, which I use to help my coaching clients explore more deeply their unconscious patterning. However, today we have a unique guest who’s offering us a different kind of grand synthesis to help us uncover a deeper understanding of ourselves. Although you might think you know who you are already (which is understandable as you do live with yourself every day)… This Gene Key reading with our guest Rachel White blew us away! Rachel White is an Australian author, speaker, coach, gene keys guide, and artist of life. Rachel is what you might call a “witchy women” who is sharing some profound insights regarding our unique gifts and essence, and she’s here to help guide you too! You’re going to hear us enthusiastically jump head first into this hilarious and insightful discussion. We can’t hold back today, spontaneously asking what each line and number means. Before pursuing her creative path, Rachel worked as a professional accountant for eight years, so she has a special affinity for numbers, as well as a talent for reading into and remembering the deeper meanings behind them. March 31 - April 2 - Come practice with me in Kansas City! - harmonyslater.com/events JUNE 1 - 12, 2023 All-Inclusive Turkey Retreat! GET DETAILS - harmonyslater.com/yoga-retreat-turkey FIND OUT MORE ABOUT RACHEL WHITE INSTAGRAM I WEBSITE - byrachelwhite.com A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support. Make A Donation - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review! ❤ Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify Here. Purchase your own copy Here.

Mind–body dualism is a philosophical view which holds that mental phenomena are, at least in certain respects, not physical phenomena, meaning that the mind and the body are distinct and separable from one another. Of course… If you practice yoga, you know this is definitely not the case. We feel, think, and often remember through our body. Our body is a part of Prakriti “primary subatomic particles.” Our minds are also a part Prakriti. And what is left after prakriti is gone is simply awareness: Purusha, what we might call “Presence.” We are awareness you and I. We are linked. This is Paramatman. We are joined this way. False dichotomies are rife in our society. Red Blue. Body Mind. Them Us. High Brow Low Brow. Our guest today, our dear friend, Erik Jacobsen is a student. Self taught. In that he’s a life long learner with a passion for understanding being and demonstrating right action. Erik is a tattoo artist. He’s punk. He’s self made. He went to art school (but that is not exactly school) and has buried his art in the ground. And he’s buried it inside this impermanent flesh — another kind of ground. But Erik is also this: He’s an artist whose material, whose ground, is the the body. And nothing more so activates his art then his audience… The flesh. Flesh which itself represents the consciousness waking up, aware of itself housed inside a body. In painting we often refer to the ground as two things: First, it’s the treatment of the canvas or wood with a preservative that keeps the oil from eating away at it. Second, it’s the space in which the subject sits—an apple for example. The mistake a young artist often makes is to say that two are separate. That is to say, the subject becomes an object with no context. And to suggest that the context doesn’t affect the subject is a lie. That the light is not a part of the being of the apple is an untruth. The apple is light. Absolutely everything is made of stardust. And this is where we're meeting Jacob today... somewhere amongst the stars.  JUNE 1 - 12, 2023 All-Inclusive Turkey Retreat! GET DETAILS - harmonyslater.com/events FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ERIK JACOBSEN INSTAGRAM  I  WEBSITE  Practice with me in person in March 2023 Kansas City:  March 31 - April 2  Learn more   - harmonyslater.com/events FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ERIK JACOBSEN INSTAGRAM  I  WEBSITE A  big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around  the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your   comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s   podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating!

We have such a joyous person  to share with you today!  We have the Handstanding Grandma!!  Surprised to find out she’s almost the same age as us tho. Weird. Seeing a lot of guys out there OUR AGE just dying off. Having heart attacks and brain aneurysms. Normal end of life stuff (rip Tom Sizemore). So Stop it!!  Roll out your yoga mat out, get your chai all warmed up. We are going to spend this Sunday morning having the most delightful time. Lotta Sebzda has been practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa since 1999 and is a 56 year old grandmother as well an inspiring teacher both in person as well as on her online platforms! The secret to Lotta’s continued love for the physical and spiritual practice… CURIOSITY! If you don’t think Ashtanga yoga is for you… if you’re feeling too old, too tired, too fat, too stiff…  This is one episode you won’t want to miss! Lotta shares her story and experience on how to continuing practicing through injuries and aging. Yoga students always tell her that they “can’t wait to be like her when they’re old" and this is greatly motivating! In honour of International Women’s Day! YOGA GIVES BACK - WOMEN IN YOGA CONFERENCE - Make A Donation. Watch the replay! DONATE HERE - yogagivesback.org Practice with me in person in March 2023 Tenerife, Spain:  March 11 - 21 Kansas City:  March 31 - April 2  Learn more   - harmonyslater.com/events FIND OUT MORE ABOUT LOTTA SEBZDA - INSTAGRAM - @lottasebzdayoga The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A  big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around  the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your   comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s   podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify Here. Purchase your own copy Here.

