Episode 112 With Shayna Hiller on Living your Truth

Shayna Hiller is a yoga & meditation teacher and Certified Health Coach based in Venice Beach, CA. She is also a business coach for yoga teachers. Her light-hearted and deeply intuitive approach to coaching AND TEACHING is truly one of a kind.

Shayna’s mission is to teach the ancient philosophy of yoga in a way that is relatable, applicable and effective in our modern world. in this way, people can live happier healthier lives and discover their purpose.

Shayna has been teaching yoga and leading yoga retreats around the world for over a decade.

She has over 500 hours professional training and is a Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Teacher, Pranassage Practitioner, Children’s Yoga Teacher and Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. Alas, life has been (and still is) the greatest teacher of all…

Shayna is originally from New Jersey, but lived and learned in the jungles of Costa Rica for five years of her early adult life. This is where she experienced her most significant healing and personal transformation.

It is both Shayna’s passion and privilege to share her wisdom and methods to empower people of their inherent capacity to experience ecstasy and bring their deepest desires to life.

Here’s what you’ll learn during today’s conversation:

• How to Develop A Strong Yoga that is a spiritual practice
• Why people want to go deeper in their practice and people can enjoy their physical practice but find the nuggets of a deeper practice
• How the Asana when done correctly will change you mind
• What is the Meaning behind Lokha Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu
• What is Tantra as a celebration of the body

Topics covered

• The Healing force of Love
• How to bridge the gap between the material and the spiritual
• What is a Yoga Retreat
• How to Build Your Personal Yoga Business – content for yoga teachers

Episode 101 with Shannon Elliott living a Spiritual Life as a Yogi

As a yoga instructor and owner, Shannon has nurtured Onyx’s growth alongside her own. Shannon teaches both traditional and Kundalini yoga classes placing a keen focus on pranayama, movement, subtle body alignment, and meditation. Her classes are a safe space where students are cared for and strengthened inside. She has the ability to make students feel as if she is speaking directly to them without drawing individual attention to the person.

Shannon invites people to experience themselves and deepen their exploration of what they believe possible. Her gift to others is to pass on the Teachings from those who have done the same for her. No matter the audience the Philosophy is spoken to be accessible to everyone and all environments/circumstances.

Her classes are a blend of traditional text study including the Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, and Krishna’s many past times and leelas. She incorporates chanting, gong playing, inner exploration, and bhakti love into her classes. Embodying each moment, delving deeper into your own experience, that is the gift of Yoga, one which Shannon lives to share with others.

She is grateful to all her teachers, past- present- and future. And will be forever connected to her Guru, Swami Satchidnanda, who has given her the spiritual name “Malati.”

Here’s what you’ll learn during today’s conversation:

• What it was like to study with Swami Satchidnanada and her experience at Yogaville
• Teaching based on the traditions of yoga and based in lineage
• What is yoga and how yoga provides you with the framework to live a balanced life
• How to go deeper in your yoga practice and develop a home practice
• That practicing yoga is not about going away from your problems, but rather to discover your true self

Topics covered

• How to develop a morning practice to connect closer to the divine
• What Kundalini yoga is
• How yoga is going back to its roots with full-packaged yoga classes
• How to follow the teachings of yoga and how to apply them to modern life without being New Age

Episode 98 with Shannon Elliott on running a yoga Studio and Building a business with Integrity

As a yoga instructor and owner, Shannon has nurtured Onyx’s growth alongside her own. Shannon teaches both traditional and Kundalini yoga classes, placing a keen focus on pranayama, movement, subtle body alignment, and meditation.

Her classes are a safe space where students are cared for and strengthened inside. She has the ability to make students feel as if she is speaking directly to them without drawing individual attention to the person.

Shannon invites people to experience themselves and deepen their exploration of what they believe to be possible. Her gift to others is to pass on the Teachings from those who have done the same for her. No matter the audience, the Philosophy is spoken so as to be accessible to everyone in all environments/circumstances.

Her classes are a blend of traditional text study including the Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, and Krishna’s many past times and leelas. She incorporates chanting, gong playing, inner exploration, and bhakti love into her classes. Embodying each moment, delving deeper into your own experience, that is the gift of Yoga, one which Shannon lives to share with others.

