The Glo Podcast: Recent Episodes
Derik Mills, Glo.com
The Glo Podcast asks questions about self-care, deepening your sense of self and inspiring you to take action for a better world. Derik Mills, co-founder and co-CEO of Glo.com, speaks with guests about their practices and solutions for managing burnout, getting more sleep, dealing with anxiety, and becoming a better listener.
We deepen our understanding of the connections we make in inner experiences that emerge from our biology, within our psychology, and through physical movement, and bring them into our outer experiences of relationships, workplace culture, and leadership. Self-care extends into our work life, our family life, and our innermost experiences of self. Self-care is not merely a concept we use to explore ourselves. It is a complexity of practices we can do with each other and by ourselves. We cover meditation and yoga practices, strategies to develop more inner strength and calm, and life choices to help you work with anxiety and burnout.
Glo connects people through self-care so that, together, we can heal ourselves and our planet.
Prenatal yoga helps prepare the body for labor and delivery, and the benefits can include stress reduction, improved emotional well-being, and increased self-awareness. As in any health or exercise program pursued during pregnancy, it’s important to listen to your body and consult with your doctor or health practitioner for guidance, before you begin.
Guest-host Katie Baki is in her third trimester and guest Ali Owens is a mother of three. They are both teachers at Glo. Katie has a three-part class of prenatal yoga classes on the Glo platform.
Katie and Ali discuss how pregnant yoga practitioners must adjust their practice to accommodate the changes in the body during pregnancy. Yoga props can help, providing support for the body and more room for the baby. Katie and Ali discuss the prevailing myths about yoga during pregnancy, focus on the importance of core work to foster stability (rather than strengthening), and how to use breath work and pelvic floor exercises to help with relaxation, stress reduction, and preparing for labor and delivery. They agree that one of the top benefits to practicing prenatal yoga is learning how to listen to the body and check in with what it needs.
To wrap up the conversation, they discuss what prenatal yoga classes are available on the Glo platform.
Key Takeaways for this Episode00:00 Meet Ali Owens
06:56 benefits of prenatal yoga
12:23 self-awareness and listening to your body
19:32 shifting perspectives and redefining “progress”
29:05 myths and modifications in prenatal yoga
36:01 core work and pelvic floor exercises
42:23 breath work and relaxation techniques
48:04 prenatal yoga programs on the Glo platform
Links:GLO classes:Katie Baki’s Prenatal Power Yoga: 1st Trimester Program
Katie Baki’s Prenatal Power Yoga: 2nd Trimester Program
Katie Baki’s Prenatal Power Yoga: 3rd Trimester Program
Ali’s Moving Into Motherhood: First Trimester Program
Ali’s Moving Into Motherhood: Second Trimester Program
Ali’s Moving Into Motherhood: Third Trimester Program
We have an expansive library of prenatal classes and programs on Glo.
Katie’s website
Katie’s Instagram
Ali’s website
Ali’s Instagram
In this extended conversation for The Glo Podcast, Glo teachers Annie Carpenter and Kia Miller discuss their journeys through the energy of the asana poses to the subtle energetic shifts the poses bring about.
Kia and Annie emphasize why a safe and sacred space is important to create in yoga classes, where students can pursue an investigation into and questioning of the self. Both Annie and Kia talk about how their yoga practices have evolved over time. During Kia’s thoughtful line of questions, Annie discusses being present, finding balance, and witnessing life as a form of spiritual engagement.
They also discuss the power of pranayama as a tool for observation and finding stillness. Annie is one of Kia’s mentors, so the conversation naturally flows into the topic of mentorship.
The episode ends with expressions of gratitude and admiration between Kia and Annie, encapsulating the essence of their teacher-student relationship and the enduring impact of their shared yoga journey.
Key Takeaways for this Episode00:00 introducing Annie Carpenter
03:57 the importance of subtlety in yoga
08:40 yoga as a quieting practice
24:14 living in continuums and finding balance
27:03 the role of yoga studios and community
30:49 the dance of surrender: allowing life to unfold
35:04 the power of pranayama: observing and finding stillness
41:46 self-trust and resilience: keys to a strong yoga practice
45:38 mentorship and assisting: deepening understanding and growth
47:27 in-person trainings: community and hands-on learning
49:45 the evolution of practice: finding meaning and simplicity
53:29 witnessing and presence: connecting with self and the world
Links:Annie Carpenter’s SmartFlow Yoga Teacher Training.
Annie on Instagram
Kia Miller Website
Kia on YouTube
Kia on Instagram
GLO classes:Classes with Annie
Classes with Kia
In this deep dive into yoga’s origins and history, guest-host Stephanie Serrano interviews scholar Dr. Christopher Jain Miller about the yoga sutras and their role as the guiding texts for modern yoga. They discuss the connections between the yoga sutras and Samkhya philosophy, the relationship between the yoga sutras and the Bhagavad Gita, and the origins of the yoga sutras and Patanjali himself.
Their discussion also covers how these texts were reinterpreted, and even misinterpreted, during the American counterculture. The conversation delves into how British colonialism changed our perception of the yoga tests. The conversation concludes by examining the changes in the practice of the Yoga Sutra today and how the text can inspire practitioners to bring yoga philosophy into their everyday lives and create a better world.
Key Takeaways for this Episode
00:00 the yoga sutras as guiding texts 07:16 the connection between the yoga sutras and Samkhya philosophy 13:49 unraveling the origins of the yoga sutras and Patanjali 21:37 the importance of selfless action in the Bhagavad Gita 24:08 the influence of the American counterculture on modern yoga 28:14 the role of British colonialism in the history of yoga 38:18 overemphasis on asana in modern yoga 44:12 embodying yoga philosophy in everyday life
Links:
arihantainstitute.org
Dr. Miller on Instagram: @theyogaprofessor
GLO classes:
Our Beyond The Pose series are classes themed after the first two of eight limbs, outlined in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
There are five Yamas that make up the first limb:
- Ahimsa: Beyond The Pose: Vinyasa For Ahimsa
- Satya: Beyond The Pose: Hatha For Satya
- Asteya: Beyond The Pose: Flow For Asteya
- Brahmacharya: Beyond The Pose: Hatha For Brahmacharya
- Aparigraha: Beyond The Pose: Flow For Aparigraha
There are five Niyamas that make up the second limb:
- Saucha: Beyond The Pose: Kundalini For Saucha
- Santosha: Beyond The Pose: Flow For Santosha
- Tapas: Beyond The Pose: Conditioning For Tapas
- Svadhyaya: Beyond The Pose: Meditation For Svadhyaya
- Isvara Pranidhana: Beyond The Pose: Flow For Isvara Pranidhana
Kia Miller and Elena Brower discuss Elena’s continuing journey into her Zen practice, covering her methodology and some key insights that the practice has brought her. They discuss how their spiritual practices have led them to positively embrace imperfection, and steer away from perfectionism.
They discuss the challenges and rewards of meditation, and how to bring a fresh perspective to one’s practice. Elena emphasizes the importance of self-compassion and shares techniques for practicing nonviolent communication, both internally and with others. Kia and Elena reflect on how their practices have evolved over the years and what it means to accept and grow from one’s imperfections. They delve into the role of teaching and how to connect with and inspire students in the ever-evolving journey of spiritual and personal development.
As “Elena says in the interview, “The best celebration of your humanity is to sit and be present with what is."
You’ll come away from the episode with insightful strategies for integrating meditation and mindfulness into daily life.
Key Takeaways for this Episode
00:00 Meet Elena Brower
02:13 Elena’s journey into zen practice
06:04 The simplicity of zen practice
08:41 Letting go and cultivating compassion
12:35 Nonviolent communication and acknowledging humanity
25:04 Dropping negative thoughts
32:46 Embracing imperfection on the spiritual path
36:49 Self-compassion and self-acceptance
40:29 The evolution of Kia and Elena’s personal practices
43:20 Gratitude and love as healing forces
Links:
Kia Miller: Website | Instagram
Elena Brower: Website | Instagram
Glo: Website | Instagram
GLO classes:
Practice with Kia
Practice with Elena
Kia Miller guest-hosts this episode in which she interviews Jason Crandell about ADHD, self-regulation, and turning challenges into assets.
Kia shares her insights about how yoga has been useful as a practice to recognize egoist behaviors and cultivate self-awareness. Kia and Jason talk about how they apply the principles learned on the mat to everyday life.
They wrap up their conversation by discussing the value of staying curious, continually learning and innovating as teachers, seeking new challenges. They pay homage to some of their favorite teachers, like Annie Carpenter and Elena Brower.
Key Takeaways for this Episode
(00:03) ADHD
(13:14) Reflecting on yoga practice and transformation
(19:29) Self-responsibility in yoga practice
(40:29) Glimpses of self-truths in yoga
(53:27) The functional approach in yoga
(01:04:40) Yoga teacher mentors and mentees
Links:
Jason’s website
Jason’s Instagram
GLO classes:
Kia’s classes on Glo
Jason’s classes on Glo
Join guest host Rachel Autumn as she welcomes the incredible Goli Gabbay, a pioneer at the intersection of mental health, wellness, and environmental sustainability. Goli bridges the worlds of mind and earth, speaking to the connections between the human home of our body and the bigger, Earthly home of our planet.
As Goli says in the interview, “What we’re doing to the planet, we do to ourselves. What we are doing to the planet harms us. Our wellbeing is intrinsically tied to the wellbeing of the planet.”
Goli shares her personal journey, beginning with her healing experiences with Kundalini yoga following a thyroid cancer diagnosis. When discussing her work integrating Yoga Nidra into therapeutic settings, Goli opens up about how these practices, through repetition, can rewire neural pathways and foster sustained healing. As the conversation unfolds, Goli also explores her environmental work, discussing the deep connection between personal well-being and planetary health, a theme that echoes throughout this episode.
Rachel and Goli’s exchange finishes up with practical advice about how to live a sustainable and mindful life. Goli shares a few simple lifestyle changes that anyone can make to support environmental sustainability, emphasizing the collective power we have to influence change. Don’t miss this heartwarming and enlightening discussion that’s sure to inspire your own journey towards personal and planetary healing.
Key Takeaways for this Episode(00:00) Introducing Goli Gabbay
(05:29) Healing trauma through yoga therapy
(21:33) Yoga nidra benefits and relaxation
(28:20) Yoga’s connection with environmentalism
(37:37) Environmental action and awareness
(44:43) Benefits of a plant-based diet
(55:27) Tips for living a sustainable life
(01:08:48) Eco-friendly habits
(01:21:44) Connecting through yoga goals
LinksGoli’s Website: http://goligabbay.com
Goli’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goligabbay
Goli's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/goligabbay/
Follow Goli’s music journey on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/goli-gabbay
The most delicious plant based recipes
Evidence-based plant-based MDs:
Dr. Neal Barnard: https://www.instagram.com/drnealbarnard/
Dr. Michael Gregor: https://www.instagram.com/michaelgregermd/
The most heartwarming farm animal sanctuary:
https://www.instagram.com/moustache\_farmer?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Goli’s favorite conservation journalist
Join guest host Rachel Autumn and music artist, poet and author Londrelle as they discuss how to take a “spiritual selfie,” seeing oneself through a lens of unconditional love, and explore the joys and challenges of being a parent.
The structure of their conversation takes the chakras as a theme, offering insights on how to cultivate peace amidst the tumult of life. Londrelle shares that life doesn’t hand out responsibilities on a whim, but instead, life says you are worthy of that responsibility. Responsibilities, he continues, are not burdens, they are gifts in your life that keep giving to your life.
Londrelle and Rachel discuss the influence Vedic writings have had on his creative process and life. Their conversation illuminates the importance of honoring one’s journey and the healing that comes with self-love, reminding us that the true measure of success is not found in achievements, but in our connection to something greater.
They wrap up with Londrelle announcing that he will be at the Sound Healers Convention in Los Angeles.
