Lean In 33: Dharma; Finding out why you are here and following your own unique path with Alex Vannucci
Release Date: 05/24/2020
Lean In 42: Consciousness Rising; Stepping boldly into the full expression of yourself with Nadine McNeil
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. “We are all in the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat” this quote struck me from my conversation with todays guest Nadine McNeil as we were talking about the current global climate - pandemic, racial protests, war, refugee’s and everything...
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Your Space Episode 41: Releasing Overwhelm
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Welcome to ‘Your Space,’ an embodied and direct experience that allows you to engage in a restorative moment of calm, to unwind, reflect and be nurtured. We are living in a time of great change. Old power structures throughout the world are changing and dismantling and shaking us up in a huge way. We are currently dealing with increased racial prejudice, natural disasters, climate change, a global pandemic on top of all the pain and suffering that is happening around us and inside of us every single day. It is an uncertain time, a time of great challenge. It is also a time where, for most...
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Lean In 40: Authenticity; Finding your own way and reaching your fullest potential with Chris Dufey
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. Authenticity is a word that gets thrown around the self developing world like a hot potato. But what does it mean to truly live an authentic life? What does it take to live true to your core values, your heart centered intentions and your own personal goals?...
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Lean In 39: Survival. One brave man's unbelievable story of survival with Abdi Aden
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. Today I have the extreme pleasure of introducing you to someone who has experienced the unbelievable and conquered the impossible; Abdi Aden. Abdi’s world completely changed when he was only a very young teenager and Somalia’s vicious civil war hit...
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Lean In 38: Acceptance; It is perfectly ok to not be ok with Clare Boyd
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life or just want a deeper level conversation, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. Acceptance is something we will all have to experience at some point within our own lives. On the healing journey it is an absolute allay that provides so much space and expansion for our minds and souls. Acceptance of...
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Your Space Episode 38: Acceptance
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Welcome to ‘Your Space,’ an embodied and direct experience that allows you to engage in a restorative moment of calm, to unwind, reflect and be nurtured. This session of “Your Space’ is the partner for Lean In 38: Acceptance; It is perfectly ok to not be ok with Clare Boyd. We live in a time where there is little encouragement for paying attention to our body’s needs and natural energy levels. Often when we are really exhausted, we ignore our longing for rest and rejuvenation and instead manipulate our bodies with caffeine, sugar, and other stimulants to create a false sense of...
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Your Space Episode 37: Expression
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Welcome to ‘Your Space,’ an embodied and direct experience that allows you to engage in a restorative moment of calm, to unwind, reflect and be nurtured. This session of “Your Space’ is the partner for Lean In 37: Expression; Exploring the depths of personal truth through creativity, art, and relationships with Christina Zipperlen. Creative expression can be seen as one of the most potent forces in the world and crucial in all aspects of our lives. It can point us to new paths, new ways of seeing and solving. Creative expression is rooted in the capacities for observation, discovery,...
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Lean In 37: Expression; Exploring the depths of personal truth through creativity, art, and relationships with Christina Zipperlen
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. In its most expansive definition, Art contains all forms of creative expression. Creative expression can be seen as one of the most potent forces in the world and throughout all aspects of our lives. It can point us to new paths, new ways of seeing and...
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Lean In 36: Your Space Special Edition: Opening our capacity to feel, heal and grow
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Fear is a tricky thing. It shape shifts as many different emotions, experiences, thoughts and even actions. It can get a hold of us and become destructive if we let it, allowing it’s resistance to block us from feeling, seeing and experiencing our own truth. Right now, it feels like the entire world is in a panic, and it’s so hard to see what tomorrow will bring, let alone the future. I know with my whole heart and soul that we were made for these times and I encourage us all to take a collective breath, and let the fear and uncertainty work its way through us. There’s an old saying in...
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Lean In 35: Nourish; Finding nourishment through activism, yoga, internal healing and taking action with Bex Tyrer
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. When we arrive in this world as children our early years are shaped for us. And yet occasionally certain traits of our individual personalities buck the status quo and reveal deep parts of what our soul is here to do in this lifetime. Activism and the desire...
info_outlineWelcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing.
If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together.
How do you follow a path that you know is true to your own unique essence and spirit?
And furthermore, how do we even connect in with those deeper purposes of our being?
In my own personal experience I have learned to utilise the different practices and experiences that open up these parts of myself, to gain access to that inner wisdom.
This looks different for all of us.
It could look like meditation, yoga, surfing, gardening, spending time in nature, writing, breathwork, ice baths, dancing, knitting...the list goes on.
Anything that connects you to your creativity, your joy, and takes you out of the monkey mind and constant thought processes running incessantly throughout your head all day and connects you to your inner knowing and deep wisdom.
In today's episode I chat with Yoga teacher, Meditation teacher, nutritionist and intuitive healer Alex Vannucci about what it means to find and follow our dharma.
Alex holds a deep interest in the biomechanics of the body and the interplay of energy. While studying Nutritional therapy, Alex felt a calling to India where she spent some time studying yoga and meditation under the guidance of Yogarishi Vishvaketu at Anand Prakash Ashram in Rishikesh. This reflective period developed Alex’s need to adopt holistic yoga and nutrition into her life and choose it as a career.
Since then, Alex’s thirst for knowledge about the human body led her to study multiple styles of yoga, mediation, pilates and bodywork as well as completing her bachelor's degree in nutritional medicine. This lady has followed many traditional lineages and explored the roots of many spiritual practices. The challenge for her was then to integrate the teachings back into a western world and also utilise these to help support people on their own path of healing and transformation.
We dive into;
● Alex’s curiosity into the exploration of yoga at a very early age
● Growing up feeling ‘different’ and turning that uniqueness into her life's path
● How yoga as a teenager helped to eradicate Alex’s OCD, anxiety and alopecia
● How the body is always guiding us on our spiritual path
● The study of Eastern philosophy and practices to deal with our busy lives in a western culture
● Fusing both Eastern and Western culture into our day to day lives
● Why running away to India was the best decision Alex could have made after finishing school
● Yoga and it’s benefits both on and off the mat
● Why it is important that we all have a devotional practice of some kind
● Why these ancient meditation lineages hold so much healing for us in our modern lives
● How we can meditate and tips to get started
● Some different types of meditation lineages available and how we can find what works individually for us
● Why nutrition is absolutely crucial on the yogic path
● The importance of understanding our own individual nutritional needs
● What “whole” healing means
● How do we connect with our own intuition
● What do we need to start on a healing journey
● Why daily dedication and devotion and discipline is absolutely crucial in any health protocol
● Why we need to trust our own growth process
● How can we develop our own meditation practice and start today.
You can find out more about Alex Vannucci here;
And…. Alex has just launched a 21 day applied meditation course for those who are yearning to find calm, create clarity, and navigate change within their lives.
This online course is a 21 day journey for you to explore and develop a self led meditation practice which will both deepen and transform your understanding of meditation and introduce a range of embodiment practices that will both nurture your growth and support you in your day to day life.
Each week is divided and explores a new meditation topic with guided meditations, movement and breath practices as well as written resources to support you along the way.
Your can find out all about it here
And the best bit….
We are offering listeners of Lean in a 50% discount to help support your meditation journey.
Use the code ‘LEANIN’ at the checkout. This offer is valid until 8th of June 2020. So do not miss out!
An offering my heart to yours to get us through this challenging and uncertain time.
Stay safe friends,
Love Kate