Episodes

  • Infertility and Millennials: Ayurvedic Advice for Virility + Fertility with Vrinda Devani

    Infertility and Millennials: Ayurvedic Advice for Virility + Fertility with Vrinda Devani

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Fertility is a strong reflection of the health and resilience of our bodies. In today’s population, especially in millenials, we are seeing an increase in infertility. With a modern environment that constantly provides a plethora of stimuli and stressors, it is easy to lose the space that our body requires to reproduce. Vrinda Devani, OBGYN, explains how infertility is often a sign of an underlying health imbalance in individuals.

    When our ojus, the element that creates homeostasis and immunity in the body, is imperfect, so is our fertility.

    Cate and Vrinda discuss how the critical health issues and infertility of millennials can be interpreted from an Eastern perspective. Poor breathing and stagnation, especially in the lower body and hips, is prevalent in modern society. Although this lack of natural space in the body can drive infertility, a Western perspective ignores this connection. By doing simple things such as getting into nature, singing, a changing out diet and even our makeup products, we can strongly enhance our fertility without unnatural interventions such as progesterone.

    There are many avenues to explore to address fertility issues, and Cate encourages us to explore and optimize the practices that work for us.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: How to solve infertility Why infertility is an issue How millennials can increase thrive

     Common Links: YogiDetox Fall Banyan Botanicals Ayurveda Dosha quiz Body Thrive Course Webpage The best question for emotional detox with Dr. Mary Jo Cravatta Show Highlights: 2:45 - When our ojus, the creator of homeostasis in the body, is off, so is our health and fertility. Poor digestion and absorption of food is a sign of this and can be addressed through practices that increase space and improve breath in the body. 8:45 - Stagnation is rampant in our modern environment, where we move less and snack more. This loss of activity is critically linked to the decrease in the space and fertility we may be finding in our bodies. 20:40 - With meditation, breathing practices, and other ayurvedic habits, we can seriously direct our consciousness and energy to other loci in our bodies. By learning how to direct this energy to our womb and fertility centers, we can restore the “juiciness” and vitality that was otherwise lost.


    Your Favorite Quotes: “If you’re not fertile, what does that really mean?” - Cate Stillman “The level of stagnation in day to day movement is just at an all time high.” - Cate Stillman “Fertility is the creative power, and creative power only happens when there is space.” - Dr.Vrinda Devani

     Guest BIO:

    Dr.Vrinda Devani, M.D., is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Vrinda Devani with a passion for women's health and empowering women towards vibrant health and living. As a physician, she utilizes a blend of complementary and allopathic medicine in an effort to empower women to obtain a higher level of health and vitality. Vrinda is also the research director for Banyan Botanicals, an influential Ayurvedic company that disseminates valuable information and products. She has studied Ayurveda extensively under Dr. Vasant Lad in addition to studying Ayurvedic medicine in Nepal with Dr. Sarita Shrestha. Vrinda possesses a passion for yoga and is a certified AyurYoga teacher. With a family that also practices Ayurveda, and a loving husband of ten years, she has a great support system. Vrinda emphasizes how Ayurveda has allowed her to “see how the body is in constant interaction with its environment, other souls, and, most importantly, the mind and spirit.”

  • Chinese Medicine Formulas for Better Sleep with Dr. Eric Karchmer

    Chinese Medicine Formulas for Better Sleep with Dr. Eric Karchmer

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    When we are looking to feel better or to improve chronic health issues, we may turn to a range of remedies, including drugs or lifestyle changes. However, it is easy to lose hope when these remedies or changes do not work, which is oftentimes the case. Drugs are likely to target only symptoms of disease, and not the actual root cause. People following Ayurvedic habits may find they feel better, but that they can’t completely achieve the health transformation they seek in order to thrive.

    Eric Karchmer has 20 years of education in Chinese medicine, and through his work at Dao Labs, he is bringing ancient wisdom back to modern times. Dao Labs offers herbal remedies for a variety of health issues, and they are all rooted in the ancient teachings of Chinese herbal medicine.

    Eric and Cate chat about what Chinese medicine has to offer to the modern world with knowledge regarding herbs and herbal combinations. The products at Dao Labs address common underlying health issues in the population, so more people can bring this great wisdom into their modern lives. We know that not getting enough sleep can cause a myriad of health issues down the road. Dao Labs offers two different sleep remedies based on different underlying imbalances.

    Often, even with lifestyle changes, we need something more to really get at the imbalances in our systems in order to feel better, and thrive sooner. Chinese medicine can be that powerful missing piece that gets us headed in the right direction.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: How Chinese medicine can improve your sleep Why it is important to combine herbs in remedies How to address underlying deficiencies

    Common Links:

    YogiDetox Fall DAO Labs The Mystical Powers of Your Internal Organs A Chinese Medicine Perspective
    Show Highlights: 8:30 - In our modern age, we have drifted from nature and lost contact with the plants around us. By utilizing traditional Chinese medicine, we can see how different plants and herbs powerfully interact to treat a wide range of underlying health issues and deficiencies. 19:50 - Dao Labs advertises two formulas to help with sleep, which is something many people struggle with across the world. Each one addresses separate underlying deficiencies which manifest as different symptoms. One of them might be right for you. 27:20 - Even if we are following profound lifestyle habits such as those taught in Ayurveda, this may not be enough to overcome underlying physiological imbalances that plague our health. An herbal formula taken regularly for a period of time can correct these imbalances and take you to the next level. Your Favorite Quotes: “As soon as it gets to complexity, people are already overwhelmed.” - Cate Stillman “There’s a certain ways of thinking about plants and their properties and how they work together that is very helpful” - Dr. Eric Karchmer “There is this huge respect for the intelligence for these plants.” - Cate Stillman “Anything made in a lab denatures your pallet.” - Cate Stillman Guest BIO:

    Dr. Eric Karchmer’s interest in Chinese medicine began when he visited Taiwan to teach English 30 years ago. He holds both a PhD in Anthropology and a Bachelor of Medicine from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. His research focuses on modern developments of Chinese medicine in China. With over 20 years of education in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dr. Eric Karchmer develops DAO Labs’ proprietary herbal formulas.

    As a respected academic thought leader and practitioner of Chinese Medicine, Eric designs the most efficacious mix of herbs to bring balance to the mind, body and spirit. He has published several academic articles and is currently working on the final copy of his new book, Double Truths, Postcolonial Transformations in Chinese Medicine.
    In addition to regularly teaching at Appalachian State University, Eric can also be found helping clients using Chinese medicine at his clinic in Boone, North Carolina. At his clinic, he practices both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. His wife and three children are, not surprisingly, big fans of Chinese medicine as well. Connect with Dr. Eriv on Website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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  • The YogiDetox Experience with Miranda Smith and Gale Edison

    The YogiDetox Experience with Miranda Smith and Gale Edison

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Being a nurse, Miranda was apprehensive when she first heard of detox growing in popularity. After having gone through YogiDetox herself, however, Miranda has seen first-hand the massive benefits detoxing has had on her health. Gale and Miranda chat about the transformational experience that this program has brought to so many people. Often in our busy modern lives, it can be really great for us to take a step back from things that aren’t serving us. Detoxing allows us to remove ourselves from our everyday lifestyles, so we can more easily cut out foods that we don’t realize are negatively impacting us.

