Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

Podcast Intro:

Immunity refers to an organism's ability to withstand a specific virus or poison through the use of specialized antibodies or sensitized white blood cells. We prefer to sacrifice healthy selections for the sake of saving time in this fast-paced atmosphere where fast foods are abundant. On the other hand, what are the negative consequences of these actions?

With many businesses competing with one another, and with the high demand for food relative to the continuous growth in population, companies are now churning out processed and cheap food rapidly. The lack of education and the rise of daily expenses on necessities, such as food, allowed people to compromise. Now, the pandemic accelerated and made things worse. What are the factors and effects that unhealthy food consumption leads to? Tune in as Dr. Emeran Meyer discusses the gut-immune relationship in this episode.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What is the “One Health Concept”
• What is the importance of the soil microbiome for plant and human health
• What are the mind-gut microbiome system and its role in health and disease
• What is the key to longevity and good health
• How the microbiome determines the strength of your immune system and your immune resistance.
• How to increase the abundance of microbes in your gut.
• How lifestyle determines your chances of surviving pandemics that are about to come in the future.

Links/CTA:

• Emeran Mayer, MD
• Instagram: @emeranmayer
• Youtube Channel: emeranmayermd
• The Mind Gut Connection book, Harper Wave 2016
• The Gut Immune Connection book, Harper Wave 2021

Highlights:

• Cate talks about the case of Covid and an Elderly with regards to Microbiome
• Cate talks about perspective, our beliefs influence how we think and how we solve problems.
• Cate talks about the direct correlation between chronic systemic inflammation and the severity of symptoms

Timestamps:

• 12:26 - Metabolic Syndrome
• 16:14 - Science and Practice of Mind-Body Interactions
• 22:23 - Cytokine Storm
• 27:10 - The “Gut Immune Connection” by Emeran Mayer
• 28:55 - Why do people fear when they hear “virus or bacteria”
• 33:41 - Scientific vs. Empirical Evidence
• 37:05 - Ancient vs. Modern Concepts
• 40:53 - Learning from the Ancient Sages

Quotes:

• “The fact that today, we see this increasing prevalence of autoimmune diseases and allergies and food sensitivities. Many people think it has a lot to do with the altered interaction we have, as infants in a much more sterile environment. Where we have banned microbes from the time of deliveries, or C sections and sterile hospital environments, to antibiotics early on, prematurely born babies ending up in intensive care units being loaded with antibiotics for four weeks sometimes.”
• “Early in life in terms of the natural exposure, Homo sapiens have had to their environment, including going through the birth canal, and picking up some of the good bacteria in the birth canal, which helps start to build the baby immune system is even like upon injection, right from the mom’s body to then what we do. And if we look back, historically, there was a lot of skin-to-skin contact with newborns. There’s a lot of mixing of the environment with the infant. And that helped create a baseline immune system, an innate immune system that was stronger.”
• “When we look in any indigenous culture, usually there’s some relationship with a specific type of traditional fermented foods. And so in ayurvedic medicine, it was always considered to pacify Vata, which is the wind force, which creates the issues primarily in the nervous system first, and then the digestive system second, and it’s like the nerves that upset the digestive system, like just being nervous, being anxious, being worried more of the people that are on the lighter side have less consistency with digestive capacity.”
• “The immune activation happens in the gut. So, these microbes are only microns away from immune cells. And it’s the only separation not even from the real physical barrier, but from this mucous layer produced by some cells in the gut in the colon. And so, the margin for error is pretty small, and if you change that mucous layer just a little bit, you will already get contact between microbes and these immune sensors.”
• “People always talk about how we need to boost our immune system. With COVID-19, it’s the opposite. You want to prevent this excessive response. An excessive response happens because the immune cells are programmed in a non-adaptive way in their passage through the gut.”

Guest BIO: Emeran Mayer

Dr. Mayer is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Executive Director of the G Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience.

He has been one of the pioneers in the science and practice of brain gut microbiome interactions with applications in a wide range of diseases in gastrointestinal, psychiatric, and neurological disorders. He has published close to 400 scientific papers and several books and has received multiple awards.

