Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

Tune into the podcast with Tim Spector for some fascinating insight on your gut microbiome and your immune health.

• Why you can justify eating dark chocolate
• What makes poo transplants necessary for some people
• Why our guts aren’t as healthy as they should be

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• The diversity of microbes in our bodies is 30 per cent lower than fifty years ago
• Gut microbes, when disrupted, are a major cause of obesity and diabetes but they are also essential for health  Thousands of people are now having poo transplants – many with significant success
• Much of our food is contaminated with low levels of antibiotics used in farming, making us fat
• Microbes enjoy eating the polyphenols in dark chocolate which may keep us slim
• A diet of junk food can dramatically reduce healthy gut microbes in only two days  
• Increasing the diversity of our diet will increase our microbes, our health, happiness and lifespan

• 14:47 Small batch fermented foods as personalized medicine 
• 20:09 Fecal transplants and why they can be effective
• 26:29 Microbiome and epigenetic studies in identical twins
• 36:57 Polyphenols in dark chocolate and why it’s good for your gut

• “This is one area of science where we’re turning very much towards personalization. We’re realizing that the reason everything hasn’t added up in these nutritional guidelines and that health guidelines haven’t worked for everybody when it comes to our guts and inner health, is because we all respond in slightly different ways. We all need a different recipe, there isn’t one size fits all.” - Tim Spector
• “Microbes are changing over life. They’re not the same ones we were born with although we have our own signature. A forensic detective will always know whether it’s your microbes or my microbes that have been travelling around the world. They will change day to day, week to week, year to year, to some extent. Half of the microbes are fairly constant and half are changing. And so with those changes, it changes the community. They will produce different chemicals that can have an effect on our bodies in all kinds of ways.”  - Tim Spector
• “We need to take a more global look at this. There must be a reason why these hunter gatherers never get heart disease, diabetes or cancer. We should take a lesson from our ancestors and these other groups of people that live in very harsh environments.” - Tim Spector 
• “The key is variety. It’s not the same kale smoothie, it’s 30 different plants a week. And that includes nuts and seeds.” - Tim Spector

Tim Spector is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Director of the TwinsUK registry at King’s College London. His current work focuses on the microbiome and diet. He also runs the crowdfunded British Gut microbiome project. Having published more than 900 research articles, he is ranked in the top 1% of the world’s most cited scientists by Thomson Reuters. He is the author of three popular science books. The most recent “The Diet Myth” published in over ten languages. He is a regular blogger, with over 7 million recent downloads. He features regularly in the media.

Tune into the podcast with HeatherAsh Amara! We rap about The Warrior Heart Practice and how to transform chaos to clarity and pain to peace. 

• What is The Warrior Heart Practice
• How to do The Warrior Heart Practice: A Simple Process to Transform Chaos to Clarity and Pain to Peace
• How to connect with your authenticity and inner-knowing and realign with your true nature

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• HeatherAsh explains how the Warrior Heart Practice came to be.
• HeatherAsh talks about an example from her own life where The Warrior Heart Practice helped her.
• Cate and HeatherAsh discuss what it means to have a ripe story.

• 3:15  The four chambers of the heart in The Warrior Heart Practice.
• 7:35  HeatherAsh gives an example from her own life in navigating disappointment.
• 15:00 Spiritual bypass
• 27:42 Stories that are ripe and stories that are unripe.

• “The fourth chamber is intent, and specifically, what do I want in the situation? Not, how do I want other people to be, or how do I want life to be different. But what’s my intent. What energy, what focus do I want to bring back into this situation. Your intent is really important. It’s your north star. It’s going to guide what you do next, so you want to get really clear.”  - HeatherAsh Amara
• “In the path of waking up, you feel more.” - Cate Stillman
• “The medicine is always presence and love.”  - HeatherAsh Amara
• “If you’re dedicated to changing your story and really stepping into the truth, that means finding a community of people that are also dedicated to the truth - that are unwinding their stories, so that you can then ripen around that.” - HeatherAsh Amara

