Creating Wellness From Within

Join me as I chat with Mariann about how our major life transitions can be less overwhelming by implementing mindfulness into our wellness.

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of Midwest YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Mariann Johnson

Before dedicating her professional life to teaching mindfulness, Mariann was an accomplished organization development consultant and mediator, having worked extensively with national leaders of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Since 2011, she has designed and taught mindfulness programs throughout the United States and consulted on the design of Mindful Leadership and mindfulness at work programs in corporate, professional and academic settings. https://csh.umn.edu/

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Have you ever wondered how Ayurveda and Eastern Philosophy can help support your mental wellness and overall well-being??

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of Midwest YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Marianna Ferri

Marianna works as a high school teacher in Toronto, Canada. Her business, "The Conscious Educator" began after completing her yoga teacher training focusing on supporting mental wellness through yoga, Eastern Philosophy and Ayurvedic teachings. Marianna began implementing meditation into her classroom while building on a trauma informed approach in her classroom to highlight and support her student's wellbeing while focusing on compassion, kindness and community pillars within her classroom. Marianna seeks to inspire, educate and lead people on journey's of highlighting developing self-awareness and mindfulness through ancient wisdom incorporating Vedic teachings, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Stoicism to support mental, spiritual and physical wellbeing. Marianna believes a big component to healing is understanding our nervous system to get regulate and tap into the parasympathetic state to allow oneself to heal. Marianna's current offering's include an e-book called "Unraveling: Understanding the layers of self through through yoga and yogic philosophy to promote mental wellness" which looks at how the different limbs of yoga can support mental wellness and how understanding our different layers of self (koshas) can also bring about homeostasis in the mind, body and soul. https://www.theconsciouseducator.ca/

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Learn what to expect when creating a safe space and atonomy in yoga thereapy.

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Hannah Lee, LSW, CYT

Hannah Lee, LSW, is a therapist and yoga instructor at Room To Breathe Psychotherapy and Yoga in Chicago, IL. A social worker by training, Hannah worked on social issues such as housing, incarceration, and access to higher education before joining Room To Breathe. There she provides individual and group therapy, focusing primarily on trauma healing; perinatal mental health; parenting/caregiving; identity exploration for people of color; and neurodiversity. She is a graduate of RTB’s psychologically sensitive yoga teacher training and teaches a weekly online class.
 
In both yoga and therapy, Hannah and Room To Breathe emphasize accessibility, autonomy, and the importance of participants building an internal sense of safety. By prioritizing “function over form,” participants have the space to explore the sensation of postures and experiences without the pressure of achieving a particular form or outcome. Practicing these values in the yoga and therapy spaces changes the power dynamic in the room and can be a tool for healing for folks that have had their choice taken away from them. Hannah and Room To Breathe know that these are practices that benefit everyone, not just those that identify with a trauma history, and hope that both participants and practitioners can learn how psychologically sensitive care can benefit everyone.

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Ever wondered what it's like to have more self-compassion and self-love??

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Christina Cohee

After suffering with chronic and mystery illness for over 20 years, Christina found yoga therapy. This was the beginning of a turning point in her healing journey. Combining tools from yoga therapy with principles of neuroplasticity, she has healed from over 15 chronic conditions. She is now a certified yoga therapist. Christina holds bachelor’s degrees in Studio Art, Anthropology and Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Business Certificate from UT’s McComb’s School of Business.

In addition to being a yoga therapist, Christina is a continuing education provider for Yoga Alliance. She also holds certifications in restorative yoga and Yoga for 12-Step Recovery. She teaches public classes, sees private clients, mentors teachers and yoga therapists, and serves as a faculty member for Practice School of Yoga Therapy in Austin, Texas. Her work with clients comes from a place of lived experience with chronic illness and recovery. She enjoys guiding clients with dysregulated nervous systems, trauma, and chronic conditions to befriend their bodies, connect with joy and ease, and ultimately connect with and live from their wholeness.

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Are you downsizing your home, or looking for ways to have less clutter in your home?? Michelle is the human for you!

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Michelle "Home Coach" Hoff

Michelle "Home Coach" Hoff, MA, is a life coach and a relentless cheerleader for anyone who wants to reduce excess, become a conscious consumer, and create a health home. Hoff has been digging around in people's living space for over three decades a a landscaper, interior designer, and owner of a cleaning business.

