Natalie Bedard is a resilient single mother and founder of Lift OneSelf, guiding others towards self-discovery. Natalies transformative journey is filled with profound mindfulness and self-awareness through the exploration of actionable steps towards unlocking your true potential.

Together in this episode we share:

• Natalie’s journey through personal transformation over the past 10 years
• A guided meditation for grounding the nervous system
• How to have radical honesty with the self
• Handling trauma in the nervous system
• The importance of having safety with self
• The practice of engaging with the self
• Practices to bring the body back online
• Our relationship to power and attention
• How we can fall asleep to life and tools to wake ourselves up
• Relationship to the ego and the importance of befriending it
• Wisdom that arises through personal experiences
• Natalie’s untapped Power of listening

To connect with Natalie on facebook at liftoneself or instagram @liftoneself.

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On today's episode we break down the power in our own lessons learned and why our own personal experiences are worth revisiting.

Highlights from the episode:

• Revisiting your own experiences even the challenging ones
• Important questions to ask yourself: What could I have done differently? Where had I expected I different outcome than what I received?
• Selling and marketing of your own experiences
• Creating more self awareness

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Ann Swanson is the author of the internationally bestselling book SCIENCE OF YOGA, which has been translated into over 15 languages. Her new book, Meditation for the Real World, illuminates the fascinating science behind meditation with step-by-step practices to help you find peace in everyday life.

In this episode we breakdown:

• Background coming into book writing and the science of yoga
• New Book: Meditation for the Real World
• Different meditation practices and tools
• Using meditation for spaces of transition
• Gratitude practices and the practice of Kindness
• Exploring the negativity bias
• Challenges of meditation for people
• Power in one minute meditations and finding glimmers in each day
• Finding time to meditate and to create discipline in the practices
• Creating a mediation practice for life Changes and challenges
• The importance of leading by example and meditation techniques for yoga teachers
• Breakdown of Ann’s new book to make meditation adaptable and mangeable
• Ann’s vision forward for herself and the book
• Untapped power - intuition

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