Kelly DiNardo's Blog

We’ve got your summer reading covered with our first Sunday Stretch summer reading recs.

I had a great chat with Katherine Miller about At the Table: The Chef's Guide to Advocacy on The Sunday Stretch

I had the pleasure of chatting with Sarah Ezrin about her book The Yoga of Parenting: Ten Yoga-Based Practices to Help You Stay Grounded, Connect with Your Kids, and Be Kind to Yourself for The Sunday Stretch not too long ago. I hope you enjoy as much as I enjoyed her book!

I’ve joined the many journalists and writers with a newsletter. The Sunday Stretch is a weekly newsletter that has one evidence-based nugget I hope makes the week ahead better and easier. I hope you'll join me there; you can subscribe—free and paid options—here.

My first book, Gilded Lili, is in a contest to be made into a movie. There’s just one day left to vote for the book and I promise it’s way less angst-y than all the other voting you’ve been hearing about/doing.
1. To vote, go here: https://taleflick.com/pages/discovery
2. Type in Lili.
3. Click the Vote button.
4. BONUS: Do this from multiple devices and really rock the vote.
5. BIG BONUS: Pass this on any way you’d like – email, FB, whatever!

In the first episode of the Living It podcast we talked to Spiritual Graffiti: Finding My True Path author and hip-hop artist MC Yogi about his story from living in a group home for at-risk youth to becoming a renowned yoga teacher and musical innovator.

We talked about his turbulent childhood and how he changed his own self-destructive behavior, the role grace played, using discipline, discernment and devotion as guides and preconceived ideas of what hip hop is and how MC Yogi is using it for inspiration. Tune in! You can find the episode on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud. For links or more info visit livingitpodcast.com.

The second season of the Living It podcast launched this week. In this season, we're focusing on the yamas and the niyamas, yoga's moral code. We have ten episodes with wonderful guests to talk about how they practice this limb of yoga off the mat. If you have no idea what the yamas and niyamas are -- or if you need a refresh -- Amy and I did a quick rundown in the preview of season 2.

Upcoming guests include wonderful authors and soon-to-be authors: MC Yogi, Dianne Bondy, Michelle C. Johnson, Susanna Barkataki, Jenn Pastiloff, Petra Kolber, Mo Gawdat, Kino Magreggor, Mari Andrew and Abby Maslin. Join us!

Amy and I are working on the second season of the Living It podcast. The ten-episode season focused on the yamas and niyamas will air in September.

In the meantime, we're doing a monthly minisode throughout the summer. For our August minisode we're answering reader's questions. All of which is the long way to ... if you have questions about the book, I'd love for you to submit them. To send us your yoga questions by the end of July you can record a voice memo on your phone and email it to us at kelly AT livingitpodcast DOT com or call 202-525-6653 and leave a voicemail

In the Living It podcast , my co-author and I dive deeper into the topics we covered in our book Living the Sutras: A Guide to Yoga Wisdom beyond the Mat. In the podcast, we talk to compelling people about the realities of living our practice. Our first season includes conversations with Rod Stryker, Rosie Acosta, Bibi McGill, Elena Brower, Michelle Gielan and Sharon Salzberg. Come join us!