A Quest for Well-Being

— From the Sanskrit AYUR - meaning 'life' and VEDA – meaning 'knowledge' AYURVEDA quite literally means the knowledge of life and to have an understanding of Ayurveda is to have a blueprint for good mental and physical health.

Ayurveda is the world's oldest holistic health system originating from the Indian sub–continent. It has been used for thousands of years to cleanse and restore balance to the body and mind. Despite it being more than 5,000 years old it couldn't be more relevant to our modern, busy and stressful lives.

Valeria Teles interviews Elise Rousse — a Teacher, Well-Being Coach, Ayurvedic Consultant And Masseur.

Elise is a Yoga Teacher, a Well-Being Coach, an Ayurvedic Consultant for lifestyle and nutrition, and Ayurvedic Masseur.

For many years Elise suffered from food disorders, tremendously struggled with body image and self-esteem, and couldn't really live at peace with herself and others. Her journey to health and well-being started with the plant-based diet which helped her find a sustainable and healthy way of eating. After healing her body, she found Yoga to heal her mind and soul. Ayurveda came to her a little later as the latest piece of her healing process. Ayurveda is a science of self-healing, the sister science of yoga, it is the ancient Indian art of living a more healthy, wholesome life, through our diets, our routines, and lifestyle practices.

Elise's mission in life, her dharma, is to help you meet your Best Self, to live a more authentic & purer version of yourself and to find balance in your body and mind. Through her well-being coaching sessions, Yoga classes or Ayurvedic Consultations, Elise empowers you to improve your well-being through small, sustainable, healthy diet & lifestyle changes. She creates a safe space where you feel you can be honest about your health and mindset without fearing judgement, and she will help you identify a cause rather than symptoms.

Elise lives and works in Brussels, Belgium at the moment but she also does consultations online.

To learn more about Elise Rousse and her work, please visit: https://www.eliserousse.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— Millions of people suffer from orthopedic conditions that call for therapeutic interventions, ranging from chronic low-level discomfort to pain that stops you in your tracks. Over the years, I've observed that with physical and emotional discomfort, we subtly adjust our life around our deficit. If our knee hurts, we take the stairs less frequently. If our back hurts, it affects how we sit down and stand up. Sciatica and chronic knee pain are perfect examples of this. Sometimes, when recovering from an injury, it is essential to do this so as not to reinjure ourselves. Other times, discomfort eclipses previously enjoyable activities because they have become too difficult. Before we know it, our ongoing discomfort has limited our ability to fully participate in life. Yoga Bones offers condition-based yoga therapy for readers to design their own home practice, to heal pain, and to increase life engagement.

Valeria Teles interviews Laura Staton — the author of "Yoga Bones: A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Pain and Orthopedic Injuries through Yoga."

Laura Staton holds a master's degree of Science in Occupational Therapy from NYU and is a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist specializing in injury rehabilitation. She works as a Senior Occupational Therapist at a Northwell Health teaching hospital and is the co-author of Baby Om -Yoga for Mothers & Babies. Laura is passionate about yoga's powerful effect on physical and emotional well-being, and how this interacts with daily life. For many years, she was a dancer and choreographer in NYC and received her BFA from The Juilliard School.

To learn more about Laura Staton and her work, please visit: https://www.laurastaton.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "June Ahern's work with spirits and ghosts is interesting, mostly fun, and certainly rewarding. Albert Einstein concurred, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

Valeria Teles interviews June Ahern — the author of "How to Talk With Spirits: Séances, Mediums, Ghost, Hunts."

June Ahern has authored four book and is a Metaphysical Life Coach. Her near death experience led June to an unexpected career as a physic reader and medium. Her book "How to Talk with Spirits: Seances, Mediums, Ghost Hunts" has proved to be helpful in understanding the psychic phenomena of spirit communication and is in the process of becoming a movie.

Although retired from private practice, she continues to share her abilities as a paranormal investigator with the Haunted Bay on Amazon Prime and YouTube. Her book, "The Timeless Counselor: The Best Guide to a Psychic Reading" was the number one best seller at the 1990 New York's Whole Life Expo.

To learn more about June Ahern and her work, please visit: http://www.juneahern.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Not knowing who we are and that there is a doorway to freedom, we continuously suppress Spirit inside us with our intellect pondering our pasts — the whys, the how comes, the what ifs and if onlys — trying to figure out why whatever happened, happened to us and not to someone else. We try our level best to figure out what we did wrong to deserve what happened. Unbeknownst to us, we make what happened to us bigger than who we really are and subsequently say no intellectually to a life that we could live with so much more expression and happiness. Truth resides deep within."

Valeria Teles interviews Jan Grobler — the author of "Get the Hell Out of Your Own Way: Tips and Tools to Heal Your Past and Create the Life You Love."

