Podcasts about laughter yoga leader

Are you stuck in a cycle of overworking and just feeling… “fine”?In this episode of The Business Ownership Podcast I interviewed Lauren Lefkowitz. Lauren is an Executive Coach, partnering with executives and emerging leaders who have gotten to the middle of their careers and think, this is IT? It's fine…I guess.She works with humans who are ready to find joy, excitement, challenge, and balance in their careers...and have a personal life to love.Lauren was an 80-hour-a-week executive, is a recovering people pleaser, and has lived with chronic illness for nearly 20 years. She was living the ‘fine is a trap' way for years, convincing herself that working all the time and never feeling well were just part of life.Despite these challenges, she decided to take control of her life, learn to set boundaries, create opportunities for personal choice, and relaunch her own career to find her version of success and joy. She coaches people and teams who function the way she used to – and find their own versions of amazing.Lauren makes it comfortable to get uncomfortable, create powerful goals, and create real, sustainable career and life transformation.And! Lauren is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, which she found time for once she realized life could be about more than work.Download the free Fine is a Trap Inventory to see just how "fine" things are in your career!Don't settle for “fine”—learn how to thrive!Show Links:Free Fine is a Trap Inventory: https://www.fineisatrap.com/freetoolsLauren Lefkowitz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenlefkowitz/Book a call with Michelle: https://go.appointmentcore.com/book/IcFD4cGJoin our Facebook group for business owners to get help or help other business owners!The Business Ownership Group - Secrets to Scaling: https://www.facebook.com/groups/businessownershipsecretstoscalingLooking to scale your business? Get free gifts here to help you on your way: https://www.awarenessstrategies.com/

In this month's Happiness Challenge, we delve into the transformative power of laughter yoga and its profound connection to happiness and wellbeing. Join me, Klaudia, as I chat with Cat Googe, the Laughter Yoga Leader also known as the Joy Queen, who shares the mental and physical benefits of this unique practice. We explore how intentional laughter can help us reconnect with our bodies, elevate our mood, and reduce stress. Cat provides practical tips for integrating laughter yoga into our daily routines, emphasising the importance of self-love and self-validation. Together, we embark on a journey to uncover how embracing laughter can lead to a more joyful and resilient life.

Hi! My name is Cha Wilde and I will be guiding you through a practice designed to help you focus on your sensations, relax, and find joy in the present moment. We'll flow through stretches, twists, and various poses like staff pose, butterfly pose, forward folds, and child's pose. Throughout the session, we'll emphasize mindfulness, welcoming your thoughts and feelings, and discovering the beauty in each experience. We'll finish with a closing meditation, and I'll send you my well wishes. Introduction We begin with an opening sequence of poses and stretches. Start in staff pose, point and flex your feet, engage your leg muscles, and intentionally shake your body. The goal is to bring awareness to your legs and loosen up your body. 00:01:49 -- Contrasting Energies Now, let's explore contrasting energies. First, bring in flow, softness, and relaxation with gentle wiggling and shaking. Then, shift to a more structured approach: lengthen your spine, engage your core, and find a focused gaze. 00:03:03 -- Forward Fold and Turtle Pose Move into a forward fold, hinging at the hips and reaching towards the floor with your chest. Feel the stretch in your hips and the lengthening of your torso. Transition into a rounded spine position, like a 'little turtle,' and welcome any sensations or thoughts that arise, embracing them without judgment. 00:05:34 -- Twists and Child's Pose Next, let's do some gentle twists to the right and left. Follow with child's pose, spreading your fingers wide, enjoying the present moment, and finding something beautiful to focus on. 00:07:42 -- Closing Sequence For the closing sequence, take a seated position with your hands in prayer behind your head. Breathe into your armpits and the back of your rib cage. Return to a seated position, feeling the power in your core and softening your jaw. We'll end with a closing meditation. I'll send you my gratitude and well wishes as we conclude today's session. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel:    / @iamthewilderness   This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

This video was filmed at the Sunrise Circle Amphitheater near Bolder, Colorado in 2021. Hey, it's Cha Wilde, and we are on top of a mountain today! Let's soak in this beautiful connection between the earth beneath us and the sky above while we move through today's practice. Introduction and Grounding We're sitting here, feeling the stability of the mountain, grounding into the earth, and opening up to the heavens above. Let's start by sitting in a meditation seat, feeling our roots extending deep into the ground, finding that connection between stability and freedom. 00:00:52 - Exploring the Chakras We're going to journey through the chakras today, starting at the root and moving all the way up. As we move, embody the elements—feel the earth in your root, the water flowing in your sacral, the fire lighting up your solar plexus, and the air moving through your heart. Let the energy flow freely through each pose, each breath. 00:16:29 - Standing Poses and Balance Now, into standing poses: Mountain Pose, Tree Pose. Feel the strength in your core, the steadiness in your feet, but also allow for the playfulness of balance. Wobbling is okay! The balance isn't static—it's about constantly finding that center again. 00:24:25 - Floor Poses and Backbends We'll move into floor poses now—Downward Dog, Forward Folds, and backbends. As we stretch, strengthen, and open the body, keep connecting with your breath and engaging your core. Embrace the intensity, feel the fire in your practice, and let go where you need to. 00:28:55 - Relaxation and Closing We're wrapping up with Shavasana, lying still and taking in the sounds of nature around us. Feel the peace of being here, on top of this mountain. Reflect on how regular yoga leaves you feeling—loose, light, stretchy, present, and deeply relaxed. Stay here as long as you need, soaking in that mountain energy. Namaste! ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaforbeginners #yogateacher #yogateachers #yogi #yogini #yogateacherlife #yogagirl #yogalove #yogatips #yogatime #yinyoga #somaticpractice #somatichealing #somatichealing #somatictherapy #selfcare #selflove #selfhelp #bodytransformation #bodypositive #bodycare #stretching #stretch #meditation #internalfamilysystems #ifs #ifstherapy #healingjourney #healingmeditation #healingvibes #healthylifestyle #healer --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

Hello! I'm Cha Wilde. In this yoga session, and we're focusing on the throat chakra. We'll move through a series of poses and breathing exercises designed to open, stretch, and stimulate the throat area. Our practice will include child's pose, cat-cow, downward dog, neck stretches, humming, chanting, and lion's breath. The goal is to promote balanced energy flow, enhance self-expression, and deepen our listening through movement and sound vibrations. Pay attention to the sensations in your throat and strive for a balance between speaking and receiving. We'll finish with shoulder stand, plow pose, and fish pose to explore the effects of compressing and releasing the throat chakra. 00:00:19 -- Introduction and Child's Pose Welcome, everyone. I'm Cha Wilde, and today we'll focus on the throat chakra. We'll start in child's pose. Feel the sensations in your throat, neck, and spine as you settle into this pose. Adjust as needed, knowing that our physical movements deeply impact our energy flow. 00:03:25 -- Melting Heart Pose and Cat-Cow Let's move into melting heart pose to stretch the neck and throat further. Notice how deep listening supports a balanced throat chakra. Next, we'll transition into cat-cow pose, using breath and movement to engage your entire body. 00:08:11 -- Downward Dog and Neck Stretches In downward dog, let gravity help release tension in your neck and throat. I'll guide you through neck stretches, applying pressure from different angles to ease tension and encourage energy flow. 00:14:52 -- Humming and Chanting Now, we'll explore humming and chanting exercises to stimulate the throat chakra with sound vibrations. This practice connects with the throat chakra's role in self-expression and the element of ether. 00:19:20 -- Lion's Breath Let's practice lion's breath, encouraging you to let go of inhibitions and make expressive sounds. This cathartic exercise connects to primal expression and helps release blockages. 00:26:15 -- Shoulder Stand, Plow Pose, and Fish Pose We'll move into shoulder stand and plow pose, compressing the throat chakra to build energy. Transitioning to fish pose will open the throat chakra, allowing the energy to flow freely. Observe the shift in energy as we release and open the throat chakra. 00:29:59 -- Closing and Reflection We'll conclude with shavasana, where you can relax and reflect. Listen to your body's messages and trust your intuition about communication, speaking from a place of deep listening and balance. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel:    / @iamthewilderness   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

Hey, it's Cha Wilde, and I'm excited to guide you through today's yoga session. Let's start by getting comfortable and tuning into our breath. Introduction and Breathing Exercises Welcome, everyone! If you have props like bolsters or pillows, feel free to grab them. We'll begin with some seated breathing exercises, gently moving our arms and rolling our necks to awaken the body. 00:03:44 - Child's Pose and Grounding Now, let's sink into Child's Pose. This pose is so therapeutic—let's really connect with our bodies here. Moving onto all fours, press into the ground and feel that stability and presence. 00:07:59 - Downward-Facing Dog and Variations From here, we'll flow into Downward-Facing Dog. Engage those muscles, and don't be afraid to modify the pose. I'll guide you through variations like Turbo Dog and Melting Heart Pose, where we blend Child's Pose and Downward Dog. 00:15:27 - Shoulder Stretches Next, we'll focus on our shoulders. Try Eagle Arms, wrapping those arms tight, and let's do some arm circles. Notice how your body feels and release any tension you're holding onto. 00:25:09 - Closing and Gratitude As we wind down, let's return to seated breathing exercises. Take a moment to express gratitude for your body and all it does for you. Reflect on the physical and mental shifts you've experienced during our practice today. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaforbeginners #yogateacher #yogateachers #yogi #yogini #yogateacherlife #yogagirl #yogalove #yogatips #yogatime #yinyoga #somaticpractice #somatichealing #somatichealing #somatictherapy #selfcare #selflove #selfhelp #bodytransformation #bodypositive #bodycare #stretching #stretch #meditation #internalfamilysystems #ifs #ifstherapy #healingjourney #healingmeditation #healingvibes #healthylifestyle #healer --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

Hey, it's Cha Wilde, and I'm here to guide you through today's practice. Let's move together, breathe, and unwind in this gentle, mindful session. 00:00:01 - Opening and Child's Pose Welcome, beautiful souls. Let's start by settling into Child's Pose. Breathe through your nose and listen to the sounds around you. Feel the air moving in and out of your body. We're here to release stress and connect with ourselves. 00:01:11 - Cat-Cow and Downward Dog Now, let's move into Cat-Cow. Exaggerate those movements—really arch and round your spine as you sync your breath with each motion. From here, we flow into Downward Dog. Spread your fingers wide, bend your knees if needed, and gaze between your feet. 00:03:35 - Side Bends and Twists Reach your arms overhead for a deep side bend. Feel that stretch as you lean to one side and then the other. Now, let's twist—bring your opposite hand to your knee and focus on lengthening your spine as you relax deeper into the pose. 00:09:06 - Forward Fold and Butterfly Pose Time for a Forward Fold. Bring your upper body towards your thighs and notice how all the parts of your body connect. From there, we move into Butterfly Pose, bringing the feet together, knees wide, and hinging forward from the hips. Let yourself ease into the stretch. 00:14:51 - Shavasana and Closing Now, we enter Shavasana. Lie still, focusing on your breath. Let go of any lingering tension, and just be. When you're ready, I'll gently guide you back out of the pose. Namaste, my friends, and thank you for sharing this moment of peace with me. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaforbeginners #yogateacher #yogateachers #yogi #yogini #yogateacherlife #yogagirl #yogalove #yogatips --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

Hey, it's Cha Wilde, and I'm so excited to be outside with you today, feeling the sun, the breeze, and all the magic of nature while we move through this yoga session together. Introduction and Setting the Scene Today's practice is a celebration of simplicity and success. For me, success is wearing a bikini, feeling the sand between my toes, and just being able to take care of myself. Let's dive into that energy as we connect with our breath, our bodies, and the world around us. 00:01:51 - Warm-up and Vinyasa Flow Let's start by warming up with some familiar moves—Downward Dog, Cat-Cow, and leg lifts. Feel your body wake up with each inhale and exhale, and connect with the earth beneath you and the sky above. 00:13:34 - Standing Poses and Balance Now, into our standing poses: Warrior, Triangle, Tree. Let's play with balance—not just physically but mentally, too. It's okay if you wobble; balance is dynamic and constantly shifting. 00:25:09 - Backbends and Stretches Moving into some deeper stretches and backbends like Camel and Locust Pose. This is where we find that beautiful dance between effort and ease. Listen to your body, push where it feels good, and relax where you need to. 00:31:29 - Inversions and Restorative Poses Let's flip our perspective with Shoulder Stand and Plow Pose, followed by some restorative goodness—Supta Baddha Konasana and, of course, Shavasana. Find your comfort and let yourself melt into gratitude. 00:35:07 - Closing and Reflections We'll end with a moment of gratitude. Take a second to reflect on the simple pleasures and blessings that make your day brighter. For me, after this session, it's paddleboarding and preparing for a fun photo shoot. I hope you continue to enjoy your day in a way that lights you up. Namaste! ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaforbeginners #yogateacher #yogateachers #yogi #yogini #yogateacherlife #yogagirl #yogalove #yogatips --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

The power of laughter and worms. A great conversation from 2021 with Cathy Nesbitt a vermiculture champion and laughter ambassador.  She is saving the earth with compost and saving people with laughter.  As with all of the conversations, they never date.    Today's guest is Cathy Nesbitt who has has been a vermiculture champion for over 20 years (that's worm composting to you and me). Being a lady of a certain age, her working life started with a few options: Teacher, Nurse or Secretary. She chose the latter and had a 20-year career as a secretary and PA working for some prestigious companies. Whilst this work was fine, it was not her passion. The shift to something more inspiring began when she volunteered at a nursing home. She became interested in Psychology and was inspired to study, so she joined a night school class whilst continuing to work full-time at her day job. After finishing her qualification, she sought an opportunity to use and explore her new skills and found a place to work with challenged adults. “This is why I was put on earth to be a social worker. Until I met management, I did not expect the politics.” Little actions can lead to big changes, and in the 1990s, most developed countries were having problems with waste. Canada was no exception. Landfills in Toronto had become full, and trash was being exported to US landfill sites. Looking to do her bit, Cathy started composting at home and encouraged others to do the same. A work injury in 2001 led Cathy to consider new options, and she decided to start her own business. That was the start of what has now been a 20-year journey with composting and worms. Throughout the years, Cathy has won over 20 awards for green business and community support composting. She has published over 300 articles and has been on TV and radio, both local and national. Not one to stand still, Cathy is also a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, Teacher, and Ambassador. So, her life has a theme of worms, bean sprouts, and laughter. Her mission is to promote simple solutions for today's challenges. The link to focus coaching is Here    Cathy's website URL & Social URLs are: http://www.cathyscomposters.com/ http://www.cathyssprouters.com/ http://www.cathysclub.com/ https://www.facebook.com/CathysCrawlyComposters https://twitter.com/Squirm https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathynesbitt/ https://www.youtube.com/user/rhgn2112

Hey, it's Cha Wilde. Today, we're diving into a playful yoga session that's all about bringing joy and lightness into your practice. Imagine this: you're on your mat, ready to move, but with a sense of fun, a little wiggle, and a big smile. 00:00:00 Introduction and Morning Routine I started my morning in Bali, packing up my art studio, hitting the gym, lifting weights, and flowing through some yoga. There's something magical about mixing playfulness into everything I do—it's like giving my soul a little dance break. 00:01:18 Embracing Playfulness through Yoga Now, I'm inviting you to join me. We'll start with some familiar poses—child's pose, melting heart, and downward dog—but with a twist. Let's loosen up, add some fluid movements, and most importantly, let's have fun. I want you to feel that lightness in every stretch, every breath. 00:03:35 Playful Imagery and Movements As we move, I'll throw in some playful imagery. Picture yourself as a puppy dog, wagging your tail in the melting heart pose, or imagine you're churning butter or riding a camel. It's all about finding that joyful, carefree energy within you. 00:10:08 Connecting with the Need for Play And as we wrap up, let's take a moment of stillness. Feel the quiet, connect with the part of you that craves play. Ask yourself—how do you want to play today? Let's honor that playful spirit together. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaforbeginners #yogateacher #yogateachers #yogi #yogini #yogateacherlife #yogagirl #yogalove #yogatips --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

Hey, it's Cha Wilde here, and today we're diving into a yoga session that's all about finding calm amidst chaos. Life's been a whirlwind for me lately, with packing, moving, and all the stress that comes with it. But right now, we're going to pause, breathe, and connect with our bodies. 00:00:29 Introduction and Finding Calm I've been feeling the storm of packing up my life, but here on the mat, it's time to find some calm. I'm so grateful to be here with you, to share this practice. I know getting to the mat isn't always easy, so let's honor this moment together. 00:01:34 Releasing Tension and Accepting Challenges As we move through these poses and stretches, I want you to let go of any tension you're holding onto. Life can be overwhelming—I get it. Just the other day in Bali, I was feeling the heat, the noise of construction, and the frustration of dealing with slow internet. Shipping my stuff back to America? Don't even get me started! But here, let's focus on what feels good, even in the chaos. 00:08:27 Finding Stillness and Self-Acceptance As we continue, find that stillness within. Accept the challenges you're facing, and be gentle with yourself. I've learned to embrace the slower pace of life in Bali, to let go of what I can't change. Let's surrender to this moment together, finding peace in the stillness. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaforbeginners #yogateacher #yogateachers #yogi #yogini #yogateacherlife #yogagirl #yogalove #yogatips #yogatime #yinyoga #somaticpractice #somatichealing #somatichealing #somatictherapy #selfcare #selflove #selfhelp #bodytransformation #bodypositive #bodycare #stretching #stretch #meditation #internalfamilysystems #ifs #ifstherapy #healingjourney #healingmeditation #healingvibes #healthylifestyle #healer --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

