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What would drive you to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days? This week, Lorraine and Jillian sit down with longtime LPY community member Cathy, whose extraordinary journey began with unimaginable loss. After the accidental overdose of her daughter, Cathy turned to running, yoga, and meditation to navigate grief — and to transform pain into purpose. Cathy shares how movement became her medicine, how her daughter’s bracelet reading “Beautiful girl, you can do hard things” now lives on her own wrist, and how her “why” fuels her mission to raise awareness and remove stigma around substance use disorder. She also takes us inside The Great World Race — an endurance feat that tested her body, mind, and spirit in ways she never expected. This is a conversation about grief, resilience, purpose, and the incredible things we are capable of when love leads the way.

Are you at peace with the concept of death, or does it spark anxiety? Lorraine and Jillian find themselves on opposite sides of the peace-panic spectrum and explore why understanding your feelings about death can help you live more fully.

Two Yoke Girls meet again! After a small hiatus Lorraine & Jillian are back and so excited to get talking! In today’s episode they talk about why people want to start meditating and why they stop. Sometimes we think we know why we want to begin but the answer for why we continue is totally different! There are some real nuggets of wisdom in this one! Want to know what Lorraine prescribes for better sleep!? Listen! We can’t wait to her what you think.

One of our favorite parts of our podcast is that it feels organic, fun and authentic.  The Two Yoke Girls give you a peak behind the curtain of their realness with this blooper/outtake you hear in our intro! Once we get past that intro we settle in to talk about the unexpected and surprising things that come when you sign up for teacher training…and it has nothing to do with teaching yoga!

Dr. Belle Liang is back to chat with The Two Yoke Girls! This episode is all about finding and living your life’s purpose!  Sound lofty?  It can feel overwhelming to think about just finding what lights you up, not to mention living it!  But, Belle’s book “How To Navigate Life” gives you the tools and the Two Yoke Girls love nothing more than useful life tools!  Join the three of them as they explore weighty topics that turn out to feel fun and light!

Lorraine & Jillian sit down to discuss the benefits of quitting and how to do it right. When they recently closed their third studio location in Burlington they spent a lot of time navigating the quitting process and found…well you will have to listen to find out!

Join Jillian and Lorraine as they chat with Professor, mom, yogi and co-author of an Amazon #1 New Release and a must read, How to Navigate Life, Dr. Belle Liang. They discuss everything from raising kids, navigating partnerships and how yoga can help us push forward toward growth, change and vulnerability. This is part one of a two part conversation because this trio has a lot to discuss and explore!  Dr. Belle Liang is the co-author of How to Navigate Life: The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, & Beyond, as well as a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Professor & Chair of the Department of Counseling, Developmental, & Educational Psychology at Boston College. She is the Principle Investigator of Purpose Labs and Co-Founder of How to Navigate Life Consulting, LLC. She is a sought after speaker on how to cultivate purpose at home, school, and in the workplace. Most importantly, she is mom to Zoe and Toby, and partner to David in Lexington, Massachusetts.  

Well this one was “FUN”! The Two Yoke Girls chat about fun and how it is beneficial and necessary to find balance, happiness and joy in life. Want to know the science behind why fun is important to create? Have a listen!

Lorraine reveals a recent revelation & Jillian talks about how she convinced herself as a young child that she really was pretty :). Sound intriguing? Give it a listen.

The Two Yoke Girls are so excited to be back recording and couldn’t wait to talk to you about all the fun stuff we have coming up at the studios in April. We decided to do a “challenge” but we talk through what that word means to us and why it works for some and not for others.

We think it’s safe to say that there would be no “Two Yoke Girls” without her. She’s the glue that binds us together. You have likely seen her in class, because she is always showing up. She is LPY’s co-founder and owner and one of our favorite interviews! We talk about how LPY came to be (it’s a doozy of a story and so funny), how fate brought us all together and how we have spent the last almost 10 years making things work.

The Two Yoke Girls love learning what makes driven, successful people tick.  Becky Paige is an amazing human who has completed over 10 Ironman and is humble enough that she has even lost count!  Becky credits yoga for helping her train for these intense competitions. In fact, she calls it her secret weapon! It gave her a true competitive edge working with mindset, strengthening her core and increasing mobility!  Are you training for life’s Ironman in your yoga class!?  At LPY we make sure you can find your secret weapons too!

‘Tis the season for obligations & shoulds! Isn’t that what they say? Join Two Yoke Girls to talk about the pitfalls of perfectionism and what you can do about it when you feel yourself falling back into that familiar pattern.

The Two Yoke Girls have the privilege of being surrounded by inspirational people all the time. When we stop and think about the countless amazing people that come to LPY and help build it’s community we are floored. Shannon Nigro is one of those people. She came to yoga and practiced for a long time without us ever really knowing her full story and she was moving and working her way through. Shann has taught us so much about faith, love and resilience by sharing the story of her son Quinn who passed away in 2016 and the challenges and life that ensued as she continued to care for her two other children, her mother and extended family. We love knowing that yoga and her self charged 30 day challenges have provided her answers when things felt sticky. Have a listen and see if her 30 day commitment might be just what you need too!

Gratitude is great..Or is it? Thanksgiving reminds us (over and over again through excessive marketing) that we should be grateful. Two Yoke Girls love gratitude but we don’t like “shoulds”. Take a listen to see how we navigate the territory of gratitude turned toxic positivity and look to use gratitude as a tool for those sticky times of life. It’s not all rainbows and it can be hard work but we are grateful we get to do it together.