Hi, everyone. Welcome to 20 Minutes to Get Home. I'm Katie Sager. I'm here with Jamie Kent. We're partners at Yoga Download, and we are super excited to introduce our guest today, Ashley Turner, one of my dearest friends on the planet, yoga psychologist, amazing teacher. Ashley, thank you so much for being here today.

So great to be with you all.

Thank you so much for having me.

Before we dive in, give a little bit of background about your experience.

I know you've been teaching yoga for now over 20 years, but you're so much more than

that.

So I would love for you to share with our listeners

a little bit about your background. Thank you. Well, it's so great to be here with the whole

yoga down the community. I am a yoga teacher. I have been teaching for over 20 years,

started in 2000. And I'm also a licensed psychotherapist. I came to yoga first and essentially saw the

practice transforming me changing my life from the inside out, really feeling that healing.

And at the time I started practicing, I definitely, although I wouldn't have named it this

at the time, I definitely was suffering from

low self-esteem. This is in my early 20s, depression. And when I started doing yoga consistently,

it completely started to alleviate this. And I could feel shifts in my emotional state,

even in my personality traits, and deep healing.

And I really wanted to understand how is this working?

How is it that I'm doing 90 minutes of strong binyasa on my mat?

But it's having these real effects in my mental emotional body.

So eventually, after I had started teaching, the same thing was happening with my students.

They were coming up to me,

you know, after class, sharing these big emotional breakthroughs or aha moments. And I knew I wanted to

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