Ep 12: Owning Our Power to be Present w/Shannon Elliott

Are we fish riding camels, to only realize this now and notice how damn thirsty we are? Hafiz’s poem opens this episode and get us thinking about how this pandemic has stripped us of our distractions and is forcing us to take a real good look at who we are and who we are called to be. Today, I’m in conversation with one of my dear spiritual teachers, Shannon Elliott, owner and director of Onyx Yoga Studio in Warren, NJ. We talk about how this global crisis is bringing so many essential things into focus, like creating community, holding BOTH the dark and the light, and to saying YES when we are called to serve. We also discuss what it means to be in the present moment (like being “in the zone”!), how we all possess the power to choose the present moment, and why that’s important. Shannon also talks a little bit about the magic of breathwork and reminds us: “Yoga will always meet us where we are.” // Hafiz’s “Damn Thirsty”, Rumi’s fragment of poem: “"Very little grows on jagged rock. / Be ground. Be crumbled. / So wild flowers will come up/ Where you are./ You have been stony for too many years./ Try something different. Surrender." // FREE yoga & training class ““How to Create More Energy & Resilience for Empaths”. Register here: suryagian.com/strong-and-resilient-empaths // #meditation #ownyourpower #bepresent #createcommunity #community #beherenow #breath #breathwork