Hey, it's Cha Wilde here, ready to guide you through a playful and grounding yoga session. Let's start by settling into a comfortable child's pose. Breathe deeply through your nose and exhale through your mouth, spreading your fingers wide and feeling that beautiful stretch in your armpits and hips. 00:00:00 - Opening and Child's Pose Let's start by settling into a comfortable child's pose. Breathe deeply through your nose and exhale through your mouth, spreading your fingers wide and feeling that beautiful stretch in your armpits and hips. 00:01:58 - Downward Dog and Leg Lifts Now, let's move into downward dog. Straighten your legs, arms, and back. Lift each leg individually, pointing your toes down, and really engage those hamstrings. Feel the strength and stretch in every movement. 00:03:48 - Forward Folds and Halfway Lifts Next, we flow into forward folds and halfway lifts. Draw your chest forward, slide your fingers up your shins, and feel your shoulder blades engaging. Let's keep that breath steady and focused. 00:04:25 - Ragdoll Pose and Standing Sequence Transitioning into a ragdoll pose, let your body hang upside down with bent knees, letting go of any tension. Slowly roll up to a standing position, engage your feet, and reach your arms overhead. Feel the energy rising within you. 00:07:24 - Sun Salutations and Warrior Poses Let's dive into sun salutations, flowing through plank, chaturanga, upward dog, and downward dog. As we move into warrior one, focus on your breath and alignment. Let each pose be an expression of your inner strength. 00:15:32 - Closing and Meditation We'll finish with a moment of meditation. Sit still, breathe deeply, and release any remaining tension. I'll guide you through some gentle twists. Remember, even this short practice is powerful. You've done something wonderful for yourself today. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

Hi, I'm Cha Wilde, and today we're practicing at the beautiful Khus Farm Bali eco-resort in Indonesia. This session is all about slowing down, tuning into your breath, and connecting deeply with yourself in the serene surroundings of the jungle. 00:00:18 Introduction and Setting I introduce myself and invite you to immerse in the peaceful sounds of the jungle here at the Yogashala. The constant hum around us is like the ocean waves, a reminder of nature's steady rhythm. 00:01:48 Butterfly Pose (Baddha Konasana) We start with the Butterfly pose, also known as Baddha Konasana. I encourage you to move gently, like the beautiful black butterflies fluttering around us in the jungle, and to feel the stretch as you twist and press into your knees. 00:03:34 Slowing Down and Feeling Slowing down is essential. The slower we move, the more we can feel and heal. It's okay if slowing down brings up uncomfortable feelings. Embrace them, knowing that you don't have to rush or change everything at once. 00:07:26 Straddle Pose and Breath Work As we move into the Straddle pose, I guide you to focus on your breath. Drag out the inhale, slow down your breathing, and connect with any part of you that resists this pace. Remember, all parts of you are welcome here. 00:10:43 Happy Baby Pose (Ananda Balasana) We then move into Happy Baby pose. Yoga is about finding comfort in these poses, and through practice and patience, we can discover ease and joy in the journey. 00:14:03 Transitions and Fluidity As we transition between poses, it's natural to stir up thoughts and emotions, just like sediment in a pond. Aim for a smooth, fluid flow, maintaining clarity and stillness as you move. 00:18:28 Closing and Gratitude We finish with Shavasana, followed by Sukhasana. I express my gratitude for your practice today, for spending time with yourself, and for allowing this experience of slowing down to bring healing and connection into your life. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaforbeginners #yogateacher #yogateachers #yogi #yogini #yogateacherlife #yogagirl #yogalove #yogatips #yogatime #yinyoga --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

This session is a guided yin yoga practice with me, Cha Wilde. Together, we'll explore the gentle art of slowing down, holding poses, and embracing relaxation and mindfulness. Today, we're focusing on a straddle pose, where I'll help you tune into the sensations in your body, release tension, and connect deeply with the present moment. As we move through the practice, we'll incorporate meditation, breath work, and self-reflection, all aimed at guiding you toward a state of inner peace and enlightenment. Introduction to Yin Yoga In this session, we dive into yin yoga—a practice all about slowing down and holding poses longer than in more dynamic styles of yoga. As we settle into the mat, I invite you to prepare for a straddle pose. 00:00:54 - Straddle Pose I guide you into a straddle pose, where one leg is bent and the other remains straight. Here, we focus on pointing and flexing the toes, a simple movement that helps bridge the connection between brain and body. Using props like blocks or pillows can support you in this pose, promoting a deeper sense of relaxation. 00:02:10 - Mindfulness and Tension Release Breathing deeply, we turn our attention inward, paying close attention to the sensations in our bodies. With every exhale, I encourage you to let go of any tension or discomfort. Practicing this regularly can keep your body and mind balanced, like a river that flows smoothly. 00:08:07 - Switching Sides We then switch sides, repeating the straddle pose with the other leg. As you stretch, notice the differences between your left and right sides, observing how the pose brings awareness and vitality to your body. Balancing both sides is key to maintaining harmony within. 00:15:25 - Relaxation and Enlightenment To wrap up, we connect relaxation with the deeper journey toward enlightenment. Sitting up tall, feeling both sides of your body equally, I guide you to bring your hands together at your heart. We end with a final meditation and chanting exercise, fostering a profound sense of inner peace and tranquility. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

+Hi, I'm Cha Wilde, and welcome to our outdoor session today. We're here at the beautiful Hoosfarm Bali eco-resort in Indonesia, surrounded by the soothing sounds of nature—the gentle hum of bugs, the flow of the river nearby. Let's take a moment to settle in, to feel the earth beneath us, and to open ourselves up to the energy all around. 00:00:31 -- Connecting with the Earth and Each Other As we begin, I invite you to breathe deeply, feeling that connection between your body and the ground. Every inhale draws in the life around us, and every exhale roots us deeper into this shared earth. Remember, we're all part of this same planet, this same home. Today, let's honor that connection. 00:02:25 -- Embodying Simplicity and Mindfulness Throughout our session, I encourage you to let go of any distractions, any complications that might cloud your mind. Instead, focus on the simplicity of the present moment—the feeling of your body as it moves, the air on your skin, the sounds around you. Often, the beauty of life is found in these simple, mindful moments. 00:12:05 -- Exploring the Interconnectedness of All Things As we flow through our practice, notice how everything in your body is connected. A stretch in one area resonates through another. Just as our bodies are interconnected, so too is our world. Every action, every thought, has a ripple effect on the planet and all living beings. Let's practice with that awareness today. 00:12:46 -- Embracing the Beauty of the Present Moment No matter where you are or what you're experiencing, there's beauty to be found in the present moment. Whether it's the feel of the earth beneath you or the simple act of breathing, allow yourself to embrace the joy and gratitude that comes from being fully present. 00:16:48 -- Healing Through Connection with the Earth Now, let's take a moment to ground ourselves completely. Lie down on the earth, feel its support beneath you. This is a moment of healing, a chance to reconnect with your roots, to feel a sense of renewal and completion. Let the earth hold you, and in return, offer it your gratitude. 00:18:54 -- Closing and Gratitude As we wrap up today's practice, I invite you to carry this sense of connection with you throughout your day. Remember that your body is a microcosm of the earth itself, containing all its elements. Let's close with a moment of gratitude—for the earth, for our bodies, and for the practice that brings us together. Thank you for joining me today. Namaste. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaforbeginners #yogateacher #yogateachers #yogi #yogini #yogateacherlife #yogagirl #yogalove #yogatips #yogatime #yinyoga #somaticpractice #somatichealing #somatichealing #somatictherapy #selfcare #selflove #selfhelp #bodytransformation #bodypositive #bodycare #stretching #stretch #meditation #internalfamilysystems #ifs #ifstherapy #healingjourney #healingmeditation #healingvibes #healthylifestyle #healer --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

Hey, it's Cha Wilde here. Today, I want to talk about the real-life challenges of sticking with your yoga practice, especially when your environment just isn't cooperating. I've been there—some days it's hard to find the motivation to get on the mat, and that's okay. The key is adapting to whatever life throws your way and being kind to yourself, even if your practice is shorter or less intense than usual. It's all about showing up for yourself, nurturing that relationship with your body, and celebrating the effort, no matter how small. 00:00:34Environmental Impact on Yoga Practice Let's be real—your surroundings can make or break your motivation to practice. Sometimes, everything feels perfect, and it's easy to dive into your routine. But on other days, distractions or an uninviting space can make it tough. If you're sensitive to your environment, you know how it can become a real obstacle, especially when you're trying to build a new habit. But don't worry, we can work through this together. 00:04:17Adapting to Circumstances What's amazing about us as humans is our ability to adapt. I like to think of adaptation as our superpower—it's what allows us to navigate through all kinds of situations and still show up. Instead of stressing about having the perfect setup, I encourage you to just get on the mat, even if it's just for a few minutes. It's like maintaining a relationship with your body; acknowledging it, connecting with it, even if only briefly. 00:09:21Bite-Sized Yoga Practices To help you out, I've been sharing short, under 15-minute yoga videos on my YouTube channel. These are designed to help you build momentum and stay connected with your body, whether you're a beginner or just looking to re-establish your routine. You can stack these bite-sized practices together for a longer session or just enjoy them as they are. 00:11:59Integrative Approach My approach is all about blending yoga asanas, Buddhist somatic meditation, and internal family systems therapy. This combination helps you explore your inner world, find peace within, and embrace all parts of yourself. I'm here to support you on this journey, so feel free to drop any questions in the comments or reach out to schedule a one-on-one session if you need more personalized guidance. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

In this guided meditation session, I, Cha Wilde, will lead you through a series of mindful breathing exercises and grounding practices. Let's begin by finding a comfortable seated position. Place one hand on your heart and the other on your belly, and let's focus on our breath together. 00:00:01 - Opening and Breathing Instructions Welcome, everyone. I invite you to settle into your seats and connect with your breath. Breathe in deeply through your nose, and let's become aware of the natural rhythm of your breath as you find your center. 00:00:53 - Mindfulness and Body Awareness Now, let's bring our awareness to our surroundings while also turning inward. Keep your eyes soft, gazing gently downward, and feel your heartbeat as you sit tall. Remember, it's perfectly okay for your body to slump; just as in life, we can gently lift ourselves back up. 00:03:14 - Breathing Techniques and Mantra I'll guide you through a breathing pattern now: inhale for four counts and exhale for six. Let's make that exhale a little longer, as it helps to calm the mind. I'll introduce a mantra for you to repeat: “I am here.” Feel free to place your hands on your knees, palms facing down to ground yourself, or up to open your heart. 00:09:17 - Closing Remarks As we approach the end of our session, I want to thank you for taking this time to be present with me. Remember, by cultivating peace and love within yourself, you can share that energy with others throughout your day. Let's take one last deep breath together before we finish. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact ------------------------ #yoga #yogaposes #yogaworkout #yogaexercises #yogapractice #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaforbeginners #yogateacher #yogateachers #yogi #yogini #yogateacherlife #yogagirl #yogalove #yogatips #yogatime #yinyoga #somaticpractice #somatichealing #somatichealing #somatictherapy #selfcare #selflove #selfhelp #bodytransformation #bodypositive #bodycare #stretching #stretch #meditation #internalfamilysystems #ifs #ifstherapy #healingjourney #healingmeditation #healingvibes #healthylifestyle #healer --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

This session focuses on opening up the shoulders and chest, areas that often tighten due to our daily activities. I'll guide you through some poses to help counteract the effects of slouching from computer work, driving, and even the way we sleep. Together, we'll strengthen the back muscles, which is key to pulling those shoulders back and maintaining better posture. 00:00:02 -- Introduction and Motivation We start with an understanding of why today's practice is important. Like many of you, I've struggled with slouching, especially from spending long hours at the computer or behind the wheel. These habits lead to tight shoulders and a chest that tends to collapse inward. 00:01:34 -- Importance of Back Strength Next, we talk about the need to strengthen our back muscles. I explain how exercises like rowing or even weightlifting can help. A strong back naturally pulls your shoulders back into alignment, preventing that forward hunch and the tightening of the chest muscles. 00:04:25 -- Restorative Yoga Pose: Fish Pose (Matsyasana) Now, let's get into the restorative fish pose, or matsyasana. I'll guide you as you lie back over a block or prop, allowing gravity to do the work of opening up the front body. With your arms in a T or cactus shape and your legs relaxed, this pose is all about reversing the effects of slouching. 00:05:39 -- Emotional and Spiritual Aspects As we hold the pose, I'll talk about the emotional and symbolic aspects of this practice. Opening up the front body isn't just physical; it's about embracing vulnerability and self-expression. But don't worry—grounding your feet on the earth gives you the stability and power you need to feel safe as you open up. 00:13:33 -- Closing and Integration We wrap up the session with a closing sequence, leading you into a deep relaxation in shavasana. I encourage you to breathe deeply, release any remaining tension, and thank your body for its strength. As we end, I invite you to carry the openness and calm from this practice into your daily life, promising to return to this space whenever you need it. ------------------------ ✨ Welcome to Cha Wilde's YouTube channel dedicated to healing. Through yoga classes, guided meditations, and casual talks, Cha shares her experience with somatic practices, spirituality, and well-being. Cha's teachings are informed by her own training and practice in yoga asana, Tibetan Buddhism and Internal Family Systems. Cha Wilde is a Multi-Passionate Artist, Inner Freedom Guide, Internal Family Systems and Trauma Informed Healer & Coach, 16yr Master Trained Yogi (E-RYT 200) and Somatic Meditation Teacher, 24yr Daily Journaler, Laughter Yoga Leader, Master of Theology from the University of St. Andrews. On this YouTube channel, Cha is currently sharing tiny yoga classes and guided meditations, 15min or less, integrating mindful tantric movement with somatic IFS yin yoga & teachings from Tibetan Buddhism. Cha values freedom, creativity, playfulness, presence, community, & deep connection. Dive into her world: https://chawilde.com/ Cha teaches naked yoga classes. These are available for members of her online studio: chawilde.com/studio-membership Cha is also a singer, songwriter, music producer, writer & abstract painter. Explore her artwork & teachings about freedom of expression on her other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iamthewilderness/videos This channel is a space of inclusivity and positivity. I encourage everyone to join in conversation, share kindness, ask questions, and cultivate an attitude of gratitude. All your parts are welcome here. These videos are just the beginning of a much larger journey. If you would like to train with Cha privately or schedule a 1:1 IFS healing session, send her a message through her website: https://chawilde.com/contact --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chawilde/support

In this episode special guests, AK & Dee Patel, tell us all about Laughter Yoga. They share their personal journey to becoming Certified Laughter Yoga Teachers, discuss the benefits of a regular laughter yoga practice, and inform us of their mission to train as many Laughter Yoga Leaders as possible in order to spread the benefits and joy here in SoCal. Have a listen & don't forget to follow the podcast to stay up to date on our episodes! You can also leave us feedback on the episode over at our Instagram @holistichealerscommunity AK & Dee are not on social media, so you'll have to attend one of our community events to catch them in person! The Holistic Healers Community will be hosting a pop-up Laughter Yoga event on June 15th, as well as Laughter Yoga Leader trainings on June 18th and 25th. Reach out to us if you're interested in joining us for these events & having a great laugh! Song: My Life Written by: MC Woes Produced by: EQ

We're digging into the truth behind the word “fine” with our guest, Lauren Lefkowitz. Ever catch yourself just saying you're fine but feeling something totally different? Lauren shares her insightful tips on breaking free from the “fine” trap and empowering your clients (and yourself) to live more authentically.  Lauren will share her poignant journey from a workaholic corporate HR professional to a transformative life coach, following a life-altering accident. She and Melinda will discuss why we often default to saying we're “fine” even when our true feelings are far more complex, and how this can keep us from pursuing the richer, more gratifying lives we deserve. Lauren will offer insights into breaking down overwhelming feelings and tasks to move past our fears and the busyness that consumes us. We'll also talk about practicing self-acknowledgment, celebrating our accomplishments, and genuinely being happy for ourselves — and how these actions can inspire others.  Lauren Lefkowitz is a coach who partners with executives and emerging leaders who are ready to find joy, excitement, challenge, and balance in their careers and have a personal life to love.  In this episode Melinda and Lauren talk about: The habitual response of saying “I'm fine” and how people often mask their true feelings The dangers of the “fine” trap, where individuals pretend everything is okay, covering up frantic, irrational, neurotic, and emotional states The toxicity of always pretending that everything is amazing and how it can harm personal growth Lauren's personal transformation from a corporate HR role to a coaching career after a significant accident, emphasizing the shift from financial success to finding joy and purpose Busyness as a barrier to personal fulfillment and the importance of making space to pursue dreams Lauren's coaching approach with high achievers, focusing on identifying what isn't working in their lives and what they truly want Managing overwhelming tasks by breaking them down into manageable steps The need for self-acknowledgment, the importance of celebrating one's accomplishments, and countering the tendency to minimize one's own achievements The positive impact of openly sharing and celebrating successes to inspire others “I'd never really charged anyone for coaching. I felt like I was really good at it, and it came really easily to me, so it couldn't be worth all that much money, which is not true at all.” — Lauren Lefkowitz Guest Bio:  Lauren Lefkowitz is an executive coach who partners with executives and emerging leaders who have gotten to the middle of their careers and think, This is IT? She works with humans who are ready to find joy, excitement, challenge, and balance in their careers and have a personal life to love.   Lauren was an 80-hour-a-week executive, is a recovering people pleaser, and has lived with chronic illness for nearly 20 years (and once, she broke both of her shoulders chasing a vacuum). She was living the “fine is a trap” way for years, convincing herself that working all the time and never feeling well were just part of life. Despite these challenges, she decided to take control of her life, learn to set boundaries, create opportunities for personal choice, and relaunch her own career to find her version of success and joy.  She now coaches people and teams who function the way she used to so they can find their own versions of “amazing.” Lauren makes it comfortable to get uncomfortable, create powerful goals, and create sustainable career and life transformation. And Lauren is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, which she found time for once she realized life could be about more than work. Resources or websites mentioned in this episode: Mirasee  Coaches Console  Melinda's book: The Confident Coach  Lauren's website: Lauren Lefkowitz Coach Lauren's podcast: I Could Talk to You All Day Lauren's LinkedIn: Lauren Lefkowitz Lauren's Instagram: @lauren.coach.fineisatrap Lauren's Facebook Page: Lauren Lefkowitz Coaching  Credits:  Host: Melinda Cohan  Producer: Michi Lantz  Supervising Producer: Cynthia Lamb  Audio Editor: Marvin del Rosario  Executive Producer: Danny Iny  Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely  Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio  To catch the great episodes that are coming up on Just Between Coaches, please follow us on Mirasee FM's YouTube channelor your favorite podcast player. And if you enjoyed the show, please leave us a comment or a starred review. It's the best way to help us get these ideas to more people.  Music credits:  Track Title: Clouds  Artist Name: Acreage  Writer Name: Marshall Usinger  Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS  Track Title: Coastline Dream  Artist Name: Wild Sky   Writer Name: Adam Simons  Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS  Track Title: Coo Coos  Artist Name: Dresden, The Flamingo  Writer Name: Matthew Wigton  Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION  Track Title: Stars & Trees  Artist Name: Outside The Sky  Writer Name: Dustin Ransom  Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION  Special effects credits:  24990513_birds-chirping_by_promission used with permission of the author and under license by AudioJungle/Envato Market.  Episode transcript: Beyond “I'm Fine” (Lauren Lefkowitz) coming soon.  Reserve your free ticket now: mirasee.fm/movie (Limited screenings available.)

