The Paleo Diet Meets Ayurveda with Dr. Akil Palanisamy
What does a plant-based, Ayurvedically-informed Paleo Diet look like? Find out on today’s show. In this episode we go trendy with the hot and hip gastronomical words: microbiome, nutrient density, Paleo, micronutrients, phytochemical, gut bacteria, antioxidants, epigenetics, anti-inflammatories. That’s right. Dr. Akil gets down and dorky, good and geeky with the how Ayurveda interests with […]
Weight loss and Food Culture: Using our power and awareness to show up in the world
Ali Shapiro: the Feelings Behind How Feed Yourself Are you down with how you look and feel? Maybe? Sometimes? I try not to have conversations that obsess on diet and what we feed ourselves. I find the whole conversation rather self-focused. Yet, when talking with Ali Shapiro, she unpacks the beliefs that create the feelings that we experience. […]
Connect with Divine Frequency through Yogini, Musician+ Healer: Wah!
Do you have an ! after your name? I spoke with Wah! She is truly a free spirit embodied and an expert in tapping into sound as the medium for connection. Her work focuses on connecting us with divine frequency. I first met Wah! over a decade ago at a kirtan when she warmed the […]
Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary on Ama, Pharmaceuticals, and Practicing Ayurveda Today
What do these symptoms have in common: fatigue, wandering joint pain, heaviness, indigestion, congestion, confusion? What do these diseases have in common: late-onset diabetes, elevated blood sugar, kidney stones, glaucoma, tumors, candida? Ama. All of the above, and of oh so many more symptoms and diseases have ama in common. Ama is un-metabolized waste that […]
Detox for Hormone Balance with Bridgit Danner
When we look back on our health histories we see peaks and valleys. Obviously a reflection of the laws of nature, our bodies in particular reflect the law of contrary compliments. In this week’s show you’ll hear women’s hormonal health collaborator, Bridgit Danner talk about her low of the lows. Postpartum hormonal imbalance. New marriage, new baby, new business. Dark places. IBS. Leaky Gut. Adrenal Issues. Pink eye. How did Bridgit turn it around and how she help other women pulse back to thriving? Listen in.
Detoxes and diets
I’ve been “raw”. I’ve been “ayurvedic”. I’ve even dabbled in “paleo ayurvedic.” We all know labels are limiting. But, we’ve also experienced how specific diets raise our body awareness and teach us new kitchen skills.
Jason Crandell: The Yoga of Teaching Yoga
Meet Jason Crandell in a more personalized setting than you may have already met him in Yoga Journal on on Yogaglo. Our conversation steers to his take on how we teaches critical thinking in his yoga teachers training. We dive into the how yoga should evolve your thinking, especially as a teacher, and the critical skills necessary to evolve your own teachings, rather giving regurgitate your teacher’s teachings.
Yoga-Talk for Athletes, Raw Ayurvedic Dessert Recipe, and Using Improv to Weaken an Addiction
Today’s episode features an interview Sage Rountree who has written a series of books of Yoga for runners and athletes. She synergizes yoga philosophy with exercise physiology. We talk about building strength, endurance, mobility and recovering into your workouts… and the importance of becoming unpatterned. You’ll also hear a clip of an interview Jenny Fenig […]
Start a Book Club in Your Yoga Studio with Chris Loebsack
Yoga Teachers and Students: How to Host a Book Club with Chris Loebsack. In today’s episode we navigate how to start a book club that is focused on our personal and/or collective evolution. Particularly, we investigate what happens when we do that through a local studio. Meet Chris Loebsack, a globe-trotting yoga teacher who nourishes […]
Ayurvedic Chemistry, Simple Sauerkraut and Awake Living Books
What do chemistry, sauerkraut and awake living have in common? This podcast episode! But besides this podcast episode, chemistry, sauerkraut and awake living have the law of transformation in common. You live in the culture of you. The culture of you is a field of biochemical activity, similar and more complex than the jar of […]