    Additionally, it encourages stricter adherence to practices and habits that serve us well, such as going to bed early. Cate Stillman has designed YogiDetox so that you have the power to design your own detox and do it how you want. Miranda emphasizes how it is less about increasing stress through strict adherence to guidelines, and more about doing the things that you know serve your health best. Detoxing allows us to get back into alignment and balance with ourselves, and YogiDetox provides the support we need to get there.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: Why detoxing can be so transformative Why you should do YogiDetox What eliminating certain foods can tell us Links Mentioned in Episode: YogiDetox Fall Intermittent Fasting, Detoxing And The Ayurvedic Clock The Detox Path of Deep Nourishment with Deanna Minich
    Show Highlights: 3:38 - Miranda discusses with Gale how YogiDetox is designed for participants to design their detox to fit what they need at any given time in their lives. It is powerfully transformative to take a step back from things that aren’t serving you, and to do little experiments in your lifestyle and diet to see the changes that result. 5:50 - YogiDetox allows you to go about your detox individually while also having access to a community of people going through the same experience. While Miranda detoxed more on her own, she underscores the value of the Facebook community for answering questions, providing support, and showing how others are handling the detox journey. 11:45 - Miranda emphasizes looking at our local environment, including local plants that grow, to see how we can utilize these resources to feed our health. Invasive weeds can serve as abundant sources of local nutrients that connect us with what our environment is providing for us.

    Favorite Quotes: “Reexamining things to do little experiments on yourself to see how you feel when those things are taken out of your life - I think it's very valuable.” - Miranda “It is very valuable that we start looking at what’s around us and how it’s supposed to be helping us.” - Miranda “How are we feeding ourselves in other ways?” - Gale Edison Guest BIO:

    Miranda Smith is a 48 year old registered nurse, who lives in Northwestern, B.C., Canada. She loves spending time with her family, especially her 2 little grandsons. She loves yoga, paddle boarding, hiking, golf and has a big interest in wild edibles. She hopes to continue to live a healthy, active life and appreciates the yoga healer community for its knowledge and support. She has taken the Living Ayurveda course and has participated in several yogi detoxes. This year instead of a New Years resolution she has decided to say “Yes!” to things that make her feel alive and it has been opening up some new and interesting opportunities." Connect on facebook page.

    Host BIO:

    Gale’s life has always been anchored in a committed physical practice. Practicing ballet from the age of 3, and highland dancing from the age of 4 into her adulthood, she went on to study dance in university. After exploring other career choices, her passion for movement therapies became her apparent life dharma- Committing to a life of learning and sharing empowering life practices. Gale studied hatha yoga under Meghan Currie and Sridaiva with Desi Springer and John Friend, and Yoga Tune Up’s Embodied Anatomy with Trina Altman. The most influential teacher in her practice is Dana Skoglund, her teacher who has a background in Anusara and Sridaiva yoga, as well as ayurveda. Through yoga and ayurveda Gale strives to facilitate a newfound sense of self-empowerment, self-accountability and gratitude for life in all those who practice in her community. Check out her website and contact on facebook page.

  • Integrating Indigenous Wisdom in Our Lives with Caroline Putnam and Annie Barrett

    Integrating Indigenous Wisdom in Our Lives with Caroline Putnam and Annie Barrett

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    In our enculturated western lives, we often neglect our relationships with nature. There is a lot we can learn about this relationship from the Andean people, who follow indigenous wisdom regarding their interactions with the Earth. Our ancestors all over the world lived as land stewards in harmony with their ecosystems and with the cycles of nature. The Andean people not only value their relationship with the Earth, but also those within their communities.

    In the Andes, the Andean people practice Ayni, or sacred reciprocity which keeps life in balance. Ritual offerings, such as the sharing of coca leaves and offerings to the Earth, are beautiful means of connecting to the sacred in everyday life. Their ancient traditions are both practical and transcendent. Weavers literally weave sacred symbols into the mundane clothing and materials used in their everyday lives.

    Cate, Caroline, and Annie discuss how we can learn from the Andean people by integrating indigenous wisdom into our modern lifestyles. A great place to start is through the practice of Ayni - honoring reciprocity in our relationships with people and the land. By additionally honoring and aligning to cyclical rhythms of nature and creating offerings, we can improve our connection to the land. These Andean ancestral tools grant us solid connections to each other and to the Earth, which deepens our ability to thrive.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: How Andean wisdom can inform our lives How to become a successful land steward Why Anyi - sacred reciprocity - is so important Links Mentioned in Episode: Vibrant Peru Journey 2018 Schedule Peru Retreats/Courses Wisdom of the Andes Ayurvedic Wellness + Yoga Yoga Immersions and Teacher Training Programs YogiDetox Fall Show Highlights: 7:45 - The Andean people have a dynamic and beautiful relationship with the earth, called Pachamama. Through practice, we too can develop a deep intuitive awareness that allows us to hear the Earth’s messages that we easily miss in our enculturated, modern lives. 14:50 - Being a land steward involves the practice of Ayni, or sacred reciprocity. By listening to the land and engaging in offering, we participate in a reciprocation of respect with the land, which becomes the basis of a balanced interaction and lifestyle. 29:20 - Traditions like weaving in the Andes show us how something can be at once practical and transcendent. Weavers literally weave the sacred into the mundane by the conscious act of weaving the sacred symbols of each community into their everyday clothing and materials. Favorite Quotes: “How can we model our current way of living with indigenous wisdom so that as people come and experience it, they can bring that out into the world.” - Caroline Putnam “That reciprocity becomes the basis of a balanced interaction” - Caroline Putnam “The land instructs us.” - Cate Stillman Guest BIO:

    Carolina Putnam is a Louisiana native- and the founder & director of Reviveolution. For the past 6 years she has lived full-time in the Sacred Valley of Peru with her Q'ero Family, dedicated to sculpting a middle path between ancestral wisdom and modern innovation. Through sharing experiential education in retreats and courses, serving by her maestro's side in traditional ceremony around the world, and sharing Earth stewardship practices through ancestral arts & native nutrition, her work aims to support individuals and communities in healing and purposeful living. Connect with Caroline on her website and Facebook.

    Annie Barrett is the founder of VibrantSoulful.com and Vibrant Living School. As an educator, public speaker, certified yoga health coach, yoga teacher, consultant, and teacher trainer, she models and teach folks how to thrive in body, mind and spirit, and how to live a purposeful and passionate life with Ayurvedic and Yoga wisdom and wellness. She has walked the householder yoga path for twenty five years, and has a gift for making the wisdom teachings of yoga fresh and accessible. She guides folks into knowing themselves more deeply, embracing themselves more fully, and evolving into a state of well-being and expansive freedom. As a Certified Yoga Health Coach, she is trained and practiced in the daily habits and health principles of Ayurveda. She coaches and guides individuals into up-leveling their health and reaching your full potential with proven habits for vitality, health and happiness.Her family spends their time between the evergreen forest on the edge of Olympia, WA and the Andes mountains of Pisac. Connect with Annie on her website and Facebook.

  • Intermittent fasting for Yogis

    Intermittent fasting for Yogis

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Intermittent fasting is more than a way to eat. It is a lifelong journey of refining and creating space in your mind and your body. Cate used to experience challenges with her weight, food sensitivities, and her overall health. In our modern complex world, we often feel stressed, rushed and overwhelmed. Through intermittent fasting, Cate discovered a way to bring back a rhythm into her life that allows her to do so much more with much less. Cate and Jessica discuss how establishing a regular rhythm in our diets allows our bodies to function based off of cellular hunger. This way, we are capable of eating more effectively for what our cells actually need at that time, allowing us to be more resilient and less sensitive, allowing us to Thrive.

    Cate discusses how the Body Thrive course is a great way of escalating our commitment to a more rhythmic path due to the support from other people that are going through the same transformation. These peers are capable of holding us accountable for the goals set in Body Thrive. By learning how to automate habits through the course, we can apply these skills to make changes in all other aspects of our lives.