Pauline is an award-winning self-development Senior Executive/expert, Business Coach , Neuroencoding Speciaist, coachtrainer, firewalker, mentor, and senior transformational trainer with over two and a half decades of experience at senior executivestrategic levels in local and multinational organizations. The founder of Swift Shift Coaching & consultancy Ltd, and the SuccessAcademy providing state of the art accredited life changing programsPauline has a wealth of experience spanning over two decades in both local and multinational organizations. Widely recognizedas an esteemed leader, Coach, Consultant, and trainer who has helped executives, senior managers and employees achievetheir career aspirations and personal growth through coaching, mentoring, NLP and training. With her extensive knowledge, shehas been instrumental in guiding organizations through structural changes, developing effective strategies, and fostering teambuilding, leadership and culture change.She is an Accredited Master Coach, Master NLP, Leader, consultant, HR, transformational trainer and Neuroencoder.Pauline's passion lies in elevating the self-development world and empowering both individuals and corporations to make a SwiftShift from their current position to where they want to be, and beyond. Her highly experiential, practical approach creates aprofessional yet fun self-transformation journey that sets her apart always.Pauline holds a Bachelors & Master's degree in Business Management from Notre Dame University as well as several coachcertifications,I, Master NLP Practitioner by the American Board of NLP, Time Line Therapy & Hypnotherapist Practitioner,Accredited InternationalTrainer, Mentor Coach, Laughter Yoga Leader & Neuroencoding Specialist , Firewalker..Pauline is a mentor at the Blessings Foundation for Women empowerment, Mentor at the Challenge to Change, Mentor Coach,Member of the Women Leaders Council, Member of IWCLondon, Ex Vice President & member of Cyprus International Womenof Today -CIWOT, Founding member of the BPW English Speaking Club Cyprus, Board Member at the ICF Cyprus Chapter,Member of the Life Winners AssociationShe is a senior expert at several top universities in the region.https://swiftshiftcoach.com/

Joan Dohey is a retired primary teacher whose mission is to help others live more healthy, fulfilled lives. Through life's experiences, observation, and study, she has learned a great deal about health and healing on all levels. She has taken her passion for healing and studied and certified in modalities that address problems on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. Her philosophy at its core is that taking care of oneself is crucial, and her aim is to spread the word, help others discover and cultivate this attitude, and provide some tangible tools to use on an every-day basis, be it stretching and hydration or managing one's energy field. Taking care of ourselves is important to our overall health and to helping us live a joyful life. Over the past 10 years, Joan has become a practitioner of Bowen Therapy for people and animals, Reflexology, Reiki, Rahanni, André Dücker's Trauma Release, and the McLoughlin Scar. Release Technique. She is a practitioner of Access Bars and Sound Healing, specializing in Crystal Singing Bowls. But her greatest love is doing Soul Genesis readings and clearings—creating a profile of each client on a soul level, then clearing energy that is holding them back and teaching them how to protect their energy so they can live their best lives. She continues to teach and is a Meditation and Yoga Nidra teacher, a spiritual life coach, and a Laughter Yoga Leader. Her latest challenge and future offering is to become a Yoga Teacher in 2024! Joan works out of her space in downtown St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and offers distance sessions to those who are unable to avail of in-person services.www.joandohey.comFacebook: Time to Heal https://www.facebook.com/TimetoHealNLWe are super excited to announce that you can now purchase Let's Get Freaky merch! Hoodies, t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and lots more! Check it out! http://tee.pub/lic/aQprv54kktwIf you have had any paranormal experiences and would like to be a guest on the show, please get in touch! Email us at letsgetfreakypodcast@outlook.com or message us on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube @tcletsgetfreakypodcast https://linktr.ee/letsgetfreaky

In this episode, Marguerite Orane describes her journey from running a family-owned business to working in other businesses, and ultimately starting her own coaching business – a business that allows her the freedom and flexibility to lead with ease, grace, and joy. 00:37- About Marguerite Orane and her journey. My experience managing my family's 70-employee manufacturing business was painful. After we sold the business, in order to allow my parents to retire financially secure, I spent time during my MBA at Harvard Business School in deep introspection about how we work. I have dedicated my life to changing the way we live and work so that we do so with joy. Having successfully led many businesses and working with hundreds of leaders and their teams, I realize it only takes one person to make the change. When people are tuned into their true selves, they act from a place of presence, grace, joy and authenticity, enriching the lives of others --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

This Sunday, the Scottish Laughter Championships take place. What are the benefits of Laughter Yoga? Sean was joined by Laughter Yoga Leader and the host of the Scottish Laughter Championships, Natalie Gilray…

This Sunday, the Scottish Laughter Championships take place. What are the benefits of Laughter Yoga? Sean was joined by Laughter Yoga Leader and the host of the Scottish Laughter Championships, Natalie Gilray…

The wise old saying that “laughter is the best medicine” is really true. Intrinsic Health Coach and Laughter Yoga Leader, Debbie Friend, shares her journey with using laughter to heal and discusses laughter's powerful effects on nourishing the mind, body and soul. In this episode, we discuss: - The health benefits of laughing and what it does to the body - How laughter can reduce stress - Using laughter to deal with tough times - The healing power of laughter - How laughter can strengthen our relationships - How to infuse more laughter into our everyday lives - Laughter Yoga – what it is and how its transformed peoples' lives And more! Debbie Friend, Intrinsic Health Coach and Laughter Yoga Leader, is the Founder, Owner and Program Facilitator of LifeCurrents whose mission is to help people manage their daily stressors and lead healthier, happier and more fulfilling lives. Her career started as a hospital-based Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist and Exercise Physiologist where she spent years counseling, educating and training heart patients on how to develop, adopt and practice sound dietary and exercise habits. Over the years, her focus shifted to helping people manage the one major roadblock to healthy living, stress. Through her engaging stress management presentations, laughter yoga sessions and 1:1 health coaching, she helps clients step into their best selves by teaching strategies for healthy living and motivating them to adopt healthy habits. Connect with LifeCurrents: Website: www.lifecurrents.net Email: debbie@lifecurrents.net Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Connect with My Motivation: Facebook Instagram: @mymotivation_podcast

Last weekend I ran a laughter yoga leader training weekend, and I left the place feeling very light, airy, and happy. I am convinced that my trainees can say the same thing. Laughter is a wonderful thing, and I tend to believe everyone should have an opportunity to enjoy its vast benefits.We all deserve a moment to let go of our worries and have a moment to soak in laughter and joy. I was talking to Mrs. Cann this morning. I told her I believe there are plenty of people in this world, or Bristol or around the area in the UK, that are looking for a weekend just to relax and laugh and have fun and play. That's why I want to train more laughter leaders so that they can spread the laughter all over.Would you like to become a laughter leader? Join me on the last weekend of May. I will be holding a laughter yoga leader training. Click here to find out the finer details of the trainingStandout Quote from the Episode:“Life is so serious. Laughter is just an effortless way of feeling more relaxed, being more in tune with what's going on, and focusing on the day and being more creative.” 

Join us for a fun and entertaining conversation with Jessica Brustad, Improv and Stand Up Comedian, 500 Hr RYT Yoga Instructor and Laughter Yoga Leader. (Yup, that's right. She actually teaches people how to laugh!) Professional Motivational Speaker, Reality TV Star, and Former Member of The National Comedy Theatre's Sunday Company. Jessica has worked with individuals struggling with mental health issues like anxiety, OCD and Postpartum Mood Disorders. She has helped companies like Google and Microsoft improve their cultures through her original style and mindfulness programs, as well as transformed communities from California to Norway. Click here to learn more about The Playful Mind Project.