It is with great pleasure that I got to sit down and connect with my dear friend Mariela Cruz. Mariela is one of those phenomenal human who’s devotion and dedication is palpable. She’s heart-centered and gifted with supreme powers of intelligence, wit, and physical prowess! With 7 children, a lawyer, a gifted solo pianist, she’s also and Advanced Asana practitioner, studying with Sharath Jois in Mysore, India for the past twenty years. She was an ambassador to India on behalf of Costa Rica…. and the list of accomplishments goes on and on… and she still has half a lifetime more to live. >>> Listen to our past episode with Mariela where we talk about her journey to Ashtanga yoga. We’re diving into the power of the feminine energy, how the different Ashtanga yoga series embody different types of energy, and calling upon the goddess archetypes as a guide during different phases of life. With International Women’s Day approaching on March 8th, this is the perfect way to reflect on the powerful experience of being born as female and what it means to embody this energy. YOGA GIVES BACK - WOMEN IN YOGA CONFERENCE - March 4th JOIN HERE - yogagivesback.org Practice with me in person in March 2023 Tenerife, Spain:  March 11 - 21 Kansas City:  March 31 - April 2  Learn more   - harmonyslater.com/events FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MARIELA CRUZ Instagram  I  YouTube  I  Women of Ashtanga  I Yoga Gives Back The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A  big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around  the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your   comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s   podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify Here. Purchase your own copy Here.

Halfway through this episode Russell exclaims, “Goodness, you are just a really nice, wholesome person, Marque!” And, our guest today well and truly is! You’ll find him somewhere in the woods, far away from the hustle of city life, enjoying a solitary life near lake Erie in Ohio. As it turns out, it’s near what must be God’s country, I’m sure. Where if you bathe in snow, drink fresh spring water, sleep on top of a coffin, and eat grilled beef liver (but only once a month), you might too become a master of the esoteric arts of ancient yoga. There is something just marvelously endearing about Garaux’s pursuit of perfection. Marque discovered Ashtanga Yoga while seeking different ways to  alleviate his lower back pain. After noticing an almost immediate  physical change, Marque then slowly began to see other positive changes  happening in his life as well. With no Ashtanga teachers in the area, he  found himself with no choice but to get up early and practice on his  own before work everyday. During this time Marque also attended a 200  teacher training and several Ashtanga workshops and intensives to deepen  his understanding of this beautiful system. Marque is the owner of Great Lakes Ashtanga Yoga which is located on 8  wooded acres in Geneva, Ohio. He offers a traditional Mysore program,  private lessons and workshops. B-School Closes THIS WEEK! Thursday Feb.23 -  Find Out More  Find Out More About My B-School Bonus Experience - harmonyslater.com/b-school-marie-forleo Practice with me in March 2023 Tenerife, Spain:  March 11 - 21 Kansas City:  March 31 - April 2  Learn more   - harmonyslater.com/events FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MARQUE WEBSITE  I  INSTAGRAM The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A  big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around  the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your   comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s   podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify Here. Purchase your own copy Here.

