#62 – Yoga Should Come with a Big Warning – Yoga in Norway with Jannice Strand

Welcome to Episode #62 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Jannice Strand, a yoga teacher from Norway, was so delightful as we talked about psychology as yoga philosophy and realizing that yoga is what we need to heal and process and gain an understanding of ourselves as we truly are. I hope that this conversation made you want to show up for yourself as yourself in the deepest way possible.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about the big warnings that yoga should come with, then this is the conversation for you.

Tell me more about Jannice Strand

Jannice is the owner of Be Yoga Studio in Norway, a yoga teacher, YogaWorks certified Teacher Trainer, and a dedicated yoga student for life. Jannice Strand has assisted in more than 600 hours of  YogaWorks Teacher Training and has completed additional training including: DEN Meditation Teacher Training 400 hr,  Krishnamacharya Vini Yoga TT, Ayurveda study (RYT -700 hours), Yoga Medicine (RYT 100-hours with Tiffany Cruikshank), Tantra Teacher Training (RYT 100-hour) with Jeanne Heilman, Yin Continuing Education for Yoga Alliance Bernie Clark 20 hours, Anatomy Training med Judith Hanson Lasater 20 hours, AcroYoga Solar and Lunar with Erica Montes.

Moreover, Jannice has also studied the chakra, bandhas, and mudras with Dr. Kausthub Decikashar, who is TKV Desikachars son. And she has completed in-depth study with BKS Iyengar Oslo Iyengar. She has also studied Tibetan Buddishm with Dolpo Tulki Rainpoche

With the Karma Tashi Ling Buddhist Society.

Janice has been practicing yoga since 2001 and the yoga practice has taught her to meet everything with a smile. “zenPratipaksha Bhavana” 

What to expect in the Yoga In Norway episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

Jannice used to have a “hardcore life,” as she says. She was struggling to find joy, her body was tired, and she was partying all the time. One day, she walked by a small yoga studio ran by Tibetan monks in Oslo. She felt the urge to go and one day she walked through the doors, and began doing courses and training there. After that studio closed, she sought out another yoga studio in Oslo and ended up at an Ashtanga Yoga studio, and then came to YogaWorks. 

After a really difficult time in her life, and doctors prescribed antidepressants and then more and more pills, Jannice said enough was enough. She went to a psychiatrist and realized that what the psychiatrist was telling her was really yoga philosophy. What she really needed was yoga.

We really dove into how important it is to cultivate a safe space for students, and what yoga means to Jannice and to her entire community in Oslo. As the pandemic affected Jannice’s studio in big ways, though a lot of her students still 

Yoga should come with a big warning. You have to see yourself. You have to face yourself. For more of Jannice’s insight on the big warnings that yoga should come with, and for more about yoga in Norway, tune into the whole podcast episode and tap into our beautiful conversation!

Favorite Quote From Jannice Strand

“Yoga should come with a warning.  Like this big-cross like warning. Because you do see yourself. You need to, or you are learning more and more about yourself and you can’t run away anymore like you have to just do it. If you don’t know your true self, like really know yourself and how you are reacting to things and how what’re your triggers, you can’t work with others because then you will just have your mirror and you will see, you will always reflect the other person. You’re taking your things into that person. When a person is talking to you, you are reacting from your perspective and then you don’t see clearly.”

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Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast #62 – Yoga in Norway with Jannice Strand Transcription

[00:00:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: Namaste and welcome back to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. I’m so excited to be talking today with Jannice Strand. She’s a yoga teacher from Norway and also the yoga studio owner and general manager of Be Yoga Studio in Oslo, Norway. She is a Yoga Works certified teacher trainer and she’s assisted over 600 hours of Yoga Works teacher training. Completed so many additional training herself with some of the most incredible yoga teachers around the world. I’m so excited to talk with her more about her training and her passions, and even her type and Buddhism studies. So let’s dive in, Jannice, thank you so much for being here.

[00:00:44] Jannice Strand: Thank you.

[00:00:46] Lily Allen-Duenas: So to get started, how about we talk about how yoga came into your life, how you first got started on the path of.

How did yoga come into your life? 

[00:00:53] Jannice Strand: Oh my God. That’s a story actually. Yeah. So it was in 2001.  I did have a hard life. I have to say that I actually was living on the edge all the time, lalways partying and  going in the hardcore life. I was really tired. My body was tired.

