FINDING HARMONY PODCAST

 

What is a spiritual practice? How does it work? How will it improve my life? How will deepening my self-care transform me? What strategies can I use to improve my life, increase my health, and create wellness? How can craft a life that I love?

The Finding Harmony Podcast gets to the root of all these questions. Each episode is full of inspiration, humour, honest observations, and actionable steps that you can integrate to enhance your experience of self-love, develop a connection to Spirit, and create a life you truly love.

Show Notes Below:

Solidarity with Basia Lipska Larsen

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…

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A Mother’s Devotion with Pranidhi Varshney

A Mother’s Devotion with Pranidhi Varshney

Happy Mother’s Day! We are so delighted to share this conversation with you this morning. This is an important week and an emotional one.

Pranidhi Varshney is the founder of Yoga Shala West, a community-supported Ashtanga Yoga studio in West Los Angeles. She is also mother to two children who she describes as “courageous and wise little beings.” The thread that runs through all her work is the desire to build community and live from the heart.

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Sara Intonato: Learning To Thrive

Sara Intonato: Learning To Thrive

It’s one thing to manage your own life, and another to do it in an emotionally intelligent, and self regulated way; Even more so, to embody the spirit of the bodhisattva, to serve and lead other parents through their own journey with Neurodiverse children.
Sara Intonato is someone all can learn from. We believe you will love hearing her story and may even take away some gems for how you can manage, cope, and thrive as a parent! Parenting and practice is never easy, but when done with the right intention, your practice can help you become an even better parent!

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Sparky's 9th Life
activism, ashtanga yoga, Acupuncture, Chinese Medicince Harmony Slater activism, ashtanga yoga, Acupuncture, Chinese Medicince Harmony Slater

Sparky's 9th Life

It is with great pleasure to introduce you to our dear friend Mark Stephen Pomianowski, known only as Sparky. He is a kind of Bay Area legend, infamous for his sense of humor, and his constant confrontations with wild (and quite literal) death defying situations. Sparky’s first life took shape as a student of the guitar and aspiring musician. Currently, he’s a sailboat captain, who took our Ashtanga yoga teacher R. Sharath Jois and his family out on a boat trip around the San Francisco Bay during his last U.S. tour in 2019.

Sparky is also a surfer (who nearly died just last week by a great white shark attack), a yogi, and most of all a father of three, who you’ll hear crawling all over him, in the background during this insanely hilarious episode!

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A Rebirthing of Self

A Rebirthing of Self

Becoming a mother is often a difficult transition. Especially for women who are dedicated Ashtanga yoga practitioners before becoming pregnant. We gain a beautiful baby, but our bodies go through a very intense process, not only from the nine months of pregnancy, but also through delivery, and also with a sometimes longer than expected period of recovery. Our physical self changes dramatically, and our spiritual, emotional and psychological selves are all undergoing a significant transformation also. Harmony and Bibi discuss the inner turmoil of wanting things to be like they used to be, and recognizing that they will never be that way, coming up against obstacles of time, obligations, responsibilities, and fatigue…

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Ashtanga Yoga Chile: In Living Colour

Ashtanga Yoga Chile: In Living Colour

We sat down with our close friend Loreto Cortés, who was the first Chilean to be Authorized by the KPJAYI, and the first person to open a fully dedicated Ashtanga Yoga school in Santiago, Chile, over 20 years ago, which continues to thrive even today! We probed Loreto about her experience as an activist, artist and yogi. We were fascinated by her universe. We are so delighted to shares her radiant life and story with you.

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Yoga and the Art of Porsche Maintenance

Yoga and the Art of Porsche Maintenance

“We are cultivating all the time, bringing things into being.” - Thimo Wittich
What strikes people about Thimo is his wonderful kindness and good humor. He is very much a sadhaka, like Rolf Naujokat and Swami Agehananda—all Good Germans. Ultimately, just good people that seek to heal the world through mindfulness practice… Listen Now.

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The Only Way Out Is Through...
Julie Choi Trepkau, podcast, ashtanga yoga, pregnancy Harmony Slater Julie Choi Trepkau, podcast, ashtanga yoga, pregnancy Harmony Slater

The Only Way Out Is Through...

In this episode we interview Julie Choi Trepkau. We dig into what it was like growing up in a traditional Korean family transplanted in America when she was four years old, and how becoming a parent herself has given her a fresh perspective on generational karma, trauma, and a newfound compassion in understanding her own parents and their struggles… Find out how this high-powered high achieving business lady at the Wall St. Journal pivoted to teaching Ashtanga yoga, actively working as a doula, and now enrolled in midwifery school in Encinitas, California.

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