#29 - Yoga is not a Holy Grail - Yoga in Estonia with Liina Tael

Welcome to Episode #29 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Liina Tael onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Estonia. My conversation with Liina Tael, a yoga teacher from Estonia, was so beautiful as we delved into Liina’s journey with yoga— from a mindset of “no pain, no gain,” and “work hard, play hard” to a place of tenderness and self-inquiry, and the essence of yin yoga. I hope our conversation made you curious about becoming curious yourself— about your own individual experience with yoga in your body, energy, and emotions. I also loved how Liina offered up gentle warnings about looking towards yoga like a holy grail, or as a sort of spiritual bypass. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that really focuses on where the rubber meets the road, then this is the conversation for you. $25-Off Live-Streamed Yoga Classes! Tell me more about Liina Tael Liina Tael is has been practicing yoga for 25 years and teaching yoga since 2007. She Received her first yoga teacher training in Australia, and started her journey with Yin yoga in Vancouver with Sarah Powers, and with Sebastian Pucelle and Murielle Burellier. She went on to complete a Restorative Yoga teacher training with Judith Lasater. Currently, Liina teaches yoga in Berlin where she focuses on inquiry and awareness based yoga, which can take both softer and stronger forms, always circling back to building greater autonomy and agency, self-awareness through tender and compassionate self-inquiry. What to expect in the Yoga In Estonia episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Liina Tael is a yoga teacher from Estonia, who spent years in Australia learning yoga and teaching yoga, she now lives in Berlin and has plans to build a home in Italy in the near future. As a global citizen, Liina feels enormous grief over the way humans are treating the world, and relating to the world. In fact, she feels “Grief for how we are treating the world, and our wider community.” She invites us to imagine imagine what the world will be like when we start to live from that place where we feel that connection— the connection that is engendered by yoga. She has such a beautiful perspective on the individual and the collective, and how to align with our truest essence. For the skimmers - What’s in the Estonia episode? Where the rubber meets the road - How yoga practice shows up and shapes how we act out in the world. The essence of Yin: that which is hidden, below the surface, the feminine, the darkness, the reflection, and the allowing. A warning of yoga becoming such a “spiritual bypass,” as we see magnified in the current times. Careful about thinking about yoga as a holy grail What is practicing on your yoga mat with you? We live in a yin deficient world Connect with Liina Tael www.liinayoga.com instagram.com/liinatael Yin Yoga TTC: https://www.liinayoga.com/yinyogatt.html Online offers (Livestream & On-demand): https://www.liinayoga.com/yogaonline.html Want more? Head on over to my website https://wildyogatribe.com/thepodcast/ $25-Off Live-Streamed Yoga Classes!  https://moxie.xyz/invite/signup?i=wildyogatribe https://linktr.ee/wildyogatribe