In addition to his academic interests, Mayer has a longstanding interest in ancient healing traditions and has been involved in documentary film productions about the Yanomami people in the Orinoco region of Venezuela, and the Asmat people in Irian Jaya. He has recently co-produced the award-winning documentary “In Search of Balance” and is working on a new documentary “Interconnected Planet”. He is a strong believer in Buddhist philosophy and got married in a Tibetan monastery by Choekyi Nyima Rinpoche in Kathmandu. He regularly pursues meditative practices.

He has spoken at UCLA TEDx on the Mysterious Origins of Gut Feelings in 2015 and has been interviewed on National Public Radio, PBS, and by many national and international media outlets including the Los Angeles and New York Times, the Atlantic, and Time magazine. He has appeared on numerous podcasts, including Lewis Howes’ The School of Greatness, Tom Bilyeu’s Impact Theory, and Mark Hyman’s The Doctor’s Pharmacy. He is the author of the 2016 bestselling book The Mind Gut Connection published by Harper&Collins and translated into 16 languages.

In his new book, The Gut Immune Connection, Mayer proposes a radical, unifying concept about the chronic non-communicable disease epidemic we are finding ourselves in. He discusses how changes in our diet, lifestyle, and the way we interact with the world during the last 75 years have led to a profound dysregulation of the community of trillions of microbes living in our gut, resulting in a progressive chronic activation of our immune system. This aberrant immune system activation is emerging as the root cause of our current epidemic of interrelated chronic diseases affecting every part of our body. In addition, it makes us more vulnerable to viral pandemics. He uses the One Health concept to explain the intricate interconnectedness between the microbes living in our gut, in the soil, the health of our plants, and our own health.

Podcast Intro:

Life is magical, mysterious, and unique but fragile. Humans can easily succumb to external influences and sometimes forget the sense of self and independence. That’s why we experience trauma in our lives. Our fragility and our failure to understand and establish that we are fragile beings are the main reasons we can be corrupted easily. Whether it’s a disease, emotions, decisions, etc., we must learn how to “repair” our spiritual selves.

Thus, we must fully understand how our spiritual, religious, and physical life works. We must achieve a higher state of being to help ourselves from being thoroughly affected by harmful external influences. In this episode, Katie Silcox explained how people develop traumas and why it’s important to learn how to repair them. She also explained why humans are intrinsically delicate and how you can incorporate femininity into spiritual practice! Tune in to learn more!

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why does spiritual repair matter and how does it correlate to past experiences?
• What is healing vortex vs. trauma vortex?
• How does the Five Kosha Model affect humanity’s potential?
• Why are humans intrinsically delicate beings?
• What is the purpose of our spiritual life?
• What does the ancient teaching say about Pranamaya?
• How can femininity be incorporated into a spiritual practice?
• Why does chronic inflammation affect you from accessing the higher state?

Shakti school  - Ayurveda School…. Group starting in January. January 12: Final registration deadline.

Links/CTA:

• Katie Silcox - Shakti School
• Body Thrive
• Books mentioned:
  • Gospel According to Jesus
  • The Gap and the Gain
• Katie Silcox’s Shakti School

Highlights:

• Cate explained how the current US population in both adult, children, and adolescent categories with chronic diseases heavily relied on a doctor’s medication and that it has no “soul” or “spirit.”
• Cate explained why some people couldn’t get out of the “gap thinking” based on the book written by Dr. Ben Hardy
• Cate explains how to unblock our “bodies” through sutras.
• Cate described how the “virome” operates as it enters the human body.

Timestamps:

• 1:03 - Spiritual Repair
• 4:36 - The Soul of Medicine
• 7:31 - Humanity’s Intrinsic Trait
• 9:30 - Healing Vortex vs. Trauma Vortex
• 14:29 - Gap Thinking
• 21:39 - The Purpose of Spiritual Life
• 28:36 - Pranayama
• 35:53 - The Feminine
• 45:50 - How “Christ” influenced Katie and her practice
• 52:28 - Chronic Inflammation
• 1:05:44 - Accessing the Light in the Spiritual Realm

Quotes:

