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Leadership and Yoga

Shawna Krueger
Leadership and Yoga
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  • Leadership and Yoga

    time-traveling self-love & light after anxiety: “immersive special” for creators

    17/04/2026 | 48 mins.
    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. 
    Find Shawna on instagram: ⁠@shawnakru ⁠
    ⁠Shawna’s website⁠
    ⁠Yoga Teacher Roundtable free community events & mailing list⁠
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  • Leadership and Yoga

    Ashish Arora on Teaching Yoga in the West and Honoring Yoga’s Roots

    15/04/2026 | 1h 5 mins.
    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

    Find Ashish on Instagram: @ashishyoga

    Listen to the previous episode with Ashish

    Find Shawna on instagram: ⁠@shawnakru ⁠

    ⁠Shawna’s website⁠

    Try OfferingTree for free⁠ ⁠with my link here⁠⁠ (My sponsor) 

    30-day trial: Join Yoga Trade Council & take workshops with me
    (my sponsor) Get a job teaching yoga abroad? https://yogatrade.com/ 

    ⁠Ayurvedic consultation with Art, TEND ⁠(My sponsor) 

    ⁠Yoga Teacher Roundtable free community events & mailing list⁠

    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
  • Leadership and Yoga

    my story: starting a podcast that changed my life & the years you didn’t see, that built everything

    10/04/2026 | 1h 27 mins.
    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.

    Find Shawna on instagram: ⁠@shawnakru ⁠
    ⁠Shawna’s website⁠
    ⁠Ayurvedic consultation with Art, TEND
    ⁠Yoga Teacher Roundtable free community events & mailing list⁠
  • Leadership and Yoga

    Londrelle on Where Music Meets God and Yoga

    08/04/2026 | 1h 27 mins.
    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

    Londrelle on instagram
    Londrelle on Spotify
    Londrelle’s mindfulness app: Eternal Sunshine
    Londrelle’s website
    Shawna on instagram: ⁠@shawnakru ⁠
    ⁠Shawna’s website⁠
    Try OfferingTree for free⁠ ⁠with my link here⁠⁠ (My sponsor) 
    Join YogaTrade Council & take workshops with me (Try it free) And check out jobs on https://yogatrade.com/  (My sponsor)
    ⁠Yoga Teacher Roundtable free community events & mailing list⁠

    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!
  • Leadership and Yoga

    8-minute motivational spoken word: architecture of moonshot dreams

    03/04/2026 | 8 mins.
    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... )

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About Leadership and Yoga

Leadership and Yoga by @shawnakru is the go-to hub of interviews and episodes for yoga teachers and conscious entrepreneurs. Shawna explores creativity, confidence, and presence through conversations with top teachers, artists, creators, and thought leaders. She also creates captivating musical and poetic solo episodes. Over the past 3 years, Shawna has lovingly grown an intimate, niche following of fellow yoga instructors interested in impact, personal growth & business, into a major nucleus for self-development. She enjoys interviewing even “non-yogis” from a yogic perspective.
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