Resolute Mindset and Laughter Have An Inherently Positive Correlation Featuring Cathy Nesbitt Laughter might be a miracle cure for a lot of things that ail us. The best parts are that it's free and contagious. When we laugh a deep belly laugh it makes us breathe in very deep bringing more much-needed oxygen. A lot of breath to shallow anyway. You actually burn calories as well kicking your brain into high gear. Also leads to an endorphin boost. About Cathy Cathy Nesbitt is a Worm Advocate & Founder of Cathy's Crawly Composters (est 2002). This environmental business specializes in vermicomposting. Laughter wellness is her latest offering. Simple solutions for today's challenges. Worm composting, sprout growing, and laughter yoga. Cathy Nesbitt is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, Teacher. Appointed Laughter Ambassador in 2017 by Dr. Madan Kataria (founder of Laughter Yoga est 1995) Since 2015 Cathy has been leading Laughter sessions at assisted living facilities, summer camps and other venues. She shares her energy, passion, generosity and vast professional experience to help you take advantage of the natural health benefits of laughter yoga. Cathy chose Laughter Yoga because of the profound benefits she has experienced when she first discovered this unique, fun and easy exercise modality. This is a simple exercise system that anyone can participate in that will increase one's overall feeling of wellbeing while decreasing feelings of stress. Wonder of Worms and Simplicity of Sprouts We offer simple solutions for today's challenges. Worm composting for amending the soil, sprouts for eating, laughter for overall health and wellness, and now Organo Gold, reishi mushroom-infused coffee and tea. Vermicomposting is a great way to make the world's best soil. Discover how worms convert organic matter into nature's finest soil amendment known as castings. Worms are going to play an ever-increasing role in waste management, soil production and therefore food security. Sprouts are considered nature's superfood. Grow sprouts at home, school, work. Laughter wellness is our latest offering. Discover the magic of laughing for no reason. Cathy's Club Website www.feedingfatty.com Full Transcript Below   Resolute Mindset and Laughter Have An Inherently Positive Correlation Featuring Cathy Nesbitt Sun, 7/11 11:36AM • 59:19 SUMMARY KEYWORDS laughter, laughter yoga, people, laugh, worms, sprouts, cathy, stress, thinking, cuckoo, important, called, life, terry, mung beans, enzymes, roy, tapping, composting, assisted living SPEAKERS Cathy, Terry, Roy Barker   Roy Barker  00:00  Hello and welcome to another episode of Feeding Fatty This is Roy necessary so we are talking about this podcast consist of chronicling our journey through wellness and you know in the beginning we started out with more of what we ate our diet not a diet but our diet and we've kind of moved you know into exercise and now we've really focused a lot on mindset because making any sustainable changes you know it just has to begin in our mind before we can really achieve it over long periods of time and that's one thing you know we talked about we struggle with we can do most anything for a month two months, three months but you know, we need to do things and put it together for many many years to come. So anyway, from what we do is we have guests on periodically experts in the field and then we also do you know some of our updates as well when those are needed but today is no different. We have an awesome guests, Kathy and I will let Terry introduce her.   Terry  01:10 Hi Cathy Cathy Nesbitt is a health and wellness advocate. She's the founder of Cathy's Crawley composters, Cathy sprouts and Cathy's laughter club. She is a certified laughter yoga teacher appointed laughter ambassador. And since 19 or since, excuse me since 2015. Cathy has been leading laughter sessions at assisted living facilities, summer camps and other venues. She shares her energy passion, generosity and vast professional experience to help you take advantage of the natural health benefits of yeah laughter yoga. She's she is a worm advocate and founder of the Cathy Crawley composters, which I mentioned recently or earlier. This environmental business specializes in Vermont composting, I've been practicing that word left. Laughter wellness is the latest offering. Cathy, welcome to the show. I just butchered all of it. I was trying to read from everywhere because you have so many things going on. But I want to get the verb vermicomposting. How are you doing today?   Cathy  02:22 Thank you. Thank you. I'm so excited to be on your podcast.   Terry  02:25 Thank you. Oh, my gosh. I also wanted to mention you're a multi award winning environmental innovator.   Cathy  02:31 I love that bio that I wrote.   Terry  02:37 Well, you did and then I kind of picked it out here. So how did you get started with? Well, start wherever you want to you want to start with the words.   Cathy  02:48 Let's just start Let me tell you what my working title is. Okay. Please. My working title is Cathy Crawley laughing being queen. So waiting for all of that you just offered right worms for amending the soil sprouts for eating and laughter for overall health and wellness. So I started my worm enterprise back in 2002. And just quickly to get into how that happened. I'm located in Canada, just north of Toronto, largest city in the country. Our landfill closed in 2002. you sitting down? I see you are starting. We started shipping garbage to Michigan from Canada. Oh, sorry. I know not my fault. Not me, the government. My government and your government by the way. Yeah, yeah. No, no, they didn't do right. They made in a business arrangement. So we So shame on us as Canadians for shipping our garbage out of the country, almost 200 garbage trucks every day from the Toronto to Michigan. like Wow, thank you. Well, it's shopping 1000 trucks a week like holy. What are we thinking as people? So shame on us for shipping our garbage out of the country but double shame on the Americans for accepting our garbage for cash? Like what? Who would who would? Oh, let's take the Canadian garbage because they got to get rid of it. There's this right. We're only the second largest country in the world.   Terry  04:17 Running anywhere. Apparently,   Roy Barker  04:19 I was just gonna say it's not like we don't have enough of our own garbage that we can't deal with.   Cathy  04:24 Anyway, I'm not for that like that. That's the shameful part. That's the part that's the base. That's what gave me my driver that time like that is what is happening. And as of guard, avid gardener and composter, I knew that I had a solution and indoor solution in Canada we have winter people don't want to compost outside in the winter. So this is indoor composting worms in the house. So in hot places like Texas. Right. Outdoor composting can be a challenge because it gets too hot. It dries out right So indoors the perfect solution, if you live in cottage country and you have bears or cougars or some kind of wildlife, you don't want to compost outside sending your Okay kids go put the stuff in the compost, or you might be taking your own life inheritance. So this is a solution for everywhere. So back to Toronto. So 6 million people in the Greater Toronto Area, half living in condos, townhouses without space for outdoor composting. So they don't even have a solution. And yeah, so In came the worms, and I started my worm enterprise, like a whole series of things lined up for me to start my business in 2002. And by the way, that's the same year I started sprouting. So not everybody knew about worm composting, they still don't 19 years in. I'm doing my best. Yeah, so in 2002, my very first exhibit I was exhibiting, you know, at some kind of trade show, there was a gentleman selling this broder that I sent you, and it was flying off the shelf, it looks like a spaceship, right. And so I was like, Huh, why is everyone buying that thing? And they're not buying my worms. Like, you know, I really believe that I had a solution. And everybody needed what I had, but they didn't want what I had. They needed it, but they didn't want it. thing. It just is right. So there I was. I'm like, Oh, I have a solution. I got this. Okay, I've got this garbage crisis solved. Yeah, come on. And then it's like, oh, well, you know, all the naysayers. Like, oh, what if the worms get out? Is there smell that or do worms? And that was like, cool. Anyway, oh, so back to Tony. So back to the sprout growers. So when I saw I said to him, Hey, how come everyone's buying that? What is that thing? I didn't know anything about sprouts are sprouting. And he told me all the magic about sprouts. And I'll get into that in a moment. But so I was like, Oh, 2002 was a huge year in my life. And I hope that people that are listening, realize when you hear something that pings in your heart, you're like, Oh, what's that? That's, there's a message for you. There's something there for you. So I was like, Oh, this guy 72 at the time, he's 92. Now 92 still living on his own still in the business still, like super healthy. Okay, that's enough about him. It's all about me. 72 ballroom dancers. So like, super healthy, like still working 72 still working those shows. It's hard work. When out there being in standing in front of the public, right? Like, people always want to deal and you know, it's it's not easy being an entrepreneur. And I was like, wow, okay, so I was like, Okay, I'm gonna do that. So he said, if you're gonna do this, start your day with with two tablespoons of the sprouted mung beans. Here they are. Have a container here. Yummy. Day with two tablespoons every day for the enzymes. I know. We're all over the place. I hope this Okay.   Terry  08:03 Here we go.   Cathy  08:03 Yeah. Yeah, so So I started my own business and started eating sprouts, which is being my health plan. I didn't know but I didn't. I didn't even know that I would have a business. You know, when I worked. I would change jobs every year because I got bored. I didn't know I was an entrepreneur. I didn't have any entrepreneurs in my family. You know, I just was like, I was a secretary. And I was a great secretary, because I was chatty. And I connected everybody. And I thought that was my lot in life. So I was good at it. But I got bored. So I needed to always like, you know, I was always just looking for the next job to to conquer.   Terry  08:48 I can relate to that. Oh my gosh, I've done that too. I have I have had every kind of job you can imagine. And oh, it's crazy. It's experience it is it is experience and nothing's a failure. Everything's a lesson right?   Cathy  09:04 Yeah, whatever jobs that people have where it's like oh, that's it. I don't even want to say a job because all jobs are meaningful and serve a purpose at the time. And it really gives you a good training ground even if you're like oh my boss is so mean good if you're ever a boss, don't be mean.   Terry  09:20 Right? Right. Oh my gosh. Kathy Crawley Laffy been queen. I love that. Okay, let's talk about I know I want to go back to that too. But we're here we are bouncing I want to talk about the laughter the lacquer, how important is laughter in life.   Cathy  09:39 Oh, during this cuckoo time more important than ever really more important than ever and the laughter how I came to the last so I talked about how I got to worms. That's how the laughter came about. So here I am merrily going about wanting to put worms in every living space. I can do it. I got it. You know, it's important. People need what I have. So of course they'll eventually find that out. They'll figure it out. They're still not but okay.   Terry  10:06 We have to help them assess that, you know?   Cathy  10:08 Yeah. So about 10 years in, I think was about 2012. Like one more person said no worms in the house. So I was like, Oh my gosh, how am I ever gonna put worms everywhere? If people are still saying, oh, and I was just thinking, maybe I should just get a job like, it would be easier, right? Like, why am I trying to save the world? Why? Why am I doing this? Why am I caring? Like, I'm the one that put this big mission on my shoulders. I could take it off to like, okay, but worms, nope, no longer. But that, but but I know that that it's really important. So anyway, I was at a business meeting and the speaker, the first speaker introduced laughter yoga, and I don't even do yoga. I don't do yoga, like it's but I was like, laughter yoga. I love laughing, huh. So I was intrigued. And then I was at a business networking event that same week, and there was hundreds of people there. The very first woman I met was a laughter yoga teacher. Oh,   Terry  11:05 wow. Okay, there you go. There's your sign.   Cathy  11:09 There's your sign, right. So I'm very, I listened to those things. You know, I'm 58. Now. So after decades of not listening, you listen.   Terry  11:19 I'm getting there. I'm almost.   Cathy  11:22 So So I was like, wow, I said to her, oh, laughter yoga is mainstream, because I heard about it twice in one week. So you know, somehow these messages come to me sooner than other people or I hear them before other people. I don't know what what it is. But the worms, you know, sprouts, laughter all these things are here. I didn't invent any of them. I'm just marketing them better than anybody else. I'm bringing it. I'm the messenger. Yeah. So I was like, Oh, I love this. And then that woman happened to have. Toronto is a huge city. she happened to have a laughter yoga club laughter club, in the same neighborhood where my mother in law lived. And I love my mother in law. She just she recently just passed. No, it's fine. Because I came to her laughter yoga because of her. So now when I do laughter, yoga, she's there with me. So it's, don't be sad for me. So I was like, Well, hey, Mary, you want to go to this thing? And she trusted me like, even though I do these cuckoo things. She always trusted me. Right? She was like, I don't know where I'm going to go. Whenever Kathy asked me to do something, I go, because it's always going to be different. So I said, Hey, do you want to go to laughter yoga, she's like, what's that? And I said, I don't know. Let's go check it out. So we went for dinner, and she said, we better not have garlic. I said, that's their problem. So we went had dinner went to laughter yoga was weird. Like, it is an awkward. You came to my club Terry, like it's it's kind of an awkward thing, like laughing It's not jokes, or comedy or anything. It's like, Huh, but once you do it, and you actually allow yourself permission, and I will talk about it in a moment. So we went we had fun and then you know, you sleep. Well, you did. So we would go every every month that was once once a month only. Not enough but once a month. And then the club kept getting smaller and smaller. And in Toronto, it was in at one of the busiest corners like condo Ville everywhere. So 10s of 1000s of people at that corner. They just didn't know, they didn't know there was this laughing club they didn't know. So she had to close her club because she rented space and she wasn't making money, right? I mean, she was she was not a charity. So she closed her club I got sad. I was like, Okay, I need to do this. I got trained as a leader. I loved it so much. I got trained as a teacher. And now during again during this cuckoo time. I'm being called to do it so I'm doing laughter yoga, I'm getting paid gigs. My my laughter yoga has almost my income has almost replaced my worm income. Wow. Wow. Because we need it we have this mental health tsunami It was here before it's just being visible now. Now the people that are really struggling are struggling even more now because they're just on their own. They can't go any they can't see anyone or   Roy Barker  14:11 and I think as we come out of this, it's it seems to be more amplified here that there's just a lot more, you know, bad acting of things. And anyway, I think, you know, I think we had some help and support through this. And then as we come out of it, it's just gonna really amplify it even more. So I think it's, it's timely. And the other part I didn't know when you're doing the introduction, I kind of went oh, wow, is delivering that into assisted living. I mean, what a great What a great thing that you know, they need that laughter because, you know, I'll just tell our personal story right quick that Terry signed up for one of your I don't know if you call them sessions or times class, so she signed up for class and, you know, I was over on the other side of the room working but I I heard her start kind of laughing and being a little hysterical. And I saw I kind of, you know, started paying more attention and just hearing the laughter. And it just made me start laughing, even though I wasn't participating. But I think the biggest thing that has come out of this is as we're out in life, and you know, something happens is like, I you know, I'm probably a little more wound tight tighter than Terry. So I'm the first one to be like, true, you know, and he can, she can see my blood pressure. Yeah, exact steam   Terry  15:33 coming out of his, his collar, all that,   Roy Barker  15:35 yeah. So she can recognize it, and then she will just bust out into laughter. And then it makes me start laughing. And then you forget about whatever it was. And so it's actually it's an awesome therapy, to use with other people, you know, around you in your life to kind of break that.   Cathy  15:56 Oh, it's thank you for sharing. It's a magic. It's a magic potion that, you know, laughter actually was squished out of us by the ancient Greeks. Because when people are laughing, and they're connecting, and they're just like, having so much fun, you can control them. Interesting, right? So don't laugh at church. Don't laugh in school. What do you kids laughing out? Like, what are you doing? They're just laughing. They're just like, laughing that's it. Let me join them.   Terry  16:22 And it was something that I mean, I didn't even know that I needed it. Kathy. I really didn't. And just and I was a little apprehensive. I mean, I am not I don't do yoga. I mean, I do a little but not, not that, you know, not like a whole class or anything like that. And I'm like, okay, laughter I love Laughter But the yoga part mom, maybe I should. And then when I when I came on, I would just like, okay, these guys are kind of kooky. Everybody's laughing there's nothing there. They're not laughing for a reason, in particular, except for it's contagious. It's just contagious. And it really did bring me a lot of energy. So every morning after I probably for the whole week, after I just, you know, in the morning, I would just go you know, and Roy, and I would just start going and did not stop for a few minutes, you know, and just periodically throughout the day, and I mean, that laughter just really does bring you a lot of energy. And you have there's an acronym DOS, what does that stand for? If that laughter brings?   Cathy  17:29 Yes, laughter is the best medicine. We've all heard it and I say have you had your daily dose dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins, the left drugs, the left drugs, versus when we're stressed, we're not breathing properly and decreasing cortisol? You know, we need a little bit of cortisol to get us off our butts. But we're in a really stressful time. And North America even is even more tightly wound to use your word ROI than other places like we're, you know, we only get two weeks holiday.   Terry  18:06 Yeah, if even that, I mean, you have to work up to that. Right.   Roy Barker  18:10 Well, there's so many people that just give it back. I mean, we're in I think it's, we're in a position people feel like they can't take off because they're gonna lose traction, or, you know, their boss is gonna say, well, you're not very dedicated you're taking off for and I think you'd be surprised how many people give back their days every year even that they have not because it's like, I don't have anywhere to go or you know, because even staying at home a staycation still fun still. But I think it's that pressure that we feel that we just can't do. A lot of people can't do it   Terry  18:43 that we're replaceable. Everybody,   Cathy  18:46 how what what a way to live our life. That's like that's living from fear from scarcity, right? With abundance. We really do need to rejuvenate, right? Yeah. Like we're important not like put your oxygen mask on first, when you're flying the flight attendant, say it every time.   Terry  19:04 Flight Attendant that was one.   Roy Barker  19:07 Know, even as adults, and being a parent having kids, there's nothing more satisfying and peaceful than sitting out in the backyard and listening to your kids run and play and laugh and, you know, just that are going to a school and hearing the laughter So, you know, why do we somehow we feel like we have to grow out of that as adults? I don't know. I don't think it's that. It's, we think it's not acceptable. But I guess because we are so wrapped up in so many other things. It's just one we forget to do.   Cathy  19:42 It's so serious. We really are a serious society. It's just you know, again, the competition. We got to do better. We got to do more, make more, be more. Yeah, have more, right instead of just like ha, I mean, even during this cuckoo time. How often does Somebody asked me if you've taken your vitamins Did you get outside for a walk? You know, did you connect with somebody today? Like, I'm just concerned that nobody's asking about our health. They're just not asking about our sickness.   Roy Barker  20:14 Yeah, well, more is that sometimes the, the other thing is less is more. You know, and we've, in the last few years, you know, we've made a conscious decision to downsize from the things that we had, you know, especially when we had kids around, it was a different life. But now, it's like, we don't need all that stuff and things and, you know, barns full of things that we've accumulated, never use. And it's very liberating when we can break that cycle and just try to focus more on us instead of things.   Cathy  20:51 Absolutely. You know, when we have a lot of stuff, then we need, like barriers to keep our stuff safe. Right? Somebody might take our stuff, or you know what I mean? Like then. So then we're thinking about all of that stuff that we have. It's, it's so liberating. To to yes to doff your stuff.   Roy Barker  21:13 Yeah, that's the other thing is that whole, the importance part of you know, I never locked my door until Terry came around, and she kind of was a little freaked out about it. Like, there's really nothing in here that, you know, I would rather than take what they want, and I don't have to replace the door. No, because then it's like, you know, they break the door down. And then thanks, Devon, then. But anyway, I just think it frees us up to really concentrate on on us and our relationships. And you know, and that and that, I think that counts our relationship with ourself. We are usually the hardest on ourselves. Now, I'll cut Terry, a lot of slack. You know, don't worry about this, don't worry about that. But for me, I'm like, Oh, my gosh, you know, and it's internalized. But it's like Lana, got a lot done yesterday. But there's like five more things that I should have done. And in not celebrating, taking the time and physically celebrating what we did accomplish.   Cathy  22:14 We're not we're not taught to celebrate our small wins, we're really not where we are taught write the list. And then you've got this list, but then you've got the list that you're always looking at, like you might have done those two things. But now there's two still 12 more things to do. Like, oh, I'm still a failure. You know, just like on social media, you might post something and then, like, 50 people are like, whoo, that hey, right on, that's so great or good. Congratulations. And then one person's like, you suck. And you're like, Oh, I suck. You know, like, somehow we that one person is able to burst our balloon. I don't know why   Terry  22:51 kill the joy.   Roy Barker  22:52 Yeah, well, and the other thing too, is that sometimes even when we achieve success, and we're on top, we can enjoy it. Because it's like, you're looking around, like, Who's gonna knock me off of this? Or how do I stay here? I can't slip back. And so it's just a, it's a perpetuating cycle of stress, to be honest. Yeah.   Cathy  23:13 This is put on by ourselves, though. This is all self imposed. Right? Once we understand that it's self imposed. This this cuckoo time has allowed me Of course, like everybody a lot of time to contemplate. Contemplate tomorrow. You know, but it really is about not comparing to anybody else. It doesn't even matter what everybody has, we don't even know their story. Like it's like, oh, look at how successful they are. Who gives a crap? Are they happy?   Terry  23:45 Yeah. Yeah.   Roy Barker  23:46 Well, but do we really know because that's, you know, the, the joy of social media is we get to share a lot of stuff. But the other part of social medias, we don't know what's behind the scenes, like this new yacht, and I'm standing in front of in my Instagram picture. It's not even mine. I mean, I'm just I'm walking down the harbor and got in front of me, like, hey, look at my new yacht. I just bought her, you know, go to the car dealership and stand by the new car. You know, we don't know. And like you said the other bigger part is even if people have that stuff, they really happy. Yeah, who cares? Right. And we have to stay in our own lane, run our own race. If you know, we can try to get better every day and achieve those things. But it shouldn't be. You know, it's kind of like we focus on us and what are we going to do to be happy? What can we do for ourselves? Not selfishly, but healthily, I guess health wise, you know. But you know, like breathing, water, eating right, sleeping, right. You know, try to do all of those things and really focus on that and it to me, it brings us so much happiness. You know, like yesterday, we had a we had a taping in the afternoon. canceled and so, you know, I was like, go out in the backyard and trim some trees. I got this I got you know, this to my alarm. But I just had a thought that you know what, why don't we just get the dogs and go for a walk and we went and walked over to this really beautiful place and just made an act, you know, a couple hours of it and it was the very best thing taking time for us.   Terry  25:22 It was nice. Yeah, free time. All right. Love it. Yeah, you never get that. Yeah. Ever   Roy Barker  25:29 quote. I'm more a little more curious about the some of your results, not only from, you know, regular, what I'd say middle aged people or not, you know, younger people versus the what have some are your results been taken this into assisted living?   Cathy  25:50 Thank you. Thank you for bringing it back to assisted living. Yes, I it's before my worm business, I was a social worker working with folks in assisted living. And I loved it. I had challenged with management, but you know, everyone's the expert. When you're on the front line, you got to just do stuff. But anyway, okay. But I love that leave when I left, that I was like, felt like a piece of my heart was being left there. So now I'm coming back home. And I am very intuitively guided. I was walking in the forest and got a message that I was because before COVID I was working with assisted living. And let me tell you this fabulous story. And then I'll get back to the forced walk. I hope so. If I remember down here. So there was a few nonverbal folks. And on laughter day, you know, some of the folks were by the window like, like little puppy dogs waiting. You know, they're so excited. Here she comes. Oh, it's so exciting. But they're talking. And then we get into laughing one of the activities is we blow up like a balloon like so you have your hands like this, and you breathe and breathe in breathe. And then you have this big full balloon. And what one of the nonverbal boys young men said when we got here, he was like, bang, bang, he doesn't talk.   