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The Yoga Pro Podcast is a hub of information from authorities in the yoga and movement worlds as well as entrepreneurial experts to share all things “yoga biz”. We hear from leading yoga therapists, yoga teachers, movement practitioners, successful entrepreneurs and more.
Pamela Crane (MS-Yoga Therapy, C-IAYT, E-RYT, RYT-500, YACEP) is a Certified Yoga Therapist, Actor and Dancer, and former Broadcast Journalist; and she loves having meaningful conversations around yoga practices, impacts on society, and entrepreneurship skills. In her business, Interoceptive Performance, her passion includes helping yoga professionals learn evidence-based and scientifically supported research to augment their yoga training.
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There are many ideas about whether or not yoga is a religion and I love having conversations that explore all sides of the topic.
In this episode, Troy Hadeed joins to to share his experience as a religious person who practices yoga and how he sees the relationship between them both.
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Troy is a yoga teacher, author, and social entrepreneur who has taught yoga internationally for over 15 years, and has founded several successful businesses, including a hemp store, a waste oil recycling business and a yoga studio.
He has walked coast-to-coast across central America, navigated the world on a ship, spent prolonged periods in silence and darkness, and is continuously seeking to make sense of the human experience.
Topics:
-How yoga found Troy
-He talks about his unlikely yoga mentor
-What does practicing yoga really mean?
-The embodiment of yoga from a religious standpoint
-The difference between being told of God and knowing God
-Why divinity isn’t religion
-Redefining what God means to a person
-Understanding wrongs done in the name of religion
-How yoga is spiritual but not religious
-Why deepening his relationship to breath felt like praying
-The relationship between yoga and religions like Hinduism
-Why prayer is something we do with our bodies
-How we unconsciously pray for negative things
-What is manifestation?
-Having your yoga and your religion co-exist
-Why improper breathing impacts your relationship to God
-Practicing with intention
-Finding the yoga space or teacher that aligns with your religious goals
Unlocking the Power of Your Chakras with Masuda Mohamadi Episode 115
Season 3 · Episode 115
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 • Duration 42:37
How much do you pay attention to your chakras in your personal life or in your teaching?
What do they have to do with your emotional and physical wellbeing?
In this lively conversation, Masuda Mohamadi talks all things chakras and shares tips for dealing with imbalances, how you can work with chakra areas to help with emotional struggles, and much more.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or find it at The Yoga Pro Podcast dot com. Send a DM or email if you want the direct link.
Masuda Mohamadi is a yoga teacher, teacher trainer, author, and owner of Radiance Yoga studio in Alexandria, Virginia. She has been teaching for over 20 years and he leads classes, workshops, and retreats around the world on yoga, meditation, and the chakras. She is the author of Unlock the Power of Your Chakras, released in August 2022.
Topics:
-Masuda’s surprising yoga start
-How to manage your own energy in a room full of people
-Becoming aware of your aura
-Why she wrote a book about the chakras
-Overview of each chakra
-How to notice imbalances and how to decide where you need balance
-Masuda shares an exercise for visualizing what is going on in the body
-Why self assessment and discernment is so valuable
-Issues that can show up when chakras are imbalanced
Yoga for Traumatic Brain Injury with Amy Zellmer
Season 3 · Episode 106
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 • Duration 45:35
Traumatic brain injury, or TBI can show up in many different ways and yoga professionals need to be familiar with them because we never know which students in our classes or sessions might be suffering. Sometimes even THEY don’t know they have it!
Our guest Amy Zellmer is here to share her expertise about what we can do to make our spaces accessible for those who are suffering from TBI and other chronic conditions.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or find it at The Yoga Pro Podcast dot com.
Amy is an award-winning author, speaker, TBI survivor, and Editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine. She was a professional photographer when she suffered a life-changing traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a slip and fall on black ice. Since then, she has published four books that focus on concussion and TBI, and began publishing The Brain Health Magazine in 2019. She has her 200RYT and is in the process of completing her 500RYT. She is also certified in trauma-informed yoga, LoveYourBrain yoga, and Yoga For All. Amy is also a Reiki Master.
Topics:
-Amy’s yoga beginnings
-What traumatic brain injuries really are
-How to find the right doctor who will listen to you
-Her journey with TBI and how she lucked into her doctor
-Challenges that people who have suffered TBI face
-Finding support
-Not taking it personally when clients or friends cancel appointments or plans
-How she used yoga to heal from her TBI
-Finding purpose in the midst of pain and anxiety
Yoga Therapy for Acute Trauma and Assault with Diana Tokaji
Season 3 · Episode 105
Thursday, January 19, 2023 • Duration 01:08:14
Have you worked with clients who have suffered acute trauma or violent assault?
