Get to know Damithia. She has been teaching yoga for 20 years; her business is Thrive Centered, a trauma-sensitive, mindfulness, and liberation practice. She is also a sound bath artist.
Listen to our conversation as we discuss the joys and the pitfalls of the current yoga culture.

“Well, hate may be too strong a word… but maybe not. It depends on how you define yoga.”
But then why teach it? Why still love it?

To answer that, we have to go deeper.
What is yoga, really? And is what we practice in the mainstream still yoga at all?

Dora sat down with Anna — former 200-hour trainee, now teacher, mother, poet, and all-around lovely human — for a warm, funny, and deeply honest conversation about the potential of yoga to transform our lives and perhaps even help heal the modern mental health crisis.

There is lightness, laughter, and deep sorrow woven through this short exchange as they explore some of the biggest questions of modern life:

How do we live more meaningfully?
What are we actually chasing?
And what happens when money, comfort, and happiness stop being enough?

Without giving away the beautiful ending, perhaps the answer is this:

Find a story worth living for...

You can find Dora at: spirapoweryoga.com
and Anna at: pidgepost.com and pidgepost.substack.com

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There is a lot of fear around AI, and as with anything else, it can be misused and harmful. But as I just found out, it can also be helpful.
As a small business owner and teacher, I just don't have time to generate new content as frequently as I would like for my Podcast channel and blogs. AI to the rescue!

I just wrapped up teaching my 8-month Yoga and Mindfulness Journey. To my surprise, one of my students told me that he put some of his notes into AI, and it generated a very enjoyable podcast.
I was blown away! Apart from the total butchering of Sanskrit pronunciation, it did an amazing job highlighting some of the lessons and, most importantly, distilling the essence of the teaching.

Listen to this 20 minutes and learn the true essence of yoga and mindfulness.

This is also a useful listen if you are thinking of taking Dora's 200HR Yoga and Mindfulness Journey and are curious to learn why it is so very different from the other compressed short yoga trainings, then give this a listen. (and yes, it is so different that even if you already have a 200-hour certificate, you will not regret doing it again)