Jan Grobler is a Life & Transformation Coach. He believes that every human life has genius with which to gift this world and he enjoys the discovery of his client's own unique potential. He believes that genius is underpinned by self-esteem and uses concept to help his clients to find their unique self, accept themselves and then transforms their results to its highest potential.

Jan is also a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, Psychological Kinesiologist, Spiritualist and Teacher – using all his gifts coupled with Neurolinguistics to give a consolidated experience of just how amazing his client is!

Additionally, Jan is a public speaker and enjoys connecting with audiences on various heart-centered and life-changing topics. His Transformation Courses are designed to help people grow into the best version of themselves, and can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

To learn more about Jan Grobler and his work, please visit: https://www.limit-lesslife.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— When loss is so deep it can freeze us. Grief and loss make it hard for us to immediately absorb everything that has happened. So we are a bit like deer in headlights; behaving in unexpected ways or shutting down entirely.

Shutting down has such a bad reputation and it's true you don't want it to go on indefinitely. But it has allowed me to take a moment and regroup. It reminds me of the moment when ice arrives for the first time in the winter. Those who live with that reality know you need to take a moment of pause to re-calibrate walking and driving. Business as usual stops with ice!

Ice keeps the reality of our vulnerability very much alive. It makes us come alive in our attention and feeling so we don't hurt ourselves navigating it. Like ice, grief makes us very aware of how vulnerable we are. Like ice, we have to approach our grief consciously, with all of our attention so it doesn't engulf us or take us away from the warmth of our lives. Doing so can make us strangely fully alive.

Valeria Teles interviews Donna Brooks — a Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, Yogi, And Embodied Meditator, Counselor And Coaching In Movement And The Healing Arts

Donna brooks has 40 years experience in unwinding limiting and painful habits in the body and in the mind using conscious movement. Her specialty is in using imagery to rediscover movements of innate health and balance. As these movements are uncovered we feel more alive. There is more ease and a loss of tension and pain in our bodies and our lives. We also meet the suffering and loss inherent in life differently.

Donna has designed and taught programs for Parkinson's Disease, MS, cancer, stroke and chronic pain. If you go to her website - Original Body Wisdom.com you can read about her own losses and recovery. Currently, she is working on embodied recovery from the sudden and unexpected death of her adult son.

To learn more about Donna Brooks and her work, please visit: https://www.originalbodywisdom.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Now feeling confident, proud of Me and the freedom I've won. Now feeling happy, joyful, filled with laughter. Feeling peace, contentment And love. Now I just live in joy, peace, and happiness, centered and calm as I go about my life being me."

A healing journey is about both letting go and welcoming. It's about letting go of thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and even people that are not serving you. It's about welcoming and incorporating thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and people that will empower, enrich, and energize your life.

Valeria Teles interviews Denise Bossarte — the author of "Thriving After Sexual Abuse: Break Your Bondage to the Past and Live a Life You Love."

Denise Bossarte is a poet and an award-winning writer, photographer, and artist. Denise is a certified meditation facilitator and contemplative arts teacher. She is an information technology (IT) professional working for a large urban school district. Denise holds a BA in chemistry, an MS in computer science, and a PhD in developmental neuroscience. And she is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.

Denise spent her adulthood healing herself from the traumatic impact the sexual abuse had on her life. She is not a mental health professional. She is a Thriver who has traveled a healing journey and is able to share a personal, guided experience for readers to find and engage in their own journey to healing, to becoming Thrivers.

Her self-published book Glamorous was a bronze medalist in 2019's The Wishing Shelf Book Awards in Adult Fiction, and her success with Glamorous earned her membership into the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers. Denise is also a member of the Nonfiction Authors Association and the Texas Association of Authors. Denise lives in Texas with her husband, Randy, and literary cat, Sapphira.

To learn more about Denise Bossarte and her work, please visit: https://thrivingaftersexualabusebook.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— It's not easy going it alone. But if you KEEP GOING, stay true to yourself. It will be worth it in the end. The hardest walk you can make is the walk you make alone, but that is the walk that makes you the strongest. That is the walk that builds your character the most. To all of you fighting battles alone, to all of you going against the grain, battling the naysayers. Stay strong! Keep going!

Stay Strong! Keep going!

Valeria Teles interviews Patricia Love — the author of "Seen and (Un) Heard: A Little Girl's Journey From Silence To Empowerment."

Patricia Love is a Women's Empowerment Coach, and Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). By combining these practices along with her own personal experience in overcoming real-life challenges and trauma, she's spent the last two decades inspiring and empowering women and girls of all ages to be brave with their story and use their voice for good. While Patricia grew up feeling silenced and misunderstood, she was able to use those experiences as fuel to light her inner fire and make a positive difference in the world around her. She is an advocate for Women's Voices through her "Healing Hoodies" mission.