In this episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast, Diana Tokaji shares a very candid and personal conversation about her experience being violently assaulted, among other traumas in her life; and how she has risen above to be able to hold space and help others through yoga therapy. She shares some beautiful practices and challenges ways of thinking around trauma, victimhood, and survivorship.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or find it at The Yoga Pro Podcast dot com.
Diana has a Master of Science in Yoga Therapy from Maryland University of Integrative Health and she is a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist. She is a certified teacher of Pilates Mat, a certified Restorative Yoga trainer with Judith Lasater, an Approved Professional Development Provider with Yoga Alliance and IAYT, a Certified Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and she is a writer, performer, and choreographer. Diana is the author of two books, her article on new ways of working with assault and trauma, was published in Yoga Therapy Today, and she is a sought after keynote speaker.
Topics:
-How Diana started practicing yoga therapy on her own puzzling health issues
-Finding her intuition for her own healing path
-The traumatic event that left her unable to dance
-Why she decided to be a teacher and yoga therapist
-The importance of leaning on others to help us with our own practice
-How she finds grounding and lightness with heavy subjects to hold space for others
-Diana talks candidly about the trauma she endured at the hands of police
How to Build and Grow Your Facebook Group with Hailey Rowe
Season 2 · Episode 104
Friday, January 13, 2023 • Duration 46:45
Are you rolling into the new year trying to figure out how you can grow your yoga sangha? It can be hard to know where to build your community. Our guest today says Facebook is still where it’s at for groups and she is here to tell us why and how to do it.
Hailey Rowe is a Marketing/Sales Coach & Strategist who helps wellness business owners & health coaches to grow their income & impact. She hosts the Health Coach Nation Podcast runs the Health Coach Nation Facebook Group. Hailey is a certified behavioral change specialist and human potential coach.
Topics:
-Hailey’s unusual meditation practice
-The benefits of having a Facebook group over a business page
-Repurposing content to save time and energy
-How to pick the perfect name for your Facebook group
-Why Hailey works with wellpreneurs
-Best keywords to use when naming and promoting your group
-Hailey talks about why it’s not to late to start a Facebook group
-How you can use Facebook groups to grow your email list
-Using your Facebook group for market research and generating content
-Hailey shares a hot tip about how she saves that information
-What you need to know about algorithms
-Tips for setting up your group
-How to keep people in your group engaged
-What to do if you have a dead group
-Keeping your content fresh and fun
-How scarcity mindset may be holding you back
-Surprising things you need to know about hosting challenges in your group
How to Protect Your Energy with Lisann Valentin
Season 2 · Episode 103
Friday, December 2, 2022 • Duration 48:26
Have you found yourself leaving a class or session and feeling like you have taken on the energy of the person or people you were working with?
In this episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast, Lisann Valentin joins us to talk about how we can protect our energies when we are working with clients or just living out in this world where we may be subject to the energies of random people we come in contact with.
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Lisann Valentin is an Actor, Author and Amplifier who has taken her meditation mat from Wall Street to the red-carpet. A fifth generation intuitive healer, she amplifies the gifts of the world's empathic creatives, leaders, and healers by combining the rational with the mystical.
Topics:
-Protecting your energy without being guarded or closed for new and positive energies
-How to know when you are around an energy vampire
-Lisann’s meditation beginnings and what it looks like now
-Meditating with water
-Using the elements that are calling you to manage energies
-Lisann shares her tools for how she manages tethering with other people
-Determining if the feelings you are feeling are yours or someone else’s
-Lisann shares a practice
-Setting boundaries around whether or not to address energies that are coming up around you
-Cord cutting vs dissipating when severing tethers to people
-Embracing yourself as a sovereign being
-Energetic hygiene
-Simple practices to protect our energies when we are showing up for other people
Gratitude, Reflection, and Looking Forward with Pamela Crane
Season 2 · Episode 102
Thursday, November 24, 2022 • Duration 23:25
In this episode, Host Pamela Crane offers encouragement to look back at your successes and open up to new possibilities as you plan for the new year. She gets vulnerable about how her year has gone and opens up about why she is ditching niching for the coming year.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or find it at www.theyogapropodcast.com
Pamela Crane (MS, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500) helps heart-centered entrepreneurs overcome fears and imposter syndrome to create online content; and provides evidence-based continuing education and mentoring for yoga professionals. She is a former broadcast journalist and film and commercial actress who hosts The Yoga Pro Podcast; and has presented nationally and internationally at symposia and conferences for yoga and integrative medicine.
