Christian Valeriani is the owner of EvenFlow Yoga in Fair Haven, NJ. In 2002, Christian experienced a significant life shift through which he was introduced to the practice. Three years later, he hung up his corporate hat to serve others by way of teaching yoga. Since then, Christian has taught over 15,000 hours of yoga, is a highly sought after workshop presenter, and directs a Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training Program. Christian remains the perpetual student and infuses his teaching with a rare balance of charisma and humility.
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Episode 119 – Larisa Vivolo – Facilitating the Shift Toward Acceptance and Positivity
Join my special guest Larisa Vivolo. Larisa is a mental health counselor who believes in the individuality, uniqueness, and strength of each person. She is facilitating The Shift Retreat in West Palm Beach and during this podcast she shares her passion for inspiring positivity in her local community. We are excited to announce that Tamara McLaughlin will be leading a yoga class during this retreat.
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Join my special guest, Troy Hadeed for this special podcast episode titled Natural Mystic in the Caribbean. Learn Troy’s secrets to a developing a successful and inspirational yoga practice. He joins us from the island of Trinidad and shares his passion for yoga and life.
While his Asana practice only began about 15 years ago the underlying teachings of ‘living yoga’ have been a part of his life as long as he can remember. In the last decade he had the honor to further his study, practice, and teaching under the guidance of amazing teachers like Ryan Leier, Seane Corn, Father Joe Pereira (Iyengar Yoga), Baron Baptiste, Srivatsa Ramaswami (Vinyasa Krama), Leslie Kaminoff, Jess Robertson, and Ted Grand…among others. To these teachers, Troy bows in humility and expresses his gratitude.
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New podcast with Christina Martini of Shala Santosha Ashtanga & Ayurveda Yoga Holistic Practice available now!
Senior Teacher and Owner, Founder of Shala Santosha Ashtanga Yoga & Ayurveda Wellness . A direct student of Manju Jois, the oldest son of K. Pattabhi Jois, recognised worldwide as the foremost authority on Ashtanga yoga. Christina has devoted her healing journey to trusting the Traditional Lineage of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Ayurveda from her mid 20’s to present as not only a way of living but her medicine for optimal health and healing.
Looking out for the best interest of your students.
How did you get started with Ayurveda and yoga?
Working in palliative care.
She is honored to be part of a special family being Blessed, Certified, Authorized for All Level of Practice by her Guru Manju Jois which her ongoing lifelong studies and training with him is deep in the approach of Holistic Ashtanga & Ayurveda Yoga Therapy. In addition, Christina honors the knowledge passed onto her by mentorship, guidance, trainings and teachings of other master teachers, David Williams, Nancy Gilgoff, Tim Miller, David Swenson, Maty Ezraty, Ken Harukuma and Jo Ichihara.
Christina enjoyed the path to offering the world a healthier lifestyle and is Certified in Ayurveda Wellness, Perfect Health, Total Wellbeing Educator from Deepak Chopra Center. “ With deep gratitude I bow before ALL the teachers who have paved the path before us With our devotion and dedication as forever students, devoted practitioner, authorized teachers, the practice of yoga itself is the true teacher and to honor the knowledge, teachings, traditions transmitted from teacher to students, Parampara.
Christina’s experiences of 20+ years in Ashtanga Yoga Therapy Self Practice and Teaching have touched many walks of lives including practitioners with acute, chronic illness, pre existing conditions, injuries and post operative recovery. She is highly experienced with conditions from Infertility, Pregnancy, MS, Parkinson, Cancer, Cholesterol, Hypertension, Seizures, Obesity, Insomnia, Cardiovascular, PTSD, Diabetes, Stress Management, Substance and Alcohol cessation and Lifestyle changes. Read some of her Testimonials here.Reviews from her Clients
Christina received her Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner, Perfect Total Health Education with Deepak Chopra Center , and continuing studies with the Ayurveda Institute for Health & Lifestyle. In addition she has worked 15+years as a licensed nurse and Certified Cancer Patient Health Advocate through Harold P. Freeman Patient Nurse Navigator Institute, holds an active nursing license in California, Hawaii. She remains active in advocacy for excellence in care as a member with the Association Oncology of Nurse Navigation, American College of Lifestyle Medicine, American Holistic Nurses Association,Yoga Alliance Registered School and Educator, Donor to Yoga Gives Back Foundation. Seva to Yoga for Veterans and Yoga for Cancer.
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I am proud to introduce to you Swamini Shraddhananda Saraswati. SwaminiJi is the founder and primary teacher of Kula Kamala Foundation & Yoga Ashram, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. She is a monk in the Sivananda Order of Sannyasins and a 500E-RYT registered with Yoga Alliance. She began practicing yoga in her early twenties and has found it to be a continually transformative, reaffirming and uplifting lifestyle, one which continues to help her integrate and connect more deeply.
