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Today my guest is Kristen Liel.

Kristen is a yoga teacher and a saddika in the Ishta lineage, as well as a licensed massage

therapist, Reiki practitioner, and an author.

Her popular meta-anatomy workshops, classes, and online trainings

blend serious scientific knowledge with a sense of humor and a deep connection to the divine within us all.

What sounds true, Kristen has written a new book. It's called Meta Anatomy, a modern yogi's practical guide to the physical and energetic anatomy of your amazing body.

In the book, she helps readers develop a new level of body literacy, a deep and vital relationship with the physical, emotional, and energetic aspects of your being.

In our podcast, I have Kristen guide us into some pretty interesting exercises where we enter

the true world of wonder,

the wonder that is you and me, the wonder that is us.

Take a listen.

To begin with, Kristen, I know you grew up as a dancer.

What brought you to yoga from dance?

I think it was the injuries.

I think dance is a beautiful art form, one that I really enjoy and love and I think has a lot of potential to it. But it also, for me, my experience of it,

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