Practice You With Elena Brower

On the real breaking points, perils and virtues of honest parenting, creating more time for adventure and more space to be ourselves. Vanessa Cornell founded NUSHU Society through a personal need for a soulful community of women interested in exploring the self through powerful ideas and practices. Through events based in New York, NUSHU Society creates a space where women can feel safe to connect deeply, try new things, have fun and learn. Our collective goal is to lead a passionate, authentic and joyful life. Other passions include surfing, rock climbing, wine and contemporary Japanese ceramics. Vanessa lives in New York with her husband and five children. Length: 46:54 [1:46] - Bringing people together. [2:32] - Maternal health. Christy Turlington. Every Mother Counts. [5:30] - On maintaining her identity and honoring her voice, as a mother of five. [12:02] - Paying attention to your needs as a small act of rebellion. [15:09] - Founding Nushu. Gathering women together. Allowing space for vulnerability. On

On mothering as hosting a human, lessons learned from repeating history, and remembering that what we’re healing was never broken. Length: 43:02 Timecodes: Experience on Veria with Got Zen TV show. [1:44] Rebekah’s family. Understanding what it’s like to be an other. [3:53] Motherhood. Experience of race. Belonging. Finding our way. [7:30] Healing estrangement from our parents/children. Lauren Zander. Providing a soft place to land. Seeing your child as a child of the Universe passing through. [10:12] Foster parenting. How we are all brothers and sisters. Giving your children autonomy. [19:10] Communicating directly and concisely with your partner. Lauren Zander. Radical truth. Alexandra Jamieson and Bob Gower’s ICBD: Intentions, Concerns, Boundaries, Dreams. [20:55] On writing Managing the Motherload.

On the education and empowerment of adolescent girls as one of the keys to the future of the world. Length:43:16 Timecodes: 2:05 How Girls on Fire Leaders was born. 6:24 Girls on Fire Leadership Camps. Samburu. The power of using your voice. 9:36 What drew Eileen to this work. Women and poverty. India. Kiva Fellowship (https://www.kiva.org). Manipur. Microfinance. Leadership potential. 15:40 Work with Shofco https://www.shofco.org/. Access to nature. Karura forest. Mind expansive experiences. 19:09 Partnering with other organisations. Community involvement. 20:56 High numbers of HIV among adolescent girls. How leadership programs decrease these numbers. 21:35 Collaboration. 22:30 doTERRA Healing Hands foundation is matching donations to Girls on Fire Leaders before September 15th 2019. 24:14 Workshops with boys. How do we lead with empathy and love? 26:52 Makesh teaching classes using Practice You book. 27:52 Leadership in community. Girls on Fire Leaders asking important questions. 31:21 Outcomes of Girls on

On aromatherapy as a path to activating our innate balance, understanding tissue states, and the study of Aromatic Medicine. Length: 51:05 Jade's first experience with essential oils.[2:21] Aromatherapy and massage in the UK. Marguerite Maury’s holistic approach. The oils’ potential to reduce the impact of stress on the body. [6:07] The Framework: Shifting the Paradigm, beginning with the heart: https://aromaticstudies.com/aromatic-studies-method/ [7:23] Acute intervention with the oils. Fennel and Digestion. [12:00] The body's innate ability to heal. Helping the body through the use of essential oils, to help the body do what it wants to do. [15:08] Essential oils and pharmaceuticals. [18:41] Reawakening our relationship with aromatic plants. Altering perception. Reconnecting to nature. [20:15] [How herbs and oils can co-exist. [26:15] Respect for the potency of the essential oils. [29:13] Our intuition as a valuable resource. [32:07] Western Herbal Energetics. Six tissue states: dry/moist, tension/laxity,

On the confluence of effort and grace, the benevolent forces at play, and the electric walkway of this life.

On ritualizing your practice, developing your interior world, and measuring up for joy, with Abbie Galvin, author of 'Home Practice' and founder of The Studio. Abbie Galvin is the owner of The Studio, a NYC based yoga studio, teaching Katonah Yoga. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student-base from all around the world. Abbie's instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best

Practical wisdom for separation and divorce; shifting internal narratives, prioritizing positives, taking the high road, and the importance of the long view. Length: 43:20 Timecodes: 0:43 Holding a state of being Better Apart by separating with the five pillars: Patience, Clarity, Respect, Peace and Forgiveness. 2:35 How divorce attorneys responded to the book. 5:35 Gabrielle’s work as a divorce attorney, and her experience of her own parents’ divorce. 7:40 Creating a safe environment within yourself. 9:10 Seeking help if someone is unable or afraid to leave. 10:58 Shifting your internal narrative. 12:45 Finding a counsellor or meditator to set up interim living situations. 13:44 Patience. Slowest is fastest. 17:32 Clarity. Asking for precisely what you need. Acknowledging what you brought to the table. 24:36 Peace. Reconstructing your separation/divorce as a sanctuary of possibility. Peace as a practice. Creating a mantra for yourself. 30:52 Respect for yourself and others. Creating stronger boundaries. Spen

