Wisdom of the Body: Recent Episodes
Heather Grzych
The Wisdom of the Body podcast explores the idea of body intelligence as the real key to learning the knowledge of life – or what we call Ayurveda in the ancient language of Sanskrit. We do that by connecting with today’s creative leaders and experts who will help you listen to your body, trust your gut and live in deeper harmony with nature. Come join me as we unlock the golden door to clear, direct perception, and become very deep listeners.
Can people really change? Or do we simply become more of who we've always been? In this episode of Wisdom of the Body, Heather Grzych explores this timeless question through Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and the transformation of Jean Valjean, a man whose life is changed by an unexpected act of mercy. Drawing from Christianity, Greek mythology, and Ayurveda, Heather explores the forces that shape who we become—from grace and choice to our environments, habits, and experiences. She reflects on why some people are able to transform while others remain trapped in old patterns, and why lasting change requires not just different actions, but a different relationship with who we believe we can become.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
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Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
What Ayurveda Teaches About Uncertainty. Whether you're thinking about changing careers, ending a relationship, moving, or starting a new chapter, uncertainty can make even the right choice feel overwhelming. In this episode of Wisdom of the Body, author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explores why humans struggle with major life decisions, how keeping every option open can leave us feeling more anxious than free, and what Ayurveda teaches about navigating uncertainty with greater clarity. Through timeless stories from the Ramayana and Homer's Odyssey, Heather examines self-trust, commitment, the body's response to the unknown, and why creating grounding in times of transition helps us move forward. If you've been wondering how to stop overthinking, trust yourself, and know when it's time to make a change, this episode offers a thoughtful perspective that blends storytelling, psychology, and Ayurvedic wisdom.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
How do you know when it's time to change your life? In this episode of Wisdom of the Body, Heather Grzych explores why change can feel so difficult—even when we know something needs to shift. We often fear losing what we love: our relationships, identity, career, home, or the life we've built. Through the stories of Peter from the New Testament and Persephone from Greek mythology, Heather explores personal transformation, self-discovery, and the process of becoming someone new. Drawing from Ayurveda, she shares how observing your habits, environment, and daily choices can help you recognize when it's time to let go, grow, and create the conditions for a new chapter.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This episode of Wisdom of the Body, "Why Don't I Feel Like Myself Anymore?", explores the unsettling experience of feeling disconnected from the person you once were, even when nothing obvious has gone wrong. Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych examines why major life transitions often begin long before our circumstances change, drawing on Dante's journey through the "dark wood," the natural stages of a plant's growth, and insights from Ayurveda to show how identity evolves over time. If you've been searching for answers to questions like Why don't I feel like myself?, Why have I changed?, Why do I feel lost or disconnected?, How do I know if I'm going through a life transition?, or How can I reconnect with myself?, this episode offers a thoughtful perspective on personal growth, identity, self-discovery, and the body's role in navigating change. It also includes a guided heart-centered meditation inspired by Ram Dass's reminder that "The real work you have to do is in the privacy of your own heart," inviting you to reconnect with your inner wisdom during times of uncertainty.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Heather is joined by fellow author and career strategist Mandy Tang for a candid conversation about grieving the life you thought you'd have—and finding meaning in the one unfolding before you. They explore career disappointment, identity shifts, unmet expectations, fertility journeys, and the quiet grief that can accompany life transitions. If you've ever questioned your path, struggled with burnout, wondered whether you're behind in life, or felt disconnected from the future you once imagined, this episode offers a thoughtful perspective on resilience, reinvention, and how the body often reveals change before the mind fully understands it.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Mandy Tang is the author Heal Your Career Wounds: Navigating the Trauma of Today's Workplace. A career coach and holistic healer, she helps clients from Big Tech, start-ups, and the nonprofit sector bring more creativity and joy into their work lives. Her training includes an MBA in finance from Columbia, certification as a trauma-informed yoga instructor, and completion of a three-year shamanic practitioner program. Mandy runs the popular TikTok account @CareerCoachMandy with over 161K followers and a Skool community of artists and creators called the Everyday Creatives Club that meet weekly for accountability and inspiration. Visit her online at www.mandytang.co.
