

The Mindful Movement Podcast and Community
Sara and Les Raymond
Welcome to the Mindful Movement Podcast! We have a robust catalog of guided meditations for you to add some peace in your life. We also have interviews with a broad range of folks to help empower you to play a larger role in your sense of well-being. Thanks for stopping by - we hope you enjoy!
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Aug 8, 2020 • 1h 29min
What’s Your Frequency | Interview with Freddie Kimmel
In this episode Les chats with the host of the Beautifully Broken Podcast Freddie Kimmel. Freddie is also part of the management team at Ampcoil. Ampcoil is a wellness devise which uses frequencies to interact with our body to support its innate healing abilities. Hope you enjoy the episode!
Freddie Kimmel is a Transformational Coach, Host and creator of the Beautifully Broken Podcast and part of the management team at AmpCoil. He has been featured in, The Wall street Journal, The New York Times, “State of the Arts” on LA talk radio, and in Dance Magazine. He is also a proud survivor of metastatic cancer, Lyme and mold.
Yes, he is THAT lucky.
For Freddie, one of the greatest blessings has been the presence of been chronic illness for the last 20 years. “I’ve gained the awareness of what truly matters, the knowledge that I can do ANYTHING, and faith in the strength and power I poses as a child of the universe. I am here for a purpose and openly accept what comes next.”
Freddie has a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from SUNY Brockport and in conjunction with starting Freddiesetgo.com has performed all over the country in Broadway touring productions of Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot and played the title role in the Broadway bound Cagney the musical in New YorkCity (all packed in between chemotherapy sessions and surgeries.)
Yes, you too can do anything.
Connect with Freddie:
https://freddiesetgo.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/freddiesetgo/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FreddieSetGo/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa3_QItm4AdhaY3oC8YKJ2w
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For more tips from Les on living intentionally, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCQACBUblTbUpkZG3JshDAqrtTl5CtfRA (the Mindful Tips Series).
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Aug 1, 2020 • 1h 20min
Season 2, Episode 16: Healing the Body–Begin with the Gut with Dr. Melina Roberts
In this episode, Les chats with Dr Melina Roberts about a variety of different healing modalities to help build a robust immune system and improve your health status.
Dr. Melina Roberts is a Naturopathic Doctor, Author of Building a Healthy Child and Founder of Advanced Naturopathic Medical Centre in Calgary. She is recognized as one of the top Biological Medicine practitioners in North America and is a lecturer for the Paracelsus Academy. She is a leading authority in the field of naturopathic medicine specializing in Biological Medicine effectively treating digestive issues, chronic disease and cancer. Dr. Roberts is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. She did a 2 year post-graduate study in Biological Medicine with Paracelsus Klinik in Switzerland.
Author of http://advancednaturopathic.com/building-a-healthy-child/ ("Building a Healthy Child")
http://tedxqueensvillage.com/ (TEDxQueensVillage) Speaker
http://www.advancednaturopathic.com (www.advancednaturopathic.com)
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Join Sara from The Mindful Movement for this https://www.themindfulmovementcourses.com/ (FREE 4-Day Meditation Journey)! Start, deepen, or reignite your meditation practice with these four guided meditations.
For more tips from Les on living intentionally, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCQACBUblTbUpkZG3JshDAqrtTl5CtfRA (the Mindful Tips Series).
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Jul 26, 2020 • 57min
Season 2, Episode 15: Brain Retraining--Getting Unstuck with Ashok Gupta
In this episode, Les chats with Ashok Gupta to discuss the effects of illness on the nervous system and how the brain can be retrained to allow you to pass through healing plateaus.
About Ashok Gupta:
The founder of the Gupta program, Ashok Gupta MA(Cantab), MSc, who after suffering from ME/CFS managed to cure himself through research and applying his own techniques. He has been fully well for over 20 years and is a leading researcher and clinician specializing in treating these chronic conditions.
About the Gupta Program:
The Gupta Program is a friendly easy-to-use online Brain Retraining course, for recovery from many chronic conditions.
The Gupta Program is one of the preeminent programs treating Neuro-Immune conditions and thousands of people have gotten their lives back following its protocols.
Ashok has appeared in several media as an expert on stress including the BBC, CNN, Guardian Newspaper, ITV, The Independent, and many others.
He has also published medical papers on the basis of stress-related illnesses and is continually researching these conditions, you can find out more information at https://www.guptaprogram.com/causes/
Ashok would love to offer your listeners $50 off both standard and USB Gupta Program packages. This means they can get the program now for only $299 or $399 respectively.