Today, we’re talking about how we can best serve and hold space within our classrooms, yoga spaces, and with our clients. It’s with great joy that we welcome back our dearest friend Lara Land. Lara speaks today about some of her personal experiences that brought her to this chosen path… How she started off teaching yoga in Rwanda to survivors of genocide. Then, after opening her yoga school in Harlem, NY, she recognized that her yoga space required a different kind of awareness and presence. She felt called to share these powerful tools with those who may never venture into a yoga studio. So, she established her non-profit organization dedicated bringing trauma sensitive yoga and mindfulness to those who need it most. We need to be trauma informed in our teaching, as we facilitate wellness spaces, now more than ever.  Lara’s new book, The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga, couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s now available for pre-order! Listen to our past episode with Lara Land: Planting the Seeds to Breathe -  -  -  -  -  -  - Join B-School:  Find Out More  Find Out More About My B-School Bonus Experience - harmonyslater.com/b-school-marie-forleo Jump into Marie’s Free Masterclass!  Save Your Seat  Practice with me in March 2023 Tenerife, Spain:  March 11 - 21 Kansas City:  March 31 - April 2  Learn more   - harmonyslater.com/events FIND OUT MORE ABOUT LARA LAND & GET HER BOOKS! WEBSITE  - laraland.us I  INSTAGRAM  @laralandyoga I  The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga  I  My Bliss Book  (20% Off with code: Harmony) I Non-Profit  @threeandahalfacresyoga The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate

Right in the middle of this episode Harmony said to Russell “We need to get to the yoga part!” He said “Everybody does the yoga part! Ellie is a Cultural Studies professor. Lets ask about that! Deconstruct Orientalism or Japan or her personal experience with colonialism and being the Other!” Harmony sighed and said “Fine” “So.. Dr. Smith, what are Cultural Studies?” And Ellie said, “Oh gosh. I haven’t a clue.” So begins our absolutely scintillating conversation with the effervescent and gorgeously insightful Ellie Smith: A recovering academic, now yoga teacher, entrepreneur, and writer with a persistent curiosity about the world, both natural and human, Ellie Smith is an absolute delightful human to spend time with. Born and raised in Cornwall, U.K, after completing University in 2005, Ellie took a “gap year” and has ended up spending the last 17 years living in Japan becoming an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, teaching at a university in Nagoya. Ellie is passionate about helping yoga beginners and the yoga curious navigate their way into the often confusing realm of yoga, using the methods she’s learned through her Ashtanga practice, becoming certified in the traditions of Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga, and Trauma-sensitive Yoga teaching. Come Join the FREE Dream Business Bootcamp Challenge!     Save Your Spot     Practice with me in March 2023 Tenerife, Spain:  March 11 - 21 Kansas City:  March 31 - April 2     Learn more   - harmonyslater.com/events FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ELLIE SMITH WEBSITE  I  INSTAGRAM - elliesmithyoga.com The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A  big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around  the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your   comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s   podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify Here. Purchase your own copy Here.

A meta critique came up in our conversation about the mythic “Hero’s Journey.” The Hero, which so often gendered male, is larger than life (think Brad Pitt—super cut with deliciously sumptuous lips.) The Hero symbolizes an impossible reality. And yet, somehow, we are surrounded by quiet heroes every single day. Bella is one of these quiet heroes. Overshadowed on Instagram (a different Meta altogether) by images of bodies demonstrating superhuman feats that appear impossible by any “normal” standards. Somehow our mind is tricked into connecting these Superhuman displays of prowess to symbolize a successful inner quest culminating in God Realization. Bella Sarna is interested in creating a different kind of space. She’s focused on cultivating a little sanctuary to come home to. A sanctuary that’s as much a sacred place inside her heart, as it is a beautiful room to step into. Isn’t that after all the true purpose of Yoga? To find refuge within ourselves. To come home to a quiet integration of our mind, body, and spirit. Our guest today is doing just that. Bella Sarna is a Yoga facilitator and deeply devoted student of Ashtanga Yoga. She is also a mother, an Entrepreneur, and works as the Marketing Director and Owner of boutique Interior Design business, where she creates beautiful residential and retail spaces. Read more... harmonyslater.com/finding-harmony-podcast Come Join the FREE Dream Business Bootcamp Challenge!     Save Your Spot     Practice with me in March 2023 Tenerife, Spain:  March 11 - 21 Kansas City:  March 31 - April 2     Learn more   - harmonyslater.com/events FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ANNABELLA SARNA FOLLOW BELLA ON INSTAGRAM  I  INTERIOR DESIGN INSTAGRAM  The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A  big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around  the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your   comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s   podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify Here. Purchase your own copy Here.

