Joline Lenz is an entrepreneur, recruiter and co-author of Inspiration at Work, she helps others elevate, envision and empower courage, connection and creativity and shares her personal story with Shira.

We talk about accepting ourselves fully, flaws and all, as we go through  the process of self-realisation, following our energy and bliss, as well as unraveling our shadows and the habits of hard knocks.

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Joline Lenz

Shira Cohen

Books:

Louise Hay - You Can Heal Your Life

Anita Morjani - Dying to be Me

Jiddu Krishnamurti 

Documentary:

Thrive On

Ayurveda is the science of life that seeks to enhance health, happiness and growth.

Add it to Yoga and we have a whole system to prevent dis-ease, reverse chronic conditions and help induce remission in severely chronic states.

We look at the six stages of dis-ease and how we can increase health in each of our bodily systems to create vitality.

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Ayurvedic Essential for Great Digestion

Pawanmuktasana series to increase Range of Motion in all joints of the body

Wheel of Life

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Amanda Monnier, certified yoga teacher, nutritional coach, Bsc. in psychology and criminal justice, shares her coming out of the spiritual awakening closet, with Shira.

Amanda is a big proponent of our highest vibration and self, being authentically ourselves.

In this wonderful conversation, we discuss the wisdom of presencing, surrender, following the heart and honouring the feminine in each moment, as the pathway of authoring our life. 

We talk about the messiness, and the beauty of spiritual awakening, the power we each have when we drop our conditioned beliefs, infantalised attitudes and limited structures that are remnants of patriarchal culture of productivity and progress at all costs.

Charlotte Kahn, certified yoga therapist, passionately shares her knowledge and expertise with Shira, about the potential of yoga therapy for Parkinson's. 

We discus the function of dopamine on brain, motor and neural health. Touching again on the importance of social aspects of group classes and community.

We talk about automated and unconscious learning, importance of gut health contributing to the development Parkinson's.

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Charlotte's Workshop- Teaching Yoga for Parkinson's

Shira's Yoga Therapy

Parkinson's Support and Care UK

Books

Yoga Therapy for Parkinson's & Multiple Sclerosis - Jean Danford

The Brain's Way of Healing- Norman Doidge

Shira talks about bringing back balance during perimenopause through diet, practices and journaling.

Perimenopause - The Change - is often not spoken about and yet affects us more deeply than we like to admit. From physical weight gain and lack of energy to deep emotional soul seeking.

It can leave us feeling paralyzed, confused, angry, dissappointed and alone. Yet a body is fully equiped to bring back balance.

The underlying imbalance lies in physiological shifts in hormones production moving into other endocrine glands or even systems!! Adapting to the new cycles and sites our body needs to activate, causing the changes we experience on all these levels.

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YMEA to regulate the cycles during perimenopause.

Oestrogene deficiency symptoms

- hot flushes

- night sweats

- vaginal dryness, wall thining, infections

- mental fuzziness, memory loss, mind blocks

- moodiness, irritability, anger

- loss of labido : Remedy- Soya 

Progesterone deficiency symptoms;

- bilateral headache

- PMS symptoms

- anxiety

- nervousness : Remedy- Vitex Agnes Castus; chaste berry

Alternate nostril breathing / NadiShodona video starts at 13:48

Journaling prompts

Dear....,

I am angry with you because...

You ruined my life because...

I hate you because...

I'm scared of you because...

I feel sorry for myself because...

I feel excited with you in my life because...

i love me with you because...

I'm happy with you because...

This makes me feel... 

Vidya Lakshmi, a doctor of physiotherapy, naturopathy and Yogic science, is a believer of Healthy People Healthy World.

Vidya's just as passionate to educate people about self-regulation through natural means of body, breath and food as medicine.

She shares how the eight limbs, or steps of Yoga, as a means to work with yoga as therapy, to affect our physiology, change our hormonal health and improve cellular intelligence.

Explaining how our very own bodies make the medicine, called hormones, is within us. Yet everyone is searching outside themselves due to ignorance. 

With a very thorough explanation of the connection between eating habits, fasting and chrocnic disease. And how traditional Indian medicine successfully aids recovery in COVID cases.

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Work with Vidya

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Rachel Posner, certified Yoga therapist and mindfulness coach with a masters in counselling, and Shira come together to talk about our global suffering, fears and trauma in today's complex world, the triggers as well as tools.

We discuss community as the basis of healing from stress, trauma and suffering using the tools that affect neural wiring and neuronetworks, co-regulation, moving from cognitive to somatic experience.

We cover empathy versus compassion, empathy networks, emotional awareness, boundaries, regulation and homeostasis through being with and accepting dysregulation to self-heal when we're in fight/flight/freeze and move into rest and digest.

The need to control on many levels, physical, mental emotional, psychological, due to fear and overcoming it.

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Rachel Posner

Rachel's Relax & Reset  

Shira Cohen

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Laura Kupperman and the Yoga Therapy group

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

Books:

Rebecca Solnit Hope In the Dark

Riane Eisler & Douglas Fry Nurturing Our Humanity

Ghada Osman PhD, psychotherapist, LMFC and accredited Yoga therapist, and Shira talk about the importance of mental and emotional health, mental exhaustion from a constant push to achieve, power through, control, supress, decide and produce. 

We talk about the power of yoga therapys mindbody mindful practices giving us the insigh and realistion as central to healing.

We have a delicious long discussion about emotions. Their effect, function, power and physiological mechanisms, and affect on mental health, and the importance of showing our emotions pertaining to physical health, and the power of somatic work to induce psychological health.

We talk about how slow, grounding work creating certainty and safety, is essential to heal trauma, PTSD and other deep psychological imbalances.

To work with Ghada Osman

Book- Mental & Emotional Healing Through Yoga

Video Series - Yoga for Stress & Anxiety

Therapeutic Course Yoga for Mental Health Certification

Mentioned in the podcast;

Kripula centre

Balarama Chandra Das

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

Louise Hay

This years last podcast ends with a smiling awareness meditation, from the Heart to the Ends of the Universe.

Helping us feel connected, in unity with the whole and remembering that the mystery of life is always underneath all the ups, downs and ambiguity of our challenges.

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Joy Ravelli, registered yoga therapist, who has been training yoga teachers for decades and has an IAYT accredited Yoga therapy school, shares her yoga story.

Joy loves to teach and incorporate dance and authentic movement into yoga, a mentor who sees yoga therapy as a friendship with a holistic yoga teacher. And how maintaining joy is the essence of yoga therapy when personalised.

We discuss how all yoga is healing, and the importance of accreditation and regulatory bodies to ensure the quality of yoga teaching and yoga therapy as a profession.

Joy shares how COVID reveals healing isn't a one size fits all treatment forcing medicine to be client led instead. 

We speak on the importance of purpose and one of Joy's gifts is guiding others to the wisdom in our wounds. And finding inspiration in the everyday and navigating life.

We talk about working with the cycles of seasons, months and day. How difficult emotions and habis are related to patriarchal systems, and requires cultivating beneficial patterns to replace them.

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Mentioned in the show;

John Featherstone

Doctor Raul

Thich Nat Han

Pema Chodrun

The Prophet- Kahlil Gibran

The Bhagavadgita

The Yoga Sutras- Patanjali