Ask Rachel: Reframing Your Intentions, Embodied Presence, and Why Yoga Is Always Political

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Today’s episode brings us another segment of Ask Rachel! Rachel answers four questions from listeners and they were all very deep and thoughtful. First she takes a question on how to slow down time as parents. Is that possible? And if so, what does it look like? Next, Rachel answers a question on the intention setting ceremony we do every year. How can we make our intentions stick throughout the year - or how can we give ourselves space to mourn if they are no longer relevant? Going deeper, Rachel answers a question about influencers who remain quiet on important social issues and injustices in the world - and what we can do about it. Finally, to end the episode, Rachel answers a lighthearted question on the story of her tattoos and what each one means. It’s a rollercoaster of an episode that will bring you through so many different emotions and back. Tune in for the conversation! If you have the ability to help those in Palestine, please visit here, here or here for the fundraisers that mean a lot to Rachel. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we have a segment of Ask Rachel on the show and the questions you sent today were just
0:06.2	the next level. We talk about slowing down time and how in parenting that's actually possible
0:14.0	by becoming more embodied and more present in the time we spend with our kids. We talk about
0:19.6	intention setting and how oftentimes halfway through the year we spend with our kids. We talk about intention setting and how oftentimes halfway through
0:23.9	the year we find ourselves having lost our intention or feeling very far away from our word of the
0:29.6	year and the things we wanted to create. So how do we get back to that and how can we reframe
0:35.1	the intention we set on January 1st to actually work with where life
0:39.7	has brought us now? And then I got a great question about influencers in the wellness world
0:45.3	who are silent when it comes to great injustices happening in the world. Why that is and what we can do
0:53.2	about that. There's also a fun question in there about tattoos.
0:57.0	I tell a little bit of the story of some of my tattoos.
0:59.5	It was a fun one to answer.
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1:34.8	Let's jump in.
1:39.3	Hi, everyone.
1:41.1	Welcome back to the show.
1:43.3	And hello from the other side. I don't know what kind of
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