Key Takeaways for this Episode(0:00:01) How to take a “soul selfie”
(0:13:31) The role of chakras in finding peace (0:18:58) Setbacks as opportunities for growth
(0:28:47) Honoring personal journeys for healing
(0:57:17) Parenthood as a source of joy and revelation
(01:09:31) Sound healers in Los Angeles
Links:Londrelle’s Books
Sunflower Soul
Eternal Sunshine Self-Care Package: Healing Through The Chakras
Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power
Website and Social Media
Londrelle’s website
Londrelle’s Instagram
Londrelle’s Spotify
YouTube
Eternal Sunshine app on the App Store
Londrelle’s App
GLO classes: Kia Miller’s Chakra SeriesClass 1
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
Class 5
Class 6
Class 7
Class 8
Guest host Rachel Autumn welcomes her mentor and friend Natalia Benson on The Glo Podcast to discuss astrology and business coaching, and to celebrate Natalia’s podcast, which has surpassed a million downloads. They explore Natalia’s astrology origin story, starting with a pivotal moment that led to Natalia discovering her passion for astrology and commitment to learn more about it. Natalia emphasizes the impact that astrology has had on her understanding of her personality and business, and how astrology has shaped her mission to help women create independent revenue streams through spiritual and conscious entrepreneurship.
Rachel and Natalia discuss Natalia’s book Mystical AF, and explore the significance of natal charts, using Rachel’s chart as an example. Natalia offers some insights into how celestial placements can indicate transformations in your career and life, and unpacks the concept of Saturn transits and the Saturn return. Astrological events, Natalia says, are often seen as challenging. But they can highlight areas in our lives that require attention and work. Finally, Rachel and Natalia rethink Mercury retrogrades, asking listeners not to dread them, but consider them as opportunities for reflection and growth.
Key Takeaways for this Episode
(09:14 - 10:08) Astrology as science and art
(14:58 - 17:12) Natal chart book discussion
(20:10 - 21:54) Astrological signs and personalities
(24:46 - 26:09) Exploring astrology and personal beliefs
(30:01 - 31:22) Exploring astrology transits and personal growth
(37:06 - 37:55) Multi-faceted creative journeys
(41:28 - 43:06) Pluto on mid heaven
(46:03 - 48:28) Understanding zodiac signs through personal stories
(52:25 - 54:20) Navigating Saturn’s energy for personal growth
(01:03:18 - 01:04:16) Retrograde planets
Links:
Natalia’s Website
Mystical AF: A Very Aries Journey from Darkness to Lightness of Being
Derik Mills interviews longtime friend and colleague Elena Brower about writing poetry, teaching yoga, friendship, and podcasting. They discuss Elena’s debut collection of poetry, Softening Time: Collected Poems.
Elena shares an inspiring encounter she had a Glo student who had taken classes with her online. Derik and Elena also turn the conversation inward, discussing the therapeutic journey from poetry to prose as Elena shares about her book of poems and her upcoming book.
In a previous episode of The Glo Podcast, Elena took over the microphone to guest host. Her guest was Jeff Rosenthal, co-author of Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community. Listen to her episode, Community is a Powerful Human Technology, featuring Elena Brower and Jeff Rosenthal.
Closing the chapter on this heartfelt conversation, Derik and Elena speak about dreams, the practice of Buddhism, and how to persist in creative endeavors. Both share about their insights drawn from the lectures of professor Douglas Brooks. (A number of Dr. Brooks’s are available on The Glo Podcast as episodes.)
Elena recommends a few books as well. Find them on her Bookshop.org page, where she offers reading recommendations on poetry, Zen Buddhism, perceptive parenting, on death and dying, art and writing, inspiration for daily living, leadership, yoga, mental health, and essential oils.
Key Takeaways for this Episode
(0:00:01) - a journey of friendship and business
(0:06:32) - the impact of curiosity
(0:16:36) - exploring personal growth and healing
(0:34:38) - exploring dreams and Buddhism
(0:46:41) - the art of practice and compassion
(1:00:58) - book recommendations from Elena
Links:Elena’s Website
Elena on Instagram
Being You: A Journal by Elena Brower
Practice You: A Journal by Elena Brower
The Practice You Podcast with Elena Brower
Elena’s reading recommendations on bookshop.org.
Professor Douglas Brooks's New Winter Sessions for 2024
GLO classes:Elena Brower on Glo
Join our conversation with host Rachel Autumn and Darby Ray, a trauma-informed yoga teacher. Darby discusses how yoga spaces can be a sanctuary, supporting students’ experiences with stress and trauma. In the compassionate world of trauma-informed yoga, personal agency and resilience are at the heart of a healing practice.
Darby has been teaching yoga for more than ten years, and is a passionate advocate for bringing trauma informed practices into wellness spaces. She’s worked in different treatment centers and communities, offering yoga as a modality to assist the body’s inherent capacity for healing and growth.
The conversation covers how to navigate the delicate balance of personal boundaries and growth within yoga, we share candid reflections on maintaining focus amidst distraction, and the power of listening to one’s body over external cues. Breathwork, often a cornerstone of yoga, is dissected for its dual role as a grounding force and a potential source of discomfort, prompting a deeper conversation on offering choices and normalizing a spectrum of responses. Moreover, we tackle the practical aspects of teaching, like the use of consent cards for hands-on adjustments and the necessity of self-care to sustain the quality of teaching, especially in group dynamics post-pandemic.
Included is a discussion about the art of crafting a yoga practice rich in options and variations that honors all bodies and abilities. Rachel and Darby explore the challenges of online instruction, affirming the critical role of language and pacing when visual cues are absent, and how the universal benefits of trauma-informed yoga that can extend beyond trauma survivors to anyone coping with life’s stresses.
Key Takeaways for this Episode(00:00) Introduction to Darby Rae
(06:53) Addressing trauma in classes
(11:27) The language of trauma-informed teaching
(18:00) Teachers' responsibility in trauma-informed classes
(24:01) Creating a supportive and flexible classroom environment
(26:31) Step-by-step exploration of trauma-informed yoga practice
(34:27) Importance of self-care in yoga teaching
(37:11) Building a trauma-informed public yoga class
(45:12) Trauma-informed yoga classes online
(51:02) Collective Resilience yoga teacher training
Links:Darby Rae on Instagram
Darby Rae Website
Collective Resilience
Hala Khouri
Kira Haglund
Santa Monica Yoga
Exhale to Inhale
GLO classes:Listen To Your Body Qi Gong with Stephanie
Regulate Emotions Flow with Elena
Nervous System Gentle Flow with Divya
Grief Support Hatha with Ivorie
Join Glo Teacher Annie Carpenter as she interviews Richard Rosen, a revered teacher in the yoga community, for an enlightening chat about breath, practice, mentors, and finding your voice as a teacher.
Their heart-to-heart talk explores the essence of persistence in yoga and how commitment enriches both our practice and life’s purpose. Richard shares about his influences and mentors, and how he evolved his own yoga teaching voice. He and Annie talk about Pranayama and how it is often underestimated in an Asana practice, and they explore the concept of karma. Richard caps off the chat with a poem that is a lighthearted reminder of life’s unpredictable nature.
Join us for this conversation that is as informative as it is inspiring.
Key Moments(01:33) Annie Carpenter and Richard Rosen intros
(11:05) teaching yoga
(14:12) pranayama
(20:03) teaching yoga philosophy
(22:09) the evolution of yoga practice
(28:13) life's phases
(34:40) exploring mortality … and a poem to lighten the mood
Links:Annie's SmartFlow Yoga
The Nest Yoga Studio (Oakland)
GLO classes:Take Classes with Annie Carpenter on Glo
Jo Murdock is committed to creating wellness spaces and practices where self-care and healing is not a privilege but a right. She emphasizes the role that representation and shared experiences play in creating safe spaces to practice, where people of color and the LGBTQIA+ community are welcome in wellness spaces.
But her conversation with guest host Rachel Autumn isn’t just about obstacles; it’s a celebration of real solutions to address the root chakra issue of diversity in the wellness community. Rachel and Jo don’t shy away from discussing the financial realities of being yoga instructors and the steps they’ve taken to get a seat at the table and a place in front of a class of students.
Jo has championed developing scholarship funds at yoga studios and created a nonprofit, Reimagine Our Wellness, to foster accessible and equitable wellness spaces for people of color and the LGBTQIA+ community.
KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR THIS EPISODE
(00:01) Inclusive yoga and wellness spaces
(05:01) Exploring social equity in yoga
(11:41) Barriers and representation in yoga spaces
(20:48) Scholarship fund for underrepresented communities
(38:22) Navigating diversity and inclusion in yoga
(54:09) Yoga teachers' responsibility and compensation
(01:06:30) Expanding the vision of reimagining wellness
(01:13:09) Reimagining wellness and community support
Links:Jo’s website
Jo’s Instagram
Jo’s YouTube Channel
Jo’s TikTok
Glo instructor Kia Miller recounts her transformative journey of self-discovery through yoga and meditation. She describes how her Kundalini practice helped reframe her sense of self and examine limiting beliefs.
Kia shares how a summer-long spiritual retreat surfaced deep-seated negative patterns. As her practice unfolded, she began releasing layers of self-doubt and reconnecting with core human emotions like joy, fear, anger, and sadness.
Listen as Kia and host Derik Mills discuss yoga’s potential to align our body, mind, and spirit. Kia draws comparisons between humans and musical instruments - both capable of beautiful vibrations when aligned. As their conversation continues, you’ll join an enlightening exploration of dreams and Kundalini kriyās, learn about yoga’s power to disrupt negative patterns, and its potential to bring out our deeper wisdom.
Key Takeaways for this Episode
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(0:00:00) - Inner life exploration through yoga, self-healing, and emotional awareness.
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(0:18:40) - The infinite journey: The impact of yoga on personal transformation and self-discovery.
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(0:23:49) - Kundalini yoga and kriyās: Shifting the autonomic nervous system and awakening energy.
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(0:37:22) - Yoga and elevated states of consciousness: Overcoming self-doubt and negative patterns.
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(0:47:08) - Kriyās for personal growth: transforming our state of being and healing the mind.
Links:Kia’s website
Kia’s Instagram
GLO classes:Kia Miller on Glo
Marc Laws discusses his inspiring journey from professional soccer player to sports therapy practitioner to yoga teacher with a popular following on Glo.com. In this deep-dive conversation with host Derik Mills, Marc shares about the life-changing power of yoga, discusses how he discovered a yoga teacher who changed his view of life, and shares insights that he discovered when he was an ultra-competitive professional soccer player who later became a sports medicine therapist and then yoga teacher.
Marc also mentions how thankful he is for the Glo team’s work in making yoga more accessible worldwide. He believes that the skills developed in yoga allow people to live with more love and connection in their lives.
Key Takeaways(00:00) Yoga, sports, and gratitude
(09:01) Discovering the power of yoga
(18:45) Influences of soccer on yoga teaching
(28:35) Reflections on identity, empathy, and parenting
(40:22) Yoga's impact and reach
(51:47) Exploring personal practices and relationships
(58:53) Gratitude for team, teachers, community
Links:Marc Laws' Website
Marc on Instagram
The Glo Podcast: How Understanding Neuroscience Can Expand Your Yoga Practice, with Celest Pereira on Apple Podcasts
GLO classes:Marc Laws' classes on Glo
Guest host Ali Owens visits with Tracee Stanley, author of Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity and a new book, The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices and Rituals to Remember Who you Are.
Tracee opened her first yoga studio in Los Angeles in 2001 and has been a Hollywood film producer. She is the founder of Empowered Life Circle, a sacred community and portal of practices, rituals, and Tantric teachings inspired by more than 25 years of studentship in Sri Vidya Tantra and the teachings of the Himalayan Masters.
Tracee and Ali discuss yoga Nidra, a meditative practice that is sometimes called “yoga sleep.” Yoga Nidra can help practitioners reconnect with their true nature, paving the way for personal transformation and collective healing.
The conversation wraps up with Tracee emphasizing the need for practices that are not just for us, but for the collective, and how we can use them to heal the world.
Links:
Tracee Stanley’s website
Radiant Rest by Tracee Stanley
The Luminous Self by Tracee Stanley
Tracee on Instagram
GLO classes:
Ali Owens’s classes on Glo
Jeni DelPozo realized that she had a passion for dance at an early age, and has transformed that passion into a love of all things fitness. Jeni’s Glo classes focus on strength training, cardio, mat Pilates, and HIIT.
Jeni describes herself as “slightly obsessed with fitness,” and says that she loves strength training, boxing, cycling, and yoga. She finds connections amid all of these forms of training and fitness because of her deep roots in Pilates. “Pilates is the base to all of my training. No matter what workout I’m doing, Pilates is the foundation for my body to take it on,” Jeni says.
