I started a top 5% Spotify video podcast without being an influencer, and the years that you didn't see, built everything. Truthfully, I feel like I'm just getting started, but when I pause, I see that I have come a long way! This podcast is my "true north" and the reason I wake up and get to "work" writing, interviewing and creating every day. I believe in the power of inspiration, especially in times like these. I wanted to tell my full story, for those who are asking. I hope you feel inspired to think about telling (and creating) your OWN story, whatever it may be. I believe in you. :) And thanks for being part of the Leadership and Yoga fam.

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Londrelle shows us how spiritual practice becomes music that heals the world. Welcome to the inner workings of Londrelle’s songs, his creative process, and how he shares what he knows with the world. His music is communion with God, and he follows the Bhagavad Gita as instruction for everything he creates. Let’s talk about his spiritual practice and how it has made him the artist we know today: from maha mudra, kriya yoga and meditation to making music that elevates our vibration. Londrelle brings words of wisdom for us on how we can make an impact in the world, and also how we can make it through our own dark nights of the soul as he shares his own story from birth to present day.

“Spiritual practice helps us tune into our gifts and abilities, they make us more open and less tense about what we do, so that we can go with the flow of that greater consciousness and intelligence that is always there.” -Londrelle

“God for me is not something that you can put your finger on it, but you can miss it. Everywhere you go, everywhere you turn, there is the presence of the most high God.” -Londrelle

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Time stamps:

00:00 this is Londrelle!!

01:00 Yoga Trade

02:00 OfferingTree

03:10 join the podcast?

05:00 yoga connection

07:30 Bhagavad Gita as instruction for music

09:00 how Londrelle writes songs like Gratitude

10:15 more meditative than creative

11:45 when a song arrives, no sleep or pause, until it’s complete

14:30 if they can see it in you, they can see it in themselves

16:45 God: when you close your eyes and think of God..

18:00 Protest and activism: Police brutality

20:00 setting out to serve, you open yourself to universal intelligence

24:00 music is broadcasted to the world & shapes culture

27:00 growing up: no space to dream, only survive

31:10 Londrelle’s story from birth

33:45 studying the divine you see your own true nature & importance

35:10 Londrelle’s teachers/influences

39:00 religion & spirituality are the same, two expressions of the same truth

41:00 virgos! both Londrelle and Shawna are virgos.

45:00 dark nights of the soul & initiations

46:00 death experience

49:30 tests following

53:00 can’t escape yourself. wherever you go, there you are

55:00 artist journey: becoming the Londrelle that we know today

57:50 music is a science

59:00 Londrelle’s spiritual practices: maha Mudra, kriya yoga & meditation

1:01:43 be less tense & tune into our gifts

1:02:00 is there yoga in your music?

1:04:00 supporting people going through darkness with our art

1:05:09 winter in life

1:08:00 self-acceptance

1:11:00 impact in the outer world and introspection

1:12:50 this world is not meant to be heaven

1:14:00 the world as a projection of yourself

1:15:58 yoga’s role in addressing suffering of the world

1:18:00 yoga is the process of opening ourselves

1:19:00 how can we keep our dreams alive (song discussion)

1:21:00 doing music for 25 years: dreams are seeds

1:23:00 how to dream: look to serve

1:25:00 billboard message: stay free!

FOR CONTEXT, SEE THE FULL EPISODE. This is the musical poetry, quick taste of my episode on the architecture of a moonshot dream coming true. It also is a standalone piece to get you thinking about your dreams and how to move towards them.

Is it spring for the tree of your dreams stop trying to hold your life together with glue, and start giving your attention to what you actually want to grow.

(In the style of my immersive special episodes... )