37-The Mind, Body, & Soul Connection with Jenny Dean

<p>Jenny is a mother to two beautiful children and engaged to a wonderful man, sometimes balancing her family life and career may be tough, but she strongly believes that finding time for yourself and your health is important. She has also started her own podcast called living on purpose. She realized she was living most of her life, sleep-walking, not really feeling her thoughts or her body, she was just going through the motions. One day she woke up, then she decided that she wanted to share this work, this healing, and the experiences that she had with others that got her to wake up after teaching yoga cross-training for 10 years, she decided to stop putting her dream on hold, and so she pulled the trigger to open up her own place, that's how Karma Fitness was born.</p><p> </p><p><strong>SHOWNOTES:</strong></p><p>•  So, I was a school teacher, I was... I went to Texas Tech, 10 years of special education, and then I stayed at home with two babies, and I was going crazy. I thought I could stay at home, or I always wanted to be a stay-at-home mom because that's what my mom did. But then a year in... No, I wouldn't even say a year and a month in after my second, I have a two-year-old and an infant, I was like, I have to find purpose other than this, because it is the hardest job ever, you lose yourself. (4:00)</p><p>•  I feel like being a yoga instructor is super. I hold that very high, it's very important because you basically have this whole class eating out of the palm of your hands, is how I describe it.  It is their first time that they're connecting to themselves, and it could be good or, a lot of the times it's bad, so it's like people were so hard on themselves, we're like, what we had last night for dinner, or if we had wine the night before. Yoga connects you to the good and the bad of your true self, and a lot of people, I would say the average person cannot sit with that. (7:04)</p><p>• I will say I've been eating clean, which to me is no fried food, and just being aware of what I'm putting in my body