You can take advantage of this offer by applying the discount code TMMPODCAST at the checkout at https://www.guptaprogram.com/purchase-gupta-program/
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Join Sara from The Mindful Movement for this https://www.themindfulmovementcourses.com/ (FREE 4-Day Meditation Journey)! Start, deepen, or reignite your meditation practice with these four guided meditations.
For more tips from Les on living intentionally, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCQACBUblTbUpkZG3JshDAqrtTl5CtfRA (the Mindful Tips Series).
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Jul 18, 2020 • 43min
Season 2, Episode 14: Our Greatest Teachers with Mollie Raymond
In this episode Les sits down with one of his greatest teachers, his daughter, Mollie Raymond. Together they discuss a variety of topics to explore the perspectives of a teenaged human growing up in the environment resulting from a pandemic.
RESOURCES:
"Wand" by: Mollie Raymond
writing is such a sacred thing
and i feel like a bulldozer troll
for stamping on it with my
giant cement feet
for abusing words
imposing my will.
sorry i have not been gentle
and sorry that these days i only write to
take out the trash in my mind.
sorry i’m not open
to receiving, to submitting
to the universe.
sorry i’m not a wand,
one end planted in the earth, drawing up
water and minerals, the other end pointed
at the sky, channeling all
the sun’s brilliance,
then transmuting these energies into art.
when my therapist curses, it makes me think
it’s okay to take out my feelings on the ground,
to stomp, to scream, to say fuck.
sometimes i should still be quiet.
birds and singing bowls
make gentle music.
you have to stop talking to listen.
thank you for humbling me, god.
god knows, well i guess you know,
i needed it.
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Join Sara from The Mindful Movement for this https://www.themindfulmovementcourses.com/ (FREE 4-Day Meditation Journey)! Start, deepen, or reignite your meditation practice with these four guided meditations.
For more tips from Les on living intentionally, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCQACBUblTbUpkZG3JshDAqrtTl5CtfRA (the Mindful Tips Series).
https://themindfulmovement.com/contact/ (Get in touch!)
Our Sponsors:* Check out TruDiagnostic and use my code MINDFUL20 for a great deal: https://www.trudiagnostic.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Jul 4, 2020 • 1h 6min
Season 2, Episode 13: Finding freedom; An inside job with Br. Phap Vu
In this interview, Les chats with Brother Phap Vu and explores ideas around finding peace when surrounded by chaos. With so much suffering, how do we navigate our life from a place of joy and happiness? Brother Vu offers insights and a framework in which we can cultivate the qualities of happiness as we are in constant transition.
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Br. Phap Vu (Dharma Rain) was ordained as a monastic by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2003. In 2011 he received the Lamp Transmission, establishing him as a Dharma Teacher. Prior to his ordination, as a lay practitioner and aspirant, Phap Vu had practiced meditation in the Chinese Chan tradition for six years and received the Dharma name Original Abiding.
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RESOURCES:
Learn more and connect with Br. Phap Vu
https://plumvillage.org/ (https://plumvillage.org/)
https://www.dharmapathways.org/ (https://www.dharmapathways.org/)
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Join Sara from The Mindful Movement for this https://www.themindfulmovementcourses.com/ (FREE 4-Day Meditation Journey)! Start, deepen, or reignite your meditation practice with these four guided meditations.
For more tips from Les on living intentionally, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCQACBUblTbUpkZG3JshDAqrtTl5CtfRA (the Mindful Tips Series).
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Jun 13, 2020 • 23min
Season 2, Episode 11: Thoughts on Race
In this solo episode, Les recounts what race meant growing up in a planned community where people of different backgrounds were intentionally brought together by design.
Namaste: In Love, We are all One; a Mindfulness Meditation for Community-- https://youtu.be/mKe_FG03Syw (https://youtu.be/mKe_FG03Syw )
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Join Sara from The Mindful Movement for this https://www.themindfulmovementcourses.com/ (FREE 4-Day Meditation Journey)! Start, deepen, or reignite your meditation practice with these four guided meditations.
For more tips from Les on living intentionally, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCQACBUblTbUpkZG3JshDAqrtTl5CtfRA (the Mindful Tips Series).
https://themindfulmovement.com/contact/ (Get in touch!)
