Yoga With Jake Podcast

After completing a PhD in Neuroscience and training in psychiatry, John Kruse began working with adults with ADHD - at a time when the condition was widely thought to be present only in children. He has written several hundred popular articles on ADHD and other mental health topics as well as posting more than 300 informative videos on his YouTube channel and hosting a weekly Q & A session. After three decades in San Francisco, he moved to the Big Island of Hawaii in 2022 where he continues to enjoy nature, hike, and run.

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Links to Dr. Kruse's sites:

https://www.drjohnkruse.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@DrJohnKruse

https://dockruse.substack.com/

https://medium.com/@dockruse

https://www.facebook.com/DrJohnKruse

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Lauren Colenso-Semple is a science communicator with expertise in female physiology and exercise. She holds a Ph.D. in Integrative Physiology from McMaster University and a Master’s in Exercise Science from the University of South Florida. Through her research, teaching, public speaking, and online platforms, Dr. Lauren is known for making complex topics accessible—and for calling out the myths that hold women back from reaching their health and fitness goals. She is also a co-owner of the MASS Research Review, where she helps bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and practical fitness strategies. 

Instagram: @drlaurencs1

Website: https://www.drlaurencs.com/

MASS Research Review: https://massresearchreview.com/

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Kamini Desai, PhD, is an internationally recognized authority on Yoga Nidra and yogic psychology. A teacher and author with more than 30 years of experience, she is the co-founder of I AM Yoga Nidra®, founder of I AM Yoga Therapy®, and author of Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep. She is also the creator of the I AM Being app, bringing evidence-informed practices of deep relaxation, meditation, and self-awareness to a contemporary audience. In 2012, she was honored with the title Yogeshwari, recognizing her mastery of yoga and her ability to make its deeper teachings accessible to the modern world.

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Ryan Soave is a licensed mental health counselor with over 15 years of experience helping people navigate trauma, addiction, and the survival patterns that quietly run their lives. His clinical approach integrates evidence-based psychotherapy with body-based practices like breathwork and yoga nidra, all built around one central idea: we often confuse discomfort with threat, and learning to tolerate discomfort is the first step to real change. He was featured on the Huberman Lab podcast, where Dr. Andrew Huberman called him “the person you call when life
breaks down.” Ryan lives in Delray Beach, Florida, with his wife, three children, and their dog.

Ryan's website

Ryan's e-mail: [email protected]

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Julie Korioth is the Founder and CEO of Nui Sport. With more than 20 years of experience in counseling, coaching, education, and entrepreneurship, she has spent her career helping people build confidence, resilience, and emotional well-being.

After seeing firsthand the growing pressures facing student-athletes and the lack of accessible mental performance support, Julie founded Nui Sport to bring practical, scalable mental performance tools to athletes, coaches, and schools. With more than 20 years of experience in counseling, coaching, education, and entrepreneurship, and as a former Board Member of the SIMS Foundation, she has built trusted relationships across education, mental health, healthcare, and youth sports. Today, she leads Nui Sport’s vision, strategic partnerships, fundraising, and growth.

Website: www.getnui.com

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Chad Angellotti is a licensed clinical social worker, mental performance coach, and founder of Flow State Sports and Mental Performance Coaching. For over 15 years, he’s helped people navigate stress, anxiety, burnout, and high-pressure environments. Today, he combines clinical psychology, breathwork, and performance science to help athletes, professionals, and teams unlock flow state and perform at their best. Chad is the creator of the Prescribing Safety framework, an original model for understanding burnout and professional resilience, and he serves as the Senior Mental Performance Coach for the SUNY Oneonta Women’s Soccer program. His work focuses on one central idea: when people feel safe, they perform better.