My whole self was tired and I couldn’t find joy in anything anymore. I always walked past a yoga studio and there were Tibetan monks that [00:01:30] had this studio. It was a really small little studio and I could always see happy, beautiful people coming in and out. They were always smiling and were always looking happy and I was like, My God, what are they doing in there?

I was having this urge to just one day go in there, see and talk to them. I started it was a beautiful studio. It was super cheap. I think the first like new beginning course they had, it costs around $40.  I think I went eight times .To go continuing training there or continuing courses and coming to classes. It cost $20 and then you didn’t have to pay anymore. It was actually like $20 for the rest of your life. That was one like salary. 

[00:02:22] Lily Allen-Duenas: That’s amazing. So cheap.

[00:02:24] Jannice Strand: It was very strange. Like it was only love. You got your own mantra. You can have private talks with the monks or the teachers. Every Friday it was always vegetarian food and I just loved to stay there. But of course it was bankrupt.

They didn’t have money to pay the rent because they didn’t earn money and they didn’t ask for money. And I, and I was so sad that no one stepped in there. But it was, yeah, it was sad. So I was a little alone for a long time in my yoga world. There weren’t that many studios in Australia at that time.

I [00:03:00] tried to find my studio and I went to different places, but I couldn’t find it. Then suddenly one day I found an Ashtanga teacher and I fell in love with Ashtanga and I went all the way to teach Ashtanga as well. I was doing that for a long time. Then I met yoga works.

Because I had the feeling that I missed something in my Ashtanga teaching, to say the words like how to do things. From Yoga Works, it was all the other training. Oh my God, . It’s actually sometimes I’m a little embarrassed when I see my list, but I’m feeling like the student. I just love to learn like forever

[00:03:43] Lily Allen-Duenas: I feel the same way that it’s just there. Yoga is so infinite that I don’t think I will ever be done learning.

[00:03:50] Jannice Strand: Never.

[00:03:51] Lily Allen-Duenas: There’s so many different branches, and as you’ve done trainings in chakras and banda and mus and yin and anatomy and acro, it’s like it.

[00:04:06] Jannice Strand: Oh my God.

[00:04:07] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. So I know that something you’re really passionate about incorporating yoga in your daily life or in daily life in general. So can you talk to me more about that?

Hardcore life and happy pills

[00:04:18] Jannice Strand: Yeah. I think I’m one of those yeah, I think we are many that’s been running hardcore life, like I said, from early, like in 2001, but I also, like in the [00:04:30] middle of my yoga path I had I think maybe two, one and a half year that I didn’t do any any practice at all. I didn’t work like a hundred percent as a yoga teacher at that time.

I pushed myself in so many directions with my family and there were a lot of things that happened there. There were a lot of things that happened in my work. The company I work for really hit the bottom. Like I actually was sick for six months. And I was only lying in my bed.

I couldn’t even go to the bathroom. I had the curtains together and my partner had to help me with everything. So I went to the doctor, and the doctor prescribed I don’t know if you say the same in America, but , it’s like happy pills. 

[00:05:17] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, antidepressants.

[00:05:19] Jannice Strand: Depressive. Yeah. They were really strong. I felt like I got anxiety from taking the pills, so I went back to the doctor. She said to me, you have to take these pills to get rid of the anxieties. You have to take this pill for the antidepressant or for depression, and then you have to take these pills for the anxiety.

I was screaming at the doctor, I was like, What is this? I can’t do this. I can’t do this. This is horrible. Then she, had this long talk and she said to me, I know about some psychologist that has. Project. If you want to, I can contact them and see if you can come in right [00:06:00] away because it is a long way to wait for a psychologist, or you have, or else you can go to a private.

But it’s super expensive to go to a private psychiatrist here in Norway. So when I went to this psychologist  she were talking and we were talking together. I noticed like maybe the second time or third time that, hey, this is yoga philosophy. Like what we are talking about here is actually like what we are learning from the philosophy in yoga.

And I was really like, Hey, I don’t need you anymore. . I told the psychiatrist that I actually don’t need you anymore. I have to start practicing yoga again. Like I need to go back. And that’s when I understand that yoga is a lifestyle in every way. It’s all about the mind.

So many think that it’s a physical practice, I, I’m a hundred percent that, that is so much about the mind stuff, And that’s when I think it’s so important to bring yoga more into the daily life. Like, how are you living? How are you living like the true self, are you doing what you are supposed to do?

Are you actually honest to yourself? 

