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Overcoming Resistance to Your Spiritual Practice

Mindful Living

Sara Avant Stover

Sara Avant Stover, presenter of Drala Mountain Center’s Filling Your Well: A Women’s Yoga, Meditation & Nature Retreat, is a teacher of feminine spirituality, bestselling author, and Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner. After a cancer scare in her early twenties, Sara moved to Thailand, embarked on a decade-long healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia, and has since gone on to uplift tens of thousands of women worldwide. The creator of the world’s first Women’s Yoga Teacher Training, Sara has also been featured in Yoga Journal, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, Natural Health, and on ABC, NBC, and CBS. She lives in Boulder, CO.

Sara’s the author of The Way of the Happy Woman: Living the Best Year of Your Life and The Book of SHE: Your Heroine’s Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power.

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February 20, 2022 – Overcoming Resistance to Your Spiritual Practice

With the increasing levels of uncertainty we’re facing in our world, grounding more deeply into ourselves through daily practice is more essential now than ever. We not only need it personally but also to help us show up in more skillful, open-hearted ways collectively. In this podcast, Sara shares nine things you can focus on to help you start, or enhance, your practice. May this be of benefit!

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July 5, 2022
Tags: meditation, nature retreat, spiritual practice, yoga retreat
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