Araceli Santo Bieber
#03: The Yoga of Love
Episode Summary
In Episode #03, Jef Szi welcomes yoga teacher, life coach, spirit warrior, and local treasure Araceli Santos Bieber. From the questions and identity issues that arise in taking her husband’s last name to being a beloved daughter of a protective immigrant father with whom she has a steady and powerful bond, Araceli shares the territories of her life with a litany of evocative, touching, and relatable stories.
Looking at all facets of life bravely, Araceli offers us an honest look at the landscape inside her relationship with her father, her mother, husband and more. She also brings us along to the vital transformations she experienced as daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, and especially as a woman who has always oriented toward the practice of love.
After the life-shaking loss of her younger sister's passing in 2004, Araceli recounts how she turned toward a deeper relationship with yoga, prayer, and finally speaking the unspoken truths that lived in the shadows of the many great loves in her life.
Araceli’s father stories shows us there are still important lessons that happen even when a father is loving, present, and consistent in the lives of his children. In Araceli’s heartfulness we find there are still thresholds to cross to find one’s true self and honest voice, and from her we can learn how to do that with a full heart and sincere commitment.