• “The most challenging thing in the world that we seek is to find stability and admit the truth that we are fragile but resilient.” - Katie
• “The entire world right now is being activated by unconscious trauma response, and it makes sense. I have tons of compassion for it because I came out of it, and I experienced it myself.” - Katie
• “Christmas is the time to cultivate the most amount of renewal for our mind and body. It’s our samsaric way of seeing, being, and thinking, radically altered to a new vision. This is the message of Christ, and the message of Christmas.” - Katie
• “Humans have been going through plagues and pandemics all of the time. There tends to be a beginning, a middle, and an end to history. We are at the end of the beginning, and we're entering into the middle period. “ - Katie

Guest BIO: Katie Silcox

Katie Silcox, M.A. is the New York Times Best-Selling Author of the book Healthy, Happy, Sexy - Ayurveda Wisdom for Modern Women. Holding a Master’s Degree in Hinduism and the Ayurveda Sciences, Katie is an internationally-recognized teacher, mentor to women, and inspirer of hearts and minds. She is renowned for her depth of study, her ability to present the complexities of ancient wisdom in a practical, life-affirming manner, as well as her unique capacity to distill the teachings with southern-belle humor and grace.

Her signature teaching style is Body Yantra™, incorporating Tantric vinyasa, restorative yoga, dance, sound, breath, emotion processing, manifestation technology, holistic biomechanics, and structural trauma-release methods.

Katie was named one of San Francisco's Best Yoga Teachers by Common Ground Magazine in 2009, one of "70 Yogis Changing the World" by Origin Magazine in 2014, and one of "100 Trailblazers in Yoga and Ayurveda" by Spirituality and Health Magazine in 2015. Katie has written extensively on yoga, Ayurveda, sexuality, herbalism, and women’s health in Yoga Journal, Common Ground Magazine, and Origin Magazine. Her best-selling book has been translated into multiple languages around the globe.

Katie has sipped from the honey of many globally-known teachers, including a decade-long guru-disciple relationship in the Himalayan lineage-based Sri-Vidya Tantra.

Today, she works solely with the inner guru of her own heart.

Podcast Intro:

Harmony with the natural world. 

Place Philosophy provides services and programs that seek to inspire and empower collaborative leadership and wellbeing in urban professionals, to enable personal and planetary thrive. Our belief in both inner transformation and systemic and cultural change guides everything we do. 

Our programming is an invitation to embark on a transformational journey to regenerative leadership. Through workshops and ongoing immersive experiences, we embed wellbeing in all we do and explore the design of a new paradigm and the leadership attributes needed at this time.

How can we increase our collective capacity to become active regeneration agents in our communities and ecosystems? Undoubtedly, we live in a time marked by great upheaval and volatility, and all political and business leaders are being forced to cope with rising challenges. 

We can see an organization’s place within its surrounding environment, its ecosystem. Suppose we apply living-systems logic to product design, organizational culture, and our being. Embracing this regenerative approach to leadership won’t change things, and it requires patience, practice, and compassion for ourselves and others. We invited Jamie Hogan to discuss his approach that values every life and a new leadership logic where organizations flourish, ecosystems thrive, and people feel alive is what Regenerative Leadership is all about.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How does Jamie get into the whole regenerative movement?
• What is the death of a hero?
• Upscaling people - a catalyst in the community
• The connection between dharma and regenerative design - ecology
• What is a regenerative living roadmap
• Design skills to bring regenerative design and thinking into your work, 
• What is regenerative leadership?
• How can you build a better, stronger, smarter ecosystem of business?

Links/CTA:

• Place Philosophy

Highlights:

• Cate and her team developed passive leadership to help others get better at leadership.
• Cate explains why yoga health coaches needed more experience to accomplish their job.
• Cate shares when she developed Pbook in July, she tried to help people in determining what is waste and what are waste products.

