In this episode I interviewed Libby Hinsley. Libby lives in Asheville, NC and is a Doctor of Physical Therapy as well as a Certified Yoga Therapist. She draws most of her Yoga inspiration from the tradition of Desikachar, or the viniyoga lineage and she was fortunate to study at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in 2008 and has immersed herself in this tradition ever since. Her treatment approach is to view the person as a forest. The body is one component of the human experience, and it is impa...
May 03, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 29
In this episode I interviewed Edda Rodriguez. Originally from Peru, Edda moved to Chicago in 2002. She started practicing Yoga out of necessity in order to relieve back pain, but quickly realized that there was a lot more going on than just a physical practice. Today, Edda is a Certified Yoga Therapist, Reiki Master and teacher, and Somatic Experience Provider. Since 2013, she has been teaching trauma sensitive yoga to veterans at the Captain James A Lovell Federal Care Center in Chicago and she...
Apr 20, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 28
his episode is a recap of a recent Zoom panel we held with the following Inner Peace Yoga Therapy students and alumni: Suzie Carmack Amy Gaster Deborah O'Neil Katie Cassady In the panel, these individuals shared their experiences in our training, and spoke to what their yoga therapy work and path looks like today. Support the show Connect with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Email us: info@innerpeaceyogatherapy.com Website Instagram Facebook...
Apr 11, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 27
In this episode, I interviewed Dr. Dawn Browning. Dawn is a holistic health expert, researcher, C-IAYT, and founder of HolSol Wellness . She helps driven women discover holistic tools using yoga, personal development, and essential oils so they can play an active role in their own healing. Dawn has lived with Type 1 Diabetes for over 35 years, and she says that embodying the principles of yoga therapy has changed her relationship with diabetes . We spoke about this and more on the podcast. To ac...
Mar 17, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 26
In this episode I spoke with Lisa & Neil Pearson. Lisa and Neil are partners in life and in work and are the founders of Pain Care Aware , which offers certification programs and online trainings for yoga teachers and yoga therapists, as well as healthcare and fitness professionals working with people in pain. They reside in Canada and both have a long history of teaching and practicing yoga and yoga therapy. Neil is also a physiotherapist and author, Lisa additionally a swami and educator. ...
Mar 09, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 25
This episode is a recap of a recent Zoom panel we held with the following Inner Peace Yoga Therapy students and alumni: Dawn Schaefer-Stumpf Edda Rodriguez Jenna Csont Rachel Haskovec In the panel, these individuals shared their experiences in our training, and spoke to what their yoga therapy work and path looks like today. Support the show Connect with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Email us: info@innerpeaceyogatherapy.com Website Instagram Facebook...
Feb 21, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 24
In this episode, I interviewed Soleil Hepner . Soleil is a certified yoga therapist, educator, speaker and the former Program Director of the Phoenix Rising School of Yoga Therapy. Today she continues on as Emeritus Faculty and also works in private practice in San Diego where she offers individual, couples and group yoga therapy, along with coaching and online sessions. The topic of our conversation was “ambivalence.” Soleil embraced the power of ambivalence herself when she announced the decis...
Feb 17, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 23
In this episode, I interviewed Robin Rothenberg. Robin is a Yoga Therapist and the Program Director of Essential Yoga Therapy Therapist Training. Since as early as summer 2020, her Long-COVID presentation at the Global Yoga Therapy Conference established her place as a thought-leader in the field. She was a co-organizer for the acclaimed Wellness After COVID Symposium in 2021, which brought together top researchers, medical professionals, and policy makers from around the world in support of the...
Feb 09, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 22
In this episode, I interviewed Donna Brooks. Donna is a somatic movement therapist and educator, yoga therapist, and embodied meditator who has 35 years of experience teaching, counseling and coaching in movement and the healing arts. Even with a lifetime of learning and experience, her biggest lesson was the sudden death of her 36 year old son. She says that when her son died, she actually felt she was at a fork in the road… she could either collapse into unending suffering or find the richness...
Feb 05, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 21
In this episode I interviewed Candice Clark. Cands is a licensed counsellor and yoga therapist that specializes in trauma and mental health. She has supported many individuals and group therapy programs focused on the recovery from psychological trauma, and the physical health challenges that appear to co-occur with post-traumatic stress. Cands is also completing her Masters thesis on trauma-sensitive yoga in the South African context and this was the topic of our conversation on the podcast. Re...
