Daily Inspiration: Meet Mandy Ingber

Today we’d like to introduce you to Mandy Ingber.

Hi Mandy , thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
My first career , an actor on Broadway in the original company of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, in pop culture on Cheers and in the cult classic Teen Witch lead me into fitness.

I became a local celebrity as a spinning instructor in Santa Monica in 1996. This lead me to teaching yoga and producing a best selling workout called Yogalosophy, available as a digital download. I am a New York Times Best Selling author, having written. two books: Yogalosophy; Mind Body Makeover, Yogalosophy for Inner Strength.

Throughout my teaching, I incorporate astrology. I found that the coaching aspect of my work as a teacher, and the embodiment art of acting were greatly enhanced by astrology. I began reading charts to help people understand themselves in order to accept their natural talents and how to optimize the tension of their less acceptable traits.

The astrology chart is a blueprint and a treasure map. I help decode this language, and offer actionable options to help the client align heart, mind, body and spirit. As the planets move, the natal chart gets activated. This is a language that I help the client interpret. My goal is for the client to feel understood and and on purpose.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
My transition from actor to fitness instructor included an eating disorder that was healed through teaching. I was the victim of a violent crime, which turned me inward and knocked me out of my desire to be public. I lost a career that I felt was very successful I did not work for 5 years. An astrologer told me that I would find work during my Saturn return that would be a neighborhood job and would be very successful. I became well known and many clients, including celebrities created a buzz around my classes.

During that 25 year career, I did get fired because I got popular and cocky. At the same time, I went through a breakup and my father died. I worked on myself and reinvented and used my healing process to help others. A well known celebrity, who was going through a public breakup became my yoga client and started raving about me to Vogue and other publications, and I became well known worldwide. I had to do some inner work on my resistance to becoming a public figure. Once I did that, I was in every magazine and television show and became famous for my brand Yogalosophy. This was when Jupiter and Saturn got to the top of my chart. Go figure.

I was in a near-fatal car accident in 2018, which accompanied a transit called the Chiron return. This caused a realignment of heart, mind, body and spirit for me. This coincided with the nature of aging and growing into the elder version of myself as a fairy godmother.

I have used astrology through all of the ups and downs of my life, as a guide. Everything is cyclical and the celestial bodies mirror the physical world. As above, so below. The outer is an expression of the inner world. I have moved into a more internal version of myself as an elder, so my readings are an extension of my lived experience and my ability to help guide others. Aging is my new frontier, which contains new challenges and victories. My aim is to use my path to help others.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am most proud of my ability to self-accept no matter what phase of life I am in. I have lived the highest highs and the lowest lows.
I have had many incarnations in one lifetime. I love how that feels and lives in me.

Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
LOS ANGELES is my hometown. It’s the best city in the world! I went to a mobile school for experiential learning, The city was my campus. Academics in all the libraries, lunches in the parks and two field trips a week was the backdrop for the curriculum. It was a traveling school, so I have inhabited this city, fully. I love the range of mountains to sea, the urban life, the spaciousness, the people. I particularly love the westside and the beaches.

What I like least? It comes with getting older, watching my hometown get more and more built up. Losing the old architecture, landscape and signature charm of my childhood.

I highly recommend KCRW as a source for exploring the city. They provide a great guide, that reminds me of my childhood school.

Pricing:

• First Session is $300. for a natal chart reading.
• Couple’s Session after an initial reading $500.
• Coaching options available.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://mandyingber.com/astrology-offerings/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandyingber/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yogalosophy/
• Twitter: https://x.com/msmandyingber/status/1732417964891361431
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/MandyIngber