Today I'm thrilled to welcome Addie deHilster to SelfKind!
Addie is a Yoga Therapist, a Yoga teacher trainer, and a Mindfulness
Meditation Facilitator who has a wonderful way of bridging the gap between a 'formal' practice and the ways this can inform our everyday lives.
In our conversation we talk about:
- How Addie's movement and meditation practices were borne from the need to cope with change and stress, and how this has supported Addie to incorporate movement and meditation as constant practices that support her life (rather than another thing that feels like a burden to get done)
- The role of silence and silent retreats in Addie’s practice, as well my (Erica's) personal discomfort with the idea of extended silence!
- Tips for all of us to make meditation a part of daily life with more ease
- What Metta meditation is and why it can be so hard to offer ourselves loving kindness
- The seeming contradictions that can arise when practicing self-kindness (i.e. it can be both rife with challenges and oh so sweet)
- What it means to decompartmentalise meditation and movement
- The power of awareness when it comes to change
- The importance of starting small and starting where it’s possible to start.
Connect with Addie:
Website: https://www.movedtomeditate.com/
Find Addie on the Insight Timer App.
Mentioned in this episode:
Moving into Meditation by Anne Cushman (book)
More about Addie:
Addie deHilster is a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, a Yoga teacher trainer, and a Mindfulness
Meditation Facilitator. She is the founder of the Moved to Meditate Class Library, which offers online classes based on the 4 M’s: Meaningful Mindful Movement that Meets you where you are. Now based in Vancouver, Washington (USA), she previously owned and operated a community yoga studio (Spiral Path Yoga Center) in Los Angeles, California for over five years. Her studio was known for its warm and inviting environment, robust teacher training program, and emphasis on adaptive yoga that made the practice more accessible to students who would not have thrived in most mainstream studios.
In addition to leading yoga classes and meditation groups for the general public, she also offers private yoga therapy sessions, as well as one-on-one meditation coaching, and Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings (all online). A dedicated practitioner of Buddhist Insight Meditation (aka Vipassana or Mindfulness), she has accumulated over three months of silent retreat practice over the years. Her classes highlight the mindfulness principles within movement practice, helping students find an accessible pathway to self-he
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