Pleasance Silicki - “Lil Omm Magic-maker"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Pleasance Silicki started out in the DC Public School system working with inner city youth before she forged a path as a yoga teacher and founder of Lil Omm. J talks with her about how she ended up in the yoga world, her experience of opening and closing a yoga center, the changes that have happened in the last ten years and the challenges that yoga teachers are facing, and her new book that was born out of her need to embrace change and move forward.

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0:00.0	Hello out there.
0:05.6	Welcome to Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:09.8	It is a pleasure to be back with you again.
0:13.6	I was away. I was gone for a week.
0:16.8	I was in Switzerland and just over the border in the Italian Alps.
0:23.0	I was teaching there.
0:25.1	And it was a great trip.
0:27.7	It was really just wonderful on many levels.
0:32.5	I managed to get away from stuff.
0:34.9	You know how sometimes you go on a vacation and you don't actually
0:40.2	get away like all the stuff you were stressing about was still going on in your mind the whole time.
0:44.9	You never even really relaxed. Well, this time that didn't happen for me. I really got away from it.
0:52.0	I felt so far away from all the stuff that was dogging me before I left that
0:57.6	I really did relax and I felt like myself again and I could see my situation more clearer.
1:08.8	Like, oh, if this happens, I can do that and if this happens i can do that like i'm not screwed
1:14.7	i'm fine everything's good you know it's amazing how much just a little time away where you really do
1:21.4	get to get away from it can clear up your perspective.
1:32.1	And then the yoga was just great.
1:35.4	The students were such a pleasure.
1:41.8	You know, it wasn't like my whole gentle as the new advanced, slow yoga revolution thing where I'm out there trying to like offer this unconventional
1:46.7	approach the woman who hosted me has also studied with Mark who was in the last podcast and her
1:57.6	students were already on board.
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