She is grateful to all her teachers – past, present, and future. She will be forever connected to her Guru, Swami Satchidananda, who has given her the spiritual name of “Malati.”

During today’s conversation, here’s what you’ll learn:

• Learn the True Teachings of Yoga – The Whole Package of Yoga through the 8 Limbs of Yoga
• The practice of yoga is to prepare for meditation
• Why Asana was a very small part of yoga
• Yoga is a lifestyle that is available at anytime
• How to treat yourself and how to treat others
• Teach from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and The Bhagavad Gita
• Yoga is not simply the physical practice – but an aide to go inside and find your true nature and true self
• Yoga strives to create a mind-body connection to become a realized being
• The practice of yoga is about people becoming themselves
• Your job is not to get everyone to like you but to teach the teachings! If you please everyone, you please no one

Topics Covered

• Running a Yoga Studio with Integrity by focusing on a membership-based yoga studio rather than teacher performance and class number
• The hiring process is all about timing and finding people at the right place at the right time and not forcing the process
• Running a business to create a platform for each yoga teacher to be who they are to create a variety of different yoga teachers with different voices that create a community
• How to start out as a new yoga teacher and how can you earn a living full-time by teaching yoga

Episode 95 with Daniel Goodenough on Finding Your Life Mission

Daniel Goodenough has worked as a professional musician, graphic artist, and research scientist. Daniel Goodenough co-founded The Way of the Heart in 1988 to help people live more fulfilled, purposeful lives. Daniel has authored fourteen life-mission courses and trained thousands internationally.

His Recent Book is The Caravan of Remember: A Roadmap for Experiencing the Awakening of Your Life’s Mission.

Over the past 30 years, he has taught thousands of students through The Way of the Heart program to discover their authentic life path and walk that path in the world.

How do we remember our most fundamental why, and build a life around what this calls us to do, and who this calls us to become? The story of Caravan is a blueprint and process of this becoming.

On today’s podcast episode, Daniel shares his story and discusses ways in which people can find their life mission and learn to live life with purpose.

During today’s conversation, here’s what you’ll learn:

How do we remember our most fundamental why? How do we build a life around what this calls us to do, and who this calls us to become? The story of Caravan is a blueprint and process of this becoming.

Why are we here, what are we supposed to do, by asking the question to find the answer. Use the scales by playing the instrument that is you by practicing and becoming the best version of you.

Start to build the foundation – develop your skills, evaluate where you are, and see where you need to grow

When you go into fear and doubt, you lose 13% of your I.Q., and you will then become less productive, less efficient and less creative.

Topics Covered

1. Life’s Mission, and How to Follow your passion and express your unique gifts in a way that also benefits the world.
2. How Pursuing Your Life’s Mission Can Bring Focus and Success to Your Work Life.
3. A new way of conducting Business with Integrity and Purpose that can bring success in today’s changing work environment.

Why are we here, what are we supposed to do, by asking the question to find the answer. Use the scales by playing the instrument that is you by practicing and becoming the best version of you.

Start to build the foundation – develop your skills, evaluate where you are, and see where you need to grow

L.L.O.P Episode 77

Work Life and Spiritual LIfe Balance

Allen Vaysberg is a successful entrepreneur who after creating and running IT consulting businesses for 15 years found himself unhappy, unhealthy and unfulfilled at age 37. He knew he needed a change and in 2012 he decided to begin anew.

Now Allen is a Life Recalibration Expert, author, speaker, and creator of the SEAMLESS method. He facilitates people’s transition from unfulfilled & stressed to doing what they love and being at peace. Allen speaks on life purpose, career change, work-life balance, love & relationships, and the recalibration process, running online programs helping people to recalibrate their lives.

Work Life Balance: To Each their Own

Show Notes:

Free Circle of Life quiz

New Love Triangle: How to Apply it to Your LIfe

On today’s podcast episode, Allen shares his wisdom on work-life balance, learning how to find fulfillment in life, and how to reconnect with your life partner.

During today’s conversation, here’s what you’ll learn:

• How to make a transition in your career
• 4 Aspects of Work-Life Balance:
  • Work
  • Family
  • Friendship
  • Personal
• How to have a Successful Marriage
• The Seamless Method: 8 Very Simple Areas to focus on every day