How to live an embodied life with Mary Beth Larue
Fun fact: after I finished recording today’s episode and walked out into the kitchen, Ben told me I looked different - lighter, somehow. And you know what? I’d believe it, because that is the power of today’s guest, Mary Beth Larue.
Mary Beth is a yoga teacher, whose soulful, deep-diving brand of slow flow yoga is like nothing I’ve ever experienced before, but beyond that, she is also someone I really admire simply for the way she shows up in life.
We randomly begin with a riff on Choose Your Own Adventure books (remember those?) which actually winds up being an apt metaphor for our entire conversation, because woven through it all is the idea that there is no one right way to do life, and no need to view success/failure, good/bad, certainty/uncertainty as binary things. This whole chat served as a reminder to me (and hopefully to you, too) that we’re free to meander along many spectrums - to choose our own adventure, as it were.
Beyond that, Mary Beth shares some of her yoga origin story and why she now focuses so much of her practise and teaching on slow flow yoga. This leads us into a beautiful exploration of embodiment, which I’ll admit, was not an idea I fully understood. Embodiment is one of Mary Beth’s values (another topic we dive into) and she offers such a wonderful explanation of what it feels like to live an embodied life and how to practise in the mundane moments of life.
We also talk about her journey to motherhood through foster-care and adoption, and how her yoga practise helped her navigate the uncertainty of those years of not-knowing. As you’d expect, we talk about values and why MB has one set of values for both work and life, and we also discuss why, in many cases, it can help to have seperate lists of values.
We also dig into:
slow flow yoga - what is it and how to practise?
how to apply the idea of slow flow off the mat
navigating periods of profound uncertainty using our values and an attuned inner-knowing
how to ground yourself in the moment when you feel yourself becoming disconnected
values and how to use them in decision-making
what it feels like to live embodied, and how we can practise
So good. So juicy. So damn enjoyable. I hope you love it as much as I did!
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