Using Yoga to Tap Into Your Intuition with Erica Rodefer Winters

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're talking to Erica Rodefer Winters, a yoga teacher in Charleston, SC who specializes in teaching prenatal yoga and postnatal yoga.

When the magical, "natural" birth of her first daughter didn't go to plan, Erica reflected and changed her approach the second time around. Instead of magical thinking, she leaned into her intuition and used her yogic tools to go deeply inward and trust herself. She uses this guiding philosophy now when she teaches her students. It's a great reminder to trust your gut at any phase of life when you're unsure of the next course of action.

We talk about:

* Her yoga origin story and how her first teacher inspired her

* Why she teaches prenatal yoga (even though she didn't love prenatal yoga classes during her first pregnancy)

* How she uses yoga asana, breathing, and mindfulness practices to tap into her intuition -- a practice that helped her during the birth of her daughters. And a couple ways that she helps her students to learn to listen to their intuition, too.

* Plus, how she leans on that inner wisdom for all the tough decisions that come up for her now in parenting and other aspects of life.

Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode156

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode one 56 of Yoga Land.
0:07.5	Today my guest is my good friend Erica Rhodifer Winters.
0:11.2	Erica is based in Charleston, She's a prenatal yoga teacher. You can check out
0:15.3	her YouTube channel for some videos if you're interested in that. And she is also someone who I worked with at Yoga Journal.
0:23.2	She was a former editor at Yoga Journal,
0:25.0	and these days, she wears a lot of different hats,
0:28.4	one of which is helping me with the podcast
0:31.9	and just supporting me virtually with all manner of tasks related
0:36.6	to our business and to our online courses.
0:40.2	But that's not what we talk about today.
0:41.5	Today we talk about prenatal yoga and Erica's approach to prenatal yoga.
0:47.5	And I think it's really interesting. We had such a great conversation.
0:51.5	Erica started prenatal yoga with a very, very strong yoga practice and found that a lot of the classes she was taking were kind of treated her like she was fragile and she didn't really like that.
1:04.8	So she takes just a different approach and gives people more options and really, really
1:12.3	instills this idea of trusting your gut and tapping into your intuition and that that will serve you in the birthroom and then also as a parent. We talk about a topic that people don't talk about a lot which is this
1:28.4	myth of the perfect birth, the myth of you go into labor, you walk around the block, the
1:36.5	contractions have started, your water breaks as soon as you get home,
1:41.0	you draw the tub, you've got the tub all set up, your midwife leisurely strolls over, and you go through
1:49.6	your labor and delivery with grace and
1:54.8	nary a drug in sight or intervention in sight.
1:58.0	You know, and I just, I mean I have full respect for people who are able to pull this off. I was not one of them.
2:06.3	And so I had a lot of guilt after my birth and Erica turns out had the same thing.
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