Terry  27:17 My gosh,   Cathy  27:18 wow, we were just like, right, his brain was fully oxygenated. He could verbalize it was just like, wow. So anyway, that was very positive experience. Then Then COVID hit and I was like, is this gonna be able to? Can I do laughter online? I don't know. Who knows, right. And it's been so successful. I'm doing work with Alzheimers. I grew up that our early, like early onset 40s 50s 60s. And now we do it online. And we can reach people that couldn't come before they didn't have access or across Canada, people can come or even into the states, if you want to go you know, it's so beautiful. So it does make access for more people. And then so back to the forest. So I'm walking in the forest. And I was given this whole vision. And I still don't know, it's still forming. Like, I don't know how to do it, but it was given to me. Here it is your what's Here's what's coming. Okay. So I was doing laughter yoga was trade doing a training, because I'm a teacher, teaching folks with special needs. And I saw if I don't want to offend anybody with the proper term, and specifically folks with down syndrome, and I was I was actually training a friend's daughter and I haven't met her daughter. I know of her, but I didn't I don't know the daughter. So I was like, That's funny. Weird. I mean, I don't I didn't know what to make of it. But I was training that group of folks with the intent for them to train or to lead laughter sessions for their demographic. Okay. And I was like, because in Canada, I think it's at either 18 or 21. They are kicked out of school, like thanks for stopping by, then they get put on. It's like a disability pension. And it's very small amount of money. It's you can't live on that amount of money, by the way. And if they work, the money is taken off their pension. So there's no incentive to work, but they don't want to work for the money. It's to be part of society. Anyway, so that's my big goal. Anyway, so I phoned up this woman and I said, I had this weird dream, or vision or whatever you might call it in the forest. I don't know what you're gonna think of this, but I feel like I need to share it. So she connected me her daughter attends a group called San it's full access network. And it's a daily club for folks that are out of the school system, so young adults, and she hooked me up with this man who is so dedicated to these people. He just loves them so much and wants them to survive and thrive in life. So when I told him my mission, he was like, wow, okay, let's do something. I don't know if it's gonna work. So I said, let's do something for free. Let's see. Let's see if they're gonna like it. And they loved it so much. We're now in our third month, every Friday, we get together, you know, now we're just introducing it like we're just teaching them laughter yoga right now, like, not talking about training anybody right now, let's just see if anybody like it is getting benefits. The parents are loving it, that their you know, their kids are easier to get along with. They're not having flare ups. I'm giving them tips on when you do get stressed when you're just like, ah, why don't they get me that I'm teaching them to just laugh and that and doing techniques like when we get stressed the blood, lymph, oxygen leaves our brain. So these are the conductors, right? We are electricity, putting your hand on your neuron, sometimes when we're stressed, right? Where we're like, ah, how am I going to do all this stuff? overwhelmed, right? Oh, there's so many things are neurovascular is are here. So when we put our hands sometimes when people are thinking they do this, that those are the neural, right. So you just automatically so I teach them you do this, you can close the loop, putting on your on your back of your head, and then you take deep breaths. And that calms you right down. I tell people to do that before they respond on social media to interesting like, you're like, Ah, it's like, Okay, calm down, because now you're in fight, flight or freeze. Like you've gone into reptile mode. Get out of there, because that's not helpful. As soon as you press send, now you've opened up the floodgates for negativity. Right? If you're responding to something, right,   Roy Barker  31:41 I just say if you think about it, really laughter is a universal language. It's something everybody knows. And even like you said, if you're non verbal, they can still probably laugh. And in that the other thing I was thinking about the for, you know, like the dementia is, is probably good for the caregivers, to know as well. Because when they you know it's in Terry can speak to it more than I can. But I know that it's a very tedious, it can be very stressful at times. And so instead of letting that stress, overwhelm you, is just laugh with.   Terry  32:18 Yeah, just let it out. Because it does get, you know, you just don't think about taking care of you, especially if you're a caregiver, and all of us are in some form or another. But if you're caregiving for a dementia patient, patient on Alzheimer's patient for special needs child things, you know, you just don't take care of yourself. And it's so important that you do because who's going to take care of that person? If you're not around to do it, and you won't be you don't take care of yourself?   Cathy  32:46 Absolutely. Before COVID I was actually going into long term care now, with you know, the, I don't not sure what's happening in the States, but in Canada, they're still not really allowing outdoor activities really, or like outdoor people coming in. But I was going in and they would say, you know, how many people would you like, and they kind of wheel everybody in or people would come in. So it was seated on like my classes that are and so one woman was wheeled in. And she was sleeping like she was kind of like hunched over and she was kind of sleeping, it seemed like she was sleeping her worker stayed with her the whole time. And at one point, so we're, you know, playing along doing our thing. And at one point, the worker said, look at it, she's smiling. So she wasn't playing, she didn't you know, wake up at all. She didn't open her eyes, but at one point she was smiling. So it's like, maybe she was somehow receiving that beautiful laughter energy. It's high vibration, right? When you're stressed when we're afraid when we're in a pandemic. We're just like, worried about we're afraid. And if we watch the news, we get more afraid. Like so you know, just limit your intake of news is one way but so you know, that's not helpful when we're when we're afraid I'm and by the way we cannot heal when we're in stress mode. Because we're in stress mode, we need to get like so when we're in sympathetic mode. We're not we're just again in fight flight or freeze, we need to get into parasympathetic, like, so we need to get into relaxation mode. And that's the only time that we're healing. So even if we're, if we're stressed, and we're still drinking the water eating the good stuff, we're moving exercising, we are still not doing our body any benefit, not not what we're doing benefit, but not, you know, our body's not going to receive the best benefit if we're in stress mode.   Roy Barker  34:38 Yeah, definitely. And it's funny, I need to keep harping on it. But I don't think if you never do this, you don't understand the power of when Terry starts laughing. I can't help but follow along. I mean, no matter what just happened is is so infectious that you just can't not join in. And then when you do it's like You know, I guess all this luck, the dose that you were saying everything that's released, it's like, all of a sudden what you were worried about, it's really not that important anymore. All of a sudden, you're talking about this crazy person laughing.   Terry  35:14 What's going on? That's around. Yeah. Oh my gosh. And Roy has an awesome I mean, he, he has a full body and laughter I'm telling you, he just goes, and I feel like I'm like, sometimes it's in my head. Sometimes it's in my diaphragm. Sometimes it's my belly. When I get a good belly laugh. That's, that's what's the most important right there. That's what really makes me feel high energy.   Cathy  35:42 You want to know why? Here's why. Here's why. The more I learned about laughter, I mean, now I've been laughing full on since 2013. And you know, now the more and more and so every day, I really make sure I get a good belly laugh. And we have, we have blood. So we our heart pumps our blood, we have another fluid called lymphatic fluid. And lymph fluid only moves when we move. And we don't move very much, right? We're very sedentary people now. And so I just recent, so we got to move to move our lamp, which is really great. I've recently learned that our lymphatic fluid also moves when we do deep diaphragmatic breathing. It's kind of our diaphragms, like a pump for our limp. Yeah, so that's why so when you you know, if we're feeling tired and and, you know, depressed if we're depressed, we're not taking up very much space, right? We're small, we're maybe holding ourselves like, we're just like, take, we're just small, we're just sad. And because our cells are depressed, we don't have enough oxygen in our body. So all we need to do I mean, not all there's you probably got to deal with whatever it is that caused you to depression but but if you and not to laugh at that, I don't mean to laugh. Everything's funny. But you know, you just really got to open up you got you got to open up and then just take up more space, like, you know, just be I'm making up for it. If it's anyone listening just to the audio version, I'm opening up my whole body and you got to jump around. Like if you have a rebounder jump on that or a trampoline, or you can even just pretend like you have one. And just like bounce up and down and then your body is having, right, we can live without food and water for a few days. So I get excited. You can live without food and water for a few days. You might be grumpy and uncomfortable. We can only live without oxygen for a few minutes. And laughter forces us right Haha, you can't just Haha, you're only expelling you have to go. Yeah. I'm gonna pause.   Roy Barker  38:06 But yeah, I never really thought about it. So you said that but you know, sometimes when you are in that stress, you know, you're kind of hunched over in just tighter Krillin frame. Yeah. But when you do laugh it it kind of makes you throw your shoulders back, your chest puffed out and just take up more space. Yeah,   Cathy  38:26 yeah, just take up more space. Because then you're you're right, then your cells are taken up more space. That's, that's what we want.   Terry  38:35 I love it.   Roy Barker  38:35 Yeah, no, I think this is awesome. And we need to, it's like, we all need to do it. The other thing it does is it kind of gives us a break from taking ourselves and our life so serious for just about five minutes,   Terry  38:51 wrapped up in your own stuff and, and everybody else's around you that you just don't realize that you're not breathing and, and opening up. You're just curling back into your ball, you know?   Roy Barker  39:04 Well, I used to have a sign on my desk that people would laugh about. I had like, I don't know, 10 things, you know, sweat for the day, learn something new laugh and then I had breathe. And people say, Oh, you got to remind yourself to breathe and be like, No, but I have to remind myself to breathe that deep breath in. Because, you know, I think a lot of us are very shallow breathers. And so getting that oxygen and getting it that deep breath, you know, into our full body. It's very important.   Cathy  39:36 It's so important. It's so important. You know, and just like any modality, you know, as a laughter yoga teacher, I bring all kinds of things. I'm a learner, I love I love new experiences and trying new things and, you know, whatever it is, I just like to try different things and so I during this time I've done all kinds of energy work. And I've incorporated that into Well, I mean, not just this time actually, since I've been doing. Do you have you heard of tapping or Emotional Freedom Technique?   Terry  40:10 Yes, I have, I've kind of read a little bit about it, but I haven't gone deep.   Cathy  40:16 I've been tapping since 1999. I'm so happy that it's mainstream. It's just like, the simple thing. So I get when you I don't know when you attend to my class if I did this, but there are four spots that we really ought to tap on every day. And it's here under your eyes, two fingers, just let gently This is your stomach meridian. This grounds you so then you take a couple of deep breaths here. And then release, you can release with a sigh ha, that's what I do in my class. So that's your stomach, and then your collarbone, you can either rub here or you can tap, this is your kidneys. This is k 27. You don't need to know this. But some people want to know stuff. So this is really good. And we're talking about lymph, our lymph only goes in one direction, and then it ends up here. And this is the gateway and then it dumps into our cardiovascular Can you imagine not to get into the whole cycle of the limp. That's really another whole topic. But if we, if we don't open up this gateway, then our lympho pool here. And this is not anything new. But most heart attacks happen Monday morning. About nine o'clock in the morning, that's the cycle when when the length is and the limp doesn't have a pump. So if it's blocked here, it's not able to go so then the cardiovascular cycle buggers up. Right, so so this is a really great one. And this gives you energy to so that's just do that every day. If nothing else do that. And the next one is will just stand is like on your thigh mm. So Lena how apes do this. They do that because that's your thymus. As we age, our thymus shrinks. And that's to make T cells. So anyone watching that has cancer, tap on your thymus, this isn't and then deep breathe while you're tapping. And then the last one is about a palm with down from your armpit, on your right on your ribs on both sides. That's your spleen. And so those four spots really, really great every day, attend my class. And you'll remember because   Terry  42:27 now, anybody enough times that just go, just go It is an amazing experience.   Cathy  42:33 Yeah. And again, I bring all those other moding healing modalities, the different things I help people like how to sleep, how to get out of stress, you know, just as one example of one way that I've incorporated laughter yoga into my life when I'm driving around, before when there was more traffic. And so I'm driving if somebody cuts me off, I've trained myself that when they cut me off, it's not like, Oh, so why did they bite you? They cut me off. You know, it's never personal, right? It's never personal, although we take it personal. Right? So I'm like, Oh, they cut me off. It cues me to do my laughter yoga. So I'm like, right. So the person thinks that I'm angry because I'm flailing around. And so they're looking I so I get I'm not kidding. I get extra space. Because they're like that, that chicks Cuckoo. And I arrive at my destination. I'm like, Ah, good. I feel great. I'm arrived. I'm like, yeah, ready for my meeting?   Terry  43:41 Brian, I'm gonna be waiting for you to give him   Cathy  43:47 It changes everything. It changes everything. And you know, it's not laughing at a negative situation. Now, there's a documentary that I would encourage people to watch. It's called laugh ology. And it's by by by Albert neuro nurnberg. Yeah, I think that's his name. Sorry, Albert. If I didn't say your last name, right. He was doing this documentary and he went to India to interview Dr. Medan. cutera, the founder of laughter yoga to 26th anniversary. I don't think I said all this yet. So he went to interview him about laughter yoga, and it was the day after the Mumbai bombings. Oh, so he was like, oh, like Ah, I guess I guess we can't and it was in Mumbai there was gonna be so it's like I guess we can't do it. So you'll see if you watch the documentary and it's online. I think you can watch it online for free. You'll see it they the the bombings are in the background how to do and Doc, Dr. Qatari was like no, we have to do it. We have to do it because we need we need this right now. We're really stressed and we need to bring a little bit of levity even though it's not laughing at the bombings. It's laughing because of the bombings so that they could heal from it.   Roy Barker  45:00 Powerful. Yeah, I know he is. And I don't think we, you know, there's a lot of science on that, like you said, holding that stress in from whether it's the bombings or a driver or bad service somewhere that we hold that in and it can make us it can really advance illnesses that we have, it doesn't let us heal, like you said, and then it can actually cause us to be sick. I mean, a lot of people just carry so much stress around that they just perpetually sick, more susceptible to, you know, colds and viruses and things like that. So, a lot of science behind this just, you got it, we got to laugh it off and get out of that stressful place that we're in, nothing helps more than, and, you know, I'm blessed to have Terry in my life that it because it's even better when you have somebody to laugh with. Because, you know, sometimes we're not always aware that we really needed or that we're going into that bad place where our partner can be like, hey, let's, let's have a little laughter here. We got to get break out of this for just a minute.   Terry  46:03 And laugh at. I mean, you know, me, I laugh at myself, I you know, I laugh at myself all the time. Mostly, it's, I would say, a little bit of it is self deprecating, but it you know, I can laugh at myself, but I can laugh at Roy to it. Especially laughing You know, he is just he's just funny. He's just, he's just funny and he doesn't even know it. And I know I don't mean that in a bad way.   Cathy  46:37 You know, earlier, Roy when you said that you didn't used to lock your door and then until Terry came along, I thought you had precious cargo then keep you safe. You know what happens when we you were talking about people carrying around stress? Here's what happens. Here's what happens. Let me tell you what happens when when we have when we experience some kind of traumatic experience, experience experience twice a month since that's. So what happens is we take a deep breath in like, like something was shocking. So it gets and then it gets into our body if we don't deal with it at that moment, or very shortly after, it just becomes part of our belly. And then the next one on top and on top and on top. So when a rabbit gets chased by a predator if it survives, it will go under a tree and shake because you know that's pretty traumatic. You well you made you escaped that one, rabbit. So they shake that trauma energy off. We don't we don't shake we just hold it in. We're like, Oh, no, I'm good. I'm okay. into Sigmar Wow,   Roy Barker  47:54 I guess that once it once that settles in our belly, it probably just compounds and I mean I'm, I'm just thinking about like myself because I'm the worst at that, you know, you just suck it in, deal with it, move on. And, you know, that can probably be a lot of calls for you know, weight flow weight gain as well.   Cathy  48:13 That's where I was headed. Right? Because then, then you're like, Oh, I want to be safe, like, you know, then so then you might eat things that might not be the best or you might not move as much because you're like, then you just start getting in into not into your body then you're just in your head and then your body is kind of just an appendage. Oh,   Roy Barker  48:39 interesting.   Cathy  48:40 I have rock hard ABS by the way and I don't do and that's just from laughter yoga. If you were here, I'd let you touch my abs   Terry  48:47 gosh no, I mean if you're gonna show those off Yeah, I have to make some take a photo shoot. Coming up that kind of shows the   Roy Barker  49:08 you know when you do laugh like that that full belly though it works your core i mean you can feel it all the way down three so I never really thought about that side benefit of it.   Cathy  49:17 And and cheeks right cheek. Anyone that's had a good belly laugh your cheeks your maybe that you're cleaning your eyes because you're rolling down. Your cheeks are hurting. Right like look at my skin. I'm 58 I look pretty good. God.   Terry  49:32 Oh my God. You do? I love that. I know. I want to make sure I know. We're kind of running up against time but I want to make sure that we talk about your sprouts too. Oh, yes, please. I have my sprouter right here. Yes ma'am. So strokkur it's Yeah, go ahead. No, no, I would please go.   Cathy  49:55 Oh, so there's so the sprouts are just so that's the what I say Kathy Crawley laughing being Queen That's the being Queen part. Oh, that's right that we're talking about. Yeah, that's perfect. And so it's so sprouting is really, sprouts are the original fast food. There's like the mung beans will germinate, especially in a warm climate and overnight, you've probably experienced that. So when the, the, the root is the size of the beam, that's when they're ready. That's when they're most nutritious. So everything's there to grow that little sprout into a full, full grown plant. So it just makes sense that it's more nutritious than the full grown plant. And the mung beans are the ones that that I have as my health plan just because they are super fast. They're juicy, they're tasty. And so let me tell you some really, I'm gonna sound so smart, but here's some really wonderful words about what sprouts are. hydrating alkalizing regenerative biogenic, and they contain up to 100 times more digestive enzymes than raw vegetables. Wow. Oh,   Terry  51:01 wow.   Cathy  51:03 So here's the thing about enzymes and I think that's the really important piece because we could take a multivitamin if we wanted, we could eat fiber, we could do those things, all those those are all in your mung beans. Those are all in your sprouts, but the the enzyme so when we're born, we're given a certain amount of enzymes, when we're eating, if we're not eating salad or you know, sprouts, then our body's using our reserves and as we start to age we get digestive issues. We go to the doctor the doctor says here's a prescription for enzyme pills. Instead of taking a pill, like eating the like growing your own you save money you know it's healthier and these are so full of fiber that like it's like you can eat as much as you want. Oh, you can't because you actually fill up with nutrients no   Terry  51:52 interesting Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean we've been trying well we've been eating as we've been eating plant based probably how long right   Roy Barker  52:02 probably about two months maybe   Terry  52:05 like probably since April.   Roy Barker  52:08 Yeah, time is really good.   Terry  52:09 I don't know you know, it's yeah times relative. But But since April as much as we can you know, at first we went full force and then it was like okay, well we can't be that stringent, you know, we got to add a little bit here and there so you know, more Mediterranean but a lot of plant based as much as we can and know that we notice a huge difference. So adding the sprouts I mean and and when I started purchasing you know groceries for that, for the plant based eating everything that cane wha all the lentils and all of the everything was like sprouted, sprouted, I'm like, Okay, do I want to sprout it? I don't know if I want sprout it, I didn't really know much about it. And I still kind of don't, but I'm just going with it. So the sprouts are that they add the enzymes and help with digestion. What? What else? What else help me.   Cathy  53:09 So sometimes people will eat beans, and now they're like, Oh, am I gonna get you know, bloated and flatulence and all of that like, gains but I don't like the after effect. It's like so what happens is seeds and beans have a coating on them called phytic acid pH Why? And it's that acid that's a protection for the cedar bean. So if it gets eaten by a bird or an animal, and passes right through and then it can still grow. So so if we eat those pains, if we cook those beans without soaking them and getting rid of that so quarter or sprouting them, that coating is still on there. So the beans are good, but that acid our body doesn't know what to do with it. So then it causes bloating or you know, flat Okay, never and challenges. So when you soak them, they're called oligosaccharides. Again, I sound so smart, don't. Those are the sugars. Those are the sugars that cause flatulence, the oligosaccharides so when you when you sprout your seeds, there's fewer of those. Ah, okay. Yeah. And it opens it up. It really makes it sort of like, the seeds, like a little rock. It's like, everything's, you know, jammed in there. It's Yeah. So then you you sprout it and it just starts to come alive. And it's like, okay, now it's something   Roy Barker  54:28 interesting. All right, Cathy. Well, we were running way long and not your fault. We were very interested. This is all really good information. And yeah, we appreciate you staying around a little bit longer and telling us telling us all about it. It's been great. So before we do get away a couple things, first off, what is a tool or a habit? Laughter let's put laughter aside because I know that that's something you do every day. But what is something that you do every day, that adds a lot Value either professionally or personally,   Cathy  55:03 I start my day, I actually bookend my day with a little exercise routine, like just kind of some gentle stretches, some of the tapping every morning, some really gentle breaths, it only takes a five minute routine. And I do that as well before I go to bed. And those are two things that I do every day and then drinking enough water, I   Roy Barker  55:30 can't even put up, I can't even tell you, I have to throw myself under the bus, say I'm the worst I can make myself do it for a few days. And then I just fall completely off the wagon on that. And it's so important. And for so many different things. It's not just for one thing, but for so many different things. So drink that water, start your day with exercise. Good advice. So tell us how well go through, I think at least three or four different things, but talk about, you know, the things that you are into how people can reach out and either purchase the product or get ahold of you if they want to partake, like in the laughter, yoga, things like that.   Cathy  56:12 Yeah, I would love for people to come and experience my Tuesday laughter club. It's 930. Eastern on zoom at this time, and it's free. That's that's probably the best offering that I have. At this time, because it's so easy. And I am looking for people that are in assisted living or people that are like funders, because I am looking to do a pilot project I would really, you know, about my mission that my upcoming mission that I'm going to do that i don't know how i did contact the founder of laughter yoga, and I said, Is anybody in the world doing this? Is anybody in the world teaching people with special needs to lead laughter classes? And he said, No. So I'll do it. In my spare time, I'll do that. I would like to end by just saying I believe with my, my three branches. I have world hunger solved. And I have world peace solved.   Roy Barker  57:13 Awesome. We need to get on that train. So how can they How can they reach out and get a hold of me?   Cathy  57:20 I'm Cathy's club is my website for laughter Cathy's Cathy's composters.com is my worm website. And I'm all over social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.   Roy Barker  57:33 Yeah. And that's we'll put all this in the show notes. But that's Cathy with a C. Thank you. Yes. Yeah. All right. Well keep us informed. We, you know, we want to know how this is going. I the the laughter part is just everybody needs to partake in that. I don't think you really understand the power of it unless you do it a few times. And then you know, taking this to the different communities like the aging community and special needs. I think that's even even a great mission. I think that's awesome. Good   Terry  58:05 for you can't see. Oh my gosh, I love it. And I'm coming back. I need I need another dose. I always need one but I'm coming back.   Roy Barker  58:14 Oh, that's what I was gonna say is that you'd be surprised how this works. distance, you know, remotely through zoom or you could do a FaceTime. Anyway, I guess you could even just do the audio version. It's nicer to see people but Oh, yeah, yeah, don't let the distance scare you off. You can really get a lot of benefit out of it virtually as well. Alright, then that's going to do it for another episode of Feeding Fatty Of course. I'm   Terry  58:42 your host, Roy and Terry,   Roy Barker  58:44 you can find us at www.feedingfatty.com we're on all the major podcast platforms iTunes, Stitcher, Google Spotify, if we're not a one that you listened to reach out we'd be glad to add it. Also, we're on all the major social media platforms probably hang out mostly on Instagram. That's where you can find us if you want to reach out we also will have a video of this when this episode when it goes live you can find on YouTube as well. So Till next time, take care of yourself and take care of your health. www.cathysclub.com www.feedingfatty.com

