What I thought was betrayal of me was actually me realizing that I had been betraying myself all along.

I had been betraying my intuition, my inner knowing, all in a way to be

validated by being in relationship.

That really was a huge turning point for me

and really stepping into my power.

I actually had written in my journal

exactly what was going to happen as far as the betrayal was concerned.

So it was like part of me knew this is in the field, this is actually going to happen, but unfortunately because you're hard-headed and you don't

listen to your own inter knowing you're just going to have to learn the hard way. Hey there it's Light Watkins, your host of at the end of the tunnel. This week on the

podcast I'm talking to one of my dear friends and mentors from back in my yoga teaching days.

I don't know if you knew that about me, but I was a full-time yoga teacher for many years.

And Tracy Stanley owned a yoga studio in Los Angeles called Divine Motion,

and that ended up being one of the first yoga studios where I taught after my teacher training.

And since then, Tracy and I evolved as teachers over the years and now she's become one of the

foremost leaders of Yoga Nidhra and mindfulness. She teaches all around the United States when there's not a pandemic and she's even

shared the stage with Oprah Winfrey and many others. And both Tracy and I were also one of just

a handful of black teachers in Los Angeles back in the day.

Thankfully that's changed now, but we're going to talk a little bit about what that was like and

how she felt about hiring me as one of her first yoga teachers in her studio.

We'll also break down the story of all of the leaps of faith that she had to take in order

to become a teacher and a community leader and eventually the author that she's

become today. Her book, Radiant Rest, just came out and it's all about Yoga

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