Cultivate Calm
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Cultivate Calm

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This podcast will weave together ancient wisdom with modern science to share the best tools and techniques to cultivate calm in your life. 


Armed with a degree in behavioural science and a decade of running a thriving yoga studio, I'm here to share my wealth of knowledge on the science of stress, the art of relaxation, yoga philosophy, breathing, and meditation, all with a hint of personal development. 


Yoga transformed my life from being a stressed out IT professional to a calm and relaxed yoga teacher and throughout this podcast, I’ll be sharing my own journey and stories of my yoga clients. 


My philosophy is that busyness is overrated, stress makes us stupid, and anxious living is a recipe for burnout. In this podcast, we won't just scratch the surface of relaxation techniques; we'll dive deep into the impact of stress on our minds and bodies and how to think better, feel better and live better. I'll explain why nervous system health is at the heart of our yoga classes and our overall well-being.


If you’re in need of some inspiration and motivation to help you take back control of your life and find calm in the chaos, look no further. I’m so excited to share this journey with you. 


Health & Fitness
Alternative Health
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 4 days
Average audio length:
26 minutes
Has sponsors
English
United States
36 episodes
since Sept. 27, 2023
episodic
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This is what I really want you to know

This is what I really want you to know

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Send us Fan Mail This is the final episode of the season. It started with a text from a radiology office and ends here, with a life that looks ordinary from the outside and is irrevocably different on the inside. This episode is about what the full arc of that journey actually looks like and what t…
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Why this felt so hard

Why this felt so hard

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Send us Fan Mail This episode is about grief. Not managing it, avoiding it, or reframing it into something more comfortable, but actually sitting inside it. After a decade of cancer diagnoses, divorce, and losing her father, the emotional landscape that built up over those years is finally being ex…
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What did I do wrong?

What did I do wrong?

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Send us Fan Mail After three cancer diagnoses across a decade, the question that keeps surfacing isn't about treatment or recovery. It's why. This episode is an honest look at that search, what it turned up, and what it didn't. Including Gabor Maté's work on emotional repression…
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I was never going to fight

I was never going to fight

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Send us Fan Mail After a third cancer diagnosis, something fundamental shifted. This episode explores the myth of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess who descended into the underworld, stripped of everything she possessed, and returned transformed. It's a framework that maps closely onto what 15 mont…
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I didn't expect this on my return to work

I didn't expect this on my return to work

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Send us Fan Mail After 15 months away from teaching, returning to the yoga studio was equal parts terrifying and clarifying. In this episode, the journey back to the mat begins, not as a triumphant comeback, but as an honest reckoning with what 14 years of teaching, a cancer diagnosis, and a long r…
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I was playing the wrong game

I was playing the wrong game

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Send us Fan Mail 18 months of cancer, grief, surgery, and recovery, and what emerged from the other side wasn't just physical healing. It was a shift in how to relate to life itself. This episode is about what that actually looks like. A lot of it comes back to the body. There's grief for…
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I don't know why this upset me so much

I don't know why this upset me so much

Send us Fan Mail May was a month of contradictions. Surgery recovery, grief and a rainbow unicorn birthday party. Life kept moving and I was somewhere in the middle of it, trying to keep up. This episode is about what it looked like when something finally started to shift. It started with an incide…
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What no one tells you about rock bottom

What no one tells you about rock bottom

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Send us Fan Mail For months after surgery I was living in survival mode. Chest pains, persistent headaches, swollen legs, and a mirror I was avoiding. This episode is about what it actually looks like to hit rock bottom in recovery, not dramatically, just quietly and completely. There's a Dav…
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Into the Shitstorm

Into the Shitstorm

Send us Fan Mail The mastectomy happened. This episode is about what that was actually like. The double mastectomy with PAP flap reconstruction, seven hours in theatre, and what I remember from coming around on the other side. Some of it is sharp and painful. Some of it is genuinely strange. At one…
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The bleak reality of misery

The bleak reality of misery

Send us Fan Mail The surgery was done. I thought the hard part was over. This episode is about the long grey stretch that followed, the part nobody really talks about, where the emergencies have passed but you're still completely stuck in it. Six weeks after the double mastectomy, I got the gr…
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