Yoga With Jake Podcast

Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD Adriaan earned his undergraduate, master’s degree and PhD in physiotherapy from the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa. He is an adjunct faculty member at St. Ambrose University and the University of Nevada Las Vegas, teaching pain science. Adriaan has taught throughout the US and internationally for 25 years at numerous national and international manual th...

Kerrie is a MELT Master Trainer, Groove facilitator, Yoga instructor and owner of Balance Total Body Fitness. As one of six Master Trainers selected by MELT creator Sue Hitzmann to train other instructors to teach MELT, she has led MELT Lab Trainings and Instructor Level 1 Trainings across the country and is now busy assisting Sue with all levels of training online. Over the course of her MELT car...

Fascia and feeling good. You’ll be hard-pressed to find more of an expert on those two topics than Sue Hitzmann, creator of the MELT Method—a pioneering self-treatment that can ease and prevent pain while it boosts performance. A fitness star turned sought-after neurofascial science educator, Sue is an internationally recognized manual therapist, exercise physiologist, and founding member of the F...

Martinus Evans has run over eight marathons since his doctor told him to “lose weight or die” in July 2012. Since then, he’s also coached hundreds of runners and founded the Slow AF Run Club, a community of over 20,000 members worldwide. He is also the author of the book Slow AF Run Club: The ultimate guide for anybody who wants to run.  When he’s not running races around the world, he enjoys spea...

Sandy Abrams is a longtime entrepreneur, 2x author, 2022 TEDx Speaker, Chair of the Global Wellness Institute’s Breathe Initiative and a Board Member of Health & Human Performance Foundation. She’s now focused on Well-Being and Mental Health; sharing 30+ years of experience utilizing the power of breath & mindfulness in business and life. Her book, Breathe to Succeed  (2019) is endorsed by...

Born and raised in Utah, Craig Terry is well-traveled and has lived in various places in the US.  He recently retired from a successful career in sales and sales management, and now is an amputee peer mentor, a licensed certified life coach, and a motivational speaker.  These things help him converse with, and understand people's needs from their different viewpoints. In October of 2020, Crai...

Matthew Dewar, Ed. D., is a professional educator, speaker, and author. For fifteen years, he has researched the impact of mindfulness and emotion regulation practices on teaching, learning, and leadership in schools. More recently, he has focused on enhancing health and performance through breathing behavior analysis and heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback training. Dr. Dewar is also the fou...

As a boy, Robert M. Sapolsky dreamed of living inside the African dioramas in New York’s Museum of Natural History. By age twenty-one, he made it to Africa and joined a troop of baboons. Although being a naturalist appealed to him because it was a chance to “get the hell out of Brooklyn,” he never left people behind. In fact, he chose to live with the baboons because they are perfect for learning...

BSc(Hons), MSc(A)PT As a movement aficionado, Tiana Ringer specializes in training and rehabilitation integrating superficial and deep fascia tissue release, acupuncture based trigger point work, movement analysis, soft mobilizations, strength and power development, aerobic exercise prescription, neurological and concussion based treatments, along with the knowledge and applications of biochemistr...

Danielle Friedman is an award-winning health and culture journalist and a regular contributor to The New York Times   Well section, where she has written about everything from the joys of being a slow runner to the importance of pelvic floor conditioning. She is also the author of Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World , which was selected as a New Yorker and Fina...

Nick Heath, Ph. D., is a breath coach, researcher, and writer living with type-1 diabetes.  Nick’s formal education is in atmospheric science, but he has spent the last 7+ years studying, teaching, and applying breathing principles in his life and with others. He is a certified Oxygen Advantage® coach, a Level I Pranayama teacher, and a member of the Global Wellness BREATHE Initiative.  Nick is th...

Abigail is a Utah-based yoga teacher and educator. She became dedicated to sharing yoga with others after it helped her recover from a devastating stroke in 2012. Her mission is to spread adaptive, inclusive yoga throughout Utah and beyond. Abigail teaches at studios in Utah County, specializing in adaptive, yin, restorative and gentle yoga. She lives in Orem, Utah with her family and loves hiking...