We had the sense today that we were speaking with a soul who has a transcendent sense of  confidence in herself. Not in any way an arrogant sense of entitlement, nor in a narcissistic way. But, someone who has the confidence that comes with not fearing death. Death being that slow cool release from a lifetime of bubbling growth, in the way that water must fall off a mountainside. The water has to fall eventually. So why not bathe yourself in it? Mara Branscombe is a mother, writer, yogi, artist, teacher, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spiritual coach. She is the author  of “Ritual As Remedy: Embodied Practices For Soul Care.” Mara is  passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, creativity, mind–body practices, and earth-based rituals into her life and work, and she’s been leading community ceremony since 2000. An adventurous spirit, Mara has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, trekked across the Himalayas, studied yoga in India, planted trees in Canada’s north, lived off the grid in a remote cabin in the woods, worked as a Waldorf (Steiner School) teacher, and then found her passion for dance and choreography. Ritual as Remedy: Embodied Practices for Soul Care In this evocative and inspiring guide to ritual as healing balm for the psyche and soul, Mara Branscombe shares potent self-care and soul-care rituals that awaken freedom, joy, depth of spirit, and wild, untamed self-love. Harnessing the power of imagery and poetry, she shows how  ritual can serve as a way to ground yourself, invite in the new, let go of what needs to be shed, and tap into your own inner powers. Practice with me January 28: Sacred Cycle Sequence: Save Your Spot - harmonyslater.com - keenonyoga.com/events/harmony-slater-sacred-cycle-sequence/?occurrence=2023-01-28 Practice with me in Kansas City Feb.3-5 Learn more - mayayoga.com/workshops-1/harmony-slater FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MARA BRANSCOMBE INSTAGRAM  I  WEBSITE - marabranscombe.com The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your  comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s  podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support. Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Click Here.

We’ve signed up for something special today! Harmony’s had us get our human design charts done by a specialist, and guess what? We’re really compatible! Hell, we already knew that!  But it sure was cool to hear how a Manifesting Generator with ‘sacral authority’ matches so beautifully with a Projector with SPLENIC AUTHORITY! What a fascinating conversation. Please curl up with your cup of tea or roll out the kinks on your Yoga Wheel and meet Adriana Keefe! Adriana is mom to three young children, a human design coach and spiritual strategist, lover of wine, and salt-of-the-earth woman. She’s committed to helping high achieving women create harmony in life without sacrificing their goals. (Harmony loves creating more harmony in her life!) As a small business owner multiple times over, Adriana also knows what it’s like to have many competing demands on her time and attention. Her mission is to support other women to listen deeply to their energy, by leaning into their unique human design strategy, so they can step into their authentic energetic flow, where life becomes easy and less forceful. (Russell, for example has floated around for 47 years only doing exactly what feels natural to him. He’s always felt a bit guilty about how easy his life is. Learn how he doesn’t have to anymore! - LOL) Madame Keefe combines spiritual and emotional techniques with tangible skill and logical steps to create a life of harmony and balance using the philosophy and tools she’s learned from studying Human Design. Time Genius CLOSES This Week! Get it before it’s gone!     Sign Up & Get My Bonus Experience    - harmonyslater.com/time-genius FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ADRIANA INSTAGRAM  I WEBSITE - adrianakeefe.com The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your  comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s  podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support. Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Click Here.

Katie told us that ours was the “single most fun podcast she’d ever been on. Bar none!” High praise to be sure. We were SO delighted! Getting to know Katie Silcox is like unwrapping a beautiful gift that keeps revealing more lovely surprises hidden inside the layers and folds: The Southern Belle as Mystic who shares openly about her journey and struggles, what brought her to seek out the wisdom traditions of the East and ultimately what’s inspired her to explore the philosophical teachings of the West. We’re exploring many of the fascinating intersections of Katie’s life, from teaching computers (human robots) to feel, to losing herself inside the weird, wonderful, and wild world of the Indian subcontinent, to writing a book that translate the ancient teachings of Ayurveda into something fun and sassy that any modern woman would enjoy as much as picking up a Cosmo magazine. We’re exploring the connection between Western philosophy and Eastern mysticism, and how we’re living in a world where we’re trapped inside a selfie, taking a picture of a selfie, taking a picture of a selfie. How can we get out? Find out the answer in today's Finding Harmony episode... You'll discover it has something to do with making that which is unconscious, conscious. And piecing ourselves together in a way that we become “whole” or “holy,” unbreakable, and sacred.  Time Genius Opens January 9th! Sign Up & Get My Bonus Experience  - Harmonyslater.com/time-genius   The Shakti School is offering an exclusive discount to the Finding Harmony audience to study with Katie Silcox and many other incredible teachers in the year-long Ayurveda School program. Please use discount code POD100 at checkout for $100 off any of the payment options. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT KATIE & SHAKTI SCHOOL INSTAGRAM  I  YOUTUBE  I  WEBSITE - theshaktischool.com The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation.  Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support. Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Click Here.

