Practice You with Elena Brower
Content and conversations for times of transition and change.
Join me in discussion with renowned luminaries and dear friends to explore life's myriad transitions, our understandings and our responses. What does it mean to be present, to shift our perceptions, to engage with the world meaningfully, with dignity and care? With respect for the ancient practices and the modern wisdom that continue to inform and elevate our exchanges, each episode is an invitation to Practice You.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 221
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 205: Mirabai Starr
On the temple of your regular life, and the daily practices of attention, surrender and wonder.
- (0:00) - Introduction to Mirabai Starr and Her Work
- (2:16) - Discussion on "Ordinary Mysticism"
- (5:15)…
Episode 204: Nisha Moodley
On the soul of our work, the re-indigenizing of our minds and the vital force of sisterhood.
- (2:21) - Nisha's Background and Family Life
- (4:09) - Hiro Boga's Influence on Nisha's Work
- (7:55) - T…
Episode 203: Dr. Kamilah Majied
On bringing joy to justice; learning how to bear witness to our oppressive patterns and tendencies; fierce compassion as a quality of mind, heart, body and spirit.
- (2:41) - Engagement with Music and…
Episode 202: Elise Loehnen
On the origins of our best behavior, managing undue shame and the price women pay to be good.
Episode 201: Sophie Schauermann
On radical self-responsibility and reprocessing our childhood shame to empowerment and creativity.
- (2:42) – Sophie’s Personal Journey and Research on Highly Sensitive Children
- (5:17) – Understandi…
Episode 200: Ryan Haddon
On resetting after betrayal and spiritual abuse, shifting self-loathing, and service as crucial to our healing.
- (1:00) - Reinventing oneself after doors close in life.
- (4:56) - Addiction, self-loath…
Episode 199: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, PhD
On hospicing modernity, an invitation to hold many paradoxical layers of complexity, to stretch your heart, to know vulnerability as your strength.
- (1:00) - Colonialism, identity, and family history…
Episode 198: Paula Arai
On activating compassion through our simplest offerings of forgiveness, care, gratitude and respect.
- (0:30) - Japanese rituals for beauty, harmony, and love.
- (10:00) - Cleaning and its connection to…
Episode 197: Alicia Mathlin
(5:32) - Cancer treatment, body connection, and self-love. (11:35…
Episode 196: Cory Allen
On steady practices of self-awareness to redefine yourself as often as you wish, and trusting yourself in any situation to make strong choices that serve.
Episode 195: Eboni Banks
On the importance of self-trust, repression v. suppression, the vitality of solitude for development of our intuition, and the prioritization of feeling over discursive thinking.
- (1:00) – Intuitive …
Episode 194: Cynthia Redhead
On presence, living on a prayer, devotion and what it means to pause.
- (1:00) – Meditation, mindfulness, and personal growth with a meditation teacher.
- (10:01) – Mindfulness, meditation, and prayer …
Episode 193: Ash Johns
On prioritizing our connections with our ancestors as a way to elevate our work and the quality of our present relations.
Episode 192: Emily Wright
On empowering women in business, prioritizing integrity and creating a global movement. As Founding Executive and Chair of the Board of doTERRA, Emily Wright has been fully immersed in the global es…
Episode 191: Sara Szal Gottfried, MD
On the causes of, and possible solutions for, autoimmune struggles. On resolving the trauma signature so many of us carry.
Episode 190: Mark Matousek
On resilience, via the wisdom of our ancestor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Seeing our character reflected in our opinions of the world. Shifting our lens to acknowledge our uniqueness, practicing surmountin…
Episode 189: Seraphina Capranos
From the wild edge of intuition, women's health, inner presence and full embodiment, a peek inside the hearts of wise, engaged women.
- (2:48) – Women’s health and intuition with a holistic approach…
Episode 188: Kemi Nekvapil
On redefining power, living and leading without apology, spacious parenting and the perceptions holding us back.
- (2:24) – Self-awareness, identity, and heritage.
- (7:32) – Identity, belonging, and cu…
Episode 187: Koshin Paley Ellison
- (2:06)- Zen Buddhism’s Eightfold Path and personal …
Episode 186: Yael Schonbrun PhD
On shifting the way we perceive our capacities as humans and as parents, focusing on relational connection and possibility.
- (4:14) – Mindset shift for work-parent conflict.
- (13:28) – Work-parentin…