Melody Fairchild is professional distance runner, an author, coach, & mom. We speak about the topic of utilizing yoga for runners and her brand new book Girls Running: All You Need to Strive, Thrive, and Run Your Best.

Melody career highlights & course records are impressive to say the least. She was the fastest high school distance runner for 24 years! For the runners & non runners out there some her personal records will blow you away…sub 10min in the two mile, 15:30 5K! 33:06 10k! 2 hour and 44min marathon! But what’s even cooler is that Melody has a secret power she will tell us more about in that she utilizes yoga, breathwork, mantras and mudras that have taken her running to new levels.

For more super cool resources, invites to free yoga & meditation classes check out www.secretyogisociety.com

Instagram: @secret_yogi

Show notes

06:00 – Melody’s story to discovering yoga as a professional distance runner. Specially Kundalini yoga

Quote: “It (kundalini yoga) was hitting all the buttons on my switch board on all levels: mental, spiritual, emotional, intellectual”

11:20 – Melody’s relationship yoga and running in terms of how it affects her self-identity

Quote: “I am everything and I am nothing”

16:30 - Utilizing yoga, breathwork, mantras & mudras we mentioned as Melody’s hidden “super power” to that she felt brought your running to new levels

23:45 – Using these tools we discuss in across other disciplines and in life outside of just running

28:00 – Specific tools such as mantras and visualizations Melody uses

Resource: Eddie Stern’s book: One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life (https://amzn.to/3gFYtKT)

34:40 - Learnings from Melody’s new book Girls Running: All You Need to Strive, Thrive, and Run Your Best (https://amzn.to/34OofKz)

Article: https://www.runnersworld.com/women/a33668664/girls-running-book-review/

46:40 – How to share these lessons with our youth

Audience Questions

• 53:27 - How do you keep running as that thing that brings you joy, rather than becomes something that causes you pressure or your young athletes pressure? It’s this love hate relationship we all have with running. Possibly those tools you found that calm your nerves would help make running more enjoyable?
• Quote: “Give yourself permission to do that thing that brings you joy”
• 57:25 - What are you’re favorite yoga poses as a runner you’d recommend all runners do?
• 64:28 - How do you bring yoga techniques into running?
• 67:15 - What are some misconceptions about yoga and running?
• 70:25 - How long of a yoga session do you need to experience the benefits?

More on Melody Fairchild:

Website: https://melodyfairchild.com/

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Lexie Williamson (Yoga for Endurance Athletes): She is a specialist in adapting yoga to the endurance sports of running, cycling, swimming and triathlon. Lexie is also an ex-runner who has dabbled in sprint-distance triathlon and is now a die hard road cyclist. Lastly, she is the Vice chairperson of a UK triathlon club called The Viceroys.  

A chat about yoga and endurance sport, and how yoga is the ideal mental and physical release for runners, roadies and triathletes.

She is the author of:

Yoga for Runners

Yoga for Cyclists

The Stretching Bible

Move; Free Your Body Through Stretching Movement

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Lexie Williamson (Yoga for Endurance Athletes): She is a specialist in adapting yoga to the endurance sports of running, cycling, swimming and triathlon. Lexie is also an ex-runner who has dabbled in sprint-distance triathlon and is now a die hard road cyclist. Lastly, she is the Vice chairperson of a UK triathlon club called The Viceroys.  

A chat about yoga and endurance sport, and how yoga is the ideal mental and physical release for runners, roadies and triathletes.

She is the author of:

Yoga for Runners

Yoga for Cyclists

The Stretching Bible

Move; Free Your Body Through Stretching Movement

For more resources to uncover your innate super powers as a Secret Yogi check out www.secretyogisociety.com

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/secret_yogi/
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Topics of Discussion:

03:45 - Your story to finding and creating purpose through your yoga, breathing techniques and meditation

Quote: “Yoga can be this perfect type of balance to endurance sports”

Resource: Sage Roundtree (https://sagerountree.com/)

Resource: https://www.yogasportscience.com/

09:20 - Yoga for Endurance Athletes (Cyclists, Runners, and Triathletes)

15:40 - Specific physical & mental benefits of yoga for endurance athletes

PHYSICALLY – Prevents the muscle imbalances created by the repetitive nature of endurance sports e.g hamstrings, hip flexors, quads. 