Wondering how to keep your pelvic floor strong? When it comes to core and pelvic floor stability, you don't necessarily need to put in a ton of time!    It can be simple and straightforward!   In this episode, we are chatting with Julie Blamphin about your pelvic floor and how you can take care of it in real life so that you can rock your bod and feel amazing!   As a Pelvic Floor Yoga Teacher and Laughter Yoga Leader, Julie empowers women to rediscover their pelvic floor through balance, positivity, and joy. She says, "I LOVE WHAT I DO! It's so amazing when women feel sexy and stable again through my program of self-discovery.”    Julie explains why connecting with this sacred space is so important for women. She wants to help you release the shame, break the silence, and strengthen this important part of your body.    If you suspect that your pelvic floor may not be functioning correctly, don't miss this episode!    Resources Mentioned:  Celebratethepelvicfloor.org Celebrate The Pelvic Floor Facebook group Rediscover Your Core and Floor free training Rock Your Bod Masterclass   Show notes available at www.leadinglady-coaching.com/podcast Have you joined the Leading Ladies Facebook Group yet?! I would love to see you in there!   Let's connect on Facebook and  Instagram!

Jean Marcley is the Second oldest of 9 children, she was raised in Amityville, New York.Jean began losing her eyesight due to a-typical RP at age 10 ½. Prior to that she had 20/20 eyesight and loved to read. Jean has been legally blind with deteriorating eyesight ever since.Jean is the proud mother of 3 beautiful daughters, and she also has 6 Incredible grandchildren, as well as 7 delightful great-grandchildren. Jean is the co-creator of the stress-management program called “Foods, Moods, and You: The Stress Factor.”The programs name was eventually changed to “Worry Shmorry” which she presented nationwide.Jean got her certification as a certified Laughter Yoga Leader in the year 2013. Jean is a firm believer in the benefits of affirmations wich is why she founded Laugh-Firmations in 2019.Jean has also been a line dancing instructor since 2006.You can check Jean out on the web at Laughfirmations.com You can send her an e-mail at jmarcleyhaha@gmail.com or call her at 503 313 2840

Laughter is the best medicine. We have a mental health tsunami. I would love to chat about how laughter helps us feel better, connect more and raise our vibration. Laughter has helped me become more resilient, more productive and make better connections. Laughter is waiting in us all to burst out. It's the 26th anniversary of Laughter Yoga. Laughter helps us to feel better. When we feel better, we do better. Laughter yoga reduces stress, increases energy and vitality. It breaks down barriers. Corporations benefit from laughter yoga by creating stronger teams, increasing productivity and reducing absenteeism. Happy staff, happy customers! We currently have a mental health tsunami on our hands. Laughter is the best medicine. Have you had your daily D.O.S.E.? (Dopamine, Oxytocin, Seratonin, Endorphins - the love drugs) We are in charge of our own pharma. When stressed, we secrete cortisol. Cathy Nesbitt is a Health and Wellness Advocate. Cathy is the Founder of Cathy's Crawly Composters (est 2002), Cathy's Sprouters and Cathy's Laughter Club. She is a multi-award-winning environmental innovator who uses workshops and inspirational speaking to motivate people to live a more sustainable life. Cathy is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, Teacher. Appointed Laughter Ambassador in 2017 by Dr Madan Kataria (founder of Laughter Yoga est 1995). Cathy is an avid cyclist and gardener. Connect with Cathy: http://www.cathysclub.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathynesbitt/ https://www.facebook.com/CathysCrawlyComposters https://www.youtube.com/user/rhgn2112 https://twitter.com/Squirm Documentary: Cathy's Crawly Composters 'Squirm' - The Story of Cathy's Crawly Composters http://www.cathyscomposters.com/squirm/home.htm

She reminds us that laughing heals the soul and it helps empty the most busiest parts of the brain. She is Cathy Nesbitt a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, Teacher, the host of Cathy's Laughter Club and an appointed Laughter Ambassador. In this episode of Unleashed Unapologetically, Cathy helps us see laughter with a new approach. She is that laughter guru who believes that laughter is the remedy we need in our lives while going through the process of becoming our best selves. Known as “The Crawly Laughing Bean Queen” She is a Worm Advocate & Founder of Cathy's Crawly Composters (est 2002). Her business specializes in vermicomposting, and her environmental enthusiasm inspires many to dig through the dirt of worms. Yep, she educates many through her workshops about worm composters and sprout growing. Take A Listen --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uslayconfidence/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uslayconfidence/support

*Content warnings: This episode contains a mention of domestic violence* This week Michelle speaks with Nova Barton founder of Nova Coaching, she is originally from West London, but now resides in a small mining village in the Rhondda Valleys and this has been her home with her son for the past 4 years. Nova has worked for over twenty years in the substance misuse and criminal justice fields. It was whilst working in a community recovery service in Berkshire that she discovered Laughter Yoga, and subsequently trained as a Laughter Yoga Leader. Using this as one of many activities to support service users to obtain and maintain recovery from drug and alcohol dependence. Since the onset of the pandemic and following being made redundant Nova has been leading Laughter Yoga classes online via Zoom, with several classes a week. Nova also offers coaching services with a specialism in addictions and dependency behaviours, this is a wrap-around service offering support to the whole family, in order to gain the best results for all. She is also an animal lover and owns a dog and 5 cats. To find out more about Nova coaching visit the website: https://www.novacoachingservices.com/ Facebook: Nova Coaching Service Instagram @coachingnova Twitter: EgoSumNova Redeem 1 free laughter yoga session using code – hahaha at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/nova-coaching-services-30315672566 Join Michelle for weekly episodes as she invites guest speakers from coaches, personal trainers, yogis, business owners, chefs, and more to discuss their personal success stories and well-being. Oh, and of course PETS. All of our guests are pet owners and have such amazing stories about their beloved pets. So whether you want to start a journey of wellness, listen to inspirational stories about life and pets, we are the place to be. You can follow Michelle on Instagram and Facebook @Chattycatscare. As always please do rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast. Podcast Artwork: Allison Taunenhaus Music: @Joy Joseph 

This episode is filled with so many belly laughs and giggles it was amazing to record! Join me as I talk with Kelsey Henry from Positively Delighted.  Kelsey is an author, singer/songwriter, positivity coach and color page designer. Her passion for positivity and self-esteem began during her unique childhood grown up roadschooled in an RV from ages 11-17. I love our conversation about how this has shaped the woman she is today.  Kelsey is a certified Canfield Success Trainer, Happy For No Reason Trainer, and Laughter Yoga Leader.  She uses these programs to help others create a positive mindset and a life of delight, laugher and fun…..and all of this is so abundant in this episode! We discuss the art of manifesting the life you want, and how the pandemic changed Kelsey's life for the good.  She is also the author of not one but TWO best-selling books, Positively Delighted and Growing Up Roadschooled and is the designer of four positive affirmation coloring books on Amazon.  Some cool things about her:Her brand Positively Delighted has over 450+ products including printable coloring pages, physical books, journals, music, and courses.  You can also find her on Etsy, where The Positively Delighted Shop is in the top 3% of all shops and has spread positive thought all around the world.  You can find out more about Kelsey at:https://www.positivelydelighted.com/https://www.etsy.com/shop/PositivelyDelightedhttps://www.instagram.com/positivelydelighted/Seriously, my stomach hurt from laughing so much during our chat, I hope you enjoy!Support the show

In this Episode: Michelle is a Certified Law of Attraction Life Coach, Laughter Yoga Leader, and an American Sign Language Interpreter and college instructor. Michelle is a creative outlier who uses the transformative nature of joy, communication artistry, and integrity to guide herself and others towards personal insight, authentic empowerment, and enthusiastic freedom. Michelle helps her clients apply universal laws and scientific principles to bridge the gap between where they are and where they want to be and create a life they love. As an empty nester, midlife designer of two businesses, and educator for over three decades Michelle has used these principles to transform her own life on multiple occasions moving from: “There has got to be more than this.” to “It just keeps getting better and better!”   If you are looking for more relief, excitement, and power in your own life contact Michelle because sometimes life needs a tune-up!   Simple tools to become more aligned with your life and feel better now: 1) Laugh. 2) Appreciate and explain why. 3) Choose two intentions (how you want to feel) each day and then find the evidence. 4) Look at the language that you use. Is it focused in lack or abundance? 5) "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have"- Mary Morrisey   Referenced in the Podcast: ARN Podcast Ep. 215: The Kate Houck Interview  To contact Michelle: My personal public profile Michelle Smiley New FB Group- Joyful Outliers: moving from WTF to FAB The Alignment Artist on Facebook Sign up for a Discovery Call  The Alignment Artist on YouTube michelle@thealignmentartist.com Questions: Do you have a question you want answered in a future podcast? Go to AchieveResultsNow.com to submit.   ARN Suggested Reading: https://www.achieveresultsnow.com/readers-are-leaders Connect with Us: Get access to some of the great resources that we use at: www.AchieveResultsNow.com/success-store www.AchieveResultsNow.com www.facebook.com/achieveresultsnow www.twitter.com/nowachieve Thank you for listening to the Achieve Results NOW! Podcast.  The podcast that gives you immediate actions you can take to start seeing life shifting results NOW!  

Scroll down for contact details and/or links regarding this Podcast Support this Podcast   Today’s guest is Cathy Nesbitt who has has been a vermiculture champion for over 20 years (that’s worm composting to you and me). Being ‘a lady of a certain age’ her working life started with few options: Teacher, Nurse or Secretary. She chose the latter, and had a 20-year career as secretary and PA working for some prestigious companies. Whilst this work was fine, it was not her passion. The shift to something more inspiring began when volunteering at a nursing home. She became interested in Psychology and was inspired to study so joined a night school class whilst continuing to work full time at her day job. After finishing with a qualification, she looked for an opportunity to use and explore her new skills and found a place working with challenged adults. “This is why I was put on earth to be a social worker, until I met management, wow did not expect the politics.” Little actions can lead to big changes and in the 1990s, most developed countries were having problems with waste. Canada was no exception, landfills in Toronto had become full, and trash was being exported to US landfill sites. Looking to do her bit, Cathy started composting at home and encouraging others to do the same. A work injury in 2001 lead Cathy to consider new options and she decided to start her own business. That was the start of what has now been a 20-year journey with composting and worms. Throughout the years, Cathy has won over 20 green business and community support composting awards. She has published over 300 articles and has been on TV and radio both local and national. Not being one to stand still, Cathy is also a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, Teacher and Laughter Ambassador. So her life has a theme of worms, bean sprouts and laughter. Her personal mission is to promote simple solutions for today’s challenges. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Cathy Nesbitt.   Cathy’s website URL & Social URLs are: http://www.cathyscomposters.com/ http://www.cathyssprouters.com/ http://www.cathysclub.com/ https://www.facebook.com/CathysCrawlyComposters https://twitter.com/Squirm https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathynesbitt/ https://www.youtube.com/user/rhgn2112

February’s theme, Accept, is explored in a unique and delightful way with our special guest Kathy Bademan. Kathy is a Laughter Yoga Leader and all around most lovely lady to talk and laugh with! She shares what brought her to lead Laughter Yoga classes with a mission "to promote world peace through laughter." In our talk, Kathy offers some things you can do each and every day to add in more love and laughter to your life to boost self-care and ultimately achieve acceptance.You can learn more about Kathy's offerings here: https://laughterwithkathy.com/

Cesar R. Espino is pleased to bring to you Barbara Palmer to another episode of You Can Overcome Anything! Podcast Show.Barbara Palmer aka “Courageous Diva” is a two-time breast cancer survivor who is a Breast Cancer Awareness Advocate, Spokesperson as well as Motivational Speaker. She has been teaching, encouraging and inspiring numerous women locally and nationally through their cancer journey.Since the age of 16, Barbara Palmer has recognized the importance of giving back to the community. Some of her volunteer efforts include feeding the homeless; volunteering at the Maryland Food Bank; and even volunteering in 2013 at the White House’s Annual Easter Egg Roll hosted by the 44th elected President of the United States, Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle. Barbara also continues to do her passion which is assisting women one on one who has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. Her website is a one stop shop resource center for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients Her resources include everything from emotional and financial assistance to how to get free wigs, scarves and retreats. https://courageousdiva2011.com/Barbara also facilities a monthly women’s group at a Senior Center which she calls "Courageous Diva's Circle of Inspiration and Hope". She believes we all need to share our testimonies to encourage and inspire those who may be broken and feel hopeless.Earlier last year she became certified as a Laughter Yoga Leader. (Laughter Yoga is a group exercise with the concept that you can laugh for no reason at all and it is combined with deep breathing and meditation). This training has assisted Barbara in being more effective in spreading her light and joy to the world.Barbara gets her greatest joy from inspiring, encouraging and giving hope to others while putting a smile on their face. She looks forward to future opportunities which will allow her to LIVE BOLDLY and dares each of you to live boldly as well.Barbara's message is: Please remember you are NEVER to old to follow your dreams. I live BOLDLY and suggest all of you do the same.To Connect with Barbara Palmer go to:410-996-4915 (business number)Courageousdiva2011@yahoo.com (email)Http://courageousdiva.com (website)Https://courageous-diva-collection.my-online.store (online store)Facebook: @Courageous Diva (business page)Twitter:@dare2liveboldlyPinterest: Courageous Diva https://www.pinterest.com/courageousdiva2011/YouTube: Https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKHVoGQafAkkzlbjze0Zk8w/To Connect with CesarRespino go to:

"There is magic in laughter and it helps us deal better with life challenges. " - Dana Abdel Khalek In this episode, we interview Dana, a teacher and Laughter Yoga Leader from Lebanon to get her take on why teachers should engage in laughter yoga sessions. Join Dana along with our other wellness experts and escape to the Teacher Retreat, a place to focus on teacher wellbeing, connect with teachers and have some fun! This will be a virtual event where we'll discuss different ways to look after your mental health, giving you the knowledge you need to make lasting changes. Check out the highlights from the teacher retreat over at Teacherly.

