Andrea Klunder is a Meditation Facilitator for startup companies
& creative individuals. She is the founder of Peace & Play Yoga
for kiddos & grownups. Andrea integrates her background in music,
theater and creativity to engage her students in a playful experience of
peaceful practices, to help them become more mindful in their
day-to-day living. Andrea is also Host of The Creative Impostor Podcast,
a show all about how to get out of your head and take bold action.
 This show is all about dealing with that inner voice which says, “Who
do you think you are? You can’t do THAT!”Contact InfoWebsite: www.TheCreativeImposter.comFacebook: AndreaKlunder.CreativePodcast: The Creative ImposterMost Influential PersonSean Johnson of Wild Lotus Yoga and the Wild Lotus BandEffect on EmotionsIt's
[mindfulness] definitely helped me to not have so many peaks and
valleys. I would say my first bout of depression that I ever had in my
early thirties, when I closed my first business, a yoga studio which I
had for five years, it really helped me to recognize that depression
which was showing up for the first time ever in my life and to be able
to experience it and move through it rather than getting sucked down
into it.Thoughts on BreathingBreathing
is so important. When I originally was studying vocal music, we spent a
lot of time in music classes learning how to breathe so that we can
produce a certain quality of sound. When I stopped studying music, I
sort of lost that connection to my breath. Coming back to the yoga and
meditation practice, I was able to reconnect to that as the quickest
tool to drop into when I find myself in a tricky situation.Suggested ResourcesBook: How To Train A Wild Elephant by Jan Chozen Bays (It includes 52 exercises, one for each week of the year)App: Podcast App (To listen to Podcasts like Mindfulness Mode to help me stay in the mode)Advice for Newbie
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would say to just resist the urge to get frustrated. I think there's a
tendency to feel you're not doing it right or other people are doing it
better than you or you're never going to be able to fit it in with all
of the other things that you're doing. If you can just acknowledge that
right in that moment as you're having the awareness that you feel
frustrated, that you've just become more mindful in that moment of
having that awareness of frustration. It's sort of like success.