Get Yourself a Girl Gang: Jessica H. Maurer and Dr. Erin Nitschke welcome Lisa Greenbaum, yoga educator, founder of Sangha Yoga Collective, serial entrepreneur, and self-described reluctant group fitness instructor who walked into her first training and never looked back. Lisa has been teaching for nearly 25 years, built and walked away from a toxic yoga education company, lost her husband in 2022, navigated perimenopause through grief and pandemic recovery simultaneously, and came out the other side with better boundaries, a naturopath she trusts, and a girl gang that celebrated her 50th in London and her friend's 50th in Spain. This episode is warm, honest, and a beautiful reminder that simplicity, community, and breath can carry you through just about anything.

Takeaways

  • You cannot get through 25 years of teaching unscathed by life — and showing up anyway is part of the job and the gift.
  • Teaching authentically from the heart is not the same as performing. One connects. The other exhausts.
  • Psychological safety in your friendships is not optional. Your girl gang is a health practice.
  • Perimenopause does not arrive in a vacuum. Grief, stress, and hormonal shifts layer on top of each other in ways that are nearly impossible to separate.
  • Insomnia can masquerade as stress for years before perimenopause reveals itself as the real driver.
  • Breath work, meditation, and mantra are not the soft side of yoga. They are the most powerful tools in the toolkit.
  • Your students give back more than you realize. Sometimes getting to the class is the hardest part — but being in it heals you too.
  • Strength training matters even when you love yoga. Twenty-five years of the same movement pattern will catch up with you.
  • Burnout is not a bad week. If you are using it as a badge of honor you have probably never actually experienced it.
  • The difference between burnout and boredom is enormous — and so are the solutions.

Chapters

  • 00:00 Words of the Episode: Zen, Crafty, and Joy
  • 01:06 Meet Lisa Greenbaum: Recruited Off the Floor and Never Looking Back
  • 03:10 Stumbling Into Yoga and How It Changed Everything — Twice
  • 05:04 The Unfolding Career That Led to Sangha Yoga Collective
  • 06:44 Yoga and Perimenopause Are Not That Different
  • 07:01 Tell Us About Being Flustered: A Toxic Yoga Company and a Trauma-Informed Training
  • 10:05 Teaching With Integrity When Your Life Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes
  • 11:26 Better Boundaries, Selective Collaboration, and Staying True to Yourself
  • 12:35 Why Your Girl Gang Is Not a Luxury — It Is a Lifeline
  • 15:29 Navigating Perimenopause Through Grief, Pandemic Recovery, and Career Rebuilding
  • 17:41 What Actually Helped: Yoga Practice, Naturopathic Care, Strength Training, and All the Vitamins
  • 19:06 What We Are Over: Other People's Opinions, Over-Complication Culture, and Burnout as a Buzzword
  • 23:03 Find Lisa at Sangha Yoga Collective

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