Ancient Tools for Modern Living

Overview   Noah Rasheta is a Buddhist teacher, lay minister, and author, as well as the host of the podcast Secular Buddhism. He teaches mindfulness and Buddhist philosophy online and in workshops all around the world. He works with others to make the world a better place as he studies, embodies, and teaches the fundamentals of Buddhist philosophy, integrating Buddhist teachings with modern science, humanism, and humor. He lives in Kamas, Utah, with his wife and three kids.   What We’ll Learn What inspired Noah to create the Secular Buddhism Podcast, as well as the other components that continue to influence his work. Define what is meant by the term, “secular Buddhism” and identify what differentiates this path from a religious one. How the teachings of Buddhism provide simple and accessible strategies for creating lifestyle change that leads to improved mental health. Particular teachings that would be most helpful for someone struggling with a mental health challenge or a chronic health condition. Participate in a guided mindfulness meditation experience Ways to learn more about Noah’s work and how to contact him   Noah’s website: https://secularbuddhism.com/ Noah’s books:  Secular Buddhism                                   http://a.co/d/2WjXakH No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners   http://a.co/d/cRI1BqZ The 5 Minute Mindfulness Journal.        http://a.co/d/iS0EzwV Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/Secularbuddhism/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/444261245905970/ Instagram: @secularbuddhism     If you or your loved one is in need of support, the following toll-free numbers offer everything from crisis counseling to mental health treatment referrals in your area. Help is available. You do not need to suffer in silence.   National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 (24 hours 7 days a week).   NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-NAMI (6264). They are available M-F from 10am-6pm EST.   SAMHSA Treatment Referral Helpline: 1-877-726-4727. They are available M-F from 8am-8pm EST.   If you liked what you heard today, write a review and subscribe in iTunes. Five star reviews really help others to find the podcast. Grateful for any love you can leave!   https://www.innerskytherapeutics.com/podcast-1/   Instagram: www.instagram.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Have a question? Comment? Is there a particular topic you would like to know more about? Don’t keep quiet! Email me at tzipporah@innerskytherapeutics.com and we can get the conversation going.

Body Positive Yoga: A Conversation with Amber Karnes   Amber is a well known leader and teacher in the body positive yoga movement. During this thought provoking  interview, she shares her embodied knowledge that grew out of her own journey to self-acceptance. “I work with humans who want to make peace with their bodies and build unshakable confidence. I know what it’s like to struggle with low self-esteem, bad body image, disordered eating, and the shame that comes with feeling that I’m not enough.” Amber Karnes has been practicing yoga for over 15 years. In 2010, she decided that she wanted to take her practice to a deeper level and began training with Anna Pittman of the Breathing Space. “A few months in, I decided that I wanted to share my yoga with the world. That I wanted to help others who were in non-conforming bodies – fat bodies, old bodies, stiff bodies, or just bodies that get ignored by the yoga world – to make yoga work for them.” Amber’s passion is to teach from a place where yoga is accessible to everyone, regardless of size, shape, and/or ability. Amber’s teaching focuses on alignment and mindful transitions while encouraging students to honor the inherent intelligence and wisdom of their body. Amber infuses her classes with “the foundational principles of inclusivity, agency, consent, body positivity, and self-acceptance.” Amber is a huge fan of “yoga in non-yoga places” and can often be found teaching in parks, libraries, and other non-studio type settings. Amber co-created Yoga for All Teacher Training with Diane Bondy to impart the message of inclusivity and accessibility to teachers all over the world. Amber is based in Richmond, VA and teaches both classes and retreats in many different locations. Amber also created the Body Positive Clubhouse, an interactive online community full of invaluable resources.     What We’ll Learn   Amber’s expert perspective on how poor self-esteem, poor body image, and disordered eating has evolved into a major public health crisis and the cultural messages that contribute to the perpetuation of this epidemic.   Amber’s process of teaching and working with individuals to reclaim their power, internal resources, and find peace within their bodies through yogic teachings and body positive practices.   Specific practices and yogic teachings that Amber weaves into her work in order to help others let go of shame and move towards greater self-acceptance.   Amber’s personal strategies for managing criticism and push back from those in  society that idolizes certain body types and devalues others.     https://bodypositiveyoga.com https://bodypositiveyoga.com/membership/ www.yogaforalltraining.com https://www.facebook.com/bodypositiveyoga https://www.instagram.com/amberkarnesofficial/ Podcast: https://bodypositiveyoga.com/body-positive-yoga-podcast/   If you or your loved one is in need of support, the following toll-free numbers offer everything from crisis counseling to mental health treatment referrals in your area. Help is available. You do not need to suffer in silence.   National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 (24 hours 7 days a week).   NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-NAMI (6264). They are available M-F from 10am-6pm EST.   SAMHSA Treatment Referral Helpline: 1-877-726-4727. They are available M-F from 8am-8pm EST.   National Association for Eating Disorders Helpline: 1-800-931-2237 M-Thursday from 9-9 and Friday from 9-5 Hopeline Network: 1-800-442-4673       If you liked what you heard today, write a review and subscribe in iTunes. Five star reviews really help others to find the podcast. Grateful for any love you can leave!   https://www.innerskytherapeutics.com/podcast-1/   Instagram: www.instagram.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Have a question? Comment? Is there a particular topic you would like to know more about? No need to keep those thoughts to yourself!  Email me at tzipporah@innerskytherapeutics.com and we can keep these important conversations going.

