Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

Jennifer Allen developed foot pain after an emergency Cesarean Section. That was the beginning of her journey with joint pain and surgery. After years of poor results with allopathic medicine, Jennifer talks to Cate about regenerative medicine and preparing for surgery.

• What is regenerative medicine?
• What is the long term cost of surgery?
• How to prepare for deep healing

• Living Ayurveda Course
• Get some free resources
• PRP and Stem Cell Therapy for Big Toe Joint Instability

• Cate shares her mother’s journey with surgery
• Cate talks about placenta injections
• Cate talks about pressing pause in your business

• 4:35 Understanding the root of pain
• 9:56 A regenerative approach to health
• 23:06 Setting up the surgery experience you want
• 29:20 Deeply healing without trauma

Jennifer Allen teaches alignment-based yoga with an emphasis on finding ease in the body, coaches people on developing healthy habits and guides people into their unlimited potential through Ayurveda.
She discovered Ayurveda in 2013. Her Ayurvedic studies have been influenced by John Douillard, Sarah Hutchinson and Cate Stillman. Jennifer completed an 18-month Yoga Health Coaching certification program to deepen her knowledge of Ayurveda and habit evolution techniques in 2018. She has been leading hikes at the Grand Canyon since 2013 and is an outdoor educator and Certified Interpretive Guide for the Grand Canyon Conservancy. 

Your breath has incredible control over your mind, body, and connection to the soul. Learn about Sara Campbell’s journey to become a deep diver, and how she leads people through their diving experiences.

• How your body reacts to diving
• How your belief system influences your dive
• How to connect to your spirit while diving

• Find out more about the Living Ayurveda Course 
• Get some free resources

• Cate explains the importance of breathwork for consciousness
• Sara shares her journey with deep diving
• Sara talks about the mental side of diving 

• 3:30 The physiological reaction to being submerged
• 13:27 Practicing holding your breath 
• 20:02 Breaking deep diving world records 
• 27:00 The peacefulness of the dive
• 33:09 Overcoming belief systems and discovering your depth

As one of the world’s top freedivers, Sara embodies the ‘deep dive’. She teaches body-mind-spirit integration drawing on the wisdom of Nature, and the powerful mirror of the Ocean to face our deeper fears and beliefs. Breath unlocks our subconscious, water teaches us to trust and surrender.

Has your mental health been affected by the unrest of 2020? Understand how your habits can help and what may be happening from an Ayurvedic perspective.

• How your habits influence your mental health
• How to understand mental health through an Ayurvedic lens
• How Ayurveda interfaces with medication

• Dialogue With Death: The Spiritual Psychology of the Katha
• Master of You: A Five-Point System to Synchronize Your Body, Your Home, and Your Time with Your Ambition
• Body Thrive: Uplevel Your Body and Your Life with 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga
• The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care: Rhythms, Routines, and Home Remedies for Natural Healing
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
• Get the Change Your Life course free
• Get some free resources

• Cate talks about how the habits influence your experience of chaos
• Cate explains the importance of choosing the right community
• Cate explains how the different Doshas influence mental health

• 5:50 The effect habits have on mental health
• 15:00 Controlling how you experience things
• 23:08 Your mental health and who you surround yourself with
• 32:41 Mental health and the Doshas
• 45:34 The role of medication

What is your deeper dream? If you don't know the answer to this question, you really need to listen to this podcast episode! Learn more about how your curiosity can serve you and help find your why.

• How curiosity serves you
• How to find your noble aim
• How to overcome cultural conditioning

• Find out about upcoming events
• Free Change Your Life Course
• Get some free resources

• Cate tells a story about the first ‘Deeper Dream’ Calls
• Cate reads from Jordan Peterson’s work
• Cate explains how meditation connects to the immune system

• 2:42 The value of curiosity
• 8:04 You as the Creator of your life
• 9:53 The importance of finding your why
• 18:00 The difference between being and becoming

In Ayurveda, waste in the body is called Ama. Learn how Ama affects your immune system, how it connects to your nervous system, and can you do to control it.

• How to deeply fortify your immune system
• How to focus your mind into your body
• How to create space to digest your thoughts

• More about the Living Ayurveda Course
• Get some free resources

• Cate explains Agni and digestion
• Cate talks about the different types of intelligence and their role
• Cate talks about the digestion of thoughts and emotions

• 1:14 Understanding Agni, Tejas and Ama
• 8:30 Rules around Ayurveda
• 16:01The hierarchy of Agni
• 22:15 Two-minute breathing practice

Chocolate doesn’t have to be a guilty pleasure. That’s why Alak decided to leave her corporate job and dedicate her life to bringing joy through chocolate and Ayurveda. The result is an incredible line of ethical chocolates.

