Yoga With Jake Podcast

Dr. Erica Sharpe is a clinical human researcher at the National University of Natural Medicine, and a professor of chemistry at SUNY Canton. Erica specializes in yoga nidra  (yogic sleep) and natural medicine. She joins me for a follow-up conversation about the content of a traditional yoga nidra practice and why it is important to follow it. Yoga nidra has exploded in popularity, and there are many variations of it on apps and the internet - Erica provides clarity about a traditional yoga nidra practice to find the science-backed benefits.

Yoga Nidra Book: https://www.biharyoga.net/yoga-nidra.php

Traditional Yoga Nidra : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5-AJL0_w6y7ewvHnm4M4SfdLnuBzF--L&si=4-A9DuC0qnPgNCqf

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Dr. Kate Pate is a PhD neurophysiologist, coach, entrepreneur, and researcher. Her doctoral research focused on respiratory neurophysiology and understanding the brain-breath-body connection. She explored her fascination around this subject further and through a different lens by later becoming a yoga, meditation, and breathwork instructor. This included obtaining her RYT200, somatic meditation training, and trauma-informed yoga training for the military community.

 During her postdoctoral fellowship and early faculty days, Kate's research focused on redox biology as it relates to inflammatory disease processes and injuries, including traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury. TBI has always been a primary area of interest for her - from a scientific perspective as much as a personal one, having sustained multiple head injuries herself.

 Kate later became a medical school professor and research director before being pulled into industry where she became a program director for a new combat casualty care military research program. Because she had a brother who was a medic in the Special Operations community at the time, this seemed like a perfect way to apply her research skills in a more meaningful way.

 Eventually, Kate decided to start her own organization with a close friend and business partner, and she founded Coruna Medical, a military-specific medical company that creates innovative solutions to address the medical problems facing military service members and veterans. By spending so much time working with active duty service members, veterans, and first responders in the medical space, Kate made lots of friends among these communities and soon realized that many within her network were struggling with complex health issues. What began as her best attempt to explain physiology, TBI, stress, toxic exposures, trauma, and mental health soon turned into her passion and then her purpose. 

 When Kate decided to make helping her friends an official career path, she pursued formal coaching training rooted in a transformational recovery perspective, which included specific training around psychedelic integration and addiction recovery. This was followed by training in functional medicine through The Institute for Functional Medicine, and then further training in psychedelic medicine as a facilitator. She cares deeply about her faith and the spiritual health of others, and to that end she is currently pursuing a graduate degree in theology. 

 Kate has served on multiple boards, worked with numerous organizations – including the NFL – and has made many podcast appearances over the years. In her spare time, you can find her breathing in the fresh mountain air.

Kate's instagram: @doc.pate

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Beth Linker, a former physical therapist, is an author and professor of the history of science, disability, and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America, reveals the little-known and surprising origins of our fears and ideas about poor posture. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, Time, Psyche, The New England Journal of Medicine, and U.S.A. Today. 

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Beth's website: bethlinker.com

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Dr Torkil Færø is a GP and emergency physician, documentary filmmaker,
author and photographer. Over a 26-year career as a freelance doctor, he has
worked all over Norway, had hundred thousand consultations and thus gained
a unique picture of the diseases that plague us. He learned that the cause
is most often found in the stresses our lifestyles place on our bodies. When
his father died at 73, he realized that he had to change his own lifestyle. Being
40 pounds overweight, under-trained, over-stressed, under-slept and drinking alcohol daily, he learned that this life- style could deprive him of decades.

Using wearables he found a way to track and regulate his nervous system and
physiology. Færø is an award-winning photographer, author of The Camera
Cure, and has made TV films about his pilgrimages to Nidaros and Santiago de
Compostela. An inveterate traveller, he has visited over 80 countries, and speaks eight languages. He lives in Norway.

THE PULSE CURE has dominated the Norwegian best-sellers lists for 69 weeks and counting. This is the first and only book that teaches how to use wearables to track
heart rate variability and gives a practical and holistic plan to improve overall health. The Pulse Cure is translated into seven languages.

Instagram: @doc_torkil

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Krystle Zuniga PhD, RD, CSO, LD

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.

Owner, Cancer Nutrition HQ.