On the life-changing art of doing less, appreciating more, and savoring the cyclical nature of your life. As an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and mother, Kate Northrup has built a multimedia digital empire with her husband, Mike Watts, that reaches hundreds of thousands globally. They are committed to supporting ambitious women to light up the world without burning themselves out in the process. Kate teaches data-driven and soul-driven time and energy management practices that result in saving time, making more money, and experiencing less stress. Kate has a membership of over 1,000 entrepreneurs called Origin® Collective that’s about infusing more feminine energy into your business and reclaiming your time, and she has also helped over 5,000 students heal their relationship with money with her signature Money Love Course. Her first book, Money: A Love Story, has been published in 5 languages, and her second book, Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms, is n

Artist and meditation teacher Gemma Gambee Lewis on the work that helps us share the most primary inner state, and taking meditation into our actions in the world. Gemma Lewis is a meditation and spiritual teacher nurturing the integration between the spirit and the mind. After a 20-year career in international fashion modeling, trend forecasting, and brand building, Gemma is most at home when sitting in meditation and teaching what this practice has generously given. She classically trained for more than two decades in the traditions of Yoga, Bhakti, the Vedas, Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism. When she is not meditating, she's wrapped up in other creative pursuits like drawing, painting and deep-diving brand strategy work in the fashion, art, design, and film industries. Resources https://www.gemmagambee.com/

Co-Founder of Flavorpill and EVRYMAN Sascha Lewis on creating community, leadership, the experiential evolution of what it means to be a man, and becoming full-spectrum humans. Length: 59:30 Timecodes: 1:25 Yoga on the Great Lawn. Flavorpill. Reggie Watts. Buddy Wakefield. 5:00 Yoga at MoMA. Pipilotti Rist exhibit. Michael Rothman. Art of Yoga at the Guggenheim. 8:48 How can culture be more accessible? Quiet Mornings at MoMA. 10:58 Evryman organisation. Dan Doty. Men from all walks of life. Permission to be raw and emotional. 21:17 Men’s work at highschool, prisons, military. Aaron Blaine. 24:53 Me Too movement. How are we going to evolve? Men learn by doing and experiencing. 30:55 Committing more time to family. We yearn for presence. Full spectrum human. 32:57 Difficult moments. Slowing down. The power of knowing that we’re heard. 33:50 Creating the container for this work. It’s a practice. 35:25 Co-ed groups. Wanderlust Wellspring. Beautiful displays of humanity. 37.00 Collective healing journey. Evolution

On prioritizing the behaviors that lead to awakening. On the kindnesses, and the softening. On breathing as physiological healing. Length: 58:29 Timecodes: 0:45 One simple thing. Overcoming the divided self. Our untapped potential. 2:54 Hierarchies in yoga. The unknown. Yoga is a practice of knowing who you are. Listening so we know what to do. 6:52 Reading Siddhartha at 15. Who am I? What am I doing here? What do I do next? Self-referral. 9:35 Being established in your awareness. 10:28 Listening and prioritizing. 12:42 Eight limbs of yoga as responsibilities. Spontaneous behavior of an awakened person. 17:20 Distracted mind is not a bad thing. 18:00 The energy that is watching. 20:25 Reorganization of the brain and yoga poses. 24:24 Eddie’s daily practice. 24:52 Breath as the easiest way to move inwards. Resonance Breathing. Nostril Breathing. The Breathing App 35:06 Strengthening and balancing the nervous system. 40:21 It is actually hard to be kind and peaceful. Why we need these practices. 41:55 The Vagus

Gabrielle Bernstein is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Universe Has Your Back and has written five additional bestsellers. She was featured on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday as a “next-generation thought leader,” and The Oprah Winfrey Network chose Gabby to be part of the “SuperSoul 100,” a group of 100 people whose vision and life’s work are bringing a higher level of consciousness to the world. The New York Times identified her as “a new role model.” Gabby appears regularly as an expert on The Dr. Oz Show and co-hosted the Guinness World Record largest guided meditation with Deepak Chopra. Her seventh book, Super Attractor, comes out in September 2019. For more on her work, visit gabbybernstein.com. Length: 34:15 Timecodes: 1:34 How Gabby inspired Elena during her recovery. May Cause Miracles book 4:00 Reframing. Re-aligning. Allowing rock bottom to be the place where the light enters. 5:50 If it isn’t real, it can’t be shared. 7:03 Being authentic and vulnerable, but also knowing when not to be.

On Nature as musical instrument, pauses as assets, honouring the elders, everyday ceremony. Includes a bonus track of Ram Dass x East Forest. Derived from the German translation of his last name, East Forest (aka Trevor Oswalt) creates a hypnotizing brand of music for old souls that blends achingly emotional wordlessness, ambience and contemporary classical touches with a touch of pop sensibilities and electronic flavors. Based in Boulder Utah, Oswalt performs internationally and is armed with a live show that is continually evolving; sometimes performing solo, sometimes with a string section, and often with theatrical elements and cinematic projections. With experiences offering music in a hospice, as well as backpacking explorations throughout the wilderness of the world including the Amazonian jungle searching for spiritual answers, his music is a connected journey that's been dubbed "a revelatory excursion in sound" (Under The Gun) that invites listeners to "go on a journey of self discovery" (Earmilk). H

On the subtlest interior shifts we can make to conduct currents of sweetness within and around us. 

