Mindful Strength
Kathryn Bruni-Young grew up in the yoga community and has been teaching for over a decade. Inspired by her own life’s journey and a passion for helping all people feel more capable and confident in their bodies, Kathryn created Mindful Strength, a method that synthesizes mindfulness, strength training, yoga, movement, mobility, and body acceptance, to inform a well-rounded, embodied practice. This podcast is dedicated to sharing knowledge and fostering curiosity. Kathryn's conversations with unique and inspiring guests explore the ever-evolving narratives that are yoga, movement, and health. Join us!
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Neil Pearson is a physiotherapist and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is an experienced yoga teacher, a yoga therapist, and creator of the Pain Care Yoga training programs for health professionals and yoga therapists. Neil is founding chair of the Physiotherapy Pain Science Division in Canada, recipient of the Canadian Pain Society’s Excellence in Interprofessional Pain Education award, faculty in yoga therapist training programs, and an author.
Neil develops innovative resources, collaborates in research, and serves as a mentor for health professionals and yoga practitioners seeking to enhance their therapeutic expertise. He is co-editor of ‘Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain,’ available Aug 2019.
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Neil is our resident pain teacher for our 300-hour YTT beginning April 10th, 2021, click here to apply to learn more about Strength, Science and Inclusion.
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In this episode, Kathryn and Kyle talk about how to set yourself up for consistent home practice.
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Madeleine has a degree in biomedical engineering and is a doctor of chiropractic. Madeleine has been studying Axis Syllabus since 2009, and has trained at the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, the Toronto Dance Community Love-In and with the Limón Dance Company in New York City.
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In this episode, Kathryn and Kyle talk about handstands and what they have learned over the years working with gymnastics coaches.
Kathryn has loved handstands since she was a kid, but it wasn't until her early twenties training with gymnasts that she really learned what was required to master this nearly impossible movement.
This episode of the Mindful Strength Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Offering Tree. Offering Tree provides an online platform for teachers and trainers to get their classes, courses and websites online quickly and efficiently. To learn more or schedule a demo visit offeringtree.com/mindfulstrength (or click here).
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Jennifer Snowdon has been practicing yoga since 2003 and teaching for the last seven years. She has also studied ELDOA, Movement For Trauma with Jane Clapp, and is a Buteyko Breathing Educator. Jennifer now lives in New Brunswick Canada and teaches Buteyko and Science of Breath webinars online.
Jennifer is also the breathing teacher for Kathryn and Carly's 300 hour online teacher training beginning in April.
In this episode, Kathryn and Kyle talk about lunges, and why lunges are a key part of any strength training program. Kyle shares stories from his athletic training days, and the pair talk about why lunges can be so much harder than other movements like squats.
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Alex Haley is a meditation teacher and former legal and business manager for small and large companies. He also was a co-manager of a donation-based yoga studio and is one of the co-founders of the public benefit corporation OfferingTree, which provides an all-in-one platform for wellness professionals to build a website, manage schedules and registrations, accept payments and coordinate email communication.
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In this episode, Kathryn and Kyle talk updates to the podcast and Membership. Catch these weekly Bonus episodes on Wednesday only on the podcast apps.
To practice with Kathryn and Kyle in their online studio membership click here. Sliding scale prices are available and your first two weeks are always free so you can check it out before you commit. Live and recorded weekly classes.
Trina Altman, B.A., NCPT, received her training through STOTT PILATES® and is an E-RYT 500, YACEP®. She’s the creator of Yoga Deconstructed® and Pilates Deconstructed®, which take an interdisciplinary approach to foster an embodied understanding of yoga and Pilates and their relationship to modern movement science.
Trina has presented at Kripalu, the Yoga Alliance Leadership Conference and Momentum Fest, among others. Her work has been published in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and Pilates Style magazine and her classes have been featured on Yoga International and Yoga Anytime. She also consulted for Equinox to help develop their signature program Best Stretch Ever, which utilizes the mobility stick to improve functional range of motion, body awareness, and total body strength and has presented an online training for Yoga International entitled Yoga Deconstructed®: Creative Sequencing with Somatics.
Her book, Yoga Deconstructed®: Movement Science Principles For Teaching is available everywhere books are sold.
For more information on Trina and her online classes and courses, visit trinaaltman.com.
Follow her on Instagram at: @trinaaltman & on Facebook at: Trina Altman Yoga and Pilates.
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In this episode, Kathryn and Kyle talk about push-ups and what you need to know to build stronger pushing. Catch these weekly Bonus episodes on Wednesday only on the podcast apps.
To practice with Kathryn and Kyle in their online studio membership click here. Sliding scale prices are available and your first week is always free so you can check it out before you commit. Live and recorded weekly classes.
Joelle Hann is an award-winning writer with a history of developing high-level book projects for major American publishers. Subject areas include wellness and transformation, women’s health, leadership and spirituality, as well as conscious business, personal finance and memoir. She has worked with top CEOs and humanitarian activists, coaches and thought-leaders, spiritual teachers, scholars, entrepreneurs, and many others. She founded Brooklyn Book Doctor to help more people write transformational books that change the world.
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In this episode, Kathryn and Kyle talk about pull-ups and what you need to know to build stronger pulling. Catch these weekly Bonus episodes on Wednesday only on the podcast apps.
To practice with Kathryn and Kyle in their online studio membership click here. Sliding scale prices are available and your first week is always free so you can check it out before you commit. Live and recorded weekly classes.
In this episode Kathryn and Kyle talk about why they LOVE deadlifts.
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Laura Sygrove is the co-founder and executive director of New Leaf Foundation, a Toronto-based organization that supports the mental, emotional, and physical health of youth in underserved communities through mindfulness-based programs. She has more than 13 years of experience developing & leading program/training curriculum, learning about the impacts of trauma on individuals and communities, and cultivating programming partnerships with schools, community organizations, and youth justice settings. For 10+ years, Laura facilitated frontline programming with youth who were incarcerated, and over the past two years has been building her therapeutic skills through counseling work with children, youth and families. Laura holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Toronto. She credits mindfulness, yoga and other forms of movement, like dance, as playing a major role in her own process of working through the impacts of chronic and traumatic stress.