Timestamps:

• 08:06 - Regenerative Leadership Space
• 09:49 - Localization of Ecosystem
• 15:17 - Regenerative Landscape
• 24:02 - Integrating Nature and Art
• 29:24 - Regenerative practice designing the conditions for life
• 31:59 - “Transplanting” Culture
• 45:11 - System Thinking Level
• 46:24 - System Alternatives

Quotes:

• “There are so many amazing people who have these visions for a better world, but we’re not supporting them to actually be able to stay in those professions.”
• “You kind of want to set up the intelligence of the system that then self-perpetuates and continues to be creative and evolve so that you could if you needed to step out, and the system has the intelligence itself.”
• “It becomes self-perpetuating, like the life of the culture becomes a thing of its own, and it wants to find other places to grow.”
• “We start with the habits. You will spend a whole year learning how to think in the living systems context. And to start, we’ll start with ourselves because it’s the easiest way to start.”
• “If you’re not a yoga teacher, then don’t try to be a yoga teacher. Be what you are because you’re needed in your community, to serve your community and not the other communities.”

Guest Bio: Jaime Hogan

https://placephilosophy.com.au/mission

Jaime has a diverse spatial and policy skillset having worked across architecture, urban design, and strategic planning in government and private organizations around Sydney. Jaime has designed and delivered sustainable solutions in bespoke residential architecture, prepared complex structure plans to guide inner-city renewal in some of Sydney’s most recognized centers, and prepared strategic plans and policies for the Local Government. Jaime is actively involved in the Planning Institute of Australia, supporting the institute in preparing policies and campaigns for climate change, building sustainability, and social issues. Jaime has also chaired the Education Subcommittee for two years, creating a fresh program of continuing education and development for planning professionals.

Having qualified as a yoga and meditation teacher in 2015, Jaime also regularly curates workshops, courses, and public classes to offer the community regenerative wellbeing practices grounded in traditional yoga and Ayurveda, and emerging behavioral- and neuro-science.

Jaime’s work supports her belief that urban professionals must own their duty as custodians of the built and natural environment to create environmentally sustainable, equitable, and engaging places for all. She knows that this kind of leadership takes a resilient mindset and rhythmic wellbeing that is deeply attuned to place and practiced in the community.

Jaime founded Place Philosophy in 2021 to bridge the gap between leadership education, wellbeing, and regenerative practices.

Our habits begin with the things that our family does. Eventually, those things are firmly embedded. To truly make a difference requires time, focus, and a shift in energy inwardly. Reconnecting with our bodies is a must. 

The process by which behaviors become habitual is known as habit formation. Habits can arise without a person's knowledge, but they can also be cultivated—or eliminated—to better suit one's particular objectives. But how does one go about changing a bad habit? With acclaimed yoga teacher and author Myra Lewis, this episode will discuss how to nourish your holidays through a holistic approach.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How our Habits are influenced by our family and environment
• How our Perspective in Life is essential to our general well-being
• How our Negative Thoughts generate negative vibrations into our Bodies

Links/CTA:

• Hale Pule - Ayurveda & Yoga
• Facebook: Hale Pule Ayurveda and Yoga
• Instagram: @hale_pule
• Youtube: @yogaandayurveda
• Blog: Staying with your Path
• Blog: Nourishing yourself in whole and healthful ways
• Podcast: Hale Pule

Highlights:

• Cate discusses a workshop on Emotional Eating
• Cate talks about self-healing before the Dharma.
• Cate explains how classic holiday recipes have been extensively replicated and have grown unhealthy.
• Cate discusses her wrong pattern of overeating and then exercising.

Timestamps:

• [06:03 - 06:43] “What we call cause and effect is we take action and there's a result. And we've been taught to pretty much ignore that when it comes to everything outside of us. I'm going to do these things because it seems pleasurable. But tomorrow, I'm going to feel like crap. The foundation of this is we start to see that there's cause and effect. I have control over that, or I can have control over that. ” 
• [15:52 - 16:20] “Follow your path rather than following everybody else. And it doesn't mean you can't be with them. Perhaps, it takes some inner focus to do that, but then you show up as a light in that environment. That's very different from just being part of the crowd and going along with whatever's happening there.”

Quotes:

• "The most essential thing is that we reconnect with our bodies.  Many of the things we think, "Oh, it's my body doing this or my body doing that," are actually done by our mind."
• "The level of impressions produced, or wounds that occur in the early stages of life is the most powerful piece in terms of modifying our relationship. That relates to our bond with our mother. And whether you think it's amazing or dreadful, it's simply the nature of it, and how you're reacting to it at this time in your life."
• "You'll always find out when there's a bad motive. Something that will lead us away from ourselves rather than toward ourselves. And so you have all that success on the surface, and you're empty on the inside."

