In the final episode of Season 1 of The Yoga Trade Podcast, we sit down with Yoga Trade co-founder, Erica Hartnick. Eight years after a creative spark between founders, Erica and Pat, over dragonfruit smoothies in Bali, ‘Yoga Trade’ blossomed into an online platform serving wellness practitioners around the world. 

Today, we discus the power of collaboration, the importance of a regenerative mindset, along with how technology has changed our global yoga community. With the launch of the new website, we wrap up our conversation exploring the ways Yoga Trade is adapting and looking toward the future.

Connect with Erica:

www.ericahartnick.com 

IG @tahoeoutdooryoga

Connect with our host, Audrey Billups: 

www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com 

IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com

Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world. 

www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade

Theme Music and Sound Mixing: 

Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com

“Yoga is a feeling, not just a shape.” So goes the mantra of Eoin Finn, founder of the yoga system Blissology. Today, we sit down with Eoin and his partner, Insiya Rasiwala-Finn, a Yoga, Ayurveda, and wellness expert. Here, we explore vital themes such as cultivating the habit of happiness, adopting a slower pace as a means to reconnect, and how to tackle our society's overwhelming trend towards disconnection. 

In this episode, Insiya illustrates the healing power of Ayurveda, a means to live life in tune with nature. This ancient science teaches us that true freedom is only found through our limitations. We close this invigorating conversation with a look into how and why we continue to innovate the practice of yoga. 

Connect with Insiya:

www.yogue.ca 

IG @yogue8

Connect with Eoin:

www.blissology.com

IG @blissology

Connect with our host, Audrey Billups: 

www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com 

IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com

Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world. 

www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade

Theme Music and Sound Mixing: 

Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com

Drastic environmental changes and the lingering pandemic push us to reimagine a new normal. On that quest, we sit down with wellness entrepreneur, Jeff Krasno - founder of Wanderlust, CEO & Founder of Commune Media, and the host of the Commune Podcast. Through these mindful endeavors, Jeff strives to share the impact of like-minded community and hopes to enable others to take wellness into their own hands. In today’s conversation, we discuss how to discern between fact and fiction in a “post-truth” world, the importance of putting yourself on your own priority list, and the power of living an integrated life.

Connect with Jeff:

www.jeffkrasno.com

IG @jeffkrasno 

Connect with our host, Audrey Billups: 

www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com 

IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com

Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world. 

www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade

Theme Music and Sound Mixing: 

Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com

“Life begins when we wake up to the sacredness,” when we are called to “live like an awake person.” In these introductory lines, international yoga teacher and founder of Radiant Body Yoga, Kia Miller, shakes us to recognize the luminous possibilities held within the vastness of our inner worlds. We discuss how to approach meditation from a place of open curiosity, why we must take radical responsibility for ourselves and our own actions, and the fundamentals of both Kundalini and Kriya yoga. By intimately sharing with us her path to yoga, Kia helps us understand that continually showing up on our mats is one of the purest forms of activism. 

Connect with Kia:

www.kiamiller.com

IG @kiamilleryoga

Connect with our host, Audrey Billups: 

www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com 

IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com

Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world. 

www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade

Theme Music and Sound Mixing: 

Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com

“Sound goes where no other medicine can.” It is with this truth that LA-based sound healer, reiki master, Kundalini yoga teacher, and sobriety coach, Susy Markoe Schieffelin, enlightens us on the undeniable restoring power of sound healing. Through an intimate revelation of her personal struggle with Alopecia and addiction, Susy shares with us her personal transformation from a place of darkness to one of pure self-love and acceptance. Further uplifting us with her endurant spirit, Susy shows us how following your bliss and taking the next right step allows us to align with our purpose and break free from the limiting beliefs of abundance.

Connect with Susy:

www.thecoppervessel.com

IG @thecoppervessel  

Connect with our host, Audrey Billups: 

www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com 

IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com

Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world. 

www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade

Theme Music and Sound Mixing: 

Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com

As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to gain momentum, diversity and inclusion have rightfully pushed to the forefront of our minds. Collectively, we're beginning to recognize the need for a narrative shift, and the wellness space is no exception. In today’s episode, Youmie Jean Francois, CEO and Founder of travel wellness startup Flex-N-Fly, champions a new definition of wellness and advocates that we must focus on diversifying our every day and leading a more colorful life. We round out our talk with a discussion of the benefits of yin and restorative yoga and the power of affirmations in self-creating our lives.

Connect with Youmie:

www.flexnfly.com 

IG @flexnflyofficial 

Podcast: Live in your power | Affirmations &Affirmations with Flex-N-Fly

Connect with our host, Audrey Billups: 

www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com 

IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com

Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world. 

www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade

Theme Music and Sound Mixing: 

Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com

Yogini, sage, and adventurer, Deborah Koehn, unveils the foundations from which she crafted her guiding mantra, ‘Nature as Teacher’- a derivative of a lifetime spent traveling throughout the remote landscapes of our world, from the high Andes to the Himalayas. In our conversation, we discuss the conflux of neuroscience and yoga and the reasons that movement has such an ability to heal. We also reflect on the pivotal questions that Mother Earth asks of us during today's turbulent times. In closing, Deborah guides us through a chakra-flow meditation practice that leaves us with a needed sense of grounding peace.

Connect with Deborah:

www.yogaadventure.com

IG @yoga_adventure

Connect with our host, Audrey Billups: 

www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com 

IG @audrey_andthewild

Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world. 

www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade

Theme Music and Sound Mixing: 

Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com

As social unrest and Covid-19 cases continue to rise, we recognize the need to build a new paradigm. To do so, we must start the revolution from within and own our personal responsibility. In today's conversation with yoga teacher, social activist, and SoulWork™ founder, Adi Shakti, we explore the ways in which the global yoga community can come together to serve as a vehicle for social change. 

Connect with Adi Shakti:

https://soulwork.com 

IG @adi_shakti_rising

Podcast: SoulWork with Adi Shakti 

Nonprofit: https://www.shaktiseva.org 

Connect with our host, Audrey Billups: 

www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com 

IG @audrey_andthewild

Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world. 

www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade

Theme Music and Sound Mixing: 

Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com