Episode # 6: Body Image, Motherhood and the Mental Benefits of Building Community with Minta Allred

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In this episode I sit down with Minta Allred a mother, partner, yoga teacher, facilitator - trainer, conscious activist and social entrepreneur with a B.A in yoga studies.  She is privileged to teach yoga as well as facilitate workshops that open pathways towards greater self acceptance and a collective shift in how we treat one another as women in a media saturated patriarchal society. 

Minta’s started a career in modeling which allowed her to see first hand her relationship to her body.  We break down in this episode the most important lesson she learned at the age of 12, you can’t love anyone until you love yourself.  Minta came to yoga as a way to be connected back into her body to feel at home.  She was able to move away from this perfectionist image of her body into a place of acceptance.   

As an Embody Love Facilitator, Minta has learned the importance of diving deep into her own personal shadow work and uncovering areas in which spiritual bypassing may have occurred.  She discusses the safe ways in which she is able to hold space for all people and provide inclusion in her teaching.  

We explore her thoughts on the current teacher training programs as well as her journey through her first 200 hour teacher training and eventually her 500 hour teacher training in India.  

As a mother Minta discusses her personal challenges and how she has learned to adapt.   This brings us deeply into the conversation around community and connection and how important it is for our mental health.  Minta closes this conversation with her desire for all people to connect with an unwavering sense of faith in themselves and in others. 

Minta believes yoga is a healing modality, a preventative medicine and a  Spiritual connection that can be accessible to all and she is driven to facilitate any opportunity that is working to shift our western/commodified version of yoga to become more accessible and inclusive, as the practice was always intended to be. 

You can find Minta at https://www.yogawithminta.com/ or on facebook at  www.facebook.com/yogawithminta

She teaches two weekly classes online and leads embody love trainings.