BYOBlanket: Bring Your Own Blanket » Podcasts

BYOBlanket: Bring Your Own Blanket » Podcasts

Grab your comfiest blanket (or settle into your car seat), get cozy, and get awesome with Janan and Maria. They're a married couple o' gals that invite their guests over to build blanket forts and then discuss various topics that educate, entertain, and inspire. They also take listener submissions and questions! Follow on social media @byoblanket and at byoblanket.com!

Episodes

April 13, 2022 37 mins
One of our most honored teachers and an overall amazing human being, founder of Lightyear Leadership, Former Lululemon Director of Possibility, Susanne Conrad joins us on this episode of BYOBlanket! 😱🤩 It’s a great listen as Susanne weaves a wonderful conversation with us on “getting there now”. You’ll ponder on where is your “there”? Why […]
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Happy holiday season, blanket ninjas! This episode with our teacher, hero, and friend Nancy is all about using your words to create a life and an experience that aligns with what it is you want to see, hear, and believe. No big deal. Just kidding–it’s a huge deal! Language and words are arguably THE most […]
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WOW! We are in awe that Manorama chose to come on the show this week. Manorama (pronounced, by the way, muh-NOR-muh in an American accent) is a world-renowned Sanskrit teacher from New York City and founder of the Luminous Soul Method. She is coming to BIG Power Yoga in Houston, TX this weekend to lead […]
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What a blessing that we have our great teacher, Sarah Montross, on the show again. This short and sweet episode expounds on the why of studying Yoga–that Yoga is a practical study on fulfilling the “why” of life and that it is for anyone that will open themselves up to the teachings. Plus, Sarah invites […]
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Thank you for your patience in our releasing of Season 4 — as you all know, it’s been a wild ride in 2020 and 2021. We’re kicking off this season with our good friend and highly-sought-after teacher Mallory Littell to talk about Karma Yoga and it’s principles in Choice-Based Action. Listen up for 30 minutes […]
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Teacher, author, consultant, speaker, and leader Danielle Fanfair is on the show with an engaging and entertaining conversation about connection, learning, and wisdom through the scope of the Enneagram. The Enneagram of Personality is a model developed over centuries that can teach us more about who we are, how we act, and how to move […]
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Founder of the I Like to Move It Movement, BIG Power Yoga instructor, and all around amazing leader/great friend, Nathan Herrington joins us on the show today! We talk about how moving the body is a profound experience, and it doesn’t always have to be yoga-style movements. Nathan has an extensive background in leadership development […]
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We’ve got Dani Quattrone on the show today, yoga instructor and mom extraordinaire talking about all things “gratitude.” We have a very real discussion on the practice of being thankful and how that effects everything we humans do. On this episode, Dani goes public with this big announcement: SHE PUBLISHED A CHILDREN’S BOOK! The book […]
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Get your soul ready to be touched AND to laugh, for Nana Baffour, yoga teacher and school teacher makes her debut on the show, and it is spicy, hilarious wisdom! The subject of this episode: “Finding Yourself” Nana teaches science at a public school during the pandemic and is a graduate of BIG Power Yoga’s […]
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Y’all, we’ve got BOTH Nancy and Jenny on the show today, wow! They are both returning guest ninjas and took an hour out of their day to response to questions that YOU provided, listeners! These women are incredible yoga teachers and leaders as they practice what they preach in their own lives and share with […]
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Catherine Njeri, yoga teacher and community leader, joins us all the way from Nairobi, Kenya and we are PUMPED to release this episode. Catherine’s stories and words of empowerment are what you need to listen to. She is one of the facilitators of Africa Yoga Project’s annual 200-hour yoga teacher training in Nairobi and a […]
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We finally got him! Regie Ahmad! Some of you listeners may know Regie well from his transformational yoga classes he teaches at BIG Power Yoga in Houston. If you have not yet been acquainted with Regie, you’re in for a treat because Regie is one of the kindest, most humble, and therefore more empowering yoga […]
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We’re honored and thrilled to have Cash on the show with the topic he brought to the blanket fort: the black experience. We stand for black lives and the disestablishment of institutions and systems that undermine the well-being and success of black individuals and the black community. In just one little way of using our […]
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At a time when many of us have collectively “come out” as actively anti-racist and strive to listen to the black community, we are more than happy to offer up our platform as another access to hearing black voices. This episode comes to you from Raven Brown, a POC from Denver, also queer, and also […]
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A short meditation is the way to go if you’re feeling pressed for time and tempted not to sit in meditation at all today. Janan makes the daunting task of meditation easy, simple, and effective as she has trained extensively in Baptiste Yoga meditation techniques! Tune in for 6 minutes and be with yourself in […]
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Spend 15 minutes of your day quieting down and tuning in deeply as Maria guides you through a mental practice of Love and Kindness — in Spanish! So many guided meditations exist in English, so now if you or someone else is a Spanish speaker, you can save this meditation to listen to again and […]
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Many of you know this beautiful, wonderful human being: Sean Silvera @seantsilvera of Baptiste Power Yoga San Francisco! If you don’t, you’re about to! Sean is a Tier 3 1200-hr certified Baptiste Yoga Influencer and co-owner of @baptistepoweryogasf. Years ago, he served as a Marine and eventually made his way into teaching yoga in his studio, to incarcerated […]
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How do you get a yoga bod? Do yoga! Mona Heep, fellow yoga teacher and first international BYOBlanket guest ninja, spends some time chatting about the importance of body movement and spending time in physical sensations to shift the mind and emotions. This is a great episode to reaffirm what us current yogis love about […]
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BIG Power Yoga co-owner, Out Here Yoga co-owner, and LIVE ALIVE Adventures co-owner Laura Rust blesses the mic with her sage words on utilizing the methodology of Baptiste Yoga. She is a leader in the Baptiste community and has facilitated we-don’t-know-how-many Baptiste programs, including both of our assisting courses back in the day! Laura is […]
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Wow, BOTH Sarah Montross and Gioconda Parker, each returning guests, are together on this episode about the complementary practices of “form” and “flow” yoga. This conversation is incredibly insightful and will leave you wanting more–we sure did! They have almost half a century of combined yoga teaching experience, so please enjoy this absolute gift of […]
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