HeatherAsh Amara is the Warrior Goddess Mama and creatrix of the Warrior Heart Practice. She is dedicated to inspiring depth, creativity, and joy by sharing the most potent tools from a variety of world traditions. Raised in Southeast Asia, HeatherAsh has traveled the world from childhood and is continually inspired by the diversity and beauty of human expression and experience. She brings this open-hearted, inclusive worldview to her writings and teachings. HeatherAsh is the author of numerous books, including the bestselling Warrior Goddess Training, Warrior Goddess Wisdom, The Seven Secrets to Happy and Healthy Relationships with don Miguel Ruiz Jr, and the upcoming Warrior Heart Practice (January 2020) Visit her website at

Tune into this beautiful conversation with Deva Premal and Miten. We talk about sacred music, the healing power of mantra, and their new releases. Listen to the podcast to be serenaded!

• How mantras can be used for healing
• How to awaken your voice
• How to Heal through voice and music

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• Miten explains what happens when people come from the busyness of their lives to practice sacred music.
• Deva describes how the ancient sound code of mantra unlocks blockages and heals.
• Cate, Deva, and Miten discuss how sound healing can be done with children.

• 5:00 opening mantra.
• 21:00 seven chakra Gayatri mantra.
• 39:15 connecting to your throat chakra and finding your voice.

• “Music has to appear out of silence for it to be sacred. It comes out of the space of meditation, the silence inside. It takes you on a journey and when it lands it brings you to a deeper silence from the one you just left.” - Miten
• “While we were recording Devotee there was this question: can you die to this music? And that doesn’t mean that it’s music that is only slow or only sad because we always connect such sadness with death. It has reggae in it and it has blues in it! It’s also intensely alive.” - Deva Premal 
• “Sing your own song. That’s really the key.” - Deva Premal

Deva Premal & Miten are modern nomads on a mission to share the ancient medicine of mantra. Their music is used for meditation, yoga, massage, and conscious sleep playlists worldwide, and their ‘fans’ include H.H. Dalai Lama, Cher and Eckhart Tolle.

Don’t miss this insightful conversation with Dr. Claudia Welch! We get personal and dive into the lessons and experiences that we have each experienced during our midlife transitions. If you are a woman approaching, experiencing, or have already accomplished your midlife transition, you want to listen to this episode! 

• What the four stages of life are.
• What’s come up for Claudia as she transitions to midlife.
• How Cate and Claudia have reorganized their work at this stage of life. 
  

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• Claudia explains the four stages of life in Ayurveda.
• Cate describes the deeper wisdom she’s experienced approaching the vanaprastha life-stage.
• Claudia talks about organizing her life's work and finishing her professional to-do list.

•  4:50 Claudia reviews the four stages of life.
• 13:55 Cate and Claudia discuss the physical, mental and emotional changes that accompany the transition towards the third stage of life.
• 39:15 Cate describes the organizational shifts in her body of work and incorporating the deeper lessons she’s learned as midlife approaches.

•  “I have an awareness of these learning curves and physical changes. Like how my memory and mind are functioning differently. And there’s an alignment and acceptance of it because of the life stages world view from Ayurveda. Because of having that context and framework there’s deep ease and relaxation into this transition. A lot of people don’t have this framework.” - Cate Stillman
• “Both Ayurveda and business strategy are very aware of cycles, stages and aligned action. With dinacharya and ritucharya there are things that you do to be a disciple of aligned action. It’s also in business strategy; they’re both looking at cycles and stages and rhythms. They do that inside and out. For instance, you have to invest a certain amount in order to expect growth later. That’s a very basic business principle. You shouldn’t expect immediate ROI (return on investment) on deeper investments that have a longer-term strategy. Plant the seed but you’re not going to get fruit in two days - it’s going to be a while.” - Cate Stillman
• “Things are slowing down. I’m taking fewer commitments and pouring less energy into my organization. And so now there’s this space. And I’m taking the space that is there, and at times it feels empty. And that can feel sad. There’s this fear that will my expectations about divine grace fall? Will, there be just emptiness, will this stage of life disappoint me? All I can say is that I trust that emptiness way more than I trust filling that emptiness. My guru wrote when I was eight years old, ‘keep good company, good company makes a man great’, and I feel that two things are important to me right now; keep the space open don’t fill it, and put myself in the way of inspiration.” - Claudia Welch

