Leadership and Yoga

This is an immersive special episode, brought to life with music and sound effects. Listen for spoken word and storytelling written by me, Shawna Krueger, on the nature of time and anxiety, sending love to past versions of yourself, healing your past, finding hope in mental health darkness, and finding a way to create and show up as a creator for social media, or as an artist despite your own suffering. 
Today you will learn how to send prayers to YOURSELF, forward and backwards, and I will warn you, this episode is a little bit like the rabbit hole of the red pill in the Matrix. You can listen to it with eyes closed like a guided meditation visualization if you want. Today I tell you my story, from agony to greatness, from sadness to success in a raw, vulnerable way. But this is what my heart felt called to do, this is what I wrote, so here we go. 
Inspired by Richard Rudd and the Gene Keys, and Zach Bush.

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time stamps:
00:00 intro
05:47 start of immersive special
09:00 dear past self
11:27 into the darkness
14:46 climbing out of the hole
17:46 love letters to your past self across time
22:38 when no one is listening vs thousands are listening
25:08 your dream come true feels like this
28:00 versions of yourself that got you here
33:00 witness your past self fully
37:01 a ripple in time: the nature of time
40:40 how to get out of the insects of the mind
45:00 inspiration is actually you, speaking to yourself

Ashish Arora is a yoga teacher based in Seattle, Washington, originally from Delhi, India, and currently leading teacher trainings and retreats around the world. In this episode we delve into the art of teaching, what tradition actually means in the context of yoga, yoga philosophy, and navigating cultural appropriation as a yoga teacher. Ashish also shares tips for remembering your students' names and finding your teachers. If you're a yoga teacher thinking deeply about why you teach, where the practice comes from, or how to bring more joy into the practice, this episode is for you!

Practice with Ashish

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Time Stamps: 
00:00 intro
01:40 OfferingTree
3:41 presence while teaching
5:33 tips for remembering your students’ names
10:06 growing up in India
15:01 laughter breathwork
17:11 the vastness of yoga
19:20 peacock pose & joy
23:45 finding your teachers
28:16 tradition in yoga
37:40 breath & energy
42:22 what is your definition of a yogi?
46:32 cultural-appropriation in yoga
55:57 what is our responsibility as yoga teachers?
59:55 rapid fire questions 
01:03:17 billboard question

I started a top 5% Spotify video podcast without being an influencer, and the years that you didn't see, built everything. Truthfully, I feel like I'm just getting started, but when I pause, I see that I have come a long way! This podcast is my "true north" and the reason I wake up and get to "work" writing, interviewing and creating every day. I believe in the power of inspiration, especially in times like these. I wanted to tell my full story, for those who are asking. I hope you feel inspired to think about telling (and creating) your OWN story, whatever it may be. I believe in you. :) And thanks for being part of the Leadership and Yoga fam.

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Londrelle shows us how spiritual practice becomes music that heals the world. Welcome to the inner workings of Londrelle’s songs, his creative process, and how he shares what he knows with the world. His music is communion with God, and he follows the Bhagavad Gita as instruction for everything he creates. Let’s talk about his spiritual practice and how it has made him the artist we know today: from maha mudra, kriya yoga and meditation to making music that elevates our vibration. Londrelle brings words of wisdom for us on how we can make an impact in the world, and also how we can make it through our own dark nights of the soul as he shares his own story from birth to present day. 
“Spiritual practice helps us tune into our gifts and abilities, they make us more open and less tense about what we do, so that we can go with the flow of that greater consciousness and intelligence that is always there.” -Londrelle 
“God for me is not something that you can put your finger on it, but you can't miss it. Everywhere you go, everywhere you turn, there is the presence of the most high God.” -Londrelle

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Londrelle’s mindfulness app: Eternal Sunshine
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Time stamps:
00:00 this is Londrelle!! 
01:00 Yoga Trade
02:00 OfferingTree
03:10 join the podcast?
05:00 yoga connection 
07:30 Bhagavad Gita as instruction for music
09:00 how Londrelle writes songs like Gratitude
10:15 more meditative than creative
11:45 when a song arrives, no sleep or pause, until it’s complete
14:30 if they can see it in you, they can see it in themselves
16:45 God: when you close your eyes and think of God..
18:00 Protest and activism: Police brutality 
20:00 setting out to serve, you open yourself to universal intelligence
24:00 music is broadcasted to the world & shapes culture
27:00 growing up: no space to dream, only survive
31:10 Londrelle’s story from birth
33:45 studying the divine you see your own true nature & importance
35:10 Londrelle’s teachers/influences
39:00 religion & spirituality are the same, two expressions of the same truth
41:00 virgos! both Londrelle and Shawna are virgos. 
45:00 dark nights of the soul & initiations
46:00 death experience
49:30 tests following 
53:00 can’t escape yourself. wherever you go, there you are
55:00 artist journey: becoming the Londrelle that we know today
57:50 music is a science 
59:00 Londrelle’s spiritual practices: maha Mudra, kriya yoga & meditation
1:01:43 be less tense & tune into our gifts
1:02:00 is there yoga in your music?
1:04:00 supporting people going through darkness with our art
1:05:09 winter in life
1:08:00 self-acceptance
1:11:00 impact in the outer world and introspection 
1:12:50 this world is not meant to be heaven
1:14:00 the world as a projection of yourself
1:15:58 yoga’s role in addressing suffering of the world
1:18:00 yoga is the process of opening ourselves
1:19:00 how can we keep our dreams alive (song discussion)
1:21:00 doing music for 25 years: dreams are seeds
1:23:00 how to dream: look to serve
1:25:00 billboard message: stay free!

FOR CONTEXT, SEE THE FULL EPISODE. This is the musical poetry, quick taste of my episode on the architecture of a moonshot dream coming true. It also is a standalone piece to get you thinking about your dreams and how to move towards them.

Is it spring for the tree of your dreams stop trying to hold your life together with glue, and start giving your attention to what you actually want to grow.

(In the style of my immersive special episodes... )