May 15, 2023

The Funny Thing About Yoga

Mental Health, Yoga & Our Experience

Episode No. 14

For Mental Health Awareness Month, Giana and Bradshaw get really real about their mental health and how It led them toward their yoga journey. They both find It important to raise awareness and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues by sharing their experiences and the several tools that have helped them cope with and ameliorate stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. Its important to note that these types of issues can affect all of us and there are several different paths towards peace or healing. In this episode rather than offering a guide or how to, they simply get candid. They discuss how and why yoga has become an important part of their mental health-care, as well as share other techniques and outlets. They also provide context around the nervous system, pranayama, yoga as a path to freedom, suffering, compassion, and so much more. For such a heavy topic, you can still anticipate a few good chuckles, as they believe one of the best coping mechanisms has been laughter and finding joy in the little things.

00:00 Intro Song

00:30 Hello and Welcome to our Chaotic Dynamic

02:00 Yoga and Mental Health

04:20 Giana Talks about Grief Leading her to Yoga

10:36 Bradshaw talks about Therapy, Anxiety and OCD

14:05 Obsessive Thinking

19:10 We are NOT our Thoughts

20:40 Yoga is Citta Vritti Nirodha 

21:56 Pranayama - Breath Regulation

22:40 The Nervous System

26:22 Being in the State of Flow

28:20 The Minds Jobs is to Think

29:45 Different Types of Mental Healthcare

35:11 Compassion is Key 

36:50 Dukkha and Buddhist Inspiration

39:27 How do you teach compassion

42:45 Moments of Connection

44:20 Intrusive Thoughts 

47:50 Its a Practice with Many Tools

49:12 Emotional Moments on the Mat

52:13 The Funny Thing About Yoga

56:43 Closing Thoughts

58:40 Outro

BOOKS:

Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts by Sally M. Winston, PsyD and Martin N. Seif, PhD Listen on Audible

Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine Listen on Audible

The Body Keeps the Score by Sean Pratt Listen on Audible

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