Happy New Year! Our guest Stuart, was born and bred in Kentucky. He mentioned that he had met Babita Shrestha, our guest from episode #141, who’s a Nepalese vegan chef, back in Kentucky, years ago. This made us smile, thinking about the deep desire we share to connect with each other. Our guest today shares with us his deeply integrated sense that all beings deserve space for life. And pulls back the curtain on how, like Mr.Anderson (before he becomes Neo in the Matrix) we’ve been living in a constructed illusion where our food is concerned! Author and activist Stuart Waldner didn’t set out to be an animal welfare or plant-based spokesman. But, after two decades of exploring Earth’s greatest wonders and connecting with sacred sites around the globe, he transitioned fully to a completely vegan lifestyle in 2008. Stuart says, “Like Neo in the Matrix, the Meatrix hooked my brain and my body on what it force-fed me since birth. Since taking the red pill and becoming plant-based, I see how I was living in a world of speciesism, brainwashed by the Meatrix and hooked on its products. I believe the Meatrix held this power over me because it is a cult I was born into and never questioned.” The better he felt, not consuming animal-based products, the more he learned about the statistical connections between our dietary choices and the worldwide crises we’re about to face on a global scale. He felt called to wake people up—for our health and for the planet! Our survival as a species is intimately tied to every other living creature on the planet. The choices we make around the ways we treat and consume other beings is having a devastating effect on our precious earth, and a catastrophic price will be paid by all, if we don’t make some serious efforts to alter the course we’re on! JANUARY 7, 2023 AWAKEN YOUR SPIRITUAL VISION FOR 2023! ONLINE RETREAT SAVE YOUR SPOT - harmonyslater.com/new-year-yoga-workshop MY INNER CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP IS CLOSING SOON! FIND OUT HOW TO JOIN - harmonyslater.com/inner-circle-membership Struggling with burnout and exhaustion? Looking to reconnect to your passion, find greater purpose, and tap into that unlimited source of creative energy? I have 3 spots inside my 2023 coaching program. I’d love to connect with you to see if we would be a good fit to work together.  Fill out an application form - harmonyslater.com/coaching FIND OUT MORE ABOUT STUART  INSTAGRAM  I   WEBSITE - stuartwaldner.com If you've been enjoying our podcast, give us a 5 star rating on iTunes! Our podcast is produced, edited, and hosted by Harmony Slater, make a donation to support our continued efforts to bring you the best guests and content! 

It’s a very special Christmas episode! On this festivus morning, in the dark, on your mat, as you do your lonely yoga practice before your children awake, please feast your ears and bask in the wondrous splendiferousness energy that is Kino MacGregor! Enjoy this relaxed, informal, conversation between old friends chatting about old times, as if we were catching up at the local Coconut Stand in Gokulum after a challenging led class. We’re talking about just how hard this practice is and how hard it is to be human, to do all the things, and still have time for your spiritual growth. The real charm of Kino though, besides her effortless ability to be vulnerable, as well as her deep and critical intelligence (which might be a somewhat delightful and unexpected surprise for the average IG doomscroller) is her down to earth, straight-up honesty. She brings to the conversation an ease in describing just how hard it is be her and what she has to do in the morning to feel normal, or even able to engage with other human beings.  I think you’ll find that even though she is somewhat supernatural her abilities (not to mention super famous within the yoga world), she’s very much still human, and not afraid to lean into the fragility of her humanity. As we did, please be charmed with this very Special Christmas episode on a cheerful Sunday morning. We wish you the very best during this holiday season! JANUARY 7, 2023 AWAKEN YOUR SPIRITUAL VISION FOR A NEW YEAR! - ONLINE WORKSHOP SAVE YOUR SPOT   - harmonyslater.com/new-year-yoga-workshop MY INNER CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP CLOSING SOON! FIND OUT HOW TO JOIN - harmonyslater.com/inner-circle-membership Struggling with burnout and exhaustion? Looking to reconnect to your  passion, find greater purpose, and tap into that unlimited source of  creative energy? I’m opening up 3 spots inside my 2023 coaching program. I’d love to connect with you to see if we would be a good fit to work together.  Fill out an application form. - harmonyslater.com/coaching FIND OUT MORE ABOUT KINO INSTAGRAM I  YOUTUBE  I  FACEBOOK  I  WEBSITE - kinoyoga.com The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your  comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s  podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful  for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation    - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating!

