The Yoga Pro Podcast

Do you lose your mindfulness practice and find yourself scattered during the holidays? Does the thought of holiday events with family and friends stress you out?

In this episode, Raditia Lasry joins us to share ways we can stay more present and mindful during this time.

Raditia is a Mindfulness Guide whose passion is to bring mindfulness to everyone. She finds joy in redefining her routines, learning new skills, and discovering the depth and potential of our body and mind.

Topics:

-Raditia's yoga and mindfulness journey

-Raditia shares her experience with Vipassana (silent) meditation

-How the silent retreat helped her hone her presence skills

-What does mindfulness look like?

-Cultivating intuition in mindfulness

-Is it selfish to make space and time for yourself during the holidays?

-Raditia shares some tools to stay present in the holidays

-Applying our yoga knowledge for ourselves

-Letting go of what isn't serving us

-Why the words "just relax" can be a trigger

-Ways to react in times of conflict in family or friend gatherings

-Releasing expectations and finding presence through a gratitude practice

-How to find the gift of presence in your life

-From frustration to acknowledgement

-Identifying and focusing on what is important

-The importance of communication in family situations

Connect with Raditia:

www.mindfulbeingllc.com

https://www.instagram.com/mindful.being.llc/

www.facebook.com/mindfulbeingllc

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com

Diabetes is an autoimmune disease that is pervasive in our society, but are you prepared for clients and students who are coming in to your classes or sessions with that diagnosis?

In this episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast, Evan Soroka joins us to share her experience of navigating diabetes, and how we as yoga professionals can safely provide yoga as an adjunct care.

Evan is a C-IAYT and E-RYT 500, and is the founder of Soroka Yoga Therapy in Aspen, Colorado. She wrote Yoga Therapy for Diabetes and is a contributor to Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and Yoga Therapy Today Magazines. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in her teens and chronic musculoskeletal issues throughout her life, Evan practices and teaches yoga as a health-providing tool.

Topics:

-The intersection of Evan's yoga journey and her diabetes diagnosis

-The grief of a new diagnosis

-Losing trust in your body and how yoga helps

-The importance of compassion and acceptance in diabetes management

-Navigating the trauma of a disease diagnosis

-How agency plays a role in client care

-Yoga as a tool for awareness and embodiment through proprioception and interoception

-Nervous system regulation and it's affect on diabetes

-Evan shares some diabetes statistics

-Staying in your scope of practice as a yoga professional

-Why some students might need their phone in yoga class

-Contraindications for those who suffer from diabetes

-Doshas of people with diabetes

-Evan's favorite practices for people with diabetes

-Cultivating a strong breathwork practice

-Nose breathing vs mouth breathing

-Pamela shares her favorite breathwork

-Differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes

-Yoga as adjunct to healthcare for diabetes

Connect with Evan:

www.sorokayogatherapy.com

Yoga Therapy for Diabetes Book (Affiliate Link)

https://amzn.to/3wbc8Tn

www.instagram.com/evan_soroka

Jill Miller resources:

Coregeous therapy ball (Affiliate Link)

https://amzn.to/2ZGwOqm

Tune Up Fitness (Affiliate Link)

https://amzn.to/3GCBb6K

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com

Anyone suffering from chronic illness knows how hard it can be to stay on top of your health care. Caroline Dewey joins us on The Yoga Pro Podcast to talk about empowering ourselves with tools that go beyond just self care.

Caroline is a Transformational Coach who helps people break free from chronic physical & mental struggle, heal past wounds, and begin creating a life of health and happiness. She is a Psychotherapist, Trauma-Informed Counselor, Somatic Expression Coach, and JournalSpeak Integrative Specialist.

Topics:

-Caroline's call to help others with chronic illness

-The lack of whole-body care in specialized medicine

-Gaining agency in our own healing through interoception

-How tension, trauma, and stress in our body makes us ill

-Seeking treatment out of love instead of fear

-Ways we can take more responsibility for our health

-Journaling to find health

-Making lists to support journaling ideas

-Realizing your triggers

-Why our practice is important for helping us serve our clients

-Finding consistency in doing the work through systems that are best for you

-Why doing the practice that helps with conditions before a flare up is important

-Curbing resistance by having a schedule to plan healing

-The power of community in self-healing

-Finding safe spaces of community with chronic illness

-Waiting for the invitation to help as a yoga professional

-Diversifying interventions to accelerate healing

-How a spiritual practice affects healing

-Making meaning of metaphors, symbols, and mind-body language

-Pamela shares a vulnerable moment of an emotional response to healing

Connect with Caroline:

www.carolineleedewey.com

coach.carolineleedewey.com/mind-body-group

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com

Yoga is described by many as a peaceful practice, but how do you incorporate it into your life?

Sid McNairy joins us to talk about how yoga helped him find peacefulness after a career in the not so peaceful sport of football. He chats about his transformation and the importance of yoga and meditation.