Stylist, author, self-proclaimed vintage junkie and proud mom, Barri Leiner Grant has an artful eye and clever hand for the unexpected. For nearly three decades, Grant has established herself in the editorial and commercial markets—prepping, propping and conceptualizing everything from well-curated trend stories and books to memorable interior design shoots, and shows, ideation and product branding. She is tapped by leading architects, photographers and designers including brands like Crate&Barrel, Cynthia Rowley, SC Johnson, Huggies and Ulta among others, who call on her “trend-spotting” expertise. Grant translates her forward thinking vision into well-curated collaborations. Her background in yoga and meditation ignite a spirited vision to her work and the world around her. I love to call attention and admiration to the smallest and most unexpected details – it's my secret stamp. – Barri Leiner Grant Leiner Grant and her partner Marie Moss have created a jewelry company based on their love of vintage.

Former Navy Pilot and co-founder of Walkabout Yoga Liz Corwin on the victories that emerge from perceived failure, the choice to prioritize practice, and the ultimate walkabout. Liz Corwin is world traveling yoga teacher, storyteller, and creator of Walkabout Yoga Retreats & Teacher Trainings. She is also a 15-year US Navy Officer and former F-18 Navy jet pilot. Today, she still serves as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Reserves supporting the Naval War College. She began teaching yoga to the military community while on deployment in 2008 aboard the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, sharing her practice and experience with other pilots and friends. Since then she has continued traveling the world teaching yoga to both our military community and civilian population as a way to bridge the divide of understanding. Liz's teachings and storytelling focus on deep inner shadow work, redefining strength and the warrior ethos, and embracing vulnerability as we uncover true self-acceptance, self-love, and

On welcoming compassion for the string of selves you've ever been, quotes from Hourglass and Inheritance. On the corrosive power of family secrets, and the healing of the secret that Dani uncovered about her origins. On welcoming compassion for the string of selves you've ever been, quotes from Hourglass and Inheritance. On the corrosive power of family secrets, and the healing of the secret that Dani uncovered about her origins. About Dani Shapiro Dani Shapiro’s books include the memoirs, Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Her work spans diverse subjects from her tumultuous upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community and the tragic death of her father to her explorations of spirituality and the nature of our deepest relationships. Dani’s New York Times best selling memoir, Inheritance, was recently published by Knopf. Dani's essays and journalistic pieces have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, Salon, n+

Inward On meditation and the merits we carry as a result of our practice, engaging inward connections,  and cultivating heart community, with Diego Perez, the writer known as Yung Pueblo. Diego perez is the writer behind the pen name yung pueblo. The name yung pueblo means "young people." It serves to remind him of his ecuadorian roots, his experiences in activism, and that the collective of humanity is in the midst of important growth. His favorite word, liberation, took on a deeper meaning once he started meditating vipassana, as taught by s.n. goenka. Through writing and speaking, he aims to support the healing of the individual, realizing that when we release our personal burdens, we contribute to a global peace. Length: 49:17 Timecodes: 2:00 How Diego sees his work as being a part of helping the collective to grow up. 2:51 Influence of meditation and Vipassana retreats on Diego’s writing. 6:30 Diego's morning routine. 7:20 Letting go. It’s about unhinging and making peace with the past. 8:47 Remaining co

On Rituals, Practices, and Good Listening On the occasion of the release of 'Rituals for Every Day' by Nadia Narain and and Katia Narain Phillips, we gathered to chat about our own practices of listening, praying and meaning-making. Nadia Narain is one of the UK’s best loved and most respected yoga teachers. For more than 20 years, she has taught everyone from professional athletes to, pregnant women to total beginners and yoga sceptics, how to take care of their outer bodies as well as their inner spirit, she has inspired thousands to slow down, be kind and love themselves where they are. Nadia is also co-author with her sister of the international bestselling book “Self Care for the Real World,” and more recently, “Rituals for Every Day,” explaining not just why we have to look after ourselves, but how i simple achievable ways. Resources nadianarain.com - Nadia has a range for chemical free candles and perfumes and yoga retreats Notes and Methods by Hilma Af Klint Marie Kondo, The Life-changing Magic of Tid

Glo founder Derik Mills joined me for a sweet, edifying conversation on my last trip to film at Glo. We touched upon the last ten years of digital evolution, the future of virtual practice and the heart of what we do together at Glo.com. Derik is the CEO/founder of Glo, formerly YogaGlo, a health and wellness brand that challenges people to live a fulfilling life. Glo believes in a world in which we all live our true potential. In 2008, Derik teamed up with his younger brother to found and self-fund Glo. They started by converting a Santa Monica workspace into a recording studio to film yoga and meditation classes that were free for the public to attend. The online service grew to empower subscribers to experience yoga, meditation, lecture, and online continuing education courses taught by world-class instructors from anywhere in the world. Today, in 2019, the company remains self-funded and has expanded to a team of more than 100 people, including faculty, and produced more than 10,000 classes. The company i