Sober Yoga Girl

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a special bonus episode with Alex & Cathy from their weekly Facebook Live! In this episode, Alex & Cathy share about sober news, sober week and what's coming up for their next group of Challenge to Recovery participants. The next 30 Day Challenge starts September 4th and there are less than five spots left - if you'd like to join, sign up here. ht...

Send us Fan Mail Today Alex sits down with Kristen Hutchinson, one of the newest members of the Mindful Life Practice / Sober Girls Yoga team! In this episode Kristen shares her journey with Sober Girls Yoga - from January 2022, when she joined her first 30 Day Challenge with us - to now being a yoga teacher and on the yoga teaching team. Kristen describes her experience with our community as life...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is a live recording of Cathy & Alex's live from this week in the Sober Girls Yoga Facebook group! In this episode Alex and Cathy chat about what they learned in their Sober Summers. If you'd like to join Cathy & Alex for their regular lives, join the Sober Girls Yoga Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sobergirlsyoga . Alex &...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode, Alex had Dan, her psychic. Dan has been a previous guest on previous episodes so if you haven't tuned into those, make sure you check them out. In today's episode, Alex and Dan speak about having the courage to live a life different than what society expects of them. They speak about living nomadically and following alternative career paths. Alex...

Send us Fan Mail Bobbi Paidel is a Hatha Yogi & Sadhak who spends most of her days traveling or living in northern India studying meditation & the wisdom of the vedas. Bobbi grew up on a second generation cattle ranch in southern Alberta, Canada, had a promising career in the global fashion industry and was continually struggling with addiction & mental health issues. That all changed...

Send us Fan Mail Matt Gardiner is a passionate and empathetic Recovery Coach & Life Coach who has helped numerous people get out of their 'stuck stories' and move towards the life of their dreams. He focuses on changing the language & words, and the stories you've been attaching to the events in your life. Better words + better breathing = better life. Matt's vision of...

Send us Fan Mail Alex is now frequently going live with members of the Sober Girls Yoga Facebook group to chat about their journey! If you want to interact with Alex more and hear these episodes live, join the group at this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sobergirlsyoga . In this live call, Raquel who is a yoga teacher and member of the Mindful Life Practice shares her journey with sobriety!...

Send us Fan Mail Alex and Cathy are SO excited to be celebrating Cathy's 3 Year Soberversary with a big announcement: They are launching a brand new, full year, sobriety program! Weaving together Alex's 30-60 Day Sober Girls Yoga Challenges and Cathy's 108 Day Recovery program, brings the brand new Full year Sober Girls Yoga Challenge. You can learn more about the program here! http...

Send us Fan Mail Rose Clark is Sober Vegan Cop on Instagram. Based in Texas, Rose and Alex met back in 2021 when they both were guests on Bac 2 Zero, hosted by Jeff Graham and Cathy Charles (one of the Mindful Life Practice yoga teachers!) After the death of her daughter Catherine, Rose became sober, began a vegan lifestyle, meditation and yoga. In this episode, learn more about how Rose moved thr...

Send us Fan Mail Christiana Maxion is the Dubai Matchmaker. A New York Native, Christiana and Alex both were friends about five years ago when they were teachers in Abu Dhabi. Since then, Christiana and Alex have both gone on to build businesses, quit their jobs, and become female entrepreneurs. Christiana is the Dubai Matchmaker - and she credits becoming sober to her booming business in the past...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Alex shares a dharma talk she wrote during her yoga retreat on the nature of grief. In this dharma talk Alex shares the differences between major and secondary grief and describes how we have all experienced grief to some extent during the pandemic. Alex relates grief to dukham, and sukham, from Pantanjali's yoga sutras, and she offers four different causes o...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Alex finally has the chance to sit down with Amanda Kuda! Amanda is an alcohol-free lifestyle expert. She’s a holistic life coach, speaker and author living, working and playing in Austin, TX. As a coach, Amanda helps ambitious, soul-centered women stop drinking and start manifesting the life they deserve and desire. She teaches a modern approach to personal devel...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode of Sober Yoga Girl, Alex will teach you three ways to hold space for your friends and family when they have tough conversations with you. If this episode peaks your interest and you really want to learn more, Alex is offering two Sober Girls Yoga Trainings this summer: 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Sober Girls Yoga https://www.themindfullifepractice.com/online-...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Alex meets Sam Goldfinch and Ellie Crowe, who are both hosts of the Present and Sober podcast and sober coaches. Sam and Alex have been connected on Facebook for a while, and Alex recently shared one of Sam's poems in the Sober Girls Yoga Facebook Group - thus striking up a friendship! Both based in the UK, Sam is the creator of Sober Rebellion, https://sober...

