In this episode I sit down with Amy Zellmer an award-winning author, speaker, traumatic brain injury survivor, and Editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine. She suffered a life-changing traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a slip and fall on black ice. Since then, she has published four books that focus on concussion and TBI and, in 2019, began publishing The Brain Health Magazine.
Together we explore:
- Amy’s journey into Yoga through a brain injury
- Entering the world of brain injuries and understanding the limitations from the rest of the society
- Amy’s journey through online teacher training
- Online Yoga with the brain injury community
- Breaking down the benefits of the online community for individuals with brain injuries - allowing people to stay connected
- How to handle spaces that are not accessible
- Importance of understanding the needs of students if using the language of accessible yoga
- Accessible Yoga and Body Positive Yoga
- Resourcing and recommending other teachers based on their strengths
- Know your audience
- Marketing and being in integrity with the language of accessibility
- Having the right resources for people to be supported
- Amy’s journey into acquiring the MN Yoga and Life Magazine
- How Imposter syndrome showed up for Amy when she started her journey with the Yoga Life Magazine
- Practices for working through imposter syndrome - Meditation, self work and Reiki
- Lessons Learned from the community
- How perfection and the desire for more training can hold us back
- Letting go if people don’t like you and understanding our own validation patterns
- Vision for the MN Yoga + Life Magazine being published twice a year and would like to grow it until 3 times a year
- Amy shares her personal vision and what is ahead
- How busyness can show up as an avoidance mechanism
- Untapped power of educating the yoga community on brain injuries
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