The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast

380: Yoga for Stress Management with Radhika Mukhija

Description:

We all live incredibly stressful lives, dealing with pressure from work, families, friends, and the political climate, on top of multiple crises around the world. It can all add up and leave us feeling stressed, burned out, exhausted, and overwhelmed. How can yoga and Ayurveda help us manage this stress?

Radhika Mukhija is the founder of Holistic Prana. For over a decade, she has guided women on a regenerative journey to wellness, helping them connect with their innate wisdom, embody their true selves, and create fulfilling lives. With experience in health, life, and executive coaching, Radhika merges ancient and modern science to create a holistic approach that blends ancient wisdom with clinical sensibilities, including neuroscience and biohacking.

Radhika shares how her mother's cancer diagnosis inspired her to embark on this journey. She explains how she defines stress, the symptoms of chronic stress, and how yoga and Ayurveda can be useful tools to alleviate this stress. Shannon and Radhika also discuss creating consistent routines and rituals to nurture ourselves, finding balance, the role food plays in our well-being, dealing with "un-yogic" feelings like rage and frustration, and more.

Key Takeaways:

[0:21] Shannon shares something she recently re-learned.

[3:51] Shannon gives a shout-out to the sponsors, OfferingTree and Shannon's 20-hour Yoga for Pelvic Health Training.

[7:20] Shannon introduces her guest for this episode - Radhika Mukhija.

[11:07] What does Radhika do and who does she do it for?

[11:50] What got Radhika started in doing this work?

[16:23] There are many different types of stress we experience. How does Radhika define stress?

[20:03] How does stress manifest or show up? What are the signs we might be experiencing chronic stress?

[22:49] How can we balance everything that is going on in the world - social justice movements, the after-effects of the pandemic, bearing witness to a genocide - on top of all the stresses of daily life?

[28:11] What are some of the practices that Radhika shares to help people return to a place of restoration, peace, and balance?

[32:29] Shannon pops in with a quick note about creating memberships and how OfferingTree can support you in that!

[35:10] How can we distinguish between unplugging or going inward as a form of self-care to be able to be effective out in the world, versus something that is just ignoring things that are stressful?

[48:04] How does Radhika introduce new practices to people knowing that they need to check in with themselves about what they need and people often don't like to be told what to do?

[53:14] Connect with Radhika via Instagram or learn more from her via her courses and upcoming book!

[58:07] Shannon shares her biggest takeaways from this conversation with Radhika.

[64:18] Join the Facebook group to become part of a supportive community of yoga teachers and do leave a review for the podcast too!

[65:39] Shannon shares a message from a podcast listener.

Links:

• Radhika Mukhija

• Radhika Mukhija on Instagram

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Quotes from this episode:

"There's good stress and bad stress."

"How do we just shut the noise of what people are telling us to do or what the books are asking us to do and how do we really get in tune with our inner wisdom?"

"How do we balance all of this? We need to begin with ourselves and what we can control... it has to come from a place where we, not just our body, but our mind is in a state of balance and homeostasis."