Carmen Wyld, sanskrit name Santosha, Masters of Education, Graduate Certificate of Human Resource Management, Graduate Certificate in Childhood and Youth Studies, BSocSc Counselling & Psychology, Dip. Professional Counselling, Reiki Master Teacher & Trainer for 20+ years, Certificate in TESOL. 120-Hour TEFL, Laughter Yoga Leader, Kundalini Yoga Teacher (from Rishikesh India), Singing Bowls+ Sound Healer, Chakra Healer, Energy Work and InnerWork. Hidden Yogi, Empath who has worked in Personal Development for nearly 20 years. Certified in the Ananda Marga Wellness Natural Therapy Course conducted in the Philippines. 5 self-published books in the areas of Positivity and Personal Development. She continues to play in the area of vibrational essence and expanding consciousness.https://healingtheplanetfromwithin.com/

Are you feeling stressed out? With all that's going on in the world -- pandemic, civil unrest, job loss, hurricanes, wild fires -- it's difficult to avoid stress. Laughter therapy, or laughter yoga, might help alleviate some of the heaviness. It's free. It offers numerous mental and physical health benefits. And it's fun. In the field of psychoneuroimmunology, laughter has been studied and found to lower blood pressure, strengthen cardiovascular function, improve circulation, boost immune function, trigger the release of endorphins, and produce a sense of well-being. You'll meet Annie Goglia, a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, who shares her story how laughter transformed her life. You can even join her, virtually, at her Laughter Club. To delve deeper into your exploration of Laughter Therapy, check out the Comedy Cures Foundation and Association for Applied & Therapeutic Humor. The University of San Francisco Osher Center for Integrative Medicine offers classes in Laughter Yoga as well as the Founder of Laughter Yoga, Dr. Madan Kataria.

Gwendelyn Kay is a Success Coach, NLP Practitioner, Hypnotherapist specializing in Time Line Therapy and a Laughter Yoga Leader. From a very young age Gwendelyn started to notice that when she would have conversations with people that they would end up having significant changes in their lives. She later became trained in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and Hypnotherapy and spent years fine tuning her natural skills to be able to help people make life altering shifts in every aspect of their lives. Her passion is to help you achieve self-empowerment so that you can live a life that is free, fully engaged and personally successful. For many people there are issues from the past that are stuck and unresolved causing a sense of frustration, depression, failure and hopelessness. Using Time Line Therapy is a powerful tool to relieve and heal issues that are often unknown or seem unmovable to a client. Learning that power of laughter, Gwendelyn became a Laughter Yoga Leader (Laughter for no reason + Yoga type breathing = Laughter Yoga). Science has proven that Laughter can reduce blood pressure, lift your mood, helps to support a healthy immune system and is really fun! Laughter events relieve stress, anxiety, worry, pain, depression and deepens our sense of connection and community. Each consultation and treatment is100% confidential and hand tailored to fit YOU as the unique individual that you are. Find her online: You tube: GKay DoItAnyway Email: GKayDoItAnyway@gmail.com Facebook: Gwendelyn Kay Instagram: Gwendelyn Kay (turensky) Tik Tok: GKayDoItAnyway For more information on how you can Own Your Awkward with Andy Vargo, check out https://www.awkwardcareer.com/ #podcast #awkward #ownyourawkward #acceptance #authentiicity #motivation #inspiration #hypnotherapy #hypnosis #laughter #odd #weird --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/own-your-awkward/support

Gwendelyn Kay is a Success Coach, NLP Practitioner, Hypnotherapist specializing in Time Line Therapy and a Laughter Yoga Leader. From a very young age Gwendelyn started to notice that when she would have conversations with people that they would end up having significant changes in their lives. She later became trained in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and Hypnotherapy and spent years fine tuning her natural skills to be able to help people make life altering shifts in every aspect of their lives. Her passion is to help you achieve self-empowerment so that you can live a life that is free, fully engaged and personally successful. For many people there are issues from the past that are stuck and unresolved causing a sense of frustration, depression, failure and hopelessness. Using Time Line Therapy is a powerful tool to relieve and heal issues that are often unknown or seem unmovable to a client. Learning that power of laughter, Gwendelyn became a Laughter Yoga Leader (Laughter for no reason + Yoga type breathing = Laughter Yoga). Science has proven that Laughter can reduce blood pressure, lift your mood, helps to support a healthy immune system and is really fun! Laughter events relieve stress, anxiety, worry, pain, depression and deepens our sense of connection and community. Each consultation and treatment is100% confidential and hand tailored to fit YOU as the unique individual that you are. Find her online: You tube: GKay DoItAnyway Email: GKayDoItAnyway@gmail.com Facebook: Gwendelyn Kay Instagram: Gwendelyn Kay (turensky) Tik Tok: GKayDoItAnyway

Rev. Edie Weinstein – Even Though We Can’t Hug, We Can Still LoveAired Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 5:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM EST The COVID pandemic has altered our lives in ways that most of us alive today never experienced before. With many under physical isolation and limited person to person contact, our basic need for human interaction has been limited to digital communication, brief, separated encounters with masks and protective equipment and the occasional exchange of a hand wave. Even our smiles and facial expressions are literally masked. How may we exchange affection and compassion at a time when traditional human touch is so limited?Joining me again this week on Destination Unlimited is my dear friend, Rev. Edie Weinstein. Edie is known by many names including Love Ambassador, Opti-Mystic & Bliss Mistress! Edie delights in inviting people to live rich, full and juicy lives. She is an internationally recognized, sought after, colorfully creative journalist, interviewer, author and editor, a dynamic and inspiring speaker, licensed social worker and interfaith minister, BLISS coach, event producer, certified Laughter Yoga Leader, certified Cuddle Party facilitator, and Cosmic Concierge. Edie is the founder of Hug Mobsters Armed with Love, which offers FREE HUGS events world-wide on a planned and spontaneous basis. Edie is the author of The Bliss Mistress Guide To Transforming the Ordinary Into the Extraordinary and co-author of Embraced By the Divine: The Emerging Woman’s Gateway to Power, Passion and Purpose. Her website is https://www.opti-mystical.com/ and she joins me this week to share her path and how at this unprecedented time, “Even though we can’t hug, we can still love.”Visit the Destination Unlimited show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/destination-unlimited/Connect with Victor Fuhrman at http://victorthevoice.com/#RevEdieWeinstein #EmbracedByTheDivine #VictorFuhrman #DestinationUnlimited

Radio Totally Normal Toronto, or RTNT for short, is a voice for community mental health; produced by the members and staff of Progress Place, a mental wellness clubhouse in downtown Toronto. Episode 29 was hosted by RTNT’s Donhaila on May 13th, 2020. This month we’re continuing discussing Mental health and supports during self-isolation. The episode was recorded using an online platform and all the participants were in their own homes to comply with the social distancing recommendation. We have a double feature this show: an interview with the Warm Line and a teaser of an interview we did with Steven Hughes, a Laughter Yoga Leader and Education Specialist at the Center for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH). We recorded an interview with the Warm Line so that they may give us an overview of the services they offer. Due to confidentiality we will be leaving them nameless. Thank you to the Warm Line for their involvement with the show this month. Progress Place Warm Line have extended their hours to offer support to anyone feeling isolated or needing a friendly chat during these times. Between 12pm - 8pm, Call 416-323-3721 Between 8pm - Midnight, Call 416-960-WARM (9276) Text 647-557-5882 You can also chat online on warmline.ca The interview with Steven Hughes was so fun that we decided we wanted to show our listeners a teaser so that everyone can tune in next month (June 10th) for the full interview! Thank you to everyone that worked so hard to keep the RTNT production going through these times. Thank you to our listeners, and we want to let you know that you are not alone. During these uncertain times, stay connected with a community that supports you can help us go through the worry and overwhelming news. We are here for you. To learn more about RTNT or listen to previous episodes please check out our website radiototallynormaltoronto.org Also, the show is now streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and Google Podcast if you search up Radio Totally Normal Toronto. https://open.spotify.com/show/35FOGmRKNzMB11vXee3elL https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-totally-normal-toronto/id1464398185?uo=4 https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9iNmVkOGE4L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz Our website: https://www.radiototallynormaltoronto.org

Join Marian LaSalle, Lady Lou and our special co-host Andi Watson. Andi is making a real difference in our world. She is the owner of Wellness Connections by Andi, and a ‘solutions’ consultant for Balanced Living, and Healthy Longevity & Financial Wellness. She is Certified as a Laughter Yoga Leader by Laughter Yoga International University, and, her message is to "Lighten Up & Laugh for the HEALTH of it!" Contact Information for Andi Watson: 979-236-7030 Facebook.com/WellnessConnectionsByAndi ~~~~~~~ Contact Marian LaSalle ~ Live Stream Show Producer ~ Digital Marketing Trainer ~Mastermind Host ~Podcaster ~ Show Host, & YouTube Content Creator https://NaturalCuriosity.Life ~~~~~~~ Contact Lady Lou ~ Creator of Custom Interviews with Lady Lou https://www.patreon.com/thebabyboomer.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our time together is full of fun and laughter as we talk about topics based on RESETTING our lives, living happier and healthier, increasing our prosperity, love and our outlook on life. We invite you to join us every day! You may ‘listen’ to all our Shows on your favorite Podcast platform under ‘Natural Curiosity.’ YES! You can take us with you everywhere you go! Please ‘JOIN’ our Natural Curiosity Group on Facebook. You can find all our links on our website – NaturalCuriosity.Life. P.S. A favor, please… By SUBSCRIBING you are helping us reach more people who may really need to hear our messages on inspiration, hope, self-improvement, having fun, and togetherness. And, you may click on the little bell on YT to receive ‘notifications’ of our LIVE SHOWS in your e-mail Inbox. Thanks. P.P.S. You may help us even MORE by SHARING our videos & audios with your Social Media Friends. Look for the SHARE button. Please ‘be nice’ and give us a vote of confidence by clicking the little THUMBS UP or ‘LIKE’ button! BIG HUGS to YOU! LOVE YA! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/naturalcuriosity/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/naturalcuriosity/support

Positivity, Bestselling Books in 16+ Categories, Copy Tips, Writing Advice, and more with our special guest Kelsey Henry! At age 25 she wrote, self-published, and launched her book (hitting 16 categories in the US and 9 in Australia at the #1 spot) in about 2 months from start to finish. You can too!   Kelsey reveals how she did it, obstacles you faced but overcame, plus her favorite tools you can use...   A Few Highlights from This Podcast:   - Background of Kelsey...Pinterest manager...singer/songwriter, positivity coach - Bestselling 2x -- 16+ categories - Tips and tricks for fast writing of your book, even if you have no idea where to start - Things that went wrong with the books - Beyond the book...getting products into stores, selling books and merch at in-person events, speaking on stage - Adult coloring book creation   Kelsey's Books: - Book 1: Growing Up Roadschooled: Stories, Lyrics, & Lessons Learned From Full-Time RVing & Life After Roadschooling - Book 2: A Positively Delighted Coloring Book: Color Your Way to Happiness in 30 Days    Tools Mentioned: - PressBooks - Grammarly - Canva     Our Guest   Kelsey Henry from Positively Delighted is a best-selling author, singer/songwriter, positivity coach, coloring page designer, digital nomad, and host of The Positively Delighted Show podcast. Her passion for positivity and self-esteem began during her unique childhood growing up roadschooled in an RV from ages 11-17.   Kelsey is the author of two books on Amazon, Growing Up Roadschooled: Stories, Lyrics, & Lessons Learned from Full-time RVing & Life After Roadschooling and A Positively Delighted Coloring Book: Color Your Way to Happiness in 30 Days.   She is also a certified Canfield Success Trainer, Happy For No Reason Trainer, and Laughter Yoga Leader. She uses these programs to help others create a positive mindset and a life of delight, laughter, and fun! You can find her traveling the country and running her business on the road from her converted glamper car.     Great Quotes   “Giving your self a tight deadline forces you fo find a way and not come up with excuses.” - Laura Petersen “Stories are great ways to teach anything, so being able to tell a good story is incredibly useful.” - Kelsey Henry “I think having better expectations going into things because something can be really successful but if your expectations are really high than it will seem like a failure.”  - Kelsey Henry “What helped me the most with Grammarly was that it would identify if I use the same phrases over and over again, which I did a lot.”  - Kelsey Henry   Take Action Now!   Amazon Bestselling Book Workshop + Resources [free] Bestselling Book Accelerator [best option to get your book done, live, and #1!] Speaker's Secret Gig List [get more speaking gigs] To access full show notes please click here!  

Linda Parker is the Founder and Chief Exploring Officer of Soulistic Adventures, LLC, her creation to inspire others to keep moving forward through laughter, nature and movement. Linda has a lifetime of resilience experience with a corporate background in a variety of industries, living in 8 different states, and a fitness/wellness background with a B.A. in Exercise Science, certified personal trainer, certified Holistic Health Coach, Nia Technique® and HoopnoticaFit Instructor, Laughter Yoga Leader and senior fitness instructor. To learn more, visit her website at: www.SoulisticAdventures.com. Contact: 917-774-6035 or Linda@SoulisticAdventures.com

Linda Parker is the Founder and Chief Exploring Officer of Soulistic Adventures, LLC, her creation to inspire others to keep moving forward through laughter, nature and movement. Linda has a lifetime of resilience experience with a corporate background in a variety of industries, living in 8 different states, and a fitness/wellness background with a B.A. in Exercise Science, certified personal trainer, certified Holistic Health Coach, Nia Technique® and HoopnoticaFit Instructor, Laughter Yoga Leader and senior fitness instructor. To learn more, visit her website at: www.SoulisticAdventures.com. Contact: 917-774-6035 or Linda@SoulisticAdventures.com

www.onewholehealth.comFree Gift: Self Scoring Brain Chemistry Assessment:https://pd305.infusionsoft.app/app/form/brainchemistryBio:Leah Lund is a Neuro Nutrient Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Rapid Transformation Therapist and Health Coach. She founded One Whole Health to help women reboot their brain to move past anxiety, overwhelm and food or body issues into vibrant health, mental clarity and the courage and capacity to live a fulfilling, happy life. Her unique Brain Makeover Method ™ uses Neuro Science, Neuro Nutrition, Hypnotherapy and other techniques as the springboard to help you feelhappy and confident and find freedom from anxiety, depression, overwhelm, emotional eating, cravings, low energy, brain fog, insomnia, pain and burn out. As an Author, Speaker, Laughter Yoga Leader, Author and past Mentor for The Neuro Nutrient Therapy Institute, Leah regularly appears on stages, podcasts and on-line shows all over the world. She's served as a keynote speaker for the Liberian Leadership & Prosperity Conf 2014 and The Inspire Event So Cal 2016 and Ecuador 2017. Her humanitarian work includes The Water Bearers project to bring clean, safe water to every person in the world. More information is available at www.onewholehealth.com

www.onewholehealth.com Free Gift: Self Scoring Brain Chemistry Assessment: https://pd305.infusionsoft.app/app/form/brainchemistry Bio: Leah Lund is a Neuro Nutrient Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Rapid Transformation Therapist and Health Coach. She founded One Whole Health to help women reboot their brain to move past anxiety, overwhelm and food or body issues into vibrant health, mental clarity and the courage and capacity to live a fulfilling, happy life. Her unique Brain Makeover Method ™ uses Neuro Science, Neuro Nutrition, Hypnotherapy and other techniques as the springboard to help you feelhappy and confident and find freedom from anxiety, depression, overwhelm, emotional eating, cravings, low energy, brain fog, insomnia, pain and burn out. As an Author, Speaker, Laughter Yoga Leader, Author and past Mentor for The Neuro Nutrient Therapy Institute, Leah regularly appears on stages, podcasts and on-line shows all over the world. She’s served as a keynote speaker for the Liberian Leadership & Prosperity Conf 2014 and The Inspire Event So Cal 2016 and Ecuador 2017. Her humanitarian work includes The Water Bearers project to bring clean, safe water to every person in the world. More information is available at www.onewholehealth.com