When you put your mind to something, you get the job done. (2:19)
What gave her the drive to follow through on her dream? (7:43)
How did you become a yoga therapist? (18:12)
Mantras as a way to learn. (23:35)
Yoga as a solution to violence. (28:56)
Conservation of the environment and the local ecology. (35:12)
Everything is brahman and everything is god. (40:36)
What do you think when you think about Gandhi? (46:25)
How did you build your own temple? (52:50)
Understanding vs. intellectual knowledge. (58:34)
Meeting people where they’re at. (1:03:47)
With thousands of hours of advanced study in Yoga and its adjuncts, SwaminiJi authored and directs 200YTT, 300YTT, 870PYT, hospital based Yoga Therapy programs, and curriculum for Yoga in primary schools, in addition to other specialty training curriculum such as Goddess Based Wisdom and Tantra as a Practical Healing Methodology.
For over 12 years, SwaminiJi has worked with abused and neglected children, at-risk teens, women in crisis, and individuals seeking spiritual clarity in their life and relationships.
SwaminiJi’s experience and knowledge as a teacher, guide and advisor are grounded in decades of education, application, experience, research, and reflection. Personally and professionally, SwaminiJi abides in principals and guidelines that are grounded in non-harming, empathy, compassionate discipline, and the acquisition of meaningful life skills.
In addition to her skill and education in Yoga and Yoga Therapy, SwaminiJi holds a PhD in Anthropology and has held the position of Professor of Yoga and Meditation (Georgian Court University) and Professor of Cultural and Evolutionary Anthropology (Temple University and Monmouth University). She has published scholarly articles on ancient human diet and its relationship to health and socio-political issues.
SwaminiJi enjoys self expression and creativity. An artist in several mediums, she writes daily and has published books of poetry and reflection.
SwaminiJi is available to provide satsangs, blessings and trainings at local and regional centers, yoga studios, retreat centers, and events. To request SwaminiJi speak at one of your events, please contact the Ashram office at 484-509-5073 or email casey@kulakamalafoundation.org
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Meet Adam Husler. A yoga teacher based in England who teaches yoga around the world. Inspired by a fascination with anatomy, Adam specialises in Alignment-Based Vinyasa Yoga, informed by years of study and with Jason Crandell, and assisting him on a number of advanced teacher trainings.
How do you go about continuing your education in anatomy?
Adam’s tips for teaching yoga.
The challenges of getting sponsorships.
Based in London, Adam teaches a robust schedule in one of the worlds top yoga studios, Triyoga, and renown gym, Equinox. On top of this, Adam leads workshops, trainings and teaches festivals continuously around the world, leaving him with thousands of teaching hours under his belt and plenty of appearances in national and international media.
During this podcast Adam shares his love for Vinyasa yoga on this vinyasa yoga podcast. Adam is an english yoga teacher who specializes in alignment based yoga practices and is experienced teaching yoga for beginners. Join this yoga podcast conversation led by Todd McLaughlin yoga. Native Yoga Toddcast is recorded at Native Yoga Center in Juno Beach, Florida. During this yoga podcast free episode Adam shares what it is like to be a traveling yoga teacher. Adam offers Yoga teacher training and yoga teacher tutorials that help make accessible yoga available for all. We hope you enjoy this conversation and share it with your friends.
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Elena is a mother, mentor, artist, teacher, bestselling author and host of the Practice You Podcast, Elena has taught yoga and meditation since 1999. After graduating Cornell University in 1992, she designed textiles and apparel for almost a decade before focusing on yoga, meditation, art and writing. Her first book, Art of Attention, has been translated into seven languages; her second, Practice You, is a bestseller. Both Practice You and Being You are utilized as teaching tools in a variety of settings.
During this podcast we discuss topics like:
Elena’s upcoming book.
How to prioritize self-empathy.
Smoothing the edges of misunderstandings.
What her first entry into yoga and meditation was like?
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Join me for this fascinating conversation I had the chance to have with Alexandria Crow titled The Physics of Yoga. Alexandria is an inspirational and thoughtful yoga teacher. She has years of experience challenging her body and mind. Listen as she shares some of the wisdom she has found along her journey.
Alexandria’s Bio My daily yoga practice has shown me how to approach my life with eyes wide open, allowing me to achieve a sense of ease and acceptance I never thought possible. Choosing to walk down this path has changed my life completely and left me more accepting of myself and the nature of reality than I ever thought possible. Challenges will always exist, but I see them clearly and quickly now, and thanks to my yoga practice, I have the tools to act with great skill.
Transitioning from competitive gymnastics to yoga.
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Join us for this fascinating discussion with JENNIFER ALLEN. Jennifer is the author of Mālama Honua | Hōkūle’a – A Voyage of Hope. She had the honor of documenting the journey and produced one of the most beautiful books. She is a yoga teacher and practitioner and she shares her love of the connections between the Aloha and Namaste spirit.
The mission of the Mālama Honua voyage was to connect with environmentalists and indigenous peoples around the globe to create a network of communities protecting our island Earth. The purpose was to ignite and inspire these communities while also connecting with those who are working hard to save our oceans and earth.
