Worrier to Warrior

This week Lisa shares the many ways her life changed over quarantine and the inspirations that supported her through a cross-border move, disenchantment with the wellness industry and a newfound purpose to work with young people struggling with their mental health.

Find out more about us and our offerings:

• aimeepruitt.com
• lisadumasyoga.com

Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

Our first brand new episode in a year chronicles Aimee’s experience as a new business owner and a nurse navigating the pandemic and the practices that helped her along the way. 

Join us for a Radiant Summer! Our robust course is back and includes seven thoughtfully crafted master classes and supportive material featuring wisdom from the paths of yoga and system of ayurveda. A Radiant Summer is intended to offer skills to tend to possible imbalances that can be heightened in the warmer months like emotional reactivity, intrusive thoughts, addictive tendencies and burnout. On your own time, enjoy each 120-minute experience featuring specific meditations, breath techniques, movements, philosophy, lifestyle skills, recipes and more to help you feel calm, cool and inspired during the summer of 2021. Find out more by visiting www.aradiantyear.com 

Find out more about us and our offerings:

• aimeepruitt.com
• lisadumasyoga.com

Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

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One year ago, Aimee and Lisa stepped away from the podcast, not knowing when they would return, because who could make a plan in 2020? Aimee had to prioritize her work as an experienced Registered Nurse in a global pandemic and Lisa was in the middle of a Covid pivot which included big changes for her whole family. 

In this bonus episode, we come back for an update and a re-listen to last year’s solstice episode, because it’s brimming with what you need to know about harmonizing with the summer season from an Ayurvedic and yoga therapy perspective. We share a bit about what’s changed in a year, but we’ll save our major catch-up for our first official new episode coming out on Tuesday, June 29th!

Today also marks the release of our signature digital program- A Radiant Summer! This robust course includes seven thoughtfully crafted master classes and supportive material featuring wisdom from the paths of yoga and system of ayurveda. A Radiant Summer is intended to offer skills to tend to possible imbalances that can be heightened in the warmer months like emotional reactivity, intrusive thoughts, addictive tendencies and burnout. On your own time, enjoy each 120-minute experience featuring specific meditations, breath techniques, movements, philosophy, lifestyle skills, recipes and more to help you feel calm, cool and inspired during the summer of 2021. Find out more by visiting www.aradiantyear.com 

Go deeper into the tools that can help to harmonize you with the summer season in our signature series “A Radiant Summer”

Find out more about us and our offerings:

• aimeepruitt.com
• lisadumasyoga.com

Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

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From an Ayurvedic perspective, the beginning of summer signals the start of “pitta” season, a time of year related to the element of fire. For those of us with already “fiery” natures, this is an opportunity to be mindful of the effects of increased heat in our bodies and minds. You might be surprised at what can flare up right now, including addictive tendencies, especially with the collective upheaval and transformation so many of us are experiencing. Listen in on this conversation that is intended to remind us we are more connected than we are separate and each of us is battling our own fire within. 

Go deeper into the tools that can help to harmonize you with the summer season in our signature series “A Radiant Summer”

This episode is sponsored by Better Help 

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• lisadumasyoga.com

Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

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In the midst of worldwide protests to end systemic racism, white people are being called to acknowledge and dismantle our biases and take actions that can sustain change toward equality. This week Aimee and Lisa offer resources for continued education and share how our spiritual practices can help us to be in the discomfort of our roles in racial injustice while doing what we can to create a society where black lives matter. 

Resources:

• Tracee Stanley https://traceeyoga.com/
• Michelle Johnson: https://www.michellecjohnson.com/about

Books:

• Skill in Action: Michelle C. Johnson
• Me and White Supremacy 

Documentary: 

• 13TH. This piercing, Oscar-nominated film won Best Documentary at the Emmys, the BAFTAs and the NAACP Image Awards. It combines archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

Find out more about us and our offerings:

• aimeepruitt.com
• lisadumasyoga.com

Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

After a pause from the podcast, Aimee and Lisa are back with a conversation about processing the collective challenges we’ve been facing. They share how celebration and joy can exist alongside worry and difficult emotions and some examples from their lives. They also talk about what they want to remember about these months apart and announce an opportunity to come together to be intentional about making our way back out into the world. 