Connect with Heather:
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Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This episode of Wisdom of the Body, "When You're Between Two Versions of Your Life," explores the disorienting experience of feeling disconnected from yourself even when nothing is obviously wrong. Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych reflects on life transitions, identity shifts, emotional numbness, burnout, and the feeling of being "stuck" or lost during periods of internal change. Drawing from stories in spiritual traditions, including from the Book of Genesis, she examines what it feels like when your body, emotions, and sense of self begin changing before your external life catches up. If you've been searching for answers about why you feel different lately, why your life no longer feels fully aligned, or why you feel emotionally unsettled despite functioning normally, this episode offers a deeply human perspective on transition, uncertainty, and becoming someone new before you fully understand who that is.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This episode of Wisdom of the Body, "Is Your Supplement Stack Actually Helping You?", explores the growing confusion around supplements, herbal medicine, and modern wellness culture. Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explains why more supplements do not always lead to better health, unpacking the difference between targeted herbal support and compulsive accumulation, the Ayurvedic concept of agni (digestive and processing capacity), and why simplification is often more supportive than constant optimization. Using personal stories, practical examples, and character references, she examines how wellness culture can encourage people to override their body's signals in pursuit of an ideal. You'll also learn how Ayurveda approaches herbs like Ashwagandha through individualized assessment, cleansing, and rejuvenation rather than one-size-fits-all solutions. This episode offers a more thoughtful framework for choosing the best herbs and supplements for stress, energy, inflammation, nervous system support, and overall wellness—while helping you understand when the body may actually need less input, less fragmentation, and more clarity.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This episode, "Why You Still Feel Stuck Even When You Know What To Do," explores the common frustration of knowing what needs to change but not being able to follow through. Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explains why insight alone doesn't lead to transformation, unpacking the gap between intention and daily patterns, the role of habit and repetition, and how overthinking can keep you stuck. Using relatable examples and a powerful reference to The Truman Show, she shows how people often stay in familiar routines even when they're ready for something more. You'll learn why change happens through consistent, embodied action—not more information—and how small shifts in your daily life can help you move forward with clarity, whether you're navigating a major life decision, feeling stuck in a routine, or trying to align your actions with who you're becoming.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This episode explores The Real Question Behind Having Children, and why so many people feel stuck when deciding whether or when to have a child. Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych unpacks the deeper reasons behind declining birth rates, the real question people are asking about regret, and the reality that you can't fully understand the experience of having a child until you're in it. She addresses what's often in the mind of people considering egg freezing and preserving fertility, and why daily patterns—not big decisions—determine how you move through major life transitions. This episode offers a grounded, honest perspective on one of life's biggest decisions, helping you shift from trying to predict the future to building a life that can hold it.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Part 3 of of 3 in the series "Why Part of You Wants Change But Another Part of You Is Afraid," this episode of Wisdom of the Body explores how to move through transformation when you don't feel ready yet. Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych introduces the concept of the "refusal of the call" and explains why hesitation is a natural phase of change, not a failure. Blending insights on physiology, identity shifts, and daily patterns, she shows how small, consistent rituals—not big, dramatic decisions—shape who you become and determine how you navigate major life transitions. You'll learn why the mind often races ahead while the body anchors in the present, how over-planning the future can disconnect you from real change, and why true readiness is built through repetition. This episode helps you understand that lasting transformation doesn't come from forcing clarity, but from aligning your daily actions with the person you are becoming.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and teacher of Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Part 2 of the series "Why Part of You Wants Change But Another Part of You Is Afraid," this episode of Wisdom of the Body explores how your nervous system and body begin adapting to personal transformation before your external life changes. Author and wellness leader Heather Grzych explains nervous system change, predictive processing, and identity shifts, alongside Ayurvedic insights into how attention and energy shape the body. You'll learn to recognize subtle signs of transformation – like changes in sleep, posture, focus, and energy – and understand why your body may be preparing you for a new role, including major transitions like career shifts or pre-parenthood. This episode helps you answer a powerful question: is your mind moving faster than your body, or is your body already leading you into change?
