Episode 81: About balance, with Elissa

When you hear the word ‘balance,’ what do you think of? Work-life balance? Balancing on one leg? Balancing your checkbook?...

Welcome back to a new season of the podcast... this month our theme is Balance, and in this episode, I want to encourage you to examine your understanding of that idea. You may think balance is a fixed, perfect center point that you have to strive for. But in reality, balance is dynamic and spacious. And falling or failing are important parts of continuing to find balance.

We’re living in a world where a new normal is unfolding, and it’s important to examine our idea of what it means to be in balance.

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Show Notes:   

Recap

• 0:00 - Welcome back to the Find Your Voice, Speak Your Truth podcast!
• 2:00 - Our theme this month is Balance. And this is the perfect time for this topic as we enter Libra season and feel the effects of Mercury Retrograde. 
• 4:40 - Why are we talking so much about Astrology today?
• 6:00 - Elissa gives a re-introduction to herself, the podcast, and walks through the Voice Body Connection process. Elissa feels that she has a headache, and discusses presence. 
• 13:20 - How does all of this tie into balance? Elissa leads an experiment to answer, “what is balance?”
• 17:20 - A note on balance and perfection. 
• 20:00 - Tying this idea of perfection to patterns and systems in our world. What would it look like to transform this into a world of true balance?
• 24:00 - A beautiful way to think about balance and binaries. 
• 25:40 - Elissa shares about the Yamas and Niyamas, Yoga philosophy through which we can find balance. 
• 31:40 - What do the cosmos say is next for us on planet earth? 
• 40:00 - Can we expand the bubble of balance, and commit to very real change? Will we actively participate in the rebalancing, or get rebalanced? How can we all connect and be of service?

Resources

• Read more on the Yamas and Niyamas here.

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Production Credits:

Our Editor is Sean Brennan

Our Photographer and Graphic Designer is Laura Sills

Our Videographer is Miguel Garzón Martínez

And our theme song is “Waters of Body” by Strange Weather

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