3.04 Structure & Surrender
Mado Hesselink (she/they) helps yoga teachers integrate their heart-centered mission with practical teaching strategies so that they can integrate the benefits of yoga into their lives and share those benefits with their community.
A student of yoga for over 20 years in the Krishnamacharya lineage, Mado is white & able bodied, queer, neurodivergent, an immigrant, and lives on unceded Cherokee land. Her life has been profoundly influenced by the experience of growing up in Hawaii as a third culture individual, by becoming a mother at the age of 24, and by the death of her own mother in 2012. Parenthood and partnership continue to be her greatest yoga teachers while asana and meditation support her aim to show up skillfully and compassionately in every area of life.
On her podcast “The Yoga Teacher Resource”, Mado draws from nearly two decades of teaching experience to share relevant stories, practical tips, and down-to-earth advice specifically geared towards yoga teachers. Her membership community the Impact Club supports yoga teachers to stay consistent with their personal practice, find their voice, and move past psychological barriers to show up fully in service to the world. Community, accountability, and mentorship are often missing in the lives of independent yoga teacher and the Impact Club exists to fill that gap. Mado is also co-founder of the Anatomy Bites membership community and has created several online courses for yoga teachers. She loves gardening, preparing food, walking by the river, and learning about... well almost anything.
In this episode, we discuss:
The Path of Yoga
Multiple Truths
Things That Seem to be in Opposition
The Opposite Sides of the Same Coin
Structure and Surrender
Developing the Capacity for Not Knowing or Having All of the Answers
Skillful Action
Practices to Bring us Back Into a Place of Skillful Action
The lower self and Higher Self
Integrity and Union
The Garden as a Metaphor
Birth, Death, Decay, Composting
Parenting
Grief
Connect with Mado on their website or on Instagram @yoga.teacher.resource
The Impact Club: https://www.helloyogateacher.com/impact
Podcast music by Charles Kurtz