    Why should we consider Intermittent fasting?
    - How to transition to Intermittent fasting rhythm?
    - 3 must for Intermittent fasting?
    - What is Cate's story with her intermittent fasting lifestyle (challenges, breakthroughs)?
    - How to adopt this rhythm during traveling season? - Tip-sheet for insipiration:
    https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/yogahealer/Business+Files/Tips-for-Intermittent-Fasting.pdf

    3 Bullet Points/What you’ll get out of tuning in:

    Why intermittent fasting is so transformative What rhythm has to do with diet and digestion. Why escalating commitment is transforming

    Links Mentioned in Episode:

    Body Thrive Website

    Links:

    Body Thrive Book Related YH Podcast
     Intermittent Fasting, Detoxing And The Ayurvedic Clock
     Mindfulness + Intermittent Fasting: A Womens’ Perspective With Jenn Diamond
     Q&A with Cate: Sussing Out Shakti, Augmenting Agni, + Firing Up Fasting
     Get Intermittent-Fasting Tip-Sheet

    Show Highlights:

    4:35 - The three doshas in Ayurveda are vata, pitta and kapha. They are movement, transformation, and regeneration, respectively, which are the three energies of our physiology. 12:30 Cate sticks to a primarily fluid diet for most of her day. In her smoothies, she includes seasonal, highly nutritive produce, especially in the morning when she breaks her fast and sets her intention for the day. 22:20 - We can only achieve transformation in our lives if we actually escalate our commitment. Body Thrive is a great way to ensure this by providing a group of people going through the same journey who can provide support and serve as accountability partners.

    Favorite Quotes:

    “With greater rhythm comes greater resistance.” - Cate Stillman “You are designed to become more resilient over time.” - Cate Stillman “Yoga is the path where you need less to do more.” - Cate Stillman

    Guest BIO:

    Jessica Graham Robinson is a yogi, mama, bodyworker, and a Yoga Health Coach (in training). She is owner of Sacred Space Healing Arts in Wyoming, where she homeschools her two children in the foothills of the mountains. Jessica is thrilled to be using the wisdom of Ayurveda to be guiding other mamas (with or without children) on the transformational journey from the dull and painful land of stagnation and resentment into the Kingdom of Thrive where they become Rhythm Champions!

    You can find Jessica through her website, follow her on Instagram, and on facebook.



  • The Art of Relationships with Acharaya Shunya

    The Art of Relationships with Acharaya Shunya

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Relationships are a vital part of our lives. Acharya Shunya struggled with her relationships with others and with herself for years. Through ancient Ayurvedic wisdom, she learned valuable pointers that have caused profound transformations in her relationships. Now, she hosts retreats and events for people around the world so that she can share this powerful wisdom with as many people as possible. Cate and Acharya chat about how often we feel stuck in stagnant relationships. This doesn’t mean, however, that we have to keep feeling this way. Through hard work and practice -especially by attending one of Acharya’s retreats - we can truly transform our relationships. Acharya found that by being straightforward in her interactions with others and maintaining tranquility, she was able to increase the quality of her interactions with those around her. By improving our communication with Ayurvedic wisdom, we can significantly increase our satisfaction and growth in all of our relationships.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: How to create strong, intimate relationships How to improve relationships using Ayurvedic wisdom Which Ayurvedic practices grow emotional intimacy Links Mentioned in Episode:
    Acharya Website Acharya Events Discover more about the Body Thrive Body Thrive book YogiDetox Fall
    Show Highlights: 5:00 - Acharya says that in life, we stumble into three types of relationships that we experience differently. These include relationships with inanimate objects, other people, and ourselves. 12:00 - Along with being straightforward, Acharya recommends four ancient communication points; being non-violent, staying truthful, speaking pleasantly, and ensuring your words benefit the others. 18:00 - It is not abnormal for us to feel stuck in our relationships. Acharya explains that that pain is a cosmic reminder that we have introspection and work to do in these relationships. Favorite Quotes: “There’s so much to being able to retreat and to practice and to go apply it.” - Cate Stillman “There is a degree of mindfulness in what we share.” - Acharya Shunya “Everything we speak stays in the planet and becomes a vibration.” - Acharya Shunya Guest BIO:

    Acharya Shunya is a master teacher of Advaita Vedanta, the non-dual mystical teachings from India, which are the crowning philosophy of the Vedic tradition, one the most ancient surviving spiritual traditions on the planet today.She is founder of Vedika Global, a wisdom and international spiritual community, which has its world headquarters in Northern California. At Vedika Global, Acharya Shunya teaches the profound awakening teachings of the enlightened sages of ancient India, including the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Brahma Sutras.

    A rarity today, Acharya Shunya was born into the home of her Guru, and grew up studying the Vedas. She spent 14 years perfecting her learning under her Guru, Acharya Ayodhya Nath – a renowned Vedic Guru of his time, who was the disciple of his Guru (his father) Acharya Paramatman Shanti Prakash, another renowned master of his time. Under her ancestors’ direction, the lineage reached great heights and undertook memorable Vedic scholastic and humanitarian activities. The title “Acharya” means spiritual preceptor, master, or Guru in the Vedic tradition.

    Through her teachings, Acharya Shunya touches hearts and awakens seekers from the dream of a separate, powerless, and joyless existence. She extends the invitation to awaken to consciousness and health. Acharya Shunya has received prestigious awards in the United States and India, including the Award for Distinguished Service in Vedic Sciences from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and being named amongst the top 100 Ayurveda and Yoga Trailblazers in the U.S. by Spirituality & Health Magazine. She has also received an Award of Excellence in Education by the Association of Ayurveda Professionals of North America. Acharya Shunya is the author of the bestselling book, Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom(Sounds True, 2017), highlighting the Vedic path of mind, body, soul health and healing, which has been licensed to be translated and printed in six different languages and countries. Check out her website and facebook page.

  • My Path towards A Life Of Thrive with Lea Horvatic

    My Path towards A Life Of Thrive with Lea Horvatic

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Lea Horvatic spent years of her life helping and healing others as a nutritional therapist, naturopath, and homeopath. Through her extensive reading into Ayurveda, she became very knowledgeable in holistic and healthy lifestyle habits. Her career path allowed her to disseminate this knowledge and advice to those around her. It was not until she started her journey with Body Thrive, however, that she realized that she was having trouble listening to her own advice and sticking to habits that could help her thrive. Lea goes on to explain her realization of how far she had fallen out of integrity with herself and how she fixed this on her Body Thrive journey.

    Jessica and Leah discuss the true extent of the impact that the Body Thrive course has had on Lea’s overall health. They discuss the development of getting to bed early as Lea’s keystone habit, and how it grounded the rest of her habits, allowing everything to fall into place. Cate helped Lea to realize her true identity as an early riser, and how that led her to finding a refreshing, abundantly healthier version of herself. Lea describes how she utilized Body Thrive to kindle abundant energy, productivity, creativity, effective digestion and more. Listen in to hear how starting a journey with Body Thrive can lead to an abundance of compassion and clarity in your own life.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: How to truly realize your identity for personal growth. How Body Thrive improves clarity, confidence and overall health. Why commitment to key habits can help you to thrive Links: Discover more about the Body Thrive Body Thrive book YogiDetox Fall Show Highlights: 1:50 - Even people who know what’s best for themselves and others have a hard time putting in into practice. This disconnect between knowing what we need and doing something different leaves us feeling out of integrity with ourselves. 4:50 - Identifying and committing to a keystone habit, such as going to bed early, can have a profound influence on grounding the rest of our Body Thrive habits. 9:45 - The Body Thrive habits are amazing at transforming all the areas of life, ranging from confidence to creativity and even to our relationships with others.
    Favorite Quotes “I was helping other people and knowing what I wanted to be doing, what I should be doing, and I wasn’t showing up that way. I was feeling a complete lack of integrity.” - Jessica Robinson “I’ve got hours to just leisurely indulge myself at the same time as having this crazy productivity.” - Lea Horvatic “The group dynamic and the whole support of the community has been amazing.” -Lea Horvatic “I also feel like I have much more compassion towards myself, but also towards others.” - Lea Horvatic
     Guest BIO:

    In a very unlikely series of events, Lea discovered yoga at the age of 9, cigarettes at 10, and vodka by 12. What ensued was a magnificent, epic journey leading to an inevitable destruction by the age of 20, and eventually the radical change in trajectory that saved her life. These experiences led her to the path of helping others heal with the aid of yoga, herbs, proper nutrition, homeopathy and the magic of flower essences. Fully “walking her talk” evolved as soon as Lea embodied the habits of yogis as learned from Yogahealer’s Cate Stillman. Lea now helps others optimise their health and wellbeing by guiding them in automating these same Ayurvedic Habits and attuning to greater freedom and ease on all levels of their being.

