Learning about mindfulness doesn’t only happen on a yoga mat or on a cushion. In this episode of The Glo Podcast with Dr. Christopher Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Derik and Dr. Chapple revisit the Buddha’s journey into mindfulness by recalling ancient texts and stories. Dr. Chapple has published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured instructor on Glo.

Dr. Christopher Chapple Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas

Gurani Anjali Ways of Yoga

Nyanaponika Thera The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness

Joseph Goldstein Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga

Dr. Chapple’s classes on Glo

“It ain’t never too late to discover yourself,” says singer, songwriter, entertainer Storm Marrero. In this episode, guest-hosted by Glo instructor Mark Osmundsen, Storm shares her experiences building her career as a performer in New York City, only to see the pandemic temporarily derail her plans. She describes the resilience she found to take her career in a different direction as she also cared for her mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. 

Storm is an activist for body positivity who says she discovered her true sense of self through performing burlesque on stage. She has also performed in the cast of the prestigious Teatro ZinZanni in Chicago.

Storm on Instagram:

@stormmarrero

Storm on Facebook

Storm on Twitter

Storm’s website

Selected Mark Osmundsen classes on Glo. 

Dancer Focused Pilates

Strong & Steady Pilates

Loving Kindness Fusion

Core Strength

Feel Good HIIT

In the segregated American South, Black women were not allowed to have their babies in white-run hospitals. Black women had their babies at home, assisted by midwives. 

Sarahn Henderson was called to the profession of midwifery in 1980. Curious to learn more about her profession and its history, she embarked on a research mission that took her to local libraries and archives of her local Department of Health in Georgia. 

As she read everything she could get her hands on, she soon discovered that the narrative inevitably told the story of the white midwife, rarely the Black midwife. But she dug deeper, and eventually viewed a documentary called “All My Babies,” directed and written by George C. Stoney. The film tells the story of "Miss Mary" Coley, a Black midwife in rural Georgia. Sponsored by the Georgia Department of Public Health, it explores the life and times of the “granny” midwife. 

In the interview with Khetanya, Sarahn Henderson illuminates the history of the granny midwife who delivered babies at home, outside the hospital system and away from the “medical industrial complex.” Every community had its midwife, who often went as far as her feet could take her, walking to get to a birth in a timely fashion.

Photo of Sarahn Henderson by Tabia Lisenbee-Parker

Sarahn Henderson on Facebook

Birth in the Tradition

Maternal Wellness Hikers on Facebook

Maternal Wellness Hikers on Instagram

TED Talk by Ina May Gaskin

Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Special Delivery by Rahima Baldwin 

https://www.khetanya.com/

Khetanya’s classes on Glo:

https://www.glo.com/teachers/khetanya-henderson

In part two of our exploration of mindfulness, Professor Douglas Brooks summons his extensive knowledge of ancient texts to help listeners access a deep understanding of mindfulness and its practices.

Derik Mills and Professor Brooks discuss how mindfulness is not just something you’re practicing on your yoga mat. It is a moment to moment practice that you develop every day.  Professor Brooks believes the true benefits will come with commitment. “Little by little, again and again,” is the way to approach this rewarding  practice. 

Links:

Rajanaka is a tradition of individual learning and community education.We study mythology and comparative philosophy, art, literature, and especially the expansive definitions of yoga. Visit the website. 

GLO classes:

Selected Glo classes from Douglas Brooks:

Origins of Asceticism in India

Identity, Ego and the Subtle Body in Early Yoga

Stages in Life: The Four Ashramas

The Sciences of Dharma: Dharmashastra or the Sources for Truth and Justice

The Role of Food

The Origins of the Word 'Yoga'

Varuna, Keeper of the Grand Order

Professor Douglas Brooks has long been fascinated by Buddhism and Hindu traditions. He lived in India with his teacher, Dr. Gopala Aiyar Sundaramoorthy, for many years, studying and practicing Srividya, Auspicious Wisdom, and the modern traditions of goddess-centered Tantra. In part one of a two-part episode, Professor Brooks recalls the roots of his fascination with both Buddhist and Hindu traditions and culture, and brings in ancient texts to help you chart a path into your practice of mindfulness. You may find that reflecting with him in this episode may refresh your view of mindfulness and your practice of it. 

Douglas Brooks at the Religious Studies Project

Selected Glo classes from Douglas Brooks:

Origins of Asceticism in India

Identity, Ego and the Subtle Body in Early Yoga

Stages in Life: The Four Ashramas

The Sciences of Dharma: Dharmashastra or the Sources for Truth and Justice

The Role of Food

The Origins of the Word 'Yoga'

Varuna, Keeper of the Grand Order

Elena Brower, Glo instructor, bestselling author, teacher, artist and activist, hosts this episode of the podcast. Her guest is Jeff Rosenthal, co-author of Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community. Jeff is the Co-Founder of Summit, best known for hosting global ideas festivals and events, and is the co-owner, principal designer, and developer of Summit Powder Mountain and Powder Mountain ski resort in Eden, Utah. 

