Your Inner Radiance

Allergy season is fast approaching in the northern hemisphere! You don’t have to suffer alone. Ayurveda offers some really helpful tips to help you prepare for allergy season and reduce your symptoms. Want to get individual support? Book an Ayurvedic consult with me at www.lilyrussoyoga.com/ayurveda-intake Join the Spring Radiance Women’s Retreat in Sedona by visiting www.awakenedheart.org/springradiance Opening music by Lena Belle

Definitions and perspectives on “alignment” and how embodied practice is vital for collective and individual health and healing, inspired by movement educator Michelle Nayeli Bouvier. Connect with me at www.lilyrussoyoga.com Find out more about upcoming retreats at awakenedheart.org Connect with Michelle Nayeli Bouvier at www.michellebouvier.com Read her full Article “Alignment” at https://medium.com/@flyflowdance/a-l-i-g-n-m-e-n-t-debe5a1e10ce Find her upcoming “Align” events at https://www.michellebouvier.com/align-event Opening music by Lena Belle

That old familiar, yet never welcome feeling. Heart beating too fast. Thoughts stampeding through your mind like a frightened herd of horses. Unable to feel comfortable, unable to focus on any one task or thought. An ache in your chest, like it’s a wound up too tight. You’re untethered, free floating, unable to feel the ground. Your facial muscles are tense and your mouth or hands won’t stop moving. Some call this anxiety. In the ancient wisdom science of ancient India, there’s another term for this feeling. It is simply that you have too much air in your being, cold, light, and moving, like a rough wind whipping at your face on a cold, fall day. When you feel this way, the remedy is to get grounded, to connect with the earth, that solid, fertile, giving, ever present source of abundance and renewal. Your very breath was breathed by dinosaurs, your bones were once stardust. Once upon a time, your blood flowed in rivers and spilled into the sea. Once upon a time, a part of you grew as a tree, spreading roots as far underground as your branches reached for the sun. Your body is your tether to eternity, and the knowing that this moment too shall pass. Everything will be okay. Draw your strength from deep inside, and from deep below. Let your your worries about your family, your health, your finances, global warming, and war in other nations receed to the background of your experience. They are real concerns, but they are not everything. Connect to the vastness of your elemental body, and trust in the safety of this moment. With presence, and patience, you will find your way back to your eternal nature, the kind you had as an infant, when no thoughts of past or future had yet to cross your mind. In this moment, connect to that innocence of presence, rooted in each breath, in each sensation in your body. Resolve to be present today, returning to your breath and connecting to your body when the winds of instability begin to rise. Connect with me at www.lilyrussoyoga.com and www.awakenedheart.org Join me on retreat, this January 11-16 in Mexico for Ayurveda, Yoga, Self Love, Sound Healing, and Ecstatic Dance

An inspiring conversation with movement educator Michelle Nayeli Bouvier, a multidisciplinary movement specialist, yoga therapist, teacher trainer & creator of the cutting-edge Kutilaa School of Embodied Resilience. Always a daring trailblazer, Michelle trains the next generation of yoga & movement teachers to break free of rigid, linear paradigms of movement, thought & leadership as a path to transform lives & change the world. Rooted in passionate, continuing study of ancient teachings meeting modern science, Michelle’s decades of experience & groundbreaking work are helping lead the evolution of integrative embodied practice for personal & collective resilience. Connect with Michelle Nayeli at https://www.michellebouvier.com Check out my winter women’s retreat, Jan 11-16th with musician Malka Russell at Equilibrium Resort and Spa in Mexico. Www.awakenedheart.org Connect with me at www.lilyrussoyoga.com Opening music by Lena Belle

Ayurveda describes four digestive types: Vishama, Tikshna, Manda and Sama. Knowing your type and paying attention to signs from your body, can help you not only balance your digestion, but avoid other more serious problems. Ayurveda gives you natural practices and remedies to rebalance yourself and honor your true nature. To learn more, book and Ayurvedic wellness consult with me at www.lilyrussoyoga.com/ayurveda-intake. If you enjoyed listening please leave a review! Opening music by Lena Belle.

I hear so many people around me respond to the question “how are you?” with “Busy”. That used to be me, and it went along with the most stressful, exhausted, overwhelmed period of my life. This epidemic of busy-ness in our modern world goes hand in hand with dis-ease, as constantly feeling busy is stressful, and stress is a causative factor of almost every illness. I wanted to speak a little to this issue and offer a couple of paths to shifting from “busy” to “full”. Connect with me at www.lilyrussoyoga.com and awakenedheart.org Opening music by Lena Belle.

This is a very practical episode that explains how to align with Nature and balance the heavy, damp energy of Kapha Dosha, especially useful right now since we’re in kapha season! I mention a supported ayurvedic cleanse I’m doing with Jackie Just, find out more at Jackiejustyoga.com and use code LILY10 for 10% off. If you want to get clear on your unique Dosha, I’d love to support you! Find out more about Ayurvedic Wellness Coaching and how it can support your thriving at www.lilyrussoyoga.com. And visit awakenedheart.org to check out Wild Heart Women’s Gathering, a weekend of nourishment and growth in southwest Colorado this June. Prana Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training this summer: info at www.lilyrussoyoga.com/ytt. Opening music by Lena Belle.

Monica Mesa Dasi is a tantric bhakti devotional Yogini, intuitive, mentor, and plant medicine woman, currently about to publish a book! Monica’s spiritual path and practices have inspired her to launch transformational programs that focus on the “three gems of healing”; self love, the power of practice, and purpose based living. We discuss her journey to becoming a Bhakti yogini, the power of practice, her message of self love, her upcoming book, becoming a channeler, and healing from her son’s suicide. Connect with Monica at www.monicamesadasi.com and on Ig @monicamesadasi. Find me at www.lilyrussoyoga.com and on Ig @yoga.Art.lilyrusso. If you enjoyed please leave a review! Opening music by Lena Belle

I chat with Sarvaa Organics founder Derek Van Atta and his partner Bronwyn Beatta about cacao, superfoods, and more. We discuss some nutritional and heart opening qualities of cacao, some historical and ceremonial uses of cacao, the difference between good quality cacao and junk chocolate, what to look for when buying cacao and chocolate, and Ayurveda’s traditional take on cacao verses applying Ayurvedic principles to cacao consumption. Visit sarvaasuperfood.com and use code LILY17 for 17% off any product. Visit www.lilyrussoyoga.com to learn about my upcoming Ayurveda Virtual Deep Dive, Prana Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, and subscribe to my newsletter to stay connected. Thank you for listening and being a light in this world. Opening music by Lena Belle.

Breathwork and embodiment practice to reconnect to yourself and restore your nervous system.