Krystle is an experienced clinician, educator, scientist, and science communicator. Her research in the area of nutrition, physical activity, and cancer has been published in Cancer Prevention Research, Journal of Nutrition, Nutrition and Cancer, and Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. In addition to her current position as Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at University of Texas at Austin, she is a board certified oncology dietitian and owner of the private practice and social media account Cancer Nutrition HQ, where she strives to combat misinformation, share the latest research in nutrition and cancer, and translate the science into everyday actions cancer survivors can take to support their health and quality of life with nutrition. Krystle is also a founding board member of the Moving Beyond Cancer Collaborative, a non-profit that provides accessible and affordable integrative oncology health and wellness services.

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Kelly Chase is an entrepreneur, social influencer, speaker and reality TV star best known for her role as a castmate on the breakaway hit Netflix show, Love Is Blind. Audiences across the globe fell in love with Kelly for her genuine personality, unwavering confidence and her commitment to staying true to who she is.

Kelly is the founder of the coaching program “Goddess Magic” which combines business strategy and mindset and relationship coaching to help women act like the person they desire to be, improve their confidence, and master their self-worth, creating a life they crave.

The road to self-love and confidence has been an important part of Kelly’s journey. Kelly has overcome a number of personal challenges including body image insecurities and financial debt. As a survivor of sexual assault, Kelly knows how it feels to be voiceless, and has made it her mission to empower women to find their voice and step into their confidence.

Kelly is a sought-after speaker who shares her story of overcoming personal challenges and motivates others to do the same. With over 400,000 followers on social media, Kelly uses her platform and voice to inspire others to “chase life” and make the most of where they are in their journey.

Host of the ChaseLife with Kelly Podcast 
Motivational Speaker, Entrepreneur & Content Creator 
@chaselifewithkelly : Instagram
ChaseLife with Kelly on YouTube
@iamkellychase : TikTok
www.chaselifewithkelly.com 

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Jay K. Harness, MD, FACS is the Chief Medical Officer at Maple Tree Cancer Alliance. He is an emeritus breast surgeon at both St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA and Northern Inyo Hospital in Bishop, CA. He is a recent Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, Irvine. He spent 28 years of his career in full-time academic positions.

Dr. Harness received both his MD degree and training in general surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. He then remained on the faculty at Michigan and developed one of the first United States academic multidisciplinary breast cancer centers in 1985. Dr. Harness left the University of Michigan in 1989 and spent two years at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston where he also established a multidisciplinary breast cancer center at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. Subsequently, he came to Oakland, California in 1991 to join the University of California-East Bay Department of Surgery where he was a Professor and Chief of Surgical Oncology at Highland General Hospital. The opportunity to develop his third multidisciplinary breast cancer program at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA came in the summer of 2003. He started his fourth multidisciplinary breast cancer program at Northern Inyo Hospital in Bishop, CA in 2016.

Over the years, Dr. Harness has been known for his work in the fields of endocrine and breast surgery, as well as the use of ultrasound in surgical practice. He is a member of several national and international surgical societies and associations. He is a Past- President of: The American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS), the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) and Breast Surgery International (BSI). He has authored over 100 scientific articles and book chapters and has been the lead editor of 3 textbooks. The Breast Cancer Answers Book, and Operative Approaches to Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy: Indications, Techniques, & Outcomes are his most recent books. He is a co-founder and Medical Director of Breast Cancer Answers, which is a Social Media video site for breast cancer patients, family members and friends. (www.breastcanceranswers.com) He is also the founder of Cancer Fitness, which is an educational website about the nature and value of Exercise Oncology Programs. (https://cancerfitness.org/)

His current focus is making “Exercise Oncology” a standard of adjunctive care for cancer patients nationally and internationally.

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Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021 and 2023; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her 2019 book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley), has been translated into 15 languages. Edmondson’s latest book, Right Kind of Wrong (Atria), builds on her prior work on psychological safety and teaming to provide a framework for thinking about, discussing, and practicing the science of failing well. First published in the US and in the UK (Penguin) in September, 2023, the book is due to be translated into 24 additional languages, and was selected for the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year award.

Visit her website here: amycedmondson.com

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Laura has her Master’s in Couples and Family Therapy and has recently started her work in a PhD program studying Applied Behavioral Neuroscience. Laura is interested in studying the impact of water therapy on the vagal tone as a way of reconceptualizing PTSD treatment and our understanding of suicidal ideation. Laura is also a hybrid coach, specializing in in water confidence and strength training. In Laura’s free time, she spends her time painting, taking the dogs to dog beach, skiing, surfing and diving. 

Laura's Instagram: @lauragordon__

If you would like to stay in touch about my Online, Yoga For Dudes, Brand-New Beginner's series, reach out to me directly: 
E-mail: [email protected]
Text: 267.275.3890

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