Make No Small Plans was published in April, 2022. Along with his partners in the Summit event series and community, Jeff has written the story of how community becomes a powerful human technology.

Elena Brower is a mom, teacher, artist, bestselling author and host of the Practice You Podcast._She _has taught yoga and meditation since 1999. Her first book, Art of Attention, has been translated into seven languages, and her second, Practice You, is a bestseller. Her third book, Being You, was released in early 2021. Elena's Essential Mentorship is beloved for bringing analog creativity to online study, and her spoken word work can be heard on Above & Beyond's Flow State albums.

Jeff’s book

Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community

Art of Attention: Yoga for Teachers and Practitioners

Practice You: A Journal

Being You: A Journal

Practice You

Elena Brower’s Glo classes

Mark Osmundsen has been a teacher on Glo for nearly four years. On this episode of the podcast, Mark Osmundsen hosts Gigi Engle. Gigi as an award-winning, certified sex educator and psychotherapist in training. Her writing regularly appears in publications like Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, L Magazine, Teen Vogue, Glamor, and Women’s Health. Gigi is the author of All the F*cking Mistakes: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life.

Gigi Engle, ACS, CSE, CSC, is an award-winning feminist author, certified sex educator, and psychotherapist in training. As a sex expert with 3Fun, she promotes and teaches about pleasure-based sex education, masturbation, and safer sex practices. Gigi’s work regularly appears in many publications including Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire,  Elle Magazine, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Women's Health. Her articles have been shared over 150 million times. 

Gigi’s book, All the F*cking Mistakes: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life

Gigi’s website

Gigi’s Instagram 

3Fun App

Gigi’s newsletter, The G-Spot

Marc’s website

Mark Osmundsen on Glo:

https://www.glo.com/teachers/mark-osmundsen

Orly Wahba, educator, entrepreneur, and author of Kindness Boomerang: How to Save the World (and Yourself) Through 365 Daily Acts, believes that kindness is not something you practice once in a while, but instead kindness is a way of seeing the world. She’s a TED speaker whose projects include Dance for Kindness, Project Hope Exchange, and Life Vest Inside. 

In this episode of The Glo Podcast, Orly shares the story of how, when she was a girl in middle school, a fire in her family home left her family rootless and her father without a business. The lessons learned during that trying time became a foundation for her to understand why kindness is vital. 

Project Hope Exchange

Dance for Kindness

Life Vest Inside

Buy Orly’s book, Kindness Boomerang

Orly Wahba’s TED Talk about kindness. 

Kindness Boomerang video on Vimeo

Orly’s Life Vest Inside YouTube Channel

Making Kindness Viral by Orly Wahba

The Power of Kindness Orly TEDx Talk 

Meditation for a More Loving World

Kindness Meditation

Loving Kindness Meditation

Kindness Hatha Practice

Welcome Yourself Home Hatha Practice

Open Heart, Open Mind Vinyasa Flow

Bandhu Dya Kriya - Bandhu means brother or comrade. Dya means kindness. This ancient kriya was named Bandhu Dya as it is designed to help develop your capacity for kindness.

The climate emergency can feel overwhelming, and eco-anxiety can bring on emotional paralysis. But you can feel better-—and do a lot of good—-by taking positive action.

Welcome to a special Earth Day edition of The Glo Podcast. Eco-activist Heather White returns to the show to talk about her new book, One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet.

Heather shares about the many forms eco-action can take, and she’ll also share how when you make active choices to address climate change, this can help make space for your emotions and help you cope with the climate crisis. The secret is to take consistent actions, however small. 

Heather White’s website 

Get your copy of One Green Thing

One Green Thing Instagram

Heather White Instagram

Climate Psychology Alliance 

IPCC Report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

IPCC Report: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Take Your Practice Outside - Earth Day collection

Earthing Meditation

Breathing With the Earth

Feel the Flow - Tao Yin 

Earth and Water - Hatha

In this episode of The Glo Podcast hosted by Dice Iida-Klein, Alex Artymiak talks about yoga as a process of coming to terms with yourself, a process as demanding in many ways for the teacher as well as for the student. When you teach yoga, both Dice and Alex agree, you teach what you are.

Trigger warning. In this episode, Alex briefly shares about how he lost a close family member to suicide. 

https://diceyoga.com/about

http://www.alexartymiak.com/

https://www.glo.com/teachers/dice-iida-klein

https://www.glo.com/teachers/alex-artymiak