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Author and wellness leader Heather Grzych explores why part of us feels ready for change while another part resists, and how our bodies often know before our minds — or sometimes the mind races ahead of the body. Drawing on neuroscience, Ayurveda, and real-life client experiences, she guides listeners to notice the subtle signals of excitement, tension, and readiness in the body. Stories from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Wild illustrate how courage, growth, and transformation often emerge step by step. This episode is especially helpful for those navigating major life transitions, career shifts, or thinking about future parenthood, offering practical tools to honor threshold moments and take aligned action.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
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Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych explores what happens inside us when leaders, teachers, or institutions disappoint us. Rather than focusing on scandal or personalities, she examines the nervous system response — the tight chest, the bracing, the fatigue — that arises when authority feels unstable. Using the cultural moment and the paradigm shift illustrated in the 2023 Barbie film as a backdrop, she invites listeners to reclaim internal authority instead of outsourcing certainty to charismatic figures. This episode offers a grounded, embodied framework for discernment, emotional maturity, and self-trust in a time when external structures feel increasingly unreliable.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE: https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda: https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych explores why the question "What is my purpose?" so often feels impossible to answer, and why trying to figure out your life purpose by thinking harder can actually make you feel more stuck, anxious, and disconnected. This episode examines the physical and emotional signs people experience when their life no longer fits, including burnout, fatigue, lack of motivation, and low-grade anxiety. Heather explains how purpose is not a mental decision or career choice, but something that reveals itself when you stop forcing answers and start listening to your body, your energy, and your lived patterns over time. This episode is for anyone feeling lost after a life transition, questioning their work or direction, or searching for meaning beyond productivity and external expectations. This is part 3 of a series on finding your purpose.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych explores why so many people feel stuck asking "What's my purpose in life?" – and why thinking harder rarely brings clarity. Drawing on embodied wisdom, Ayurveda, and cultural storytelling, Heather explains how purpose isn't a mental decision but a bodily signal that emerges when we stop forcing answers. Using contrasting film characters like Billy Elliot and Black Swan, she shows how listening to physical cues like energy, ease, and aliveness leads to meaningful direction, while ignoring the body leads to burnout and confusion. This episode is for anyone questioning their career, identity, or life direction and wondering why what once made sense no longer feels right.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
Learn more at www.heathergrzych.com
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health with Ayurveda:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych explores the question so many people are quietly asking: What's my purpose in life? Rather than offering a quick answer or career advice, this episode looks at why purpose feels so elusive right now, why so many people feel disconnected even when life looks "right" on paper, and how purpose actually emerges through small, embodied signals rather than logic or pressure. Drawing on cultural trends, a powerful statistic about meaning and direction, and the film Amélie as a metaphor, Heather explains why ignoring subtle inner cues leads to burnout and dissatisfaction, and how listening to what genuinely feels right can restore clarity, energy, and a sense of alignment. This episode is for anyone feeling stuck, questioning their direction, or sensing that something important is trying to surface beneath the noise.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
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https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych speaks with Dr. J.V. Hebbar, founder of EasyAyurveda.com and Easy Ayurveda Hospital in India, about the truth behind Ayurveda and spirituality, and what it actually means for busy, modern people. Together they explore what spirituality truly is (and isn't), whether Ayurveda itself is a spiritual practice, and the role clarity can play in healing without drifting into extremism. Dr. Hebbar offers grounded perspectives on fasting, restrictive diets, money and healing, celebrity culture, psychedelic therapies, and the misconception of Ayurvedic practitioners as gurus, while explaining why a sattvic, truthful, and self-disciplined lifestyle supports mental health, courage, and clearer perception. This conversation cuts through spiritual hype to ask a practical question: Can spirituality make you healthier, and if so, how?
