“Your body is vast consciousness. It’s not just one thing. And if you allow your body to be a container for how you're feeling then you can be like, “ok, there is anxiety in this body of mine, but there is also hope in this body of mine, and there is faith, and joy…. You’re holding space for a lot of things, but you are not one thing.” ~Rabia Meghani

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Rabia Meghani in a conversation about how to manage anxiety and uncertainty through Ayurveda. Rabia healed her dis-ease with C-Diff through practicing Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, and then left her studies in graduate school to devote her life to supporting others in tapping into their limitless potential. Rabia works with individuals and also teaches with other organizations including Black Swan Yoga’s Teacher Training program.

Rabia Meghani is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Therapist, and Yoga Teacher. She leads the Ayuervedic sections for Black Swan Yoga’s RYT program. Rabia’s formal education is in public health and epidemiology. Merging her knowledge of disease and the ancient science of Ayurveda, Rabia aims to modernize Ayurvedic teachings and make them accessible to the masses. Her passion lies in harmonizing western medicine with eastern healing methodologies.

Rabia uses her knowledge of yoga and ayurveda to help those experiencing physical and emotional ailments. When it comes to healing, Rabia believes that one size does not fit all. This is why she works on the full person - mind, body, and spirit. When she is not on her mat or crafting teas and tinctures, you can find her exploring the beauty found in nature. Rabia lives in Houston, TX with her husband and half dozen plant babies.

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Email: [email protected]

Web: rabiameghani.com

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“In my 20s I felt more comfortable and more confident in myself to just let go of the seemingly needy attachments of having all my friends like me and approve of what I was doing… and just really became myself.” ~Richard Wilkinson

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Richard Wilkinson, RYT200, a yoga and meditation teacher and leader, in a conversation about the paths and possibilities of resourcing your true self. Richard also leads an iRest meditation—iRest yoga Nidra is approved by the U.S. Surgeon General and has been used by the U.S. military for over a dozen years. Richard is an international leader offering classes, workshops, and retreats individually and with his wife, Melissa Smith-Wilkinson.

“Over the years I’ve come to the point where it’s just basically 'be myself', and the people that are in my life will either be attracted to that or not, and the ones who are not attracted to that are welcome to move on.” ~Richard Wilkinson

Richard Wilkinson has been formally trained in Power Vinyasa Yoga by Frog Lotus Yoga in Massachusetts USA. He has taken additional Yoga Teacher Training from; Maureen Rae (Vinyasa Yoga), Jennifer Reis (Yoga Nidra), Alina Calinescu (Yin Yoga), Richard Miller (iRest Yoga Nidra), David Emerson (Trauma Sensitive Yoga). He weaves all of my training into the variety of classes that he teaches: Gentle Yoga, Hot Yoga, Hot Power Yoga, Yin Yoga and iRest Yoga Nidra. Richard’s teaching style would be classified as educational, informative and inclusive of all levels. He also places an emphasis on the Mind/Body connection and assumes that we are all in need of recovering or re-discovering our own human wholeness, on one level or another.

Connect with Richard:

email: [email protected]

505.557.7898

Skype: rick.wilkinson4

https://www.pranavayoga.studio/retreats

https://www.pranavayoga.studio/trainings

https://www.caregiverwellnessretreat.com

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This quickie episode features a mindful meditation using the 5 senses as a means to connect the body and mind in the present moment nonjudgmentally anytime and anywhere—including out in public!

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Jodi Golda Komitor, MA, E-RYT 500, RCYT, in a quickie mindful meditation practice that touches on each sense as a way to notice without judgement what’s happening in any given moment. This type of mindfulness of the body practice can be a powerful option for people who struggle with breathing, including people who have asthma and COPD, as well as generalized anxiety disorder. This mindful moment can be explored anytime and anywhere. It is a great tool for use in classrooms, homes, restaurants, during travel, and beyond!

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Email: [email protected]

Founder, Next Generation Yoga: https://nextgenerationyoga.com/

Winner, Kids Yoga Service Award

Author, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Yoga with Kids: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Yoga-Kids/dp/0028639359

Coach, The Biz of Kids Yoga: https://nextgenerationyoga.com/the-biz-of-kids-yoga/

Creator, Whale Yoga for Kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qn415ehzZ0

Star, Gaiam Kids Yoga Videos: https://www.gaiam.com/?q=kids%20yoga

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"The challenge is that because we are human beings living in society we’re influenced and conditioned by all kinds of forces that can lead to us developing biases that are particularly destructive… and that cut us off from wholeheartedly connecting to others."