Guest Bio: Myra Lewin

Ayurvedic Practitioner (AP) and Ayurveda Yoga Therapist (AYT), Myra Lewin is a professional member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and Yoga Alliance (ERYT 500). As a master yogini, Myra has amassed more than 50,000 hours of Yoga teaching experience spanning 30 years of practice. She’s also the author of two books, Freedom in Your Relationship with Food and Simple Ayurvedic Recipes, and is the host of two awesome podcasts on holistic healing, “Everyday Ayurveda and Yoga at Hale Pule” and “Spark Your Intuition”.

Podcast Intro:

Good food warms the souls of those who eat it. Families take joy when good food is served at the table, and it is further magnified when it happens during special occasions. But there is a common misconception about good food, good food means expensive! That’s not true at all! 

Anyone with a working kitchen, the right ingredients, and the passion to serve good food at the table can create something spectacular. It is the time of year when people recreate family dishes passed down through the centuries. But what if you were to reimagine how these delicacies are made? Learn how to make healthier versions of your favorite Christmas treats by listening to this podcast!

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What are the triggers and rituals of people in the holidays
• Why it is vital to practice drinking hot water added with spices before eating huge meals
• How you can reinvent desert to be digestive friendly
• Why people should enjoy their meals as they should be and not be too complacent with what society’s been meticulously weighing and scaling food.

Links/CTA:

• Kate O'Donnell Yoga 
• Talya's Kitchen
• Ayurvedic Living Institute
• Ayurveda Every Day with Talya
• IG: @ayurvedawithtalya
• YT Channel: Ayurveda Every Day with Talya
• Dosha Quiz: Talya's Kitchen
• Ayurveda Starters Guide

Highlights:

• Cate talks about her mom cooking treats during holidays
• Cate talks about giving out some of the produce from her herb garden 
• Cate talks about cultivating their own healthy rhythm with food and nourishment and digestion.

Timestamps:

• [6:07] - Family Routines on Holidays and Food
• [11:46] - Benefits of Drinking Hot Water
• [19:48] - Connecting the Family
• [28:09] - Skin and Self-care
• [37:35] - Combining Art, Science, and Tradition
• [41:53] - Cultivating a Healthy Rhythm with Food

Quotes:

• “Anytime you add in any social factor to eating, you immediately change it from how it is when you’re just by yourself, like quietly meditatively chewing your bites, tasting your food, and having that presence. But the other thing that I think people struggle with is just eating too much or being tempted by everything else that’s there. And so kind of managing their plate during a holiday meal.” - Talya
• “The green is always missing. It feels like an incomplete meal to me without something bitter. This bitterness is a digestive and cleansing taste, which is just so refreshing with all the brown food.” - Kate
• “I often find that with tradition, there’s a weightiness of the past, and there’s a beauty to that, but then there can also be a pathology, it just be strong about it. With that where it’s like that was important then because they were working a farm, and those were new things on the horizon, like excess flour and excess sugar was like really new to at least in the American economy, within the last 100 years.” - Cate
• “I find the more people have rules around food, the more people are like trying to measure things or the more they’re telling themselves not to eat something that are their trigger foods that they’re like it creates this really false dichotomy. That, to me, is just like a residue of consumer culture. Instead, it is like, how do you really merge with the food because this food will become your body. So don’t have an antagonistic relationship to it like “be all in.” - Cate

Guest: Kate O’Donnell 

https://www.kateodonnell.yoga/about

Kate O’Donnell is the author of three Ayurvedic Cookbooks, including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well, and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes. She is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and the founder of the Ayurvedic Living Institute. An authorized Ashtanga yoga instructor, she teaches yoga in Boston and Portland, Maine, and still travels to India annually for study.  

Kate began yoga by accident in South India at age 20. More than a dozen extended trips to India and twenty years studying the wisdom traditions of the sub-continent support Kate’s understanding of Ayurveda and Yoga.

