Live The Light of Yoga Christina Sell

In this episode Christina and Britt have a conversation about discomfort in its many forms. They discuss the distinction between safety and discomfort and the importance of both as we grow.

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Contributors: Christina Sell (co-host).  Brittany Kassel (Producer, editor, and co-hosts). The LLOY podcast image was created by Danielle Alling of Ritual Made ( www.ritualmade.com). Original music by Kelly Sell.

Live the Light of Yoga is a passion project born from the hearts of Christina Sell, Alex Ammons, and Brittany Kassel. 

In this episode Christina and Britt take a moment to reflect on the turn of the year and reflect on 2023. The two delve into a conversation about paying attention and how it happens that we can become inattentive as Christina wrote about in her book Yoga From the Inside Out. They discuss habit setting, intentions, and the importance of naming the moments when we find ourselves stuck in harmful patterns.

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Purchase a copy of Yoga From the Inside Out here.
To check out Christina’s live stream and on-demand classes, workshops, and intensives, visit christinasellyoga.com.
Contributors: Christina Sell (co-host).  Brittany Kassel (Producer, editor, and co-hosts). The LLOY podcast image was created by Danielle Alling of Ritual Made ( www.ritualmade.com). Original music by Kelly Sell.

Live the Light of Yoga is a passion project born from the hearts of Christina Sell, Alex Ammons, and Brittany Kassel. 

This week, Britt asks Christina to talk about the concept of Kaya Sadhana as she wrote of it in her book Yoga From the Inside Out in chapter three.The two discuss tantric yoga and learning to be present with whatever step we are on while we are there. Christina talks about how you cannot skip steps along the way and how the practice helps us remember the larger picture. 

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In this conversation Christina shares her experience with disordered eating, compulsive exercise, and bulimia and the process of cultivating yoga as a space to care for addiction. Britt also shares her own experience with these topics and the two discuss the patterning we inherent from culture and family of origin. Christina reflects on how her perspective has widened in the last 20 years from body image in the terms of beauty to a more intersectional and expansive view of self-care.

Purchase a copy of Yoga From the Inside Out here.
To check out Christina’s live stream and on-demand classes, workshops, and intensives, visit christinasellyoga.com.
Contributors: Christina Sell (co-host).  Brittany Kassel (Producer, editor, and co-hosts). The LLOY podcast image was created by Danielle Alling of Ritual Made ( www.ritualmade.com). Original music by Kelly Sell.

Live the Light of Yoga is a passion project born from the hearts of Christina Sell, Alex Ammons, and Brittany Kassel. 

Christina and Britt continue their conversation on “the sleeping world” as described in Christina’s book Yoga From the Inside Out. 
This week, Britt asks Christina to talk about the human tendency to compare as highlighted by Christina’s longtime student Jeannene in Chapter Three. Christina shares how the age old advise to “not compare yourself” falls short. Rather than eradicating comparison they discuss the nuances of comparison and how it becomes harmful when imbued with feelings of superiority or inferiority. 
They also discuss comparison as a mirroring practice that is natural to humans. From this perspective they consider to the importance of diversity such that all types of people see themselves reflected .
The conversation also weaves in themes of aging consciously and how to be compassionate with self when one might fall into the social pressure to hit certain milestones on an externally prescribed timeline.

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In this conversation Christina shares her experience with disordered eating, compulsive exercise, and bulimia and the process of cultivating yoga as a space to care for addiction. Britt also shares her own experience with these topics and the two discuss the patterning we inherent from culture and family of origin. Christina reflects on how her perspective has widened in the last 20 years from body image in the terms of beauty to a more intersectional and expansive view of self-care.

Purchase a copy of Yoga From the Inside Out here.
To check out Christina’s live stream and on-demand classes, workshops, and intensives, visit christinasellyoga.com.
Contributors: Christina Sell (co-host).  Brittany Kassel (Producer, editor, and co-hosts). The LLOY podcast image was created by Danielle Alling of Ritual Made ( www.ritualmade.com). Original music by Kelly Sell.

Live the Light of Yoga is a passion project born from the hearts of Christina Sell, Alex Ammons, and Brittany Kassel. 

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In this conversation Christina and Britt dig into Chapter Two from Christina's book Yoga From The Inside Out. Twenty years ago when Christina wrote this book, she introduced the idea of "the sleeping world" as a representation of living life unconsciously or moving through life detached from spiritual belonging. In this conversation Christina reflects on how much more nuanced this idea has become in the year since first writing on it. She reflects on the binary perspective from which she first wrote year ago and how this no longer feels helpful to her. The two discuss the continuous process of living life on purpose and find compassion for the shadowy pieces of self that do not necessarily disappear or change on the spiritual path. Rather, they celebrate how we can learn to care for, tend to, and be responsible for all aspects of oneself as we strive towards conscious, connected lives.

Purchase a copy of Yoga From the Inside Out here.
To check out Christina’s live stream and on-demand classes, workshops, and intensives, visit christinasellyoga.com.
Contributors: Christina Sell (co-host).  Brittany Kassel (Producer, editor, and co-hosts). The LLOY podcast image was created by Danielle Alling of Ritual Made ( www.ritualmade.com). Original music by Kelly Sell.

Live the Light of Yoga is a passion project born from the hearts of Christina Sell, Alex Ammons, and Brittany Kassel. 

Become a supporter of the podcast by becoming a Patreon member!

Share you thoughts and ask your questions here.
In this conversation Christina shares her experience with disordered eating, compulsive exercise, and bulimia and the process of cultivating yoga as a space to care for addiction. Britt also shares her own experience with these topics and the two discuss the patterning we inherent from culture and family of origin. Christina reflects on how her perspective has widened in the last 20 years from body image in the terms of beauty to a more intersectional and expansive view of self-care.

Purchase a copy of Yoga From the Inside Out here.
To check out Christina’s live stream and on-demand classes, workshops, and intensives, visit christinasellyoga.com.
Contributors: Christina Sell (co-host).  Brittany Kassel (Producer, editor, and co-hosts). The LLOY podcast image was created by Danielle Alling of Ritual Made ( www.ritualmade.com). Original music by Kelly Sell.

Live the Light of Yoga is a passion project born from the hearts of Christina Sell, Alex Ammons, and Brittany Kassel.