~Alison Cohen, MST and Certified Mindfulness Teacher/School Coach

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Alison Cohen, MST and Certified Mindfulness Teacher / School Coach, in conversation and practice with the critically important and meaningful topic of implicit bias. Alison first leads us through clear and concise definitions and examples of bias, explicit bias, and implicit bias. After skillfully laying a foundation, she then offers suggestions and leads practices to support us in increasing awareness of our own biases so that we can curate the wholehearted lives we wish to create.

"In terms of implicit bias, research has shown there are really only a few ways currently to work with it meaningfully. One of those, interestingly enough, is loving kindness practice, as well as mindfulness meditation."

~Alison Cohen, MST and Certified Mindfulness Teacher/School Coach

Connect with Alison:

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.mindfulchangefromtheinsideout.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alisonecoh

Twitter: @1984AliCo

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cohenalison/

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“Courageous communication is one of the ways we can build towards the world we want to see.” ~ Alison Cohen

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and mindfulness coach and mentor Alison Cohen in a conversation around mindful communication. Alison shares examples of mindful communication in the contexts of family and in schools. This podcast is the first of 2 conversations Beth and Alison had with the next one being on explicit and implicit bias.

“Each of us wants to be able to live in ways that are aligned with our conscious values and yet part of being human is that sometimes we miss the mark!” ~ Alison Cohen

“There are days when things are really rough. And, it’s different if you’re having a bad day and you’re sitting in front of a computer typing away, and when you’re working with a group of students who have dealt with oppressions of all kinds and have a fragile sense of being able to accomplish what you’re asking.” ~ Alison Cohen

Alison Cohen cherishes any and all opportunities to integrate community-building, contemplative practice, social justice, and joy. She incorporates trauma-informed mindfulness into her instructional coaching and leadership work with educators, school leaders, and young adults. Alison also offers mindfulness-based courses and workshops throughout the US and mentors participants in Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. She is a Mindful Schools Certified Mindfulness Instructor, an MBSR teacher, and an avid retreat goer.

Connect with Alison:

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.mindfulchangefromtheinsideout.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alisonecoh

Twitter: @1984AliCo

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cohenalison/

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Email: [email protected]

Web: www.yoginos.com

Cell: +1 361 563 7448

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Twitter: @yoginos: twitter.com/Yoginos

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This quickie episode shares Sound Meditation as a mindful tool to practice paying attention with intention and compassion, and without judgement. It's a great strategy to practice anytime, anywhere!

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Randi Jo Greenberg, in a quickie podcast featuring a mindful tool, sounds meditation. This is a practice that can be used anytime and anywhere, and is great to share with kids, too, as we learn to practice being present through sound. Sound meditation can be a great alternative for people who struggle with breathing, including people who have asthma and COPD, as well as generalized anxiety disorder.

This quickie episode is based in part on the original conversation between Beth and Randi Jo, Episode #4: From Loss to Light: Being a Mindful Mom, Educator and Leader with Randi Jo Greenberg.

Randi Jo discovered yoga in the mid 90s and has been a full time certified yoga teacher since 1999. She fondly recalls of her first yoga.training that “I was the only one in this training asking, can you tell me what ‘namaste’ means?” She's lived and worked in Park City, Utah for over 14 years. She began teaching pre-natal yoga when she became pregnant in 2004 and that led to post-natal yoga, mommy and me and then kids yoga.

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Randi Jo Greenberg

RJ@yogawithrandijo

Yogawithrandijo.com

Yoga with Randi Jo (Facebook)

Yogawithrandijo (Instagram)

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“Sometimes superhero love is about making tough decisions. It’s tuning in to that deep wisdom within ourselves to look at and make sure our intention, our motive, our motivation is coming from a place of, ‘am I being love?” ~Athea Davis

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Athea Davis, M.Ed., E-RYT 500, RCYT, YACEP, in conversations about mindfulness practices with our kids, marriages, divorces, and in education. In the first half Athea discusses what superhero love looks like with her son and while going through a divorce. In the second half Athea shares mindful practices and then describes her education resources including Mindfulness Education University.

“My former spouse was an alcoholic and eventually took his own life…. The whole experience of being committed to family and to love.... And loving someone no matter what… and then ultimately having to come to the point—with courage and bravery and say, ‘you know what? I love you, and I love this family, but I have an obligation and a duty to raise my son in a different kind of environment. This family pattern of alcoholism and this dynamic… it stops here.” ~Athea Davis

Athea Davis, M.Ed., E-RYT 500, RCYT, YACEP, is a mindfulness expert, health and wellness educator, and youth mentor. She’s the author of Today’s Gonna Be Awesomesauce: Daily Meditations for Youth, Parents & Families. Athea owns Sol Sense Yoga, a mindfully-infused education and leadership company, where she leads live mindfulness trainings + digital courses for leaders, educators, and parents. She lives with her superhero love family in Houston, Texas and is dedicated to spreading the awesomesauce sparkle here, there, and everywhere!

