Yoga Therapy Hour with Amy Wheeler

Today’s show would be a solo show with Amy. Amy Wheeler, the host of Yoga Therapy Hour, shares very important personal news and update on her life. She also talks about her journey with healing and teaching. Amy talks about the spiritual end game of Yoga Therapy, Living life in Alignment, Fear and ways to lessen fear, how to find more spaciousness and much more. Today’s episode is a must listen! Amy talks about the following ·        Her recent health diagnosis and how she is receiving the news·        Her journey with teaching at the university for 25 years coming to a close·        Yoga Therapy spiritual end game and how this informs how we live our lives·        Bad habits that can be created as a result of living in fear·        Things that can help reduce fear or make you feel safe·        How can you get into a deep state of Spaciousness (Bramha) without feeling fear·        Yoga Tool Box to help create Spaciousness·        Understanding what you need to de-link from to lessen the Fear If you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include: • Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribe Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal State We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation The Optimal State and Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast also has a Patreon page. We now have 5 staff that help us product the audio and video versions of the podcast. Please consider donating to help us keep this good work for the field of yoga therapy going. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhourThe new You Tube Channel for this podcast is: YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd    https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyWheelerphdCheck out Amy's website Feel free to use download our free eBook and mobile App by going to the websites below.www.OptimalStateApp.comwww.GoldZoneBook.com Facebook: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler     https://www.facebook.com/OptimalStatebyAmyWheeler Twitter: Optimal State of Living with Dr. Amy TikTok: Dr. Amy@OptimalStateofLiving Instagram: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler    Pinterest: TheOptimalState    https://www.pinterest.com/TheOptimalState

Our guest today is Shelly Prosko, Shelly is a Canadian physiotherapist, yoga therapist, author, speaker and educator dedicated to empowering individuals to create and sustain meaningful lives by teaching and advocating for the integration of yoga into modern healthcare. She is a respected pioneer of PhysioYoga, a combination of physiotherapy and yoga. She is a Pain Care Aware Lead Trainer and has authored book chapters in several rehabilitation textbooks and is co-editor and co-author of the textbook titled Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain by Singing Dragon Publishers. She is also known for her TEDx talk: Pushing Boundaries in Physiotherapy. Amy & Shelly talk her Journey, Shelly’s book, Self-compassion, its importance and how it connects to client’s compliance and adherence, reducing burnout for the practitioner, reducing self-doubt and how to deal with it, and a lot more. They touch on the followingShelly’s journey and history as a physical therapist and continued education providerShelly’s motivation to wanting to understand Self-compassionThe meaning of True self-compassion, and its importantThe 3 main components of self-compassion and how to practice it oftenImportance of practice self-compassion on a regular basisWhy having boundaries is important, to facilitate self-compassionHow Shelly deals with self-doubt as a practitioner of yoga therapyShelly’s strategy for connecting with herself  If you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include:• Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribe Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal Statehttps://theoptimalstate.com/ We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation The Optimal State and Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast also has a Patreon page. We now have 5 staff that help us product the audio and video versions of the podcast. Please consider donating to help us keep this good work for the field of yoga therapy going. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhourThe new You Tube Channel for this podcast is: YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd    https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyWheelerphdCheck out Amy's websiteFeel free to use download our free eBook and mobile App by going to the websites below.www.OptimalStateApp.comwww.GoldZoneBook.comFacebook: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler     https://www.facebook.com/OptimalStatebyAmyWheelerTwitter: Optimal State of Living with Dr. AmyTikTok: Dr. Amy@OptimalStateofLivingInstagram: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler   Pinterest: TheOptimalState    https://www.pinterest.com/TheOptimalState Check out Shelly’s websitehttps://physioyoga.ca/ Books mentioned in the podcastYoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in PainCo-edited by Neil Pearson, Shelly Prosko and Marlysa Sullivan.https://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Science-Pain-Care-Treating/dp/1848193971/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Yoga Therapy for the whole woman : A Professional Guide by Cheri Dostal Rybahttps://www.bookdepository.com/Pelvic-Yoga-Therapy-for-Whole-Woman-Cheri-Dostal-Ryba/9781787756649

