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In this episode, Elle and yoga teacher and yoga asana writer, Rachel Meyer, connect deeply, kindredly, and joyfully as they explore what it means to live your healthiest life. Rachel brings an insightful and brilliant interfaith approach to her life and work. She acknowledges suffering as universal and strives to relieve suffering. Her work considers topics such as queerness, home, yoga, refuge, introversion. Her experiences living in Europe and in varying regions of the U.S. throughout her life bring unique and helpful perspectives. She was influenced early in life by her father's occupation as a Lutheran minister and his death from cancer in her early 20's.

Their conversation incorporates:

• death
• impermanence
• queer theology
• feminism
• familial lineage
• patriarchal influences
• Ram Dass (beloved spiritual teacher)
• Rosemary Radford Ruether (badass grandmother of feminist theology)
• brilliance
• fluidity
• Michael Stone (Buddhist yoga/meditation teacher and psychotherapist)
• embodiment
• laughter
• Annie Dillard
• Transcendentalists like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
• daoism & being like water
• recent injury and fracture to her sacrum
• living abroad
• yoga asana
• gratitude
• breath work
• Susan Piver (Buddhist meditation teacher)
• Literary mystics like Annie Dillard and Edward Abbey
• body's intrinsic healing knowledge
• Schitt's Creek
• the impact of Lin Manuel Miranda's creativity and musicality
• aging in the U.S. versus for the Swiss
• finding teachers in unexpected places
• European football
• empathy
• importance of time outside in nature and moving
• Marvel movies

You can find Rachel and her work: www.rachelmeyeryoga.com

@rachelmeyeryoga

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