Solidarity with Basia Lipska Larsen
Our guest today is a dear friend. She is so delightfully effervescent and youthful in her attitude that she could’ve been sprouted out into the world like an Athena parading out of Zeus’s skull!
Basia Lipska Larsen is a passionately cheerful person, so much so that one cannot help but smile in her presence. When we know someone as well as we do Basia, our conversation becomes much more casual. You’ll hear Russell teasing Basia recklessly as he does, and getting a few verbal pokes back as well. The charm for us occurs when we dive into questions that we would have never think to ask in person if we were just hanging out at the chai stall, or having lunch at a cafe in Mysore, India. Where we’re more likely to be caught gossiping about who got what posture that day or who was caught riding on who’s scooter (the most glaring tell in all Mysore).
We spoke to Basia about her childhood in Canada, and her own child currently growing up in Thailand; the difficulties of developing a yoga practice alongside motherhood and what shape this takes.
Russell tried very hard to talk about his Polish ex-girlfriend (which was loudly and quickly shouted down! LOL). All in all, we had such a fun time time talking to our old friend that we hope you enjoy sitting with us as well.
Basia is an artist and respected yoga icon in Poland, Norway, and Japan who has been involved with creative yoga concepts, yoga training programs and wellness collaborations in the form of production, illustration, performance, art direction, styling, yoga sequencing, and authoring. As a certified yoga professional with over two decades of experience in her field, she has created and developed training programs and held numerous retreats and workshops. From 2015- 2020, as Yoga Product Manager and Master Trainer, she was involved in the development of HiYoga of SATS - the largest fitness chain in Scandinavia.
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