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In this episode, Kathryn and Kyle talk about the importance of the freebie. Ten minutes of marketing tips begin now!
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This week our 10-minute Bonus episode is on the main features we look for when we are shopping for cameras.
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Julie Wiebe, PT, DPT has over 24 years of experience in both Sports Medicine and Pelvic Health. Her passion is to return women to fitness and sport after injury and pregnancy and equip pros to do the same. This passion led her to pioneer an integrative approach to promote women’s health in and through fitness. A published author, Julie is a sought-after speaker to share her evidence-based, integrative approach internationally at clinics, academic institutions, conferences, and professional organizations and remotely through lectures and online coursework. Julie maintains a clinical practice in Los Angeles. She promotes innovative solutions and educated hope for women through her blog, videos, social media, live and online courses. When not trying to change the world one pelvic floor at a time, Julie is happy to focus on her first passions: being mom to the Z’s (Zoe and Zack), and wife to David.
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This week our 10-minute Bonus episode is on sequencing and programming. To request a topic for the Wednesday Bonus email support@mindfulstrength.ca
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Welcome to our end of the year episode!
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To read through the transcript and see who said what visit https://mindfulstrength.ca/mindful-strength-podcast/
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Welcome to our end of the year episode!
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To read through the transcript and see who said what visit https://mindfulstrength.ca/mindful-strength-podcast/
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To get more info about Kathryn's 300-hour training and apply for Early Bird Pricing before Jan 1st click here.
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James Crader's work is about helping people access their personal power as they connect more deeply with their Self and Others. He's a Resiliency Expert focusing on movement and mindset coaching. He's a creative and artist who expresses his connection to / and perceptions of human-ness through writing and media content. You can find out more about James through his website.
Follow him on IG @James_Crader.
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This 10-minute podcast is the first in a new series that Kathryn and Kyle are doing on the basic principles of strength training. Today's topic is reps and sets, and how learning more about reps and sets can influence strength training in the gym as well as on your mat. Join us on Wednesday's for these quick episodes, if you have a topic request email support@mindfulstrength.ca.
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Rochelle creates spaces for embodied movement; through education of primary principles of movement, she offers a unique blend of Yoga and movement that empower students to explore movement as a practice of self-discovering and joy.
Through playful inquiry, practitioners are given the space to explore what is possible in their body and build the capacity to move more efficiently.
Certificates Include Yoga Fundamentals from Octopus Garden (2013), Modo Yoga (2015), Yin (2015), Trauma Informed Yoga from New Leaf Yoga (2015), and Embodied Arts Training from Spirit Loft (2019).
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Neil Pearson is a physiotherapist and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is an experienced yoga teacher, a yoga therapist, and creator of the Pain Care Yoga training programs for health professionals and yoga therapists. Neil is founding chair of the Physiotherapy Pain Science Division in Canada, recipient of the Canadian Pain Society’s Excellence in Interprofessional Pain Education award, faculty in yoga therapist training programs, and an author.
Neil develops innovative resources, collaborates in research, and serves as a mentor for health professionals and yoga practitioners seeking to enhance their therapeutic expertise. He is co-editor of ‘Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain,’ available Aug 2019.
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Diane has been at the forefront of the yoga scene in Canada, she was the first Ashtanga teacher in Canada, founder of the Downward Dog Yoga Studio, and creator of 65 episodes of Breathing Space Yoga
After decades of ‘traditional’ yoga, Diane became disillusioned, her own injuries and the injuries she was witnessing in her community were disheartening. In 2012 after a stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis Diane sold her shares at Downward Dog, freeing herself from teaching traditional yoga classes gave her time to heal, study, experiment, and re-evaluate the true meaning of yoga for her personally.
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To contact Diane email: diane@dianebruni.com
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jamilah malika abu-bakare makes anti-oppression accessible to mindfulness practitioners by connecting the two as practices. her skill relating anti-oppression as a practice akin to our mindful movement practice is rooted in her work as co-visionary of the (now defunct) Positive Space Initiatives at Kula Annex dating back to 2010. she is currently the anti-oppression facilitator for New Leaf Foundation, Mindful Strength, and Mindfulness Without Borders and has taught upon request from Toronto to Terrace and as far as Rhode Island. she is a proud member of the Brown Girls Yoga collective based in Toronto and in addition to teaching trauma-informed, mindfulness-based yoga, she is a writer and an artist (SAIC MFA ‘19.)
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Ph.D. is a historian of contemporary American politics and culture and is currently writing a book on American fitness culture, FIT NATION: How America Embraced Exercise As The Government Abandoned It (under contract with University of Chicago Press). She is the author of Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture (Oxford 2015), co-host of Past Present Podcast, a frequent media guest expert, speaker at universities and conferences, and contributor to international and domestic news outlets from the BBC to the New York Times to the Atlantic. Natalia is Associate Professor of History at The New School, a co-founder of wellness education program Healthclass 2.0 and a Premiere Leader of intenSati. She is a co-producer and the host of WELCOME TO YOUR FANTASY, a forthcoming podcast from Pineapple Street Studios. She holds a B.A. from Columbia and a master’s and Ph.D. from Stanford and is based in New York City.
Kevin O’Connor is a multidisciplinary artist working as a choreographer, dancer, improviser, circus artist, and installation artist from Ontario, Canada and now based in the Bay area. He is involved in a decade-long artistic collective exploring participatory de-colonizing performances within polluted watersheds in Ontario. Over the last few years, he has worked with NAKA dance in Oakland, Shakiri, and Skywatchers in the Bay Area, Oncogrrrls feminist art collective in Spain, and collaborated with Inuit hunter and designer Paulette Metuq on a project in Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. He has been learning with the Axis Syllabus community for over a decade and is a biodynamic CranioSacral practitioner. He completed an MFA in choreography and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in performance studies at UC Davis. He is working at the intersection of arts, sciences, practice-as-research, and improvisation theory and practice. His research examines anatomies, body performance capacities, interventions, and imaginations in relation to science studies, including the material-bio-cultural tissue called fascia.
