S8 EP22: Yoga For All with Guest Brittani Harris
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Brittani Harris started a business offering yoga classes to anyone in the world through Zoom, using a "pay-what-you-can model" –which means that her classes are available to anyone at any income level. In today’s episode, she talks about how she got started, and why she thinks yoga is so important. Listen to the episode to learn more about why Brittani chose a pay-what-you-can model and how it’s working, why community matters so much, the kinds of benefits that Brittani has seen from yoga, and why it’s time to work on improving your mindset and self-talk.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- How Brittani got started in the yoga space
- How Eight Yoga got started
- Why Brittani chose a pay-what-you-can model
- Why community is so important in yoga
- Benefits that Brittani has seen from yoga
- The importance of self-talk
- Bringing yourself to rest and digest
- Doing yoga right and what that means
- Improving mindset and adjusting how you talk to yourself
- Changing the definition of success
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- Eight Yoga
- Eight Yoga on Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Some people do use yoga specifically just for fitness. |
| 0:03.0 | And if that's their goal, I'm not going to knock them for it. |
| 0:06.0 | If you just want to come to yoga and lay in Shavasana, which is corpse pose, right on the ground, |
| 0:12.0 | for the entire 30, 45, 60 minutes, good for you. |
| 0:17.0 | And I hope that you find a studio and that you find space in your house that allows you to |
| 0:22.8 | feel like you can do that because that is yoga. I think the joke that we used to make at the |
| 0:28.3 | yoga studio I worked for was you could always tell who is a yoga teacher in the room and it's not |
| 0:33.0 | because they're doing the poses the best. It's not because they're advanced and doing handstands. |
| 0:39.1 | It's because almost half the time, they're in child's pose or shavasana. |
| 0:47.4 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:59.0 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 1:06.0 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:16.5 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:20.4 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:25.4 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Th I save lives podcast. I'm Kelsey and I have |
| 1:30.8 | Brittany Harris on with us today as a very special guest and I am super excited to dive in with you |
| 1:37.6 | Brittany because like before we started recording we were getting into some great conversation. |
| 1:41.3 | I'm like we have to start up. So welcome. Thanks so much for having |
| 1:44.7 | me. I didn't even realize we weren't recording. So just goes to show you how good conversation |
| 1:49.6 | can be when you get like-minded folks in a space together. Yeah, 100%. So I'm super excited to let our |
| 1:57.7 | listeners hear from you. Can you just, can you give a little bit about your |
| 2:02.7 | background, how you got started in this space? Yeah. So my background sort of post-undergrad |
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