Susi Amendola: Yoga Practices for Stress Management and a Healthy Heart | Episode 93

In this episode, Susi Amendola — yoga therapist, meditation teacher, and author — shares insights from over four decades of experience in stress management and yoga. We explore practical tools from yoga that can help you manage stress, enhance presence, and nurture your heart and well-being.

Susi delves into key yogic practices for stress management, including meditation, breathwork, connection with nature, gentle movement, compassion, relaxation, and imagery.

She reflects on how yoga has evolved since the late 1970s, emphasizing the importance of listening — not only to your body but also to the natural world and the rhythms impacting our mind-body health.

We also examine how breath and movement influence the nervous system, with Susi explaining the connection between our breath patterns and the cycles of the sun and moon. She introduces techniques such as right and left nostril breathing to balance energy and calm both heart and mind.

Other key topics include the role of imagery and meditation in stress reduction, the effects of technology on memory and presence, the benefits of yoga nidra and slow gentle movement, and strategies for managing anger and emotional outbursts.

Reconnect with your inner wisdom, return to a calm and spacious heart, and embrace your full, loving self through these Yogic tools that have guided people in navigating stress for millennia.

RESOURCES

BOOKS
- The Centered Heart by Susi Amendola
- Radical Healing by Rudolph Ballentine
- You Are the Placebo by Joe Dispenza

ORGANIZATIONS
- Menninger Foundation
- Minnesota Zen Meditation Center
- Mutual of Omaha
- Ornish Lifestyle Medicine
- Yoga Now

PEOPLE
- Andrew Huberman
- Dainin Katagiri
- Dalai Lama 
- Dean Ornish
- Immanuel Kant
- Joe Dispenza
- Rudolph Ballentine
- Swami Satchidananda 

PLACES
- Kuala Lumpur
- Chicago
- Omaha
- Pocono Mountains 

VOCAB
- Agni
- Ashram
- Asana 
- Ayurveda
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Drishti
- Electroshock therapy
- Homeopathy
- Leukemia 
- Mad studies
- Pratipaksha Bhavana 
- PTSD
- Sanitarium 
- Simon Says
- Swami
- Yogi
- Yoga nidra 
- Yoga sutras of Patanjali 

**Connect and Learn More**
website: yourcenteredheart.com
Facebook: /SusiAmendolaYoga
Instagram: @thecenteredheart
Yoga studio: doyoganow.com