Svadhyaya an Interview with the Self

Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose for our "Determined, Not Distracted” Podcast Series. This mini-series serves as your blueprint for a high-impact year, distilling success into three non-negotiables: Goal Clarity, Resilience, and Commitment. By sharpening your focus, hardening your mental toughness, and anchoring your habits in discipline, you’ll shift from chasing temporary inspiration to achieving unstoppable, year-long momentum. Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.We lean into a self-interview practice using ahimsa and svadhyaya to turn harm, friction, and regret into clarity and kinder choices. We show how flow versus friction, the sacred pause, and intuitive listening help us stop self-abandoning and choose gentle power.• yoga sutras as practical guideposts for daily choices• defining non-harming toward others, self, and in culture• processing harm without revenge and setting boundaries• using reflection to convert triggers into teachers• flow versus friction as a decision compass• discipline balanced with forgiveness and rest• trusting intuition over social norms and “shoulds”• guilt as a signal to redesign habits, not self-punish• surrender as a final step to release outcomesPlease feel free to share the same with your loved onesFor more goodness, follow me on all the socials at Above the Ground Podcast and visit my website, airsabove.comDon’t forget to check out my other episodes and all of my amazing sisters at Divas That CareYou can find us on Spotify, Odyssey, Apple, Amazon, iHeartRadio, or anywhere else that you may feel guidedFor more Divas That Care Network Episodes visit www.divasthatcare.com