Moved To Meditate Podcast

Dec 05 2024 105 ep. 39 mins 28

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The Moved To Meditate Podcast is a place for vibrant discussions about mindfulness, movement practices, and ways to find more balance and presence in daily life. Here, you’ll find down-to-earth resources to help you progress on your path, as well as insightful conversations with mindful movement, yoga, meditation, and dharma teachers from a range of traditions. On this podcast, we spotlight embodied approaches to mindfulness and the more contemplative aspects of movement practice. Together, we’re exploring topics like gentle therapeutic yoga, meditation, somatics, yin yoga, qigong, nervous system practices, and more. Listen in, and connect to a community of like-minded practitioners.

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Yin Yoga Poses with Props: A "Fireside" Chat with Nyk Danu

Dec 05 2024 98 mins

This episode is an EPIC conversation with my friend Nyk Danu about the question of if, when, how, and why we use yoga props in Yin Yoga. Nyk is the host of A Yin Yoga Podcast, and she reached out to propose this crossover episode to share on both of our shows, because the no-props-in-Yin myth is a topic near and dear to both of our hearts. So what you’ll hear here is less of an i

Post-Election Perspectives and Musings from a Mindful Movement Teacher

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This week’s episode of the podcast is a short post-election reflection - just me sharing some of what’s currently on my mind and what’s sustaining me right now. This one is a little different, because I don’t really hide my political views, but I also don’t usually make them a focal point of my teaching. While I certainly have opinions and I care deeply about the issues,

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome with Lou Redmond

Oct 17 2024 58 mins

This episode of the podcast is a conversation about overcoming Imposter Syndrome. I’m speaking with meditation teacher Lou Redmond, and together we explore this very common fear that often holds good people back from truly expressing their creativity, leadership, and potential in the world. Imposter Syndrome is a form of self-doubt that causes us to worry about being enough, know

Mindful Movement as Cross-Training for Your Awareness

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In this episode of the podcast, we’re exploring the idea of Mindful Movement as a form of “cross-training” for your awareness. It’s a fun metaphor for how Mindful Movement and meditation can fit together and enhance each other, and it might just inspire you to try something new! In fitness, cross-training is the idea that it's healthy to round out your routine with differen

Life as a Highly Sensitive Person with Erica Webb

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Today’s podcast is an exploration of life as a Highly Sensitive Person (or HSP), with my friend and colleague Erica Webb. Erica and I sat down for a deep dive into our shared experience of high sensitivity, and how we work with these traits in ourselves. This is something I’ve been looking at more closely over the last several months, and I knew that Erica had been speaking abo

Why We Practice: Voices of Our Podcast Community

Sep 05 2024 38 mins

It’s our 100th episode! To celebrate this podcast milestone, we have a special episode this week, featuring the voices of the Moved To Meditate Podcast community. I wanted to do something different for our 100th episode, as a way of saying thanks to all who have been part of the podcast so far. So, I asked podcast listeners and guests to call in with messages about what they pr

Trauma-Informed Yoga vs. Quick Fixes and Questionable Trends - with Amanda Hanna

Aug 22 2024 74 mins

This week on the podcast, Amanda Hanna joins me for a juicy discussion about what trauma-informed yoga is (and is not). We give examples of the questionable trends and marketing messages we’ve seen lately, related to trauma healing, Somatics, Yin Yoga and other movement practices. Amanda Hanna is a seasoned Yin Yoga Teacher Trainer and leader of Trauma-Informed Facilitator traini

Accessible Meditation with Jivana Heyman

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In this episode of the podcast, I’m talking with Jivana Heyman about accessible meditation. Jivana is the founder of the Accessible Yoga movement, and he has plenty of insights to share about how meditation practices can be relevant in our world today. You’ll hear about Jivana’s own personal journey of learning meditation, and his perspective on how an inward practice like

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Are you a movement teacher who secretly worries that your classes might be too repetitive or boring? In this episode of the podcast, I’m going to encourage you to embrace repetition as a valuable part of Mindful Movement practice. When I was a newer Yoga teacher, I felt that pressure to come up with a brand new class plan and fresh sequences every week. I thought that if I re

Movement Meditation To Clear Stress and Anxiety

Jul 11 2024 22 mins

This week’s podcast episode is a gentle movement meditation to help channel and clear the agitated energies of stress or anxiety. (The meditation itself starts around the 4:44 mark, after a brief introduction.) This practice is intended to help you “complete the stress cycle” by engaging your body’s natural fight/flight impulses through a few simple Qigong movements, with a