163: Kathryn Budig - The Yoga Community Has Changed • Positive Affirmations • Aim True
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Kathryn Budig is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher, author of Aim True, and cohost of the podcast, Free Cookies.
She served as the yoga editor to Women's Health magazine for five years, and regularly contributes to Yoga Journal, and MindBodyGreen.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What life was like growing up in Kansas
- How the yoga community has changed over the years
- What changed yoga?
- What initially drew Kathryn to yoga?
- Seane Corn showing up to Kathyrn's yoga class, unexpectedly
- Forming a tight knit community off the yoga mat
- The message behind "Aim True"
- It's easier being the vanilla cupcake that everyone likes
- Feeling totally cool being yourself
- Don't get caught up in needing the approval of others
- We all have some level of body image issues
- Speak positively for yourself and those around you
- Everyone is so beautiful
- Writing positive affirmations on your mirror using a Sharpie
- Every single day is a new opportunity
- Connecting to yourself and loved ones through rituals
- Has Kathryn's focus shifted from yoga?
- Kathryn's morning routine
- Turning off your phone
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:12.8 | we are here. |
| 0:13.8 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:16.2 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:20.0 | This week our featured guest is Catherine Bewig. |
| 0:23.0 | She's an internationally celebrated yoga teacher, |
| 0:25.7 | author of Aam True, and the co-host of the brand new podcast, |
| 0:29.4 | Free Cookies. |
| 0:30.6 | She served as a yoga editor to Women's Health magazine for five years and she |
| 0:34.8 | regularly contributes to Yoga Journal and Mind Body Green. |
| 0:38.4 | I love how this episode came at the perfect time because Jesse and I just got into yoga. We are making yoga |
| 0:44.9 | a consistent part of our routine and we also just got some new Manduka yoga mats which are |
| 0:49.6 | super fun to use. Yeah we've always had yoga on and off throughout the years as part of our routine, but now we are getting back into it and it feels really good. |
| 0:58.0 | And it's interesting because Catherine throughout this conversation, you're going to hear how her focus seems to be in the |
| 1:04.0 | middle of a transition right now from yoga to a more diverse health and wellness |
| 1:09.7 | topic so yeah just really great conversation on that note. |
| 1:13.4 | Let's talk about what we discuss on today's episode. |
| 1:16.9 | We get into what it was like for Catherine to have her yoga guru Sean Corn |
| 1:21.5 | walk into one of her yoga classes. We talk about not allowing |
| 1:25.0 | social media to take over your life. Catherine talks about how we can start to |
| 1:29.2 | think of our body as a meat suit. You heard me right, a meat suit. We also get into feeling cool |
| 1:34.8 | with being your true self and lastly we talk about Catherine's morning routine. |
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