Lee Majewski, MA, DYEd, C-IAYT is an author and founding director of Yoga for Health Institute (www.yogaforhealth.institute), a non-profit organization located in Toronto, Canada. She is also a visiting Senior Yoga Therapist at Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute in India.Her journey through cancer brought home the value of ancient Yogic methods and resulted in creating a unique healing, residential and online, retreat Beyond Cancer which is offered in Australia, North America, and Europe, and is currently online. Lee is recognized internationally as an expert yoga therapist in cancer care and psychosomatic chronic diseases. Her expertise in Yoga therapy is captured in “Yoga Therapy as a Whole Person Approach to Health”.Amy and Lee discuss how lee developed cancer retreats for Kaivalyadam Institute, Tools and mechanisms that aid healing, Real-life experiences from her students and how their lives have changed positively, How to become a spiritually mature yoga therapist, Asana, pranayama, meditation, chanting, mudra, sangha and so much moreThey touch on the following,·        Lee’s journey and experience living in India·        Tools for healing in yoga therapy for cancer care·        Important mechanisms of yoga that contribute to healing·        The difference between healing and curing cancer·        How to move from our superficial identities to learning to BE·        How to approach a daily practice with honesty and why it’s important·        Moving from victimhood into empowerment·        The importance of doing your work spiritually, mentally, and emotionallyIf you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include: • Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribeToday’s podcasts is sponsored by: www.IAYT.orgWe have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonationThe Optimal State and Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast also has a Patreon page. We now have 5 staff that help us product the audio and video versions of the podcast. Please consider donating to help us keep this good work for the field of yoga therapy going. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhourThe new You Tube Channel for this podcast is: YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd   https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyWheelerphdCheck out Amy's website Feel free to use download our free eBook and mobile App by going to the websites below.www.OptimalStateApp.comwww.GoldZoneBook.comFacebook: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler   https://www.facebook.com/OptimalStatebyAmyWheelerTwitter: Optimal State of Living with Dr. AmyTikTok: Dr. Amy@OptimalStateofLivingInstagram: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler   Pinterest: TheOptimalState   https://www.pinterest.com/TheOptimalStateCheck out Lee’s website https://www.yogaforhealth.institute/

In today's episode, Amy chats with Anneke Sips (RN) founded Network Yoga Therapy and The Yoga Therapy Conference in Amsterdam and is a bridge-builder in the field of yoga therapy for mental health in The Netherlands internationally. Anneke is a Yoga Teacher and Therapist (C-IAYT) who has been working in the field of Psychiatry since 1998. With her holistic and compassionate approach, she supports many clients in private sessions and group therapy. She is passionate about supporting clients and students by integrating yoga therapy into their life. Amy & Anneke talk about Relevant tools that aid Yoga Therapy, Anneke’s experiences, her love for surfing and nature, The importance of building trust with clients, Dealing with life’s difficulties, and more. They touch on the followingAnneke’s journey and history as a nurse who uses yoga therapy in her practiceAnneke’s new job as a community psychiatric nurse and how she works with doctors for referrals inside the clinic and to her yoga therapy practice outside the clinicAnneke’s yoga therapy practice and how she helps clients get a new perspective with simple tools and very short practices- with examples from real clientsThe importance of building trust with clients and how long it can take when the client has complex traumaImportant tools and mechanisms that make Yoga Therapy workAnneke’s thought on the hardest part of being a yoga therapistHow Anneke handles difficulties Anneke’s connection to Mother Earth and nature, and how she uses this for healing in her own life If you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include:• Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribe Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal Statewww.IAYT.org We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation The Optimal State and Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast also has a Patreon page. We now have 5 staff that help us product the audio and video versions of the podcast. Please consider donating to help us keep this good work for the field of yoga therapy going. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhourThe new You Tube Channel for this podcast is: YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd    https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyWheelerphdCheck out Amy's websiteFeel free to use download our free eBook and mobile App by going to the websites below.www.OptimalStateApp.comwww.GoldZoneBook.com Facebook: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler     https://www.facebook.com/OptimalStatebyAmyWheelerTwitter: Optimal State of Living with Dr. AmyTikTok: Dr. Amy@OptimalStateofLivingInstagram: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler   Pinterest: TheOptimalState    https://www.pinterest.com/TheOptimalStateCheck out Anneke’s websitehttps://annekesips.com/

On today's podcast, Amy chats with Maggie Reagh, Maggie has an MA in Teaching/ Education and conducts Yoga classes as well as her own 1000-hour, Yoga Therapy Trianing Program, accredited with the IAYT, all focused on the therapeutic benefits of Yoga. She regularly teaches Wellness focused Yoga classes at Capilano University where, in addition, she teaches and coordinates the English for Academic Purposes Department.  Maggie started her yogic studies in the Krishnamacharya lineage in 1995 in Vancouver before going to Mysore, India in 2000 with BNS Iyengar. She went on to study with the Desikachar in Chennai, India, and the Kraftsows on Maui. She has studied Iyengar-based Yoga since 2003 with senior teachers including Gioia Irwin, Lindsay Whalen, Elise Browning Miller, and Judith Lasater. She continues her studies with DV and Radha Sridhar, and Viji Vasu in Chennai, India. Amy & Maggie talk about Maggie's experiences, their shared experience as college professors who also run yoga therapy schools, Embodied learning and how to use daily practice to become more embodied, Maggie's style of teaching, and a lot more. They touch on the followingMaggie’s journey and background as she found yogaMaggie’s thesis on embodied learningEmbodied learning, what it means, and how it influenced Maggie’s teaching of YogaMaggie's experience with her teachers in IndiaMaggie’s teaching combination of Yoga asana and Yoga philosophyWhat it means to experience Isvara Pranidhana or surrender How to use daily practices to become more embodiedMaggie’s experience with the co-creative process of learning and how it influenced her If you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include: • Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribe Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: International Association of Yoga Therapistswww.iayt.org We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation Check out Amy's website http://www.amywheeler.comCheck out Maggiehttp://www.yogatherapyinternational.com/maggie_reagh

