On creating connections of tangible service, giving voice to marginalized humans, loss and legacies of healing. The Conversation [0:43] Being in charge of your own life [2:40] Defining experiences. Connecting to others through our emotional experiences [7:23] Amanda’s journey of understanding that it is an inside job [11:10] Grief and loss. Bearing witness to someone […]
Episode 100: Ask Elena
Answering your questions on topics from scheduling to sobriety, parenting to prioritizing steadiness, Elena and her collaborator Michelle Martello of Minima Designs celebrate the 100th episode of Practice You.
Episode 99: Melissa Wood
On the merits of imperfection, bringing joy back to fitness, disrupting an industry and sculpting an online home for wellness.
Episode 98: Emily Fletcher
On saturating your brain and body with bliss through your practice of meditation; meditation for kids; practice for extraordinary performance.
Episode 97: David Romanelli
On healing as a participatory experience, the wisdom of the elders and the challenging gifts of childhood illness.
Episode 96: Gunny Sodhi
On the efficacy and legacy of Ayurveda in calibrating body, mind and mood; how tragedy can lead to true service. Gunny’s story of loss [0:43] The grieving process [6:29] Gunny’s father. Ayurveda. The importance of feeling our emotions [8:38] Timing of meals. Agni (digestive fire) and Ama (toxins) [15:12] Adaptogenic herbs. Ashwagandha. Ayurvedic principles. Supplementation […]
Episode 95: Kallie Schut
On building relationships across points of difference, acknowledging the patterns of trauma we’ve inherited to reshape those relations, and remembering the practice as a way to honour those who’ve come before.
Episode 94: Amisha Ghadiali
On locating and refining your intuition, with practices, prompts and new ways of seeing.
Episode 93: SuChin Pak
On vocalizing the pain of generations, standing up to ensure safe spaces, and crafting the conversations that need to be heard.
Episode 92: Yung Pueblo
On managing reactions, creating structural compassion and walking the middle path.
Episode 91: Hiro Boga
On the ecology of your business; creating a world of your work that feels like a sanctuary for yourself and others.
Episode 90: Shannon Algeo
On releasing rage, growing up, and the steady vibration of truth.
Episode 89: Miki Agrawal
On being an architect of community, social entrepreneurship and creating businesses straight from your heart.
Episode 88: Dr. Edith Eger
On resolving victimhood, transforming fear, freedom from resentment, curiosity as hope, and delivering deep love to yourself, no matter what.
Episode 87: Sah D’Simone
On recalibrating your nervous system, dancing with fear, and the smallest acts of forgiveness.
Episode 86: Tracee Stanley
On prioritizing our inner world through the practice of Yoga Nidra; the clear benefits of Radiant Rest.
Episode 85: Kathleen St. Ours
On resilience through harrowing childhood assault, sharing pain as a service to others and the medicine of the story.
Episode 84: Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor
On trust, faith as not-knowing and these times of change that mandate letting go.
Episode 83: Erin Clabough
On using neuroscience to raise caring, compassionate, creative humans.
Episode 82: Marnie Nir
On evolving and resolving generational patterns and misunderstandings. On loving ourselves enough to be a safe space for others; on great communication.
Episode 81: Claire Ragozzino
On Ayurveda as a practice of deep listening, strengthening our ability to be resilient, present and respectful of the rhythms of Nature.
Episode 80: Quddus
On true allyship, the names we need to keep repeating, the necessary healings and breaking through.
Episode 79: Katie Hess
On the subtlety and majesty of the flowers, and their capacity to bring our human bodies back to Nature.
Episode 78: Dr. Anthony Lyon
On the harrowing reality from the hospital floor, two actions we can take to stop the spread, and the stories we craft to help us cope.
Episode 77: Kerri Kelly
On a new definition of politics, and caring for ourselves through this.
Episode 76: Judith Hanson Lasater
On the core of communication, and some myths we can release.
Episode 75: Justin Michael Williams
On the actual ending of racism – in this generation.
Episode 74: Julie Wald
On the vital ways in which we approach practice for mental health.
Episode 73: Jodie Patterson
On womanhood, excellence, Blackness, and our crucial collaborations in parenting, partnership, and creativity.
Episode 72: Johanna Nichols and Martha McAlpine
On homeschooling as reclaiming learning, prioritizing in a busy household and the gifts of boredom.
Episode 71: Latham Thomas
On the history of black maternal health, how we can change the story, and parenting our kids as actualized beings.
Episode 70: Reggie Hubbard
On compassion in the context of activism, building a culture of care, and cultivating enthusiasm to save our democracy.