Overcoming Obstacles and Living to Your Fullest Potential with Rosie Acosta

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, I'm joined by yoga teacher and holistic health coach Rosie Acosta. Rosie shares her personal story of growing up in East L.A. in the 90s where chaos and violence surrounded her daily. By the time she was a teen, she'd been arrested, she was physically unhealthy, and she didn't see much of a future for herself. And yet, here she is now, living a bright, fulfilled life.

Her story is inspiring and speaks to the power of the human spirit and the power of a dedicated yoga practice. ✨ "The minute I walked into that [yoga] room, I felt like I was home." ✨

Rosie shares:

- How one of the biggest mistakes of her life as a teen was actually a catalyst for positive change

- The internal conflict of wanting to create a better life for herself while knowing that he family feared losing her if she "got out"

- How growing up with instability created a deep internal craving for stability

- How she juggled several jobs and explored different paths before finding the right fit with yoga

- Her advice for finding the right yoga teacher for you

This interview is a must-listen for anyone who has ever felt the odds are against them. I just love Rosie, and I know you will, too!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 115 of Yoga Land.
0:04.8	Today I'm so happy to have the lovely Rosie Acosta on the show. Rosie is a
0:18.0	yoga and meditation teacher. She's a speaker and a she's also a holistic health coach and she is a
0:26.1	a podcast host.
0:27.2	She has a podcast called Radically Loved
0:30.1	and I have been on her podcast.
0:31.9	It was such a pleasure, like such a genuine pleasure
0:34.7	to talk to her on that podcast.
0:36.0	I can still remember that she asked me my least favorite word.
0:39.7	And when I said moist, she laughed hysterically, which you you know I always love to make people
0:45.0	laugh anyway Rosie I first came across Rosie last year when she was part of the
0:51.8	live be yoga tour which when she was part of the Live Be Yoga Tour, which is a Yoga Journal initiative to bring yoga
0:58.3	around the country.
1:00.1	I just wanted to talk to her today about her personal journey. I've heard her on her own
1:05.7	podcast and in different podcasts talk about growing up in East LA in the 90s and having sort of a
1:11.8	chaotic family background.
1:14.4	And I wanted to know more about how she came to be the person that she is.
1:18.9	She's just an incredibly impressive, kind-hearted person and I feel like she has her intention
1:26.9	pointed in a direction that I really respect. So we got into it today. She really talked in detail about what it was like to grow up in an environment where you know she had to duck if she heard gunshots it when she was in her house and where she lost friends as a teenager and where
1:46.7	she was not educated about food and became very overweight as a teenager and how she kind of, she tells a story of how she got out of that and much of it was, was through yoga.
2:00.0	So it's just, to me, a conversation that is incredibly inspiring and speaks to the power of the human spirit and I love to shed light on these stories and just to remember like that adversity is part of life.
2:17.8	And just to show an example of someone
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