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Carly Stong is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT®500) as well as the Educational Director of and Lead Instructor at Yoga Teacher Training Kingston. Having completed her post-secondary degrees in Kinesiology and Health Studies as well as Education, Carly offers a contemporary movement education informed by science as well as experience that is built on the pillars of accessibility and empowerment and rooted in social activism. As a passionate advocate for body positivity, Carly teaches about anti-oppression for yoga studios and movement instructors. Her approach to inclusion is modern and informed by a fully embodied and integrated experience. While teaching classes online or facilitating teacher trainings, her trauma-sensitive approach reframes accessibility as the default and not the exception. When she is not at home in Kingston, Ontario with her husband and young daughters, Carly fosters community and connection all over the world through her blog, workshops, classes, retreats, and yoga teacher trainings.
Dr. Rima Thapar MD is a graduate of Windsor University School of Medicine and School of Etheric Healing who delicately weaves the threads of science, spirituality, and yoga. During her medical studies, she became fascinated with the art of medicine and began to explore the sciences with the lens of a spiritual mind. Practicing yoga and meditation from a young age, she decided to merge her spiritual teachings with her medical knowledge to bring forth a new perspective to healing the body as an integrative health practitioner. Taking her medical experience into her yoga and movement training programs with Colin Matthews of Kula Yoga Studios, Cecily Milne of Yoga Detour, Kathryn Bruni-Young of Mindful Strength, and Shante Colfield of Movement Maestro, Rima brings information, creativity, and curiosity to her yoga practice on and off the mat. Merging teachings from allopathic medicine, energy medicine, medical intuition, and yoga, Dr. Thapar empowers her clients and yoga students to be the CEO of their own health. Her favorite yoga pose is Ustrasana (Camel Pose) as it keeps her heart open to all possibilities in life.
Laura Baehr is a rehabilitation scientist, movement artist, and teacher who melds her interdisciplinary trainings in order to inspire strength, confidence, and quality of life through body awareness.
She earned her clinical doctorate in physical therapy from Temple University and her undergraduate training includes a dual degree in dance and neuroscience from Muhlenberg College. Laura is currently pursuing her Ph.D. examining the biopsychosocial contributions to the development of chronic pain following neurological injury.
She hopes to contribute to the field of rehabilitation sciences through her clinical and research background in order to shift healthcare and community perspectives on the importance of healthful movement in the management of pain and wellness. In addition to her scientific interests, Laura is a professional dance artist, movement teacher, and Pilates instructor in Philadelphia.
An Indian yoga practitioner in the Shankaracharya tradition, Susanna Barkataki is the founder of Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute and runs Ignite Be Well 200/500 Yoga Training programs. She is an E-RYT 500, Certified Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT). She is the author of the forthcoming book Honor Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice. With an Honors degree in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Education from Cambridge College, Barkataki is a diversity, accessibility, inclusivity, and equity (DAIE) yoga unity educator who created the ground-breaking Honor {Don’t Appropriate} Yoga Summit with more than 10,000 participants. Learn lead to practice and teach to honor yoga’s roots: www.namastemasterclass.com
Website: www.susannabarkataki.com
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Matthew Remski is the author of eight books, the most recent being Practice and All is Coming, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond. He has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1996, learning from teachers from the Tibetan Buddhist, Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Iyengar streams. Along the way, he has trained as a yoga therapist and an Ayurvedic consultant and maintained a private practice in Toronto from 2007 to 2015. Matthew currently facilitates programming for yoga trainings internationally, focusing on yoga philosophy, culture, and the social psychology of healthy communities. In all subject areas, he encourages students to explore how yoga practice can resist the psychic and material dominance of neoliberalism and the quickening pace of environmental destruction.
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Dr. Scotty Butcher is an Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science at the University of Saskatchewan and co-founder of Strength Rebels. He holds a BSc PT and MSc Kin from the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD in Exercise Physiology and Experimental Medicine from the University of Alberta. He is certified as a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist (ACSM-RCEP), is a CrossFit Level 1 trainer (CF-L1), and is formerly certified as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS); the latter of which he has formally relinquished. Most recently, Scotty has been certified as a Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher, incorporates mindfulness into his research, and has a daily personal practice.
Scotty teaches exercise physiology, prescription, and rehabilitation to physical therapy students and has published several peer reviewed articles and two book chapters related to exercise testing and prescription. Currently training as a powerlifter, he has a passion for strength training and translates this to promoting quality exercise training and rehabilitation practices for clinicians and students. His focus in research, teaching, and clinical work is on the hybrid rehabilitation/strength training approach and shares his views through blogging and vlogging.
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Sheela Zelmer is a pelvic physiotherapist, and instructor for the post grad pelvic physiotherapy program. She is also a women's health coach and founder of the Below Your Belt Method for women who want to have better bladder control and a great sex life.
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Melanie Camellia (née Williams), E-RYT 200 & YACEP, is a fat, queer, non-binary yoga teacher and accessibility advocate in Washington, DC, called to create profoundly inclusive spaces for self-inquiry and the inward journey by integrating spiritual teachings and accessible, trauma-informed movement practices with the spirit of social justice. Melanie believes that the goal of yoga, as of life, is collective liberation, and in turn challenges contemporary yoga practitioners to dismantle the oppressive systems and beliefs, within themselves and society at large, that hold us all back. They’ve been called a “tour-de-force of encouraging radical self-love” and listed among the “top thinkers and activists in the field of body positivity.”