Jan 20, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 20
In this episode I interviewed Dr. Shailla Vaidya. She is a physician and certified yoga therapist practicing Mind-Body Medicine in Toronto, Canada. She has worked for over 20 years on frontlines of healthcare with vulnerable and marginalized populations. In 2013, after experiencing burnout, she founded The Yoga MD , a trauma-informed practice where she integrates Eastern Mind-Body practices with Western Medicine to help foster stress resilience. With a focus on helping professionals, she develop...
Jan 12, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 19
In this episode I interviewed Anne Pitman. With over 35 years of experience, Anne has cultivated a practice of yoga therapy inquiry to help people return to their body and embody their life. She is the Director of the School of Embodied Yoga Therapy , in Ottawa, Canada; a 800 hr + school, marrying traditional wisdom and evidence based yoga practice, in service to life-altering events. She’s also recently come on board as a faulty member at Inner Peace Yoga Therapy. We focused our conversation on...
Jan 11, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 18
In this episode we talked about equity and access programs, specifically at our school, Inner Peace Yoga Therapy. Joining Michele Lawrence on the podcast were four students in our program: Erica Bentley, Fernie Tiflis, Wendolyne Omana and Olivia Roberson. Michele shared information about Inner Peace's scholarship and grant programs. Wendolyne and Olivia shared about the grants they received and the recent community yoga projects they have implemented or are working toward as a result. For those ...
Nov 24, 2021•44 min•Season 3Ep. 17
In this episode, I interviewed Beryl Bender. Beryl has been a student and teacher of the classic eight-limbed path of ashtanga yoga since 1971. She is the founder and director of The Hard & the Soft Yoga Institute , and she, alongside Rob Schware, founded the Give Back Yoga Foundation in 2007. We spoke about many things and had a conversation on Yoga & Longevity in anticipation of a new course on the subject in conjunction with Yoga International which will be available in November 2021....
Nov 05, 2021•48 min•Season 3Ep. 16
In this episode I interviewed Catherine Justice . Catherine is a physical therapist, a yoga therapist and the Associate Editor International Journal of Yoga Therapy . Dr. Justice is passionate about furthering the body of research supporting yoga therapy to advance the profession, improve quality of care, and increase access to the therapeutic benefits of yoga for historically unserved populations and everyone in need. On the podcast we delved into the subject of yoga research, what’s happening ...
Nov 02, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 15
In this episode, I interviewed Leanne Matullo. Leanne is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist in training, Birth Doula, Sleep Consultant, educator, writer and founder of Yoga Dear . She is also a fierce advocate for women's health, maternal well-being, and child welfare. Leanne teaches an awareness of the body, mind, and soul as a continuum - each informing and intertwined with the other and that when we bring balance to each of these layers, we create lasting wellness. Support the show Connect with I...
Oct 22, 2021•36 min•Season 3Ep. 14
In this episode I interviewed Jessica Patterson. Jessica is a friend, fellow yoga teacher and the owner/director of Root Center for Yoga and Sacred Studies in CO Springs. She describes herself as a writer, teacher, and puller of threads. In this podcast, we pulled a few threads together. Specifically we spoke about the volume of loss we have experienced as a global society over the past 20 months and the quiet tolls these losses are taking on people. We also spoke about some specific losses she ...
Oct 15, 2021•34 min•Season 3Ep. 13
In this episode, I interviewed Molly Lannon Kenny . Molly is a teacher, therapist, and writer who has dedicated her life to the collective reclamation and liberation of the human spirit. Molly has been teaching radically inclusive yoga for over twenty years. She has been developing something she calls Bedside Yoga since 2003 and has worked extensively with people at end of life, including assisting and attending at scheduled deaths. We explored this topic a bit on the podcast today. Support the ...
Oct 05, 2021•36 min•Season 3Ep. 12
In this episode I interviewed Brandt Passalacqua. Brandt is the Founder, Director & Teacher at Breathing Deeply Yoga and Meditation School. He has been enjoying Yoga and the healing arts since 2001 after overcoming obesity and a life-threatening autoimmune illness. His personal journey serves as an inspiration to countless others and informs his compassionate, humorous, and down-to-earth teaching style. Support the show Connect with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Email us: info@innerpeaceyogathera...
Sep 24, 2021•32 min•Season 3Ep. 11
In this episode I interviewed Cindy Lewis. Cindy is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and founder of My Yoga Spring . Cindy began practicing yoga formally since 1999, informally since the 1980’s. Today she offers yoga therapy services tailored to individual needs and also specializes in yoga programs for “troubled breathers.” Support the show Connect with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Email us: info@innerpeaceyogatherapy.com Website Instagram Facebook...
