Beyond Trauma

As you will hear in this episode, Samantha Lucas is the survivor of multiple traumas which have impacted her life and for which yoga and meditation have been great practices on her path to healing and softening. In this episode Sam shares some of the ways the traumas she’s experienced have shown up in her personality and how yoga has shifted that, the ways she was able to practice when in the hosp...

In this episode with my dear friend, Alexandra Seidenstein, we discuss the study of epigenetics, a biological science which tracks patterns of activation or deactivation of our DNA expression. Ali's work and our conversation revolves around the changes in expressions of genes as a result of PTSD and her hypothesis of how those same genes might express themselves differently after longterm yoga...

Yin/Restorative yoga teacher Marcy Tropin does not just help others heal through the teachings of yoga, she has survived multiple traumas herself. In this conversation she offers some really important insights she's had through her own experience taking ownership of her healing and her own narrative. We discuss the importance of right effort in maintaining a longterm yoga practice. As you list...

In this inaugural episode Hala and I dissect the core components to creating a safer, more trauma sensitive environment when teaching yoga. Hala offers invaluable advice about what yoga teachers should ask themselves before stepping in the yoga room and what we need to understand about the nervous system so that we don't cause harm to our students. Hala also offers outstanding advice about how...

We have all been touched by trauma and we have all experienced trauma and its impacts in very varied degrees and ways. Uncovering and understanding our own traumas whether generational, racial, sexual, medical or any combination of these or others, is the first step in identifying and eventually broadening our patterns and reactions. This is the commitment necessary for being better in our lives a...