Dr. Claudia Welch is the author of Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness Through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Western Science and The Four Qualities of Effective Physicians: Practical Ayurvedic Wisdom for Modern Physicians. She is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, an Ayurvedic practitioner and international speaker. Dr. Welch explores how ideas in Eastern medicine apply to women’s health, and today’s reality in general. Learn more at Dr.ClaudiaWelch.com

In today’s episode of the Yogahealer podcast, I sit down with Dr. Marisol Teijeiro, the Queen of Thrones, to discuss castor oil packs and gut health from a naturopathic perspective. We talk about how castor oil packs work and why they are so important for overall health, as well as the other factors that affect your elimination. Even if you don’t suffer from any digestive disorders, this conversation will change the way you think about your body and your health. 

• How to improve your overall health with castor oil packs
• Why rhythm is so important to have a complete bowel movement every day
• How castor oil packs work
  

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• Dr. Marisol explains her struggles with IBS and how she found naturopathic medicine as her career to give back to her patients.
• Cate and Dr. Marisol discuss what digestion really is
• Dr. Marisol dives deep into the science of how castor oil packs work

• 1:10 - 3:27 - Dr. Marisol tells her story from IBS to Queen of Thrones
• 3:27 - 8:06 - Digestion 
• 8:07- 13:15 - Health + nourishment + your temple
• 13:15 - 24:35 - Castor Oil + Castor Oil Packs 
• 24:35 - 27:03 - Rhythm
• 27:03 - 28:46 - How to do a castor oil pack

• “I look at digestion as how we are digesting our lives” - Dr. Marisol
• “All imbalances start between the mouth and the anus” - Cate
• “The more unhealthy a person is, the more disconnected they are between the foods that they like to eat and how they like to feel.” - Cate
• “Food needs to give you joy” - Dr. Marisol
• “It’s our missions to change how people are evolving and understanding their beautiful temples” - Dr. Marisol
• “We are looking for a change in your energetic state” - Dr. Marisol
• “If we want to be healthier, we need to train our bodies to shift into that parasympathetic, calm, relaxed state” - Dr. Marisol
• “The rhythm is bigger than us, the rhythm is older than us” - Cate
• “Life is a choose your own adventure” - Dr. Marisol

Dr. Marisol Teijeiro, Naturopathic Doctor- Queen of the Thrones™ is a world leader renowned for her passion for cleansing and gut health. After receiving her degree as a Naturopathic Doctor, she completed her International Speaker Certification to help share her challenges with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, as 14% of our world’s population experiences the same struggles daily.

Dr. Marisol Teijeiro, N.D. found a solution for her Irritable Bowel Syndrome and she wants your help to start a movement, so we all have improvement!

Crowned the Queen of the Thrones™ by her patients, for over 15 years she has trained and educated health care practitioners and has helped thousands of patients transition from Irritable Bowels to Owning Their Throne and Thriving.

The launch of her first book, Oh, Sh*t! and her educational conferences and programs, heralds her championing you to become your legend.

Join her movement so that we can help 14% of our population - that is 1 billion people - that struggle every day with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Let’s make an Improvement! Connect with Marisol on her website and facebook.

In this short and sweet episode of the Yogahealer Podcast, I sit down with Katie Silcox of The Shakti School. We discuss Yoga, Ayurveda, tantra, and the cycle of depletion that is all too prevalent in society today. Tune in, and you’re sure to be inspired by Katie’s story. 

• What is tantra? 
• How is Ayurveda moving into modern reality?
• Ayurvedically, how does flight/flight/freeze response interact with the 5 senses? 
• How to re-wild the body from a Tantric view? 

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• Katie explains tantra and its role in modern society
• Katie and Cate examine integrating the feminine path of yoga and Ayurveda in with today’s masculine forward society. 
• Cate and Katie discuss the depletion cycle and its influence on modern society

• 0:45-3:14 - Katie talks about her background in yoga and Ayurveda. 
• 3:15-4:58 - What tantra is . . . and isn’t.
• 4:58-12:48 - The role of yoga, tantra, and Ayurveda in modern society. 
• 13:22-17:17 - Finding the more feminine path of Ayurveda and integrating it with the masculine.
• 17:17-23:07 - The cycle of depletion.