[00:07:15] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah, I think that’s amazing that after saying no to the doctors saying no, I’m not doing more drugs, more pills saying, and then getting in with a psychiatrist and realizing, Oh, this is actually [00:07:30] yoga. This is yoga philosophy, and this is how I can process these emotions or I can be present with these emotions and understand myself and gain more clarity through the practice and not just the asana practice.

I like how you mentioned its philosophy, but I know there’s so much in meditation and pranayama and the other elements that really are psychological therapy in ways.

The pause where you see what is actually happening 

[00:07:55] Jannice Strand: Also seeing it like you know what I do feel like the first time when I started with yoga. That pause, that break,  that pause between, reacting to things like this where you stop and you see what is actually happening. That’s why I fell in love with yoga.

Old journals: I found yoga!

[00:08:16] Jannice Strand: That’s why I’m like, felt oh, I actually can stop myself from going straight into drama and make everything crazy. I have to tell you, it was a really cool thing. We were fixing into our, we have a basement and we were taking everything out to, to make a new basement and fixing everything. I found some old diaries, like journals from when I was starting with, and it was so cool. It was like in the middle of a sentence or middle of a paragraph or what do you call it? And it said oh my god.  I found yoga and this was in 2001. [00:09:00] And I said I found yoga.

I’m so happy. I’ve never ever felt like this before.Then it said, if I read this and I have stopped with yoga in, If I read this in many years, like many years from now and I have stopped doing yoga, you have to start right away. You are stupid. If you have stopped, you have to stop now.

[00:09:26] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yes. I, it’s, it is amazing how when we can forget how powerful yoga is if it’s not a part of our daily lives. I know for me, Yoga has ebbed and flowed in my life, or because I’ve been practicing yoga for over half of my life. In the beginning, we’ll say quarter of that it just ebbed, practicing.

Every day for or four times a week, for six months, and then not practicing with the teacher for another six months. There’s been periods where I’ve come out and away from it and then come back in, and it always is that remembrance of all that yoga brings when we do have it present in our lives and all the gifts it gives and how it’s like a pebble and a pond. Just the ripples.

Be a light spreader

[00:10:09] Jannice Strand: 

Yes. Yes. That’s it. I think that’s the reason why I do have that passion about bringing yoga into daily life. Like always have that ripple effect with everything you do, like people you talk to and people. I feel actually when you are practicing yoga, you are a light [00:10:30] spreader. Like you are spreading some light around here. And especially now, I think it’s more important than ever be those people.

[00:10:38] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah, Now more than ever, yeah. The world needs these bright lights that remind us of the things that we’ve forgotten or bring humanity back into some of the aspects of the world. It’s amazing how dehumanizing a lot of the media can be, or the news or alarmist or, there’s so many elements where it’s wow, it’s certainly gotten pretty bad, 

[00:11:03] Jannice Strand: But also I’m talking to so many people that are seeing a lot of. Like only the negative. They are the only thing they are writing about in their social media or talking about to friends or family. It’s the negativity in the world, and I do believe that when you talk about negative things and only see the negative things, That’s what you feel, that’s what you will become

I have to say. If we do try to see more of the positive thing, I’m not saying that we are going to be like spiritual bypasses. Oh, everything is so happy and everything is so good. That’s not what I’m saying. But it’s more like trying to lift up the things that are good, trying to find good things, and trying to see the good things in people and try to show them that they are good as well.

[00:11:56] Lily Allen-Duenas: Trying to show people that they are good as well. That’s so [00:12:00] beautiful.

[00:12:00] Jannice Strand: yeah.

[00:12:01] Lily Allen-Duenas: So with your students in your studio, since you’re a studio owner, how do you think that you’re helping your students to see this?

Yoga helps people see, not me 

[00:12:09] Jannice Strand: I think yoga is helping them. So it’s not me. We are just sharing yoga and then they will see it themself.

[00:12:17] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. There’s no greater teacher than ourselves.

A yoga studio that welcomes all

[00:12:20] Jannice Strand: Wow. It is true and I feel when. What I did have a passion about it was, and I still do, is to have that place a community to bring people together, to have the opportunity to share and see. Be allowed to be themself in every way. We have a lot of actual celebrities coming to the studio, and they always say, because we have my studio. I always wanted to have a studio that wasn’t only Lululemon. But also not only like hippies and very out there . I wanted to find a middle, try to have a studio. The people that wanted to have those cool pants and want to be fashionist. Still also those with hippie pants and dreads that they also could feel comfortable.

