Elena Brower: I Lean on the Universe with My Honesty

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Elena Brower is a New York-based yoga instructor, designer, artist, and author. With Sounds True, she has released the audio programs Grounded and Free and The Return Home. She also coauthored Art of Attention—a bestselling yoga workbook—with Erica Jago. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Elena speak on concepts of self-inquiry, spiritual discipline, and facing up to hard truths about the course of one's life. Elena tells the story of how she faced her addictions to marijuana and tobacco, and the benefits that arose when she quit both. Drawing on prompts from Elena's upcoming book Practice You, she and Tami also discuss how one needs to be completely present for the experience of learning. Finally, Elena leads listeners in a guided meditation for embracing our love and releasing it into the world. (62 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, guest is Elena Brower.
0:44.3	Elena is a yoga instructor, designer, and artist based in New York City.
0:49.9	Devoted to cultivating meditation as our most healing habit, she's created potent online
0:57.0	coursework and produced on meditation, a film featuring personal portraits of renowned meditators.
1:05.0	She started Teach. Yoga, a virtual home for yoga
1:10.0	and has contributed to the Huffington Post, Mind Body Green, and Yoga Journal.
1:17.4	With Sounds True, Elena Brower has created several audio programs, including a program called Grounded and Free
1:26.4	and The Return Home.
1:28.6	And she is also co-author with Erica Jago
1:32.4	of an underground best-selling book called Art of Attention, a yoga workbook that has been translated into six languages.
1:41.0	Elena has also written a new book scheduled for release in September of this year
1:47.0	called Practice You a Journal, where she invites us to gather our own wisdom through writing, self-inquiry, and reflection.
1:57.0	In this episode of Insights at The Edge, Elaine and I spoke about her process of identifying her own addiction to marijuana and cigarette smoking,
2:08.0	and the energy, clarity, and mental stability she discovered from dropping this addiction and
2:15.6	committing to her own inner dignity. She also shared a writing prompt from her
2:21.9	new book Practice Practice You, in which Elena writes herself as a child at various ages in order to comfort that child in her journey.
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