• “I think I came to yoga kind of unknowingly wanting to become enlightened. And now I no longer believe in that and I just believe in being . . . enheartened. . . . just being more on this planet and more in love with this life with all of its terrible things and beautiful things.” —- Katie Silcox
• “The more tantric you become, . . . the less you really do have any kind of dogma.” —- Katie Silcox
• “You’re certainly a tantric, your listeners are tantric, your guests are all tantric because we’re all looking for methodologies, techniques, modalities that enable us to expand . . . into the depths of who we actually are.” —- 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 known as 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 the topics of yoga, Ayurveda, sexuality, herbalism and women’s health in such publications as 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. Connect with Katie on her website and facebook.

Are you looking for guidance on where you should focus your goals next? In this podcast episode, I walk you through my goal-setting process. We will look at your challenges AND what you already have going for you to form a strategy for reaching your personal and professional goals on time.

• How to identify your deeper dream.
• Why identifying your current challenges, as well as your strengths, is so important.
• What it takes to design the lifestyle of your dreams.
  

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• Cate talks you through a series of questions that will help you identify and realize your deeper dream.

• 0:45-7:40 - Introduction: Who is Cate and what are we doing here today?
• 7:40-13:57 - Are you working toward the right goal(s) Do you have the right strategy? Do you have a guide? Do you have support? What is your vision for a bigger life?
• 13:57-16:23 - What’s getting in the way of achieving a bigger life?
• 16:23-21:47 - What IS your bigger life? How much control do you have over time? Are you living in integrity?
• 21:47-24:26 - What is your wildest dream for yourself?
• 24:26-29:42 - Cate lays out the roadmap for developing your strategy.
• 30:16-31:49 - Mistakes people make when trying to actualize their dreams. 
• 31:49-36:10 - What are your key accomplishments? What are your key lessons learned? What critical issues are on your plate right now?
• 36:10-40:15 - What strengths do you bring to the table? What habits do you have that are (not) working in favor of your goals? If your future self reverse engineers your success plan, what are the key milestones he or she would identify? How will you know if you’re on the right track? What do you want your future calendar to look like? 
• 40:15-45:36 - What is the biggest challenge(s) you have to get to your goal, and how you can combine that with one of your strengths or habits? How will you know you succeeded?
• 45:36-47:19 - Goal setting is a skill!
• 47:19-59:40 - Cate opens up the chat for Q&A.
• 59:40-1:00:39 - Closing. How to hold yourself accountable to your goals.

• “You can design your income and your body and your life. And it’s going to require some very good strategy.” --- Cate Stillman
• “I believe and we [at Yogahealer] believe that your future should be bigger than your past, that your vision for a bigger life actually matters.” --- Cate Stillman
• “What we want to do here is increasingly fall in love with our life and have increasing capacity for personal and professional lifestyle design. . . . Lifestyle design is not random.” --- Cate Stillman

We all have things we want to break free of, things that aren’t working for us: habits, addictions, relationships, lifestyle . . . . In this podcast episode, I walk you through a vision quest to help you get real about where you are now, what you wish were different, where you get stuck, and where you want to be.

• Why you need to get real about your current status quo and what’s not working for you.
• How to identify where you get stuck when trying to break free of outdated habits.
• What questions you need to ask yourself in order to get clear about your deeper dreams and formulate your own personal mission statement.
  

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• Cate walks us through a personal vision quest using five-words exercises.
• We learn how to use the 20 gunas from Ayurveda to help us navigate our vision quest.

• 0:45-4:23 - Depict your status quo: What do you want to break free of? What isn’t working? 
• 4:24-6:01 - What do you wish were different?
• 6:02-8:38 - Where do you get stuck? What keeps you from breaking free of your status quo?
• 8:39-10:40 - What is the picture of your status quo?
• 13:12-16:47 - How do you want to feel next?
• 16:48-18:32 - How do you want to look next? How do you want others to see you?
• 18:33-20:18 - What do you want to do next?
• 20:19-21:10 - Formulating your mission statement.