In today’s episode, we’ll be discussing the cognitive benefits of dance. Jeni will also be sharing some candid insights into her experiences with burnout and how she manages it. We’ll touch on how reading books unrelated to fitness provides an escape and a sense of balance.
A few key points in the episode:(0:00:00) - Jeni DelPozo chronicles her career path from dancing to fashion, then to fitness and wellness, touching on her strategies to avoid burnout and engage her online students.
(0:12:02) - She stresses the significance of comprehending the business aspect of fitness, using her fashion industry knowledge, and advocates for integrating physical and mental exercises.
(0:16:55) - Derik and Jeni discuss how Jeni's collaboration with Glo has simplified her workout concepts, along with the benefits of her Pilates background in offering effective workout strategies to clients.
(0:28:54) - She addresses burnout and self-criticism in fitness careers, offering her methods for self-reconnection and understanding the motives behind workouts.
(0:35:28) - Jeni reveals her recent interest in reading fiction for leisure and her passion for running, alongside her plans to get a lifting certification.
Links:Jeni’s Website
Jeni on Instagram
Jeni on YouTube
GLO classes:Jeni DelPozo Classes on Glo
How can the practice of yoga transform your approach to one of life’s most enduring challenges—parenting? Meet Sarah Ezrin, award-winning author of The Yoga of Parenting: Ten Yoga-Based Practices to Help You Stay Grounded, Connect with Your Kids, and Be Kind to Yourself. She’s a mother, yoga teacher, and freelance writer.
In this week’s interview, with guest host Ivorie Jenkins, a Glo teacher, Sarah Ezrin opens up about her struggles with postpartum depression and anxiety, and how she successfully navigated these challenges using different modalities, including yoga, meditation, and medication. She shares her insights into the concept of Kleshas, the obstacles that life throws at us, and how changing our approach to obstacles can change our lives.
Together, Ivorie and Sarah explore how parenting can be a yoga practice all by itself. They discuss the art of balancing your yoga practice with the challenges of raising children. Stick around till the end to find out about Sarah’s East Coast author tour and also how you can connect with her.
LinksSarah’s Website
Sarah on Instagram
GLO classes:Ivorie Jenkins Classes on Glo
Listen in as our guest, Glo teacher and celebrity wellness coach Amy Rosoff Davis, shares her perspective on accepting benefits of meditation to help stay in the present moment despite the challenges of juggling a fast-paced lifestyle. As a wellness coach, mother, and entrepreneur, Amy is all about finding balance when possible, not only in her professional and personal life, but also in her fitness journey. She tells of feeling torn between work and parenting, and how she continues to work toward a journey to embracing imperfection and finding joy in mindful movement.
Amy shares her wellness routine and the supplements she uses to maintain her health. Amy also gives us an insider’s view of her work on the Glo platform and her excitement about working with the Glo team and teaching on the Glo platform.
A few key points in the episode:
[00:02:25] Acceptance and growth in meditation.
[00:04:15] Work-life balance struggles.
[00:07:38] Body freedom and self-love.
[00:12:00] Sway back and abdominal work.
[00:17:01] Addressing pain and making changes.
[00:19:29] Behind the scenes working with team Glo.
[00:23:15] Connection with online community.
[00:29:20] Infrared sweating and heat.
Links:Amy Rosoff Davis on Instagram
Amy Rosoff Davis website
GLO classes:Amy Rosoff Davis classes on Glo
In this episode, part of our series of 30-minute conversations with Glo teachers, Ali Owens talks about what it is like to work with Glo behind the scenes, how her teaching focus has shifted to pre- and postnatal yoga classes; she also discusses the connection she feels with Glo students, both on and offline.
What if you could strengthen your relationship with those around you by practicing mindfulness? That’s the transformative journey Ali embarked on through her practice of yoga and meditation. She discovered the power of presence, especially in the face of chaos, and how her energy can influence her three children in a positive way. Allie also shared her journey into the subtle body concept, learning more about energy work and understanding her physical and energetic self.
A few key points in the episode:
0:01:11 - Present moment awareness
0:05:47 - Meditation’s ripple effect on children
0:13:27 - Feedback on Ali’s classes
0:21:24 - The subconscious mind and the subtle body
0:26:00 - Exploring dreams
Links:Ali on Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.
GLO classes:Ali Owens Classes on Glo
Gustavo Padron had had to cope with imposter syndrome and his own inner critic, but to support his personal growth, he’s learned how to bring out his inner advocate.
As Gustavo, a Glo teacher, says in this interview with host Derik Mills,”You are enough just as you are. There’s nothing to fix, there’s nothing to prove.” Gustavo talks about bringing love and acceptance to his classes for Glo and his experiences working with the Glo team. Gustavo has guest-hosted The Glo Podcast, exploring breathwork with his guest Jay Bradley, a breathwork teacher and healer. You can find that episode on the Glo podcast feed, and we’ll link to it below, in these notes.
Links:Gustavo’s Website
The Grounded Practice
Gustavo on Instagram
Gustavo Guest Hosts the Glo Podcast with Jay Bradley
GLO classes:Gustavo’s Classes at Glo
Glo teacher Katie Baki hosts a conversation about yoga and mindfulness with Jordan Matthews, who has played pro football for the Eagles, Patriots, Buffalo Bills, and most recently, the 49ers.
Jordan was experiencing injuries as he played, and decided he needed to switch positions, and yoga was an important part of his journey to make that switch. Katie worked with him every week on stretching, mobility, and also mindfulness and breathwork.
In the interview, Katie and Jordan discuss how playing football involves more than just physicality. Successful players must bring a successful mindset to the field. Yoga, breathwork, and mindfulness changed Jordan’s attitude toward football and helped speed his recovery time after games.
Links:Books Mentioned on this Episode:
Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley
As a Man Thinketh: by James Allen
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!by Robert T. Kiyosaki
The Four Agreements by Don Miquel Rui
GLO classes:Katie Baki on Glo
Divya shares with Derik Mills about how she has reframed her relationship to movement through yoga. In the conversation, Divya tells the story of her journey into yoga as a Tamil-American who did not see herself represented in the yoga industry born out of her own culture. She shares her thoughts about how to decolonize yoga by creating diverse, inclusive spaces and furthering collective wellness as a form of social justice. Divya breaks down yogic techniques in a way that are transferable off the mat, turning a practice into a lifestyle.
Links:Divya’s Website
Divya’s YouTube, with videos about yoga, wellness, travel, and lifestyle
Divya on Instagram
Hot Spot Yoga in Oakland (mentioned in the episode)
GLO classes:Divya’s Classes on Glo
Stress is a presence that we cannot deny in our lives. We will find some evidence of it every day. Professor Douglas Brooks says that it’s up to us to rise to the challenge of stress and in so doing, head it off before it turns into burnout.
Stress, says Professor Brooks, is a natural and important feature of our human constitution. He recommends resources and practices that can help counteract it. Foremost among them is to simply breathe, and to make a commitment to our yoga practice. That engagement with ourselves and with yoga gives us empowerment.
LinksRajanaka
Previous Glo Podcast episodes featuring Professor Douglas Brooks include The Roots of Mindfulness, Part 1, The Roots of Mindfulness, Part2, and Creating an empowering relationship with anxiety, feat. Professor Douglas Brooks.
GLO classes:Professor Douglas Brooks Classes on Glo
Etienne Maurice, Founder & CEO of WalkGood LA, wants the organization to be a bridge for people to heal, be more mindful, and become more self-aware, through the practice of yoga and self-care. In an interview conducted by Glo teacher Ivorie Jenkins, Etienne, along with Namaste Marley Rae, Director of Health & Wellness WalkGood LA, and Ivy Coco Maurice, Stylist, Creative Community Entrepreneur, and Vice-President of WalkGood LA, discuss WalkGood LA’s mission. During the podcast episode, Etienne says, “We are who we are because of our grandparents, and we are their dreams manifested. We are their wildest dreams come true. WalkGood would not have come into our minds if our grandmother didn’t tell us to walk good when we’d leave our house. ‘Walk good’ is a Jamaican euphemism that means to take care, you know, take care of yourself when you’re out in the world, but most importantly be good to yourself. And it’s a healing affirmation that stuck in my mind all the time.”
“Yoga,” added Marley, “is used to relieve suffering. That’s why we meditate, that’s why we do yoga. And if we’re not talking about the things that are causing us pain and suffering, then we’re not using this healing practice to its fullest potential. I think if we’re able to all come together and have these tools and say ‘you are valuable enough to heal and to get better,’ we can all think clearer. We can all be kinder to ourselves, to the Earth, to the people around us. And in return we can all find a solution or a resolution to social justice issues.”
Links:WalkGood LA website: Walkgoodla.org
Etienne on Instagram: @walkgoodetienne
Marley on Instagram: @namastemarleyrae
Ivy Coco on Instagram: @ivycoco23
Ivorie’s website
Sheryl Lee Ralph’s acceptance speech at the Emmys, posted by the Television Academy on YouTube.
The Tree, Yoga Studio in Los Angeles
GLO classes:Ivorie Jenkins on Glo
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Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
In this interview with Glo teacher Katie Baki, Derik Mills asks questions about how to handle burnout. Katie describes how she seeks a yoga practice that balances Yin and Yang, and how practicing yoga online can be rewarding. Katie has a Costa Rica yoga retreat coming up and discusses the details in the interview.
Links:Katie’s website.
Katie’s upcoming retreat in Costa Rica.
GLO classes:Katie Baki’s classes on Glo.
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
In this interview with Glo teacher Khetanya Henderson, Khetanya shares about the power of connection, whether it is online in her Glo classes or teaching in person, and she discusses the daily routine she uses to keep herself centered. Khetanya has a retreat coming up July 22-27 with Natalie Valle that will feature Pilates, Reiki, and sound healing. There’s a link for it below.
Khetanya has guest hosted two episodes of The Glo Podcast, The History of Home Birth and Midwifery in America, featuring Sarahn Henderson, and Building an Inward-Facing Practice with Ivorie Jenkins.
Links:
Khetanya on Instagram
Khetanya’s Costa Rica Retreat: JULY 22-27 2023 PILATES, BLISS, & SOUND
GLO classes:
Khetanya’s classes on Glo
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
We can see anxiety as a problem to be solved, or an enemy to be battled, or at the very least, a feature of ourselves that doesn’t express our true self. But Professor Douglas Brooks offers the Sutras of Patanjali, other sacred texts, and lessons we can take from yoga, to explore a pathway to understanding anxiety that is empowering rather than debilitating, nurturing and protective rather than only stressful and terrorizing, and one that will help us enter a deeper relationship with ourselves.
Links:Rajanaka
Previous Glo Episodes featuring Professor Douglas Brooks include The Roots of Mindfulness, Part 1 and The Roots of Mindfulness, Part2
GLO classes:Professor Douglas Brooks Classes on Glo
In this premiere episode of a new series focusing on Glo teachers, Derik Mills hosts Mark Osmundsen, who talks about how his dance and burlesque experience informs his teaching, what it’s like hold space for students in an online environment, and the importance of vulnerability. Mark also shared what hobbies and pursuits engage him the most.
Mark has guest-hosted multiple episodes of the Glo Podcast: The Power of Dance and Kindness with Emmy-winning Choreographer Al Blackstone, Activism and Healing with Drag Performer Marti Gould Cummings, Learning Self-Love and Body Positivity, featuring Storm Marrero, and Embracing Sexual Power, featuring guest host Mark Osmundsen and Gigi Engle.
Links:Mark’s Website
GLO classes:Visit Mark Osmundsen’s classes on Glo.
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
Glo instructor Khetanya Henderson interviews fellow Glo instructor Ivorie Jenkins. A former professional dancer for film, television and stage, Ivorie fell in love with yoga and meditation as pre-performance rituals during her time as a dancer with Cirque du Soleil.
Khetanya and Ivorie’s conversation compares their experiences as dancers and yogis, as practitioners of an art form that is at its center outward looking, and a spiritual practice that is at its center inward. Ivorie discusses her early career influencers, her work with Cirque du Soleil, and a soulful trip to India that held some surprises for her. She reads from a blog about the experience and ends the interview with a short practice.
