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Wellness Alchemy episodes
- 10. Rewiring the toxic masculine - Johnny Foreman
Bio:
John Foreman - Speaker, Naturopath, Exercise Scientist, Educator & Coach
Teaching self care and self mastery for the real world.Inspiring people to inspire themselves.
Johnny whole-heartedly believes that the keys to thriving health and vitality are within you. That Gratitude and Love are the heart of healing. That your heart and your mind are the greatest apothecary on Earth. Johnny's true passion lies in guiding people back to their heart, and to the thriving state of health that is every human's birthright.
Johnny is known for helping people navigate all of the conflicting information out there and discovering what truly nourishes every part of the holistic human being that you are.
https://www.thrivingselfcare.com/
Show notes:
- Root cause medicine.
- Subconscious patterns can keep us stuck in our destructive behaviours which doesn't allow us to get maximum benefit from our lifestyle & nutrition changes.
- Men can tend to stand in the shadows for fear of being ridiculed.
- Feeling safe is essential to change!
- Triune brain - the 3 checkpoints of the brain. All information that comes into our senses has to get through all 3 checkpoints to be deemed safe. Our emotion then creates a very powerful subconscious program which fires up instinctively in the future when in the same scenario potentially causing distress. Dealing with conflict, intimacy, etc.
- Joe Dispenza & Bruce Lipton identify that we only operate from this limbic part of the brain 5% of the time. Therefore we largely operate on autopilot.
- If changes that happened yesterday didn't kill us the brain registers it as safe, whether it serves us or not.
- Understanding this survival mechanism is the first step. Awareness is key to understanding this primitive mechanism & moving beyond it.
- Through awareness you create your own power of what needs to be changed.
- Alcohol numbs the limbic brain which offers reprieve from processing the emotions.
- Men can break the stigma of showing emotion by getting intimate with what they are feeling. Feeling a sense of empowerment by consciously choosing.
- Increased disease in the lower 3 chakras is common with men, due to how men are operating or suppressing themselves in today's society. Our survival mechanisms are housed in the lower 3 chakras (eg. erectile dysfunction, colon cancer, prostate issues, testicular cancer, adrenal issues - correlate due to stuck energy in the lower chakras).
- All problems stem from miscommunication. Time & gentleness is needed by women to move through change.
- Everyone can benefit by giving themselves permission to work on themselves.
29 min - 9. The power of breath + ice baths with Campbell
Campbell is a physiotherapist and a certified Wim Hof Method instructor. Alongside the Wim Hof Method, he has explored numerous breathing practices, taking what he finds to be useful and integrating elements into his workshops.
He has combined his love of breath work with his physiotherapy knowledge and has developed workshops designed to teach people how to optimise their respiratory system, and how to use it as a tool for improved health and well-being, stress and anxiety relief, chronic pain management and chronic fatigue. His workshops connect people with their breath, mind and body through movement, targeted tissue release, and specific breathing practices. He has a deep passion for the breath, the body and the nervous system which has driven him to teach others how they too can take control.
To find out more: Facebook - www.facebook.com/breatherapycampbell/ + Instagram www.instagram.com/breatherapy_/
Key points:
- What inspired Campbell to work more with the nervous system during his career as a physiotherapist?
- The nervous system sits on top of the hierarchy for wellness in the body - the master regulator.
- The breath is the way in.
- A moment working in ICU that pushed Campbell further into investigating breath work. It then became his passion & integrated into his physiotherapy practice.
- How can we work WITH stress rather than against it?
- Stress isn't the enemy. How we react to stress is the problem.
- Stress can cause positive adaptation if we have tools to draw on - like breath.
- The power of the visual field & our mind to enter into the parasympathetic nervous system based on Dr Huberman's research.
- Everyone has access to their breath! We can use it to our advantage & positively impact our physiology.
- How breath work & ice baths can increase our confidence.
- Our breath is often overlooked as a tool, because it's free.
- The Wim Hof method is simply a modern package of ancient principles.
- Wim Hof's reason behind his passion was the death of his wife. He is on a mission to heal the world from mental health issues.
- Our body has untapped potential & wisdom but our mind can too often override that.
- Campbell shares the positive results observed from his workshops - weight loss, PTSD, Lyme disease, building resilience, sleep improves & the ability to shed emotional layers.
- Potent reminder: Our mind & body has a deep medicine cabinet that we can access.
