"Integrity matters. If you are in integrity, timing will be on your side."
It was an honor to sit down with renowned author and yoga teacher Elena Brower in the latest Rising Women Leaders podcast episode. We spoke of her journey: discovering yoga, becoming a teacher, finding her voice and more recently letting go of addiction, stepping into her power as a wellness advocate and team leader for doTERRA and the beauty that comes when you step into your highest alignment. We spoke of the power when a woman steps into wealth and abundance, how to honor our grief and pain, and what to let go of to deepen our personal practices.
There is in an elegance and grace to everything Elena creates... Be sure to check out her new journal, Practice You as well as her other offerings listed below.
In this episode we discussed:
- Discovering the path of yoga
- Finding your voice as a teacher
- Being a mom and how that relates to spiritual growth and practice
- Elena's journey with addiction, sobriety and recovery
- Her thoughts on stepping into wealth "...how absolutely perfect it is to be financially independent as a woman, and how important it is to be that example for many many thousands if not millions of other women, so I'm okay with that..."
- Her love of essential oils
- Elena's favorite morning rituals
- The rise of the feminine & awakening of our collective consciousness
- Her new journal, "Practice You"
- Healing from the loss of her mother and thoughts on moving through grief and pain
- The importance of the early morning hours for personal practice
Connect with Elena:
- Elena's Website
- Elena on instagram
- Buy Her New Journal, Practice You
- The Yoga Collection made in collaboration with doTERRA Essential Oils
- Self-Care for Women: Practices for Resilience & Grace
Elena Brower is a renowned author, yoga teacher and speaker. Influenced by several yoga traditions including Parayoga and Katonah Yoga, she is recognized internationally for her expertise in combining physical alignment and the art of attention. Since 1998, Elena has been offering these practices as a vehicle for approaching our world with realistic reverence and gratitude. She is the author of Art of Attention, a yoga workbook that has been translated into six languages and the creator of Teach.yoga, a virtual home for yoga teachers worldwide. Her new book, Practice You, will be out in September 2017 from Sounds True.
Elena is also an executive producer of On Meditation: Documenting the Inner Journey, a film that intimately explores meditation experiences, and has contributed to the Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen, and Yoga Journal. Experience Elena's filmed practices on YogaGl, and her Audio Meditations on elenabrower.com/meditation.