Links:Ivorie Jenkins website
Ivorie on Instagram
GLO classes:Ivorie on Glo
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
Guest Host Mark Osmundsen offers listeners a conversation with Al Blackstone, an Emmy-winning director, choreographer, and educator. Born in New Jersey and raised in a dance studio, Al has called New York City home for more than a decade, and has created many works for stage and screen, including dance narratives such as Freddie Falls in Love (Joyce Theater), Happy We’ll Be (Roseland Ballroom), Elephant in the Room (Arts on Site), NORMA (Steps on Broadway) and Brown Eyed Girl (2011 Capezio A.C.E. Award for Choreographic Excellence). Al has directed/choreographed reinventions of classic musicals such as An American in Paris (Cape Playhouse), Pippin (Music Theater Wichita) and Annie (Axelrod Performing Arts Center) and has choreographed dozens more around the country and Off-Broadway.
In 2020 Al won an Emmy for his work on the iconic television show So You Think You Can Dance where he has been making dances since 2016.
He is currently on faculty at Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center, and JUMP Dance Convention.
Links:Al Blackstone Website
Momen NYC
L-O-V-E for “So You Think You Can Dance”
GLO classes:Mark Osmundsen’s classes.
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo.
In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philosophical context and relate them to movement practices in yoga.
Links:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
Dr. Christopher Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured instructor on Glo.
In five bonus episodes, Dr. Chapple will give you a taste of the history of yoga. Telling the story of yoga’s history is challenging for many reasons. It’s a history that spans thousands of years and many cultures and can vary by interpretation, personal perspective and agendas. And it isn’t a history that is easily told in serial, chronological time. In the West, we like to think of history as “one thing happening after another.” the Bible, for example, starts with the words “in the beginning …”
But in India, our relationship with time is different. It’s maybe more of a spiral with feedback loops rather than a straight line. So, in this series of lectures, you can expect a journey that goes deeper and deeper. To the seeker of knowledge, they will, as these stories always have, take you on a journey to understand where we came from and who we are now.
“Drag in itself is a form of political action,” Marti Gould Cummings has told The Advocate. “My work not only in drag but in NYC politics has led me to run for city council.”
Guest host Mark Osmundsen, a Glo teacher, interviews Marti about representation for queer people in city, state, and federal government. They also discuss the healing and self-care practices Marti has adopted to cope with bipolar II disorder, and a suicide attempt.
Knowing you’re not alone, Marti says, can contribute to healing. And in sharing their struggles, Marti believes, will help others to seek support.
Links:Marti’s website
Marti on Instagram
Marti on Twitter
Interview with The Advocate
Interview with Vogue
Marti’s TEDx Talk
Monica Lewinsky’s TED talk
GLO classes:Mark’s class on Glo
Dr. Christopher Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured instructor on Glo.
In five bonus episodes, Dr. Chapple will give you a taste of the history of yoga. Telling the story of yoga’s history is challenging for many reasons. It’s a history that spans thousands of years and many cultures and can vary by interpretation, personal perspective and agendas. And it isn’t a history that is easily told in serial, chronological time. In the West, we like to think of history as “one thing happening after another.” the Bible, for example, starts with the words “in the beginning …”
But in India, our relationship with time is different. It’s maybe more of a spiral with feedback loops rather than a straight line. So, in this series of lectures, you can expect a journey that goes deeper and deeper. To the seeker of knowledge, they will, as these stories always have, take you on a journey to understand where we came from and who we are now.
Links:https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
Dr. Christopher Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured instructor on Glo.
In five bonus episodes, Dr. Chapple will give you a taste of the history of yoga. Telling the story of yoga’s history is challenging for many reasons. It’s a history that spans thousands of years and many cultures and can vary by interpretation, personal perspective and agendas. And it isn’t a history that is easily told in serial, chronological time. In the West, we like to think of history as “one thing happening after another.” the Bible, for example, starts with the words “in the beginning …”
But in India, our relationship with time is different. It’s maybe more of a spiral with feedback loops rather than a straight line. So, in this series of lectures, you can expect a journey that goes deeper and deeper. To the seeker of knowledge, they will, as these stories always have, take you on a journey to understand where we came from and who we are now.
Radha Agrawal is a community force. She is the co-Founder, CEO and Chief Community Architect of Daybreaker, the global morning dance and wellness movement in 28 cities and five continents with a community of almost half a million people around the globe. She has partnered with the Greater Good Science Center to engineer a self-assessment quiz to measure your happy neurochemical levels and prescribe a set of classes to activate your brain-body connections, supplement your happiness and boost your natural high.
Radha is the author of the best-selling book BELONG, which teaches you not only why belonging is important, but how to belong, to find your people who will bring you joy.
Radha is also the co-Founder of THINX underwear, a speaker, DJ, inventor, and investor. She was named by MTV as “one of eight women who will change the world.”
Links:Daybreaker website
Daybreaker+ website
Radha’s website
Radha’s book: Belong: Find Your People, Create Community & Live A More Connected Life.
GLO classes:Shakti Flow with Dance
Retro Dance Cardio
Dance Cardio Celebration
Joyful Flow
Ultimate Dancer Warmup
Why Movement?
Dr. Christopher Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured instructor on Glo.
In five bonus episodes, Dr. Chapple will give you a taste of the history of yoga. Telling the story of yoga’s history is challenging for many reasons. It’s a history that spans thousands of years and many cultures and can vary by interpretation, personal perspective and agendas. And it isn’t a history that is easily told in serial, chronological time. In the West, we like to think of history as “one thing happening after another.” the Bible, for example, starts with the words “in the beginning …”
But in India, our relationship with time is different. It’s maybe more of a spiral with feedback loops rather than a straight line. So, in this series of lectures, you can expect a journey that goes deeper and deeper. To the seeker of knowledge, they will, as these stories always have, take you on a journey to understand where we came from and who we are now.
Dr. Christopher Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured instructor on Glo.
In five bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast, Dr. Chapple will give you a taste of the history of yoga. Telling the story of yoga’s history is challenging for many reasons. It’s a history that spans thousands of years and many cultures and can vary by interpretation, personal perspective and agendas. And it isn’t a history that is easily told in serial, chronological time. In the West, we like to think of history as “one thing happening after another.” the Bible, for example, starts with the words “in the beginning …”
But in India, our relationship with time is different. It’s maybe more of a spiral with feedback loops rather than a straight line. So, in this series of lectures, you can expect a journey that goes deeper and deeper. To the seeker of knowledge, they will, as these stories always have, take you on a journey to understand where we came from and who we are now.
Linkshttps://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yoga-and-the-Luminous
https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theologicalstudies/faculty/?expert=christopherkey.chapple
The holistic psychologist and author Nicole LePera wants her clients and patients to feel more comfortable with being uncomfortable. She says that experiencing discomfort helps us develop resilience. This is what gives us all the courage to risk more and try new things.
This was part of her education into understanding why many of her clients had incredible insights and awareness about themselves, but still felt stuck in therapy. She empathized, often feeling as stuck as they did. A door opened for her when she started to include the body in her study of the mind. She saw the role of how both genetics and our environment played in shaping our personality and our connection to each other.
Links:Nicole’s website, The Holistic Psychologist
Nicole’s book, How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Guided Meditations from Nicole
Nicole’s Instagram
Nicole’s YouTube
Self Healers
GLO classes:Healing Breathwork and Meditation
Generational Healing Meditation
Build Mental Control
Finding Stillness Breathwork
Deep Relaxation Practice
Release Energy from the Past
Release Emotions from the Past
Manage Anxiety - Restorative
Celest Pereira, a physiotherapy expert, joins guest host Marc Laws II, a Glo instructor, in a conversation about neuroscience and biomechanics.
In previous episodes of The Glo Podcast, we’ve talked about how the brain perceives and creates the world we experience. Celest brings a new chapter to those conversations. She and Marc discuss nociceptors, the sensory neurons that respond to potentially damaging stimuli by sending “possible threat” signals to the spinal cord and brain. The brain creates the sensation of pain to call attention to the part of the body that might be at risk.
Celest is a co-author, with Adell Bridges, of Too Flexible To Feel Good, a book for double-jointed or overly flexible people who struggle with injuries in their yoga practice. She is also the host of the Love at First Science podcast.
Links:
Too Flexible To Feel Good by Celest Pereira
Love at First Science podcast hosted by Celest Pereira
Neuroscientist, psychologist, and author Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett on why we have more control over the way our brain processes emotions than we think we do The Glo Podcast hosted by Derik Mills
Dr. Ethan Kross on how to harness mental chatter, strengthen self-control, and develop emotional agility The Glo Podcast hosted by Lisa Brooks Mills
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at NYU and author Dr. Wendy A. Suzuki on harnessing anxiety for productivity and compassion The Glo Podcast hosted by Derik Mills
GLO classes:
Marc Laws II classes on Glo
A mindfulness practice can help you refine and redefine how you think of freedom. In part two of a conversation about mindfulness, Derik Mills draws upon Professor Christopher Chapple’s knowledge of ancient texts and stories to open up the concept of mindfulness and show you pathways into it.
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and has published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. Professor Chapple is also a featured teacher on Glo.
Links:Dr. Christopher Chapple Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas
Gurani Anjali Ways of Yoga
Nyanaponika Thera The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness
Joseph Goldstein Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga
Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University
GLO classes:Dr. Chapple’s classes on Glo
Learning about mindfulness doesn’t only happen on a yoga mat or on a cushion. In this episode of The Glo Podcast with Dr. Christopher Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Derik and Dr. Chapple revisit the Buddha’s journey into mindfulness by recalling ancient texts and stories. Dr. Chapple has published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured instructor on Glo.
Links:Dr. Christopher Chapple Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas
Gurani Anjali Ways of Yoga
Nyanaponika Thera The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness
Joseph Goldstein Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga
GLO classes:Dr. Chapple’s classes on Glo
“It ain’t never too late to discover yourself,” says singer, songwriter, entertainer Storm Marrero. In this episode, guest-hosted by Glo instructor Mark Osmundsen, Storm shares her experiences building her career as a performer in New York City, only to see the pandemic temporarily derail her plans. She describes the resilience she found to take her career in a different direction as she also cared for her mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Storm is an activist for body positivity who says she discovered her true sense of self through performing burlesque on stage. She has also performed in the cast of the prestigious Teatro ZinZanni in Chicago.
Links:Storm on Instagram:
@stormmarrero
Storm on Facebook
Storm on Twitter
Storm’s website
GLO classes:Selected Mark Osmundsen classes on Glo.
Dancer Focused Pilates
Strong & Steady Pilates
Loving Kindness Fusion
Core Strength
Feel Good HIIT
In the segregated American South, Black women were not allowed to have their babies in white-run hospitals. Black women had their babies at home, assisted by midwives.
Sarahn Henderson was called to the profession of midwifery in 1980. Curious to learn more about her profession and its history, she embarked on a research mission that took her to local libraries and archives of her local Department of Health in Georgia.
As she read everything she could get her hands on, she soon discovered that the narrative inevitably told the story of the white midwife, rarely the Black midwife. But she dug deeper, and eventually viewed a documentary called “All My Babies,” directed and written by George C. Stoney. The film tells the story of "Miss Mary" Coley, a Black midwife in rural Georgia. Sponsored by the Georgia Department of Public Health, it explores the life and times of the “granny” midwife.
In the interview with Khetanya, Sarahn Henderson illuminates the history of the granny midwife who delivered babies at home, outside the hospital system and away from the “medical industrial complex.” Every community had its midwife, who often went as far as her feet could take her, walking to get to a birth in a timely fashion.
Photo of Sarahn Henderson by Tabia Lisenbee-Parker
Links:Sarahn Henderson on Facebook
Birth in the Tradition
Maternal Wellness Hikers on Facebook
Maternal Wellness Hikers on Instagram
TED Talk by Ina May Gaskin
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
Special Delivery by Rahima Baldwin
https://www.khetanya.com/
GLO classes:Khetanya’s classes on Glo:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/khetanya-henderson
In part two of our exploration of mindfulness, Professor Douglas Brooks summons his extensive knowledge of ancient texts to help listeners access a deep understanding of mindfulness and its practices.
Derik Mills and Professor Brooks discuss how mindfulness is not just something you’re practicing on your yoga mat. It is a moment to moment practice that you develop every day. Professor Brooks believes the true benefits will come with commitment. “Little by little, again and again,” is the way to approach this rewarding practice.
