Eliana Moreira - "Underbellies and Silver Linings"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Eliana Moreira talks with J about the dark side of yoga celebrity and navigating the post-pandemic reality. They discuss Eliana's adverse reaction to years of hot yoga and how it lead her to Ayurveda, her early studies in different approaches, why she declined an invitation to study with BKS Iyengar, opening a yoga center, meeting Dr. Timothy McCall, her fathers death and the mystical implications it had on her practice, the timing of the pandemic, difficult decisions, and finding the right balance of money and bliss so the yoga remains true.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we are.
0:14.2	This is Jay Brown Yoka Talks podcast.
0:17.9	My name is Jay Brown.
0:19.7	Welcome, welcome, whoever you are. Thanks for listening today. I'm coming to you from
0:27.5	the quietude of North Garden, Virginia. I have been here for the last five days. Regular listeners might
0:37.3	remember from last week.
0:40.0	I have taken some time off over the last several days. And it's amazing what even just a few
0:49.4	days off can do for you. This time last week, I was completely overwhelmed.
0:57.9	If you listened to that outro last week,
0:59.5	I was just, it got away from me in many regards.
1:03.8	I was trying to pretend that I had it together,
1:07.6	but I definitely didn't.
1:09.0	I just, it sometimes gets away from you, doesn't it?
1:15.5	And having the last few days to set aside teaching responsibilities or even creative projects and just focusing on myself and grounding in what brought me to yoga in the first place,
1:39.6	the observed experience of this life's wonder.
1:47.7	It shifts it.
1:50.2	It's amazing to me how I can be in the same exact situation.
1:56.7	And one day, it feels like horrible.
2:02.0	Another day, not so much.
2:05.4	And don't get me wrong.
2:07.2	I still think we're like totally fucked beyond words on all levels.
2:12.4	But I'm not fretting.
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