December 2, 2020
In the final episode of Season 1 of The Yoga Trade Podcast, we sit down with Yoga Trade co-founder, Erica Hartnick. Eight years after a creative spark between founders, Erica and Pat, over dragonfruit smoothies in Bali, ‘Yoga Trade’ blossomed into an online platform serving wellness practitioners around the world.
Today, we discus the power of collaboration, the importance of a regenerative mindset, along with how technology has changed our global yoga community. With the launch of the new website, we wrap up our conversation exploring the ways Yoga Trade is adapting and looking toward the future.
Connect with Erica:
www.ericahartnick.com
IG @tahoeoutdooryoga
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
November 16, 2020
“Yoga is a feeling, not just a shape.” So goes the mantra of Eoin Finn, founder of the yoga system Blissology. Today, we sit down with Eoin and his partner, Insiya Rasiwala-Finn, a Yoga, Ayurveda, and wellness expert. Here, we explore vital themes such as cultivating the habit of happiness, adopting a slower pace as a means to reconnect, and how to tackle our society's overwhelming trend towards disconnection.
In this episode, Insiya illustrates the healing power of Ayurveda, a means to live life in tune with nature. This ancient science teaches us that true freedom is only found through our limitations. We close this invigorating conversation with a look into how and why we continue to innovate the practice of yoga.
Connect with Insiya:
www.yogue.ca
IG @yogue8
Connect with Eoin:
www.blissology.com
IG @blissology
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
October 26, 2020
Today, we journey to Mysore, India to chat with yoga teacher, world traveler, and writer of the blog ‘Radically Ever After’, Namita Kulkarni. Our conversation centers around the theme of hierarchy and how it reveals itself within society. Our current global pandemic has only risen a magnifying glass to these pressing concerns including violence towards women, casteism, and white supremacy.
We also reflect on how hierarchy shows up in yoga culture sparking a discussion on the importance of finding a yoga teacher who “points you to your own path” rather than simply showing you his/her own. Ultimately, in building a student-teacher relationship based on mutual respect, you are able to become the most "present and centered version of yourself.”
Connect with Namita:
www.radicallyeverafter.com
IG @radicallyeverafter
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
October 4, 2020
Drastic environmental changes and the lingering pandemic push us to reimagine a new normal. On that quest, we sit down with wellness entrepreneur, Jeff Krasno - founder of Wanderlust, CEO & Founder of Commune Media, and the host of the Commune Podcast. Through these mindful endeavors, Jeff strives to share the impact of like-minded community and hopes to enable others to take wellness into their own hands. In today’s conversation, we discuss how to discern between fact and fiction in a “post-truth” world, the importance of putting yourself on your own priority list, and the power of living an integrated life.
Connect with Jeff:
www.jeffkrasno.com
IG @jeffkrasno
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
September 11, 2020
“Life begins when we wake up to the sacredness,” when we are called to “live like an awake person.” In these introductory lines, international yoga teacher and founder of Radiant Body Yoga, Kia Miller, shakes us to recognize the luminous possibilities held within the vastness of our inner worlds. We discuss how to approach meditation from a place of open curiosity, why we must take radical responsibility for ourselves and our own actions, and the fundamentals of both Kundalini and Kriya yoga. By intimately sharing with us her path to yoga, Kia helps us understand that continually showing up on our mats is one of the purest forms of activism.
Connect with Kia:
www.kiamiller.com
IG @kiamilleryoga
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
August 14, 2020
“Sound goes where no other medicine can.” It is with this truth that LA-based sound healer, reiki master, Kundalini yoga teacher, and sobriety coach, Susy Markoe Schieffelin, enlightens us on the undeniable restoring power of sound healing. Through an intimate revelation of her personal struggle with Alopecia and addiction, Susy shares with us her personal transformation from a place of darkness to one of pure self-love and acceptance. Further uplifting us with her endurant spirit, Susy shows us how following your bliss and taking the next right step allows us to align with our purpose and break free from the limiting beliefs of abundance.
Connect with Susy:
www.thecoppervessel.com
IG @thecoppervessel
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
July 29, 2020
As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to gain momentum, diversity and inclusion have rightfully pushed to the forefront of our minds. Collectively, we're beginning to recognize the need for a narrative shift, and the wellness space is no exception. In today’s episode, Youmie Jean Francois, CEO and Founder of travel wellness startup Flex-N-Fly, champions a new definition of wellness and advocates that we must focus on diversifying our every day and leading a more colorful life. We round out our talk with a discussion of the benefits of yin and restorative yoga and the power of affirmations in self-creating our lives.
Connect with Youmie:
www.flexnfly.com
IG @flexnflyofficial
Podcast: Live in your power | Affirmations &Affirmations with Flex-N-Fly
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
July 15, 2020
Yogini, sage, and adventurer, Deborah Koehn, unveils the foundations from which she crafted her guiding mantra, ‘Nature as Teacher’- a derivative of a lifetime spent traveling throughout the remote landscapes of our world, from the high Andes to the Himalayas. In our conversation, we discuss the conflux of neuroscience and yoga and the reasons that movement has such an ability to heal. We also reflect on the pivotal questions that Mother Earth asks of us during today's turbulent times. In closing, Deborah guides us through a chakra-flow meditation practice that leaves us with a needed sense of grounding peace.
Connect with Deborah:
www.yogaadventure.com
IG @yoga_adventure
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
July 2, 2020
As social unrest and Covid-19 cases continue to rise, we recognize the need to build a new paradigm. To do so, we must start the revolution from within and own our personal responsibility. In today's conversation with yoga teacher, social activist, and SoulWork™ founder, Adi Shakti, we explore the ways in which the global yoga community can come together to serve as a vehicle for social change.
Connect with Adi Shakti:
https://soulwork.com
IG @adi_shakti_rising
Podcast: SoulWork with Adi Shakti
Nonprofit: https://www.shaktiseva.org
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
June 11, 2020
How can we adapt to create and evolve to sustain? So goes the mantra of movement catalyst, Andrew Sealy. In this episode, Sealy pulls from his own experiences to guide us on how to best thrive as wellness teachers, visionaries and overall human beings in our rapidly changing world. We discuss personal development, internal creative exploration and how to reimagine life through a lens of opportunity.
Connect with Andrew:
www.andrew7sealy.com
IG @andrew7sealy
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com