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She also serves part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally. www.heathergrzych.com
Dr. Janardhana Hebbar is the founder of EasyAyurveda.com and Easy Ayurveda Hospital, Mangalore, India, as well as the author of 10+ books translated to 5 languages. He offers treatment to various ailments at Easy Ayurveda Hospital, internship, hands-on training for Ayurveda students and practitioners at the hospital, online and direct Ayurveda consultation, video classes, video courses, books and ebooks on Ayurveda. easyayurveda.com
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Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explores how intuition, synchronicity, and those unexpected life changes often show up without warning, and how your body can sense new opportunities long before your mind does. If you're facing a transition, feeling stuck, or craving a breakthrough, this episode reveals why the biggest manifestations, life pivots, and moments of clarity can arise in ordinary moments. Learn how to listen to your inner guidance, stay open to possibility, and recognize when the universe is lining up something amazing for you. Your next transformation might already be unfolding.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Connect with Heather:
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Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
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https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych talks with novelist Sam Sussman, author of the bestselling novel Boy from the North Country, in a candid conversation about parents, family history, and the stories we inherit without choosing. Together they explore how personal loss becomes fiction, how caregiving rewires the body, and what it means to grow up in the long shadow of myth, especially when people can't help but wonder if you might be Bob Dylan's son. Sam reflects on transforming intimate family truths into narrative, while Heather brings her embodied lens to the ways lineage shapes identity, creativity, and the emotional patterns we carry. This is a conversation about grief, legacy, and the strange wisdom inside the histories we're born into.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She also serves part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Sam Sussman is the author of the USA Today Bestselling debut novel Boy From the North Country. The novel was named Oprah's most anticipated debut novel of the fall, hailed by Kirkus as "the most beautiful and moving mother-son story in recent memory," and Sam was recently profiled in the New York Times. Boy From the North Country is based on Sam's Harper's Magazine memoir The Silent Type on (possibly) being Bob Dylan's son. Sam graduated with a BA Swarthmore and M.Phil from Oxford and has lived in Jerusalem and Berlin. He lives in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan and his native Hudson Valley. http://www.samevansussman.org/
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Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
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Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explores the tragic and complex history of the swastika — a sacred symbol of well-being and auspiciousness in Indian traditions that was later twisted by the Nazis into one of the most feared emblems of hatred in modern history. Heather traces how the symbol's meaning shifted as it crossed cultural and historical boundaries, reflecting on how words and images can be deliberately or unconsciously transformed over time. Drawing from her background in Ayurveda, as a writer, and her personal experience as an American mother of child from a Jewish lineage, she asks whether a symbol can ever be healed, and how awareness, empathy, and communication might help us reconnect to the body of meaning beneath the wounds of history.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych talks with Wendy Valentine, author of Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play and host of The Midlife Makeover Show. Together they explore how midlife can be a time of awakening rather than crisis: a moment to shed old roles, rediscover joy, and say yes to the life waiting beyond fear. Wendy opens up about divorce, grief, and the courage it takes to reinvent yourself publicly, while Heather reflects on the cycles of transformation that every woman faces. This is a conversation about passion, purpose, and learning to trust the process of becoming who you really are.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She also serves part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Wendy Valentine is author of Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play and host of The Midlife Makeover Show, which is a top-rated podcast for women in midlife. Wendy helps women kick fear to the curb, reignite their spark, and wake up to what's possible. Learn more at http://www.WendyValentine.com.