Send us Fan Mail Alex is super excited to have her friend Mary Tilson as a guest on the show this week! Alex and Mary recorded this episode together at her studio in Bali.  Mary Tilson is a Yoga & Meditation Teacher, International Retreat Leader, and certified Addiction Recovery Coach, who has been sober since 2013. Having experienced the suffering caused by addiction firsthand, she is passion...

Send us Fan Mail This is a super quick episode to say hey and share the lessons I learned over the past few months about the power of community. I'm grateful for your presence! Thank you for being here! Support the show Ready to deepen your practice or step into your next chapter? Explore Alexandra’s upcoming programs here.

Send us Fan Mail If you're currently feeling anxious and disconnected, it might be a sign of a deficient or unbalanced root chakra. In this podcast episode I'll share with you four strategies to get grounded and release anxiety now.  Learn how balancing the chakras will support your sober journey. It's SO important. That's why I've shaped my yoga teacher trainings around t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Alex brings you seven secrets to staying sober. Spoiler alert: they are the seven chakras! In this episode Alex introduces you to the chakra system of yoga and explain the role it plays in our emotional sobriety. The chakras are a tool for mapping human development, kind of like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. We need to bring each chakra into balance to support...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Sober Yoga Girl Podcast! Alex is so excited to officially have a production team with her working behind the scenes to bring you the podcast! Experience an upgraded version of the show - and watch the video version on Youtube here. https://youtu.be/SIM8fJFkg7g In this episode Alex shares her updated story and journey. The first time she told her own story on the sh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Alex shares with you her top twelve tips for becoming a Sober Yoga Entrepreneur. If you are someone who wants to build an online business, quit your job, and work remotely - this episode is for you. Alex shares her tips for how she went from being a Grade One Teacher to a Sober Yoga Girl working remotely in Bali in less than two years! Alex is coming soon with a S...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, I speak for the first time in depth about my story with bipolar disorder, interviewed by my friend Sarah Williamson. This week has been the first time I shared my story with bipolar disorder, and the reason why I've avoided speaking about this publicly is due to the stigma related to it.  The reason why I have decided to start speaking about Bipolar D...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Dan Kumar! If you haven't yet heard his other two episodes with Alex, make sure you tune in. In short: Dan Kumar is the psychic who changed Alex's life. They met about a month after she got sober, and he predicted that she'd build a business called The Mindful Life Practice, quit her job, and run it full time. And the rest is history! In this episode Dan and Al...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 101 on the podcast, Alex is delighted to have Jo Walduck on the show, one of her first sober Facebook friends! Alex and Jo met in a Sober Facebook Group in 2019. Originally from the UK, Jo lives in France. She became alcohol free in October 2019, after leaving her profession as a teacher and retraining as a coach. After taking 28 days off of drinking to focus on buildin...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 100 of the podcast, Alex brings Amber, Tasha, and Leigh on the show - three of the original members of the #SOBERGIRLSYOGA community. Back in the day, Sober Curious Yoga used to be #SOBERGIRLSYOGA. In this episode Alex, Tasha and Leigh chat about alcohol as a feminist issue and why there is a need for women's only spaces in the recovery world. Alex is so excited ab...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 99 of the podcast, Alex had the honor of sitting down with her teacher, Rolf Gates, and hearing about his journey from active addiction, to sobriety, to author of the book Meditations from the Mat. Alex had the honor of celebrating her 100 days sober on an Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Rolf Gates back in 2019. Tune into this episode to hear how he got to where he...