How many times have you thought that racism was perpetrated by a select group of ‘bad’ people or that it didn’t even exist? In this week’s episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast, Rachel Brathen humbly shares mistakes she has made as a western, Swedish, white yoga influencer, what she has learned from those mistakes, and how the process opened her eyes to the global system of racism.
In this episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast, Rachel Brathen talks on the Black Lives Matter movement from the place of a learner, an observer, and a listener. Tune in to acknowledge the pain in the world, and to use your own pain to peel away the layers, dive deep into your healing, and become who you are at your core. To heal the world, you have to start with yourself.
Today’s episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast features three guest hosts, Dianne Bondy, Maite Onochie, and Rocky Heron, all guides on the yogagirl.com platform and voices from the Black community. Coming from different global perspectives, they offer deep wisdom on everything from white supremacy, complacency and allyship. Tune in to question your own attachments to race.
In this episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast, Rachel Brathen finds herself in a place of shame after realizing she has gained weight during quarantine. But here’s the thing - she felt no shame at all, in fact she felt great in her body, until she stepped on a scale. What was it inside of her that caused that shift? This episode will remind you of the tremendous gift your body is.
In this episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast, Rachel Brathen reflects on the patterns and relationships that haven’t been serving her throughout her life. There is one common thread between them all: she played a role in the decision making. This episode will remind you that if you want a different kind of life, now is the time.
How often has your intuition warned you that the exchange (physical or energetic!) between you and another individual was unfair, unbalanced or absolutely exhausting? In today’s episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast, Rachel Brathen discusses the importance of setting and keeping boundaries for the sake of your own mental health.
We are all subjected to one ultimate truth of life: nothing is permanent. In this week’s episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast, Rachel Brathen has been watching her garden be assaulted by lizards, dogs, white flies, mildew and a multitude of other challenges, and she is suddenly hit with the realization that her garden represents a metaphor for all of life.
In today’s episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast, Rachel Brathen reflects on the times in her life when she felt actual peace and genuine happiness - and she realizes that all of those times have a common thread. Tune into today’s episode to make your peace of mind a priority, to put the ‘being’ back into the ‘doing’, and to connect with your intuition before you act.
Today’s deeply spiritual episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast with Rachel Brathen shines light on exactly what it means to be human - messy, real, and raw. The path to healing, to evolving, and to enlightenment is not linear or easy, but it is the human path.
This week’s Yoga Girl Podcast is a perceptive and resourceful conversation between Rachel Brathen and holistic psychologist Dr. Nicole LePera. Together, they unpack trauma and talk about how to identify it, how to manage the effects of traumatic events and how trauma can be more than big traumatic experiences.