Curious Monki | Yoga, Spirituality + Wellness

If you're exhausted, confused, anxious or otherwise feeling stretched (maybe even beyond your limits) here is a place to rest. Not to avoid responsibility or to shy away from the dark places but to come back to your heart. To reconnect with your anchor - that place within you of ever present stillness, clarity and peace. It's not possible to create loving new perspectives with a heart that's close...

It's understandable if you feel that there's just A LOT right now with everything that's going on in the world layered on top of whatever you're already dealing with in your own personal life. You don't get very far with a heart that's closed though. An open heart is needed for creation, change, new perspectives, peace…. It has always been an open heart that has created the kind of massive loving...

The 2nd phase of Martha Beck's Change Cycle is the Dreaming & Scheming phase. The slate is wiped clean and now you can create anything that you want.  Now is the time to figure out what you desire and trust that it's yours! Shakti Gawain says "Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart t...

Phase 2 of transformation is when whatever needed to breakdown has broken down.  The chaos is now complete and the grieving is coming to an end.   A whole world of possibilities opens up to you and in this amorphous state you can begin to imagine a different way of being and living. In the butterfly analogy, you're no longer a caterpillar but not yet a butterfly.  There are rules of being a caterp...

~ This journey is your own but you're not alone ~ Don't condemn yourself to struggling through challenges by yourself.  There are so many people, techniques and healing modalities out there to help you along the way.   Coaching happens to be one of them for me - it's been a game changer in helping me live with a sense of wellness more often than not. Today I'm joined by a fellow coach, Amber Goode...

A short practice for anytime you feel overwhelmed, anxious, at a loss or otherwise flooded with emotion.  Quickly come back to the ever-present stillness and peace within you in just 5 minutes. Reinforce the trust that you have for the unfolding of your own life.  Like all things in nature, you are also being carried by the flow of life. As Joseph Campbell says ""The goal of life is to make your h...

Today we go deeper into the first phase of Martha Beck's Change Cycle.  Phase 1 is when everything seems to be falling apart. Your old way of life crumbles around you and while it might feel like chaos, it's the first step to transformation. It's validating and relieving when you can understand what you're going through.  Not only that, once you know what the heck is happening then you can take th...

Today, I share with you something called the Change Cycle.  It was created by life coach and author Martha Beck and it depicts the process that we humans go through for every major life change.  Even a pandemic like Covid-19. The Change Cycle is helpful because there's relief and validation when you can understand what you're going through. Knowing this process will help you navigate this odd new...

One of my favorite things I've learned is that when we boil it down, there's either love or fear. Are you operating from love or fear?  Decisions made from a place of love makes us feel more supported by life. I share with you the 2 simple ways to stay open to love. *************************************************** If you'd like to join me for online yoga classes: www.veronicathai.com/yogaonline

Today, I want to give you a mindset boost because challenging situations make fearful thoughts become louder!  The "what ifs" and "shoulds" pile on hard. But guess what, take a sigh of relief *ahhhh* because as scary as the thoughts can be ("I won't make it..." "everything is ruined...") they're just all bark and no bite.  They're not true!  At any given moment, you're only one thought away from f...

"I've been given this opportunity to live and it's my duty to find goodness in it and to actually do something with it" When you meet Meghan Pherrill, her bubbly, energizing, no nonsense attitude is so easy to appreciate.  This international yoga + meditation teacher is so full of life and lives so meaningfully in the work that she does. It's surreal to think that she was once an OCD, anxiety ridd...

At the core of that something more that you're seeking is a desire to connect with the truest part of yourself.  To live unbound as your full self, your whole self. Take the leap and make the hard decisions because as big as the leap seems and as challenging as the decisions are, it's worth it to look back and know that you followed what was true for you.  That you didn't betray who you really are...

Inspiration and actionable exercises to figure out what you actually want to be doing (aka. what your passion is) and how to do more of it. Amanda McKinney, marketing coach for yoga teachers, went from having a business that felt lackluster to creating one where she loves every single project and every single client.  She had to take some leaps and make some hard choices, but ultimately she kept f...