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Jun 6, 2020 • 1h 22min
Season 2, Episode 10: Clint Ober on Grounding
In this episode Les sits down (via zoom) with Clint Ober. Clint's accidental discovery years ago has been seen as one of the most important of our time. The hidden connection all life forms share with our planet has proven to offer health benefits that can reach farther than many would have ever expected.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Clint Ober is the innovator behind the Grounding Movement & CEO of Earth FX Inc., a research and development company located in Southern California, where he designs and develops indoor grounding products and continues to investigate the health benefits of grounding.
A series of seemingly unrelated yet highly synchronistic events dating back to his early childhood led to a groundbreaking discovery that many have called The Most Important Health Discovery of all time. Grounding has now become a massive international movement — causing people to shed their shoes and reconnect electrically to the surface of the Earth.
He first learned about grounding when installing Cable TV systems in Billings, Montana in the early 1960s. A decade later, he formed Telecrafter Corporation and built it into the largest provider of cable installation services in the United States. This company specialized in proper grounding of cable installations for safety and TV signal stability.
In the 1980s, he turned his attention to the developing computer industry and partnered with McGraw-Hill to distribute live digital news services, via cable, to PCs. This led to the development of the first cable modem and an increased awareness of the need for proper system grounding.
Following a health challenge in 1995, he retired and embarked on a personal journey looking for a higher purpose in life. During his travels, he noticed people wearing plastic and rubber soled shoes that insulate the body from earth. He wondered if no longer being naturally grounded could affect us. The question led to an experiment that suggested grounding alone reduced chronic pain and improved sleep.
Thereafter, he developed a working hypothesis: Grounding the human body to the Earth normalizes the functioning of all of the body's systems — the body utilizes the earth’s electrical potential and free electrons to maintain its internal electrical stability, normalizing all of its self-regulating and self-healing systems. Over the past twenty years, he has supported many of the over 20 research studies that collectively demonstrate that grounding reduces inflammation and promotes normal functioning of all body systems.
RESOURCES:
INDOOR GROUNDING PRODUCTS BY CLINT OBER
Check out the science and benefits of grounding indoors (when you cannot ground outside) with indoor grounding products by Clint Ober. Access before and after images, the science and the products here:
http://ultimatelongevity.com/mindful (http://ultimatelongevity.com/mindful )
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May 30, 2020 • 12min
Season 2, Episode 9: Oh Trigger… Where Art Thou?
In this solo episode, Les shares a very recent stressful personal experience and breaks down the details of what it’s like to watch a trigger arise, and an example of how to process and move forward in the moment. Les then shared the analysis of the lessons within the experience.
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For more tips from Les on living intentionally, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCQACBUblTbUpkZG3JshDAqrtTl5CtfRA (the Mindful Tips Series).
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May 24, 2020 • 25min
Season 2, Episode 8: Letting Go of Judgement
In this unchartered territory the world is experiencing today, much judgment can arise for ourselves and for others. Les discusses some of the ways this happens and how to keep your eyes open to the experience.
Additionally, Les is excited to introduce the launch of the Resource Page on our website as a hub to get information on all things health and well-being.
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May 17, 2020 • 1h 32min
Season 2, Episode 7: Aaron Alexander–How Posture Relates to Your Life
In this episode, Les sits down with Aaron Alexander to discuss the far-reaching effects our posture has on our body, including our personality traits, and even things such as our memory recall. In his book The Align method, Aaron explores the many relationships our lifestyle habits interact with our posture, and how they pour into other often overlooked areas of our life.
Aaron introduces himself: I'm a manual therapist, movement coach, and author, as well as the host of the Align Podcast, ranked #1 in Nutrition on Apple Podcasts.
I have helped the world’s top athletes and celebrities, and everyone in between, relieve their physical and mental pain.
After working with clients and spending years traveling around the world, being immersed in various cultures, I have come to the conclusion that the healthiest people are not from gym cultures. Instead, they utilize each moment as an opportunity to move their body, strengthen their mind, and live holistically.
Taking the practices I have gathered from these cultures, insights from past podcast guests, and my own clinical practice, I have created a modernized, simplified movement lifestyle for you to easily integrate into your daily life. When you do, every moment becomes an opportunity to develop strength, flexibility, and confidence to live optimally.
https://amzn.to/3bBEOt7 ("The Align Method," a book by Aaron Alexander)
A video version of this interview can be viewed https://youtu.be/vlt9CxN0DQM (here.)
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