Purchase a copy of Mālama Honua | Hōkūle’a – A Voyage of Hope on Patagonia’s site here: https://rb.gy/ggc1e
During this conversation Jennifer speaks about:
The authorship of her book Mālama Honua | Hōkūle’a – A Voyage of Hope.
How she first learned about the Hōkūle’a voyage.
How she received permission to go on the voyage?
The journey from Aotearoa to Australia.
Feeling nervous on the sailing journey.
Yoga with professional athletes.
Yoga with Maty Ezraty at YogaWorks.
About Jennifer
Jennifer documented the three-year Worldwide Voyage of the Polynesian voyaging canoe, Hōkūle‘a, for a book published by Patagonia in 2017. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, “Better Get Your Angel On,” published by Alfred A. Knopf, and a memoir, “Fifth Quarter: the Scrimmage of a Football Coach’s Daughter,” published by Random House. As a journalist, her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, George, Buzz, ESPN.com, NFL.com and PLAY. Her essays have been anthologized in “Because I Said So,” “Paris On The Mind,” and The Library of America’s “Football, Great Writing About the National Sport.” She has also written for HBO’s comedy series ARLI$$ and has served as an on-air reporter for the NFL Network and NFL Films.
Check out an excerpt of the podcast here:
Todd McLaughlin
That’s amazing Jennifer, that’s so cool. So you’ve lined up this incredible sponsor, you got permission from the Hawaiians to go forward, you have a an amazing photographer….. and you have the writing skills. So what happened next? How did your journey begin?
Jennifer Allen
So we began and we just we charted out what places we thought we would go. Of course, that would change, you know, and you would think, we’re gonna have a schedule, but then you soon realize the whole idea of a schedule is impossible because it just depends on what the wind is doing. It depends on you know, you soon realize that, like, you may think that you’re in control, but nature is in control. And nature is determining when you’re going to sail when you’re going to fly, because we would fly to meet them when you’re going to do anything really is at the pace of nature, which is as it should be. So we we went to American Samoa, and then we went to Aotearoa, which is New Zealand, which was beyond the beyond. When you’re with the Hawaiians going to these places, they had already arranged for it to be that the communities were ready to welcome them. They made sure that the Hawaiians would say, “do we have permission to come?” And so the communities that met them were the people of that place. So it wasn’t your usual experience. It was very, very original. The original people of that land and that ocean. There were many times where English was not being spoken. And we were in a forest in New Zealand and the Maori language is similar to the Hawaiian language, but not the same. So they were chanting back and forth. And speaking. And I’m, as you know, I’m feeling everything because I’m feeling like I grew up in a house with many languages. My mom was from North Africa, so I’m comfortable not understanding, okay. And just reading the feelings, but then halfway through I’d think, “I have to document this.” I have to articulate this in English somehow, you know, and I think that’s also where the yoga helped me of just like intuiting by being in the place what it is, and then afterwards, I would ask people in English was this what was conveyed? And I was often correctt. Which was incredible, because I wasn’t trying to understand what’s going on. I didn’t need to understand it. I just needed to experience it. What is he feeling? What is she feeling? What is she saying? Like, just be in it. Don’t try to grasp it. You know, and that’s yoga too. Yeah, yes. Yeah. So I felt like a lot of things have prepared me for this project. If it was 20 years prior I wouldn’t have been mature enough to do the project.
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Sandra Jersby is known as the Elite Stretch Therapist of Los Angeles. Sandra’s unique approach to recovery is widely popularized amongst many, from professional athletes to novice exercisers. Her extensive knowledge, in several different recovery methods, has allowed her to adapt to each client with an individualized program geared to their specific needs.
If somebody listening has never had Thai massage. How would you describe Thai massage to them?
Sandra Jersby
The first thing that pops into my mind is it is a meditation, in flow, a meditation in movement. And through that meditation, your body is taken through difference stretches. They’re receiving palm pressing. It’s not a massage with oils although it could be in certain modalities. But it’s more palming and pressing to move the energy around your body to help remove blockages. Also switching up the rhythm and tempo at the same time relaxing your nervous system. When your nervous system is relaxed, usually your muscles and joints will let go. It kind of takes you into a theta brainwave stage. So that’s why I call it meditation and flow, because your mind really relaxes. When that happens, then everything else let’s go. So a lot of the tension that we may be holding on to we may not need. It doesn’t require much force and we may just need to relax. The Thai massage moves help your body to let go and relax. We are relaxing also while we are moving you into these stretches. It’s more of a welcoming from the body like I am willing to let go and receive. And then also with the Osteo Thai, we do a lot of mobilization of the joints as well. So it’s a lot of circumduction basically moving in circles, that helps to open. We bring in this fluid movement , like we know from yoga. And we also do a lot of traction movement, like pulling to help create that space. So the combination of all these different palming the pulling, the stretching, helps to open up the body. And a lot of times people have never experienced in being in a lot of these positions. So even that is an experience like, oh my gosh, I didn’t know my body can go in all these positions. It feels invigorating and recharging at the same time being taken on this journey. The experience of all these different flows and directions and upside down. And so that in itself can be just a huge energy boost after receiving Thai Massage.
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