2929: In Praise Of The Home Yoga Practice by Melani Schweder of A Brighter Wild on Working Out At Home
Oct 8, 2023
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Melani Schweder, a Certified Health Coach and Reiki Master/Teacher, discusses the transformative power of practicing yoga at home, sharing her personal struggles, misconceptions, and the advantages of a home practice. She emphasizes the importance of a daily yoga practice, even for just a few minutes, and shares her own journey of starting yoga after resistance.
Practicing yoga at home offers advantages like temperature control, personalized themes, individual focus, and cost-effectiveness.
Finding balance between structure and autonomy in a home yoga practice can lead to profound benefits and overall well-being.
Deep dives
Benefits of a Home Yoga Practice
Melanie Schwaiter shares her personal experience of how practicing yoga at home had a profound impact on her health and well-being. Despite dealing with chronic illness, she found solace and empowerment in a home-based practice. She highlights the advantages of practicing yoga at home, such as temperature control, flexible start times, personalized themes and difficulty levels, freedom to pause or rewind, individual focus, and cost-effectiveness. Additionally, she emphasizes that practicing yoga at home allows for a deeper connection with oneself, reducing self-consciousness and enabling a fully present and autonomous practice.
The Healing Power of Yoga Despite Chronic Illness
Dr. Neal shares his personal journey with chronic illness and how practicing yoga helped him overcome feelings of misery and lack of motivation. He initially enrolled in a yoga class at a community college for structure and proper guidance. As his knowledge and confidence grew, he incorporated yoga into his daily routine at home, experiencing the profound benefits. Dr. Neal underscores the importance of finding a balance between structure and autonomy in one's yoga practice, and encourages listeners, even those with limited time, to invest in a few minutes of yoga for overall wellbeing.
Melani Schweder of A Brighter Wild shares her thoughts on the home yoga practice.
Episode 2929: In Praise Of The Home Yoga Practice by Melani Schweder of A Brighter Wild on Working Out At Home
Melani Schweder is a Certified Health Coach, Reiki Master/Teacher, and guide for those who want to live life in full color, even through hardships like chronic illness, divorce, or other struggle. Her own health issues led her to dig deep into alternative/natural health and take sustainable, self-guided steps towards recovery. She is passionate about holistic methods, and her unique coaching process combines the best of her knowledge in whole-foods nutrition, Reiki, mindfulness, herbal medicine, and positive psychology.