After years of dedication to the Ashtanga system, Kate has experienced great benefit from this practice and was authorized by her teacher Sharath Jois to teach the Primary and Intermediate series of Ashtanga yoga. She teaches week-long mysore immersions annually in Portland ME, Boston, and abroad.

Kate also specializes in Ayurvedic education, cooking skills, and cleansing programs, offering online programs, residential immersions and training, and individual consultations.  Her Ayurveda and yoga offerings aim to help others come closer to their true nature.

Guest Bio: Talya Lutzker

https://www.ayurvedaed.com/about-talya/

Talya Lutzker is a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, cookbook author, yoga teacher, and one of the most accessible Ayurveda teachers online today.

She helps people heal and integrate the practice of Ayurveda into their daily life. She's the founder of The Dosha Remedy, The RAD Cleanse (Radiance Ayurveda Detox), and Ayurveda Starter School.

Since 2003, Talya's created Ayurvedic lifestyle and nutrition hubs for her audience. Drink up deep nourishment for the heart and soul of who you are at Ayurveda Every Day with Talya - https://www.ayurvedaed.com/

The stigma associated with men and fitness has always been the superficial "macho" look from the onset. We've all been conditioned to believe that the aim of a gym is to gain muscle, get stronger, quicker, and fitter. And it’s no secret that most guys think of yoga as a physical activity more suited to women - but who can blame them? It's difficult to avoid being influenced by social media these days. How many men do you notice in yoga advertisements? Quite a few... Until recently.

Nowadays, men are gaining more confidence to explore new forms of movement, such as yoga. More people are beginning to exercise for themselves rather than for the sake of society. Now, it’s time to debunk these yoga stereotypes once and for all and become more aware of the value of yoga and its beneficial impacts on your bodies.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why do we need "yoga for men"?
• How yoga helps in fitness performance
• How yoga can be integrated into your workout schedule
• How Spirituality is important in yoga
• Why yoga is female-dominated
• Why do men try yoga

Links/CTA:

• On-Demand Yoga for Men
• Official Facebook Page: @ManFlowYoga
• Official Instagram Page: @manflowyoga
• Official Youtube Channel: @ManFlowYoga
• Yoga Fitness for Men - manflowyoga.com/yffm
• Join today for instant access to yoga fitness programs, workouts, tutorials & more.
• Amazon: Dean Polhman

Highlights:

• Experiencing the unified field of physiology when practicing yoga
• Reinforcing the importance of the physical movements
• The connection between spirituality and yoga

Timestamps:

• 5:38 - How yoga is different from other exercises
• 9:33 - Community in yoga
• 18:23 - Yoga for men
• 31:11 - Different yoga techniques for mobility

Quotes:

• “Mainstream yoga fits a few audiences very well. But there are a lot of audiences that just feel like it's not the right fit for them.”
• “Yoga provided a really cool opportunity to actually be able to check-in with your body, and make sure that all of these different aspects of movements and proper exercise were actually happening.”
• “Yoga helps direct people's minds to be in the present, to focus on the body and the breathing. That spiritual component sometimes just makes its way into it without me having to really say anything. In that way, it does have the spiritual or maybe you could call it mindfulness or mental benefits.”
• “I think that aspect also brings people coming back to yoga with the style which focuses on strength and active mobility because they just feel the results in much less time and much more significantly than other yoga classes that they were doing before this.”

As we age, it's essential to incorporate physical activity into our daily routines to help maintain a healthy lifestyle. With a regular exercise routine, seniors will feel more energetic, and it will help manage the aches and pains of aging. This leads to a more independent life where you're staying safer and feeling your best.

The fear of falling is one of the most common concerns among older men and women. Chair yoga, also known as "yoga while seated," allows anyone to reap the advantages of a fitness routine while virtually eliminating the worry. Lynn Lehmkuhl, a qualified yoga practitioner, and instructor teaches simple yoga positions and stretches that may be done at home while sitting down in Chair Yoga for Seniors.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How can yoga help ease quarantine-related health issues such as stiffness, malaise, depression, and weight gain?
• What are the things that can be provided for seniors with motivation and the ability to break free from the effects of living in the COVID-19 period?
• What are the benefits of chair yoga to Senior Citizens?
• How could yoga help you feel good and energetic?

