Meet Jennifer, the grief medium. Jennifer is an an end of life and grief licensed therapist; helping people with anticipatory grief or grief in hospice, palliative care, ICU, and outpatient therapy. Jennifer is also certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and  employs simple yoga practice such as chair yoga, visualization, breath work, and meditation to help her clients with anticipatory grief and grief. She is also a medium, psychic, and empath; she has combined her skills to holistically help people grieve the loss of a loved one. In this episode Jennifer provides us with an introduction of grief and the use of yoga during grief.Show notes and contact information visit www.theElegantOutlaw.com

Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers

130: An Introduction to Grief and Yoga (Jennifer, the Grief Medium - Part #1)

Trauma-informed yoga teaching is a robust, multi-dimensional and complex topic. In this show, Sarah Kadel, wraps up her series on trauma-informed teaching by offering the listeners 3 techniques to implement in the community classroom. They are simple starting points, which by no means covers the broad subject, but will provide a way we can bring this information into our practice of teaching yoga. Show notes & contact information www.theElegantOutlaw.com

129: Three Trauma-informed Yoga Teaching Techniques to start implementing (Sarah Kadel - Part #3)

This episode discusses how yoga is historically, a trauma informed practice, and how it has evolved with the times. We speak about how we can support our yoga students with the understanding that they are all coming to us with different levels of physical abilities, emotional, and possibly traumatic histories. How can we hold space for all?How long is your Savasana? We talk about the varying lengths of the final pose, and how we all react differently to the stillness.For Notes and Contact Information Visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

128: Holding Space for All - Navigating Trauma Conscious Yoga (Sarah Kadel Part 2)

Welcome, Sarah Kadel for today&apos;s episode on navigating through the changes of life. As our abilities change, as our priorities shift, as we mature within our own bodies...How can we, as yoga teachers be accepting of those transitions? Even if our personal practice has become more grounding & restorative can one continue teaching active classes?...or should you allow your teaching style, to shift with your personal practice?For Show Notes and Contact Information Visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

127: Recognizing Our Humanity - Navigating Trauma Conscious Yoga (Sarah Kadel Part 1)

Amber Hagberg shares with us how loving herself in fullness was a process of learning to accept both the light and the darkness within herself. By doing this she is now able to lead by example for her students. That they can transform the parts of themselves they don&apos;t like to see, and taking away the best parts of them. Prioritizing her own personal practice, is just one way she prioritizes herself. Like anything self love is a choice, and a practice.For Show Note and Contact Information Visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

126: I Love The Way You Love Yourself (Amber Hagberg Part 3)

This episode with Amber Hagberg is about putting yourself first! Yoga teachers who show up for themselves, can show up in a greater way for their students. We are presented with many opportunities, to teach in different arenas. Stepping out of the studio and into teacher trainings, virtual teaching, and retreats gives us motivation to enhance our self study. However, we also have to know when to say "No" and use our time wisely.For Show Notes and Contact Information Visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

125: Show up for Yourself, Show up for your Yoga Students (Amber Hagberg Part 2)

For Amber, and most of us as yoga teachers it is our goal to have our students integrate what they learn on the mat and take it into their day-to-day lives.  This is what this episode is all about. How can we, the teachers show up in the world? How can we give our students to something to leave their practices, and retreats with, that they can take into the real world. For show notes and contact information visit: 

124: Integrating Personal Practice to Our Daily Lives (Amber Hagberg Part 1)

Whether you&apos;re ready to start building your yoga business, or you&apos;re just wanting to expand your knowledge of teaching yoga there are endless resources available to you! A lot of them are free! Mado has plenty of them herself, from her podcast to affordable memberships that can help your start or expand you business to impact many! In this episode Thor will also share some AMAZING news about what&apos;s upcoming with The Elegant Outlaw Collective.  We have some new community classes on the schedule, along with a Full Moon Retreat at the end of the year. We have a virtual library with a range of meditations, chair yoga, and more!For Show notes and contact information visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