• How chocolate and Ayurveda intertwine 
• How your energy influences your food
• How following your purpose improves your health

• Find out more about the Living Ayurveda Course
• Free resources

• Cate talks about high prana foods
• Cate explains how food is infused with the surrounding energy
• Cate shares how it is important to follow your own path

• 4:23 Understanding the connection between chocolate and Ayurveda 
• 14:47 The importance of the environment in preparing food
• 24:12 Alak’s journey from a corporate job to chocolate entrepreneur
• 34:18 Following your purpose

Alak Vasa, co-founder, and chef at Elements Truffles. Elements truffles was born at the intersection of two things that make me happy - chocolates and meditation. We are an Ayurveda inspired line of clean chocolates that taste good and do good - for the body, mind, and community. 

Before that Alak was a trader and VP at Goldman Sachs. Everything was going well, but a sense of purpose was missing. I was good at what I was doing, but I felt I was meant to do something else. About 12 years ago, I learned to meditate. And as I grew in the practice, I became more aware of the food I was eating. I noticed that I was integrating a lot of elements of the Ayurvedic lifestyle, which was naturally a part of our life growing up. Ayurveda, also known as the sister science to Yoga, was now taking me back to my roots.

Alak volunteers her time teaching breath-work and meditation through the Art of Living Foundation, an international NGO. 

Have you ever heard of BQ? In Ayurveda your body’s intelligence is the key to directing your nervous system. Learn what you can do to develop your body intelligence and boost your immune system.

• What is body intelligence?
• How to direct your nervous system
• How to develop high body intelligence

• More about the Living Ayurveda Course
• Get some free resources
• Information about Body Intelligence
• Replay the Webinar

• Cate talks about her professional background
• Cate explains the benefits of intermittent fasting 
• Cate shares tips to help build your immune system

• 3:23 Understanding the conscious direction of the nervous system
• 12:37 The innate and the adaptive immune system
• 19:34 Ayurveda and the immune system
• 29:16 Acute vs. chronic inflammation

Kate O’Donnell talks about her new book The Everyday Ayurveda Guide To Self-care and how to use Ayurveda principles at different ages. Learn more about how you can use Ayurveda every day and understand what your body is telling you.

• How to recognize the qualities of your body manifests
• How to use Ayurveda at different ages
• How to identify the deeper issues

• Learn more about the Living Ayurveda Course
• Get free resources

• Cate talks about the “feel” factor in Ayurveda
• Cate explains how yoga and Ayurveda prepare for the unknown 
• Cate shares her perspective on collaboration

• 4:07 Ayurveda in different ages
• 11:54 The importance of personal responsibility
• 22:29 Nourishing your body with food
• 39:54 From a consumer perspective to a collaborative perspective

Kate O’Donnell is the author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well. She is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ashtanga yoga teacher based in Boston and still travels to India annually for study. Her Ayurveda and yoga offerings aim to help others come closer to their true nature.

Do you feel stuck in a loop? Unconsciously repeating negative patterns, can be extremely painful and keep you from having a fulfilling life. Understand how an empathy map can help you identify your triggers and evolve.

• How to create an empathy map
• How to access the intuitive body
• How to identify your triggers

• Learn more about the Living Ayurveda Course 
• Get some free resources

• Cate explains the subtle body’s receptiveness
• Cate talks about the intuitive body 
• Cate shares her perspective on depression

• 1:36 Understanding your intuitive body
• 15:00 Using negative triggers to your advantage
• 19:57 Ojas and depletion

• What happens when you see the sunrise? A new day.

Have you noticed the plants growing in your city? Invasive plants seem to thrive in any environment. What if I told you most of these plants are not only edible but extremely nutritious? Find out more on our podcast episode, with the inspiring Dr. Philip Stark.

• How invasive plants can nourish you 
• How to start connecting with the plants around you
• How your health improves with plant diversity

• Nutrition, toxicology, and availability of wild edible greens in the East Bay
• Learn more about wild plants
• Check the Find the Money Course
• Get some free resources

• Cate shares her experience trying to promote invasive species
• Cate talks about her beliefs about invasives and nutrition
• Cate explains the different tastes in Ayurveda

• 3:16 Edible plants in cities
• 9:01 Connecting to the food you eat
• 20:11 Toxins in city plants
• 27:09 Plant diversity and health

My research centers on inference (inverse) problems, primarily in physical science. I am especially interested in confidence procedures tailored for specific goals and in quantifying the uncertainty in inferences that rely on simulations of complex physical systems. I've done research on the internal structure of Sun and Earth, climate modeling, earthquake prediction, the Big Bang, the geomagnetic field, election auditing, geriatric hearing loss, the U.S. census, the effectiveness of Internet content filters, endangered species, spectrum estimation, urban foraging, and information retrieval. I am interested in numerical optimization, and have published some software.

I've consulted in product liability litigation, truth in advertising, equal protection under the law, jury selection, trade secret litigation, employment discrimination litigation, import restrictions, insurance litigation, natural resource legislation, environmental litigation, patent litigation, sampling in litigation, wage and hour class actions, product liability class actions, consumer class actions, the U.S. census, clinical trials, signal processing, geochemistry, IC mask quality control, targeted marketing, water treatment, sampling the web, risk assessment, and oil exploration.