Bite Sized episodes is where I go deeper into a subject.  In this episode, I elaborate on presence and mindfulness.  I'd even go as far as to say that maintaining a practice of moment-to-moment awareness is even more foundational than self-love.  It's the root of yoga, spiritual teachings and all other self help.  Tools that stem from these teachings are all essentially showing you how to maintain...

When faced with a challenge, especially if it's emotionally charged, the last thing you want to do is take pause.  Your survival instincts insist that you do something NOW! The urgency is helpful in the face of immediate and imminent danger, but that's not usually the case in our world.  Taking pause might seem to go against your instincts but it's what will calm the panic so that you can move for...

Today's episode is a story of how yoga helped one woman through one of the toughest challenges of her life.  In 2011, Nichole Hines' young daughter was diagnosed with leukemia.  Life as she knew it changed in the blink of an eye and the following year became about chemo, relapse and the children's hospital.   Nichole shares her journey, how her yoga practiced helped her stay anchored as she not on...

We cover a lot in this episode! Rebecca Gibson, Spiritual Strategist and Psychic Medium, talks to us about: - Spiritual health is about letting the soul lead the way but how do we know what comes from ego and what comes from soul? - On an esoteric level, we're energetic beings - frequencies and vibrations....but what do we do with that information?  How do we use it to our benefit? - How does the...

" This journey is your own but you're not alone" There's comfort in knowing that we're interconnected beings who can connect and learn from each other's stories. In this episode, hospice nurse and yoga teacher, Cory Angel shares the story of her Yoga journey.  She shares her benefits of yoga including how her practice has helped her through injury, grief, perfectionism and ultimately changed the w...

The Enneagram has been very popular especially among the yoga, self help and spiritual communities for a while now.  This is probably because it's such a powerful tool for self discovery, self understanding and self acceptance.  This is an intricate personality test with 9 character types portrayed by a geometrical figure.  I've known about the Enneagram for a while but never got a hang of it whic...

Every part of ourselves is interconnected and the more we understand about this interconnection, the more power we have to improve our well-being. Nadis are the intricate network of energy lines that run through our bodies.  There are about 27,000 of them and the understanding of them can help with emotional release and relief of body tension. Sytera Field, yoga teacher and creator of the yoga mas...

Lisa Murray, Business and Creativity Coach and the founder of Creative Alchemi, talks about burnout, creativity and play; and how understanding each of these elements can bring a whole lot more ease into your life!  At the deeper layer lies a conversation about self worth, owning who you really are and honoring the full expression of yourself and your soul.  Listen in to see what the connection is...

I love doing the year end episodes where I compile all of the interviews from the previous year and look for the common messages that emerge.   This year there were 4 messages that emerged: 1. Trust in yourself and your experiences.  Your intuition will never lead you astray. 2. The universe wants for you what you want for yourself.  Understand that getting to what you desire is a process and have...

The first month of the year has a certain air of renewal and possibility about it.  The entire world welcomes a New Year together and it's like we collectively take an eraser brush to wipe the slate clean. No matter what happened last year, you now have an opportunity for new beginnings, bigger possibilities, and new perspectives to work through what you're working through. Stop making more to-do...

In 2018 I learned the importance of celebrating every victory, no matter how big or how small.  Not only does it lead to more successes to celebrate but it increases your sense of self worth. I was reminded of this as I read back on all of my celebrations throughout the year.  This episode is a reminder to stop selling yourself short and start realizing how worthy you are right now by celebrating...

The only way to make your dream a reality is to start taking action on your ideas. Good ideas can sit around for years...or even lifetimes, without ever being brought into reality.  Perhaps we didn't know which one of the many ideas to choose or never took time to get clear on it. This episode will help you start your idea and bring it to life.  Creative Clarity Coach, Ariane Schuessler talks to u...