Leadership and Yoga

This episode feels like a confession of how yoga and my relationship to numbers go together: social media numbers, financial numbers.. All of it. The yoga of numbers episode is a 3rd path, that doesn’t involve falling prey or victim to numbers, but rather facing them with awareness. Where we don’t numbly consider the numbers without considering the names, but you are also dreaming of sharing your message with the world. 

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Time stamps:
00:00 yoga poetry: names over numbers
01:00 my growth “numbers” journey 
05:30 cartoon
06:38 just B and Rishi tea
09:40 “100 likes” wish 1 year ago
11:14 Sri Dharma Mittra’s 1 student story
14:00 arbitrary number requirements i fall short of 
17:00 where to find God by Jeff Foster
19:45 fear vs love & hiding likes 
22:00 first journaling prompt: flush out the fear
23:50 when i felt worthless 
28:30 i’m not counting poetry
30:50 my recent “success”
34:00 the panic of numbers not matching our vision
36:00 GIVEAWAY: Yoga Trade
37:00 TEND
38:50 step 1: mapping your mission
44:30 step 2: get real, look at your output
49:40 step 3: be the person who…
55:37 without falling prey or victim to numbers

Key words: yoga teacher tips, how to grow a yoga instagram, social media for yoga teachers, yoga career advice, yoga podcast, shawnakru, sri dharma mittra, jeff foster poetry, mindset for creatives, organic social media growth, small creators under 10k.

As you know, every Friday is new episode Friday on the Leadership and Yoga podcast... but the last Friday of the month is now special... The real episode today is inside of Patreon, it's a LIVE episode on burnout and one critical change that makes all the difference. But, I did not want to abandon you here, dear listener! So please enjoy a bit of juice, in this short yoga story. I hope that it inspires you to document your own yoga stories.

And perhaps, I will see you inside of Patreon for the replay, or the next LIVE on June 26th!
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The episode I mention that explains what the club is, and is genuinely inspirational as an episode to listen to in general:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4UXULAZCXeNkzy8mLwr3G5?si=Sa3GAjNzRPi_72jZLIhHiQ

Tim Feldmann is a beloved Ashtanga yoga teacher, originally from Denmark and globally renowned for his authentic, joyful, and devoted approach to the practice. Tim shares how he weaves yoga philosophy into the physical practice, how learning to be uncomfortable on the mat trains the nervous system, expanding the body’s capacity to sit with discomfort, and so much wisdom about embodied movement. This was a delightful conversation that will leave you feeling inspired and encouraged on your path as a yoga teacher and/or student.

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Time Stamps: 
00:00 intro
08:54 have you always considered yourself a deep thinker?
10:25 abstract dance
12:45 the set sequence
15:31 sense of fluency in the yoga practice
17:44 how does ashtanga feel to you?
19:36 how does your yoga practice change how you live?
25:59 bringing yoga philosophy onto the mat
31:19 first ashtanga class
33:37 injury & recovery
39:29 first time teaching a yoga class?
43:05 discipline
47:28 how can yoga teachers make meaningful change?
53:21 the radiating energy of presence & the wisdom realm
56:55 what qualities do you look for in your teachers?
01:00:54 don’t try to be perfect
01:05:47 asana & the nervous system
01:12:25 is yoga supposed to be comfortable?
01:17:42 rapid fire questions
01:22:07 billboard question

Part two of the episode from last week! After going deep in the yoga, we find that yoga is so much more than poses, identity, or surface-level spiritual aesthetics. In this episode, I share part two of 10 lessons I have learned from going deep with yoga: let’s talk how yoga helps us feel our humanity, accessing true presence through yoga, respecting yoga and cultural appreciation vs cultural appropriation, why yoga takes time and patience, and the what the Bhagavad Gita’s definition of yoga is. 
Keywords: yoga philosophy, yoga teacher podcast, authentic yoga, yoga spirituality, yoga beyond asana, modern yoga, yoga wisdom, yoga for creators, spiritual growth, conscious living

If you missed part one, find it here: 
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6GRtl8C7o1NFhm4eVzKhaC?si=H1EWz0wqSrObMxT_46wByQ  

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Time stamps:
00:00 intro
06:00 inside my 2020 dreamboard
08:00 why i’m in honolulu 
10:15 patreon: Leadership and Yoga Club
13:00 what “deep” in yoga really means
16:00 tip for yoga teachers
20:00 storytime sponsor picnic
24:59 part 6: yoga helps us feel our own humanity 
28:20 musical poem: feel for all humanity  
31:07 part 7: presence once seen, can never be forgotten 
35:35 one year of meditating
38:00 leaning in closer
40:00 part 8: respect not just spread yoga
45:39 musical poem: yoga doesn’t come from a brand
48:00 part 9: yoga takes time
52:00 part 10: yoga is spiritual integration
53:30 divine crystal theory
58:20 musical poem: today i didn’t meditate
1:00:00 review of all 10

Today on the Leadership and Yoga podcast, I talk with Poranguí about the power of music to heal, awaken, and reconnect us to ourselves. In this episode, Poranguí shares what it feels like to improvise music in front of thousands of people with no set plan, trusting whatever wants to come through in the moment. We talk ritual, creativity, flow states, consciousness, ancestors, collective human connection, nervous system regulation, coherence as leaders, and music as medicine. Poranguí reminds us that interbeing is how we find meaning in life, and he leads by example.
This is what the yoga of sound really means. If music has ever made you feel something beyond words, this episode is for you.

Music in intro credit to Poranguí, "Amanecer"

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@porangui 
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Technology fail at Envision festival we mentioned:
https://youtu.be/otkbFvz8Fy4?si=yV5o1OQGib-SbWLH&t=4758 

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Time stamps:
00:00 intro
01:00 who is Poranguí? 
03:00 context & backstory
07:30 the body, Poranguí’s “favorite” instrument 
11:00 improvising and not planning shows
14:30 capoeira, playing & dancing with the “now”
17:45 it helps us face the uncertainty of life
20:45 “worst nightmare” technology fail in performance
25:00 the prayer is too potent, energy
28:50 what it feels like after performing
29:30 how to stay present while performing: widening awareness and tracking all
30:10 Schrödinger's cat, observer effect, parallel universes
32:30 intricacy, care vs perfectionism 
35:00 birth story how Poranguí’s parents met
41:30 serpent medicine: chased by snakes
44:30 trust
46:30 ancestors “anceStars” 
49:00 non-linear time and roots of trees
51:50 why are we here? scrap of paper
54:00 nervous system & our function 
55:00 consumerism culture 
56:15 keepers of fire: technology and AI. tending 
58:30 impacting the world as healers: heart song
1:00:30 heart 
1:02:00 the voice is the fingerprint of the soul
1:04:00 Poranguí’s rituals: getting into state
1:06:30 change and successes after retreat 
1:08:15 music expresses the inexpressible
1:11:30 why music touches us
1:12:30 the original pulse
1:14:00 billboard message, tour & learn from Poranguí