Links:
Rajanaka is a tradition of individual learning and community education.We study mythology and comparative philosophy, art, literature, and especially the expansive definitions of yoga. Visit the website.
GLO classes:
Selected Glo classes from Douglas Brooks:
Origins of Asceticism in India
Identity, Ego and the Subtle Body in Early Yoga
Stages in Life: The Four Ashramas
The Sciences of Dharma: Dharmashastra or the Sources for Truth and Justice
The Role of Food
The Origins of the Word 'Yoga'
Varuna, Keeper of the Grand Order
Professor Douglas Brooks has long been fascinated by Buddhism and Hindu traditions. He lived in India with his teacher, Dr. Gopala Aiyar Sundaramoorthy, for many years, studying and practicing Srividya, Auspicious Wisdom, and the modern traditions of goddess-centered Tantra. In part one of a two-part episode, Professor Brooks recalls the roots of his fascination with both Buddhist and Hindu traditions and culture, and brings in ancient texts to help you chart a path into your practice of mindfulness. You may find that reflecting with him in this episode may refresh your view of mindfulness and your practice of it.
Links:Douglas Brooks at the Religious Studies Project
GLO classes:Selected Glo classes from Douglas Brooks:
Origins of Asceticism in India
Identity, Ego and the Subtle Body in Early Yoga
Stages in Life: The Four Ashramas
The Sciences of Dharma: Dharmashastra or the Sources for Truth and Justice
The Role of Food
The Origins of the Word 'Yoga'
Varuna, Keeper of the Grand Order
Elena Brower, Glo instructor, bestselling author, teacher, artist and activist, hosts this episode of the podcast. Her guest is Jeff Rosenthal, co-author of Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community. Jeff is the Co-Founder of Summit, best known for hosting global ideas festivals and events, and is the co-owner, principal designer, and developer of Summit Powder Mountain and Powder Mountain ski resort in Eden, Utah.
Make No Small Plans was published in April, 2022. Along with his partners in the Summit event series and community, Jeff has written the story of how community becomes a powerful human technology.
Elena Brower is a mom, teacher, artist, bestselling author and host of the Practice You Podcast._She _has taught yoga and meditation since 1999. Her first book, Art of Attention, has been translated into seven languages, and her second, Practice You, is a bestseller. Her third book, Being You, was released in early 2021. Elena's Essential Mentorship is beloved for bringing analog creativity to online study, and her spoken word work can be heard on Above & Beyond's Flow State albums.
Links:Jeff’s book
Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community
Elena’s BooksArt of Attention: Yoga for Teachers and Practitioners
Practice You: A Journal
Being You: A Journal
Elena’s PodcastPractice You
GLO classes:Elena Brower’s Glo classes
Mark Osmundsen has been a teacher on Glo for nearly four years. On this episode of the podcast, Mark Osmundsen hosts Gigi Engle. Gigi as an award-winning, certified sex educator and psychotherapist in training. Her writing regularly appears in publications like Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, L Magazine, Teen Vogue, Glamor, and Women’s Health. Gigi is the author of All the Fcking Mistakes: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life.*
Gigi Engle, ACS, CSE, CSC, is an award-winning feminist author, certified sex educator, and psychotherapist in training. As a sex expert with 3Fun, she promotes and teaches about pleasure-based sex education, masturbation, and safer sex practices. Gigi’s work regularly appears in many publications including Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle Magazine, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Women's Health. Her articles have been shared over 150 million times.
Links:Gigi’s book, All the F*cking Mistakes: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life
Gigi’s website
Gigi’s Instagram
3Fun App
Gigi’s newsletter, The G-Spot
Marc’s website
GLO classes:Mark Osmundsen on Glo:
https://www.glo.com/teachers/mark-osmundsen
Orly Wahba, educator, entrepreneur, and author of Kindness Boomerang: How to Save the World (and Yourself) Through 365 Daily Acts, believes that kindness is not something you practice once in a while, but instead kindness is a way of seeing the world. She’s a TED speaker whose projects include Dance for Kindness, Project Hope Exchange, and Life Vest Inside.
In this episode of The Glo Podcast, Orly shares the story of how, when she was a girl in middle school, a fire in her family home left her family rootless and her father without a business. The lessons learned during that trying time became a foundation for her to understand why kindness is vital.
Links:Project Hope Exchange
Dance for Kindness
Life Vest Inside
Buy Orly’s book, Kindness Boomerang
Orly Wahba’s TED Talk about kindness.
Kindness Boomerang video on Vimeo
Orly’s Life Vest Inside YouTube Channel
Making Kindness Viral by Orly Wahba
The Power of Kindness Orly TEDx Talk
Glo ClassesMeditation for a More Loving World
Kindness Meditation
Loving Kindness Meditation
Kindness Hatha Practice
Welcome Yourself Home Hatha Practice
Open Heart, Open Mind Vinyasa Flow
Bandhu Dya Kriya - Bandhu means brother or comrade. Dya means kindness. This ancient kriya was named Bandhu Dya as it is designed to help develop your capacity for kindness.
The climate emergency can feel overwhelming, and eco-anxiety can bring on emotional paralysis. But you can feel better-—and do a lot of good—-by taking positive action.
Welcome to a special Earth Day edition of The Glo Podcast. Eco-activist Heather White returns to the show to talk about her new book, One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet.
Heather shares about the many forms eco-action can take, and she’ll also share how when you make active choices to address climate change, this can help make space for your emotions and help you cope with the climate crisis. The secret is to take consistent actions, however small.
Links:Heather White’s website
Get your copy of One Green Thing
One Green Thing Instagram
Heather White Instagram
Climate Psychology Alliance
IPCC Report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
IPCC Report: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
GLO classes:Take Your Practice Outside - Earth Day collection
Earthing Meditation
Breathing With the Earth
Feel the Flow - Tao Yin
Earth and Water - Hatha
In this episode of The Glo Podcast hosted by Dice Iida-Klein, Alex Artymiak talks about yoga as a process of coming to terms with yourself, a process as demanding in many ways for the teacher as well as for the student. When you teach yoga, both Dice and Alex agree, you teach what you are.
Trigger warning. In this episode, Alex briefly shares about how he lost a close family member to suicide.
Links:https://diceyoga.com/about
http://www.alexartymiak.com/
GLO classes:https://www.glo.com/teachers/dice-iida-klein
https://www.glo.com/teachers/alex-artymiak
Breathwork teacher Jay Bradley discusses how breathwork has helped him heal and helped him heal others. Interviewed by guest host Gustavo Padron, Jay shares what it was like to grow up in a small Canadian town and the impact of being bullied for being gay. Jay talks about how he delved deeply into breathwork after attending a gay men’s group that had a breathwork circle. The experience of doing breathwork in the group was an inflection point for him, changing his life and, he says, transforming him on all levels.
Together, Gustavo and Jay make clear how breathwork can rewire your system. As Jay puts it, every inhale is brand-new energy that we’ve never had in the body before.
Links: Breathwork teacher & healer, founder of BreatheOnIt® and creator of ChakraBalms®
Jay’s website: https://BreatheOnit.com
Chakrabalms: https://www.chakrabalms.com
Jay on Instagram: www.instagram.com/breatheonitwithjay
GLO classes:Gustavo on Glo: https://www.glo.com/teachers/gustavo-padron
In this episode, Derik Mills and behavioral change specialist Shahroo Izadi discuss why kindness will help you find yourself and also meet yourself, to see yourself as you truly are. Shahroo discusses why she believes that diets cause more harm than good.
Shahroo Izadi’s first best-selling book, The Kindness Method: Change Your Habits for Good Using Self-Compassion and Understanding, helped readers change habits using self-compassion and kindness. Her most recent book, The Last Diet, focuses on changing unhealthy eating habits by developing a positive body image.
Links:Shahroo Izadi’s website: https://www.shahrooizadi.co.uk/
Shahroo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shahroo_izadi/
Shahroo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShahrooIzadi
Shahroo Izadi and Karisa Bate in Marie Claire
This writer killed her toxic wine habit with kindness. Here’s how…(https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/toxic-wine-habit-alcohol-678908)
Marisa Bate’s website:(https://www.marisabate.co.uk/)
Dr. Kristin Neff on Self-Compassion (https://self-compassion.org/)
Dr. Neff’s TEDx talk: The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self Compassion: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvtZBUSplr4)
Dr. Neff’s TED talk: Kristin Neff: The Three Components of Self-Compassion (https://ed.ted.com/on/zhq011AI)
In this special edition of The Glo Podcast, Derik Mills hands over the mic to two beloved Glo teachers, Jason Crandell and Dice Iida-Klein. You’ll learn about their development as yoga students and teachers, their favorite and most challenging poses, and their shared connections. Some of those connections are surprising: They both played hockey as kids. Others will help you track into a more profound understanding of the community of yoga teachers and how they develop just as their students do.
Links:Dice lida-Klein
Jason Crandell
GLO classes:https://www.glo.com/teachers/jason-crandell
https://www.glo.com/teachers/dice-iida-klein
There are many myths about what it means to have boundaries and why we may be afraid or unwilling to set them. Many women, says psychotherapist Terri Cole, are often raised to “be a good girl.” This is the highest virtue many women are raised to offer: Being liked. But when we prioritize other people over ourselves, it leads to a place of anger and bitterness. Terri Cole calls it “the disease to please.”
Her book Boundary Boss-The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen and (Finally) Live Free will show you have to express your preferences, needs, and limits so you can live the happy, healthy life you deserve.
Her mission is teaching women how to attract and sustain healthy and vibrant love into their lives and how to establish and maintain effective boundaries with grace.
Links:Terri’s special gift for Glo
The Boundary Boss book
Terri’s website
Terri’s instagram
Terri’s youtube channel
The Terri Cole Show podcast
GLO classes:Speak Your Truth Flow - vinyasa flow
Throat Chakra Truth Flow - vinyasa flow
Voice Your Truth with Kundalini - kundalini
Healing Energy for Neck & Thyroid - kundalini
Udana Pranavayu, Express Yourself - vinyasa flow
Take Time for Yourself - vinyasa flow
Healthy Decisions - meditation
Take Time to Restore & Soften Your Edges - restorative
Yoga Nidra for Total Well-Being - yoga nidra program, six classes over three weeks
Journalist Beth Macy was moved by the stories she reported about addiction. As she says in her interview with Derik Mills, “I’ve learned to pay attention to things that make the hair stand up on the back of my neck.” In her book Dopesick, she takes the reader into the epicenter of the nation’s opioid crisis. On the podcast, Beth shares her work process and some astounding statistics about the depth of the crisis. For example, in America, there is an 88% treatment gap, meaning that only 12% of people addicted to opioids have gotten treatment.
Beth and Derik discuss how drug addiction has been stigmatized. She shares some behind the scenes stories of filming the Hulu series based on her book, including her appearance in the show, and the fine acting work of Rosario Dawson, Michael Keaton, and Kaitlyn Dever.
Links:If you are in the front lines in the opioid crisis and would like to get in touch with us to discuss how Glo can help, please email us at: podcast@glo.com
Partnership to End Addiction
Beth Macy
Dopesick the book
Dopesick on Hulu
Glo classes:Yoga Nidra for Recovery
Cherish The Day
AM Gratitude for Addiction Recovery
Yoga and Recovery
Recovery and Reflection
Poise and Presence in Recovery
Tolerating Discomfort
Forgiveness Floats the Boat in Recovery
If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get on Your Mat
Create Space to Begin Again
Detox & Release Pilates Fusion
Gratitude Shift
Lisa Brooks Mills has a conversation with gymnast Katelyn Ohashi about fame, a healthy mindset, body image, the importance of rest, and Katelyn’s current creative endeavors.
You may remember Katelyn from her 2019 gymnastics floor routine that went viral. You may have seen her at the ESPY’s or in the ESPN Body Issue. She has been outspoken about having a positive body image, mental health, and the pressure athletes face when they’re in the spotlight and in private. At the ESPY Awards, she took home Best Viral Moment and Best Play.
