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Living Your Yoga - embodied wisdom with Shirlee Williams

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I’m Shirlee—yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator, and mentor to yoga teachers who are done with performance and ready to show up as their whole, messy, magical selves.

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Living Your Yoga - embodied wisdom with Shirlee Williams

Trusting the Divine & Releasing Control: Crown Chakra Wisdom 👑

September 09, 2025 • Shirlee Williams

Hey friends—welcome back to Living Your Yoga – Embodied Wisdom.

This week, we complete our 7-part chakra series with the Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)—the gateway to higher wisdom, divine connection, and inner peace.

In this episode, I explore:
✨ What the Crown Chakra represents (pure thought, consciousness, and silence)
✨ Signs of imbalance—like spiritual bypassing, disconnection, and over-reliance on material things
✨ How balance brings deep trust, peace, and connection with the universe
✨ A very personal story about the birth of my twin boys, and how it taught me to surrender to something greater than myself
✨ Practices to nourish this chakra—like meditation, stillness, gratitude, and quiet time in nature

I’ll also share reflections on spiritual bypassing (and why I call it the Embodiment Gap), plus a big question to leave you with:

👉 Where in life can you stop trying to control the outcome and trust in the unfolding?

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🎧 Episode on Spiritual Bypassing: The Embodiment Gap
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