So the people that are more the celebrity side of people they always say that when they come to my studio or our studio, They feel that they can, not wear makeup and come with, a come a day when they really feel like crap. They just want to cry. And [00:13:30] they don’t feel that in so many student studios elsewhere. Because yoga has been becoming a little, fashion.

So I think it’s important for studio owners  to honor the students and let them be. Let them have that breakdown in the studio, that’s okay. If they want to come in with the hair in a messy way, no makeup and just come and go and not talk, that is okay.

And if they want to come like super makeup and want to talk to everyone, that is okay. So I think everything, yeah,

[00:14:07] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. I love that. It’s all okay. It’s all welcome. Everyone is welcome and you can be exactly who you are. Today, we do change. We aren’t the same, and we shouldn’t hold ourselves to the same standards every single day of being the same or feeling the same. And I think it’s amazing that you’ve cultivated this space where everyone just feels safe.

[00:14:30] Jannice Strand: Yeah, I think every studio owner, I hope like that this will be what yoga is. A place where you can come home. I want people to have that feeling when they come to the studio.

[00:14:44] Lily Allen-Duenas: I love it. So we’ve talked a little bit about your studio. I would love to get the bird’s eye view of what is yoga in Norway? Has it been really popular for a long time or is it just in Oslo where their studios are? I would love to hear more.

What is yoga in Norway like?

[00:15:00] 

[00:15:00] Jannice Strand: No. It’s everywhere. Yoga is in every part of Norway. It’s been spreading like wild. 

[00:15:09] Lily Allen-Duenas: All right. Okay. So yoga is everywhere, as you said, spread like wildfire. Is it popular with a certain age group or just with women? Is everybody starting to realize the benefits? Maybe doctors are prescribing it for insomnia or back pain, like what kind of level is it at, would you say?

[00:15:29] Jannice Strand: Yeah. In our studio it’s actually like a lot of doctors. We have as students in the studio, physiotherapist, psychologists, chiropractor, osteopath and it’s a lot of therapists and health medicine people in our studio. They’re doing, like you said… they are prescribing it to their patients like yoga.

It’s so cool that it’s actually becoming more and more allowed because, when I started to practice yoga. It was kind of weird that people were practicing yoga. I felt like it’s been maybe… I think 10 years ago, I believe 10 years ago, you’d really start to boom, like big.

[00:16:17] Lily Allen-Duenas: So it was booming 10 years ago, and now it sounds like it’s still very popular.

Yoga in Norway during the pandemic

[00:16:22] Jannice Strand: Yeah, it is. The pandemic, it was crazy like when everything stopped and everything closed down. [00:16:30] The students still wanted to pay for the membership to just keep the studio open. I know that happened in many different studios in Oslo. That shows how much people really wanted to have, the studio also after the pandemic was finished.

[00:16:48] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh yeah. The pandemic changed so much, didn’t it? But that’s amazing. Your students were like, We want to support you. We don’t want the studio to close down. How long did you have to close down for?

[00:16:59] Jannice Strand: Oh my God. I think the longest part was different because it closed down and then it opened and then closed down, and then it opened. The longest we had closed down, it was 10 months. But we did go online, but a lot of the students weren’t comfortable to be online, but a lot of them were.

But still, they continue to pay. It was a student that she contacted me with, I have to say, because it was so cool and I loved the way she said it. Because she said to me, Hey , I can see that I haven’t been my card hasn’t been withdrawn for three months, so I have to come in so you can fix it.

So I can pay for the membership. When I met her in the studio, I said to her. Hi, my God, I think it’s so cool that you actually are doing this, that you really want to continue to support the studiom and I’m so happy that you are doing this. She stopped me and she said to me like, Jannice I [00:18:00] just have to say I’m doing it for you.

Yeah. But it’s actually not only for you, it’s because. I want to be selfish. I love the studio so much and I can’t think of anything worse if this studio goes away.  It’s my health , I need this studio to survive.

[00:18:20] Lily Allen-Duenas: Wow, that’s so generous, amazing and I love that. I just love hearing that Janice.

If you love something, you have to support it 

[00:18:27] Jannice Strand: Yeah, but it’s not generous. So it’s generous. Yes. But it was also for herself, if it’s kind. I think many people forget sometimes when you really wanna keep something, you have to support it. If you want something. It doesn’t need to be a yoga studio.