To learn more about Patricia Love and her work, please visit: https://www.patricialove.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Mother Nature talks to all of us, all the time. Her voice is loud and clear but often muffled by all the noise around us. But if we spent time in the forests, deserts, mountains, oceans, and prairies of the World, we can hear her. the six months I spent in the desert was both soulful and transformational."

Valeria Teles interviews Jon Turk — the author of "The Raven's Gift: A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness."

Jon Turk earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1971 and was nominated by National Geographic as one of the Top Ten Adventurers of the Year in 2012. Between these bookends, Jon co-authored the first college level environmental science textbook in North America, followed by 30 additional texts in environmental, physical, and earth sciences. At the same time, he kayaked around Cape Horn and across the North Pacific from Japan to Alaska, mountain biked across the northern Gobi in Mongolia, and made numerous first ski descents and first rock climbing ascents around the globe. During extended travel in northeast Siberia, Jon's worldview was altered by Moolynaut, a Siberian shaman, and his later books reflect these spiritual journeys. Jon has published four trade books: Cold Oceans (HarperCollins), In the Wake of the Jomon (McGraw Hill), The Raven's Gift (St Martin's Press) and Crocodiles and Ice (Oolichan Press). His newest project, Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu (To be published by Rocky Mountain Books in September 2021) delves more deeply into a "mind-body-spirit" theme, supported by adventure storytelling, integrated with an anthropological view of the role of art and mythology in human development.

To learn more about Jon Turk and his work, please visit: https://www.jonturk.net/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— Sensitive souls not only have to deal with sensitivity to other people's negative emotions, they also have to deal with other types of toxic energies, including electromagnetic radiation, noise pollution, air pollution, and toxins in our food and water. Worst of all, our emotions are easily manipulated by mainstream media and fear can easily become a chronic state of being. By practicing BEING in your own vibration, you'll learn what is YOU and what isn't YOU.

Valeria Teles interviews Dr. Karen Kan — the author of "Sensitivity Is Your Superpower: How to Harness Your Gifts, Fulfill Your Purpose, and Create a Life of Joy."

Dr. Karen Kan is a medical doctor and Doctor of Light Medicine. As a #1 bestselling author and founder of the TOLPAKAN™ Healing Method, her mission is to help Sensitive Souls heal themselves, harness their gifts as a superpower, and express their Soul's Mission. What she is really passionate about, is empowering sensitive souls like Earth Angels, Indigos, Starseeds, and Empaths to shine their light, so that together, we can pull the world out of darkness.

Through her Academy of Light Medicine, Dr. Karen teaches students her 3-step TOLPAKAN™ Healing Method (TKH) which involves aligning with the highest Source of information, asking quality healing questions through Divine Muscle Testing™, and then activating specific healing frequencies to do the clearing and healing.

Like a spiritual detective, Dr. Karen can discern, in detail, the foundational reasons for a person's symptoms. With expert mentoring, Dr. Karen empowers her students to get precise Divine answers and teaches them how to activate Divine energies for self-healing.

To learn more about Dr. Karen Kan and her work, please visit: https://www.karenkan.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Take charge of your life and don't allow your life to just happen to you – ensure you happen to it."

In Diana Hutchison's book, Creating an Awesome You explores many different areas of life and looks at each one at its best expression. Thus, it encourages you to be your best in each area. If you manifest the potential expressed within, you will be creating an awesome you. It is becoming more and more difficult to sort through the myriad of information out there in the ether, or the World Wide Web, and find the golden nuggets that can help to build your life. It is Diana's hope that those of you who read her book can indeed find that nugget and take action to become your best, to fulfil your potential, and to create a wonderful life for yourself. She talks about the individual within a social setting. No one is isolated, we are all part of a larger whole: society, and humanity. It just depends on your beliefs and feelings as to where you put yourself within that setting.

Valeria Teles interviews Diana Hutchison — the author of "Creating an Awesome You: A Practical Guide for Young Adults."

Diana Hutchison has a background in psychology and coaching and is passionate about helping people heal themselves on all levels. With more than 15 years counselling experience she was compelled to specialize in grief and loss following her mother's death in 2011. After this loss, she undertook further training in grief and loss counselling.

Now based in South Australia and in her own practice, Diana Hutchison designed an integrated therapeutic program of mental and emotional healing, delivered online, that offers both flexibility and accessibility.

New You Creations provides self-directed courses with possible support options enabling people to self-heal. More grief courses and self-development courses will be added over time.

To learn more about Diana Hutchison and her work, please visit: https://www.newyoucreations.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.