MENTALLY – 

1. Can steady pre-race nerves 
2. Can provide a pacing mechanism through timing breathing with footfall or pedal stroke or swim stroke. 
3. Can keep the mind focused and motivated. Stop those ‘gremlins’ saying ‘you didn’t train enough…

23:45 – Examples of specific Mantras & Visualizations

Book: The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life by Todd Herman

34:00 – How does an endurance athlete new to yoga start?

Resource: Vivobarefoot (great barefoot shoes I wear)

43:00 - Lexie’s new book Move; Free Your Body Through Stretching Movement

Follow Lexie at:

Website: http://www.pulseyoga.co.uk/ 

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Dean Pohlman is an E-RYT 200 certified yoga instructor and the founder of Man Flow Yoga. Dean is widely considered to be an authority on Yoga for Men. He has worked with physical therapists to create yoga programs for back health and spinal recovery. His workouts and programs have been used by professional and collegiate athletes, athletic trainers, and personal trainers; and have been recommended by physical therapists, doctors, chiropractors, and other medical professionals.

Dean is a successfully published author through DK Publishing (Yoga Fitness for Men), selling 35,000 copies worldwide in English, French, and German; in addition to being a co-producer of the Body by Yoga DVD Series, which has sold over 40,000 copies on Amazon since its release in 2016.

Man Flow Yoga has been featured in Muscle & Fitness Magazine, Mens’ Health, The Chicago Sun, New York Magazine, and many more major news media outlets.

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Bring awareness and consciousness to what is most likely an unconscious position.

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Dean Pohlman is an E-RYT 200 certified yoga instructor and the founder of Man Flow Yoga. Dean is widely considered to be an authority on Yoga for Men. He has worked with physical therapists to create yoga programs for back health and spinal recovery. His workouts and programs have been used by professional and collegiate athletes, athletic trainers, and personal trainers; and have been recommended by physical therapists, doctors, chiropractors, and other medical professionals.

Dean is a successfully published author through DK Publishing (Yoga Fitness for Men), selling 35,000 copies worldwide in English, French, and German; in addition to being a co-producer of the Body by Yoga DVD Series, which has sold over 40,000 copies on Amazon since its release in 2016.

Man Flow Yoga has been featured in Muscle & Fitness Magazine, Mens’ Health, The Chicago Sun, New York Magazine, and many more major news media outlets.

For more resources to uncover your innate super powers as a Secret Yogi check out www.secretyogisociety.com

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04:39 – Is yoga for everyone? Dean’s story from athlete to finding yoga and starting Man Flow Yoga

Quote: “Have you ever tried to get a 55year old man to get to go toa yoga class. Primarily filled with 20 year old women & had him do a forward fold. Tell that guy yoga is for everyone”

Quote: “Anything that doesn’t hurt your body but challenges your body is a great workout”

Quote: “Mainly to show guys. Hey, yoga is cool. This is a great workout. This is going to help you get stronger”

14:00 – Dean started to put fitness focused yoga videos on YouTube and the response he got morphed into his company today called Man Flow Yoga, which makes yoga assessable to so many people that would of never experienced yoga how it is traditionally taught.

Quote: “Initially I thought I was going to be attracting college athletes who were like ‘I’m in really good shape & I want to get in better shape’ but the type of people I was really attracting were guys who were in their 40s, 50s, 60s. Guys who thought other workouts weren’t going to work for them & heard yoga is gentler & maybe it can do something for me.”

20:00 – Practicing and teaching mindfulness. Walk the talk…

"We all have our own definitions of what a yoga pose, or asana, is. How I share it on this show it is any movement that fuses breath, mindfulness, and awareness. May that be your own style of yoga unique to you or a traditional lineage of asana practices like Iyengar, Ashtanga and so on. It’s a moving meditation and the traditional poses were designed to remove physical tension to better meditate may that be sedentary or a moving meditation to realize we have all that we need within."

22:00 – We discuss Dean’s article “5 Problems Why Traditional Yoga Is Bad: And The Fixes”

Quote: “The reason why so many people like yoga & the myriad of benefits that are listed from it like lowering your blood pressure, reducing stress, improving your sleep,...

This is a poem meditation I personally wrote to help cultivate a sense of connectiveness with the world around us through Nature. If you ever have feelings of disconnectedness, loneliness, or even isolation come back to these words.

I hope you enjoy these words.