Links:UCLA 10.0 on Floor Exercise (1-12-19)
Katelyn’s Website
Katelyn on Instagram
Beautifully Molded - Katelyn wrote, produced, and directed
Katelyn’s YouTube Channel
ESPN Body2019 article includes her poem, ‘Thin Line’
Katelyn ESPY’s 2019
Hollywood Reporter - ESPY Awards: Gymnast Katelyn Ohashi Gives Rousing Speech About Body Shaming
Glo classes:Body Image Meditation
Positive Self-Image Meditation
Meditation on Gratitude for Women
Deep Rest Yoga Nidra
Self-Love Sweat Fest - Pilates Mat
Love Your Body
Self-Care Flow
Love Yourself Flow
Embrace Your Perfectly Imperfect Self
Love the Skin You’re In
Hollow Body Practice
Continuing our series of interviews with first responders, Derik Mills chats with Erik Milosevich, a military veteran and retired police officer turned breathwork instructor. We met Erik through photographer, and fellow Glo podcast guest, Robert Sturman (episode #14), who photographed Erik and other military veterans who use yoga as a healing practice for PTSD and mental, emotional, and physical health.
Erik was a US Army 82nd Airborne Division Recon/Sniper and an international competitor on the All Army Taekwondo Team. As a police officer with the Santa Monica Police Department, Erik served on a variety of assignments, including collateral SWAT, Field Training Officer, Narcotics Investigator, and Neighborhood Resource Officer. He was also a Krav Maga Law Enforcement Instructor and taught classes on implicit and gender bias as well as defensive tactics.
Erik has spent the last 25 years designing programs and training police officers in yoga, meditation and breathwork, and is a certified Wim Hof Method Instructor. In today’s episode, he shares his career of service, how he discovered yoga and breathwork, and the powerful benefits they have had while training law enforcement.
TRIGGER WARNING: We discuss PTSD and suicide in this episode.
Photo Credit: Robert Sturman
Links:Robert Sturman’s website
Erik on Robert’s Instagram
Erik on Instagram
GLO classes:
Pranayama, An Introductory Practice
Balance Your Heart and Mind - Breathwork
Recenter Yourself - Breathwork
Grounding Breathwork
Bathed in Breath Flow
Manage Anxiety - Flow
Shining Skull Breath - Breathwork
Self-care Flow
“What should I eat?” can be an emotional question for many of us, particularly during the holidays. In today’s episode, Lisa Brooks Mills speaks with Vanessa Rissetto, a registered dietitian, the co-founder of Culina Health, and the dietician intern director at New York University.
Vanessa shares lifestyle adjustments for healthy eating habits that are sustainable, and how to prepare and support yourself with healthy choices throughout the holidays. She also discusses the key differences between dieticians and nutritionists so you can learn to navigate the growing world of social media and wellness.
Links:Vanessa’s website
Vanessa on Instagram
Culina Health
Vanessa in Bon Appetit
GLO classes:Yoga Before Big Meals
Digestion Light Flow
Healthy Habits Flow
Digestive Booster
Digestion Supporting Flow
Pilates for Digestion
Antidote Yoga for Holiday Excess - Restorative
Mindful Meal Meditation
Elazar Aslan is the Founder and CEO of Caterfly Solutions, a coaching firm that specializes in helping leaders operate from their peak potential to have a positive and sustainable impact on their businesses and communities. He recently co-authored “Boundless Leadership” with Dr. Joe Loizzo, who appeared on episode 32 of The Glo Podcast.
Today’s episode dives deeper into the kind of self-work authentic leadership requires. Elazar shares from his personal experience of endeavoring inward to discover his own leadership potential as well as his proven leadership principles and meditation practices he has used to guide leaders in corporations, including Chase, D&B, MasterCard, American Express, and ADP, as well as hyper-growth start-ups.
His views on leadership invite us to question our definition of what a leader is, and he has found that effective and healthy leadership is really about what is going on inside the leader. This interview is a follow-up conversation to Derik’s interview with Dr. Joe Loizzo, co-author of Boundless Leadership with Elazar, episode 32 (linked below).
Links:Elazar's website
Boundless Leadership book site
Nalanda Institute
Article: What is Psychological Safety?
Harvard Business Review: What Psychological Safety Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace
A Little Book on the Human Shadow by Robert Bly
Derik Mills speaks with Dr. Joe Loizzo, co-author, with Elazar Aslan, on their new business book Boundless Leadership. Leadership is traditionally tied to stress and assumptions about stress. Dr. Joe Loizzo, psychotherapist, clinical researcher, and Buddhist scholar-teacher, speaks with Derik about pivoting from stress-fueled leadership styles to a kind of leadership that focuses on co-creating psychologically safe and meaningful relationships at work.
The workplace is where we spend most waking hours, and business has become, as Dr. Loizzo says, the dominant force on the planet. It’s time to reexamine how it is shaping us and how we can shape it so we can experience more compassion and fulfillment through our work.
In this conversation, Dr. Loizzo reveals their science-based vision of leadership grounded in current neuroscience and contemplative practices. Their systematic roadmap provides methods of training the mind that is secular, tradition neutral, such that anyone can use them to help transform our mind, body, and brain.
Links:https://boundlessleadershipbook.com
https://nalandainstitute.org
Best-selling author and founder, Byron Katie, wrote Loving What Is and A Mind at Home with Itself: Finding Freedom in a World of Suffering with co-author Stephen Mitchell. She is the founder of Byron Katie International, an organization that includes the School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California, and she is the host of “At Home With Byron Katie,” a podcast and weekly Zoom session.
Byron Katie teaches a method of self-examination called “The Work” which grew out of her own spiritual journey and experience with depression. In this introspective conversation with Lisa Brooks Mills, Byron shares her personal journey that inspired “The Work” and the power of simply witnessing, instead of reacting, as a way to build compassion. She also shares the critical questions that make her method so successful in healing trauma of all kinds.
Trigger warning for this episode: Byron discusses topics about individuals who experienced sexual abuse.
Links:Byron Katie’s Website: The Work
Instructions on how to do The Work from Byron Katie’s website
Join Byron Katie’s at home zoom sessions
Byron Katie’s Podcast
Bryon Katie - Twitter
Byron Katie - Instagram
The Work of BK - YouTube
Glo classes to complement this episode:From Grieving to Surrender - Meditation
Energy Clearing Yoga Nidra
Release & Let Go - Hatha Flow
Slow Flow for Compassion - Vinyasa Flow
Heart-Opening Vinyasa Flow
For over two decades Heather White, the founder and author of One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet, has led organizations to transform environmental overwhelm into consistent, personalized, and positive action. She is an environmental lawyer, writer, consultant, motivational speaker, nonprofit executive, and former Senate staffer.
Heather chats with Lisa Brooks Mills on The Glo Podcast about the current state of the crisis, its impact on mental health, and how you can create real, meaningful change using her Superpower Assessment.
Links:One Green Thing
Heather’s consulting website
350.org
COP26 Follow #COP26
The Paris Agreement
EWG.org
Al Gore’s book ‘Earth in the Balance’
Yellowstone National Park
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Green Climate Fund
National Wildlife Federation - Certify your Habitat
David Quammen‘s book ‘Spillover’
GLO classes:Earthing Meditation Meditation
Meditation for Healing the Planet Meditation
Breathing With the Earth Meditation
Your Body is Your Earth
Earth Element Flow
Walking Meditation
Living a Green Lifestyle
Earth, Water, Fire in the Yogavasistha Lecture
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is the University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, as the Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. She is also the author of How Emotions Are Made and, more recently, Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain, an accessible book about science that she considers “the first neuroscience ‘beach read.’”
Today’s episode invites you to explore the origin of your emotional intelligence. Consider that most of our life is lived inside of our head. Our brain creates our mind which controls our actions, which determines the kind of person that we are. Dr. Barrett’s research reveals that we actually have more control over that process than we think or feel we do.
Links: Dr. Barrett’s books
GLO classes:Yoga Nidra for Emotional Balance
Heartful Flow
Mind Heart Soul Flow
Flow With Your Feelings
Our Connection to Compassion Meditation
Continuing our series of interviews with first responders, Derik Mills chats with Amber Miskovich, a former medic, firefighter, and paramedic turned yoga teacher and studio owner. We met Amber through the photographer Robert Sturman, who has photographed first responders doing yoga.
In our interview, Amber shares that “first responders, on average, only live five years past retirement.” After leaving her career as a firefighter, Amber experienced this steep psychological and physical price firsthand. It was then that she turned to Save A Warrior or (SAW), an innovative "war detox" program for Warriors suffering from Post Traumatic Stress. She shares how this helped her find a new passion in service through wellness, massage, yoga, and meditation. She went on to open a yoga studio in her home state of Ohio, where she teaches yoga and breathwork as a practice for current and former first responders to deal with the demands and PTSD of their demanding careers.
Links:Amber’s studio
Amber carrying Robert Sturman
6 photo carousel
Amber in side plank holding an axe
Robert Sturman Photography
Save A Warrior Practice with Amber: Massage for shoulders and hips with Amber 1
Massage for shoulders and hips with Amber 2
iREST 1
iREST 2
45 min power flow with Amber Miskovich
GLO classes:Slow and Simple
Mindful Stretch Hatha
Flow & Breathwork
Breathing to Release Stress
Powerful Breathwork & Meditation
Meditation Mini-Retreat
Do you talk to yourself? Don’t worry, we all do. In today’s episode, Lisa speaks with Dr. Ethan Kross, an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and author of the bestselling, Chatter: The Voice in Your Head and How to Harness It. Dr. Kross shares his research in the world of inner chatter and the ways it can be harmful to our relationships, our confidence, and even our creativity when it becomes part of an ongoing stress response to the outside world. As Dr. Kross says in the interview, “The stress response was not designed for long engagements, only short-term deployments.”
Dr. Kross shares tools from his recent book for successfully navigating the inner world of your thoughts and harnessing your inner voice to your advantage.
Links:
Ethan Kross website: https://www.ethankross.com/
Chatter Quiz - How well do you know your inner voice?
GLO classes:
Calm the Mind Through Flow
Settle the Mind Flow
Mental Reset Flow
Meditation for Focus and Clarity
Tonal Meditation
Koya Webb is a Glo teacher, Wellness Visionary, Educator, & Founder of Get Loved Up. She has over 15 years of experience in holistic health studies and dedicates herself to supporting those who suffer from chronic disease through building sustainable, daily self-care, plant-based nutrition, and eco-friendly practices. In this episode, Koya chats with Derik about how she discovered yoga in college as an Olympic Track & Field hopeful after sustaining a debilitating injury. She spent a year in recovery practicing yoga and breathwork and went on to win her conference title and was ranked 13th in the nation.
Today, Koya is the founder of Get Loved Up, an international lifestyle community and Yoga School that inspires mental, spiritual and physical health through an app, online courses, retreats, in-person yoga teacher training events, and the Get Loved Up Podcast. Koya shares the ways she prioritizes wellness for herself and her team, her forgiveness rituals, and the ups and the downs of publishing her latest book How to Turn Common Obstacles into Seeds for Growth.”
Trigger warning for this episode: Koya brings up the topics of sexual assault and rape culture.
Links:Koya’s book Let Your Fears Make You Fierce is relaunching with a redesign. https://koya-webb.mykajabi.com/koya-webb-let-your-fears-make-you-fierce
Her website: https://koyawebb.com/
Her podcast is called Get Loved Up
https://koyawebb.com/podcast/
https://www.instagram.com/koyawebb/
GLO classes:Gentle Morning Vinyasa https://www.glo.com/class/10758
Flow for Fluidity https://www.glo.com/class/10748
Mindful Movement https://www.glo.com/class/10293
Empowered Vinyasa Flow https://www.glo.com/class/10362
Go Within Yin Fusion https://www.glo.com/class/10370
We met U.S. Army veteran Charley Jordan through photographer, and fellow Glo podcast guest, Robert Sturman (episode #14). Sturman photographed Charley and other military veterans who use yoga as a healing practice for PTSD as well as mental, emotional, and physical effects due to their careers.
Charley is now a college adjunct professor, flower farmer, and owner of Jordan Farms in Tennessee. Charley and Derik discuss his 28 years of service and how he discovered yoga and horticulture as a way of safely dealing with and healing from the intense emotion and trauma of a demanding career. He shares about a veterans organization called Connected Warriors, and how his commitment to his yoga practice and connection with the earth changed his life.