Sid is a Life Empowerment Coach, Meditation Leader, Yoga Instructor, Inspirational Speaker, and Giver of the Sacred Medicine Spirit. He created the Art of Peaceful Living and is an international best-selling author. He has trained thousands of yoga teachers and has developed programs to help athletes prosper in their daily practices.

Topics:

-Sid's unlikely yoga introduction

-How he went from football coach to yoga professional

-Sid describes how his yoga practice changes

-What it means to him to live a yogic lifestyle

-Taking your yoga off the mat

-Sid's advice for those who feel stuck in their yoga business

-Listening to signs and signals that you need to do something different

-Finding stillness and movement in meditation

-How surfing helps him access meditation

-Finding peace in your own pace

-Some misconceptions about yoga as a practice

-Asana as preparation for meditation

-Sid defines the art of peaceful living

-Why peace sometimes takes work

Connect with Sid:

http://www.artofpeacefulliving.com/

www.SidMcNairy.com

https://www.instagram.com/sidmcnairy/

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com

Yoga Nidra is a form of meditation that offers many benefits and opportunities for self-exploration on so many levels. Alina Calinescu joins us on this episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast to answer some common questions you may have about Yoga Nidra.

Alina is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), Trauma Informed & Pain Care Aware Teacher Trainer, Certified iRest Teacher and Registered Yoga Teacher with more than 11,000 hours of teaching experience and over 1,500 hours training.

Topics:

-Alina's yoga journey

-Why you should not dismiss "gym" yoga

-Alina explains the difference between yoga nidra and general meditation

-Manifestation in your meditation

-Ambition taking over our heart

-Fast forwarding to joy

-Finding contentment in times of sadness and stress

-Working with opposites and the effect on the nervous system

-Alina addresses whether or not it's appropriate to go to sleep during nidra

-The importance of training for those offering yoga nidra

-Guiding the body scan with those who are missing limbs

-Embracing our shadow emotions

-When beliefs become stuck in certain body parts and what that means

-Caused and uncaused joy

-Benefits of yoga nidra

-Yoga nidra for sports training

-Learning to guide yourself through yoga nidra

Connect with Alina:

www.alivebyalina.com

https://www.facebook.com/Alivebyalina

https://www.instagram.com/alivebyalina/

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com

Have you ever thought about the relationship between your fascia, your breath, and the bandhas?

Not sure what that all means?

Jeffrey Shoaf joins us on this episode to pull back the curtain on the mind body connection between the body and our breath.

Jeffrey is a Certified Yoga Therapist C-IAYT and E-RYT-500 and a Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist. He enjoys human cadaver dissection and that informs his work on the massage table and in his yoga therapy practice. He performs extensive research on myofascial systems and is a teacher trainer.

Topics:

-How Jeffrey found yoga later in life after a career in construction

-Merging breath work and bodywork

-The connection of fascia and the bandhas

-Why stretching isn't always needed

-Jeffrey talks about fascial health

-When what the client needs isn't what they are expecting

-Keeping playfulness and expressiveness in our practice

-Storing our emotions in the tissues

-Interoception in bodywork and movement

-When your physical pain isn't really physical

-Energy exchanges and trauma; and their effects on our nervous systems

-Fascia and making room for the breath

-Extended exhale and the parasympathetic nervous system

-Noticing your own unhealthy breathing patterns

-How to get true fascial hydration

Connect with Jeffrey:

www.jeffreyshoaf.com

https://www.instagram.com/shoafjeffrey/

Affiliate link to book It Didn't Start with You

https://amzn.to/3DuBHBF

Affiliate link to book The Body Keeps the Score

https://amzn.to/3Adf9TJ

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com

Are you into Yin yoga?

What about Yoga Therapy?

On this episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast, Nyk Danu joins us to talk about Therapeutic Yin yoga from her perspective as a yoga therapist and yinster, plus we delve into the differences between yin and restorative yoga and much more.

Nyk Is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), Yin Yoga Teacher Trainer and Yoga Business Mentor. She has been practicing Yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2004 and in 2007 fell madly in love with Yin through Paul Grilley.

Find this and all of the episodes at https://www.podpage.com/the-yoga-pro-podcast/

Topics:

-Nyk's yoga journey

-Her surprising introduction to Yin yoga

-Nyk's definition of Yin yoga

-The unique sensations offered by a yin yoga practice

-The difference between yin and restorative yoga

-To prop or not prop in yin yoga

-How she realized her application of yin was therapeutic

-Why she keeps her students working at 50-60% of their capacity

-What Nyk does to keep her therapeutic yin classes trauma informed and accessible

-Keeping the therapy in yin

-Support for hypermobility and tissue/joint damage

-Misconceptions about yin yoga

-The importance of interoceptive awareness and personal agency in yoga

-Differentiating instruction for multi-level classes

-Contraindications of yin yoga

-Why being ourselves as a teacher is so important

-Making sure you teach yin effectively through training

Connect with Nyk:

www.nykdanu.com

https://www.instagram.com/nykdanuyoga/

https://www.facebook.com/NykDanuYoga

https://nykdanu.com/students/what-is-restorative-yoga/

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com

Building a successful yoga business requires more than knowledge of yoga practices. You also need business skills and a growth mindset. In this episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast, Amy Wheeler joins us to share wisdom from her journey as a yoga entrepreneur.

