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Moments Podcast

108: The story of how yoga saved us (with my lifelong yoga teacher Kelly Brookbank)

Moments Podcast

Lexi Hidalgo

Kids & Family, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

54K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome Kelly Brookbank to the podcast! I am so excited to have Kelly on today’s podcast and dive into everything there is to talk about when it comes to yoga. Kelly has been teaching yoga for 25 years and has been an instrumental part in my life not only in yoga but in my mental health journey.


In this episode, we talk about:
  • Kelly’s journey to becoming a yoga teacher
  • 25 years teaching yoga
  • The mental vs the physical of yoga
  • Becoming a certified yoga instructor at 13 years old
  • Ouija breath
  • The different types of yoga
  • Tips on staying consistent with yoga
  • Costa Rica young adult volunteer retreat

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. Welcome back to the moments podcast. I am here with someone very special in my life.

0:07.5

Someone who has been a part of my life for I think 10 years now? 10 years. Her name is Kelly. She's been my yoga teacher. She's been basically a

0:15.5

mother to me for the past 10 years. She taught me to teach yoga. She taught me

0:20.7

to find myself. She taught me to find myself.

0:23.0

She taught me pretty much everything I know

0:25.1

and how did love myself and take care of myself

0:27.4

and all of that.

0:28.8

So this is Miss Kelly Brookbank.

0:32.1

You want to say hello?

0:33.5

Hello.

0:34.7

And I figure most people.

0:37.2

I have wanted to have her on the podcast for quite some time now

0:40.0

just because you guys have all heard me tell my story about yoga, how I found it, why I do it,

0:45.2

and you've probably heard me talk about Kelly in Costa Rica 20 million thousand times,

0:50.4

and now we get to put like the voice to the name and she can tell you her side of everything

0:55.2

and just talk about yoga on why you should do it and why it was life changing for me and for her and

1:01.5

yeah I guess to start us off just tell me a few things about

1:06.1

yourself and how you found yoga and why you do yoga.

1:10.0

Well I'm originally from North Carolina, and after graduate school, I began my career as a CPA,

1:19.7

similar to the set.

1:20.7

I totally, every single time. I forget that every time. Yeah, so I was working a lot, a lot of hours, a lot of stress. And this was when yoga was not on every corner.

1:35.0

There were actually only like I think one it was only one at the time

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