Kia Miller is someone who lives a radiant and integrated life! She brings the inside to the outside world and in her meditations she brings the outside into her room. Sometimes that’s as simple as opening a window, even on the coldest of winter mornings. Kia describes her childhood as a paradise on the Falkland Islands amidst millions of sheep and a handful of shepherds and children. A paradise broken by tracer fire and the simple act of soldiers dying in front of her. Death is such a common denominator to life; yet somehow continues to mystify and shock us all at once. Beginning her journey with a deep dive into the Ashtanga method, Kia  started to explore other forms of asana practice, Iyengar, Vinyasa, and  finally immersed herself fully into the Kundalini Yoga lineage. She’s integrated her experiences to create a radiant body and deeply integrated life through her study and practice of asana, meditation, and dynamic vibrating pranayama, she not only spends time on her mat, but lives the yoga each and every day. At any rate, she had to run, giggling and delighted with our quick chat. She promises to come back and chat again about her rip roaring life of modelling shoots, documentary film, and kundalini classes with supermodels in LA. What a cosmic creature! JANUARY 7, 2023 AWAKEN YOUR SPIRITUAL VISION FOR A NEW YEAR! - ONLINE WORKSHOP SAVE YOUR SPOT   - harmonyslater.com/new-year-yoga-workshop MY INNER CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP CLOSING SOON! FIND OUT HOW TO JOIN - harmonyslater.com/inner-circle-membership Struggling with burnout and exhaustion? Looking to reconnect to your  passion, find greater purpose, and tap into that unlimited source of  creative energy? I’m opening up 3 spots inside my 2023 coaching program. I’d love to connect with you to see if we would be a good fit to work together.  Fill out an application form. - harmonyslater.com/coaching FIND OUT MORE ABOUT KIA INSTAGRAM I  YOUTUBE  I  FACEBOOK  I  WEBSITE - kiamiller.com The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your  comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s  podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful  for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation    - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating!

Mama, Humanitarian, Artist, Poet, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur, Teacher, and Mentor… Elena Brower has woven together a transcendental tapestry of conscious awareness through myriad diverse roles and interests, all of which bring her joy, to create a life that exemplifies compassion in action. It was such a true honor and blessing to have this time to sit alongside Elena this morning. We learn how her journey along the path of yoga began, how it’s continued to blossom into a study and practice of Zen Buddhism, and how the full spectrum of spiritual awakening has bathed every aspect of her life in radiant light. We feel we’ve asked some important questions, like how we can turn every  action, conversation, responsibility, or thought into an opportunity  for spiritual awakening. And as you’ll hear all throughout this episode…  Elena has some deep and delicious wisdom to share. Elena has taught yoga and meditation since 1999. Her first book, Art of  Attention, has been translated into seven languages, and her second,  Practice You Journal, is a bestseller. Her third book, Being You  Journal, was released in early 2021. Elena has two books coming in 2023,  Nurturing You Journal and Softening Time, a collection of her poetry. DECEMBER 18, 2022 SPIRIT-CENTERED SELF-CARE ONLINE RETREAT     SAVE YOUR SPOT    - harmonyslater.com/spirit-centered-self-care-retreat MY INNER CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP CLOSING SOON! FIND OUT HOW TO JOIN - harmonyslater.com/inner-circle-membership Struggling with burnout and exhaustion? Looking to reconnect to your  passion, find greater purpose, and tap into that unlimited source of  creative energy? I’m opening up 3 spots inside my 2023 coaching program. I’d love to connect with you to see if we would be a good fit to work together.  Fill out an application form. - harmonyslater.com/coaching FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ELENA INSTAGRAM  I  Practice You Podcast  I  FACEBOOK  I  WEBSITE - elenabrower.com The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your  comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s  podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful  for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation    - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating!