In addition to teaching group and private yoga classes, Melanie offers workshops that explore queer identity, body image, desire, pleasure, and agency. They champion diversity and equity in the yoga industry as a member of the Yoga & Body Image Coalition leadership team. They continue to serve as an expert adviser on diversity, accessibility, and ethics for the Yoga Alliance Standards Review Project and currently work with Accessible Yoga to help bring their teacher trainings and conferences to an ever-growing list of cities internationally.
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After the death of her mother, Ophelia tried to "fix" her grief, and was waiting to "get over her it". Her grief became an unwanted dinner guest that wouldn't go away. She learned how to turn her wounds into wisdom and reconnect to joy.
Ophelia is the radio host of Thank The Grief it's Friday and TV host of Conversations with Ophelia. She has is an inspirational speaker, yoga teacher and has logged over 2000 hours as a speaker. She is a lover of peppermint tea, restorative yoga, and is a self-proclaimed scarf-aholic. To learn more about Ophelia click here.
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Travis Pollen is a Philadelphia-based personal trainer and PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences. He also holds a master’s degree in Biomechanics and Movement Science. His research interests focus on movement screening, training load, and injury risk appraisal for athletes.
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the book Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating (Little, Brown Spark 2019). She offers online courses and private intuitive eating coaching to help people all over the world make peace with food and their bodies. Since 2013 Christy has hosted Food Psych, a weekly podcast exploring people’s relationships with food and paths to body liberation. It is now one of iTunes’ top 100 health podcasts, reaching tens of thousands of listeners worldwide each week.
Christy began her career in 2003 as a journalist covering food, nutrition, and health, and she’s written for major publications including The New York Times, SELF, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, Gourmet, Slate, The Food Network, and many others. Learn more about Christy and her work at christyharrison.com.
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Madeleine Shen Lopez shares home between the city jungle of Toronto and the vast mountains of Patagonia, Argentina. As a movement educator, certified Axis Syllabus teacher and Doctor of Chiropractic, she spends most of her time teaching movement, dancing, and helping people connect with and regain agency over their bodies.
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In this episode Kathryn and Kyle talk about why they started their online studio membership (the MINDFUL STRENGTH MEMBERSHIP), and how they managed to figure out how to do everything in-house. They talk about the original equipment set-up, why they bought certain cameras, what they eventually upgraded to, what they decided to spend more money on and why. They list all the programs and gadgets they use, and explain their research process. Neither Kathryn or Kyle have formal training in video production or online business, they are sharing what has worked for them and will encourage you to get interested in the tech side of teaching.
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Megan Spears is a coffee-loving body nerd who loves to blast NPR in the car. She lives and teaches yoga in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has been teaching yoga full-time for 6 years and specializes in teaching private yoga. She loves to geek out with her clients as they learn about their body, discover new movement patterns, and gather their favorite meditation practices. She is currently on path towards earning her Bachelors degree in health education and exercise science with a grand plan to become a Physical Therapist.
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Jenn holds a B.S. in exercise science with an emphasis in physiology and a M.S. in Human Movement from A.T. Still University. She began training people and teaching classes in 2001 while she was still working on her undergraduate degree. She has studied many different modalities and techniques and likes looking for the common threads between systems because she believes if you have deep understanding of the foundational concepts of movement and a deep understanding of how learning works, you can make movement more accessible for each person you work with, regardless of age or previous training history. She is a movement generalist and finds inspiration from a number of movement systems. She owns a movement studio in Carmel, CA and teaches workshops and classes, both virtually and in person.
Click here to pre-order her book https://www.handspringpublishing.com/product/body-mind-movement/
jamilah malika is a Mentorship Lead at New Leaf Foundation which does work to bring mindfulness and yoga-based tools into spaces that are least-served and often most stigmatized; increasing access to positive resources for youth who face violence, neglect, poverty and marginalization. As well as an artist and writer passionate about anti-oppression, jamilah has completed an MFA in Writing at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago.
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Lorimer is Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. He has over 25 years clinical experience working with people in persistent pain, has authored hundreds of articles, multiple books and chapters and continues to present keynote lectures globally. His community outreach and whole of community education initiatives are internationally renowned. His work is cited in clinical guidelines internationally. He is an honoured member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, an Honorary Fellow of the ANZCA Faculty of Pain Medicine and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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Dr. Rashmi Bismark focusses on a mindfulness based integrative approach to health. Rashmi is a medical doctor, she has an additional degree in Public Health, she is a yoga and meditation teacher with Yoga Medicine, and the author of the children's book Finding Om. To learn more about Rashmi click here.
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Greg Lehman is a physiotherapist, chiropractor and strength and conditioning specialist treating musculoskeletal disorders within a biopsychosocial model. He teaches two 2-day continuing education courses to health and fitness professionals through out the world. Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science and Running Resiliency have been taught more than 60 times in more than 40 locations world wide.
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Dr. Stuart M. McGill is a professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, where he was a professor for 30 years. His laboratory and experimental research clinic investigated issues related to the causal mechanisms of back pain, how to rehabilitate back-pained people and enhance both injury resilience and performance. His advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts, medical groups and elite athletes and teams from around the world.
His work produced over 240 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers, several textbooks, and many international awards. He mentored over 37 graduate students during this scientific journey. During this time he taught thousands of clinicians and practitioners in professional development and continuing education courses around the world. He continues as the Chief Scientific Officer for Backfitpro Inc. Difficult back cases are regularly referred to him for consultation. Any product associated with this website has been tested in Dr. McGill’s laboratory.
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Kathryn Bruni-Young is the host of the Mindful Strength Podcast, an international teacher, and a creative thinker in the world of progressive movement. She has been practicing yoga since age 16, and has studied strength training, pain science, and human movement in depth. Kathryn runs a membership where folks practice together from all over the world, a teacher's immersion, a weekend workshop and a handful of online courses. To learn more about her work click here.
