#9 - Yoga is a technology for humanity - Yoga in Belize with Michelle Shanti Williams

Welcome to Episode #9 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Michelle Shanti Williams onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Belize who is the founder of Om Shanti Yoga Belize, Rhythm of Change, and the International Yoga Festival in Belize. She is a Master Yoga, Meditation, and Breathwork Teacher deeply rooted in the Himalyan Yog Vedantic Tradition trained in the Himalayas, India (Vedic & Tantric Transcendental Wisdom, Tantra, Kriya, Naad, Himalayan Kundalini, Laya, and Hatha Vinyasa. Michelle is also an Usui Reiki Master, a Vedic Thai Yoga Therapist, and a Jyotishi. Michelle is a dynamic women, who seems to have the keys to synchronicity and serendipity. Her yoga path has been a fascinating, and beautiful one— full of community and collaboration.  Michelle’s nonprofit, Rhythm of Change (ROC), teaches yoga to women in prisons, children in Belize’s school system, and to youth at detention centers. ROC is dedicated to sharing evolutionary tools of progressive action (yoga/meditation) to communities throughout the country. In fact, it all started when Michelle was invited to teach yoga on the streets during Belize’s monthly sacred day for peace among gangs, called “days of healing.”  Michelle is a global leader in yoga, and she speaks often about the necessity of seeing yoga as an integrative practice, as a technology for humanity for our evolution and to bring us together in unity. What is needed is collaborative work, work that is heart-based. Once things are heart-based, everything falls into place. “When we can relate from heart to heart, all our differences becomes irrelevant. They actually become a beautiful learning curve, to learn about somebody else’s believe, and to appreciate it it, is what yoga is really about.” Inhale. Exhale. We’re about to dive in! What’s in the Yoga in Belize episode? Yoga as an integrative practice Yoga is a technology for humanity Jnana, Vidya, knowing the correct knowledge of humanity The pressing issue of spiritual dictatorship Deep respect of all traditions A call for heart-based collaborate work What it’s like to teach yoga to gangs and at youth detention centers Manifestation and synchronicity Connect with Michelle https://www.facebook.com/Omshantibelize www.omshantibelize.com www.yogahealsbelize.com https://www.instagram.com/belize.yogafest https://www.facebook.com/Belize.YogaFest/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLC4m7LntDb_-pEho6ZQ3cQ Want more? Head on over to my website https://wildyogatribe.com/thepodcast/ Questions? Comments? Let's get social! https://www.instagram.com/wildyogatribe/ https://www.facebook.com/wildyogatribe https://twitter.com/wildyogatribe Everything you need is just one click away! Check out all the resources here: https://linktr.ee/wildyogatribe