Guest: Antonio Sausys, BA Psychology, MA Somatic Psychotherapy Yoga Therapist, TV Host specializes in one-on-one yoga therapy for people with chronic and acute medical conditions as well as emotional imbalance. Founder-director Yoga for Health (International Yoga Therapy Conference: www.yogatherapyconference.com, Author: http://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Grief-Relief-Practices-Transforming/dp/1608828182 www.yogaforgriefrelief.com With her guest Antonio, Karen will unravel grief and how it can be a path towards self-knowledge and transformation. Grief is not always about death. We all have experience with grief, from faded youth to failed love to the loss of a job or valued material possession. And far from being strictly emotional, grief can express itself in a variety of physical forms such as poor posture, insomnia, lack of energy, shortness of breath, even actual physical pain. Antonio learned from his teacher and mentor Lyn Prashant, that we don’t get over our losses, we transform our relationship to them. He believes that grief is a potent source of self knowledge. Then, there is a natural progression from one to the other: if we are able to transform our relationship to grief in a way that results in improved self-knowledge, then we can establish a new identity. We identify ourselves through the persons and things we are attached to; when we lose them, we lose part of who we are. Yet we continue being, only in a way that is not known to us. The process of finding our new self is multi-layered. It involves understanding and dealing with the physical symptoms of grief; actually completing the grieving process; and re-identifying our selves, not based on preconceived or relearned notions but instead on our true essence, the one we’ve come so much closer to thanks to having been stripped of our previous identity. http://www.ih4y.com/