On and Off Your Mat Yoga Podcast

If you want to raise your frequency to uplift your mood and energy, improve your emotional and mental well-being, connect more deeply with your higher self, intuition, or a sense of universal consciousness, or even align yourself with the energies of abundance, love, and success for example so you can manifest more of what you desire, today’s practice is for you.Visualization is a powerful tool for raising your vibration because it engages the mind, emotions, and energy in a focused way that aligns you with higher frequencies and allows you to be very gentle.This practice is part of our premium subscription, to get access to it, become a premium podcast member.When you leave a review for the podcast on iTunes you can have access to the membership for free, including today’s class as a thank you for helping others to find the podcast and on their healing journey. DM @onandoffyourmatpodcast or email (erika.belanger@gmail.com) me a screenshot of your review and we'll get you set up.On the membership platform, you'll find: 1. Your premium podcast episodes ($5/month).2. You can now also have access to almost 600 recorded full-length yoga classes in a Netflix-Style Membership ($25/month). 3. You can sign up for any live-stream class I offer!With our podcast premium membership, your contribution ripples to thousands of people every week, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis. This podcast is a way I contribute to the community, and this membership is a way you can too. It allows you to share everything yoga offers with the world by supporting me in the creation and production of this podcast while I choose to keep it ad-free.

Alison Starr, founder of Kanda Yoga School and creator of the 20 Minute Miracles app, joins us to explore how developing a relationship with your breath can transform your yoga practice and your life.Alison shares her journey of discovering functional breathing and how it helped her overcome chronic pain and instability. She explains the difference between functional and dysfunctional breathing patterns and how many common cues in yoga and fitness can actually restrict the natural movement of the diaphragm. Learn simple techniques to calm your nervous system, increase your inner awareness, and find more ease and presence both on and off the mat. Get full show notes and more information here: https://erikabelanger.com/240

Kori Hahn is an author, yoga and meditation teacher, surfer, and devoted mother. Her adventures took her from the frozen landscape of Alaska to the warm waves of Sri Lanka, where she founded the Santosha Society, a community dedicated to travel, surfing, and soulful living. She's helped hundreds of women explore Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, and soul growth, and she's here to discuss today's topic through the lens of her new book: A Temple of Her Own.Discover how to embody the Sacred Feminine and learn how embodying these feminine archetypes can help you through the different seasons of your life. Kori goes through the goddesses in her book and gives us the profound lessons we can learn through each one about romance, pain, creativity, abundance, wealth, and more.Get full show notes and more information here: https://erikabelanger.com/239

MaKenzie Fly is a podcast host, retreat leader, and yoga teacher trainer living in Las Vegas. She helps yoga teachers get to their next level by developing more magnetism, attracting and retaining students through better sequencing, theme-weaving, and storytelling, and eventually becoming yogi-preneurs and building sustainable businesses as yoga teachers.Discover how to stand out as a yoga teacher by mastering the skills of theme-weaving and storytelling in your classes and in your business. MaKenzie shares why all of us are capable of telling a beautiful story through our yoga classes, and you'll get practical tips for implementing theme-weaving for the benefit of your students.Get full show notes and more information here: https://erikabelanger.com/238

If you have regular headaches, pain in your face, neck or shoulders, ear problems, teeth sensitivity, clicking or popping in your jaw, you might have chronic jaw pain or even TMJ and this practice is for you.Learning how to improve your posture and your breath and how to process emotions like anger and anxiety can help prevent pain, and learning how to release and massage your jaw can help you deal with the symptoms.This somatic practice is part of our premium subscription, to get access to it, become a premium podcast member.When you leave a review for the podcast on iTunes you can have access to the membership for free, including today’s class as a thank you for helping others to find the podcast and on their healing journey. DM @onandoffyourmatpodcast or email (erika.belanger@gmail.com) me a screenshot of your review and we'll get you set up.On the membership platform, you'll find: 1. Your premium podcast episodes ($5/month).2. You can now also have access to almost 600 recorded full-length yoga classes in a Netflix-Style Membership ($25/month). 3. You can sign up for any live-stream class I offer!With our podcast premium membership, your contribution ripples to thousands of people every week, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis. This podcast is a way I contribute to the community, and this membership is a way you can too. It allows you to share everything yoga offers with the world by supporting me in the creation and production of this podcast while I choose to keep it ad-free.

For today's episode, I sat down with Celeste Unali, a yoga and meditation teacher and women's mindset coach based in Australia. After a decade of working her way up the corporate ladder and experiencing plenty of success in the workplace, Celeste found herself feeling more uninspired and disconnected than ever. A deep journey of self-development led her to yoga, where she unexpectedly fell in love with the magic of mindfulness and watched as it unfolded in her life, driving deeper connection, purpose, and peace within herself and her relationships.Celeste and I discuss why you might need yoga as a high achiever, what to do if slowing down feels uncomfortable to you, and how the practice might be the key to giving you clarity on how to find more purpose, meaning, and joy in your life.Get full show notes and more information here: https://erikabelanger.com/236

For today's episode, I'm joined by Elizabeth Ralph, a high-level wealth strategist and intuitive investor who retired at the age of 39 to teach others how to reach financial freedom through non-traditional methods.Discover the pillars of changing your relationship with money and calling in more money in your life. Elizabeth shares how to harness the beautiful energy of money and connect with this tool instead of resisting it, the importance of thinking about money creatively instead of emotionally, why wealth is a circle, and how to create money neutrality so you can call in wealth at the quantum level.Get full show notes and more information here: https://erikabelanger.com/234

If you want to reconnect with your feminine energy, support yourself lovingly in menstruation or cultivate more inner harmony when you’re feeling emotional, this practice is for you.Whether you have a physical womb or not, you can work with these centers of energy to create sexual healing, self-love and self-care.Learning how to come home to yourself in this way can also be supportive on a fertility journey or during pregnancy. This breath-based meditation is part of our premium subscription, to get access to it, become a premium podcast member.When you leave a review for the podcast on iTunes you can have access to the membership for free, including today’s class as a thank you for helping others to find the podcast and on their healing journey. DM @onandoffyourmatpodcast or email (erika.belanger@gmail.com) me a screenshot of your review and we'll get you set up.On the membership platform, you'll find: 1. Your premium podcast episodes ($5/month).2. You can now also have access to almost 600 recorded full-length yoga classes in a Netflix-Style Membership ($25/month). 3. You can sign up for any live-stream class I offer!With our podcast premium membership, your contribution ripples to thousands of people every week, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis. This podcast is a way I contribute to the community, and this membership is a way you can too. It allows you to share everything yoga offers with the world by supporting me in the creation and production of this podcast while I choose to keep it ad-free.