Episode 7: Yoga Makes Life Better: An Interview with the Founder of YogaMate   “My first real connection with Yoga came through 'the breath' - and ever since, connecting with the breath has been a major focus on my life and now my teaching.” Having noticed the personal improvement in her own health, Ann Marie was led to want to cultivate a deeper understanding of how Yoga works. This led Ann Marie to become a 500 level teacher in 2012. Since then she has gone on to obtain level 1 training in iRest Meditation, 50 hours of Yin Yoga training, and additional training in Trauma Sensitive Yoga from the Trauma Center in Boston.  Ann Marie describes her practice as “centered and mindful.” Ann Marie is the founding director of YogaMate and writes a blog on YogaMakesLifeBetter.com. Ann Marie teaches both privately and for corporate groups in Richmond, VIC in Australia.   Here, we listen to Ann Marie’s story of how she went from a place of suffering from several chronic health conditions to creating a global platform for yoga teachers, yoga researchers, and yoga therapists. YogaMate is an idea that came to Ann Marie during a meditation practice. Here, Ann Marie shares with us her personal process of developing the world’s largest web based platform for yoga therapists, students, and yoga professionals working in healthcare settings that was born from a desire to serve and make yoga accessible for all.  If you would like to learn more about the health benefits of yoga, YogaMate is the world’s only unique, comprehensive web based data source full of evidence based information.   What We’ll Learn   What YogaMate is, how it was created, and how you can use it to further your knowledge of how yoga can assist in the treatment of a variety of health conditions, in addition to being an accessible practice for all.   How YogaMate has evolved to become one of the most comprehensive yoga therapy resources in the world and how it supports both students and professionals.   What kinds of information one can find on YogaMate.   www.yogamate.org https://www.facebook.com/YogaMate.org/ Instagram: @yogamate_org     If you or your loved one is in need of support, the following toll-free numbers offer everything from crisis counseling to mental health treatment referrals in your area. Help is available. You do not need to suffer in silence.   National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 (24 hours 7 days a week).   NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-NAMI (6264). They are available M-F from 10am-6pm EST.   SAMHSA Treatment Referral Helpline: 1-877-726-4727. They are available M-F from 8am-8pm EST.   If you liked what you heard today, write a review and subscribe in iTunes. Five star reviews really help others to find the podcast. Grateful for any love you can leave!   https://www.innerskytherapeutics.com/podcast-1/   Instagram: www.instagram.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Have a question? Comment? Is there a particular topic you would like to know more about? Don’t keep quiet! Email me at tzipporah@innerskytherapeutics.com and we can get the conversation going.

