The Yoga Pro Podcast

Lupus and other autoimmune conditions are prevalent in our society, and yet they are called invisible diseases because you might not know someone is suffering from one unless they tell you.

As a yoga professional, it is important for us to have an understanding of what someone with one of these diagnoses might be going through so we can best serve them.

In this episode, Annmarie Sampson joins us to share her experience with Lupus and some things we need to be aware of as yoga facilitators.

Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or find it at www.theyogapropodcast.com

Anne Marie has served the Chicagoland health community for the past 38 years. She is a certified personal trainer and yoga instructor and has nutrition and wellness coaching training. She currently coaches high school girls cross country and works with individual clients to achieve physical, mental, emotional, and social health.

Topics:

-How Annemarie found yoga

-Getting her diagnosis of lupus

-Why you can't always tell when someone has an autoimmune disease and how to deal with that as a yoga professional

-Scope of practice as a yoga pro

-Keeping an open mind when working with a particular populations

-Why some people are hesitant to share information on intake

-Annemarie takes us through a value assessment

-How lupus affects different populations

-Why people suffering from autoimmune diseases need to move and how yoga pros should approach that

-Making yoga all about the exploration

-Removing affirmative language in yoga classes

-What to avoid for people suffering from autoimmune conditions

-Dealing with judgement of yourself and from others working in this space with autoimmune disease

-Why Annemarie generally isn't vocal about her disease

-Managing environmental toxins in the yoga classroom and beyond

-Why accessibility to (or lack of) healthy products and food is yoga

-The importance of understanding that everyone has some experience with inflammation

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www.instagram.com/sustainablelife.live

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Kaya's episode on advanced yoga we referenced:

https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/what-is-advanced-yoga-with-kaya-mindlin/

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Our spine is the center line of our body but many of us take for granted this amazing structure by holding on to tension in the body, missing out on the spiritual and yogic relationship of the spine, and clinging to outdated cues and teachings around core strength.

In this episode, Yoga Therapist and Educator Kaya Mindlin joins us to challenge old ideas around the spine and show us how the softer side of yoga can truly make us strong.

Kaya has been sharing yogic teaching and practice for 21 years. With thousands of hours of tutelage with masters in the full spectrum of the yoga tradition she seamlessly threads the mystical with the practical in her yoga teachings and practice programs. Her Supreme Release Yoga approach works directly & gently with the spine as the central axis of health and as the subtle conduit of spiritual awakening; and is rooted in the tantric viewpoint that the body and life itself is the vehicle for spiritual revelation.

Topics:

-Kaya's spine story

-How to know if spinal tension is holding you together and what to do about it

-Hypermobility and instability

-Core strength vs core tension

-Understanding muscular elasticity and it's relationship to strength

-Looking at the center line of the body holistically

-Moving away from the desire to "fix" pain

-Noting how the body feels without pain

-Why we hold on to pain patterns

-How the yoga world can do better

-Why we should question cues and teachings that we may be falling back on

-Differences in anatomy and why the skeleton model might not be the best for teaching anatomy

-What yoga reveals about the spine (Kaya shares a quote from yoga texts)

-Why the work is ongoing and why you have to keep at it

-How stopping resistance gives space for release

-Why the spine is meant to hold us up

-Patanjali's relevance to the spine

-Kundalini rising signs and symptoms and why the spine needs to be unobstructed

-Some practices that Kaya likes for softening the spine

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YogaPro Listeners can try Kaya's Supreme Release Yoga practice for the spine for 15% - find the SRY Studio on Kaya's website and use the coupon code: yogapro15

Catch her other episode: What is Advanced Yoga with Kaya Mindlin

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Every year in June the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) presents the Symposium of Yoga Therapy and Research conference to bring together yoga therapists from all over the world to share practices and workshops to further professional development.

This year was the first year since covid that the conference was presented in person (with an option to join virtually) and I was fortunate to be able to attend the sessions in the Chicago area.

This episode is an overview of some of the sessions and speakers with my insights on some highlights of the conference for me. These are my own opinions and I am not being paid by IAYT or SYTAR to share this with you.

