Yoga With Jake Podcast

Scott Glassman, Psy. D. is a licensed psychologist and author of A Happier You: A Seven-Week Program to Transform Negative Thinking into Positivity and Resilience. Dr. Glassman founded and currently directs the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. His seven-week wellness program, A Happier You, has been featured on SiriusXM and NPR. Dr....

Christina Sell has been practicing asana since 1991 and teaching since 1998. Known for her passion, clarity and creativity, Christina’s teaching style is a dynamic and challenging blend of inspiration, humor and hard work. Masterful at synthesis, her ability to harvest and transmit the unique contributions of various yoga methods is unparalleled. Christina believes that yoga practice can help anyo...

Dr. David Sacks is a psychotherapist, performance consultant, writer, and coach. An alumnus of Stanford  and Florida State Universities, David has been a licensed psychologist since 2007, practicing in Tennessee and Florida. He completed his internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University. As both a therapist and consultant, David helps others to make specific adjustments in their...

Dr. Goldenberg is the Associate Director of the Helfgott Research Institute. He is passionate about how we evaluate and utilize evidence. He is an NIH-funded researcher with numerous publications in high-impact scientific journals such as JAMA and the BMJ. He is faculty for the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine as well as Helfgott, where he teaches critical evaluation of the medical liter...

Laurel Beversdorf is an international yoga educator, certified strength and conditioning specialist, and E-RYT 500 with a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College. She empowers individuals to discover they are stronger than they thought, inspiring them to ask, "If I can do this, what else is possible?" Laurel created the Yoga with Resistance Bands teacher training and co-developed Movement Logi...

Dr. Julia C. Basso is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise at Virginia Tech and the Director of The Embodied Brain Laboratory. She also holds affiliate faculty positions in the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience and is a Fellow at both the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology and the Center for Health Behaviors Research at the Fralin Biomedic...

Josh Izewski is a professional runner who won this year's Philly 10k with a time of    29:48, that’s a 4:48 mile pace!  He joins me to discuss his win at the Philly 10k, his performance at Olympic trials and what it's like to be a professional runner. He provides great advice for runners of every level on self-awareness, injury prevention, pace, diet and mentality.  Support the show

Hilary Achauer is a San Diego-based freelance writer covering health, fitness, and wellness. Her work has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , and Slate, and she spends her free time surfing, lifting weights, and working on her first novel.  Click here to visit her website! Support the show

Dr. Erica Sharpe is a clinical human researcher at the National University of Natural Medicine, and a professor of chemistry at SUNY Canton. Erica specializes in yoga nidra  (yogic sleep) and natural medicine. She joins me for a follow-up conversation about the content of a traditional yoga nidra practice and why it is important to follow it. Yoga nidra has exploded in popularity, and there are ma...

Dr. Kate Pate is a PhD neurophysiologist, coach, entrepreneur, and researcher. Her doctoral research focused on respiratory neurophysiology and understanding the brain-breath-body connection. She explored her fascination around this subject further and through a different lens by later becoming a yoga, meditation, and breathwork instructor. This included obtaining her RYT200, somatic meditation tr...

Beth Linker, a former physical therapist, is an author and professor of the history of science, disability, and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America , reveals the little-known and surprising origins of our fears and ideas about poor posture. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe , Time , Psyche , The New England Journal of...

Dr Torkil Færø is a GP and emergency physician, documentary filmmaker, author and photographer. Over a 26-year career as a freelance doctor, he has worked all over Norway, had hundred thousand consultations and thus gained a unique picture of the diseases that plague us. He learned that the cause is most often found in the stresses our lifestyles place on our bodies. When his father died at 73, he...

Krystle Zuniga PhD, RD, CSO, LD Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Texas at Austin. Owner, Cancer Nutrition HQ. Krystle is an experienced clinician, educator, scientist, and science communicator. Her research in the area of nutrition, physical activity, and cancer has been published in Cancer Prevention Research, Journal of Nutrition, Nutrition an...

Kelly Chase is an entrepreneur, social influencer, speaker and reality TV star best known for her role as a castmate on the breakaway hit Netflix show, Love Is Blind. Audiences across the globe fell in love with Kelly for her genuine personality, unwavering confidence and her commitment to staying true to who she is. Kelly is the founder of the coaching program “Goddess Magic” which combines busin...

Jay K. Harness, MD, FACS is the Chief Medical Officer at Maple Tree Cancer Alliance. He is an emeritus breast surgeon at both St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA and Northern Inyo Hospital in Bishop, CA. He is a recent Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, Irvine. He spent 28 years of his career in full-time academic positions. Dr. Harness received both his MD degree and tra...

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society. Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked...

Laura has her Master’s in Couples and Family Therapy and has recently started her work in a PhD program studying Applied Behavioral Neuroscience. Laura is interested in studying the impact of water therapy on the vagal tone as a way of reconceptualizing PTSD treatment and our understanding of suicidal ideation. Laura is also a hybrid coach, specializing in in water confidence and strength training...

Laurice (Lauri). D. Nemetz, MA, BD-DMT, EYT500, LCAT, CIAYT is an adjunct professor at Pace University having taught classes in yoga, myofascial anatomy and more at the Pleasantville NY campus since 2004 and is a 2020 Pace U. President’s Award recipient for Outstanding Contribution. In the summer of 2021, Lauri was awarded the position of Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medici...

Dr. Joy is the Chief Medical Officer for Lore Health. Prior to that, she served as Senior Medical Director for Wellness and Nutrition at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City, UT. She received her B.S. and M.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota, and M.P.H. from the University of Utah. She completed her Family Medicine Residency and Sports Medicine Fellowship at Hennepin County Medical Center...

Mike Alpert was the President/CEO of The Claremont Club from 1997 – 2020. Located in Claremont, California, The Claremont Club is a full-service athletic, aquatic, tennis, wellness and social facility encompassing 19 acres. During his time at the Club he created a dedicated team with a sense of ownership and accountability; developed a club culture of a passionate and value-based entity and create...

Dr. Elias Aboujaoude is a psychiatry professor, researcher, and author at Stanford University, where he heads the Anxiety Disorders Section and OCD Clinic. He has also held positions at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the University of California in Berkeley, the University of California in San Francisco, and the University of York in the United Kingdom. Besides OCD, Dr. Aboujaoude's research ha...

Dr. Mitchell joined the University of Florida in 2015 as a Preeminence Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Physical Therapy and McKnight Brain Institute. He founded and directs the UF Center for Breathing Research and Therapeutics (BREATHE) and the NIH-funded graduate and postdoctoral training program of the same name. A major focus of BREATHE is to understand and treat impaired breathi...

Amber is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.  Her research is in the field of neurogenetics where she studies how genetic variants contribute to sleep dysfunction and psychiatric disorders. She is interested in the evolution of sleep and circadian rhythms and how to leverage both for better physical and mental health.  Amb...

I began my life’s work in two communities on opposite sides of Boston, one predominantly Black, the other predominantly White, both made up of hard-working, low-income families. For twelve years, I worked alternately as a community organizer, a journalist, and a counselor alongside people struggling to navigate circumstances largely stacked against them. Where they went, I went—to their homes, the...

Gina Poe has been working since 1995 on the mechanisms through which sleep serves memory consolidation and restructuring. Dr. Poe is a southern California native who graduated from Stanford University then worked for two post-baccalaureate years at the VA researching Air Force Test Pilots’ brainwave signatures under high-G maneuvers. She then earned her PhD in Basic Sleep in the Neuroscience Inter...