Links/CTA:

• http://www.elderchairyoga.com
• Order your copy of Chair Yoga for Seniors today

Highlights:

• Cate discusses the internal feedback system that occurs when you feel the weight of your body.
• Cate highlights the importance of having a grounded, safe space and an easy entry into yoga.
• Cate tries out Lynn’s Chair Yoga.

Timestamps:

• 8:33 - introducing yoga and chair yoga to the world
• 12:50 - the start of yoga chair therapy
• 34:22 - yoga for lower body
• 50:24 - people with dementia

Quotes:

• "I am very conscious of not introducing anything that could be interpreted as intimidating, exhausting, or difficult, especially for people who have elderly parents at home."
• "Yoga usually makes you feel good and helps you improve. It enables one to grow. And everyone wants to improve. Everyone aspires to do a little bit better every time."
• "Please keep in mind that no illness should prevent anyone from trying something."

Podcast Intro:

Have you had any traumatic experiences as a child? What were the events that triggered such an emotional response? How can someone recover from its devastation? Sometimes, talking about mental health, trauma, and other concerns isn't enough. Other approaches must be adopted to get the desired good outcomes. 

Yoga is one of these ways. And today, we'll learn more from an expert who does yoga daily.

Joanne Spence, a trained yoga therapist, recovering social worker, and author, discusses techniques to deal with trauma in this episode.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What is trauma-informed yoga and why is it important?
• What is the vagus nerve?
• How yoga affects the nervous system
• Why it is hard for a mental health professional to seek help from peers
• How trauma is being accumulated from your childhood to the present date where it manifests

Links/CTA:

• Get the Book Now: Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for Therapists: 47 Practices to Calm Balance, and Restore the Nervous System
• https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html
• www.joannespence.com
• www.yogainschools.org

Highlights:

• Cate talks about her travel to Salt Lake City
• Cate talks about getting called out by her teacher
• Cate talks about Lorimer Moseley about his work in pain in the brain

Timestamps:

• [01:26] - [01:38] "My reason for even having yoga on my radar and trying it as a practice was because I was in a car accident 20 years ago, so there was an event. So a traumatic event was the car accident.” 
• [09:49] - [10:04] "What happens in the presence of that pain or so it, I think it works similarly with physical pain and, and psychological pain is we go to that place as if that's happening now when it's not happening now." 
• [11:44] - [12:03] "We've got this adaptive survival mechanism that's helping to protect us that goes on lockdown, and we either go into the sympathetic nervous system or we go into one of the dorsal vagal systems, where we collapse and become immobilized."

Quotes:

• "There's nothing like being a mental health therapist and self-diagnosing. I think there's something wrong. And I don't know if it's harder sometimes for a mental health professional to ask for help or acknowledge our own need for support with our own mental health. But I certainly found that it was difficult to say, I think I'm depressed. I need some help."
• "The body is not distinguishing whether we're safe or not safe. It's tapping in with something that triggers us. It's tapping into something in the past, and we get stuck there. And it doesn't matter if it's not happening at the moment in front of us. "
• "If you walk too fast or lift your arms too high, you're going to experience that terrible, debilitating pain that puts you to bed for three days. And you're not going to be able to do your job and so the body locks down to protect you. It's a survival mechanism because it thinks that you're at risk of hurting yourself. It may or may not be true." 
• "It's easier to describe that a car accident was a trauma, it's more socially acceptable and factual. But what that revealed to me over time was an awareness of childhood adverse childhood experiences that we know today."

Podcast Intro:

The universe has its way of mending any damage caused by unforeseen circumstances. And looking at nature, humans are blessed to witness nature’s process of healing. As rational beings, we seek ways to imitate the healing process and turn it into our own.

But is researching as easy as it sounds like? How can you confirm that the proposed methods work? That’s why you experiment! Just like how Mada Dalian experimented with the self-healing mechanism she created, The Dalian Method.