Links:
Jordan Farms
https://www.jordanfarmstn.com
Suicide Prevention Lifeline
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Veterans Crisis Line
https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/about/what-is-vcl
Connected Warriors
https://connectedwarriors.org
Robert Sturman Studio
https://www.robertsturmanstudio.com
Robert Sturman’s interview on The Glo Podcast
https://podcast.glo.com/podcast/how-dedication-to-our-practice-can-enhance-our-life-and-fuel-creativity-with-robert-sturman-internationally-celebrated-photographer/
Charley featured in Robert Sturman’s photography:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzY-PheAC7W/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKRNhI9hhsb/
GLO classes:
Practice Presence Outdoors https://www.glo.com/class/10913
Beginning Ashtanga Flow https://www.glo.com/class/9978
Grounding for A Difficult Day https://www.glo.com/class/5914
Shift Your Mental Landscape https://www.glo.com/class/7058
Mental Clarity Flow https://www.glo.com/class/1901
Derik Mills speaks with Drybar’s co-founder, Alli Webb, about starting new ventures, approaching difficult conversations, and the positive impact that professional and personal coaching has had on her leadership. Alli says her inner and outer journeys have been crucial to her success in business and personal relationships. It’s what’s supported her in developing confidence in her creativity, conquering imposter syndrome, and ultimately contributing to additional ventures like Becket and Quill, Squeeze, and Okay Humans. This episode covers her real-life experiences, mistakes, and victories in business and in life and may even help you discover the business genius inside of you.
Links:
Alli Webb on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliwebb/
Drybar: https://www.drybar.com
Becket + Quill: https://www.becketandquill.com
Squeeze: https://www.instagram.com/squeeze/
Okay Humans: https://www.okayhumans.com
GLO classes:
Visualization Into Actualization https://www.glo.com/class/4488
Empowering Your Morning https://www.glo.com/class/9687
Flow for Motivation https://www.glo.com/class/11184
Center Your Midline https://www.glo.com/class/10493
All Around Flow to Inspire https://www.glo.com/class/10018
We all have moments that inspire us to change or dedicate ourselves to something we would have never guessed or expected. Glo teacher Annie Carpenter, shares the importance of presence and how our yoga practice can support us in cultivating presence. Annie shares about the early days of YogaGlo, the teachers who impacted her life, the Katha Upanishad, and how her practice (as a teacher and student) has evolved. They also discuss her teacher training program, SmartFLOW, and the ways her passion for birding is another exercise in presence.
Links:
https://www.smartflowyoga.com/
GLO classes:
Radical Acceptance https://www.glo.com/class/5399
Here and Now https://www.glo.com/class/9245
Mindfulness Meditation https://www.glo.com/class/10910
Steady Breath Flow https://www.glo.com/class/11070
Strong Supported Hatha https://www.glo.com/class/10909
Most people say, “I want to get rid of all the stress in my life” or “I don’t want any anxiety in my life.” But, as Dr. Wendy A. Suzuki explains, we all need good anxiety. Anxiety is the fire that drives us forward.
As the Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at the Center for Neural Science at New York University, Dr. Suzuki is known for her research on our ability to form and retain new long-term memories, but after experiencing her own issues around anxiety and weight gain, she changed course. Now she studies the connection between anxiety and aerobic exercise and its positive impact on our memory and cognitive abilities. The tools she shares from her books, “Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion” and “Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain & Do Everything Better,” are incredibly impactful and easy to implement.
Links:
https://www.wendysuzuki.com
GLO classes:
Kundalini to Release Anxiety https://www.glo.com/class/10836
Manage Anxiety https://www.glo.com/class/10891
Focus on the Breath and Body to Bring Calm to Our Lives https://www.glo.com/class/2043
Welcoming Peace https://www.glo.com/class/10035
Find Shelter Within https://www.glo.com/class/9317
Derik discusses the founding years of Glo with the first teacher he approached, Jo Tastula. Located in Western Australia, Jo chats with Derik about her unique upbringing, how it changed her teaching style, and the ups and downs of her journey to becoming a yoga teacher. She shares how her practice has helped to create a sacred space for healing in some of her most difficult moments—losing both of her parents, pregnancy, and parenthood. Jo shares profound anecdotes about her own journey to becoming a yoga teacher from mysticism and plant medicine, to the enigma of defining yoga, “Just when you think you have it, it slips from your fingers.”
Links:
http://jotastula.com
Jo Tastula on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jo_tastula/
The Stuart Watkins Podcast https://stuartwatkins.org/podcast/
The Stuart Watkins Podcast on Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-stuart-watkins-podcast/id1435966879
Yoga Heart Mind App: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/yoga-heart-mind-app/id1533800821
GLO classes:
Yoga Nidra for Burnout https://www.glo.com/class/10921
Earthing Meditation https://www.glo.com/class/9397
Mystical Morning Meditation https://www.glo.com/class/7972
Meditative and Spacious Practice https://www.glo.com/class/2758
Good Morning, Sun https://www.glo.com/class/9390
In this episode, Lisa chats with Damona Hoffman, an online dating coach, host of the podcast Dates & Mates: Modern Love Made Simple, and relationship expert on The Drew Barrymore Show. They talk about the impact of our wellness practice on our ability to find meaningful partnerships, common dating mistakes, and how to optimize your dating app profile. Damona also shares her personal experiences as well as the common frustrations and questions she gets from clients, like how to avoid “dating fatigue,” ways to decipher anxiety from intuition, and what healthy boundaries in a relationship look like. Learn more about Damona and her work in dating and relationships using the links to her resources below.
Links:
Damona’s website
https://damonahoffman.com
30 Day Dating Playbook
Damona’s Dates and Mates Podcast: https://damonahoffman.com/dates-and-mates-podcast/
Washington Post Date Lab: Daters say they don’t tolerate racial bias. Their actions say they do have racial preferences.
Related GLO classes:
Got Love? - meditation
Essential Self
Boost Your Self-Worth
Tending to Your Relationships - meditation
From the Heart Vinyasa Flow
Heart Opening Hatha
At Glo, we have an internal slack channel called “Member Love” where we post feedback from our members around the world. This is the second episode in a series on The Glo Podcast where we’ll be sharing a conversation with one of our Glo members. Today, Derik speaks with Kelly Alexander, a Glo member, certified yoga teacher, holistic health coach, and founder of "Raw By Nature," a website that offers nourishing recipes and plant-based lifestyle tips. Kelly shares how she maintains her own self-care routines that help her turn off and tune in despite the pressure of always being online while working from home.
Links:
www.raw-by-nature.com
https://www.instagram.com/_rawbynature_/
Top GLO classes:
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Sweaty Fun Flow with Stephanie Snyder- https://www.glo.com/class/1247
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Celebrate Life with Robust Poses with Kathryn Budig- https://www.glo.com/class/861
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Find Gratitude Flow with Kathryn Budig- https://www.glo.com/class/1160
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New Grooves with Stephanie Snyder- https://www.glo.com/class/9880
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Go-to Classics Flow with Kathryn Budig- https://www.glo.com/class/9733
Lisa Brooks Mills speaks with Jessica Zweig, an inspiring entrepreneur, personal branding expert, and author of Be: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself. Jessica shares how her struggles with low self-esteem, debt, and toxic relationships became the catalyst to creating, Simply Be, a platform dedicated to helping individuals and businesses uncover their unique purpose and personal branding ethos. Jessica shares how she developed this process from her own firsthand experience and now guides others to discovering and sharing this authentic expression within their communities both personally, publicly, and digitally. They discuss a variety of lessons Jessica has learned along the way, her self-care non-negotiables, and some of the inspiring transformations as a result of Jessica’s work. Check out Jessica's companion workbooks or join her SimplyBe Society for more nuggets of inspiration.
Links:
Jessica Zwieg
Be: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself
Jessica's companion workbooks
SimplyBe Society
Related Glo Classes:
Centering Meditation
Simply Be Meditation
Clearer Courage
Full Body Bliss
Center Your Energy
Empowerment
Derik Mills speaks with scientist, writer, and expert in the “Psychology of Technology” Dr. Larry Rosen. They discuss the psychological consequences of social media and our addiction to our devices. He shares his 30+ years of research in the field and the correlation between our cognitive functions, increased technology consumption, and our rising cortisol levels. Dr. Rosen shares the truth about digital detoxes, why multitasking isn’t actually as efficient as you might think, as well as the strategies and device settings that can help you change your relationship and reliance on technology. He also examines his personal experience with Parkinson’s and how he's building awareness for other sufferers.
Links to Glo Classes:Yoga: Boost Brain Function & Refresh Your Mind
Reboot Your Brain
Mental Reset Flow
Meditation: Choose Joy
Nidra: Yoga Nidra for Burnout
Lecture: A Brief Study of Samskaras
Derik Mills explores technology and its impact on our health in this interview with Larissa May, Founder and Executive Director of #HalfTheStory. Larissa, AKA Larz, is pioneering the future of digital wellness for the next generation. They discuss the importance of digital wellness, #HalfTheStory’s upcoming Global Day of Unplugging, the educational programs her brand is developing to empower youth to create healthy boundaries with technology, manage passive consumption, and “mind their scroll” as a way of being more deliberate in what they give their attention to. Larz also shares the challenges of building a brand, the ways to create healthy remote work culture, and her non-negotiables for maintaining her own self care.
Interested in joining #HalfTheStory and Larz in a Global Day of Unplugging? Sign up here: https://www.globaldayofunplugging.com
Linkshttps://halfthestoryproject.comhttps://www.globaldayofunplugging.comLinks to Glo ClassesGently Revitalize Body, Mind & Senses
The Art of Empathy
Digital Detox Yoga Nidra
Meditation in Movement
Love & Kindness
Self-Love Sweat Fest
At Glo, we have an internal slack channel called “Member Love” where we post feedback from our members around the world. This is the first of a special feature on The Glo Podcast where we’ll be sharing a conversation with a Glo member. Today, Derik speaks with Emer Deane, founder of Clear Path Coaching and Polyvagal informed Leadership and Career Coach who empowers women to befriend their nervous system and cultivate a compassionate inner narrative to unlock their potential and achieve their life and career goals. Emer shares her experience being diagnosed with fibromyalgia before joining Glo in 2016 and how our platform became a way for managing stress, pain, and recovery while avoiding medication as much as possible. Emer’s story reminds us to seek the opportunities in our challenges, to reframe our perspectives. She also talks about how she makes time for her self-care routines even when it seems like there is no time.
Connect with Emer
www.clearpathcoaching.ie
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emerclearpathcoaching/
https://www.instagram.com/clearpathcoachemer
Glo Links
https://www.glo.com/class/5245 - Just show up Stephen Espinosa
https://www.glo.com/class/10258 - Feel Good in your body - Jeni DelPozo
https://www.glo.com/class/2909 - Nerve Cleansing Practice - Jodi Blumstein
https://www.glo.com/class/9617 - Deep Rest Yoga Nidra - Elena Brower
https://www.glo.com/class/3230 - Unwind at the end of the Day - Stephanie Snyder
Almost 30 began as a podcast between two friends sharing candid conversations about spirituality, holistic health and wellness, personal development, rejection, fear, relationships, and finding purpose. They have since recorded nearly 500 podcast episodes and counting, and expanded their platform to a global network for women. Lisa Brooks Mills, Glo’s co-founder and Chief Impact Officer, chats with Lindsey and Krista about the importance of friendship, exploring and trusting their intuition, navigating judgement and shame, and their practices for living their most authentic lives. They also share about Camp Almost 30, a free digital day camp featuring entrepreneurs, healers, and leaders in spirituality and wellness.
Links:
Almost 30
https://almost30.com
Camp Almost 30, a free digital day camp https://learn.authenticaudience.co/camp-almost-30-2021/
Related Glo Classes:
Yoga:
Trusting Yourself
In’l Women’s Day Flow
Old Trusted Teddy
Slow Stretch & Release Flow
Program: Goddess Flows
Meditation:
Ease Into Evening
Opening to Trust
This episode of The Glo Podcast, Derik speaks with celebrated photographer and yogi, Robert Sturman, whose work has taken him around the world, into prisons, and behind the scenes on military bases. He’s also been the official artist of iconic events such as Grammy Awards, FIFA World Cup, and U.S. Olympics. Sturman discusses his parallel journey as a yogi and developing his skills as a photographer, and how the two practices have supported him in living a life of connection, compassion, and challenge. He describes yoga as “the most beautiful, figurative poetry ever seen in the history of art,” and believes that making a picture is a way for photographer and subject to collaborate together on the betterment of humanity.