Shelly Prosko, PT, C-IAYT, CPI, is a Canadian physiotherapist, yoga therapist, author, speaker and educator dedicated to empowering individuals to create and sustain meaningful lives by teaching and advocating for the integration of yoga into modern healthcare. She is a respected pioneer of PhysioYoga, a combination of physiotherapy and yoga.
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Robin Lacambra is the founder of GOODBODYFEEL Movement Studio and the GOODBODYFEEL Movement Method. She is an empowered embodiment educator - blending practices like Pilates, yoga and mindfulness and sharing them from anti-oppression, trauma aware and eating disorder informed frameworks. Robin is also a somatic coach, social justice advocate and eager student of diverse movement practices. Her aim as a movement educator is to help facilitate others to move mindfully and feel good in their bodies as well as recognize the intersection of physical practice and social politics.
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Erin Godfrey is a movement and body wellness educator. She began her career as a ballet dancer, studying with the National Ballet School of Canada, followed by studies in Anatomy and Kinesiology at George Brown College. Additional studies include Meditation, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Developmental Movement, Pilates, Personal Training, Wellness coaching, Anatomy Trains, Contact Improvisation and Axis Syllabus. Erin has owned several studios in Toronto and has been teaching movement and healthful living practices for over 20 years. An international teacher, she has been faculty on a number of teacher training programs. She coaches a wide range of clients from those working with chronic injuries to athletic performance. Erin continues her research and investigation as a movement practitioner, dancer, educator and new mother. www.eringodfrey.com
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Chris Ruffolo is a PE teacher who also sees one-on-one clients for pain, play, and problem solving. To learn more about Chris click here.
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Jules Mitchell is an international teacher and the author of the book Yoga Biomechanics Stretching Redefined. Jules is a long time student, she has a masters degree in biomechanics, she is a researcher, a critical thinker and a teacher trainer. To learn more about her work click here.
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James Crader's work is about helping people access their personal power as they connect more deeply with their Self and Others. He's a Resiliency Expert focusing on movement and mindset coaching. James is the founder of MoveLab, a fun and innovative approach to whole body movement for whole person health. He's a creative and artist who expresses his connection to / and perceptions of human-ness through writing and media content. You can find out more about James through his website www.JamesCrader.com, or follow him on IG @James_Crader.
Clare Kelley is a movement and nature therapy guide. She did her graduate studies in global public health and health research and program design, monitoring and evaluation (MA/MPH) at The School of Public Health and The Elliott School at George Washington University. Her interdisciplinary work combines her years of work in the health sciences with the health benefits of nature connection, the mind-body healing arts, indigenous traditions of her Celtic ancestors, and embodied movement modalities. After living within a mile of the White House her entire adult life, she and her two house panthers recently relocated to the Sonoran Desert. Find Clare on Patreon at Wild Wisdom, where she has a longform essay on the basic principles of epidemiology behind containing COVID-19 as well as online movement videos, meditations, and nature therapy -- perfect for those practicing containment!
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Brooke Thomas is a long time podcaster, a Rolfer, and a Realization Process teacher. She has a new online community called Liberated Being, and works 1 on 1 with clients in New Haven Connecticut.
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Trina Altman was has received her training through STOTT Pilates® and is an E-RYT 500. She created Yoga Deconstructed® and Pilates Deconstructed® to show teachers how to take an interdisciplinary approach to foster an embodied understanding of yoga and Pilates in relation to modern movement science. Her work has been published in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and Pilates Style magazine. Her book, Yoga Deconstructed®: Transitioning from Rehabilitation Back Into the Yoga Studio is slated to be published by Handspring Publishing in the summer of 2020.
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This is part two of the I'm Still Alive series with Diane Bruni.
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Diane Bruni is Kathryn's mother, she founded one of Canada's first yoga studios, and has been exploring movement since her 20's. Diane has been on the podcast before, and is now going through treatment for cancer.
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Anula Maiberg was born in Israel and moved to NYC in 2001 in order to pursue a career in photography. While working on her degree at the School of Visual Arts she fell in love with Pilates through the classes and private sessions she took around the city. After receiving her Masters in Fine Art from the Royal College in London and a few years at a "desk" job she realized happiness wasn't in front of the computer screen. She decided to attended the Kane School for Core Integration (Kinected) to become a fully certified teacher graduated in 2009. After several years teaching she was accepted into the Kathy Grant Heritage Training Masers and graduated in 2014. Anula is passionate about upholding the traditions and principles of Pilates while being able to update and personalize them for the needs of her students. She also feels strongly about volunteering her time to the LGBTQ community and believes Pilates is a wonderful movement modality and a tool for healing in a supportive environment.
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Physical therapist turned entrepreneur, Dr. Shanté Cofield, aka The Movement Maestro, is the founder of The Movement Maestro LLC, a social-media based company that provides both online and in-person education for movement professionals around the world. Shanté’s passion for digital business has helped her amass a social media following of over 53,000 people, become an international speaker, and launch her own podcast, Maestro on the Mic, which has been downloaded over 300,000 times to date. With her continued success in the digital space, Shanté’s professional pursuits now center around providing business coaching to movement professionals, with a focus on brand strategy and development and the ever-growing digital marketplace. Shanté is a proud instructor for RockTape, drives a hypergreen Jeep Wrangler, and wishes to leave you with this message: Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
Christopher is a movement instructor and mental health professional working in Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario. He has worked in the field of mental health and addictions for over a decade and roots his teaching in that experience - placing a strong emphasis on practices that respect, support and encourage an individual’s innate resilience. Christopher teaches with the hope of helping people rebuild a connection to their bodies, expand their range of (e)motion, and reduce the impact of stress on their nervous system. He’s passionate about building spaces that promote a sense of love, safety, self-compassion - and an untangling from shame. The latter is especially important and personal to him as a queer person co-creating 2SLGBTQ+ only classes. His movement practice has been both a professional calling and a personal coming out and coming home. Christopher currently teaches at GoodBodyFeel in Hamilton, Ontario and offers mental health specific movement support/coaching through his emerging project Anchored Tides Wellness.