123: Resources & Inspiration for Building Your Yoga Business (Mado Hesselink of The Yoga Resource Podcast- Part #3)

Is there a specific style of teaching that calls to you? If so, you might be one step closer to building your niche! Having a niche can help you to specialize, and attract students who need what you have to offer. This episode also discusses how yoga is represented in today&apos;s digital world. It is hard to capture yoga in a photo, or video. So, how we as yoga teachers show up in the world is the true representation. For Show Notes and Contact Information Visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

122: Finding your Yoga Teacher Niche (Mado Hesselink of The Yoga Resource Podcast- Part #2)

“When a person pays more for something.. they value it more. We know that with yoga, the more somebody puts into it, the more they get back.” -MadoYoga as a business seems to be somewhat controversial. But yoga, as we know is extremely valuable on a physical, mental, emotional, and for some spiritual level. Mado of The Yoga Resource Podcast explains how we as yoga teachers can create a yoga business, that is built off of wholesome intention, and made successful through data to increase your reach. For Show Notes and Contact Information visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

121: Running an Impactful & Ethical Yoga Business (Mado Hesselink of The Yoga Resource Podcast- Part #1)

Samadhi brings us to the end of our exploration of the 8 Limbs of Yoga. This is the phase in meditation which you are one with all, there is no separation. Samadhi allows  for us to experience more concentration, calmness, and clarity. Although it&apos;s not likely that we will lead our yoga students into Samadhi within a typical yoga class, we can still introduce them to meditation and Samadhi through Dharana, and Dhyana. For Show Notes and Contact Information Visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

120: Samadhi: The 8th Limb of Yoga - Unity and Absorption (Ishar Keshu #2)

Welcome Ishar Keshu to the show! He walks us through what his meditative teaching style looks like. We discuss how slowing down the breath, and the mind, entering into true meditative states can help you with day to day tasks. We speak on the difference of Dharana, and Dhyana. And how it is important as a meditation teacher, to have your own meditative practice! To fully show up for our students. For Shownotes Visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

119: Dhyana: The 7th Limb of Yoga - Effortless Focus (Ishar Keshu #1)

Dharana is the beginning stage of focus, leading us into meditation. Being yoga teachers, we are constantly giving our students objects of focus, their breath, and alignment for example. We can gradually string together these singular moments of focus in order to enter into meditation.For show notes and contact information visit: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

118: Dharana: The 6th Limb of Yoga - Moments of Concentration (Katarina Wittkamp with Modo Yoga International Part #3)

Pratyahara is practiced when we settle into stillness, withdrawing from all of our senses. In this episode we get an interesting perspective of  the roles of our senses, our mind, and intellect. As a yoga teacher we can ask our students questions that direct them to turn inward. This can help them on their journey of discovering that they are their own greatest teacher. Show notes and info at: www.TheElegantOutlaw.com

117: Pratyahara: The 5th Limb of Yoga - The Withdrawal of The Senses (Katarina Wittkamp with Modo Yoga International Part #2)

All about the breath! In today&apos;s episode, Katarina Wittkamp shares great knowledge with us about how we can assist our yoga students with intentional breath. Breath is so much more affective, when purposefully executed. Kat informs us of a variety of ways that Pranayama has a direct affect on our energetic bodies, as well as our physical bodies. She also provides us with specific breathing techniques!Show notes & contact info www.theElegantOutlaw.com

116: Pranayama the 4th Limb of Yoga - Our breath, and Life Force (Katarina Wittkamp with Modo Yoga International Part #1)

Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers, hosted by The Elegant Outlaw, is an easy & on-the-go tool for yoga instructors to continually grow their skill while juggling a really busy schedule. In this show we interview yoga teachers who help us breathe new life into our teaching with fresh cues & themes, favorite alignments & adjustments, and anatomy refreshers ALL in a positive and community-oriented manner.

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