Rodrigo Cerdá, M.D., MPH, is senior vice president of Health Services and chief medical officer at Independence Blue Cross (Independence). He leads Independence’s collaborative efforts to bring together health insurers, hospitals, and doctors together to improve access to well-coordinated, high quality, and affordable health care to the region. He is also the company’s chief clinical spokesperson....

This is a segment on improving men's health that I'm featured on for the "Better Off Podcast" by For29 Philly. It is hosted by Drew Anderson and sponsored by Independence Blue Cross. Please listen to their podcast, they are doing great work providing practical tools to help improve your health. I'm joined with Dr. Rodrigo Cerdá, Senior Vice President of Health Services and...

Charles Raison, MD, is a Professor of Human Ecology and Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Raison also serves as Director of Clinical and Translational Research for Usona Institute, as Director of the Vail Health Behavioral Health Innovation Center, Director of Research on Spiritual Health for Emory Healthcare and...

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph. D. has been fully engaged in biomedical research on the efficacy of yoga and meditation practices in improving physical and psychological health since 2001. He has practiced Kundalini Yoga since 1971 and is a certified instructor. He is the Director of Research for the Kundalini Research Institute, a Research Associate at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine,...

Sarah Platt-Finger is the Director of Chopra Yoga at IIN , and the co-founder of ISHTA Yoga , LLC. Sarah coauthored the book Living in the Light with Dr. Deepak Chopra, which has received international acclaim as one of the most practical and inspiring guides to modern day yoga.  Sarah received her 500-hour Yoga certification in the ISHTA lineage in 2004 and was initiated as a Yoga Master by her h...

Ryan Whited, a dedicated Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist since 1996, has a profound passion for his work. Armed with expertise in athletic performance and injury prevention, along with certifications in Gait Analysis, Mobility, and ongoing education in Neuro-Immunology, he ceaselessly enriches his knowledge through diverse courses. His profound grasp of biomechanics, human performan...

Brett Larkin is the founder of Uplifted Yoga® and the author of Yoga Life: Habits, Poses, and Breathwork to Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos . Her Online Yoga Teacher Trainings have set the standard for quality online certification since 2015 and matriculated thousands of yoga teachers. Brett’s award-winning YouTube channel with over half a million subscribers and Uplifted Yoga Podcast empower you to...

Christopher A. Lowry, Ph. D. i s Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Center for Neuroscience, and Center for Microbial Exploration at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), with a secondary appointment in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Center for Neuroscience, University of Colorado Ansch...

Katharine Phillips, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry, DeWitt Wallace Senior Scholar, and Residency Research Director at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Attending Psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Dr. Phillips is internationally recognized for her expertise in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). She has been conducting research studies and treating patients with BDD fo...

Known for his love of donuts, dirt, and running with a massive smile, Tim Tollefson is a professional ultra-runner for CRAFT Sportswear that is facilitating difficult conversations around mental health in sports. Throughout his career he has won ultramarathons across the globe in distances from 50K to 100 miles. Tim is a 3 time USATF National Trail Champion, and a 2 time US Olympic Marathon Trials...

Click here for the video that accompanies this podcast.  Dr. Maren Nyer is the Director of Yoga Studies and the Associate Director of the Research Coordinator Program at the Depression Clinical and Research Program (DCRP), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her research interests include the treatment of mood disorders...

Gil Hedley, Ph. D., has been teaching integral anatomy via dissection labs, keynote events and lecture tours since 1995. Gil has created an approach to anatomy coherent with the holistic body philosophies of body explorers from various treatment modalities, as well as teachers from the yoga, pilates, and fitness industries. He has documented this approach extensively through this website, gilhedle...

Pallav Kosuri uses a physics-inspired approach to discover fundamental mechanisms in biology. Pallav was born in Sweden and studied physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.  After a short stint at CERN, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a Ph. D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University in New York.  As a Ph. D. student in the lab of Dr. Julio...