  • Liminal Thinking with Dave Gray

    Liminal Thinking with Dave Gray

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Dave Gray had me at “Assume that you are not objective. If you’re part of the system you want to change, you’re part of the problem.” That teaching intensified by the basic exericse of writing down my beliefs about a challenging situation I found myself in and then coming up with 3 or 4 alternate beliefs, both plausible and outlandish, proven useful immediately.

    My new favorite book is Liminal Thinking. Dave Gray is this crazy cool mix of design thinking, business team strategist, writer, and enlightened illustrator. I was sort of shocked he agreed to the interview. Then I found out that he is really interested in the results of us ordinary people reading his book and doing the exercises.

    He was surprised I did the exercises. He said most people don’t do them. So, I invite you, before you listen to the rest of this show, press pause. Write down a challenge you have. Now. “Assume that you are not objective. If you’re part of the system you want to change, you’re part of the problem.” Write down the core belief or beliefs inherent in the way you wrote down the your challenge. The more outside your box the better. I’ve found that diametrically opposite beliefs are very insightful here. That’s it. You are thinking beyond your threshold. Welcome to liminal thinking. Press play.


    Create the change you want by changing the way you think I rap with Dave Gray about the Changing the Way We Think How to ““Hold your theories loosely” Why do we assume we’re objective, when we’re usually not? Where meditation fits into liminal thinking Why travel, moving + new relationship arrangements, and true leaders stimulate liminal thinking What you’ll get out of tuning in: How this plays into current politics How Gandhi stimulated the masses into liminal thinking Understanding the relationship between beliefs and needs Links: Liminal Thinking Xplaner Check out the 9 practices of Liminal Thinking from Dave Gray Join our Facebook group Favorite Quotes: Assume that you are not objective. If you’re part of the system you want to change, you’re part of the problem. Empty your cup. You can’t learn new things without letting go of old things. Stop, look, and listen. Suspend judgment. What’s going on? Create safe space. If you don’t understand the underlying need, nothing else matters. People will not share their innermost needs unless they feel safe, respected, and accepted for who they are. Triangulate and validate. Look at situations from as many points of view as possible. Consider the possibility that seemingly different or contradictory beliefs may be valid. If something doesn’t make sense to you, then you’re missing something. Ask questions, make connections. Try to understand people’s hopes, dreams and frustrations. Explore the social system and make connections to create new opportunities. Disrupt routines. Many beliefs are embedded in habitual routines that run on autopilot. If a routine is a problem, disrupt the routine to create new possibilities. Act as-if in the here-and-now. You can test beliefs even if you don’t believe they are true. All you need to do is act as if they were true and see what happens. If you find something that works, do more of it. Make sense with stories. If you give people facts without a story, they will explain it within their existing belief system. The best way to promote a new or different belief is not with facts, but with a story. Evolve yourself. If you can be open about how change affects you personally, you have a better chance of achieving your aims. To change the world, you must be willing to change yourself. BIO:

    Dave Gray is a leader and manager with a background in design. He has worked with many of the world’s largest companies, as well as mid-sized businesses, startups, executives and individuals.

    He is the founder of XPLANE, a strategic design consultancy, and co-founder of Boardthing, a collaboration platform for distributed teams.

    He is the author of two books on design, change and innovation: Gamestorming: A playbook for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers; and The Connected Company.

    His area of focus is the human side of change and innovation, specifically: How can you get people to adopt new ideas? How can you win their hearts and minds? How can you get people, including yourself, to change deeply embedded habits and behaviors? How can you transform a business strategy from a good idea to a living fact in the real world? Connect with Dave on his website and facebook group.

  • Skin Protection for Safe Summer Sun with Sam Norman

    Skin Protection for Safe Summer Sun with Sam Norman

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Sam Norman joins us today to share some of her wisdom on the hot summer sun, sun exposure, and skin protection. We talk about Sam’s backgrounds in both Ayurveda and nursing and what they say about safe sun exposure and how to stay healthy this summer season. We naturally absorb vitamin D from sunlight and there are huge benefits of this vitamin, such as preventing Seasonal Affective Disorder, decreasing fatigue, and increasing our immune system. However, too much of this vitamin has it downsides as well. We rap about lotions and sunscreens and how they can be more detrimental to our skin than advantageous due to the chemicals used in these products, and other healthier alternatives for skin care. We also discuss the importance of balance and how too much of anything can bring us out of a state of balance and make us toxic.

    Tune in to today’s podcast to gain some helpful tips and insights on skin protection and sun exposure this summer!


    What you’ll get out of tuning in: What are the advantages and disadvantages of Vitamin D from sun exposure? Is sunscreen helping or hurting our skin? Which oils work as natural sunscreen? Links Mentioned in Episode:
    To look up lotions and skin products and their effects on your skin Find a recipe for making your own sunscreen Sam's facebook Discover more about the Body Thrive Sign-up for the FREE live Living Ayurveda Masterclass series now! Favorite Quotes: “ I myself have experimented with coconut oil for the past two summers and I have not gotten a sunburn.” - Sam Norman “None of us can come on here and say this is the doctrine, this is the way, and this is the only way.... It’s going to be like every other part of living an Ayurvedic lifestyle, it’s going to be individualized.” - Sam Norman “The coconut oil is more repairing for sun damage or sun exposure to our skin.” - Jessica Robinson Guest BIO:

    Sam Norman created Family Healer in the winter of 2017 after the birth of her daughter and a deep desire to raise her with the habits that have healed Sam. After a lifetime of allergies, asthma, auto-immune dysfunction and antibiotics, she felt a pull towards studying medicine. Sam became an RN in 2001 focusing her career in pediatrics and kidney dialysis. Her health continued to get worse and in 2011 she was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. After years of doctors looking at her like an interesting case and never actually being able to heal her, Sam turned to a naturopath and was thus introduced to natural healing remedies.

    In 2013 Sam began to study Ayurveda at Spirit Path Ayurveda School in Anchorage, Alaska. During her studies she learned that the answers to her wellness were deep inside of her. As she worked and studied Ayur (self) Veda (knowledge) she began to see how disconnected from self and nature she had become.

    She is proud to say that since focusing on her wellness and becoming her own healer she is cancer, asthma, and auto-immune dysfunction free! Sam is confident that no matter what state of health you are in now, she can help you to start listening deeply and living in better balance with you. In creating our own healing journey we learn to become healers for ourselves and our family's, and Sam would love to help you along that healing path. Connect with Sam on her facebook page.

    Show host BIO:

    Jessica Graham Robinson is a yogi, mama, bodyworker, and a Yoga Health Coach (in training). She is owner of Sacred Space Healing Arts in Wyoming, where she homeschools her two children in the foothills of the mountains. Jessica is thrilled to be using the wisdom of Ayurveda to be guiding other mamas (with or without children) on the transformational journey from the dull and painful land of stagnation and resentment into the Kingdom of Thrive where they become Rhythm Champions! You can find Jessica through her website.

