Veronique Ory’s Blueprint for Mindfulness and Well-Being

Are you searching for a blueprint to bring your mind and body into harmony for overall well-being? You’ll want to tune in and find out Veronique Ory’s secret for achieving a state of optimal mental and physical health. Show Notes | Transcript "We want to be in the space where there's these growth edges, where we feel like we're being challenged in a way that feels exciting and maybe a little bit scary." - Veronique Ory     Veronique Ory is a registered yoga teacher with a passion for storytelling and creative movement. With her unique sequences, she invites her students to carry their yoga practice beyond the mat. Veronique is also the author of the one-of-a-kind interactive yoga book, Shine On and off the Mat. This book combines storytelling, playlists, on-demand classes, journal prompts, and photos to take readers on a supported, self-paced yoga journey. Veronique's love for movement and storytelling began in her grandparents' living room, where she would put on shows for them, using song and dance as a way to bring the whole family together. Her journey led her to discover yoga, which became a powerful tool for managing stress and finding inner calm. With her focus on the why behind the movement, Veronique creates intelligent sequences that connect the mind, body, and spirit. In this episode, you will be able to: Boost your focus and productivity by understanding the impact of technology on attention. Set boundaries to reclaim your time and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Discover the power of deciding when and how you are available to others for better mental and physical well-being. Prioritize your mental and physical health to experience greater happiness and fulfillment in life. Navigate the challenges of living in a hyper-connected world and find strategies to stay grounded and centered. Related Live. Love. 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And if you are new, just to give you a little bit more background about me and who I am, I am Gloria Grace, the light messenger and spiritual alignment coach and women entrepreneurs hire me to clear the inner blocks, keeping you stuck so you can live the life you want now. And today's guest is definitely somebody who is in alignment with that and is definitely interested in helping you live a great life right now. And her name is Veronique Ory and she is a registered yoga teacher with a passion for storytelling and creative movement and with unique sequences. She invites her students to carry their yoga practice on and off the mat. And she's also an author. She has a new book called Shine On and off the Mat and it's a one of a kind interactive yoga book that syncs its storytelling with playlists on demand classes, journal prompts and photos, all while taking the reader through a supported, self paced yoga journey. Which sounds fabulous, and I'm definitely going to be asking her all about that. So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and bring Veronique on to Live Love Engage. So welcome to the show. Veronique Ory Thank you so much, Gloria. Happy to be here. Gloria Grace Rand Well, I am definitely intrigued about this book because certainly I love the interactive nature of it. But before we get to that, I do love asking our guests to share with our listeners and our viewers a bit about their story and what got you to where you are today. So where did this passion for yoga come from? Veronique Ory Yes, I have always been drawn to movement and storytelling with the body, and my journey started as early as I can remember in my grandparents living room doing song and dance. They loved to have their living room as my own personal stage and they were living in Toronto at the time. And I had, by that point, moved to Albany, New York, from originally Montreal, and so it was one of the ways that they felt like they could stay in contact. So they had this double tape deck and an Elvis Presley microphone and I would sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow or one of the Hungarian songs that they taught me, and I would do a show specifically for them. And I really loved to make them laugh. And it brought the whole family together and it was the initial seed of this connection piece of here we all are together. And there's an uplifted quality to it through song, through dance, through storytelling. And it really carried me through it was really clear to me when I was choosing my major that I was really drawn to theater. And so I studied theater at Russell Sage College, which was at the time an all women's college. And I had a fairly long career pursuing acting, where I started my own nonprofit theater company when I was 22 years old. And I produced published plays that had won Tony Awards and Pulitzer Prize winning plays and produced revivals of those in Los Angeles and then later in New York and did that for 17 years. And sort of in the thick of the anxiety that I was living in, living in New York, I found yoga quite by accident and maybe also not by accident. I was living with my roommate Matt at the time, and all of the subways had closed for Hurricane Sandy, and we were feeling a little bit ready to go outside and experience fresh air. And we had heard that the local yoga studio had opened up, and he could have said anything, do you want to go outside for a walk? And I would have said yes. And it happened to be, do you want to go to a yoga class? And it was one of those fateful moments where I showed up and I felt like everything that I was and still am passionate about came together in this way that felt really uplifting and grounding. It was one of the first times that I felt really connected to my breath, and it was one of the first times that I felt really calm through my whole body. I think I had become really adept at thinking that I was managing stress well. And what I think happens is when we're operating in a pace, and I think particularly if we're living in an urban environment, we're sort of like in this marathon pace. And it isn't until we slow down that we start to really attune to how stressed we actually are. And so that class was a really great awakening for me where I realized, like, oh, I'm actually not managing my stress very well. I'm just operating so quickly that I'm not aware of it. And so I started to really unpack that. And what I really loved about the creative flows and the music and the movement coming together is that creativity piece and that connection piece. And so it really does all stem from my grandparents living room of feeling that coming together in this way that is a self expression. And then ultimately it's like just feeling good mind, body and spirit coming together. And yoga is a really perfect fit for that. Gloria Grace Rand Well, I love that. And I've just discovered that we have something in common, actually, a couple of things in common, because when I was a kid, I loved to dance as well and sing. So I took ballet lessons, tap lessons, jazz lessons. But I have Hungarian ancestry as both my grandparents were born in Hungary, and I even had the pleasure of being able to go to Budapest a couple years ago, too. So I got to even travel to the town where my grandfather was born. So it was really cool. So. Yeah, I like that. I love a name. This brings me together with people that I can really connect with. I love that story of how you well, number one, I'm very impressed with the work that you were doing even before you got into yoga. Being able to produce plays at such a young age and running a theater company. That's amazing. And I appreciate, too, you're talking about the stress level and not really fully appreciating it until you got to be still and then recognizing that. So talk to me about and share with our listeners a little bit more, though, about because you're definitely unique in that. And I love that your name is Veronique, but this idea of really marrying yoga with storytelling and then maybe you can even get into how you decided to actually put that into a what? Really? How does that mean? First of all, I guess let's talk about that a little bit. Veronique Ory I love that so oftentimes when we in the west go to a yoga class and it could be at a gym or the Y or community center, sometimes at a yoga studio, the focus is on the physical practice. We're showing up. We're putting body into shapes. And one of the things that I was really curious about and was represented really well for me at the yoga studios that I practice at in New York, both the Yoga Room and Pure Yoga West, was this attention to the why, right? So there's a theme. So there's a connection of why it is we're moving in the way that we're moving. And I love the Mind Meal, so something for us to chew on as we're moving through the things. And so it takes a certain skill set, I think, for a teacher to do this in a way that isn't overt, but it's rather you might not even be aware of it, but you'll discover that perhaps you're thinking, about something in your life that the teacher planted the seed for....