If there’s one thing you need to know about improving your wellbeing, it’s that tomorrow starts today. That’s the magic of the first habit of Body Thrive. Tune in to this episode to learn how eating an earlier, lighter dinner can help you feel more deep satisfaction, not just in your digestive process, but in your life in general.

• How our main meal shifted from midday to evening and why we need to revert.
• The effects of an earlier, lighter dinner.
• How to start shifting to an earlier, lighter dinner. 
  

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• Cate explains the Ayurvedic clock and how it aligns with our physiology.
• Cate explains how the industrial revolution shifted our mealtimes, to the detriment of our overall health.
• Cate gives us her best tips for making the shift to an earlier, lighter dinner.

• “This whole thing is a pulsation. You’ll start to notice that over the course of time, you’re going to feel more dynamic hunger, and you’re going to feel more deep satisfaction, deep satiation, not just in your digestive process, but in your life in general.”
• “Hunger is desire. You’ll awaken your deeper desires and you’ll awaken your deep satisfaction with life.”

You know the conversation is going to be good when Cate sits down with Kate O’Donnell. In this episode, Cate and Kate discuss the creative process, the editing process, and the marketing process; what it’s like to produce deeper works in the midst of day-to-day work; and why their first books were so revolutionary.

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• What are the biggest challenges in writing a book
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• Why their first books were so revolutionary.
• What it’s like to produce deeper works in the midst of day-to-day work.
• The creative process, the editing process, and the marketing process.
• What publishers look for in prospective authors. 

• 0:45-3:50 - Kate talks about how people living in large cities often have trouble starting to cook for themselves and how she decided what her cookbooks needed to include in terms of Ayurveda. Cate explains how she never intended to write a book but felt like the information in Body Thrive was needed by the general public.
• 3:50-9:30 - Cate and Kate discuss why their first books were so revolutionary.
• 9:30-16:15 - Producing deeper work like books in the midst of day-to-day work.
• 16:15-21:20 - Cate and Kate discuss the editing process in light of Ayurveda and yoga philosophy. 
• 25:50-27:55 - Cate and Kate continue to discuss the editing process.
• 27:55-33:15 - Cate and Kate discuss how the ego can get in the way of getting your ideas out there and why the promotion and marketing of your product is just as important as creating the product.
• 33:16-37:20 - Cate talks about the identity evolution that goes along with releasing any major work out into the world.
• 37:21-40:00 - Kate and Cate discuss considerations in book publishing, including whether or not you’ve already cultivated an audience and/or whether there’s an audience out there that is already tuned in to what you have to say. 
• 42:20-46:05 - The importance of achieving “10,000 hours” or mastery of a subject before publishing a work on that subject, AND how to know if you’re capable of effectively relaying your information to others.
• 46:08-49:58 - Putting in the time. Letting go of attachment to the outcome. 
• 49:58-52:04 - Closing thoughts. When Cate’s and Kate’s next books are coming out.

• “The whole thing is in service of the reader. That’s something that bothers me about people who don’t have the patience to edit their work ‘cause they’re all about that creative energy, and it’s like the glamorous and fun part. But if you don’t do nose-to-grindstone and make the matter to the reader, then it’s just for you. It’s for the writer.” --- Kate O’Donnell
• “You run that risk in publishing something. You run the risk of putting yourself out there and being wrong - having something set down in stone and in that print, and then you might look back in five years and be like, ‘Yeah, I don’t really think that’s right anymore.’” --- Kate O’Donnell
• “I never know if a book is awesome or not until it’s making sense to readers.” --- Kate O’Donnell

Kate O’Donnell is an author, lecturer, and senior yoga teacher. She is the author of three Shambhala books, the forthcoming Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care; The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, and Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes. An Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ashtanga yoga teacher, Kate is on faculty for Kripalu School of Ayurveda and Boston Ayurveda School. She travels to India annually for study and teaches internationally. Connect with Kate on her website and facebook page.