Today, we are absolutely delighted to present to you an amazingly self made woman. Babita comes from one of those rare villages in modern life, so ubiquitous in the developing world with hard-baked Nepalese mud floors and kerosene burners for cooking. And, that is in fact, how Babita learned to cook by her grandfather’s side.  Listen in amazement as she tells the story of how she became an art and film student studying in Minnesota, and now a Barnes and Nobles best selling cook book author. Babita Shrestha is a plant-based chef, photographer, graphic designer, and the author of 'Plant-based Himalaya.' As the oldest child of the family, it was her responsibility to cook  and it quickly grew into a true passion. Later, as an entrepreneur, she started Vegan Nepal in Lexington, Kentucky in 2017. In 2019, Babita put her full focus on her passion project, a beautifully photographed cookbook titled “Plant-Based Himalaya”. Every recipe, photo, illustration, and even layout is of her own fabrication. Featuring 250 beautiful full-color photos, ‘Plant-Based Himalaya,’ is designed to inspire you to cook and eat exquisitely vegan  home-style Nepali cuisine. Make it exceptional, and share it with your  loved ones! MY INNER CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP IS NOW OPEN! FIND OUT HOW TO JOIN - harmonyslater.com/inner-circle-membership Struggling with burnout and exhaustion? Looking to reconnect to your passion, find greater purpose, and tap into that unlimited source of creative energy? I’m opening up 3 spots inside my 2023 coaching program. I’d love to connect with you to see if we would be a good fit to work together.  Fill out an application form. - harmonyslater.com/coaching DECEMBER 18, 2022 SPIRIT-CENTERED SELF-CARE ONLINE RETREAT     SAVE YOUR SPOT    - harmonyslater.com/spirit-centered-self-care-retreat FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BABITA INSTAGRAM  I  Plant-based Himalaya  I  FACEBOOK  I  WEBSITE The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation    - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating!

When Jeanne Heileman became a yoga teacher in 1996, there was no career for this field. She had the intention to teach once a week as a work supplement in the non-profit arts world to pay off her graduate school student debt. Three months after taking her first teacher training she found herself teaching 20 classes a week! A total life transformation that continued to evolve into her own style of yoga called Tantra Flow, which combines her 35 years of study in the practices and science of yogic disciplines, combining her love for asana, meditation, pranayama, mantra, Ayurveda, Buddhism, and Tantra in the living lineage of Sri Vidya, from Himalayan Institute under Swami Rama and Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. In this episode, we’re talking about what makes a good yoga teacher and some of the insights Jeanne has gained through her years of practicing under the guidance of many different teachers. Experience bring wisdom and Jeanne has a depth of perspective that is rare in teachers today. MY INNER CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP IS NOW OPEN! FIND OUT HOW TO JOIN - https://harmonyslater.com/inner-circle-membership Are you struggling with burnout and exhaustion? Looking to reconnect  to your passion, find greater purpose, and tap into that unlimited  source of creative energy? I’m opening up 3 spots inside my 2023 coaching program. I’d love to  connect with you to see if we would be a good fit to work together.  Fill out an application form - https://harmonyslater.com/harmony-slater-coaching FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JEANNE INSTAGRAM   I  WEBSITE  I  YOUTUBE - jeanneheileman.com The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from  around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your  comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s  podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a  donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful  for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - https://harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Click Here.

Dear Happy Humans! It is with great pleasure that we introduce you today to an old friend, Gopi Kallayil! He’s an old friend of Russell’s. They met during his Silicon Valley yoga-missionary days during a very special dinner with Rep. Tim Ryan, “the Mindful Congressman,” at a time when it seemed that mindfulness and yoga would inevitably pervade every aspect of American life. Now though, Russell is a bit more bearish on the future of human civilization. Let’s see if Gopi can talk some sense in him! Gopi Kallayil is the Chief Evangelist, head of Digital Transformation and Strategy at Google. What that exactly means… We’re going to unpack it inside this episode! In addition to being an avid yoga practitioner and teacher, Gopi is a triathlete, public speaker, global traveler, and Burning Man devotee. He has spoken at TEDx, The World Happiness Summit, and Wisdom 2.0. He is the author of two books, “The Happy Human” and “The Internet to the Inner-net,” published by Hay House. He has released three music albums titled “Kirtan Lounge.” Gopi holds a guest faculty position at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He serves on the Board of Directors of Grameen Foundation, USA. He’s also a Board Advisor to several venture funded startups in Silicon Valley. MY INNER CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP IS NOW OPEN! FIND OUT HOW TO JOIN - https://harmonyslater.com/inner-circle-membership Are you struggling with burnout and exhaustion? Looking to reconnect to your passion, find greater purpose, and tap into that unlimited source of creative energy? I’m opening up 3 spots inside my 2023 coaching program. I’d love to connect with you to see if we would be a good fit to work together.  Fill out an application form - https://harmonyslater.com/harmony-slater-coaching FIND OUT MORE ABOUT GOPI INSTAGRAM   I  THE HAPPY HUMAN   I  THE INTERNET TO THE INNER-NET  I  MYSTICAL AWAKENING ON SPOTIFY The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - https://harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Click Here.