Home Coach Hoff, LLC is a decluttering and life coaching business. She offers one on one virtual coaching and rousting support to keep the wheels on your decluttering bus moving! Life coaching is her superpower and differentiator. With insights from cleaning clients, design principles, project management strategies, and life coaching tools, she helps people dig in and end the constant churn of clutter. Shame, stress, and anxiety diminish and you become a more conscious consumer, eliminating mindless buying in service of developing lifelong healthy home habits. Ultimately, limiting clutter from even entering your home.

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Hear all about AstroYoga and how it is a sister science to yoga ... and how old the sciences of astrology and astronomy are

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Emily Ridout

Emily Ridout is an AstroYoga specialist committed to sharing the astrology-mind-body connection with the world. She is the author of AstroYoga for an Aquarian Age and founder of the International School of AstroYoga. She holds an MA and BA in Folklore, and her work has been featured in Reader’s Digest, Well + Good, Women’s Health, and Yoga Journal. You can find her at emilyridout.com or out hiking in the mountains with her dog Wally.

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Understand why it is important to connect with yourself for your health and wellbeing

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Katie Arnold

Katie Arnold is an RYT-200 vinyasa and restorative-based yoga and meditation instructor and yoga therapist in training helping women reconnect with themselves and stress less through movement and mindset practices. After years of burning the candle at both ends, she discovered the five habits that helped her reconnect with her most authentic nature. These 5 components of connection are mindful movement, meditation, self-care, journaling, and community.

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Discover what it's like to look beyond big pharma to find healing

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Lorine Bamberg

After spending almost 25 years in pharmaceutical advertising, Lorine realized more than ever the need to take breaks which reset the mind and body, inspiring optimum health and well-being. Whether at work or life in general, yoga can help to get the morning going, reset the spirit in the afternoon, or wind down the day into a restful evening. But the more she studies and teaches yoga, the desire to bring more inclusion to the practice is the larger goal. Elements of yoga can be adapted to any levels of capability, to bring joy in movement to those otherwise not considered students of yoga. She wishes to bring yoga to those communities, expanding the perception beyond the catch phrases and the fancy clothes. The outdoors is her haven and healer. The trees are her inspiration and protector from the elements. She marvels at nature and its adaptability. Lorine draws from her Reiki and Yoga studies, love of nature, connection to her own inner child, and openness to alternate methods of healing when teaching, moving away as much as is possible from the conventions of the pharma industry to guide and connect her students with their true higher selves.

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DIscover what it means to practice yoga "off the mat" with today's guest, deborah charnes.

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Deborah Charnes

Riddled with chronic low back pain and digestive disorders since childhood, Deborah Charnes spent 50 years exploring the world, uncovering secrets to health and happiness.  For two decades, she managed hundreds of news conferences, editorial board meetings, press briefings, and one-on-one interviews. She worked with security, communications, and advance teams for John McCain, Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden and Bernie Sanders.  In 2011, Deborah left the high-pressure demands as an international corporate marketing communications strategist to dedicate that same energy to positive transformation—of herself and others. Her deep commitment to helping others achieve maximum well-being led her to write the Amazon bestseller, “From the Boxing Ring to the Ashram.” Plus, she created a dozen signature therapeutic workshops that are tied to her book. Among them are Dem Bones, The Yogi Diet, First Love Yourself, and Chant and Be Happy. All are offered in English and Spanish. Deborah has lived, worked, and studied in the U.S. and Latin America. A longtime blogger, she has published 500+ mind/body and lifestyle articles.

Find her book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/43Midqh

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Have you ever felt not good enough to lead? Ari will share with you some powerful tips to help you activate your inner leader!

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Arianne "Ari" Traverso

There is nothing more exciting to Ari than finding passion and being free to travel and work anywhere. She feels honored to have created Biz Yogi, an online platform for creative gypsy souls like herself to find their voice and their business, so that they can create a bigger impact in the world. People know Ari as a mover, a quick thinking solution based yogini and say: “Ari, you are always so busy!” Her answer is always the same: “Busy doing what I LOVE!” Born in Peru during one of the country’s scariest times of terrorism, her family moved to Miami to give them the option to a better life. Always a creative kid, full of energy, passion and determined to do whatever she wanted, and opted for the path least taken but determined to succeed. https://bizyogi.co/

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