It can be like your favorite cafe or your favorite clothes, or I don’t know, but you have to support them. Like it’s talk about them buying from them and sending people there. If they are talking about, asking for recommendations, it’s so important.

[00:19:01] Lily Allen-Duenas: Absolutely. She was able to see it past herself, past the lens of just say, I can’t imagine this studio going away. Like she could see that, that it’s very powerful. And so I also always ask every guest on the episode this question, it’s what is your personal definition of yoga?

What is your personal definition of yoga

[00:19:22] Jannice Strand: For me, I’ve seen so many sides of yoga. I have to say it’s actually funny cause me and my[00:19:30] friend, also yoga teacher, said to each other, yoga should come with a warning. Like this big cross like warning. Because you do see yourself. You need to, or you are learning more and more about yourself and you can’t run away anymore, like you have to just do it. But when you are starting to see yourself,  I’m talking for myself and I feel like I am the way of becoming yourself in so many ways. I feel I’ve changed, but I also feel more like myself.

I don’t know if I’m talking away from this in a crazy way now. Because it’s, like I said, a big question, but I do feel it takes away the clouds. It takes away the clouds and makes it clearer so you can see more. That’s what yoga is.

[00:20:24] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah, it’s like that Buddhist story of looking in the mirror and the mirror being very…slowly cleaning off the mirror so we can actually see ourselves clearly.

[00:20:34] Jannice Strand: Yes. And 

[00:20:37] Lily Allen-Duenas: yoga definitely does that.

[00:20:38] Jannice Strand: Yes. Yes. That’s why I also say it should come with a warning because you do. See that, okay, I also do have these things and what do I do with this? It’s also very exciting. That’s, I think that’s why it’s a lifelong path because it’s and also like you said, it’s always changing, but still you are [00:21:00] in the middle there that is never changing.

 It’s changing, but still I feel like, okay, now it’s clutter, and something is like, why is it cluttering me now? Often that’s when I have not been taking care of myself. For example, staying up till late or not having that regular practice on my mats or hanging out with maybe some two some people that’s too negative. I can see what’s happening. I think that is also so cool, when you start to see yourself so clearly that you also see when you start to get muddy again.

[00:21:39] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. It’s like the more that we know, the less that we know, and the more that we see clearly, the more messy everything seems. Or it’s like you think, Oh, I’m so good at meditating. Oh, I’m so good at yoga.Then all of a sudden you have an epiphany and you realize, actually not at all…

 If you don’t know your true self, then you can’t work with others

[00:21:55] Jannice Strand: But the thing is, I think that happened after I took the training in India with Desikachar’s. I did go all the way. It was yoga therapy training. In this training we are pushed. To the limit because what we are learning is that if you don’t know your true self, like really know yourself and how you are reacting to things and how, what’s your triggers?

You can’t work with others because then you will just have your mirror and you will see, [00:22:30] you will always reflect the other person in a kind of a. You’re taking your things into that person. When a person is talking to you, you are reacting from your perspective and then you don’t see clearly.

 It was three years of training. Then we had to really go into the deepest of our traumas, and our darkest things like really seeing the shadow in your life and you couldn’t hide. Like you have to go into everything.

I was shocked that I actually did have so much, I was actually really shocked, but still It was a good thing. I think it’s a good thing to see your shadow because people are often afraid to see their shadow. They always wanna see the good things, always wanna see beauty.

Dark sides and shadow work

[00:23:21] Lily Allen-Duenas: Shame is such a dark emotion and I think so many of us are feeling ashamed when we have to face the darker sides of ourselves. But they exist in everybody, and there’s such a source of compassion and understanding. There’s roots in the darkness. Like the tree itself. The roots are in literally a dark place. 

[00:23:42] Jannice Strand: Also that again back to, you are not, that, that is something that has happened to you. But it’s like it doesn’t define you, and that’s a nice thing to see as well.

[00:23:56] Lily Allen-Duenas: It is a nice thing. It is. Wow this has [00:24:00] been so great, Jannice. I love that we’re tapping into the shadow self and seeing ourselves clearly. All these like big things about yoga that I think if you’re not practicing yoga or you haven’t, maybe you’re new to the practice, maybe some of our listeners are, just starting to get started. They’re thinking how can yoga teach me all that? I think that I’m grateful that some of our listeners are tapping in and asking these questions probably internally if they don’t know the answers. They also can trust that it will come. If you keep practicing, you will see things.

