Reconditioned with Lauren Vaknine

Ever heard of ASMR – the tingling sensation you get when you listen to someone whose voice is simply hypnotic? Thats exactly what you will experience listening to today’s guest, Leo Cosendai. Not only is he a sound healing facilitator, but the sound of his own voice alone might just alter your state of consciousness; it was a struggle for me to stay coherent during the interview! (You’re welcome :...

Today’s guest was a person I’m so grateful to have in my life; a true healer, authentic spiritualist, genuine light-worker – all of those in the most pure sense of the word, without even trying. She is one of a kind and she is Karina Grant.  Karina has been working as an energy healing practitioner for over 2 decades, performing, teaching and lecturing on modalities such as Quantum Touch, Reiki, B...

{Trigger warning: sexual abuse} Dr David Clarke is president of the  Psychophysiologic Disorders Association . He is also Assistant Director at the Center for Ethics and Clinical Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology Emeritus both at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA, among many other impressive accomplishments, and I was fortunate enough to spend over an hour wi...

We all have ideas about the way we want to parent our children, but then they are born, each with their own unique personalities, and all our ideas get thrown out the window. But what if we could gain a deeper insight into each of our children’s individual makeups in order to adapt our parenting style to their specific needs?   That is exactly what Alex Cantone offers. Alex is a Human Design reade...

Melissa Eliyahoo is a Malibu-based self-love coach and conscious mama who is on a mission to uplift the planet back to the frequency of love.   In this episode we talk about what self-love really means, and how we can move into a place of implementing it and truly believing it, in order to be able to live in the present moment and not in the past or future.   Melissa offers insights and practical...

Today’s episode is with nutritionist and biochemist, Karen Hurd. After her 18-month-old daughter’s tragic poisoning, and her subsequent quest to heal her daughter, Karen came up with a method of detoxing that, simplistic as it is at its core, no one had yet thought of. Since then she has been asked to speak and teach all over the world, and she has a database of over 50,000 people who have had suc...

Welcome back! Reconditioned with Lauren Vaknine was previously Healthy Happy Home with Lauren Vaknine and Tilly Wood. After 2 seasons, we decided that we could use our distinct skillsets and passions more effectively by going solo and I'm feeling very excited about really stepping into my true purpose with this podcast now, and I really think you'll all love what I have in store!   I though it was...

In this episode, we talk with the creator of the award-winning and game-changing documentary, Microbirth, about Lauren’s favourite subject – microbiome! We learn how and why moving away from our natural processes, we are destroying our microbiome. Increased rates in caesarean sections, lower breastfeeding rates, a steady increase in birth interventions and no skin-on-skin post-birth are all contri...

Women and men alike will love this episode and find it SO expansive. Victoria is a Medical Herbalist and Arvigo Maya Abdominal Therapist, working with clients on issues that specifically affect the abdominal and pelvic organs and has a passion in sexual health and empowerment. Inspired by her clients, Victoria is currently training to become a Psychosexual & Relationship Therapist in order to furt...

In honour of Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2020, we interview Crystal Miles. Crystal originally trained as a Nutritional Therapist specialising in preconception and fertility health. After giving birth to her first child in 2010, she followed a further interest in all things birth and baby. A self-confessed course junkie, Crystal went on to train in Hypnobirthing, Lactation, Baby Massage and...

We loved recording this episode with the man who ran barefoot from Land’s End to John O Groats, the Natural Life-stylist himself, Tony Riddle. After twenty years of studying the modern condition and working on ways to free us from its constraints to achieve total wellness, Tony devised his Natural life-style philosophy as a way to recharge, reboot and re-educate on the importance of re-aligning ou...

The UK remains one of the countries with the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world. As the previous generation began to acquiesce to the new accepted medicalised paradigm when it came to raising children, this did, unfortunately, filter down into following generations, with women choosing to breastfeed less and less. However, we are now starting to see an increase in breastfeeding again, perhaps...

