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For episode 7, we dive deep into Mysore style Astanga Yoga with Danielle DePompei, an instructor at Astanga Yoga Columbus.Danielle has such awesome energy and a cool story about how she found Astanga Yoga and made it to Columbus. I feel quite honored to explore her story and what insights she's uncovering from her own journey.Personally, I have practiced this form of yoga for over 10 years (although, as a disclaimer, typically once a week... not as regularly as I'd like...). Astanga Vinyasa yoga is itself a common base from many modern forms of yoga: vinyasa is about linking your body’s movement with the breath. Astanga is the name of the yoga, as brought to the western world by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois — a set of certain postures to improve circulation, develop a strong body and a calm mind.What sets Mysore style apart is a philosophy of independence. (It's named after the place in India where it is taught.) You learn your own practice, posture by posture. While there are led classes to reinforce the series, most classes involve you showing up when you show up and start your practice on your own. Teachers are there to guide you with adjustments, and new postures only as you are ready for them. The room is usually quiet (except for maybe the thoughts in your head), and your practice fits your pace and abilities.Enjoy!Read Full Transcript[00:00:00] Adam: Welcome to the people helping people podcast where we talk about social change, social entrepreneurship and culture, and all great things going on in the world. I am very excited today to be talking with Daniel, the pump. A[00:00:23] Danielle: nice yes.[00:00:24] Adam: Who teaches yoga up at the Steiger yoga Columbus. Up on Indianola[00:00:31] Danielle: and Morris road.[00:00:32] Yes. Cool.[00:00:33] Adam: So welcome. And I'd just like to start off maybe asking you how you got into yoga, like how did your yoga journey start?[00:00:42] Danielle: Yeah, well, it started years ago and it was like 2008 and I was living with a friend and, well, for years, for like 15 years, I was a competitive figure skater. And when I moved to Columbus, I came to go to hair school, actually become like a cosmetologist.[00:01:02] And the girl that I was living with at the time that I moved in with who's now, like my, one of my closest friends, she was like, you should really try yoga. Like she had been going with like her mom or whatever, cause I haven't stopped sort of skating. I just like couldn't like find the time to get to a rank.[00:01:19] And she was like, you should try this yoga thing. So I was like, yeah. I dunno, I tend to like resist most things that people tell me to do. And so, which I'm getting better at, but not doing. But yeah, so I went to a yoga class and then I just like, I, I mean, I loved everything about it. Like I just, I really honestly, I liked the way that it made me feel and there was like a lot of connection in the like creative sort of movement and expression that I also found in skating.[00:01:46] But to be honest with like a lot less of the pressure of like the competitive, like figure skating world. Sort of[00:01:52] Adam: thing getting very competitive.[00:01:54] Danielle: It could be. Yeah. I think it definitely could be, at least for me, it started to like become less of fun and more about like always training through these life competitions.[00:02:06] So over time it sort of lost, its like I sort of lost the joy in it cause it was just like training to get somewhere, you know? And I didn't really kind of. I wasn't into that anymore. That aspect of it. Yeah. And then when I moved, it's just became like really expensive to be honest, to do the competing and coaching and all of that.[00:02:25] So, so anyway, so I got into yoga and just sort of like started dabbling in it for years, just like random classes. I would do it at home. In that time I was d
