Episode # 8: Vulnerability through slowing down and connecting to breath with Audrey Ingibersdottir

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In this episode I sit down with Audrey Ingibersdottir a 500 E-RYT Yoga Teacher out of New England with roots in Iceland.   Audrey has landed across career paths over the years and inevitably realized that doing what she loves can create a whole new sense of happiness.   Her teachings offer space to come into a posture attentively with focused intuition. 

Audrey starts this conversation with opening up about her own personal struggle with anxiety and depression and how the teachings of yoga helped her to slow down and connect with the breath.  Audrey expands on her own teaching style and how she offers this same experience of slowing down and feeling into the poses as a way for students to work through deeper issues they may be experiencing. 

We dive into the need for alignment in your teaching and your values and how important this is when finding a studio to work at.   Audrey breaks down how the current pandemic allowed her to take personal pause in her life and reevaluate her priorities as well as the importance of taking space as a creative to be present and allow space for the magic to unfold.  

Together we explore the relationship to the ego and how this can impact studio owners and teachers.      We also explore the ways in which our authenticity and integrity is even more needed on social media and how people choose to share information.   We touch upon the concept of teacher burnout and finding space as a teacher for yourself and for your students. 

Audrey closes this conversation by sharing one the most important lessons she learned from her teacher to not compare someone else's middle to your beginning and how we are more connected than we think, reflecting back to one another in unique ways.   Audrey shares her untapped power for herself and the collective of how the body and mind are so deeply connected and how imperative it is for us not to lose sight of that connection for true transformation to occur.  

In addition to being a yoga teacher Audrey is also an amazing photography.  To learn more about Audrey’s teaching and photography visit:  www.ingibers.com

You can follow Audrey @ingibers or on facebook at Audrey Anna Ingibersdottir