Connect with Athea:

Email: [email protected]

Web: https://www.solsenseyoga.com/

Facebook personal: https://www.facebook.com/athea.davis.1

Faecebook Sol Sense: https://www.facebook.com/solsenseyoga/

Instagram: atheadavis

LinkedIn: Athea Davis, M.Ed., E-RYT, RCYT

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Cell: +1 361 563 7448

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This quickie episode shares STOP as a mindful tool to disrupt habitual thoughts and verbal outrage.

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Dawn Mauricio, in a quickie podcast featuring a mindful tool, STOP. This is a practice that can be used anytime and anywhere, and is great to share with kids, too, as we learn to disrupt habitual thoughts and actions that could result in outrage. Instead, we can use STOP to pause and curate an intentional response—even with a dash of compassion and kindness!

One of the tools Dawn uses to support herself and awaken her presence throughout each day is STOP:

Stop

Take a breath

Observe what is attracting our attention

Proceed

This quickie episode is based in part on the original conversation between Beth and Dawn in episode 15, "Dawn Mauricio: Awakening Presence on Family Vacation, Technology, and in Communication". For more ideas on practicing and sharing this tool in your daily life, see our blog: https://www.yoginos.com/ohmusings-blog/

Dawn is a meditation teacher with a playful, dynamic, and centered approach. She is known for her boundless energy, and smiling personality that are both contagious, and motivating. Teaching since 2006, she has received certifications from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, True North Insight, Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, Naada Yoga, and Yoga Tune Up®.

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IG: http://instagram.com/dawnmauricio

FB: http://facebook.com/dawnmauricio

TW: http://twitter.com/dawnmauricio

Web: http://dawnmauricio.com

Dawn is also on Insight Timer.

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“Our peacefulness should actually be in relationship to things, so everything around us doesn’t have to be in peace all of the time for us to have some peacefulness. And just because there’s disruption in the field because things are being pointed out and things that have been avoided or actually revealed does not mean that our personal peace is being disrupted.”

~ Sebene Selassie

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Sebene Selassie, a Brooklyn-based teacher & writer who explore the themes of belonging and identity through meditation and spirituality. In the first half of the podcast they discuss using mindfulness as a doorway to explore pain associated with cancer, and cultivating presence and peace. In the second half, Sebene leads a mindfulness practice, shares about her forthcoming book on belonging, and they discuss mindfully investigating race and identity.

“Often the dominant culture has taught us that we don’t want disruption because we want to keep things in status quo. So disruption feels like non-spiritual. When something is disrupted people feel like it’s an attack on the truth, when actually the truth is being revealed, and we can be in peace in relationship to that.”

~ Sebene Selassie

Sebene Selassie is a Brooklyn-based teacher & writer who explores the themes of belonging and identity through meditation and spirituality. She began studying Buddhism over 25 years ago as an undergraduate at McGill University where she majored in Comparative Religious Studies. She has an MA from the New School where she focused on race and cultural studies. She serves on the boards of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and Sacred Mountain Sangha. Sebene is passionate about making the dharma accessible and relevant for our times and teaches on the 10% Happier app, in New York City, and nationally. Her first book, Born to Belong, will be published by HarperOne in 2020.

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Email: [email protected]

Web: www.sebeneselassie.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sebene.selassie

Instagram: sebeneselassie: www.instagram.com/sebeneselassie

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“The biggest factor [contributing to emotional challenges] that we see right now with all of my kids has been one or more forms of trauma in their lives.” ~ Rick Yoder

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Rick Yoder, a Special Education Teacher in San Antonio, Texas, who works with youth who have been diagnosed as being emotionally challenged or with “Emotional Disturbance” disorder. In this podcast they discuss integrating and adapting mindfulness and yoga into the emotionally challenged classroom—which can also be used in a general classroom, home, gym, and studio.

“I am trying to insure that I establish a learning environment where my kids will feel that they are the most successful and are able to work around their challenges.” ~ Rick Yoder

Rick Yoder is an educator with 16 years of experience in elementary and secondary school settings. His experience includes School Administration, Special Education, Math, and English Language Arts. During his tenure as an educator, he has always worked with high risk, high need student populations, especially those with severe emotional challenges.

Connect with Rick:

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Cell: 210-363-6043

Facebook: www.facebook.com/rick.yoder.18

Twitter: twitter.com/rickfromsa (@rickfromsa)

LinkedIn: Rick Yoder

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