  Dr. Avanti is a physician who, after medical training in emergency medicine, began a journey to find her joy again and to help people truly heal.  This calling has led her to training in a variety of healing traditions and modalities:  Ayurveda, energy healing modalities including Pranic Healing and Reiki, plant-based nutrition and Yoga Therapy.  She integrates these intuitive healing systems and traditions in her writing, research and teaching.  She lectures extensively to medical students and physicians, as well as a broad-range of audiences throughout the country.  The subjects of these talks range from scientific talks on various traditional healing systems to interactive dialogues on meditation, yoga, lifestyle and nutrition.   What We’ll Learn A thorough explanation of every human being’s innate potential for healing through the practices defined in Ayurveda   How disconnection from harmony with the outside world begin to manifest into symptoms    and subsequent disease The process through which Ayurveda provides a framework for identifying imbalances and cultivating awareness The importance of empowering ourselves to remember our innate healing potential Key differences between the self as the healer and doctor as a facilitator of health How Ayurveda serves as a template for lifestyle change versus a “quick fix” for symptom reduction     https://www.avantikumarsingh.com/   Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda, and Western Medicine: A Healthy Convergence Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom: A Complete Prescription to Optimize Your Health, Prevent Disease, and Live with Vitality and Joy Your Irresistible Life: 4 Seasons of Self-Care through Ayurveda and Yoga Practices that Work       http://www.ayurvedacollege.com/sites/ayurvedacollege.com/files/articles/Emily-K-Smith-HealingMentalIllness.pdf   http://www.ayurveda-seminars.com/pdfs/Depression_and_Mental_Health_article.pdf http://iamj.in/posts/images/upload/664_671_1.pdf https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/ayurvedic-plants-in-brain-disorders-the-herbal-hope.pdf http://ujconline.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/6-UJAHM-1489-Rv.pdf   If you or your loved one is in need of support, the following toll-free numbers offer everything from crisis counseling to mental health treatment referrals in your area. Help is available. You do not need to suffer in silence.   National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 (24 hours 7 days a week).   NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-NAMI (6264). They are available M-F from 10am-6pm EST.   SAMHSA Treatment Referral Helpline: 1-877-726-4727. They are available M-F from 8am-8pm EST.   If you liked what you heard today, write a review and subscribe in iTunes. Five star reviews really help others to find the podcast. Grateful for any love you can leave!   https://www.innerskytherapeutics.com/podcast-1/   Instagram: www.instagram.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Have a question? Comment? Is there a particular topic you would like to know more about? Don’t keep quiet! Email me at tzipporah@innerskytherapeutics.com and we can get the conversation going.    

Today’s guest features Tra Kirkpatrick, a certified yoga therapist, life coach, and experienced yoga teacher residing in Atlanta, GA. Tra was trained at the Kripalu Institute in Massachusetts under the guidance and direction of Yoganand Michael Carroll.  Because community and collaboration are intricate aspects of the practice, in 2014 Tra joined two of her friends and colleagues to launch the Center for Integrative Yoga Studies. The Center offers two training tracks, including a 200-hour therapeutic yoga teacher, which focuses on the therapeutic and meditative aspects of yoga and a 500-hour yoga therapy program, both of which are hosted at studios across the country. In addition to teaching in both the 200 and 500 hour programs, Tra offers regular workshops and programs, weekly classes in Decatur and Atlanta, as well as seeing private clients for both yoga therapy and Thai Yoga in Decatur, GA. Tra created a course entitled “Seeds of Change” for the 300 hour program that explores the intersection of yoga and dialogue as a map for discovery and transformation.   What We’ll Learn How the Yoga Sutras outline a path and goal for behavior change The components of a yoga practice that are essential to changing behavior Unpack and dismantle the social myths embedded in the Western psyche that yoga is inherently therapeutic Be able to discern the difference between yoga as a therapeutic modality and the yoga that is taught in a general population class How the stages of change model align with the yoga therapy framework What exactly Tantra Hatha Yoga is and how it’s teachings are relevant to behavior change   Center for Integrative Yoga Studies: www.integrativeyogastudies.com Books: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali There are many versions of this text out there. One version that I find extremely palatable and relatable is the version by Nicolai Bachman. The Path of the Yoga Sutras: A Practical Guide to the Core of Yoga   If you or your loved one is in need of support, the following toll-free numbers offer everything from crisis counseling to mental health treatment referrals in your area. Help is available. You do not need to suffer in silence.   National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 (24 hours 7 days a week).   NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-NAMI (6264). They are available M-F from 10am-6pm EST.   SAMHSA Treatment Referral Helpline: 1-877-726-4727. They are available M-F from 8am-8pm EST.   If you liked what you heard today, write a review and subscribe in iTunes. Five star reviews really help others to find the podcast. Grateful for any love you can leave!   https://www.innerskytherapeutics.com/podcast-1/   Instagram: www.instagram.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ancienttoolsformodernliving/   Have a question? Comment? Is there a particular topic you would like to know more about? Don’t keep quiet! Email me at tzipporah@innerskytherapeutics.com and we can get the conversation going.