  • Your Yoga Path with Sri Dharma Mittra

    Your Yoga Path with Sri Dharma Mittra

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    On today’s Yogahealer Real Life Show, I have some powerful, inspiring and heart opening conversation with Sri Dharma Mittra, a Brazilian yogi who has dedicated most of his life in service to humanity and teaching yoga. We dive deep into pain and suffering and why these unpleasantries are essential to human life in order to move through our karmas and develop a lifelong learner perspective. We discuss wonderful topics such as the realization that we are all in the driver’s seat of our lives, the evolution of consciousness on the planet, and the simple pleasures of life such as sitting and just being.

    I ask Sri Dharma how he encourages his students not to get stuck on their lower samadhis and how to not plateau at the spiritual intoxication of asana. He gives us insight gives us into the eight limbs of yoga, why we practice certain poses, and what they help us and challenge us to do. We discuss the power of love and compassion and feeling empathy for others at very subtle levels.

    Today’s podcast is chalk full of incredible grounding information on yoga, asana, and the spiritual realm and is worth listening to again and again!

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: What is a reason for our pain in suffering? What are the most important asanas and why? What are the benefits of practicing the eight limbs of yoga?



    Links Mentioned in Episode Sri Dharma Mittra’s website Sir Dharma Mittra's facebook page Discover more about the Body Thrive Sign-up for the FREE live Living Ayurveda Masterclass series now!
    Show Highlights: 1:05- I chat with Sri Dharma Mittra about what is the purpose of pain and suffering in the world. He tells us that it has to do with our karmas, or previous actions, that allow us to learn lessons in order to purify our minds and bodies. He says we all experience the same amount of pain and suffering, but it is how we choose to deal with the pain and knowing why we have this pain, that makes all difference. 12:00- Cate asks Sri Dharma Mittra about how he teaches his students to transcend their lower chakras and how to not plateau in their spiritual work. He talks about encouraging them to know about the gunas, the mind, the eight limbs of yoga and to be aware of the pitfalls of attachment and the ego. 21:50- How do yoga poses give us power? How do the poses represent a state of consciousness in the physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, and bliss bodies? 27:00- Cate inquires about Sthira, or stillness. How do we acquire stillness in our lives when everything outside of us is telling us to do more and go faster? Sri Dharma talks about meditation and technology in regards to slowing down. 39:30- The more we dive into the practice of compassion, the more we feel empathetic to what others are feeling and the more we feel at a subtler and subtler level.



    Favorite Quotes: “The reason for the pain and suffering for all creation is for the cleaning of the mind and the body and then we are ready to enter the kingdom of God. If we are able to understand the pain and pass through it with understanding, automatically one develops a strong desire for liberation.” -Sri Dharma Mittra “When this suffering goes deep into the heart, you learn, you understand and you taste your own medicine. Then you are not able to cause that to someone else.” -Sri Dharma Mittra “As the mind becomes calm, the heart becomes steady.” -Sri Dharma Mittra “Whoever is really enlightened with some real knowledge, they can not be actionless. They have to share the way with others.” -Sri Dharma Mittra “We keep increasing our divine perception in order to be able to experience the subtle manifestation of existence.” -Sri Dharma Mittra. “Sit quietly for 5 minutes and rest your mind on the infinite. Be a good parent, be nice to your pets and to your guests.” -Sri Dharma Mittra



    Guest BIO:

    Sri Dharma Mittra has dedicated most of his life in service to humanity teaching yoga, the ancient knowledge of how to attain radiant health and develop spiritually. Since 1967, he has been teaching Classical Yoga: advanced postures, Yama and Niyama and how to lead a content, simple and happy life.

    Sri Dharma was born in 1939 in the small, remote village of Pirapora, Brazil and was raised Catholic in a poor family of 5 children. In his early teens, he became involved in esoteric teachings and yoga through books his younger brother was studying. From 1958 through 1964, Sri Dharma served in the Brazilian National Air Force and practiced bodybuilding, wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He had only practiced yoga through books in his late teens when his younger brother Sattya went to New York City to meet and commence studies with their future Guru.

    Sattya eventually asked Sri Dharma to come meet his guru in NYC and in 1964, after leaving the airforce and selling his bodybuilding gym he flew to the United States. The very next day, Sri Dharma had a private consultation with the Guru with his brother serving as translator. After meeting his Guru, Sri Dharma immersed himself in intense study and practice of the classical Eight Limbs of Yoga and dedicated nine years of his life to the full-time practice of Karma Yoga. After three years, Sri Dharma was initiated as a Sannyasi (one who renounces the world in order to realize God). During his years as a renunciate, he had the esteemed honor of being the personal assistant to the Guru, attending to all his needs.

    In 1967, Sri Dharma was asked to teach intermediate and advanced classes in Asana (postures) and Pranayama (breathing exercises) at the Yogi Gupta New York Center both for his fellow disciples and the general public. He was also involved with preparing food, manning the juice bar and was the main handyman. Sri Dharma was demonstrated Yoga Asana at the lectures the Guru offered to the public in the ’60’s and ’70’s in hotel ballroms all around New York City. With Yogi Gupta’s blessings, Sri Dharma left the Ashram in 1974 to found the Yoga Asana Center in 1975, currently known as the Dharma Yoga New York Center.

    Sri Dharma left the Ashram to live his destiny — a life dedicated to sharing and spreading the truth, knowledge and light of God through yoga in the most humble and quiet of ways. Connect with Sri Dharma on website and facebook page.

  • Body Thrive Experience with Traveling Yogi Sydney Doolittle

    Body Thrive Experience with Traveling Yogi Sydney Doolittle

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Sydney’s adrenal glands were worn out from years of being overly active, constantly moving, and always wanting to push herself a little harder. She needed to slow down and make a big life change in order to get healthy, gain her energy back, and bring herself into alignment. However, changing her entire life all out once to make this happen seemed far too overwhelming and difficult. Taking the step to join one of Yogahealer’s first Body Thrive courses, in order to learn how to make incremental changes week by week in a group setting, seemed much more doable.

    Sydney and Jessica talk about Sydney’s Body Thrive experiences over the past 4 years, why they are so transformative and healing, and how Sydney continues to use the techniques she has learned in her life as an active travel guide. They discuss what habits anchor us and bring us back to a grounded place, as well as how we can use these habits to cultivate and develop our intuition within the body. Working in a group setting to deepen your knowledge about health and wellness and how to bring your body back to a state of ease and balance is so powerful and so healing. It is truly an experience everyone should be a part of at least once in their lives in order to grow, transform, and use the help of others to be propelled into a healthier, more awake and aligned version of yourself.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: How can BT habits help you to thrive? Why is it so helpful to work in groups? Why are Kaizen habits so important? Links Mentioned in Episode Sydney's facebook page Sydney's Instagram page Discover more about the Body Thrive Sign-up for the FREE live Living Ayurveda Masterclass series now! Show Highlights: 00:45- Sydney and Jessica discuss Sydney’s first experience with Yogahealer’s Body Thrive course and what big life shift made her want to jump into BT 4 years ago. 12:00- Sydney tells us how her life is different now since she has incorporated the BT habits, how she applies the habits to her life, and what habits anchor and ground her the most amidst her movement based lifestyle. 17:35- So many people look at trying to become healthy as a huge life change that can stress them out and make them feel overwhelmed. The BT habits are meant to make our lives less stressful and more easeful, giving us the tools to make small adjustments to our habits and move into healthful living one step at a time. Favorite Quotes: “To be able to communicate makes all the difference.” -Jessica Robinson “These habits bring me more grounding and they allow me find time in my life to sit in stillness and meditate.” -Sydney Doolittle “It’s about finding the time to take a moment to myself, to sit for 5 minutes, or to do yoga for 10 minutes...For me now it’s about being able to sit and digest the experience I just had.” -Sydney Doolittle Guest BIO:

    Sydney Doolittle has been an avid yoga practitioner since she was a young girl. As a former gymnast turned coach, sharing her love of yoga by teaching others, was a natural transition. She obtained an Anusara based yoga certification at Vital Yoga in Denver, CO in 2013 and in 2016, her yoga pursuits took her to India where she studied in Rishikesh to obtain her 300 hour yoga teacher training certification. Sydney has taught in some obscure places, leading retreats with the Life Force Project in Salento, Colombia and on a yacht in the Mediterranean with Sun Fun You Fitness Voyages. Sydney recently returned from Bali where she studied Clarity Breathwork and is now certified as a Breathwork Practitioner. She currently studies Ayurveda with the American Institute of Vedic Studies, with the hopes of becoming an Ayurvedic Practitioner in the near future. She currently works as a Tribe Scribe for Yogahealer and has worked as an active travel guide for Backroads for the past 5 years, leading hiking and biking trips worldwide. She has a passion for the outdoors, hiking, snowboarding and immersing herself in the natural world as much as possible.