If nature can heal, so do humans. From your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, all the way to social and cultural aspects, humans heal by taking these aspects into account. By being conscious and confident that the process works and helping yourself towards healing, you are giving yourself the freedom to explore the vastness of the universe—uninhibited.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What is the Dalian Method
• Who can benefit from the Dalian Method
• How the Fear of Survival and Death is at the root of our Human Ailments and Dis-ease
• How the Dalian Method can help you heal into consciousness and be free of the limiting stories created by mental conditioning and fears
• How incorporating the “breath” process improves self-healing.
• How you can connect yourself to the universe and leverage the journey as an end and not a means
• How the Dalian Method helped Megan towards Self-Healing

Key Principles of the Dalian Method

The Dalian Method Works with the Following Core Principles:

1. Many unexpressed layers of thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and conditionings are repressed in the body and cellular memory. They run as invisible programs blocking the free flow of energy through the body and causing pain, discomfort, and disease.
2. Our beliefs are based on socio-political and religious conditions and the conclusions we make from our life experiences.
3. To eradicate pain and illness, we must access and work with the causes of ailments instead of their symptoms.
4. All answers are within. Consciousness within the Being is the master key that can permanently dismantle the unconscious beliefs and conditionings and liberate the soul from the story created by the ego-mind.
5. Consciousness must be grounded in the entire body to achieve complete and lasting healing and transformation.

Links/CTA:

• https://www.madadalian.com
• https://www.facebook.com/Mada.Dalian
• https://www.instagram.com/madadalian/
• https://www.youtube.com/user/MadaDalian
• Two award-winning best-selling books, several meditation techniques, and self-help tools: https://www.madadalian.com/product-category/products/ 
• In Search of the Miraculous: Healing into Consciousness --https://www.madadalian.com/product/in-search-of-the-miraculous-healing-into-consciousness/ (also translated and published in Spanish, Russian, and Estonian languages).
• Healing the Body and Awakening Consciousness with the Dalian Method: An Advanced Self-Healing System for a New Humanity -- https://www.madadalian.com/product/healing-the-body-awakening-consciousness-with-the-dalian-method/ (also published in Estonian language. Russian and French are on their way).
• Teen and Child versions of the Dalian Method will be released in 2022.

Highlights:

• The process of complete liberation reminds Cate of the Sanskrit word, Nirambalaya, which she explains as getting to a place without the need of support, living out their rules, beliefs, and systems born into.
• Cate believes that she will never figure things out by simply reading a book and following the instructions. She explains that commitment to a time, place, and process are necessary along with a person to guide her through it allows a kinesthetic understanding of what the process is all about. 
• Cate stated that as someone who's trained in Vedic Language, there's more to consciousness than just diagnostics. The word Consciousness has different meanings and implications on various cultures, especially in India, which is vast and deep. And that's different worldwide whether it's English, German, French, Italian, etc.

Timestamps:

• [01:49] Introduction
• [04:10] Where and when it began for Mada Dalian
• [07:26] The Buddha Field
• [14:01] Looking inside people’s energy
• [15:28] India’s Deep History and Approach to Healing
• [17:58] The Facets and Duality of Emotions
• [24:20] Experimenting Techniques
• [25:17] Who is the audience?
• [26:25] The Self-Healing System and Incorporating the “Breath” component
• [30:42] The Reconnection Process
• [37:47] Zen Teaching
• [40:43] How Megan ran into the Dalian Method
• [45:00] How you can grow confidence with a beginner’s mindset
• [56:24] Who can benefit from the Dalian Method?

Quotes:

• Children are open to different perspectives and have a unique perception because they are not conditioned yet. The world has not accumulated its weight on them, they are more open to the perception of reality.
• People are trying to find themselves, just like how we find ourselves. With the tension that the mind creates to understand something, you try hard but don't see things. It's the ego that's trying.
• Thoughts and emotions are two sides of the same coin. When you think of something, emotions come. When you have an emotion, there's a thought behind it.
• We cannot deny any part. Because if we deny one part, we cannot achieve 100% transformation.
• By saying "I am afraid," you're taking responsibility for your fear. 
• If I am the universe, there's an endless exploration I can do. The universe is open, and I am stuck on this little planet with the vastness of the universe. The journey is the goal; enlightenment is your experience.

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