My guest for today’s episode is Kristine Kaoverii Weber MA, C-IAYT, eRYT500, YACEP. She has been studying yoga and holistic healing for nearly 30 years and is committed to the widespread adoption of yoga as a population health strategy. Her organization, Subtle®Health, LLC, provides holistic, mind-body trainings, education, and clinical services with the mission of enhancing community health infrastructure. She is the director of the Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training for Behavioral Health Professionals program at MAHEC in Asheville, NC; presents workshops and trainings internationally, and is frequently invited to speak about yoga at health care conferences. She is the author of The Complete Self Massage Workbook, and has published articles in the International Association of Yoga Therapist’s journal, Yoga Therapy in Practice and other wellness publications. Her work has been featured in Redbook, BodySense, Women’s World, Natural Health, and Lifetime TV. She is a regular presenter for www.yogauonline.com and www.yogamate.com. She has provided yoga therapy to various populations in institutions and privately since 1996.   What We’ll Learn Personal narratives that speak to the transformative and life enhancing power of yoga as a tool for lifestyle management. Principles of contemplative based practice that would broadly redesign our healthcare system as a whole to deliver person centered care How yoga and contemplative based pedagogy would offer viable solutions for some of the most prevalent mental/physical health challenges currently facing a large percentage of the US adult population. Thoughts on how yoga could be integrated into prevention, treatment, aftercare/recovery, and promotion Strategies for shifting the way we think about healthcare from a systemic approach   Kristine can be contacted at www.subtleyoga.com Check out her upcoming trainings at https://subtleyoga.com/in-person-trainings/ Online trainings can be found at https://subtleyoga.com/online-courses/  

Rebecca Hackett, C-IAYT, YTRx-800C, RYT-500, RPYT, founded Joyful Path Yoga Therapy in 2013.  She has been practicing yoga since 2000 and turned to yoga to strengthen her body following back surgery in 1998. She was compelled to share the many benefits that yoga can provide, by teaching people who have gone through similar health issues. Rebecca is a member of Yoga Alliance and International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). She is a graduate of the accredited Yoga Therapy (YTRx) program at Loyola Marymount University, a four year training, including an internship year working with chronic pain patients at Venice Family Clinic. Rebecca teaches Mom & Baby Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Toddler Yoga, Senior Yoga Rebecca also sees clients privately for either yoga or yoga therapy, creating individual programs based on the person’s immediate needs, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.   What We’ll Learn Clarification of pre and post natal mood disorders and what symptoms typically accompany these challenges Why it’s important for pregnant and postpartum women to work with someone who has specific training in pre/post natal yoga therapy and what common issues are typically present. How yoga therapy specifically addresses pre/postpartum depression and anxiety. How yoga can help the entire family system. Where people can go to obtain specialized training in yoga therapy with pre/postpartum women. www.joyfulpathyogatherapy.com

My guest today is Jenn Turner from the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA. Jenn Turner is a licensed social worker and a registered yoga teacher. She is both a staff clinician at the Metrowest Behavioral Health Center and the Coordinator of the Yoga Program at the Trauma Center. She received her Masters of Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a Trauma Specialization from Lesley University. Jenn  has experience working with adults and adolescents in outpatient clinics, partial hospitalization and residential treatment facilities. She is also a Kripalu-certified yoga teacher who leads Trauma-Sensitive women’s yoga classes and integrates mindfulness practices and the body into her clinical work. Jenn is committed to continuing ongoing training in treating complex trauma, dissociation and addiction.   What We’ll Learn: The prevalence of trauma in the United States and how we conceive, define, and conceptualize a traumatic experience. How we adapt the practice of  yoga to create a trauma sensitive model. The differences between a group session versus an individual session. Exploring some of the primary components of a trauma sensitive approach What is relational trauma and how yoga practice can not only help to develop the therapeutic alliance, but also serve as a vehicle to repair interpersonal relationships.   http://www.traumacenter.org/

In this episode, I will be sharing my own story of continued growth and transformation through Tantra Hatha Yoga, in addition to providing a foundation of what you can expect as the show unfolds and more enriching stories of meditation, spirituality, and yoga therapy are shared. You’ll learn how this podcast can help you if you are someone who is interested in learning more about how practices such as yoga and meditation can help identify solutions for a variety of modern day challenges. I’ll also be sharing some of our national health statistics to give you an idea of how many are suffering with chronic mental/physical conditions and how many are turning towards more embodied practices such as yoga and meditation for recovery and healing.