How Counseling Relates to the Yoga Sutras with Izzy Shurte (41)

In this episode, we talk with Izzy Shurte, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Yoga teacher, about the Yoga Sutras, Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Therapy, and how these modalities can support mental health.

Izzy Shares the ways that primary source yoga texts can coincide and differ from counseling practices and approaches. We even workshop yoga sutra 2.16 together and share how it is applicable to daily life. 

1. Introducing Izzy Shurte [02:38]
2. What is the difference between yoga, mindful movement, and the yoga sutras [04:00]
3. Skillful living: how Yoga relates to Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Therapy [15:10]
4. Intuition or avoidance?[26:16]
5. Parallels between Eastern philosophy and Western therapy [29:03]
6. Yoga Sutra 2.16 as it applies to daily life [39:31]

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Izzy Shurte is a Licensed Professional Counselor and E-RYT 500 Yoga Teacher based in Richmond, VA.  Having completed her 200 and 300HR yoga trainings at Asheville Yoga Center she studied closely under Michael and Stephanie Johnson.  As a counselor, she specializes in Mindfulness and Acceptance based therapies treating Eating Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and Emotion Regulation Concerns.  In recent years Izzy has studied meditation with Vince and Emily Horn of Buddhist Geeks and Shadow Yoga under the direction of Andy Matinog.  Her greatest passion in life, aside from her daughter Mariel, is sharing the healing potential of mindful movement and the wisdom of primary source yoga texts with students, clients, and anyone willing to listen.