42 min - 8. The point of sitting still with Jane Cavanagh
After spending much of her life "not feeling her feelings”, Jane has learnt the importance of recognising how she actually feels and letting that emotion actually exist - even if it feels yuck for a while! Jane lives in Sydney and loves teaching the flute to enthusiastic young (and old) flute players.
In this episode we discuss the point of sitting still. Why we resist the word mindfulness & how meditation can be done in many ways.
22 min - 7. Yoga In Everyday Life with Ash Hope
Ash Hope is on a mission to guide people to their optimal Health and Wellbeing.
With her enthusiasm and dedication she brings out the best in people by integrating yoga, nutrition, mindfulness and meditation. Ash has been practicing the traditional Ashtanga method for over a decade and regularly studies with her teacher Nancy Gilgoff and in India.
She is an Ashtanga Yoga teacher, zen practitioner and facilitator of corporate health and wellbeing programs.
Her plant based diet is a conscious decision out of love for all animals.
Ash has led Yoga teacher training in Thailand, presented at the International Peace day in Cairns and was an Ambassador for the Yoga for Freedom project. She was featured several times in the Connect magazine and appeared on Cairns radio station FM 89.1.
To share her passion for the Ashtanga method, Ash established a regular Mysore program in Cairns, the Sunshine Coast and worked at the Ashtanga Yoga Centre in Melbourne. Along with her partner Geoff she has recently moved to Brisbane to establish her own Ashtanga classes. Ash can be found on Instagram @ashhope.yoga or www.ashyoga.com.au
Key Points:
- What inspired Ash to get into yoga?
- Her injury & her 100 day challenge to begin
- How her first teacher training in India gave her a deeper appreciation beyond the physical postures
- Yoga has a different status in the Indian culture today
- Indian boys can be sent to a school to learn more about chanting & vedic texts – shared via oral tradition
- How does yoga benefit Ash’s day
- Ash’s practice as a daily cleansing ritual, similar to cleaning her teeth or having a shower
- How the structure benefits her Vata constitution
- She never regrets the daily practice despite it being challenging some days
- The 8 limbs of yoga
- Meditation being a practice
- Ash believes if you can breathe, you can do yoga
- The benefit of the teacher student relationship
- Yoga in everyday life with her partner Geoff & how it creates stability & grounding
49 min - What inspired Ash to get into yoga?
- 6. Interior Design & Interior Alchemy - LaToya Burton
LaToya lives in a tiny home on the road with her husband & son. She home schools her son & helps others with their homes & graphics for their business. She has over 15 years experience in design. !0 years at the Bureau of Architecture - a part of the San Fransisco Department of Public Works, designing recreation centres, libraries & city offices. A bachelor or science degree in environmental design/interiors with a minor in African American Studies. More recently LaToya has been delving into decluttering & organising, space redesign, home design consultation for those remodelling & rennovating. She has also been working with sacred space deliving into inner landscapes. Her art & nature photography is available as printable wall art & her graphic design services are available for entrepreneurs who are heartfelt change-makers needing help to express their visual story in a creative way.
Tap into LaToya’s creative laboratory of life through the lens of interiors, imagination & inspiration. Space is her medium.
Key Points:
- The way latoya supports people to create an intentional space
- How Latoya supported Janelle in her own space
- How having an intention makes an impact with your space
- How Latoya began working with individuals
- How decluttering impacts our environment
- Latoya’s journey moving her life into a bus with her family
- Decluttering is not just about being a minimalist, it’s about having things with meaning
- Tools to creating a space that’s more meaningful
- Latoya’s ceremonies and her intention
- Where you can find Latoya - https://www.latoyaburton.com/
28 min - The way latoya supports people to create an intentional space
- 5. The Jade Egg - Increasing sensual pleasure & releasing trauma with Justina Casuarina
Justina Casuarina is a women's educator, focusing on feminine embodiment, women's sexual sovereignty, menstrual wisdom, peri-menopause support and mothering. She specialises in Jade Eggs and the teachings that accompany them, for women's pelvic and sexual health and vitality - essential tools for all women. Justina holds a vision of a world where women carrying shame and guilt in their bodies is a thing of the past, and the new norm is women coming home to themselves, holding great love and reverence within, seeing their bodies as the sacred temples that they are.