Topics:
-Pamela thanks you for listening and being a part of the podcast for the past year
-She gets vulnerable about her struggles over the past year and how she continues to overcome hardship
-How she uses her calendar to remind herself of all of her accomplishments for the year and some encouragement for you to do the same
-Pamela shares why she is proud of herself and asks you to consider what success means for you
-Why it is important to find joy when you are healing
-She talks about getting featured in the media and why that is helpful
-She talks about her upcoming projects that she is excited about
-Her realization that niching was holding her back
-Pamela asks you to reassess 2022 and dig deep to trust yourself for 2023
-Why you need to celebrate yourself and your accomplishments
-How her gratitude practice brought about abundance
Yoga, Business, and Spirituality with Jerry Justizia
Season 2 · Episode 101
Friday, November 11, 2022 • Duration 27:42
Many yoga professionals struggle finding their place in this world with juggling the business side and the spirituality, not to mention tackling social media and all of the judgement that comes with it.
Jerry Justizia joins us today with an inspiring interview where she shares her “why” for sharing her yoga practice on social media and how she used her need to find leggings for curvy girls to inspire her to create her own.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or find it at www.theyogapropodcast.com
Jerry is a certified Yoga teacher who uses her social media account to uplift curvy black women by sharing her yoga practice and specially designed leggings. Originally from Benin in West-Africa, Justizia moved to Virginia where she created a brand to serve the conscious tribe with everything from a sustainable clothing line to all metaphysical products.
Topics:
-Jerry’s yoga beginnings
-How she got comfortable sharing her practice on social media
-Overcoming body image and racial issues on social media
-Dealing with negative comments on your social media
-Why she presses forward on social media as a black woman
-How she deals with criticism about her yoga and religion, and how she meshes the two together
-She talks about spirituality and yoga in her life
-Balancing making money and sharing her spirituality
-How she founded a complementary business selling yoga and metaphysical products
-Why she designed yoga leggings for curvy people and how she incorporated her culture into them
Yoga for Addiction Recovery with Dr. Rebecca Williams
Season 2 · Episode 100
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 • Duration 57:06
Yoga is one of the premier tools for helping people recover from addiction but are you ready to work with that population?
In this Episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast, Dr. Rebecca Williams joins us to talk about how to work with those in recovery, what you need to know about what they are going through, how to reach out to substance abuse centers to provide yoga, and so much more.
Rebecca is an award-winning author, psychologist, and wellness expert specializing in healthy recovery from mental illness, addiction, and life’s challenges. For the past 25 years, her work has focused on building resilience and embracing emotional well-being. She has been a program director at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and an associate clinical professor at The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. A life-long yoga enthusiast, Rebecca has also been a yoga teacher. She combines the ancient wisdom of yoga and mindfulness with compassionate recovery from addiction in her books.
Topics:
-How Rebecca found yoga and meditation
-Rebecca’s personal and professional background in psychology, addiction, and recovery
-What inspired Rebecca to write a book about yoga and addiction recovery
-Taking addiction recovery one moment at a time
-Rebecca shares some statistics about substance abuse in America and why you will encounter them in your classes and sessions
-Why yoga is a premier tool for addiction recovery
-What people who are healing from addiction might be going through in your class and how you can help them
-Setting the tone for addiction recovery
-Why restorative yoga is a great option for helping those in recovery to feel their feelings
-Normalizing feelings and cravings and then holding space for them
How to Pitch and Publish Your Book with Claire Wilson and Katelynn Bartleson
Season 2 · Episode 100
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 • Duration 01:00:19
Having a great idea for a book and actually getting it written and published are two different things.
In this episode of The Yoga Pro Podcast, I chat with Claire Wilson and Katelynn Bartleson from Singing Dragon and Handspring Publishing about what it takes to get your book published.
They spill the tea on first steps to take (it might not be what you think!), how to submit your query, whether or not you need an agent, and so much more. This episode is packed full of everything you need to know if you are wanting to write that first yoga book.
Katelynn Bartleson is the Senior Marketing Manager and she is in charge of author management, direct marketing, social media marketing, market research, and publicity in North America. She has worked at Jessica Kingsley Publishers since 2009. She is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA with a degree in English, concentration in American Literature, and a certificate in Creative Writing.
Claire Wilson is the Editorial Director for Singing Dragon and Handspring, with responsibility for editorial strategy and the commissioning team. She also actively commissions books in the areas of yoga therapy, acupuncture and Chinese medicine, graphic medicine and manual therapy. She has a degree in English and a postgraduate degree in Publishing.
Topics:
-First steps you should take if you have a book idea
-Tuning in to your core community as research
-Getting rid of judgements of your emotions
-Why it’s just as hard to resist sitting with discomfort as it is to work through it
-How resisting your own emotions affects how you deal with other people’s emotions
-The importance of having resources to guide you when working with your chakras
-How her need for a workbook for her teachings led to this book
-Masuda’s favorite chakra
-The importance of love, gratitude, and compassion in her life
-Masuda walks us through a situation and what chakra she would focus on for that scenario
-Connecting to matter and spirit to find alignment
-How posture affects our chakras
-Why you don’t need a weeklong retreat to find balance
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