On today's podcast, Amy talks with Dr. Sue Carter, Dr. Sue is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and also a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the former Executive Director of the Kinsey Institute and a Rudy Professor Emerita of Biology. She has held professorships at the University of Maryland (Distinguished University Professor) as well as at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. She has authored more than 400 publications and edited 5 books including “Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis,.” MIT Press. Dr. Sue Carter is the scientist, who first discovered the relationship between oxytocin and social monogamy and the formation of adult social bonds. She has a longstanding interest in birth and lactation and the evolution of human sociality and love. She is currently examining the developmental effects of oxytocin pathways and their role promoting in the capacity for social bonding, parental behavior and healthy relationships across the lifecycle.Amy and Sue discuss the Biology of Love and the Role of Oxytocin in Connection and Relationships, Sue’s personal experience that led her to go into Oxytocin research, Her discovery of the relationship between oxytocin and social behavior and so much more.They talk about the following:• What Oxytocin is and its effect• Sue’s background and experience that led to her career as a social biologist • Sue’s birth story, how Oxytocin affects birth experience and early childhood experience • How Sue discovered the relationship between Oxytocin and Social behavior• Importance of Emotional safety in Oxytocin release• Lack of research and why there are few studies on Oxytocin and Yoga• The importance of longitudinal studies of Yogic & Ayurvedic lifestyle medicine approaches and why it is difficult to accomplishIf you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include: • Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribeToday’s podcasts is sponsored by: The International Association of Yoga Therapistswww.iayt.orgWe have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonationCheck out Amy's website http://www.amywheeler.comCheck out Sue’s page https://psychology.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/scp21

Listen to the full episode by supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhourAmy talks with Dr. Lisa Kaley-Isley about chanting in the yoga tradition. Dr. Lisa is a Clinical Psychologist and certified Yoga Therapist who integrates the wisdom and techniques of both eastern and western philosophy and psychology to understand the human condition, alleviate suffering and promote holistic growth and transformation. She is a dedicated yoga practitioner and experienced yoga teacher in the Sri Vidya tradition of the Himalayan Institute, as taught by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Rolf Sovik, and Rod Stryker.Lisa studied Yoga Therapy with Gary Kraftsow of American Viniyoga in the lineage of TKV Desikachar and Sri Krishnamacharya. She has conducted and published yoga research and presented on various yoga topics at conferences around the world. Lisa is a founding member of the Global Consortium on Yoga Therapy (GCYT) and a member of the Accreditation Committee of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). Lisa is also a member of the teaching faculty at the Yoga Therapy Institute and presents the ‘Yoga Psychology: philosophy and practice for anxiety and depression relief workshop. Amy and Lisa discuss Lisa’s background, Lisa’s travel adventure, Chanting & Japa mantra meditation, Adapting and moving her practice online during the pandemic, Initiation and what it means and a lot more. They talk about the following:Lisa’s background and journey as a spiritual seeker living in this human bodyLisa and her husband's adventures and moving to Europe to fulfill life dreamsHow she started her chanting groups online during the pandemic and found the positive in online teachingChanting & Japa mantra meditation and the underlying mechanisms for growth, healing and beyondThe Idea of initiation into mantra meditation and why it is essentialLisa’s thoughts on inner transformation and how chanting can assist in the process  If you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include:• Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribe Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal Statehttps://theoptimalstate.com/  We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonationCheck out Amy's website http://www.amywheeler.comChant with lisahttps://www.facebook.com/LisaLifeTreeYogaUK/ Check out lisa’s websitehttps://lifetreeyoga.com/