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21 Intentional Days June 1st- June 21st

We envision spending 21 days being thoughtful about how we spend our energy and what we bring into our spaces, our minds and our hearts. Read more and join us here: 21 Days

Singer-Songwriter mentioned on the show: Jim Witter, Spotify

Find out more about us and our offerings:

• aimeepruitt.com
• lisadumasyoga.com

Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

This week Aimee and Lisa acknowledge the challenge to remain steady amidst the ever-changing news and regulations announced to battle the spread of COVID-19. They share what’s coming up for them, what wisdom traditions offer about handling troubling times and a few simple tools and concepts to stay with ourselves when overwhelm arises.

The Worrier to Warrior Digital Workshop

This almost 2-hour accessible yoga, meditation and personal development workshop includes accessible breath techniques, movements and grounding skills to relax the nervous system and promote the healing of excess worry. It intends to re-educate an overly fearful mind and relax a depleted, nervous body. It offers inspirations to cultivate a kinder inner dialogue, uncover and tend to unhelpful thought patterns and build a boundary of self-worth to help build resilience to self-consciousness and shame.

Purchase the course here for $39.00.

Find out more about us and our offerings:

• aimeepruitt.com
• lisadumasyoga.com

Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

While Aimee is called to use her skills as a registered nurse in Columbus, Ohio, Lisa hosts solo and offers a practice she hopes will be helpful. 

There’s a lot of information out there about the benefits of meditation. If you haven’t had a regular practice, it’s a hard time to start something new. Even for experienced meditators, it’s a challenge to sit quietly for an extended amount of time right now. 

So we hope you enjoy this version of the guided practice of yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) with the intention of cultivating an inner resource of peace and safety. This method might feel more easeful because you will be invited to lie down while your mind is guided to focal points around the body and visualizations intended to relax the body completely, while the mind stays awake. This kind of rest is called “productive rest” because you enter a state of healing akin to deep sleep. 

Yoga Nidra has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, emotional reactivity and chronic pain while supporting focus and sleep. 

You will need about 25 minutes of free, quiet time for this practice. Please practice anytime you need a break, a rejuvenation or some emotional support. 

Here are some other resources to help you tend to anxiety from Lisa:

Online classes (live and recorded): Take a class

The Worrier to Warrior Digital Workshop- Therapeutic Skills to Soothe and Anxious Mind and Body 

This week we talk to Masters Level Counselor and EMDR Facilitator Susan Guttridge about how to process our own varied emotions and reactions to social distancing while being in close proximity to those we live with for an unknown amount of time. 

Susan also shares wisdom and advice for those living alone, for those who are in relationships experiencing conflict, for parents dealing with small kids or teenagers and how this time might be an opportunity for greater connection and personal growth...or to watch Tiger King....

Susan’s new book about regulating emotion is titled Calm in the Storm: A collection of simple strategies you can use right now to shift out of anxiety is available here: amazon.com/author/susanguttridge

Contact Susan here:
250-938-5580

livehappycounselling.com

susanguttridge.wordpress.com

Resources:

Ana Gomez book for children about coronavirus: The Story of the Oyster and the Butterfly 

The Worrier to Warrior Digital Workshop

This almost 2-hour accessible yoga, meditation and personal development workshop includes accessible breath techniques, movements and grounding skills to relax the nervous system and promote the healing of excess worry. It intends to re-educate an overly fearful mind and relax a depleted, nervous body. It offers inspirations to cultivate a kinder inner dialogue, uncover and tend to unhelpful thought patterns and build a boundary of self-worth to help build resilience to self-consciousness and shame.

Purchase the course here for $39.00.

Find out more about us and our offerings:

• aimeepruitt.com
• lisadumasyoga.com

Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

As a registered nurse for the last 25 years, host Aimee Pruitt is on the front lines of our current health crisis in her home state of Ohio. She’s feeling strongly about the actions that we are taking as a global community right now and tells us why it’s time to stay the f@!k home. 

Lisa and Aimee share what it’s been like in their cities and how they’ve been processing all that has been canceled and lost and how they’ve been dealing with these unprecedented times. They talk about the importance of feeling the feelings and being there for each other even while it’s prudent to physically be apart.

The Worrier to Warrior Digital Workshop

This almost 2-hour accessible yoga, meditation and personal development workshop includes accessible breath techniques, movements and grounding skills to relax the nervous system and promote the healing of excess worry. It intends to re-educate an overly fearful mind and relax a depleted, nervous body. It offers inspirations to cultivate a kinder inner dialogue, uncover and tend to unhelpful thought patterns and build a boundary of self-worth to help build resilience to self-consciousness and shame.

Purchase the course here for $39.00.

Find out more about us and our offerings:

• aimeepruitt.com
• lisadumasyoga.com

Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.