[00:24:38] Jannice Strand: That’s good. That’s the beauty

[00:24:41] Lily Allen-Duenas: That is so Jannice, it’s also, if some of our listeners have always dreamed of coming to Norway or dreamed of visiting Oslo. Can you share with our listeners who also maybe don’t know too much about Norway? Just more about Norway in general?

What is Norway like? What is Oslo like? 

[00:25:00] Jannice Strand: Yeah. I have a lot of teachers coming to Norway. From the states actually. Because I am a YogaWorks teacher and a teacher trainer. I do have a lot of contact with people from the states.They also come to Norway to teach as well. Everyone that comes to Norway, what they are saying is that our air here, it’s so fresh. You can actually taste the air and it feels almost [00:25:30] like sweet . People here are super friendly. We can see it looks like Norwegian people, they can look a little strict. But they are really friendly and they wanna help if you are asking them about anything. That’s the only thing, the reason why we probably look a little strict is because it’s very often cold here, I have to say. Then we are freezing. That’s the reason we are maybe looking a little serious in my face. So we do have a beautiful summer here. It’s always hot and beautiful.You can see the beauty, like people here are like shining. Oh my God, because we do have so much cold, it’s like we are coming out like. It’s kinda like woohoo.

[00:26:21] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, that’s awesome.

[00:26:22] Jannice Strand: Yes, but I do think we probably have the most beautiful mountains. It’s like fairy tales, not in Oslo. Oslo is a city. It is a city. But it’s a really beautiful countryside in Norway. And you should come just to experience that. But you have to if you come to Norway, you should have time because of it. We have so many different places to visit.

[00:26:46] Lily Allen-Duenas: Lovely. If any of our listeners do want to get in touch with you, whether they want to come to one of your training sessions or offerings. If they have any questions, what’s a good way for them to reach out?

How to get in touch with Jannice

[00:26:57] Jannice Strand: They can actually go to [00:27:00] either by email or you can have  Instagram. We are always answering if someone makes contact there. We do have a lot of international training or international teachers coming to our studio. We do have a lot of people coming from the states and from different kinds of countries around the world to just join our training because we do, for example, Desikachar’s son is coming to our studio and we have different cool teachers from the states. There’s so many, so I can’t say any, everyone. But yeah, we do have a lot of international teachers, so you should check out our Instagram and see. Because you probably have a cool teacher that you want to see or try to study with.

[00:27:42] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, fantastic, and I will definitely tag. Instagram, Be Yoga Studio in the show notes and also on my website wildyogatribe.com/yogainnorway so if any of our dear listeners want to , open the show notes wherever you’re listening to podcasts, click on the link. You’ll find Jannice that way. Or on the website you’ll also can follow along reading a transcription of this or read more about Jannice as well. So thank you so much, Jannice, for joining me today on this show. It’s been such a joy to be with.

[00:28:14] Jannice Strand: Likewise, and I’m super duper happy that you’re doing this. I think it’s so cool that you are actually, bringing all the teachers from all around the world and it’s like we are sharing something special. So I’m super grateful for you. Thank you, Lily.

Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Outro

[00:28:29] Lily Allen-Duenas: [00:28:30] Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. My conversation with Jannice Strand, a yoga teacher from Norway, was so delightful as we talked about psychology as actually a yoga philosophy. Realizing that yoga is what we need to heal and process and gain an understanding of ourselves as we truly are.

I hope that this conversation made you want to show up for yourself as yourself in the deepest and truest way possible. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that’s all about the big warnings that yoga should come with, then this is the conversation for you. Thank you for listening to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. Be well. 

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What’s Okay

You are welcome to share an excerpt from the episode transcript (up to 500 words but not more) in media articles (e.g., The New York Times), in a non-commercial article or blog post (e.g., Elephant Journal), and/or on a personal social media account for non-commercial purposes, provided that you include proper attribution and link back to the podcast URL. For complete transparency and clarity, media outlets with advertising models are also welcome to use excerpts from the transcript per the above.

What’s Not Okay

No one is authorized to copy any portion of the podcast content or use Lily Allen-Duenas’ name, image or likeness for any commercial purpose or use, including without limitation inclusion in any books, e-books, or on a commercial website or social media site (e.g., Instagram, Facebook, etc.) that offers or promotes your or another’s products or services. Of course, media outlets are permitted to use photos of Lily Allen-Duenas from her Media Kit page or can make written requests via email to receive her headshots folder.