On today's podcast, Amy talks with Laura Schmalzl, Laura is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, as well as a longtime yoga practitioner and certified yoga instructor. Laura will be a C-IAYT very soon!Laura obtained a BA in Psychology from the University of Padua. She then completed a Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology, a PhD in Cognitive Science, and Post-doctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. This was followed by further Post-doctoral training and research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and University of California San Diego, as well as an Associate Professorship at Southern California University of Health Sciences. Laura teaches neuroscience to chiropractic, acupuncture, and Oriental medicine students, she chose to introduce yoga practice as part of the weekly laboratory requirement assignment for her neuroscience students.Amy and Laura discuss Laura’s background and her journey to where she is today, How Laura discovered Yoga Therapy, Yoga Therapy and its relationship with Neuropsychology, the work she’s done, what she’s been able to accomplish and so much more.They talk about the following:• Laura’s background and journey I academia…. and now on to a well-lived and well-rounded life that is quite different from the academic and research life she was living• Laura’s experience as a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, and the difference between both fields.• What led Laura to Yoga Therapy and becoming a yoga therapist and how her previous career has informed her work as a yoga therapist• Laura’s thought on what a yoga therapy can do for clients• Laura talks about her husband & Dave, and the work they do together in their new business, which is exploding beyond our wildest expectations• What Laura wants to be known for at the end of her life, and what matters to herIf you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include: • Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribeToday’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal Statehttps://theoptimalstate.com/We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonationCheck out Amy's website http://www.amywheeler.com

Listen to the full episode by supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhourOn today's podcast, Amy talks with Professor Lori Rubenstein Fazzio, DPT & C-IAYT.Lori Rubenstein Fazzio, earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, her Master of Applied Science from the University of South Australia and her Bachelor of Science from Boston University. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapists and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences. Lori founded Mosaic Physical Therapy in 2003, dedicated to providing quality health care. After sustaining career-threatening injuries in a horseback accident in 2007 Lori was determined to return to helping her patients heal.Her research interests focus on the subtle body in pain management and the intersection and application of the philosophical science of yoga with the clinical science of modern medicine for improving eudaemonic well-being. She pioneered the first yoga therapy internship at the Simms Mann Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles where interns from LMU gain mentored experience and provide individualized yoga therapy within an integrative medicine clinic for patients suffering from chronic pain. Her mission is to expand this model into other healthcare and educational settings.Amy and Lori talk about her journey, her personal experiences, how she got started in her career and how she transitioned from Physical Therapy to Yoga Therapy, Differences between the academic world of yoga and yoga therapy and a lot more.  They talk about the following:• Lori’s background as a successful Physical Therapist & why she became a yoga therapist• How Lori has been able to help her clients heal, and how she healed herself from injury• How Lori worked within herself to feel confident about her ideas • The science, art, and mystery of imagery in pain care management• Where Lori sees the field of yoga therapy heading• Lori’s advice on bringing a yoga therapy clinic into a professional medical facility• The importance of focusing on yoga philosophy as a differentiating factor in clinic settings• Owning our Scope of Practice as a yoga therapist and not apologizing for it• Lori’s focus on research and its importance to expanding the field of yoga therapy• The difference between academics, the world of yoga, and yoga therapy• How Lori has found her own way forward and is focusing on what really matters in her personal and professional life• How Lori sees her own legacy unfolding professionallyIf you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include: • Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribeToday’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal Statehttps://theoptimalstate.com/We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonationCheck out Amy's website http://www.amywheeler.comTo learn more about Lori and her offerings Visit http://www.mosaicpt.com/To send your applications to the Journal of Applied Yoga Studies mentioned in the podcasthttps://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jays/

Listen to the full episode by supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhourOn today's podcast, Amy talks with Stephanie Sohl, Ph.D. Stephanie is a health psychologist and an Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the mind-body relationship and cancer survivorship. Specifically, she aims to strengthen the evidence base for scalable mind-body approaches such as yoga and integrative health coaching that aims to empower patients with strategies for achieving optimal health.  Her work is innovative because she adapts mind-body approaches that may be efficacious so they can be integrated into and enhance conventional care. For example, her current Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) supports an investigation of a brief yoga intervention targeted to reduce fatigue that's taught in a clinical setting during chemotherapy for colorectal cancer.  Amy and Stephanie talk about her journey and how she got started, the research studies she has participated in, Stephanie’s career goals, how she became a yoga researcher, and much more.They talk about the following:How Stephanie was able to combine being a researcher and a yogiStephanie’s personal experience and how she got started What it takes to become a Yoga Therapy ResearcherWhere yoga therapists and yoga teachers fit into the research paradigmUsing yoga therapist and yoga teachers for protocol developmentThe research grants Stephanie has received and how she accomplished thisStephanie’s first research studies and how they grew into where they are todayThe value of relationships in research and academicsStephanie’s thoughts on telemedicine/ telehealth, especially for rural populationsStephanie’s goals, and hopes for the future of telehealth and online learning  If you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.Topics you can choose from include:• Yoga Therapy & Mental Health• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox• Yoga & Indian Philosophy• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy TopicsClick the link below to subscribe. It takes 10 seconds total.https://amywheeler.com/subscribe Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal Statehttps://theoptimalstate.com/  We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!Link to click in the description: http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonationCheck out Amy's website http://www.amywheeler.com To learn more about Stephaniehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-sohl-35232b78/