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5Q Interview @Micara.Link

5Q Interview @Micara.Link!

1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you?

I have been practicing yoga for about ten years now, but I still consider myself a beginner. I love yoga because it brings wholeness into our human experience. As we move, we connect with our breath, create space in the body, and a calmness to the mind. It’s a beautiful and accessible practice that has countless benefits. Sharing yoga is important to me because it’s empowering and helps people remember who they really are. Yoga offers a sacred space for self-discovery, healing, and growth. I love that!

2. When did you first begin teaching yoga? What made you transition into a leadership position?

I started teaching yoga asana (postures) about 2.5 years ago. I have taught meditation for close to eight years. I feel very passionate about sharing the things that I love, and so it was a natural evolution for me to begin teaching, as it gave me more opportunities to share my passion and purpose.

3. What makes your classes unique?

My classes are unique in that they emphasize subtle energies such as breath, intuition, and sensation. The movements I guide are done so in a very meditative way. I offer a lot of opportunity for self-inquiry, compassion, and self-care. My intention behind teaching is to offer a sacred space for people to show up exactly as they are, with no expectation or external demands, just space to come home to their true self, so that they can feel more grounded, centered, and whole by the time our class is over.

4. How does music benefit your guidance in a yoga class?

I love adding music to my class that matches the energy and intention for the day. I often have very soothing and healing sounds to help deepen and encourage the class to go inside and listen to what their soul knows to be true. Music adds dimension and depth. I believe in the healing sounds of music and am very mindful of that when choosing the songs that I play.

5. Tell me about your next event and where we can follow you online.

I have a couple events coming up. The first is a yoga nidra class on Friday, March 17th at 6:30pm at Yoga Liberty in Liberty, MO, and the second is a workshop on Living from the Heart, Saturday, April 8th, 1-4 at Soul Movement Studio in Sioux Falls, SD. You can follow me online at www.micaralink.com

DTO and I are collaborating on a series of guided meditations. Here’s our first one featuring the opening song on Nameless Energy, Breath. The intention of this meditation is to remind you to Breathe!

Instagram @Micara.link

Facebook, www.facebook.com/officialmicaralink

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5Q Interview @hillaryagrayoga

5Q Interview @hillaryagrayoga!

1.) Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you?

My yoga journey isn’t linear at all. Like my life, my yoga practice has its ups and downs. I started practicing in middle school when my aunt took me to my very first power yoga class. I just thought it was a cool and unique workout, not something I’d commit my life to figuring out. After a long road of pain, hurt, trauma and depression I found my yoga mat again. My yoga practice is sacred and my yoga mat is where I find solace. I know yoga is important to me because it has seriously impacted my life in huge ways: I am able to find comfort and wholeness in my body, I am not so eager to jump to rage, aggression or apprehension as a first response to stress, I am able to love others more and find gratitude in little things, I can release tension that’s been stored in my body for lifetimes or more, my health has improved significantly/I feel strong, and I feel more compassion towards others.

2.) When did you first begin teaching yoga? What made you transition into a leadership position?

I began teaching yoga in Honolulu, Hawaii in September 2015. I chose to become a teacher because I knew that if I could find a safe place to explore my emotions, thoughts, feelings and body and work through all of the self-limiting thoughts I had then I could help others find the same in their bodies and practices. I can be described as an introvert so I spent most of my life fearing the thought of public speaking. At times, when I’m teaching, I have this outer-body experience where I just look at myself guiding students in and out of postures and I’m not even sure it’s really me. Teaching in front of students allowed me to find confidence in speaking up for myself out of the studio space. I found my voice because of teaching and I speak up for what I want.

3.) What makes your classes unique?

Full disclaimer: I’m a goofball. My name literally means “cheerful” or “merry” and I make sure to get at least one person to laugh in my class. I love when students get out of their heads and take themselves/their practice lightly. I offer a lot of layers in more advanced postures because I know not every student is going to be able to lift his/her hips of the ground in Eight-Angle pose (Astavakrasana). I like telling my students that it’s ok to be wherever they are today and I allow my students to find what works best in their bodies and go from that point.

4.) How does music benefit your guidance in a yoga class?

Music is a huge component of class! If I want students to feel a certain emotion, like feel energetic in core then I set the tone with my music choices. Music can get people out of their own heads and into other sensations of the body. Sometimes the song lyrics or sound speak more to my overall theme than my words can express. Music enhances this experience!

5.) Tell me about your next event and where we can follow you online.

Please join Amy Rae, DTO (live music) and myself at CorePower Yoga Del Mar on Saturday, March 11th at 3pm for a Fusion & Flow yoga class. After class we’re all heading to the Tasting Room in Del Mar for bites and drinks!

Tasting Room Del Mar: https://www.tastingroomdelmar.com/

My website:https://www.hillaryagra.com/

My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hillaryagrayoga/

My Instagram: @hillaryagrayoga

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5Q Interview @KrisAndBoys2

1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you?

I have grown in knowledge and compassion, strength in my mind and body, and opened my heart in my years of practicing yoga. Yoga eases any stressors and brings me into a state of peace and contement, and draws me to my mat everyday. This beautiful gift is the reason I teach yoga. I wanted everyone I know and met to know the benefits of yoga.

The best gift in the whole world is being a mother to these amazing young men. It’s icing on the cake that they joined me for a second year in a row for yoga on mother’s day. Love you lots @jordan_cox01 @chris_cox98 #yogalove #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #gratitude #grateful #altaregosisters #altarego #artinmotion #grrrlpower @altaregoapparel #babycrows #mylilyogis

A post shared by Kristi Cox (@krisandboys2) on May 8, 2016 at 10:37am PDT

2. When did you first begin teaching yoga? What made you transition into a leadership position?

I graduated from my first teacher training in 2010, and began teaching in 2014. I wanted to share my experience of yoga to as many people as possible, and to have my students fall in love with yoga the way I have. I didn’t realize that seeing how it has positively affected so many lives made me so much happier than I could imagine. I find teaching yoga even more wonderful than practicing myself.

But first, Boba!!! Dairy free and gluten free deliciousness! !! I love Tea House, my new favorite! !

A post shared by Kristi Cox (@krisandboys2) on Jul 23, 2016 at 3:32pm PDT

3. What makes your classes unique?

I connect with students in individual ways and can sense when I may need to change a sequence or take the pace down or up. I have been told that my classes create a calm and peaceful sense.

4. How does music benefit your guidance in a yoga class?

Music most definitely set the pace for a class. From a calm begin to building up to a slightly quicker pace for sun salutes and arm balances, while using a slower pace for seated postures and savasana can help ease students into a peaceful end.

Super ecstatic to receive my blue butterfly pants from @aloyoga they shipped quickly, are comfortable and most importantly adorable! #beagoddess #aloyoga #tgif #yogalove #yogaeverydamnday

A post shared by Kristi Cox (@krisandboys2) on Feb 19, 2016 at 6:01pm PST

5. Tell me about your next event and where we can follow you online.

Hot yoga healthy you on March 18th where we are treated with your wonderful music!

Live everyday to it’s fullest, have so much joy in your heart and soul, that it emanates from your being an brings a smile to someone. #PeaceIsTheNewPower #yoga #yogalove #yogaeverydamnday #gratitude #grateful #hardtailforever #hardtail @hardtailforever @hardtail

A post shared by Kristi Cox (@krisandboys2) on Jan 29, 2017 at 12:49pm PST

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5Q Interview @Micara.Link

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