    Connect with Sydney on Facebook or Instagram at travelingyogi108.

    Show host BIO:

    Jessica Graham Robinson is a yogi, mama, bodyworker, and a Yoga Health Coach (in training). She is owner of Sacred Space Healing Arts in Wyoming, where she homeschools her two children in the foothills of the mountains. Jessica is thrilled to be using the wisdom of Ayurveda to be guiding other mamas (with or without children) on the transformational journey from the dull and painful land of stagnation and resentment into the Kingdom of Thrive where they become Rhythm Champions! You can find Jessica through her website.

  • The Truth about Turmeric with Dr. Shivani Gupta

    The Truth about Turmeric with Dr. Shivani Gupta

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Dr. Shivani Gupta and I have a wonderful podcast for you today on herbs, spices, and their healing properties. We get deep into the benefits of Turmeric and its’ active ingredient, Curcumin. Did you know that Turmeric not only helps fight inflammation in the body, but is also an antioxidant, supports the immune system, helps decrease stress and diabetes, strengthens the ligaments, and reduces pain when taken in larger doses?

    Dr. Gupta talks about her childhood and being raised by traditional Indian parents with a lot of knowledge in the world of herbs. They used herbs to cook, to heal wounds, and to fight illness, just to name a few. Shivani ‘s interest in spices and herbs at such a young age drew her to use them to aid her in childbirth, to help in raising healthy children, and in cooking for her family. She discusses her passion for cooking, and we learn that consciously prepared herbs, spices, and food are our medicine and can be used to replace drugs.

    Shivani teaches us that the preparation of food with love and compassion allows us to slow down and to shift into deeper alignment with ourselves. When we take the time to learn about these important herbs and spices, we are able to shift our perspectives on food and medicine, changing ourselves and the way we live our lives for the better.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: What are the real benefits of Turmeric? What is the right dosage of Turmeric? How and why to combine herbs? Links Mentioned in Episode: Shivani's website Shivani's facebook Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series
    Show Highlights: 1:00- Shivina tells us about her experience growing up in an Indian household and how they used herbs and spices in many different ways: for food, as medicine, or to heal a wound. 5:00- Understanding plants and herbs, such as turmeric, and what each piece of them can be used for. The benefits of the herb or spice in its full form vs. its ground down form. 13:45- What happens behind the scenes when we create curry with Turmeric? What are the benefits of turmeric and why should we eat it? What is the proper dosage of turmeric and what are its contraindications? And Curcumin or Turmeric as a replacement for IBuprofen and painkillers! 28:00- Cooking with love! AND what is the truth behind cooking with curcumin and black pepper vs. cooking with curcumin and oils, ghee or fats. Favorite Quotes: “We put the spices in in a certain order so that their aromas released but also so that their benefits released
.It’s an investment into your own health with every dish that you cook.” -Dr. Shivani Gupta “I don’t reach for pain killers anymore, I reach for Turmeric. If the whole world reached for turmeric instead of painkillers, we would have a whole different planet. ” -Dr. Shivani Gupta “I am here to nourish and love my family, I want us all to be peaceful happy people. I’m going to cook with that in mind.” -Dr. Shivani Gupta Guest BIO:

    Dr. Shivani Gupta was born and raised in Houston, Texas to a loving traditional Indian family. Throughout her entire life, her father taught her about healthy eating, organic foods, effective supplements, and fortifying the body to have the best health. Shivani took this knowledge to the next level, backing inherited wisdom from her family with modern science.

    Dr. Gupta interned in the biochemistry lab at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre. She later proceeded to continue her own study, obtaining a PhD in Ayurvedic studies focusing on herbology and anti-inflammatory herbs. Shivani recently published her book Conscious Pregnancy Spiritual Practical Approach, that shares her deeply personal experience of integrating conscious practices into her pregnancy and later into raising her two kids and teaching them to adopt healthy habits early in life. Check her website and facebook page.

  • How to Handle your Kids Summer Break with Health and Ease with Kirstin Pinit

    How to Handle your Kids Summer Break with Health and Ease with Kirstin Pinit

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    On today’s podcast Jessica Graham Robinson and Kirstin Pinit rap about how to keep you and your family healthy and happy this summer. Summers can be tough; the days stay lighter later, the kids are out of school, and they don’t have a consistent schedule, which in turn can wreak havoc on the parents schedules. It’s important to realize that you, as parents, have the power to decide what you want summer to look like for you and your family. Perhaps the summer routine looks completely different from the school year routine, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun, healthy, satisfying, and nourishing all the same. Jessica and Kirstin give us tips on how you and your family can create parameters to stay on course and keep the daily rhythms and habits that are essential for health and stability. Learn to involve your kids in your own Body Thrive habits and enjoy a summer of easeful living!

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: How can you take care of yourself while taking care of your kids? What are your keystone habits for yourself and your family? How to deal with summer travel in a healthy way Links Mentioned in Episode:
    Have a conversation with Alex! Body Thrive Book Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Stay Hydrated with Copper H20 Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne
    Show Highlights: 4:20- Ideas for how to keep your family on course and keeping a healthy routine during the summer months. Keep your kids healthy and happy by keeping yourself healthy and happy! 14:15 - Keystone habits for your kids and yourself tied in with summer travel. What habit will anchor you and your family no matter where your summer takes you? 19:15 - Let your kids be bored! Why it is so important to slow down, relax and just let your kids chill during the fast paced summer months. Favorite Quotes: “Moms, you’re the Queen of the house, you set the tone!... We get to decide what we want our summer to look like.” - Jessica Graham “I feel really empowered by the fact that I have a lot of say over how our family runs.” - Kirstin Pinit “ When you’re really off schedule, pick a keystone habit, one or two things your just going to do no matter what because you know other things are going to slide.” - Kirstin Pinit
     Guest BIO:

    Kirstin Pinit is a Yoga Health Coach, an artist, a student of yoga and massage therapy. She believes that life is more interesting when we seek and find meaning in small moments and go about our everyday routines with love and reverence. Kirstin practices and teaches how to use simple daily habits to unleash a joyful, sensual, creative life Kirstin shares her journey to becoming True Self on her Instagram. Find out about her upcoming courses and collaborations at her website.

  • What Habits Help You Experience Confidence in Your Body?

    What Habits Help You Experience Confidence in Your Body?