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Lainey Morse (founder of The Original Goat Yoga) – discovering the power of animal & farm assisted therapy during an extremely difficult time in her life. Lainey at the time was going through a divorce & diagnosed with an auto immune disease that left her in pain & depressed. Despite her healthy lifestyle the one thing she looked forward to everyday was being out on her farm with her goats. She has made it her mission to share animal assisted & farm therapy with those that need it most.

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07:30 – The birth of Goat Yoga

Quote: “Happy distraction to disconnect us from whatever is going on in our life. It could be sickness it could be depression…it doesn’t matter what it is but it works”

08:30 – Journey of where Goat Yoga began. Lainey’s story. The start of goat Happy hour. She noticed everyone started leaving happy & it caught on.

Quote: “I’d go to work everyday & all I would look forward to is coming home & going out in the barn or going our in the field and spending time with my goats”

16:00 - What is the mission of Original Goat Yoga?

The Original Goat Yoga Mission is to farm happiness by providing; A joyful experience that improves mental and physical health though the healing powers of nature and animals.

16:40 – Why goats make such good animal assisted therapy animals?

19:45 – Through finding than following her dharma in life we speak about any particular beliefs that you once believed true that have been changed since than

Quote: “You can’t judge until you actually do something”

22:40 – Rates of depression have risen year over year especially recently. What makes a seemingly ordinary world extraordinary through being on a farm with goats? We speak about “Goat and Farm Therapy” or more specifically farm and “Animal Assisted Therapy”

Quote: "It may sound silly, but goat yoga is really helping people overcome anxiety, depression; they're recovering from cancer or illness”

Quote: “The day she walked into my class we both started crying. She sat down on the mat and it was almost as if the goats knew. They just went up to her and one of the goats just took a nap right on her lap”

34:00 – Why goats and why not dogs or another animal? Nigerian Dwarf Goats & Boer Goats

Resource: Goats for Dummies

Just in case you want to look them up “Kunekune pigs”

38:00 – If your thinking of rescuing a goat as a therapy animal? What are some things to know before hand

Resource: Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You by Clive Wynne PHD (this is an amazing book!)

45:45 - We can learn so much from animals. What are some things we can all learn from...

LAUREN WALKER created Energy Medicine Yoga (EMYoga) with the goal was to help students balance and have more ease and calm in their lives

Lauren is the author of

1. Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice (https://amzn.to/3c4amJV) 
2.  The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription (https://amzn.to/3mrNYyM) 

Lauren has been feature in Yoga Journal, Mantra+, Yoga Digest, and The New York Times. She also trains fellow trainers teachers in her Energy Medicine Yoga methods.

For more super cool resources, invites to free yoga & meditation classes check out www.secretyogisociety.com

Instagram: @secret_yogi

LAUREN WALKER created Energy Medicine Yoga (EMYoga) with the goal was to help students balance and have more ease and calm in their lives

Lauren is the author of

1. Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice (https://amzn.to/3c4amJV) 
2.  The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription (https://amzn.to/3mrNYyM) 

Lauren has been feature in Yoga Journal, Mantra+, Yoga Digest, and The New York Times. She also trains fellow trainers teachers in her Energy Medicine Yoga methods.

For more super cool resources, invites to free yoga & meditation classes check out www.secretyogisociety.com

Instagram: @secret_yogi

Show Notes:

05:00 – Lauren’s story to finding yoga & Energy Medicine Yoga

12:00 – What is Energy Medicine Yoga?

20:00 – What does an Energy Medicine Yoga practice look like?

25:30 – What type of students does Energy Medicine Yoga concepts help and what can you expect?

32:00 - Key Power poses—or the most valuable "if you do nothing else, do these" techniques for each of your body's energy systems.

37:30 – Listen to this section if you have any doubts or new to energy work

42:00 – Breaking down Lauren’s 8 week Energy Medicine Yoga program

48:00 – Actionable strategies you can incorporate into your practice today

57:00 – The yogic lessons we can learn from our pets

Lauren Walker:

• Website: https://www.energymedicineyoga.net/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/energymedicineyoga/

Make sure to check out the next episode featuring where Lauren takes us through a morning EMYoga routine!

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Michelle Berlin is the founder of Yogishelly and a experienced Wellness Practitioner She utilizes all types of practice from sound therapy to thai yoga.

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• Website: https://www.yogishelly.com/
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