Shannon Marion is a graduate of the University of Ottawa in 2001 and am a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapists (FCAMPT) since 2008. She is certified in a number of different dry needling techniques including a Certificate of the Acupuncture Foundation Institute (CAFCI) in 2004 and a certificate in the Chan Gunn Intramuscular Stimulation (CGIMS) technique (2005). She is a keen learner and have surrounded myself with collaborative colleagues in order to share knowledge and to continue growing from each other. She is currently studying with the Pain Science Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association and am developing more tools to offer clients with chronic pain.
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Dr. Bahlani’s specialized training allows her to treat patients with urologic and gynecologic pelvic pain syndromes, such as vulvodynia, pelvic floor dysfunction, interstitial cystitis, vulvar dermatoses and female sexual dysfunction. As a clinician, as well as through her continual pursuit of knowledge and research, Dr. Bahlani always strives to achieve her ultimate goal of enabling women to spend less time in pain and gain the tools they need to live their lives to the fullest.
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This episode is really something special, we have put together our favourite moments from our 2019 season. Whether you are new to the podcast or a long time listener this episode will inspire you to think about working with the body from a variety of perspectives. From social justice to biomechanics, we try our best to cover a bit of everything on this show.
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Steve Donald has been teaching Buteyko breathing since 2006, he works with people who have chronic illnesses, and he leads workshops for teachers and trainers who want to explore breathing physiology from the Buteyko perspective.
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Kyle Pichie has been a strength and conditioning coach for over a decade and is the head coach of the Cornwall Weightlifting Club. Kyle works mostly with youth athletes, this athletes have been to junior nationals for weightlifting, and he has a strong interest in making athletics fun for young people. Kyle is also the podcast/video editor for Mindful Strength, he travels with Kathryn worldwide and is responsible for the production of this podcast.
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Joey is a digital marketer by profession, and entrepreneur by practice, for most of the past 15 years. He operates a web agency out of his hometown in Cornwall, Ontario Canada with the goal of supporting the entrepreneurial endeavours of his clients while removing the roadblocks in using the web to grow their business. You can reach Joey by email at joey@webtechdesign.co.
Jari is a Finnish movement teacher with over 15 years of experience in the field. He is also a physiotherapist and holds an MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine. Currently, he works full time as a Ph.D. researcher at the Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences of the University of Jyväskylä. Jari’s own movement practice a combination of different skill-oriented disciplines such as yoga, pole dancing, and hand-balancing
Vikash Sharma is a Board-Certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS). Vikash has undergone rigorous training and testing to achieve his Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist (COMT) designation through Maitland Australian Physiotherapy Seminars. He is also a certified Running Coach through The Road Runners Club of America and The United States Track and Field Association. Vikash has a strong passion for continuing education and he is an evidence-driven practitioner committed to remaining at the forefront of the profession. He is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and The United States Track and Field Association. Vikash has been an avid runner and weight trainer for most of his life and competes in local road races. He also loves to play golf, hike, skateboard, meditate and pretend to be an iron chef in the kitchen.
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Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, also known as Tia, has had a life-long fascination with the human body and its inner workings. Beginning with a formal introduction to movement in college, she has continued that journey ever since. As a yoga teacher of 8 years in the East Bay, her practice morphed from one of structure and ego to one of humility and independent thinking. After her own struggles surrounding her pelvic floor, she has grown a love for learning and understanding this part of the body that is rarely talked about and sometimes even misunderstood. She recently graduated with a Doctorate degree in physical therapy in August 2019, is in the completion stages of becoming a Women’s Health Coach through the Integrative Women’s Health Institute and is also the host of the podcast, The Masterful Art of Self-Care.
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Kathryn Bruni-Young is an international teacher, the host of this popular podcast, and a creative thinker in the progressive yoga community. Kathryn leads worldwide workshops and teacher's immersions that dive into strength, mobility, functional movement, and how they can compliment and impact the way we practice yoga asana.
Seth Powell is a longtime practitioner of yoga and a scholar of Indian religions, Sanskrit, and yoga traditions. He is currently a PhD Candidate in South Asian Religions at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history, theory, and practice of medieval and early modern Sanskrit yoga texts and traditions, as well as their intersections with the culture and practice of modern transnational yoga. Seth also holds degrees in the study of religion from the University of Washington (MA) and Humboldt State University (BA). Seth founded Yogic Studies in 2018 and serves as the Director and Head Faculty.
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Marlysa Sullivan MPT, E-RYT 500 is an Assistant Professor at Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) where she teaches in the integrative science and yoga therapy departments. Marlysa has developed many courses as well as being the founding clinic director for the Masters of Science in Yoga Therapy program at MUIH. Courses she created and currently teach include: Anatomy and Kinesiology, Yoga Perspectives on Heath and Disease, Yoga and the Mind, Yoga for the Chronic Pain, Orthopedic and Neurologic client populations and Physical Activity and Health. She also currently teaches Physiology. At Emory University Marlysa teaches a semester long elective on yoga and mindfulness for physical therapy in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program. Marlysa is an active participant in research and has been involved in research on yoga for anxiety and on yoga for low back pain at Walter Reed. She has co-authored the book Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain.
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Sara is the owner of NOLA Pelvic Health in her hometown of New Orleans, La and founder of The Vagina Whisperer, an online resource for pelvic health education and wellness sessions to help individuals worldwide. She is a doctor of physical therapy, graduating with a Bachelors of Science in 2004 and Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2007 from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a board certified pelvic health physical therapist specializing in the treatment of pelvic floor muscle dysfunction in men and women. She received the 2019 Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St Louis’ Program in Physical Therapy and was named one of New Orleans’ Top 40 under 40 young professionals in 2019. She is a mom, wife, Saints fan and wanna be yogi.