After 20+ years in any business or doing any practice, it’s easy to become cynical… But try taking the cynical view with our guest today, Amy Priya Santos.  Ha!  She’s having none of it. Listen and see how yoga is working. Simply put, Amy is a very nice person. She’s full of love and grace and encouragement. She’s full of music, dance, and being in a flow state. She embodies, in her self effacing way, Mystic moments of consciousness— a fully immersive state with no attachments to any sense of separate self or identity. Amy talks us through her childhood as an immigrant to this country from the Philippines to upstate NY, becoming found (or possibly losing herself)  in the state of flow through her early years of dance. Becoming a yoga  student in NY in the 90’s and then taking up music and forming a band.   She became a follower and a devotee of Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma), “the  Hugging Saint.” There couldn’t be a better metaphor for how nice Amy  Priya is… We’re sure you’ll feel her energetic hug over the airwaves. MY INNER CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP IS NOW OPEN! FIND OUT HOW TO JOIN - https://harmonyslater.com/inner-circle-membership Are you struggling with burnout and exhaustion? Looking to reconnect to your passion, find greater purpose, and tap into that unlimited source of creative energy? I’m opening up 12 spots inside my coaching program. I’d love to connect with you to see if we would be a good fit to work together.  Fill out an application form - https://harmonyslater.com/harmony-slater-coaching FIND OUT MORE ABOUT AMY YOGA IG   I   INSTAGRAM   I  MUSIC IG  I  YOGA WEBSITE  I  SUNSHINE NIGHTS MUSIC  - https://www.8limbsflow.com/home The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - https://harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Click Here.

Michelle El Khoury is not only a wellness entrepreneur with a PhD and over twenty years of healthcare experience, but she’s also a wife and mother to three beautiful daughters. Her journey took her from Trinidad to the U.S, where she climbed the corporate ladder in a successful career as a pharmaceutical executive. All the while, becoming more aware as she grew up in America, how our society here is less of a creole melting pot and more like a segregated tiffin box. During her second pregnancy, she felt a strong desire to find a natural, therapeutic, way to make her birthing experience more pleasant, which led her at five months pregnant to step into her first yoga class (which coincidentally happened to be Ashtanga) at the YMCA. As she describes, “I asked the instructor if yoga was appropriate for me to try while I was pregnant. And she asked, “Can you breathe?”   “Yes” I replied. “Well, then you are already doing yoga,” she responded. And I never forgot that.” From that moment on, something deep within Michelle changed. She began to experience the transformative effects of the practice, which inspired her to dedicate her life to sharing these teachings, and seven years later, she opened a healing space dedicated to bringing yoga to pregnant persons, children, and families. YogaMazia serves as a sanctuary for students to embrace their feminine energies and realize their inherent peace through the practice of yoga and their values of G.R.A.C.E - gratitude, respect, authenticity, community and equity. Michelle was named, along with Harmony and two other teachers, as Ambassador of the Year in 2022 for their work with Yoga Gives Back. Michelle also serves as a wellness educator with Integrative Health at Children’s Health of Philadelphia, and is a collaborating author of the book “We Rise in Power: Amplifying Women of Color and Her Voices for Change,” which will be released in March 2023. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MICHELLE & YOGAMAZIA INSTAGRAM  I  WEBSITE - yogamazia.com I  YOGA GIVES BACK - yogagivesback.org FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HARMONY INSTAGRAM  I  WEBSITE - harmonyslater.com The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.     Make A Donation   - harmonyslater.com/donate Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!  ❤  Give us a 5★ rating!