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Episode 29: Elena Brower

HOME Podcast

Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Elena Brower is a mama, teacher, speaker, and co-author of Art of Attention. She’s been teaching yoga and meditation since 1999 and has taught all over the world. She’s also recently celebrated a year clean and sober. As someone who was by all measures already a success and a teacher to so many, she talks about how her life has truly opened up since choosing sobriety, the insidiousness of pot addiction, and the path that brought her here.

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0:00.0

There is hope for us yet.

0:09.0

I am Holly Dickner's

0:12.0

and I am Laura McCowie and this is Home Podcast. It is the latest we've ever

0:21.7

recorded. Well for you I've done late I think I've done well I've done like that early. Yeah you've done very late and very early.

0:30.0

Um, so yeah it's 1 a.m. and in Boston and it's 10 p.m. in Fresno where I am where I am

0:39.0

I just arrived at the U-Haul.

0:40.8

Success.

0:43.0

Oh my God, I'm alive.

0:45.0

Yeah, and so we are very quickly introducing the episode for this week,

0:50.0

the interview that we did with Elena Brower.

0:54.0

Yeah, yes, so we, so for folks who may not know,

1:00.0

Alena is a very well known yoga teacher. She has been, she trained with,

1:11.2

started training with the masters I guess,

1:13.0

in the early 90s, late 90s, and she teaches on Yoga Glo.

1:19.0

She published a book called The Art of Attention,

1:22.0

which is a beautiful book. published a book called The Art of Attention to the Beautiful Book.

1:25.0

She teaches workshops all over the world, but at Cropalu and all the places you might expect.

1:35.5

And she is someone that I've followed

1:39.9

for quite a few years, and I follow on Instagram and about a year ago I noticed that she

1:46.7

posted that she was clean sober for just it was just a month maybe and I you know took took notice of that and I

2:00.1

I think I pulled Holly or someone else told you we both we both noticed and then

2:07.0

started to kind of track her journey there and noticed that she was sharing

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