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Francesca Cervero has been teaching yoga full time for over a decade. After finishing her initial training in 2006 with OM Yoga in NYC Francesca began her career and has been working with 25 private clients a week since. Francesca not only offers private lessons, but a flagship in-person and online course for yoga teachers who want to learn to teach private lessons more effectively. Francesca is the host of The Mentor Sessions podcast, and she is a great resource for teachers wanting to expand their business and facilitation skills.
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Shannon Crow has been teaching yoga since 2006, and continues to teach weekly group and private classes in Owen Sound, Ontario, with a specialty in Yoga for Pelvic Health. Shannon has developed a teacher training program for pelvic health and now runs a pelvic health online membership showcasing her own work and interviews with a variety of pelvic physical therapists and other practitioners. Shannon is also the host of The Connected Yoga Teacher podcast.
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Jivana is the founder and director of non-profit education and advocacy organization, Accessible Yoga. He is also co-owner of the Santa Barbara Yoga Center and an Integral Yoga Minister. With over twenty-five years of training and teaching in the Integral Yoga tradition, Jivana has specialized in teaching yoga to people with disabilities with an emphasis on social engagement.
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Kathryn Bruni-Young is the host of the Mindful Strength Podcast, an international teacher and a creative thinker in the progressive yoga movement. Kathryn has been teaching since age 17 and has a deep understanding of postural yoga, it's benefits and limitations, and how to use strength training and functional movement to restore physical resilience. Kathryn offers workshops all over the world, classes in her small town in Ontario, education for yoga teachers and online programs year round.
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Tejal Patel and Jesal Parikh met years ago in a training in NYC. They were both relieved to finally make a Desi yoga teacher friend who could relate to each other's experiences with yoga in America vs. yoga in India, and to have someone to bitch to about the cultural appropriation, racism, exploitation and general belittling that they experienced in that training and in many others. But after a few years of having these conversations in hushed tones so as not to offend their white colleagues, they decided it was high time their voices and experiences were heard. They created the Yoga is Dead podcast as a way to jumpstart critical conversations, elevate oppressed voices and perspectives and to expose the problems felt by anyone who isn’t in the “in” crowd of the yoga industry.
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Erin has a degree in art and is also a writer and dabbling musician. She was a manual therapist and yoga teacher for ten years before changing course five years ago as she began to study other movement modalities. Her quest to deepen her understanding of human movement and behavior ultimately led her to neurology. She loves learning and teaching about the neurology of movement and her teaching emphasizes play, creativity and targeted brain training. She loves creating not-boring experiential neuroanatomy and body/brain training courses online and plans to teach live workshops around the world.
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Diana Zotos Florio is a licensed physical therapist and certified yoga teacher living in Brooklyn, NY, working in all of NYC. She has vast experience treating patients with many types of injuries including hip, knee, shoulder, low back, neck and ankle, among many others. Her style is to look broadly at the whole body for impairments and causes of injury and rehabilitate by retraining muscles and rebuilding movement patterns through a combination of physical repetition, postural alignment and mental cueing.
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Dane Woodland is a personal trainer, public speaker, and coach. He works with a variety of people as they pursue their goals, with a focus on creating safe spaces in fitness for those who may typically feel excluded. Having initiated a gender transition in 2014, Dane has participated in fitness and sport as both a woman and a man, and offers a unique perspective on how gender can influence such experiences. Dane identifies as a feminist and delivered a talk at TEDxStJohns entitled: “One Lifetime, Two Perspectives: How Male Privilege Made Me a Feminist” in 2016.
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Laurel Beversdorf is an international yoga educator specializing in anatomy, biomechanics, and yoga teaching pedagogy. With over a decade of experience teaching teachers, Laurel regularly guest teaches anatomy for 200hr and 300hr teacher trainings, she is the creator of Yoga with Resistance Bands Teacher Training, and a lead trainer for Yoga Tune Up. Laurel is committed to raising the bar on the content and quality of yoga education. Her classes are multi-modal and balance increasing strength and skill with inducing relaxation and introspective awareness. Laurel has written for Yoga Journal, Shut Up & Yoga, and the Tune Up Fitness blog. A Wisconsin native, she lives in NYC with her husband, baby girl, and two cats.
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Dr. Rima Thapar MD is a graduate of Windsor University School of Medicine and School of Etheric Healing who delicately weaves the threads of science, spirituality and yoga. During her medical studies, she became fascinated with the art of medicine and began to explore the sciences with the lens of a spiritual mind.Practicing yoga and meditation from a young age, she decided to merge her spiritual teachings with her medical knowledge to bring forth a new perspective to healing the body as an integrative health practitioner.
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Anula Maiberg was born in Israel and moved to NYC to pursue a career in photography in 2001. While working on her degree at the School of Visual Arts, she fell in love with Pilates through the classes and private sessions she took around the city. She decided to attend the Kane School for Core Integration (Kinected) to become a fully certified teacher and graduated in 2009. After several years teaching, she was accepted into the Kathy Grant Heritage Training Masters and graduated in 2014. In 2017, Anula started a world tour spanning the U.S., Canada, Europe, the U.K. and Australia. Anula is passionate about upholding the traditions and principles of Pilates while being able to update and personalize them for the needs of her students. She also feels strongly about volunteering her time to the LGBTQ community and believes Pilates is a wonderful movement modality and tool for healing in a supportive environment.
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Ben Cormack owns and runs Cor-Kinetic. He is a musculoskeletal therapist with a clinical background in sports therapy, rehabilitation, pain science & exercise stretching back 15 years. He specialises in a movement & exercise based approach with a strong education component and patient centred focus. The Cor-kinetic philosophy is based around an understanding of modern movement, pain and neurosciences to give a person centred approach to rehabilitation and physical training within a strong evidence based framework. They have delivered courses in Europe, Asia, USA and south America and present regularly at national and specialist subject conferences around the world.