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Jessica Graham Robinson talks with us today about loving our bodies, body integrity and feeling comfortable in our own skin. It is SO important for us to feel good about the bodies that we live in, not just so that we feel good in a bathing suit, but also so that we continue to make life choices that are in alignment with who we are. Jessica chats about some Ayurvedic habits that help us to make choices from a place of confidence and to take good care of our bodies, so that we continue to be confident, grounded, strong, and in alignment with our true selves.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: Why is it important to feel confident in your body? What habits make you feel integrous in your own body? How do we gain confidence from the inside out? Links Mentioned in Episode:
    Have a conversation with Alex! Body Thrive Book Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Stay Hydrated with Copper H20 Jessica's website Favorite Quotes: “‘I’m talking about caring about yourself enough that you make choices that support you feeling confident, you having integrity, regardless of whether or not your body is ‘perfect’.” -Jessica Robinson “I believe it is important for everyone to experience confidence in their bodies.” -Jessica Robinson “The choices you make for your life, your career, your relationships really are not the same choices you would be making if you were coming from that place of stable, confident you.” -Jessica Robinson

     Guest BIO:

    Jessica Graham Robinson is a yogi, mama, bodyworker, and a Yoga Health Coach (in training). She is owner of Sacred Space Healing Arts in Wyoming, where she homeschools her two children in the foothills of the mountains. Jessica is thrilled to be using the wisdom of Ayurveda to be guiding other mamas (with or without children) on the transformational journey from the dull and painful land of stagnation and resentment into the Kingdom of Thrive where they become Rhythm Champions! You can find Jessica through her website.

  • How to Hydrate Right! With Alex Biondo and Gale Edison

    How to Hydrate Right! With Alex Biondo and Gale Edison

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    We all know that hydration is important and absolutely essential for our survival. But did you also know that water makes our skin look lustrous and supple? Or that water lubricates our digestive tracts and makes us pooping champions? Or that it gives us energy and vibrancy and helps us to look healthy, shiny, and radiant?

    Listen in on this podcast with Alex Biondo and Gale Edison and learn about the importance of hydration. Shift your perspective and your drinking habits; instead of drinking water to survive, drink water to Thrive!

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: Why is it important to hydrate? How to hydrate well What’s the deal with carbonated water? Links Mentioned in Episode: Have a conversation with Alex! Body Thrive Book Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Gale's website Gale's facebook page Stay Hydrated with Copper H20
    Show Highlights: 1:00- Alex and Gale share their hydration stories. 4:00- Whats the ‘why’ behind hydration? Why should we drink 8 glasses of water per day? What is water really doing for you? 6:45- Ways we can hydrate and the difference between hydration and flushing. 12:30- Carbonated water-- is it good, is it bad? What’s the deal? Favorite Quotes: “How can I make this fun and interesting so I am going to remember and want to hydrate?” -Gale Edison “Notice how you’re feeling and ask yourself, ‘did I drink enough water?’ and see if there’s a connection.” -Alex Biondo
     Guest BIO:

    Gale’s life has always been anchored in a committed physical practice. Practicing ballet from the age of 3, and highland dancing from the age of 4 into her adulthood, she went on to study dance in university. After exploring other career choices, her passion for movement therapies became her apparent life dharma- Committing to a life of learning and sharing empowering life practices. Gale studied hatha yoga under Meghan Currie and Sridaiva with Desi Springer and John Friend, and Yoga Tune Up’s Embodied Anatomy with Trina Altman. The most influential teacher in her practice is Dana Skoglund, her teacher who has a background in Anusara and Sridaiva yoga, as well as ayurveda. Through yoga and ayurveda Gale strives to facilitate a newfound sense of self-empowerment, self-accountability and gratitude for life in all those who practice in her community. Check out her website and contact on facebook page.

    Host BIO:

    Alex Biondo is a Colorado mountain girl who recently relocated to Wisconsin. She’s a Certified Yoga Health Coach, yoga teacher and single mom to an awesome teenage girl. She’s the founder of the Life On and Off the Mat Blog and the Vibrant Life course. She’s an enrollment coach at Yogahealer as well. Alex is passionate about empowering people to take charge of their health and lives. After years of letting life happen to her, she is now intentionally creating the life she wants for herself and her daughter. She’s an avid skier, music lover, cook and writer. In the summer, you can often find her dancing at an outdoor concert. You can find her all year-round at her website.

  • Take a Moment of Mindfulness and Breathe with Jill Novak

    Take a Moment of Mindfulness and Breathe with Jill Novak

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Slow down. Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask yourself, “What do I need right now?” Notice how much more present, centered, and in touch with yourself you feel.

    Sometimes we move so quickly through life that we forget to take the time to enjoy deep, calming breaths
. And they are so important! When we restrict our breath or forget to breath, we hold onto feelings of tightness, stuckness, or fear. When we bring prana or life force into our bodies we feel more in tune, intuitive, and whole and the more our awareness expands.

    Tune in to today show with Jessica Robinson and Jill Novak to learn more about the breath, what it does for your overall mental and physical health, and how it can heal and transform you on all levels!

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: How can your breath change your life? Why is it important to get in tune with your breath? Tips to be more in tune with yourself and your breath Links Mentioned in Episode
    Body Thrive Book Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks Jill Novak website Show Highlights: 7:00- We underestimate the power of our breath. It is so important to bring more awareness to our breathing to allow it to flow, to heal, to release, and to bring presence to our lives. 14:10- Tips to help us breath more throughout our day. Start with breath body practices in the morning to set the tone for the whole day! 20:00- By taking deep breaths, we are allowing our breath access to the cells of our body so that they can be unlocked and tightness, fear, a restriction can be released. Favorite Quotes: “If you let your breath define the edges of your container, then the more we let our breath be fluid and strong and smooth, then the bigger our container can be.” -Jill Novak “Start to expand your container by unarmoring your breath.” -Jill Novak “When your body is in fear, your breath is held. When your body is not in fear, your breath flows.” -Jill Novak “We underestimate the amount of healing that can happen if we just breathe!” -Jill Novak Guest BIO:

    In 2009 JIll Novak took her first 250 hours of Teacher Training with the Yoga Studio College of Canada, with great emphasis on alignment and accessibility for all bodies. For the last year she has been training and practicing Yoga Therapy. She loves the concept of working toward what is right for your body regardless of what the pose looks like on the outside; it is how it feels on the inside that counts. She believes that if we can connect people to that feeling then we are starting to live more firmly in our bodies; this is yoga.

    You can get in touch with and learn more about Jill Novak on her website.

  • Bowspring Yoga To Promote Healing

    Bowspring Yoga To Promote Healing

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Many people come to yoga for the purpose of healing and the practice of Bowspring yoga is no exception. Bowspring yoga, founded by Desi Springer of Vital Yoga in Denver, CO, has re-created many yoga poses that are meant to realign our bodies and promote healing, specifically in our hips and low backs. This form of yoga teaches contradictory alignment to what we’ve learned in yoga thus far and puts a great deal of emphasis on the sacrum and increasing the arch in our low spine.Bowspring is more of an opening and expanding technique as well as a therapeutic postural alignment tool. It is not a form of asana that you need to use exclusively, but it can be very balancing to have this practice in your tool box whenever your body is craving something different. Check out tintyoga.com for some more information on this yoga technique and some great Bowspring flows.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: What is Bowspring yoga? Why is it helpful? What does Bowspring tell us about postural alignment? Links Mentioned in Episode:
    Bowspring Basic Training Course TINT Yoga The Healing of Consciousness by David Frawley Gale's website Gale's facebook page Body Thrive Book Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive
    Show Highlights: 1:05- Gale tells us about her background as a dancer, the pain she experienced in her body, and her transition into Bowspring yoga. 10:00- The importance of Ayurvedic self care habits that allow us to get into balance with ourselves and notice what we need right now. Favorite Quotes: “As a society we’ve lost the curve in our lower back.” - Jessica Robinson “Having that daily practice with yourself, it will naturally bring you into a more aware, intelligent and sensitive state where you can be more intentional with your focus. “ -Gale Edison
    Guest BIO:

    Gale’s life has always been anchored in a committed physical practice. Practicing ballet from the age of 3, and highland dancing from the age of 4 into her adulthood, she went on to study dance in university. After exploring other career choices, her passion for movement therapies became her apparent life dharma- Committing to a life of learning and sharing empowering life practices. Gale studied hatha yoga under Meghan Currie and Sridaiva with Desi Springer and John Friend, and Yoga Tune Up’s Embodied Anatomy with Trina Altman. The most influential teacher in her practice is Dana Skoglund, her teacher who has a background in Anusara and Sridaiva yoga, as well as ayurveda. Through yoga and ayurveda Gale strives to facilitate a newfound sense of self-empowerment, self-accountability and gratitude for life in all those who practice in her community. Check out her website and contact on her facebook page.

