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Tranquility du Jour

Tranquility du jour #395: The Teacher Appears

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The Teacher Appears  with Brian Leaf. We discuss writing his latest book The Teacher Appears: 108 Prompts to Power Your Yoga Practice, how he chose the 108 prompts for reflection, and the importance of following your spiritual journey.

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Featured guest:

Brian Leaf, M.A., is the author of thirteen books, including The Teacher Appears: 108 Prompts to Power Your Yoga Practice and Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi. Brian graduated from Georgetown University in 1993 with a BA in business, English, and theology, and in 1999 he completed a master's degree at Lesley College, specializing in yoga and ayurveda. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons. 

About The Teacher Appears: 108 Prompts To Power Your Yoga Practice

For anyone longing to deepen their yoga practice comes The Teacher Appears, an illustrated journal of 108 prompts. Includes celebrity guest prompts from such luminaries as Krishna Das, Elena Brower, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Gannon, Shiva Rea, Seane Corn, Schuyler Grant, and more.

Acclaimed author Brian Leaf guides readers to deepen their yoga practice with dristi, mudra, and pranayama; to explore their uncomfortable edges; to cultivate intuition; and, simply, to long for the divine, as they experience the true meaning of yoga. Readers discover a new depth to their yoga practice and a new level of dedication, meaning, and happiness in their lives.

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0:00.0

Tranquility DeJure, May 1st, 2017.

0:08.8

Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 395th edition of Tranquility

0:16.4

DeJure.

0:17.8

Today's episode is The Teacher Appears with author Brian Leif.

0:23.3

We discuss writing his latest book, The Teacher Appears,

0:27.1

108 prompts to power your yoga practice,

0:30.8

how he chose these 108 prompts for reflection,

0:34.8

and the importance of following your very own spiritual journey and also staying true

0:40.9

to yourself as a writer or as an artist.

0:45.0

So before we dive into hearing from Brian, I wanted to let you know I'm actually out in

0:51.0

Tau's.

0:51.6

So this intro is recorded a couple days before and I I'm heading out to Touse for a writer's conference.

0:58.3

It's actually one that I went to 10 years ago. So it'll be interesting to return a decade later.

1:04.7

And it's with Jennifer Loudon, who you've heard from on the podcast a couple times. And then her co-teacher, who will be doing art journaling, is Lisa Snora Beam, who you've also heard from on the podcast a couple times. And then her co-teacher who'll be doing art journaling

1:11.7

is Lisa Snora Beam, who you've also heard from on the podcast a couple of times. So I'm looking

1:17.2

forward to a little bit of time in the Southwest, which is just such a restorative place to be.

1:22.8

So that's why I'm going to be a little MIA. And what I mean by that is, of course, this podcast is releasing, but there

1:29.1

won't be a love note this week. And I'll get back into that in the next couple of weeks

1:34.1

whenever I'm kind of back into D.C. and settled. In addition, I was up in the Northwest, the weekend

1:41.3

before last, for a wedding. And the treat with that is that we took the

1:46.8

lovely Bell Star, who we have decided, if you're not familiar, she is our rescue pug that we

1:51.9

adopted last July. And we've decided she is an amazing traveler. She is just so, she's so stealth.

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