You can find a full listing of the conference speakers and workshops at https://conferences.iayt.org/sytar2022

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These last few years have been really hard on healthcare professionals so finding ways to share yoga with those on the front lines is crucial.

In this episode, Dr Rachel Beanland talks about what medical providers are most stressed about, why how we package our offerings matters, and how to bridge Eastern and Western medicine to help the providers and their patients.

Rachel is a public health doctor, holistic health coach, and yoga and meditation teacher who coaches women in medicine to create a mindful, sustainable lifestyle using evidence-based approaches to live a life they love.

Topics:

-The challenge of self care for healthcare providers

-How Rachel found yoga

-Bridging Eastern and Western practices

-What yoga pros need to remember when reaching out to medical providers to promote yoga as adjunct care

-Helping busy health professionals make space for yoga practice

-Rachel shares her favorite pranayama she shares with medical providers

-How yoga has helped her with her own work/life balance

-The biggest stressors for medical professionals

-Moral injury and medical professionals

-Rachel's practice that she does to protect her energies

-Why how we package our offerings matters when targeting medical professionals

-The importance of speaking the language of medical providers, sharing credentials, and presenting evidence based practices

-Where you might find resistance from medical professionals when trying to incorporate yoga

-Discerning when to refer people out and when to take a client

-How yoga helped her through a traumatic experience

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https://linktr.ee/resilienceyoga

Free guide for an energizing morning yoga practice https://www.resilienceyoga.fr/guidetomorningyoga

Guided meditations and live sessions https://insighttimer.com/rachresilienceyoga

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.beanland.5

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Music: The State of Things (The Bouncy Song) by Rena Wren is used with permission.

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Welcome to this special bonus episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast! Crazy to be coming to you on a Friday, whaaattt?!

International Yoga Day is coming up on Tuesday, June 21st so I wanted to do a special episode to celebrate that and encourage everyone to participate.

It's also the first time I am posting the full video of an interview on Instagram, so head over to my instagram page in the link below if you want to see us chat. Let me know what you think and if you would like to see more interviews posted there.

My special guest today to talk about International Yoga Day is Sejal Shah.

Sejal is a C-IAYT and E-RYT 500, and is a teacher trainer with the Sri Sri School of Yoga where she is in the process of establishing a yoga therapy and research division.

She is a writer who has written for various print and digital media and she wrote a 31-page ebook- Sun Salutation: Your Full Guide to Master the Age-old Yoga Sequence. She also compiled and published a quote book: Spirit of Yoga.

She teaches and trains people of all walks of life about yogic ways of living to effectively manage their stress, mind, and emotions, and bring greater peace and joy into their and others' lives.

Topics:

The history of International Yoga Day.

The theme for this year's celebration.

Why it is always on June 21st.

Ways that yoga professionals can celebrate International Yoga Day in their communities.

How Sejal plans to celebrate.

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Celebrate International Day of Yoga with Sri Sri School of Yoga

"IStandForPeace: Yoga for Peace and Wellbeing"

Tuesday, 21st June at 4.00-5.30 pm PST/ 7.00-8.30 pm EST

Learn more: https://srisrischoolofyoga.org/na/

Sign up: http://aolf.me/ssyidy

Get your gift of a 31-page free ebook: "Sun Salutation: Your Full Guide to Master the Age-old Sequence".

Download here!

Join Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for the "I Stand For Peace" event in Seattle (June 18), Chicago (June 26), Raleigh (July 7), or Charlotte (July 8).

Find more details: https://event.us.artofliving.org/us-en/meet-gurudev2022/

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It can be traumatic when you get a medical diagnosis that will change your life. Sonya Chapnick had that experience. In this episode, she talks about how she uses yoga and rest to ease suffering around that for herself and her yoga therapy clients.

Sonya is a certified yoga therapist with more than three decades of training and experience in a variety of yoga disciplines. She teaches a breath-centered practice and believes in the power of slowing down as a key to health and overall wellbeing.

Her specialties include customized classes for older adults, people dealing with persistent pain, injury, or the grief process, and programs for the visually impaired. She is the founder yoga gently and is a member of the faculty for the Optimal State Yoga Therapy School, and has been featured in Healthy Aging online magazine and the documentary "Yoga Therapy for Life".

