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Welcome to the 158th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Recording from the Pink Palace in Washington, DC.

Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on anxiety to zen with Bonnie Schmidt.

Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass “Fall Festivity” on September 21 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer’s teleclass.

Tranquility Tip: When feeling anxious, take ten deep yogic breaths and connect to the sensations within.

Workshops + Retreats: A tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series and online creativity circle in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. In 2010, consider the 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28 and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 22-29. All the scoop is on my workshops page.

Featured Tranquilista:
Bonnie Schmidt is a certified yoga instructor with a background in stress and anxiety relief. After suffering with an anxiety disorder and frequent panic attacks for almost 10 years she devoted a year of her life to study alternative therapies and healing practices to help alleviate the anxiety. Through her journey she found yoga. With a desire to enhance her own practice she signed up to become a certified instructor so she could experiment with what worked best for her in her personal life. After finding much success, and alleviating most of her daily anxiety, she became determined to share what she learned with others that were going through the same thing.

In January 2009 she launched Anxiety to Zen, a website dedicated to educating and empowering people with anxiety disorders. Through this website she shares what she learns and blogs about her journey. She has had the opportunity to share what has helped her along the way with a variety of online publications such as bettyconfidential.com and iamthatgirl.com. Along with teaching, she also conducts workshops that aim to promote awareness of chronic stress and anxiety disorders, teaches stress and anxiety relief yoga classes and works with people one-on-one to help them ease stress and anxiety in their lives.

Savvy Sources:
Anxiety to Zen

Signature Style: Featured “look of the podcast” is the organic bamboo cardishawl. Super versatile. Watch TranquiliT’s spring video featuring oodles of ways to wear your favorites. Like to be in-the-know? Join the TranquiliT mailing list to get the skinny. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate or help spread the word and join our Tribe.

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Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I’ll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by September 21 (the fall equinox) will receive a complimentary CD of my newest yoga-to-go class plus a complimentary mentoring session via phone or in person (if you’re local). Create away + do share!

Omwork: How can you switch anxiety to zen this week?

Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing 15 to 20 by The Phenomenal Handclap Band from Promonet. You can learn more about them at myspace.com/embassyproductions.

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