Amy is the founder and director of Optimal State Programs and is a professor of Kinesiology at California State University, San Bernardino. She is a C-IAYT and has a BA and MA in Health promotion and a Phd in education and psychology. She is a past president of IAYT and has helped the National Ayurvedic Medical Association set standards for Ayurvedic yoga therapy.

Topics:

-What Amy wishes she knew when she started out

-Why business is a yogic practice

-Tips from Amy for how you can find your niche

-The importance of branding and Amy's process for founding Optimal State

-Choosing a domain name that will last through changes in your business

-Amy talks about how business is an evolution

-Why being a great yoga teacher or therapist is not enough to have a successful business

-How Amy sought out resources for small business to learn skills

-Figuring out where your talents lie and when to outsource

-Amy shares her process for finding talented collaborators

-Why you have to get out of your comfort zone and embrace technology (and Amy gets vulnerable about her experiences)

-Pamela and Amy talk Tik Tok and Instagram Reels and the struggle to reach your target audience

-Tips for figuring out what social media (or any advertising avenue) your target audience uses

-Why growth mindset is necessary to have a successful yoga business

-We discuss personal yoga practices and the importance of that for our businesses

Connect with Amy:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yoga-therapy-hour-with-amy-wheeler/id1564687158

www.amywheeler.com

References:

Affiliate link to The E-Myth book

https://amzn.to/3zuxTxH

Affiliate link to Clifton StrengthsFinder book

https://amzn.to/3nXpmRX

https://www.canva.com/join/siding-onyx-boiled Affiliate Link

www.tailwind.com

http://www.fiverr.com/s2/75ed175cd6 Affiliate Link

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com

What does advanced yoga mean to you? Is it a level of difficulty or something else? Kaya Mindlin joins us on The Yoga Pro Podcast to dig deep into the nuances of what an advanced yoga practice really is.

Kaya has been a yoga Educator for 20 years. She works with practitioners and teachers seeking mature wisdom & therapeutic practice. Kaya teaches students from all over the world, and she's committed to sharing the softer side of yogic practice and to upholding yoga's traditional roots.

Topics:

-Kaya's yoga beginnings

-Asking yoga what yoga is

-Softness as an advanced practice

-Getting off of the binary between easy and hard

-How deep practice is accessible yoga

-Methods for helping clients work interoceptively

-Why we shouldn't be afraid of our student's trauma

-Kaya talks about the teacher/student relationship

-The importance of staying in your area of training as a teacher

-How Kaya attracts the students who resonate with her

-Overcoming the idea that yoga classes should be hard physically

-The biggest myth about advanced yoga

Connect with Kaya:

https://www.instagram.com/kayamindlin/

www.yogawithkaya.com

Listeners to the Yoga Pro Podcast can try Kaya's Supreme Release Yoga in her SRY Studio for 25% off. Join for a month with the coupon code: YogaPro25

Kaya's SRY Studio offers weekly live practices of Supreme Release Yoga. Everything is recorded to members have access to a library of 60+ therapeutic and transformative video practices organized into yogic themes like Subtle Sacred Spine, Receptive Warrior and Meditation Revelation

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com

There are many similarities between Rolfing and Yoga as complementary practices. In this episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast, Andrew Rosenstock and I chat about that and more, including the ethics of touch as yoga professionals.

Andrew is a Certified Rolfer®, Board Certified Structural Integrator, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT ), iRest Yoga Nidra Level II Trained Teacher, and more. He works with private clients and wellness clinics as well as Luxury Destinations.

Topics:

-Andrew's journey into yoga and rolfing

-What exactly is rolfing?

-How yoga and rolfing address imbalances

-Why rolfing isn't just massage

-How rolfing and yoga empower clients

-Technique based vs principle based as a similarity

-Legal and ethical issues regarding touch for massage, rolfing, and yoga professionals

-How Andrew marries the practices when working with his cients

-Approaching clients who have experienced trauma

-Using Eugene Gendlin's Focusing as a tool

-The importance of consent with touching in yoga classes

-What osteopaths do and how they can be helpful

Connect with Andrew:

www.andrewrosenstock.com

[email protected]

Affiliate Link to Focusing by Eugene Gendlen

https://amzn.to/3l662i2

Connect with Pamela:

www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance

Email: [email protected]

Clubhouse and Greenroom: @pamelacrane

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

www.renawren.com