Finding Yourself Through Yoga (Feat. Oneika Mays)
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Self-love is often the most difficult kind of love there is, but it’s also the most powerful. If you’re searching for tools to deepen your own sense of self and to love your most authentic self, you can’t miss this week’s episode. Oneika Mays, yoga teacher and facilitator for authentic connection, joins Motivational Mondays to share her wisdom, gleaned from her own transformative yoga practice and her experience leading yoga classes for prisoners at Rikers.  Mays shares with us the many forms a yoga-informed lifestyle can take and how it can transform your life through self-love and acceptance. In this episode, you’ll learn about the transformative power of yoga, how to create your safe space, and how to start your own mindfulness practice LEARN MORE: >>Keep up with Mays on Instagram. (https://www.instagram.com/oneikamays) >>Find inspirational messages and helpful advice on Mays’s Facebook page, Oneika’s Yoga Life. (https://www.facebook.com/OneikasYogaLife) >>Take Mays’s course on Yoga International. (https://yogainternational.com/meditation/resilience-after-challenge) >>Read Mays’s article, “Moving the Body That’s Yours.” (https://www.alignedmag.com/articles/moving-the-body-thats-yours) >>Listen to Mays’s conversation on CtznWell, “Beyond Incarceration.” (https://www.ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast/oneika-mays) >>Check out Mays’s LinkTree for some of her favorite resources. (https://linktr.ee/oneikamays) NSLS MEMBERS ONLY: >>Listen to the bonus episode to learn about Mays’s current book project about her time at Rikers. (https://thens.ls/3RiOiBn) Mentioned in this episode: Get 20% Off at the NSLS Shop Use code MONDAYS for 20% your entire purchase at shop.nsls.org NSLS Shop
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