Contact Chad: [email protected]

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Dr. St-Onge is the founding Director of the Center of Excellence for Sleep & Circadian Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The overall focus of her research program is the study of the impact of lifestyle, specifically sleep and diet, on cardiometabolic health. Dr. St-Onge has been NIH-funded since 2008, conducting innovative, cutting-edge clinical research combining her expertise on sleep, nutrition, and energy balance regulation to address questions related to the role of circadian rhythms, including sleep duration and timing as well as meal timing and eating patterns, on cardiometabolic risk. Dr. St-Onge was Center Director for the American Heart Association funded Go Red for Women Strategically Focused Research Center, aimed at determining the causality of the relation between sleep and cardiovascular disease and the specific role that sleep plays in the health of women throughout the life cycle. She is a pioneer in this field, having chaired the first scientific statements endorsed by the AHA on sleep and cardiometabolic health as well as meal timing and frequency and cardiovascular disease risk prevention. More recently, she chaired a follow-up scientific statement highlighting the role of multidimensional sleep health for cardiometabolic health. She is a Fulbright Scholar, and the recipient of an NHLBI Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. St-Onge has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is author of Eat Better, Sleep Better: 75 recipes and a 28-day meal plan that unlock the food-sleep connection.

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Ross Rayburn is a performance strategist, author, and speaker who teaches people how to use their body, mind, and breath as precision instruments for modern life. Drawing on three decades of yoga and contemplative practice, his work helps individuals and organizations access clarity, composure, and presence — in the moments that matter most. Ross has been teaching yoga, yoga therapeutics and meditation for 27 years, leading workshops and teacher trainings in 33 countries. 

He is the author of Turning Inward (Hachette Go, 2024), a former Peloton instructor, and has worked with executives, elite athletes, and artists navigating complexity at the highest levels.

Ross' Substack

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Dr. Karen Mustian is an energetic, passionate scientist, world traveler, yogi, scuba diver, and foodie whose life’s work is dedicated to improving the quality of life of individuals affected by cancer. Through her research, leadership, and advocacy, she strives to help cancer patients and survivors not only live longer, but live better.

Dr. Mustian is a Dean’s Distinguished Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center and an internationally recognized leader in Cancer Survivorship, Integrative Oncology, Exercise Oncology, Geriatric Oncology, Behavioral Oncology, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Health.

She serves as Associate Director for Population Science at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, Director of the University of Rochester Cancer Center NCI Community Oncology Research Program Clinical Trial Network and Founding Director of the PEAK Human Performance Research Laboratory at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She is also a Faculty Associate with the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.

At the national level, Dr. Mustian serves on the National Cancer Institute Cancer Advisory Board Working Group for Extramural Research Concepts and Programs and the National Cancer Institute Symptom Management and Quality of Life Steering Committee, where she helps shape the future of cancer research and supportive care. Dr. Mustian has secured more than $145 million in peer-reviewed research funding and ranks among the most highly NIH-funded researchers in the United States. She has authored more than 250 scientific publications and is widely recognized for her pioneering contributions to oncology research, supportive care, and clinical trial innovation.

Her accomplishments have been honored with more than 45 national and international awards, including recognition as a Fulbright Scholar, recipient of the ASCO Walther Supportive Oncology Lifetime Achievement Award, and recipient of the Prime Minister’s Yoga Award for her transformative impact on yoga research worldwide. Dr. Mustian is best known for advancing evidence-based, integrative approaches to cancer care. Through groundbreaking research on yoga, tai chi, mindfulness, and exercise, she has helped establish non-pharmacologic interventions as effective strategies for reducing treatment- related toxicities, improving symptom management, and enhancing the health and well-being of
cancer patients and survivors around the globe.

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Neil Theise (thee-ss) is adjunct professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through his scientific research, he has been a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity and the anatomy of the human interstitium.  Dr. Theise's book, "Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being" calls on his studies in complexity theory to address topics such as consciousness studies and science-religion dialogue.  Recently his scientific understandings of integrative medicine have been highlighted in the New York Times, on The Telepathy Tapes, and soon in the documentary, "Phenomena Healing."  His next book, "Sarah in the In-Between", relating his mother's elder years' adventures in non-local consciousness will be published by Spiegel & Grau in 2027.  

Neil's Website

Neil's Book: Notes On Complexity

More on Interstitum:

NY Times

Radiolab

Forthcoming:

Phenomena Healing Podcast

Phenomena Healing Documentary

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