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Amy discusses with Shailla Vaidya, a former Emergency Room Physician and Family Doctor. Shailla MD MPH CCFP(EM) C-IAYT is a graduate of Dalhousie Medical School, the University of Ottawa Family and Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and the Harvard T.Chan School of Public Health. Shailla worked on the Reservations of the First Nation people as a Medical Doctor for several years and it had a big impact on her way of thinking about the world.

In today’s podcast, Shailla and Amy talk about Yoga therapy and Concussions, the effect and Shaillas experience with concussion.

They discuss the following:

·        Land Acknowledgement of the First Nation people of Canada and the history of indigenous people and their culture

·        Shailla talks on how she feels when her South Asian culture is misrepresented, not understood or unappreciated

·        Shailla talks about her experience with concussion and what she has learned from the experience of having to accept her new life and limitations

·        Processes/Stages of Grief that go with an injury like a concussion

·        Benefits of slowing down into a new way of Be-ing and practicing selfcare to heal a concussion

·        Tools of Yoga and how they help to promote healing include:

-Changes in perception about her situation and life

-Slow breath and coordinated movement is the key tool for changing the neuroplasticity and creating new positive neuropathways

-Becoming more mindful in daily life with everything she does

-Having more self-compassion when her brain can’t keep up

-Slowing down to the pace of her body

·        Physical trauma and psychological trauma are one, they are not separate

·        Why change needs to happen now in our world and what we can do about it

·        How underappreciation of indigenous cultures causes a higher allostatic load and makes it more difficult to heal

·        The eastern cultures were naturally more slowly and thus a person can stay more embodied, the western cultures move quickly and promote more disembodiment

·        How eastern cultures and western allopathic medicine are not at odds with one another

·        Both eastern and western cultures are useful and need to be used together for healing

·        How this path has lead Shailla to her life purpose or svadharma

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