Topics:

-Sonya's yoga journey

-What drew her to one particular lineage

-The traumatic event of getting a diagnosis you don't understand

-How yoga helped her manage the stress of her diagnosis

-The importance of the breath in nervous system regulation

-Sonya shares her favorite breath practice

-How to find time to breathe and rest

-The responsibility of putting your health and wellbeing first

-How Sonya empowers clients to overcome their suffering

-Trusting your inner wisdom and the divine

-Building trust with your clients

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www.yogagently.com

The Importance of Rest with Octavia Raheem Episode link

https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/the-importance-of-rest-with-octavia-raheem/

How to Build a Successful Yoga Business with Amy Wheeler

https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/how-to-build-a-successful-yoga-business-with-amy-wheeler/

Sonya's Interview on Amy Wheeler's Yoga Therapy Today podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/interview-with-sonya-chapnick-c-iayt/id1564687158?i=1000540150596

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Music: The State of Things (The Bouncy Song) by Rena Wren is used with permission.

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Resting is one of the most important acts of self care we can do, but for many of us it isn't that easy. Shame, capitalism, and societal pressure can cause us to fall into the trap of being busy or always saying yes to things that aren't serving us.

In this episode, Octavia Raheem shares beautiful insight into why we need to rest, how to reclaim your right to rest, why we need to collectively set boundaries around work, and so much more.

Octavia is the author of Gather and the newly released Pause, Rest, Be. She is a mother, activist, and an experienced yoga teacher and practitioner. She founded Starshine & Clay, a retreat space for Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color to rest and restore. She has received national attention for her work training yoga teachers and diversifying the yoga and wellness industry. Her work has been featured inYoga Journal, Mantra,Well + Good,CNN,WXIA,andAtlanta Magazine.

Topics:

-Octavia's yoga journey

-The beauty in a meandering path

-What inspired Octavia to become an author

-How her pause, rest, and her yoga practice brought out the writer in her

-Octavia talks about how much journaling in her practice lead to her first book

-Why we need to claim who we are

-How writing a book can make yoga more accessible

-Why rest is so important

"Who am I when I'm doing nothing?"

-Our relationship to a lack of rest and it's effect on how we engage with others

-How capitalism drives our relationship to hyper productivity

-Resting in community

-The "shame" in rest and how to get past that

-Finding time to rest

-What is productivity?

-Slowing down as a path to rest

-Realizing your needs and wants

-Pausing in the midst of chaos

-Challenges that BIPOC individuals face regarding rest

-Reclaiming your right to rest

-Normalizing rest

-Getting people to hear your no

-Why we all have to collectively set boundaries

-Octavia's favorite practices for restoration

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www.pauserestbe.com

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Fear and anger are tied up in our ego but just having awareness isn't always enough.

In this episode, Tom Cronin talks about using yoga and meditation to overcome the stresses that arrive when our nervous system is stuck in a space of fear and anger. He also drops some great knowledge on how he produced a successful meditation business with some amazing tips for yoga professionals, and why he made a movie about meditation.

Tom discovered meditation in the early stages of his career as a broker, when the anxiety and chaos he was experiencing had hit a crisis point, and it transformed his world personally and professionally. Founder of The Stillness Project, his ongoing work in transformational leadership coaching and corporate training has seen him working with some of the top companies in the world like Amazon and Coca-Cola. He has spoken on stage at conferences and events like Adnews Summit, Afest, Wanderlust and Mind Heart Connect. Tom has six books published, a meditation app and produced the hit film The Portal.

Topics:

-Tom's unlikely but big awakening through yoga and mindfulness

-The transition from high paying brokering into sharing meditation

-Why transcendental meditation was the most effective method for him in beating his addictions and regulating his nervous system

-Tom talks about the importance of sharing different products in your yoga business and how to do it

-Why transcendental meditation was more beneficial for him in dealing with fear and anger than other types of meditation

-Getting out of the idea of duality and ego for dispelling fear and anger

-Why movement and stillness are critical when addressing fear and anger energies in the body

-Tom shares a detailed description of transcendental meditation

-Stress chemicals and how we can address them

-Why you can't feel compassion or connection when you are in a stress hormone state

-Tom's personal practices to deal with stress, anger and fear

-Maintaining consistency in practice

-Why people in states of fear and anger are more likely to struggle with consistent practice

-Tom discusses his move "The Portal" and why he chose that medium to share meditation to the world

-How he realized that fear and anger are characteristics of the ego and how it shifted his life

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http://www.tomcronin.com/

https://entertheportal.com/

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Teachers working in public schools are stressed to the max and are always in need of mindfulness techniques for themselves and their students.