    Guest BIO:

    Jessica is a yogi, mama, bodyworker, and a Yoga Health Coach (in training). She is the owner of Sacred Space Healing Arts in Wyoming, where she homeschools her two children in the foothills of the mountains. Jessica is thrilled to be using the wisdom of Ayurveda to be guiding other mamas (with or without children) on the transformational journey from the dull and painful land of stagnation and resentment into the Kingdom of Thrive where they become Rhythm Champions! You can find Jessica through her website and her facebook page.

  • How to Heal our Ancestral Wounds with Lynne Taillefer

    How to Heal our Ancestral Wounds with Lynne Taillefer

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Genetic hereditary patterns, that we often do not recognize, can influence our lives in many ways. Many of the persistent negative emotions we feel such as heaviness, anxiety, worry, fear and depression, may be due to that ancestral patterning that we hold onto. In our podcast today, Lynne Taillefer and I discuss what it means to deal with ancestral patterning, how it can show up in our lives, and what it feels like once we release it. When we do this deep work, the wisdom we uncover can bring us from understanding and processing our lives on a gross level to a subtle level. Our sense of beingness becomes more and more grounded and we accept ourselves and others with so much more love and compassion. The more we do this work of ancestral healing as a global culture, the more we will help our descendants heal and see change in future generations.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: Why is it so important to process and digest our past experiences? How to process ancestral healing Can ancestral healing affect our DNA? Links Mentioned in Episode: Lynne facebook page Lynn’s website Body Thrive Book Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive



    Show Highlights: 1:10- Lynn tells us her story and about the death of her father and how she is currently working through this ancestral healing. 18:15 - We all think our ancestral healing is personal, but it isn’t! We all go through it. We talk about the process of ancestral healing being an identity evolution and loving the process in order to let it go. 26:30 - Where does your intuition bring you? Slow down as emotions arise to allow them to surface and to be present. And in this presence, the light of awareness digests it. Feel the emotions of ancestral healing and then notice how deep, heavy feelings start to change. Favorite Quotes: “Heal for humanity.” -Cate Stillman “Detoxification is so much less about how clean your liver is and so much more about how awake we are and how free we are.” -Cate Stillman “We have to love it to let it release. We have to love it to let it go.” - Cate Stillman Guest BIO:

    Lynne Taillefer, A.K.A. Mama Lynne lives in Québec, Canada with her husband and their two young boys. She offers educational yoga and Ayurvedic workshops for yoga instructors and Yoga Teacher Trainings, who wish to deepen and continue their evolution as teachers and students. Lynne is a Certified Yoga Health Coach and she teaches an 11 week course as well as a 7 month Yoga Immersion course to help revitalize and rejuvenate other mothers and their families.

  • Habit Evolution For A Better Intimacy, Sensuality and Love Energy

    Habit Evolution For A Better Intimacy, Sensuality and Love Energy

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    On today’s podcast, Neve Grace Fletcher and Jessica Robinson share a juicy conversation about intimacy, sacred sexuality, and loving relationships. They discuss practices of self love and simple self care rituals in order to love yourself and your partner more deeply. They also discuss how to bring sacred energy into our everyday lives in order to live with more meaning and passion. The most important thing we can do is love ourselves; when we love ourselves we are able to show up for others, to love others and to give back to our full awareness. Our ultimate goal is to increase our capacity to love everything.

    What you’ll get out of tuning in: What does your constitution have to do with intimacy and love? Why is it so important to love yourself first, before entering into a partnership? What it means to bring the sacred into your everyday Links Mentioned in Episode:
    Body Thrive Book Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Neve Facebook Page
    Show Highlights: 5:00- Your constitutional imbalances can show up in your intimate relationships and affect the ways you act and show up for your partner. 7:10- Embracing the habits of the Body Thrive course and experiencing a deeper level of intimacy within yourself. Add in self massage, meditation, and sacred sexuality practices to embrace your own body and gain a deeper sense of self love. 20:15- What you can do on your own that will give you a deeper level of intimacy to bring to a relationship, now or in the future. 24:10- Bringing the sacred into the everyday; how to make rituals around habits to bring greater meaning and intimacy to everyday activities. Favorite Quotes: “When I embrace the habits of the Body Thrive course, I have experienced a deeper level of intimacy within myself.” -Jessica Robinson “If you can’t be present with yourself, if you can’t love yourself, if you can’t care for yourself and nourish yourself, how can you really do that with another person?” -Jessica Robinson “Anything can be sacred when you are present.” - Jessica Robinson Guest BIO:

    Neve Grace Fletcher has been a yoga practitioner off and on since 2003. After several car accidents, it became apparent to her that she would be practicing yoga the rest of her life in order to maintain her health. She received her RYT 200 teaching certificate in Hatha alignment-based yoga at Health Advantage Yoga Center. Neve has studied many different styles of yoga under various senior teachers. She is drawn to Ayurveda and Tantra as they teach all of life is sacred. She also loves practicing acro-yoga and slack-lining. With 14 years of teaching experience, Neve enjoys guiding her students along the yoga path of self-discovery. Her classes tend to be playful in nature yet with an element of reverence for the Divine. Connect with Neve on her facebook page.

  • OMG! - Do I have Ama? What is it and How do I heal it?

    OMG! - Do I have Ama? What is it and How do I heal it?

    · The Yogahealer Podcast l Ayurveda l Yoga l Healthy Foods | Yoga teachers with Cate Stillman

    Do you wake up feeling groggy, sluggish, unclear, or ready for more sleep? Do you feel stuck, weighed down, or lethargic? Or perhaps your clothes don’t fit quite as well as they used to? If you said yes to any of these questions, there’s a good chance you have ama in your system and need to clear it out. ‘Ama’ is undigested material (food, emotions, issues) that sticks around in our physical and mental bodies, weighing us down and making us feel foggy and tired, instead of light and clear. Ama blocks the flow of consciousness, making us less awake and present in our daily lives. Jessica Graham Robinson and I talk about what ama looks like in our bodies and minds, what creates it, and how we can rid ourselves of it. Listen in to this juicy podcast for some serious detoxifying information that will help you to thrive and live an ama free life!



    What you’ll get out of tuning in: What is Ama? How does it affect me? How do I heal it?
    Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Book Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive ELD challenge Jessica website's Show Highlights: 1:45- Rebecca talks about ‘Ama’. She tells us what ama is, how we accumulate it and what it feels like. 10:15- We tie the conversation into the 10 Body Thrive Habits and how the habits start to digest the ama and rid our systems of it. 20:30- How effective the group dynamic is when we are trying to shift habits and live more in alignment with our bodies natural rhythms that allow us to thrive. Favorite Quotes: “Ama is not something that you get rid of, it is something you digest.” -Cate Stillman “Ama blocks the flow of consciousness, it blocks the flow of intelligence.” -Cate Stillman “We become much more liberated as we become more integrated.” -Cate Stillman Guest BIO:

    Jessica is a yogi, mama, bodyworker, and a Yoga Health Coach (in training). She is the owner of Sacred Space Healing Arts in Wyoming, where she homeschools her two children in the foothills of the mountains. Jessica is thrilled to be using the wisdom of Ayurveda to be guiding other mamas (with or without children) on the transformational journey from the dull and painful land of stagnation and resentment into the Kingdom of Thrive where they become Rhythm Champions! You can find Jessica through her website and her facebook page.

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