Matthew Remski is the author of eight books, the most recent being Practice and All is Coming, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond. He has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1996, learning from teachers from the Tibetan Buddhist, Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Iyengar streams. Along the way he has trained as a yoga therapist and an Ayurvedic consultant, and maintained a private practice in Toronto from 2007 to 2015. Matthew currently facilitates programming for yoga trainings internationally, focusing on yoga philosophy, culture, and the social psychology of healthy communities. In all subject areas, he encourages students to explore how yoga practice can resist the psychic and material dominance of neoliberalism, and the quickening pace of environmental destruction.
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Robin Lacambra (aka Lamarr) is the founder of GOODBODYFEEL Movement Studio and the GOODBODYFEEL Movement Method. She is a Pilates and yoga educator, community activist and an eager student of diverse movement practices. In 2017, she began cultivating a movement+wellness community in Hamilton, rooted in radical inclusion and accessibility. Her teacher training and studio are committed to operating from an anti-oppression, trauma-informed, eating disorder-informed framework. She believes in finding a balance between being a for-profit small business that is community-first, by experimenting with sliding scale pricing, service exchange and bursaries for marginalized communities. As a woman of colour, Robin is committed to changing the look and feel of North America’s movement industry.
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Cyndi Lee is the first female Western yoga teacher to fully integrate yoga asana and Tibetan Buddhism in her practice and teaching. In 1998, she founded the OM yoga Center in NYC, which became a mecca for yogis worldwide. One of the most influential teachers in the U.S., Cyndi’s teaching work is now focussed on yoga and meditation, and the resiliency that arises when we practice these methods in a sustainable manner. Cyndi is a formally trained Lay Buddhist Chaplain under the guidance of Roshi Joan Halifax of Upaya Zen Center. Her root guru is the Tibetan master, Gelek Rimpoche. She has been teaching yoga for 40 years and meditation for nearly 30 years. Cyndi is also the author of five books and a leading voice in the yoga community.
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James Crader is considered a top health and wellness resource in the Sacramento region. His work with special populations, elite athletes, and students with Spinal Cord Injuries has been featured in numerous blogs / podcasts / magazines / and teaches internationally. James is a CoreAlign Master Instructor and provides CoreAlign education for the Sacramento region. James' favorite students are those willing and ready to explore new ideas, movements, and experiences while learning how to work better with and within their body. His degree in Interpersonal Communication, and studies in Linguistics, have made him a lead voice in the area of cueing and client dialogue.
In this episode James and Kathryn dig deep into communication, teaching, misconceptions we have about the body, alignment, the SI joints and pilates. James talks about his unconventional path as a pilates instructor, and how his work goes much further than physical exercises. His degree in communication makes him a unique speaker and movement teacher because he understands the subelties of how the body talks to us. They spoke about human variation and how vastly different people can be and move, and how that is normal and great. They also spoke about James' experience training with Body Mind Centering and how Bonnie has an uncanny ability to know so much about teaching. Kathryn and James immediately hit it off and realized early in the conversation that they both had a lot to say and a number of common beliefs, we hope you enjoy listening.
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Carrie Owerko is an international teacher, a senior Iyengar Yoga teacher, a FRC mobility specialist, a yoga therapist and leading voice in the contemporary yoga community. We were so glad to have Carrie on the podcast, she has offered so much support and encouragement.
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In this conversation Neil Pearson and Kathryn Bruni-Young talk about the dynamic and complex nature of pain. Neil begins by defining pain and talking about some misconceptions we have when it comes to pain. From there they talk about the purpose of pain and how we can learn to move and teach in a way that doesn't over catastrophize pain. Neil teaches us that pain and tissue damage are poorly correlated, except for when we have tissue damage in the skin, which really changes the way we experience pain. This conversation covers the basics that everyone should know about pain and how we can navigate our own experiences.
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In this episode Kyle Pichie interviews Kathryn on a few of the main questions that come up in workshops. They start by talking about strength training movements that can be done in the gym and on a yoga mat. Kathryn gives ideas of how anyone could begin their strength training practice and why it compliments yoga so well. From there they move into the topic of breathing and cueing the breath in classes. Kathryn shares her opinion and how she has come to the place of not cueing the breath during every movement. Finally they talk about dynamic movement and how practitioners and teachers can create more variability within the practice without changing too much. This episode ends with some exciting new information about the Mindful Strength Virtual Studio membership that will go on sale again in July.
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Kathryn had been following Chidiogo online for some time and knew that they would have a great discussion about intuition, empowerment, life and of course the role of movement. Chidiogo talks about how she followed her gut and moved away from the corporate world, how she founded She Roars, and why she started writing a book. She talks about supporting women of colour and how feeling your own power changes everything. She also talks about her experience learning languages and how she never felt that she would excel because of the way she was introduced to language. Through this conversation they talked about teaching methods and how being with an effective teacher makes all the difference. Finally they spoke about movement and how participating in movement practices prepares us for life in many ways.
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In this conversation Kathryn and Hiroko talk about everything from heart rate variability to breathing, stress, cueing the breath in yoga and the brain. Hiro talks about how we can use heart rate variability to better understand our recovery and how we are doing. She speaks about the ways in which we can "try to relax" and that sometimes we try a bit too hard. Kathryn shares a personal story from the Mexico retreat and how she had to take a rest when she got home. Hiro gives some examples of how to begin a meditation practice, beginning with basic somatic awareness and describes how the exhale is like a mini vacation.
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Chris Murray is currently the Director of Health and Social Impact at Canopy Growth Corporation, The largest producer of Cannabis in the World. With his work at Canopy Growth Corporation he conceived and led the establishment the first Medical Cannabis Direct to Physician outreach program.
In this interview Chris and Kathryn talk about all things research, critical thinking and cannabis. What are the benefits of cannabis use, how to use it, the research behind what we know and some of the misconceptions we might have.
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In this episode Shelly and Kathryn talk about pain, and the biopsychosocial paradigm. This conversation makes pain simple for the average listener which is so important especially because there is so much misinformation around this topic. They talk about what treating the whole person really means, and how pain is made in the brain. Know someone in pain? Share this with them, this information is changing the way we understand pain.
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