In this episode, Cynthia Hauk shares how she taps into this important audience with tips and ideas for you to carve out some space in that niche.

Cynthia shares simple Mindfulness, Art, and Yoga practices to help busy people de-stress and practice creative meditation. She trains artists, yogis, yoga teachers, and K-12 teachers to facilitate, design, and market their own mindful art and yoga workshops. Cynthia has been teaching since 2007 and her online courses, teacher training, and tele-summits have reached people in more than 50 countries.

Topics:

-Cynthia's yoga background

-Why teaching what we practice is important to Cynthia

-Her inspiration for working with K-12 teachers

-She shares a real life example of a practice she shared that helped a child struggling with tantrums

-What her teacher training program looks like and how she gets people to buy in

-Why you have to make your own opportunities

-How sharing what you are doing with other teachers and students in your community can bring new connections

-How she teaches K-12 teachers to plan yoga and mindfulness sessions to include in their classroom

-Why scholarly articles on neuroscience or trauma informed practices as support are important when pitching to schools to add yoga programs

-Experiential practices to build excitement

-How covid has opened up more interest into mindfulness

-Why she doesn't use much Sanskrit in her teachings with children

-She shares a breath practice that she loves to use with children

-How she handles the topic of spirituality in K12 schools

-Curiosity and play as a yoga practice

-How she prices her offerings when she approaches schools and parents

-Exploring the idea of using grants funds for your programs

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Teaching Mindfulness to Children and Families with Brittany Hudson episode

https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/teaching-mindfulness-to-children-and-families-with-brittany-hudson/

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https://mindfulcreativemuse.com

https://youtube.com/c/mindfulcreativemuse

https://facebook.com/mindfulcreativemuse

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https://twitter.com/mcreativemuse

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiahauk/

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Music: The State of Things (The Bouncy Song) by Rena Wren is used with permission.

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Marketing and selling your yoga business is important, but did you do the foundational work to clearly define your brand?

In this episode, Dr. Lisa Alvarez-Holland talks all things personal and business branding. She shares insight on what branding is, how to align your business with your energy, and what makes a successful brand.

Dr. Lisa is a physical therapist and C-IAYT who hosts Owning HER Health Podcast. She is a Feminine Mystic, Advocate and Thought Leader known for promoting one of the first cash based, integrative boutique physioyoga specialty wellness centers in the USA. Lisa provides online entrepreneur mentorships, masterminds, consulting and coaching programs for purpose driven women in the healing arts.

Topics:

-Why it is important for you to put yourself out there to share your gifts

-What branding really is and isn't

-Trusting who you are and feeling safe to share yourself

-How Dr. Lisa helps people uncover their identity

-Why using your credentials might not be helping you find your target audience

-Aligning your business model with your energy

-Balancing the feminine and masculine energy

-Biggest branding mistakes

-Using the successes of other modalities to promote your brand

-Why finding ways to put yourself out there that feel best for you is important

-The importance of a personal brand on your business for growth

-Why we don't do the things we need to do for our business

-Re-branding your business as your tastes change

-Why coaching might be necessary for you to find your yoga and personal brand

-How branding is yoga

-The importance of hiring people to help you in your business

-Being honest about why you want a business

-Why people are attracted to you

-What makes a successful brand

-Finding an alter ego to help you build a brand

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Link other recent yoga business episodes:

https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/heart-centered-marketing-for-yoga-professionals-with-emily-grass-part-1-of-a-two-part-series-on-business-skills-for-yoga-professionals/

https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/how-to-change-your-mindset-around-selling-with-joanna-sapir-part-two-of-a-two-part-series-on-business-skills-for-yoga-professionals/

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www.drlisahollandpt.com

https://www.instagram.com/drlisahollandpt/

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