The Yoga Writer Podcast: Recent Episodes
Melissa Carroll
Yoga Wisdom Meets the Power of Storytelling: each episode explores yoga philosophy, myth, and creative writing to help you live a happier, more magical life and shine your light in the world.
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How can you show up online and share in these difficult times, when we're more connected than ever before? If you're a Yoga Teacher, Wellness Practitioner, Healer, or Creative Soul who wants to connect online, it can be daunting to feel like what you offer is trivial. Yet our contributions matter. Stories, poems, art, music, meditation, spirituality: these things uplift us, nourish us, and help us remember our shared humanity.
I'd say that's damn important in times like these.
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This episode also includes poetry by the brilliant Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, as well as the AMAZING contemporary poet Ellen Bass.
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If you're a yoga teacher, wellness practitioner, or creative of any kind then you don't want to miss this interview with Fi Simler! Fi is a Trauma-Mindful Business Coach & Social Media Marketing Expert who helps wellness pros grow their business in a way that feels really, really good.
We cover the 3 Biggest Fears entrepreneurs face when showing up online and how to remedy these common struggles, including the Fear of Being Seen and the Fear of Being Vulnerable. Fi offers practical, actionable tips to get you inspired, so you may want to take notes!
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Instead of New Years Resolutions, what if we centered our days on this question: "What am I devoted to?" This episode of The Yoga Writer Podcast explores devotion as a way of being and the Hindu myth of Hanuman as a symbol of devotion. We look at how Hanuman's leap of faith in the Ramayana echoes our own leap of faith in living with great uncertainty.
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Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, follow, rate & review. Today we explore the myth, magic, & history of the Winter Solstice, with 7 Rituals for you to honor this Yin time of year on December 21st.
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Winter Solstice Guided Meditation on YouTube
Nadi Shodhana (Channel Cleansing Breath / Alternate Nostril Pranayama)
The secret of manifesting that goes beyond The Secret (and why cliche manifestation practices don't work), Soul Contracts, past lives, the Akashic Records...this conversation with modern mystic Amy Dascola covers the cosmic gamut! Amy brings these mystical teachings down to earth.
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Join Melissa Carroll on 10/21 for a FREE Guided Meditation, Journaling & Shadow Workshop to Break through Your Unconscious Blocks
Or JOIN BOTH of us for our 10/25 Workshop: ReWriting Your Soul Story!
American Book Award Winner Ira Sukrungruang is the author of four nonfiction books, including his latest memoir This Jade World, from University of Nebraska Press. This inspiring conversation was true medicine for my soul -- and I hope it is for you, too. We discuss love and loss through divorce, Ira's time as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, the nature of desire and how to determine if your wants are even your own (or if they are society's), confronting oneself in meditation and on the page as a writer, the power of vulnerability, and so much more.
Book Reading for This Jade World by Ira Sukrungruang on 9/24 at Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg, Florida
https://tombolobooks.com/events
Ira Sukrungruang's website: www.BuddhistBoy.com
Melissa Carroll's website: www.TheYogaWriter.com
If you want to manifest your dreams, you've gotta do the inner work first. This episode explores desire, conditioned beliefs, how to uncover your unconscious cravings, the Solar Eclipse as a potent portal for shadow integration, & more. Get instant access to the 2hr Workshop with Melissa Carroll & Psychic Medium Amy Dascola here: The 3 Sacred Keys, Your Shadow, Your Ego, Your Intuition.
You'll experience a guided a magical meditation, journaling, & potent release ritual to let go of the unconscious patterns that sabotage you.
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Want to go deeper with an Eclipse Ritual to Release? Join Melissa Carroll & Psychic Medium Amy Dascola for The 3 Sacred Keys: Your Shadow, Your Ego, & Your Intuition on June 10
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The beloved book mentioned is Imaginative Writing by Janet Burroway
This episode explores the power of language and how you view yourself impacts your life (either as Alan Watts puts it, "an isolated ego inside a bag of skin" or a wave in the ocean of consciousness). Melissa also explores what communication and yoga have in common, and the #1 Creative Writing Technique to bring your stories to life.
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Did you know the Amondawa people of the Amazon don't have a word for time? In this episode, Melissa Carroll explores how words influence your reality.
The power of language is viewed through the lens of mindfulness, metaphor, what words you use to speak to yourself, and how we may begin to reframe our vocabulary to shift our relationship to our bodies and the natural world.
Melissa references Robin Wall Kimmerer and her brilliant book Braiding Sweetgrass, as well as poet Natalie Diaz.
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Spirituality + Consumer Culture: Can your self-image and your Higher Self coexist? Can the yogic precept that you are perfect as you are coexist alongside the work needed to grow and improve? How the classic advertising formula of "not good enough" sabotage our journey?
In this episode, Melissa explores how we can coexist in spiritual and material realms, with one foot in the meditation hall and one foot on the bustling city street.
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Here are the reflection questions mentioned at the end of the episode:
Who or what is standing at the gate for you to do your inner work? Or your outer work in the world? (Usually there’s a dynamic bw your inner work & your outer work, especially if you’re in the wellness world)
What are the forces at the gate?
💫Is it the tendency to stay small?
💫The comfort of familiar patterns/relationships/behaviors even though you know they’re ultimately holding you back?
💫is it your fear of being seen? Or of prioritizing your needs?
💫Is it your ego’s delicious attachment to its stories, even the ones that hurt?