Discussion with Edie Weinstein (MSW, LSW)Resilience and Rebounding with Edie WeinsteinDiscussion with EdieOn this episode of My Perfect Failure “Resilience and Rebounding” Paul is joined by the delightful Edie Weinstern. Join myself and Edie Weinstein as we explore what it takes to rise above when 'life gets lifey'. Through a series of losses and challenges, Edie has discovered that her shakeups are her wakeups and she has moved through them, coming away with a vast tool kit of what she calls portable life skills that she uses for herself, her clients, students, and readers. Edie also has a rich background as a journalist, interviewer, author and editor, a dynamic and inspiring speaker, licensed social worker and interfaith minister, BLISS coach, event producer, certified Laughter Yoga Leader, certified Cuddle Party facilitator, and Cosmic Concierge. Edie is the founder of Hug Mobsters Armed with Love, which offers FREE HUGS events world- wide on a planned and spontaneous basis. Some of the areas we cover. · Edie Discusses her technique for dealing with Imposter Syndrome· Dalai Lama: Edie discusses her journey to meeting and Interviewing the Dalai Lama.· Edie tells how we can become Opti-Mystic and see life through the eyes of Possibilities· The Bliss Mistress Guide Edie’s Opti-mystical Website· https://www.opti-mystical.com/contact/ Edie’s Dalai Lama interview· https://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/07/how-interviewing-his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-changed-my-life-forever/ Edie’s Radio Show· http://vividlife.me/ultimate/its-all-about-relationships-with-edie-weinstein/ My radio show It's All About Relationships Edie’s Selected Articles· https://psychcentral.com/blog/author/edie-weinstein/ Psych Central articles· https://goodmenproject.com/author/edie-weinstein/ Good Men Project articles· https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/bydivinedesign-283 Huffington Post articles· https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/blissblog/archiveList.php Beliefnet articles· https://psychcentral.com/lib/does-failure-groom-us-for-success/ Edie’s Hugs Video· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5dA-x_VBA Hugmobsters Armed with Love (FREE HUGS) videoPlease leave a reviewPlease if you can leave a review at https://www.podchaser.com/MyPerfectFailure or the platform of your choice that would be great·

Leah Lund leah@onewholehealth.com https://www.facebook.com/onewholehealth/ leahlund_onewholehealth SKYPE: To Be Determined www.onewholehealth.com Free Gift: Self Scoring Brain Chemistry Assessment: https://pd305.infusionsoft.app/app/form/brainchemistry Bio: Leah Lund is a Neuro Nutrient Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Rapid Transformation Therapist and Health Coach. She founded One Whole Health to help women reboot their brain to move past anxiety, overwhelm and food or body issues into vibrant health, mental clarity and the courage and capacity to live a fulfilling, happy life. Her unique Brain Makeover Method ™ uses Neuro Science, Neuro Nutrition, Hypnotherapy and other techniques as the springboard to help you feelhappy and confident and find freedom from anxiety, depression, overwhelm, emotional eating, cravings, low energy, brain fog, insomnia, pain and burn out. As an Author, Speaker, Laughter Yoga Leader, Author and past Mentor for The Neuro Nutrient Therapy Institute, Leah regularly appears on stages, podcasts and on-line shows all over the world. She’s served as a keynote speaker for the Liberian Leadership & Prosperity Conf 2014 and The Inspire Event So Cal 2016 and Ecuador 2017. Her humanitarian work includes The Water Bearers project to bring clean, safe water to every person in the world. More information is available at www.onewholehealth.com

Leah Lundleah@onewholehealth.comhttps://www.facebook.com/onewholehealth/leahlund_onewholehealthSKYPE: To Be Determinedwww.onewholehealth.comFree Gift: Self Scoring Brain Chemistry Assessment:https://pd305.infusionsoft.app/app/form/brainchemistryBio:Leah Lund is a Neuro Nutrient Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Rapid Transformation Therapist and Health Coach. She founded One Whole Health to help women reboot their brain to move past anxiety, overwhelm and food or body issues into vibrant health, mental clarity and the courage and capacity to live a fulfilling, happy life. Her unique Brain Makeover Method ™ uses Neuro Science, Neuro Nutrition, Hypnotherapy and other techniques as the springboard to help you feelhappy and confident and find freedom from anxiety, depression, overwhelm, emotional eating, cravings, low energy, brain fog, insomnia, pain and burn out. As an Author, Speaker, Laughter Yoga Leader, Author and past Mentor for The Neuro Nutrient Therapy Institute, Leah regularly appears on stages, podcasts and on-line shows all over the world. She's served as a keynote speaker for the Liberian Leadership & Prosperity Conf 2014 and The Inspire Event So Cal 2016 and Ecuador 2017. Her humanitarian work includes The Water Bearers project to bring clean, safe water to every person in the world. More information is available at www.onewholehealth.com

Live and hitting #1 bestseller on Amazon today in multiple categories, it's Kelsey Henry from Positively Delighted! CopyThatPops.com/kelsey will take you there to see it!   Link Outs: • CopyThatPops.com/128 - Lego Method to Write Your Book Without Stress • Kelsey's book live on Amazon now   About Kelsey: Kelsey Henry from Positively Delighted is a singer/songwriter, positivity coach, coloring page creator, digital nomad, and host of The Positively Delighted Show podcast. Her passion for positivity and self-esteem began during her unique childhood growing up roadschooled in an RV from ages 11-17. She is a certified Canfield Success Trainer, Happy For No Reason Trainer, and Laughter Yoga Leader. She uses these programs to help others create a positive mindset and a life of delight, laughter, and fun! You can find her traveling the country and running her business on the road from her converted glamper CR-V. She loves smiling and is always trying to make her inner roadschooled kid proud.   Advice for other authors from Kelsey Henry…#34 bestselling author case study! "Having an outline is CRUCIAL for writing the book. It helps you stay on track and know where you're going. If you're getting stuck on putting the outline together, just start writing a chapter and see where it goes. I was so stuck on putting together my outline, until Laura gave me this advice! After writing a chapter, I knew exactly what direction to go in and put my outline together quickly. Remember to have fun with the process and with everything you do, honor yourself. Create something that you can be proud to share. It's easy to get caught up in what others will think of you. My book is my life story. If people don't like it, it's going to feel personal! But I still have to share it because it's going to help the people who do like it. Also, give yourself lots of pep talks! You are your biggest cheerleader through this process."   Take Action Now! TRAINING on hitting Amazon bestseller [free] COMMUNITY of new and growing nonfiction authors! [free] BESTSELLING BOOK ACCELERATOR: How to write a great book & hit bestseller! [not free ;)]   --------   Learn more + free resources to help you improve your writing and books.   Thanks for listening! xo Laura  

In 2010, Noreen Braman, who had already reinvented herself in 1997 after a contentious divorce, was reeling from a corporate downsizing, dealing with economic recession of historic proportions and facing her own midlife issues. Soon her skills as a strategic communications professional, humourist and performer sent her in a new direction. By the end of that year, she became a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, had her mind blown at a conference called “Can Humour Save the World” and studied the Psychology of Laughter at Rutgers University. In 2012 she added certification in Laughter Wellness, studied the Science of Happiness through Berkeley University in 2016 and ever since has been presenting laughter for the health through her Smile Side of Life Laughter & Happiness Club presentations. Taking her message about laughter to the world on a full time basis Noreen again “reinvented” herself. Dr Paul McGhee’s book “Humour as a Survival Tool “ helped her understand the importance of humour and laughter to all humans. With the physical and emotional health benefits that come with humour, laughter and mindfulness, Noreen deals with her fibromyalgia and thyroid disease with humour, reminding us all that yesterday’s problem can be today’s funny story.  Recently, she has started helping others with a workshop self-discovery through developing a vision, mission statement, and strategic plan for ones’ own life. Noreen’s own vision and mission statements can be found on her website at  njlaughter.com, along with more about enhancing wellbeing with laughter, and her helpful articles and videos. This is a powerful conversation from which everyone can learn more about the importance of laughter in each of our lives.

Well.....IT HAPPENED AGAIN!  My mind got blown by my guest this week with all the cool stuff that I learned from her.  Plus, she sang me a song. That's right!  The guest is Dorothy Pincus and the topic is awesomeness.  Okay, not really but....REALLY!  She shares her journey of how her voice led her into a life of humor, laughter and healing.  Listen until the end....she's got some pipes!  ENJOY! More on Dorothy... Dorothy Pincus (The Human Instrument), is a graduate of the Institute of Psycho-Structural-Balancing (IPSB). She is a Motivational Speaker, hosts workshops, Practitioner Jorei/Reiki Practitioner, Life Coach in Music with CCF (Certified Coaches Federation, Tuning/Sound therapy at Sound Therapy Center, and a Laughter Yoga Leader with Laughter Yoga University/USA. Dorothy is the author of The Spoken Gospel (A one-woman journey through transformation), How to Date Yourself and Fall in Love) and have two poems in the 2018 ONTHEBUS-23 issue. She also is the producer of AYHOU sound/tuning project. Dorothy has over 20+ years in the music world singing, writing and extended roles of acting and voiceover. She has worked with Legendary artist such as Barry Manilow, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Nine Inch Nails, Mariah Carey, Will I Am, Toni Braxton, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dog, Tupac all over the world and studio sessions, Tours, TV appearances with many icons in the business. She also was a vocal mentor for the audition process of American Idol and B-booth the finale year in 2016 and has appeared on the Voice as a vocal supporter. Dorothy is an active member of the United States of Women of Southern California, Women Economic Forum, The Holistic Chamber of Commerce, The Sound Therapy Center and Applied Association for Therapeutic Humor. Connect with her on her website:  www.meetup.com/LOL-Holistic-Yoga-LA

Today’s name of the game? It’s all about prevention. That’s right- this next guest teaches us how to prevent the negative, let go, and focus on health and happiness. Tune in for practical strategies that will help you be your best nurse. Debbie Lyn Toomey RN, CIPP is a corporate trainer, health and wellness coach and Laughter Yoga Leader. Debbie is the founder of Ultimate Healing Journey, LLC and believes in a holistic approach to optimal health and happiness. She trains companies and organizations how to use happiness skills to boost their productivity, performance, and positivity. A few take aways from our interview with Debbie Lyn Toomey, RN, CIPP include: How going with your gut can be the most productive professional habit; What prevention means as a career philosophy; And why you cannot rely on other people for your own success! We need your feedback! Tell us what you think of the podcast: https://elizabethscala.com/podcastfeedback/. Join the inspiring & upbeat community of supportive nurses: Your Next Shift! Read along and take notes with your very own copy of Your Next Shift.

Sarah is a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader and Teacher trained by The Dr. Kataria School of Laughter Yoga and has been engaging others in laughter since 2008.​Sarah has a BA in English, a BFA in Photography and a Master’s in Adult Education. After teaching high school English and Drama for 10 years, and running 2 non-profits for 18 years, Sarah is now a Leadership Instructor and a Wellness Advocate at the University of Minnesota. She has trained in Reiki and Reflexology and cares deeply about health and wellness. As a certified Laughter Yoga Leader and Teacher she has presented countless Laughter Yoga sessions for corporations such as Cigna Health Care, SUPERVALU and BWI Worldwide, laughed with seniors, college students, families with young children, and Holocaust Survivors. Sarah has been featured at Health Conferences and Trainings, Women’s Retreats, Fund Raising Events and Humor Festivals.Sarah inspires others to lead happier, healthier, more meaningful lives through laughter, which ultimately helps them to unlock their full potential. She has shared laughter with thousands of people all over the world and can’t wait to give you the giggles!Sarah also utilizes her expertise in STRENGTHSFinder 2.0 with individuals and teams to generate more focus, more productivity and ultimately, more satisfaction, both at work and in their personal lives. Integrating Laughter and Leadership is just one way that Sarah’s approach is unique.

GUEST  My fourth guest on the Play to Potential Podcast series is Papa CJ. Papa CJ is a world-renowned stand-up comedian. He has won awards for both Asia's and India's Best Stand-up Comedian. Forbes Magazine called him ‘the global face of Indian stand-up' and Toastmaster International called him one of the most influential comedians around the world. He has performed over 2000 shows across five continents. His work has been broadcast on NBC, BBC, Comedy Central, Showtime, MTV, Paramount, The Comedy Channel, ITV and a host of other international networks. He taped a Showtime USA Stand-up Comedy Special with Russell Peters in Amsterdam and in the American TV show Last Comic Standing, he was adjudged one of the top ten acts from over 3000 contestants across the world. Papa CJ holds an MBA degree from the University of Oxford. He frequently works with companies and educational institutions as a motivational speaker and executive coach. He has coached executives from over 50 blue-chip companies all over the world including Nike, Google & UBS in Europe, Deutsche Bank, Accenture & E&Y in USA, Universal Music and BBC in the UK and Unilever and HSBC in Asia. Papa CJ is a former management consultant and a qualified Laughter Yoga Leader. He is also an enthusiastic golfer however his passion is far greater than his talent! We spoke about how he got into Stand-up comedy, what it takes to succeed as a stand up comedian and some perspectives around how people should think about transitioning from a corporate world to a creative world where the economics can often be quite different  HOST  Deepak is a Leadership Advisor and an Executive Coach. He works with leaders to improve their effectiveness and in helping them make better decisions specifically around organisational and career transitions. He currently runs Transition Insight (www.transitioninsight.com) and works with leaders to handle phases of transition thoughtfully. He has worked as an Operations Consultant with KPMG in UK, Strategy Consultant with McKinsey in the US and as a Leadership Consultant with EgonZehnder (a Swiss Leadership Advisory firm) where he helped companies recruit CEOs, CXOs and Board Members and worked on Leadership Development. Deepak is a certified CEO Coach and is an alumnus of IIT Madras, IIM Ahmedabad and London Business School. His detailed profile can be found at https://in.linkedin.com/in/djayaraman OTHER GUESTS 1.Vijay Amritraj 2.Amish Tripathi 3.Raghu Raman 4.Papa CJ 5.Kartik Hosanagar 6.Ravi Venkatesan 7.Abhijit Bhaduri 8.Viren Rasquinha 9.Prakash Iyer 10.Avnish Bajaj 11.Nandan Nilekani 12.Atul Kasbekar 13.Karthik Reddy 14.Pramath Sinha 15.Vedika Bhandarkar 16.Vinita Bali 17.Zia Mody 18.Rama Bijapurkar 19.Dheeraj Pandey 20.Anu Madgavkar 21.Vishy Anand 22. Meher Pudumjee 23.KV Shridhar (Pops) 24.Suresh Naraynan 25.Devdutt Pattanaik 26.Jay Panda 27.Amit Chandra 28.Chandramouli Venkatesan 29.Roopa Kudva 30.Vinay Sitapati 31.Neera Nundy. DISCLAIMER All content and opinions expressed in the podcast are that of the guests and are not necessarily the opinions of Deepak Jayaraman and Transition Insight Private Limited. The primary purpose of this podcast is for people to learn and make thoughtful career and leadership choices. Views expressed in comments to blog are the personal opinions of the author of the comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the author of the blog. Participants are responsible for the content of their comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted comments. Not all comments may be published. Any third party comments published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility and disclaims all liability The Company reserves the right, but is not obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without notice.

Maia Aziz P.S.W., C.L.Y.L., writes and speaks on living a life of love and laughter. President-Elect of The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Maia is joined each week on Morning Moments With Maia...Conversations of Love and Laughter by an eclectic lineup of guests who live their lives with love and laughter and work to help others do the same. www.withloveandlaughter.ca             Liliana De Leo is founder and president of Fitness Firm and Living Laughter™. Liliana has a strong background in the fitness and health field having worked as Fitness Program Director for the YMCA. She became a Laughter Yoga Leader in 2006, and due to a growing demand for her services, she established Living Laughter™ in 2008.  Living Laughter™ is a new form of healthy living that offers valid, sustainable and reliable tools to unlock the many healing benefits of laughter.  It can exponentially improve cooperation, creativity and overall wellbeing in body, mind and spirit.  She strongly encourages prevention before medical intervention.  Liliana, an accredited Laughter Yoga Teacher (Dr. Kataria’s International School of Laughter Yoga), has gone on to train hundreds of students.  Furthermore, her workshops have inspired many to adopt the “Living Laughter™” way of living. All her classes and workshops incorporate her E2 formula- Educational and Entertaining.  www.lilianadeleo.com

Mary O’Toole, is a wellness professional who’s primary focus is to support those with the desire to decrease stress and be healthy.  Mary is the owner/founder of the The Light Within, a wellness business that offers a variety of wellness programs for individuals, groups and organizations. Mary is a Wellness Coach, Certified Yoga Instructor, Reiki Master Teacher and Laughter Yoga Leader.  She discovered yoga in 2004 at a time of personal challenges and found that yoga helped her cope with stress.  She also spent more than 10 years in the Corporate Human Resources environment.  She takes her corporate background and blends it with her wellness training to offer each individual and group a unique wellness experience.

Drink it up with a laugh! Practise deep breathing techniques and laughter exercises as you honor the Four Directions! Laughter Yoga Leader, Miss Lafalot and friends welcome you!

Drink it up with a laugh! Practise deep breathing techniques and laughter exercises as you honor the Four Directions! Laughter Yoga Leader, Miss Lafalot and friends welcome you!

Drink it up with a laugh! Practise deep breathing techniques and laughter exercises as you honor the Four Directions! Laughter Yoga Leader, Miss Lafalot and friends welcome you!