Justina is Australia's leading expert on Jade Eggs, having worked and studied closely with the world leading master Dr. Saida Desilets for more the past 11 years. She has trained extensively as well as worked within the realms of the healing arts, dance, women's health, sexuality, birth and wellbeing for the past 20 years. She is a mother of two gorgeous children.
Key Points:
- Justina’s introduction with Jade eggs
- How to use a Jade Egg
- The different jade egg practices
- The main ways Jade eggs can help women
- How they train the muscles around the pelvic floor and vagina
- Libido and orgasm breakthroughs
- Reflexology Points
- Accessing trauma
- Asking the body’s permission
- Holding the awareness that trauma may be released
- Creating a container
- How the Jade egg supports the feminine cycle
- Justina’s next workshops
- How to begin your practice
- Justina’s personal experience
- Reclaiming our bodies as women
- Ancestral clearing
- Where you can find Justina
Relevant Links and Website:
https://www.femininevitality.com/jade-eggs.html
Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1145335762145956/
52 min - Justina’s introduction with Jade eggs
- Justina Casuarina - The Jade Egg - Releasing trauma & increasing sensual pleasure
Justina Casuarina is a women's educator, focusing on feminine embodiment, women's sexual sovereignty, menstrual wisdom, peri-menopause support and mothering. She specialises in Jade Eggs and the teachings that accompany them, for women's pelvic and sexual health and vitality - essential tools for all women. Justina holds a vision of a world where women carrying shame and guilt in their bodies is a thing of the past, and the new norm is women coming home to themselves, holding great love and reverence within, seeing their bodies as the sacred temples that they are.
Justina is Australia's leading expert on Jade Eggs, having worked and studied closely with the world leading master Dr. Saida Desilets for more the past 11 years. She has trained extensively as well as worked within the realms of the healing arts, dance, women's health, sexuality, birth and wellbeing for the past 20 years. She is a mother of two gorgeous children.
Key Points:
- Justina’s introduction with Jade eggs
- How to use a Jade Egg
- The different jade egg practices
- The main ways Jade eggs can help women
- How they train the muscles around the pelvic floor and vagina
- Libido and orgasm breakthroughs
- Reflexology Points
- Accessing trauma
- Asking the body’s permission
- Holding the awareness that trauma may be released
- Creating a container
- How the Jade egg supports the feminine cycle
- Justina’s next workshops
- How to begin your practice
- Justina’s personal experience
- Reclaiming our bodies as women
- Ancestral clearing
- Where you can find Justina
Relevant Links and Website:
https://www.femininevitality.com/jade-eggs.html
Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1145335762145956/
52 min - Justina’s introduction with Jade eggs
- 4. Surrender, Play & Tapping into your truth with Ana Kinkela
Ana Kinkela guides ambitious, freedom-seeking women leaders to reclaim, unleash and embody their true, authentic soul vibration to create an aligned business and life where success isn't a destination, but a state of being that emerges from within. Ana is a mind/body/soul alchemist, with a therapist background, and over 10 years of experience holding and facilitating sacred containers of healing.
Learn more about her by visiting her virtual home at www.anakinkela.com, and/or tuning into her journey on Instagram by following her @theanakinkela.
Key Points:
- Ana’s offerings and how she feels women can navigate their journeys
- How Ana facilitates her work
- Self Criticism and judgements with Entrepreneurs
- Helping people stepping into a place of power
- Learning how to be fully embodied
- Listening to the body and what it wants
- Where Ana’s passion stemmed from
- The importance of movement
- Activating the lower chakras
- Intuitive movement
- Fasting: to shed and let go
- Ana’s move from USA to Costa Rica
- Astrology
- Using astrology to empower how we lead in life
- How to work with Ana and where to find her
Relevant Links and Website:
https://www.anakinkela.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theanakinkela/
39 min - Ana’s offerings and how she feels women can navigate their journeys
- Intuition & that sweet inner knowing with Symmone Gordon
Symmone's website - https://www.symmonegordon.com/
1 hr 1 min - 45 min
About Wellness Alchemy
From the publisher's feed
Inspiration and conversation around the alchemy of health, truth and adventure. Your host, Janelle Twine has been a Naturopath since 2009 running her own clinic, workshops & fasting retreats…
mostly based in tropical North Queensland, Australia. However, now on a bit of journey to finding her new home after changes in her personal life challenged her to question how she lost her zesty spirit & love of life? She is a keen adventurer & is always willing to dig deep into her own soul to find the truth of what health & happiness is all about.