Sep 23, 2021•33 min•Season 3Ep. 10
In this episode, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Loren Fishman. Dr. Fishman is Medical Director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York City, author of 12 books, and more than 100 academic articles, and a world-recognized pioneer in the use of yoga in medical conditions, and the treatment of lower back pain and piriformis syndrome. We spoke about how he got involved in bringing yoga to western medicine, particularly interventions for scoliosis and osteoperosis. He a...
Sep 11, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 9
In this episode, I interviewed Sarah Wartell. Sarah is a Colorado-based yoga teacher and yoga therapist in training. Along with her yoga training, Sarah received Thai Yoga Bodywork certification and is a Reiki Master. Sarah says she was “destined to be a yoga teacher” and lives to share her favorite yoga life tools or hacks, as well as hold empathetic space and understanding of how challenging it can feel to be human. In January of 2021, Sarah was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. Since then ...
Sep 10, 2021•22 min•Season 3Ep. 8
In this episode, I had the opportunity to connect again with Indu Arora. Indu has been sharing simple, effective, practical, grounded ways of living life through Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Meditation and Ayurveda since 1999. While Indu is one of my teachers, she describes herself as a life long student as well. The topic for today’s conversation is self care. For many of our listeners, self care might be a familiar topic. It’s often seen as a hashtag, and it’s a commom buzzword. In the podcast, I explo...
Aug 22, 2021•26 min•Season 3Ep. 7
This episode is a recap of a recent Zoom panel we held with the following Inner Peace Yoga Therapy students and alumni: Mayuri Gonzalez Carla Schnurr Diane Kistler Julie Williams Patti DeBlass In the panel, these individuals shared their experiences in our training, and spoke to what their yoga therapy work and path looks like today. Support the show Connect with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Email us: info@innerpeaceyogatherapy.com Website Instagram Facebook...
Aug 13, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In this episode, I interviewed Julie Shannon Williams. Julie is a certified yoga therapist, who lives and works in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. She is the owner and founder of Santosha Yoga Therapy where she primarily works with people in areas such as: chronic pain, autoimmune diseases, functional yoga therapy, and mental health. She has also created a wellness program for women called The New Face of Aging , designed to support the pro-aging philosophy and revolution. It is a movement toward...
Jul 24, 2021•30 min•Season 3Ep. 5
In this episode I spoke with Mala Cunningham, Ph.D., C-IAYT, leading speaker, educator, and trainer in the field of Lifestyle Medicine, Health Psychology, Neuroscience, and Medical Yoga. We spoke about her her passion -- creating a bridge between medicine, psychology, neuroscience, yoga, and mindfulness. Learn more about Mala at cardiacyoga.com . Support the show Connect with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Email us: info@innerpeaceyogatherapy.com Website Instagram Facebook...
Jun 30, 2021•34 min•Season 3Ep. 4
In this episode I interviewed Stephanie San German. Stephanie is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist in training and senior-specific fitness trainer. Stephanie helps seniors age gracefully with greater mobility through one-on-one and group functional fitness training sessions in which she incorporates yoga techniques. We spoke about her own personal experiences that have led her to do the work that she does today. We also talked about the bilingual yoga offerings she provides and the work she does wi...
Jun 16, 2021•25 min•Season 3Ep. 3
In this episode I interviewed Ann Marie Johnston, visionary behind Yoga for Better Health , which provides yoga therapy and therapeutic yoga wellness programs and services for healthcare organizations and the community. Support the show Connect with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Email us: info@innerpeaceyogatherapy.com Website Instagram Facebook...
May 28, 2021•31 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In this episode I interviewed Jenny Williams, certified yoga therapist and an Australian registered nurse. Jenny is the founder of Zmaaya — a software platform for Yoga Therapists and other holistic practitioners, partly out of necessity but mostly to support the evolving professional practice of yoga therapists. Support the show Connect with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Email us: info@innerpeaceyogatherapy.com Website Instagram Facebook...
May 17, 2021•20 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In this episode I had the opportunity to interview Chase Bossart. Chase is a Yoga Therapist and Director of the Yoga Well Institute . We spoke about his background and experience in yoga and yoga therapy, we delved into what is Viniyoga and some of the tenets or values of the Viniyoga lineage, and we discussed the role of breathing and meditation in Yoga Therapy. Explore meditation and breathing with the Yoga Well Institute. Go to www.yogawell.com/free-month and sign up for free, today! Support ...
Apr 29, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 26
