Yoga With Jake Podcast

Jonathan Pageau is a renown, French Canadian, liturgical artist, public speaker, and writer from Quebec. He’s known for his art, where he carves Eastern Orthodox icons, designs  and other traditional images. He is the chief editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal, and also hosts The Symbolic World blog, creating a space for contributors to write articles on symbolism.

He also runs a YouTube channel with over 170k followers, and The Symbolic World podcast, where Jonathan explores how ancient symbolic patterns inform our experiences of the world and can re-enchant contemporary life.

His most recent project is a series of fairy tale books that will have a postmodern and symbolic twist while preserving the integrity and beauty of the stories we all know and love. The first one is a retelling of Snow White, beautifully illustrated by the artist Heather Pollington.

His website is : www.thesymbolicworld.com

Snow White and the Widow Queen Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/symbolicworldpress/snow-white-and-the-widow-queen

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Dr. Jason Stevens is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with fourteen years experience in the field of clinical nutrition.  He received his Master's degree in dietetics from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 2008, and his Doctor of Clinical Nutrition from Rutgers University in 2021.  As part of his doctoral studies, he completed an advanced practice residency with Dr. Susie Gronski, DPT, working primarily with men with chronic pelvic pain, and was awarded a medal for outstanding clinical performance from Rutgers University for his work.  After graduating, he joined Dr. Susie Gronski's integrative health team, which focuses on men's pelvic and sexual health.  In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Stevens is a full-time college professor and has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses on a variety of nutrition related topics.  He has received teaching and faculty excellence awards for his work in higher education.

Topics Covered:
How men should be eating to optimize their pelvic and sexual health.
How diet, exercise and mental health contribute to a bigger picture view on men's pelvic and sexual health.
Common mistakes men make around nutrition.
The social media/click-bait trap.
Supplementation, vitamins and pharmaceutical intervention.
Viagra and ED.
Self-awareness. 
Fad diets such as carnivore and keto diet. 
Fasting and it's effectiveness.
How Dr. Jason become a specialist in men's pelvic and sexual health.

And much more!

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Specializing in men’s pelvic and sexual health for over a decade, Dr. Susie Gronski is a Licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy, Certified Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner, AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, sexuality counselor, an international teacher and author of Pelvic Pain the Ultimate Cock Block. Dr. Susie is the founder of an interdisciplinary pelvic and sexual health clinic exclusively for men. Learn more about Dr. Susie and her team here: https://drsusieg.com/.

Topics Covered:
How to identify a problem.

What is the pelvic floor for men? 
A misleading message on male sexual health.
Sexual and digestive health is physical, mental and emotional. 
How to locate and ‘work out’ your pelvic floor or kegels for men.
For improved sexual and urinary function.
For better bowel and gas control.
Yoga for male pelvic floor health. Poses, How and Why

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Rachel Lando is a teacher of yoga, movement, and anatomy. She is the founder of Patient Care Movement, co-founder of Mindful. Summit County, and hosts Anatomy and Physiology for Improved Fitness, CE workshops for yoga professionals, movement enthusiasts, and the chronic illness community.

Rachel felt called to yoga and mindfulness following her diagnosis in 2012 with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune condition. She has since eased into a personal movement and meditation practice, certified as an E-RYT200, and pursued advanced education in mat + reformer pilates, Yoga Tune Up®, Roll Model Method®, Breath and Bliss, biomechanics, trauma-sensitive yoga, and mindfulness.  She lives in Park City, UT, where she enjoys teaching weekly classes, being outdoors and spending time with her husband, her 7-year-old daughter, and her dog Jet.

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Jack Feldman is a distinguished professor of neurobiology at University of California Los Angeles and David Geffen School of Medicine Chair in Neuroscience. He is a pioneer in the field of respiration by discovering the areas of the brain where inhalations and exhalations are initiated. He is also a co-author of a paper published in March 2022, in the Annual Review of Neuroscience titled Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion.

According to Feldman, when we experience something, we see, hear and smell it simultaneously via different paths (eyes, ears, nose)  into the brain but we perceive it as one object, which is a process called binding. The rhythm of our breath, which we can control, is playing a role of binding, as well as in many other processes going on in our brains. By modulating our breath, we can modify these processes, changing our mood and behavior. 

“By disrupting the circuit, what happens is you feel calmer, you feel better,” Feldman says. “If you’re clinically depressed, changing your breathing pattern might help relieve your depression. If you’re clinically anxious, it might help relieve your anxiety. Not only acutely, but if you do it successfully over multiple days and weeks, it can actually begin to change that circuit for long term relief.”

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Jill is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, athletics, massage, and pain-management, having studied movement and the human body for more than 30 years.

She is the author of the best-selling books, BODY by BREATH, and THE ROLL MODEL, and creator of the fitness formats Tune Up Fitness® and The Roll Model® Method. Miller is also a contributing author to the medical text, FASCIA, FUNCTION and MEDICAL APPLICATIONS.

Known as the Teacher’s Teacher, Jill has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Shape, Men’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Yoga Journal, Self, and on the Today Show, Good Morning America and featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network. She has trained thousands of movement educators, clinicians, and manual therapists to incorporate her paradigm shifting self-care fitness programming into athletic and medical facility programs internationally.

Jill is a wife, mother of two children and a rescue dog, a dark chocolate lover and has recommitted to her first love, singing.

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Dr. Tom Walters is a board-certified orthopedic physical therapist that specializes in the treatment of pain and movement disorders. He is the founder of Rehab Science and dedicates his time to teaching people about human movement, pain, and how to most effectively recover from injury.
 
Tom's book (Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury) will be released on May 30th, 2023. The book was written with the specific intention of teaching others how to treat pain and injuries on their own and contains comprehensive rehab programs for the 50 most common injuries and pain issues.

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Dr. Alhamza Al-Bayati is a neuroendovascular surgeon and vascular neurologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Stroke Institute and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. 

We discuss everything involved with stroke including how someone like my previous guest, Michael Johnson could suffer a stroke, despite being very healthy.

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Michael Johnson, a four-time Olympic track champion, suffered a stroke five years ago. Here, he talks about his biggest keys to stroke recovery success.

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Deepak Chopra, world-renowned spiritual teacher, public speaker and author, has dedicated his life to help others. At 76-years-old, Chopra continues to practice yoga, breathwork and meditation every day. His personal practice and modern interpretation of yoga philosophy is the basis for his new book “Living in the Light,” which will be released in January.

In his book, Chopra lays-out a 30-day program that unpacks the eight pillars of raja or royal yoga. Each principal is accompanied with exercises to put these theories into action. The book is co-authored by Chopra’s yoga teacher, Sarah Platt-Finger, who organizes a set of 50 yoga poses, their benefits and how to practice them.

Here, Chopra explains his purpose for writing this book and shares his personal thoughts and yoga routines.

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