  We were honoured to have Dr Nyjon Eccles on the show today. Following his double doctorates (Medicine and Pharmacology) Dr. Eccles has worked as a general and natural medicine physician with special interest in supportive nutritional treatments that promote well-being, recovery and anti-ageing. He is also one of UK’s leading experts in bio-identical hormones. As the medical Director of The Natur...

  This episode was recorded just before the Covid-19 lockdown began, as the pandemic was starting to become bigger news. We released the previous 2 episodes of the season before this one, even though it was recorded before, as they were recorded during lockdown and we wanted things to be very relevant for our listeners during life in the midst of this new normal. However, we are so excited about t...

  We recorded this episode during the third week of enforced lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis. A lot of fear and anxiety are circulating our atmosphere right now, and we believe that life-changing decisions should never be made from a place of darkness, so, though we had started recording this season a while ago, we have decided to rejig things a bit to make the topics more relevant and record...

As we record this, we are in the very midst of the Covid-19 crisis. Here in the UK we are on week 2 of enforced lockdown and while the mainstream media feed us nothing but fear, we’re left wondering if any of the myriad conspiracy theories are true, if the mainstream media have any of it right, or if we really are as much in the dark as we feel we are. What we do know is that people are witnessing...

In this truly illuminative and powerful episode, we speak to Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, authors of Wild Power and founders of Red School, about the importance of reconnecting with our feminine power. The menstrual cycle is a vital and vitalizing system in the female body, and prior to the Abrahamic religions, a woman’s menstruating body was viewed as sacred and full of power. But in...

In this beautifully enlightening episode, we speak to doula, hypnobirthing instructor and trainer, and birth facilitator, Dani Diosi from Mama Serene Birth about the importance of preparation for birth. If it is true that no one would dream of entering a marathon without training, why do we, as modern women, believe that we can go into birth – one of the most challenging and transformative moments...

In perhaps one of our most edifying episodes for self-evolution, we talk today to Stevie B, celebrity stylist and body positive coach. We have spent the past few decades being fed the shameful and cruel narrative that if you are not an exact replica of a 90s supermodel, you are not beautiful. Thankfully for us in the lead-up to a new decade, the body positive movement was born, and it is teaching...

In the sixth and final mini-sode, we share with you Lauren's six pillars of wellbeing. When we were researching how to make this podcast the best it could possibly be, and unique to us and our message, we realised that there are certain topics when it comes to holistic living that people really want easy and accessible information for. To that end, we decided to offer 6 “mini-sodes”: short, micro-...

In the fifth of our mini-sodes, we share our daily practices for a healthy, happy home. When we were researching how to make this podcast the best it could possibly be, and unique to us and our message, we realised that there are certain topics when it comes to holistic living that people really want easy and accessible information for. To that end, we decided to offer 6 “mini-sodes”: short, micro...

In the fourth of our mini-sodes, we offer our top tips for motherhood self-care.  When we were researching how to make this podcast the best it could possibly be, and unique to us and our message, we realised that there are certain topics when it comes to holistic living that people really want easy and accessible information for. To that end, we decided to offer 6 “mini-sodes”: short, micro-episo...

In the third of our Healthy Happy Home Mini-sodes, we talk you through our top tips for nursing children supportively through acute illness. When we were researching how to make this podcast the best it could possibly be, and unique to us and our message, we realised that there are certain topics when it comes to holistic living that people really want easy and accessible information for. To that...

In the second of our Healthy Happy Home Mini-sodes, we answer the question, what are the essentials for a holistic family wellbeing toolkit? When we were researching how to make this podcast the best it could possibly be, and unique to us and our message, we realised that there are certain topics when it comes to holistic living that people really want easy and accessible information for. To that...

In this Healthy Happy Home Mini-sode, we answer the question, is eating organic really that important and how can we find ways to manage it financially? When we were researching how to make this podcast the best it could possibly be, and unique to us and our message, we realised that there are certain topics when it comes to holistic living that people really want easy and accessible information f...