Robert’s online course is called A Celebration of Humanity through the Art of Yoga Photography.
Related Glo Classes:
Sacral Chakra Creative Flow
2nd Chakra Flow
Inspire Your Creativity
Self, Creativity, and Family
Creativity
This special episode of The Glo Podcast features a talk given by Dr. Dan Siegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, at Glo HQ in Santa Monica just before the COVID-19 lockdown. Dr. Siegel gives an in-depth discussion on how to use The Wheel of Awareness, a useful meditation tool he developed with over two decades of clinical research studies. It’s a visual metaphor for how the mind works and a way to “expand the container of consciousness.”
Dr. Siegel has dedicated his work to challenging traditional ideas of the mind and the self. He breaks down misconceptions of these concepts to help us reach a new understanding of the human experience, which emphasizes our interconnectedness, unity, and the unequivocal importance of love.
Links:
https://drdansiegel.com/wheel-of-awareness/
Related Glo Classes:
Mindful Awareness of Continuous Change - 60 min vinyasa flow
Yoga Nidra for Self-Awareness - 20 min nidra
Beginning Mindfulness Meditation - 10 min meditation
Part two of Derik’s conversation with Professor of Religion Dr. Douglas Brooks expands on the origins of yoga, its rich history of borrowing from other cultures and time periods, and its connection to our understanding of true freedom today. They also discuss yoga as a form of self-care—in body and mind—and how we can ultimately live a more healthy, fulfilled life of connection and purpose.
If you missed part one (episode #10) of this conversation, you can listen to it on Glo.com, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast app. For more teachings by Douglas Brooks, go to rajanaka.com, and for more related content, use the links below to check out our extensive library on Glo.com.
Links to Glo Classes:
Teacher page https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-douglas-brooks
Part 1: The Origins of the Word ‘Yoga’ https://www.glo.com/class/5946
How the World Was Created by Yoga https://www.glo.com/class/5533
Is Yoga Religious? https://www.glo.com/class/3285
Part 2: A Deeper Understanding of Yoga Definitions and Traditions https://www.glo.com/class/3274
Vedas and Upanishads https://www.glo.com/class/3271
Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita https://www.glo.com/class/3279
Reading list https://medium.com/@derikmills/what-is-yoga-ce46420bf25a
In this episode, Derik speaks with Professor Douglas Brooks about the history and evolution of yoga in theory and in practice. As a Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester, Professor Brooks was a Fulbright Fellow in Sanskrit at Madurai University, and holds both a master’s and a doctoral degree from Harvard University.
They discuss Professor Brooks’ spiritual and philosophical journey into yoga, from his study abroad program in India, where he lived with his teacher, Dr. Gopala Aiyar Sundaramoorthy, and how that experience influenced his path to spiritual growth and his life’s purpose. Professor Brooks also discusses how Hinduism and Buddhism coalesce in manifestations of yoga, our ancient interconnectedness, and how self-care can lead to radical empathy for a more joyful world.
Learn more about Douglas Brooks and his teachings by going to rajanaka.com and tune in for part two on May 23, 2021.
Links to Glo Classes:
Teacher page https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-douglas-brooks
Part 1: The Origins of the Word ‘Yoga’https://www.glo.com/class/5946
How the World Was Created by Yoga https://www.glo.com/class/5533
Is Yoga Religious? https://www.glo.com/class/3285
Part 2: A Deeper Understanding of Yoga Definitions and Traditions https://www.glo.com/class/3274
Vedas and Upanishads https://www.glo.com/class/3271
Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita
https://www.glo.com/class/3279
Derik in conversation with Dr. Ramani Durvasula , clinical psychologist, narcissism expert, and author of “Don’t You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility. They discuss some of the reasons that narcissists behave as they do, and how narcissism shows up in the workplace and on social media. Dr. Ramani dives into how to recognize narcissistic personality traits in others, and ourselves, and that uncovering them can actually help us face our own “shadow self.”
This episode offers tools for compassionately, and safely, engaging or disengaging with these kinds of relationships. They also touch on how facing narcissism, and narcissistic traits head-on, can ultimately help us face our fears and become our more authentic selves.
Related Glo Classes:
Meditation on Space https://www.glo.com/class/6719
Forgiveness for Family https://www.glo.com/class/9340
Conscious Relationship: Resolve Inner Conflict https://www.glo.com/class/9094
Simple Self-Forgiveness https://www.glo.com/class/9248
Links:
http://doctor-ramani.com/
http://doctor-ramani.com/dr-ramanis-books/
Derik speaks with Jason Crandell, renowned yoga teacher and author. Jason has traveled the world educating teachers and practitioners of yoga and has become known by many as a “teacher’s teacher.” This episode discusses Jason’s education and philosophy on the vast and various definitions of yoga, including one of his favorites, Mary Paffard’s “pirate yoga.”
Jason also shares how yoga is a sensory experience of the musculoskeletal system rooted in consciousness and psyche and how his practice serves as a grounding force for the various components of the mind, or, as Jason calls it, a “titration of the psyche.”
Take class with Jason by choosing from a few of our favorites below! Or, search by teacher using the filter feature on Glo to browse all of his classes.
Related Glo Classes:
Foundations of Flow I Program
Start Your Day with Focus and Clarity
Vinyasa Flow for Circulation
Breath Focused Hip Release Hatha
Centering Evening Practice
Links:
https://www.jasonyoga.com/
Dr. Douglas Brooks translation of the Bhagavad Gita: https://rajanaka.com/product/bhagavad-gita-student-edition/
Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MYNQPMW/
Derik Mills in a powerful conversation with Dr. Yasmene Mumby, discussing her journey as a writer, activist, artist, wellbeing guide, middle school teacher, community organizer, and law student.
She is the creator of a multi-part audio-memoir series called Ahimsa, and author of “Amplify Black Voices: Yoga, You Can Do Better,” an influential article she wrote for Elephant Journal about her experience as a Black woman in the “predominantly white-centered yoga community.”
Dr. Mumby shares how a series of extreme health scares, including two benign tumor surgeries and an eye stroke, caused her to go temporarily blind. The experiences inspired her to view self-care as a form of activism, and how maintaining a healthy sense of wellbeing, both mentally and physically, is integral to our ability to serve others.
Practice with Dr. Mumby on Glo! Her meditations offer insights on how to shift intuition into action, create an internal refuge of support, and connect with your compassion for others.
Links:
Dr. Mumby’s website; https://www.yasmenemumby.com/
On her website you will find links to her audio documentaries Ahimsa and Higher Purpose, her articles, and the interviews we refer to in our conversation.
Related Glo Classes:
Dr. Yasmene Mumby on Glo: https://www.glo.com/teachers/dr-yasmene-mumby
Morgan Harper Nichols is known as an artist whose poetry, storytelling, and songwriting doesn’t just make you think, but actually makes you feel. This episode is a lesson in empathy in real-time. Morgan recites poems from her upcoming book, How Far You Have Come, and sings an a capella version of her song, Tell the Story. This powerful episode reveals how empathy expressed—in all forms—can help release us from our past and strengthen our connections in the present. They also discuss how her upcoming book of poems and personal reflection helped her reclaim painful experiences and re-envision them through a lens of appreciation, unity, and hope.
Links:
How Far You Have Come: https://morganharpernichols.com/howfaryouhavecome
Morgan’s Storyteller App: https://www.thestorytellerco.com/app
Related Glo Classes:
Open Heart, Open Mind
Amplify Love
Meditation for a More Loving World
Connecting to Love
The work of uncovering your authentic self can be challenging because it means relinquishing control and feeling the difficult emotions we suppress. However, it’s in the process of developing this kind of empathy for others that we begin to lead our most fulfilling life. Seane shares these and other lessons she’s learned along her spiritual journey. She and Derik talk about her experience uncovering her own biases and the importance of accepting ourselves as humans who are both good and flawed as a way to start reckoning with systems of oppression and white supremacy. They also discuss Seane’s social action work on and off the mat.
Practice with Seane on Glo! Her all-levels ‘Elements of Flow’ is a series of seven Vinyasa classes, 30 minutes each that focus on how to approach this powerful practice more mindfully. The core concepts include proper alignment, fluid transitions, and modifications.
Links:
Off the Mat: https://www.offthematintotheworld.org
Seane Corn’s website: https://seanecorn.com
Revolution of the Soul: https://seanecorn.com/book/
Seane Corn on Glo: https://www.glo.com/teachers/seane-corn
Lisa Brooks Mills, co-founder and Glo’s Chief Impact Officer, leads a conversation with Dr. Aviva Romm, holistic medical doctor, about hormone imbalance, discovering root causes behind symptoms, and healing. As someone affected by Hashimotos, an autoimmune condition, Lisa discusses Dr. Romm’s new book, Hormone Intelligence, and the culture of burnout and its impact on gaslighting women out of listening to their bodies. Dr. Romm shares how women can take charge of their health, including an emphasis on connecting to nature, honoring intuitive boundaries, and offers helpful tools for recovery that are practical and affordable.
Links:
Pre-order Hormone Intelligence here.
Glo classes and programs that compliment this conversation:
Releasing Premenstrual Tension
Celebrate the Divine Feminine
Programs:
Self-care for Women: Practices for Resilience and Grace
Navigating Menopause
Derik Mills speaks with Dr. Amelia Nagoski, the co-author of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Dr. Nagoski explains how stress not only affects our emotional and physical wellbeing, but can remain trapped in our bodies. She discusses the ways patriarchy jeopardizes everyone’s health, but especially women and people of color. She also shares the importance of connectedness, the belief in something larger than ourselves, and the ways that radical care for others could be a way to overcome stress and address burnout.
Links:
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
First We Make the Beast Beautiful by Sarah Wilson
Listen to all episodes of The Glo Podcast at http://glo.com/podcast
Derik Mills and Professor Rhonda Magee discuss systems of white supremacy and white privilege, and how being “colorblind” denies how race plays an active role in our everyday existence. They explore Professor Magee’s “color-insight” approach and the work of other groundbreaking thought leaders in social justice both past and present, including those of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, and Professor Eddie Glaude. This episode weaves together activism, how to be an anti-racist, and mindfulness practices.
LINKS
Rhonda Magee is the author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness.
A TEDx talk by Professor Magee.
Derik and Rhonda spoke about feminist Peggy McIntosh. Here are some reference links.
https://www.wcwonline.org/Active-Researchers/peggy-mcintosh-phd
https://nationalseedproject.org/about-us/white-privilege
Derik mentioned an episode of the podcast Code Switch titled The Fire Still Burning.
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Listen to all episodes of The Glo Podcast at http://glo.com/podcast
Derik Mills speaks with Tina Lifford, CEO of The Inner Fitness Project, a wellbeing initiative that teaches practices for navigating life with mindfulness and resilience. They discuss Tina’s thriving acting career (currently playing Aunt Vi on Queen Sugar), her work as an Inner Fitness Coach, and her book, The Little Book of Big Lies - A Journey Into Inner Fitness, which has received multiple awards—a Nautilus Book and Book Authority award winner and Forbes’ 21 Books That Will Make 2021 Your Best Year Yet. In their discussion, Tina shares how to overcome fear and start leading a more authentic life. She also touches on the importance of group work, developing a dialogue with oneself, and the power of journaling to uncover our true purpose.
Listen to all episodes of The Glo Podcast at glo.com/podcast
On The Glo Podcast, we spark conversations about expanding the meaning of self-care. Every episode offers inspiration for you to expand your self-knowledge and take action in the world.
We deepen our understanding of the connections we make in inner experiences that emerge from our biology, within our psychology, and through physical movement, and bring them into our outer experiences of relationships, workplace culture, and leadership. Self-care extends into our work life, our family life, and our innermost experiences of self. Self-care is not merely a concept we use to explore ourselves. It is a complexity of practices we can do with each other and by ourselves. We cover meditation and yoga practices, strategies to develop more inner strength and calm, and life choices to help you work with anxiety and burnout.
Glo connects people through self-care so that, together, we can heal ourselves and our planet. Podcast production assistance by Red Cup Agency.
Listen at http://glo.com/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.