Jenny Ravikumar\xa0is a devoted yoga practitioner, yoga teacher, reiki master, certified crystal healer through Hibiscus Moon and owner of the Barefoot Yoga Shala studio based in Massachusetts.\xa0 Most recently, she started a successful non-profit, Yoga for Families of Addiction.\xa0 As the name implies, this non-profit provides healing for friends, families, and spouses of addicts.\xa0 Through Jenny's own experience she found that there are many yoga platforms to help addicts themselves get through their struggles but there was nothing out there to help the people who love the addicts.\xa0 With Yoga for Families of Addiction, Jenny creates holds space and creates sacred sessions to help friends, families and spouses of addicts get through the tough stuff like shame, co-dependency, anger and forgiveness.\xa0 We cover a lot of interesting topics in this episode including a short pit stop on how it's possible to fuse together religion and yoga, but the main topic here is how to stand in our truth and show up authentically even in times of great struggle.\xa0
Jenny's own story is that she was married to somebody with an alcohol addiction and went through a traumatic divorce.....all the while completing her 500 YTT, opening up a yoga studio and taking care of her new baby boy.\xa0 \xa0 How did she continue to teach from her heart and show up authentically for the community even while all this struggle was happening?\xa0 Listen in to find out! :)\xa0
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