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Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explores what it means to reinvent primary care through the lens of Ayurveda. She reflects on how modern medicine is good at fixing the body when it breaks, while Ayurveda teaches us to listen long before disease appears. Drawing from her own journey — from studying ancient Ayurvedic methods to partnering with doctors and reading blood work — Heather invites listeners to reimagine a healthcare system rooted in prevention, relationship, and vitality. The episode closes with a short meditation that envisions a future where primary care truly honors the wisdom of the body.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. Heather's first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
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Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych sits down with Kirti Tewani to explore a refreshingly holistic and creative approach to beauty, wellness, and Ayurveda. They discuss everything from resisting cultural norms like gray hair and navigating natural beauty influences, to the lessons we inherit from our mothers about health. Kirti shares insights on the joy of skincare routines, the role of Ayurvedic practices like oil pulling, and the importance of listening to what our bodies truly need: including sleep, stress management, and understanding subtle cues, or our “inner body voice.” They dive into how travel, local culture, and city living affect wellness, why no one owns Ayurveda, and how even reading a single book can shift your perspective on your body and the world. Along the way, they explore how beauty and wellness are inseparable, the power of silence, and why age isn’t always the culprit behind back pain - all underscoring a deeply personal, mindful, and culturally rich approach to health.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She also serves part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
Kirti Tewani is an entrepreneur, storyteller, and wellness advocate who is passionate about blending ancient wisdom with modern living. With a background rooted in Ayurveda, beauty, and wellness, Kirti’s mission is to make holistic living simple, approachable, and inspiring. You can find her very active on social media channels, including Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kirtitewani/?hl=en
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Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explores the journey from darkness to clarity through the lens of yoga philosophy. From the inertia of tamas to the restless empowerment of rajas, and ultimately the purity of sattva, Heather shares how these states show up in daily life, from the foods we eat to the way we breathe. Drawing on stories from films and books, she reveals how individuals and even entire groups cycle through these modes of being, and why true empowerment is found in the balance of control and surrender. Plus, Heather explains why retreat environments are intentionally designed to support sattva, and how you can bring more clarity into your own life.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She also serves part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
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Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych dives into her fascination with both ancient wisdom and futuristic possibilities to share Ayurvedic tips for surviving a dystopian world. From why the weather in dystopia matters to how simple practices like nasya, ear oiling, and growing herbs can protect your body and mind, Heather reveals five powerful strategies to stay grounded when life feels chaotic. Plus, she explains why oil is your best friend in harsh environments, and various kinds of dystopias. Stay tuned for her upcoming episode on Ayurvedic tips for utopia, because even “perfect” worlds have their challenges.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She also serves part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explores why some ideas and desires flourish while others fade away, and how fear, friction, and scattered attention often hold us back. Heather shares insights from Ayurveda, illustrated through the contrasting personalities of Ferris and Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, to show that true transformation comes when we face fear and take decisive action. She guides listeners through a short body-awareness exercise to identify which ideas feel alive and ready to grow, reminding us that courage, focus, and energy alignment are the keys to turning dreams into reality.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She also serves part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych reveals how your digestion, microbiome, and even yesterday’s dessert can shape your mental state. What if your low mood, anxiety or mental disturbance isn’t about some deep, unresolved issue from your past, but about what’s happening in your gut right now? You’ll learn why your mind loves to chase old stories, how to spot the real cause of a mood dip, and simple practices to reset your gut and reclaim peace of mind and clarity.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She also serves part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explores the idea that Ayurveda—far from being just a traditional health system—is actually a powerful tool for ushering in the next evolution of human consciousness. Broadcasting from the heart of the tech-saturated San Francisco Bay Area, Heather reflects on the concept of superconsciousness and why we may need inner technologies more than artificial ones to thrive in the future. Drawing parallels to Paul Atreides in Dune, she reveals how rhythm, breath, intuition, and ancient Ayurvedic practices could be essential for awakening our deeper intelligence in an increasingly fast-paced and destabilized world.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She also serves part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explores the complex relationship between cannabis, fertility, and longevity. Drawing from both modern science and ancient Ayurvedic wisdom, Heather discusses how THC can disrupt reproductive hormones, alter sperm and conception, and potentially impact the health of future generations. She explains how cannabis affects vital essence (ojas), nervous system balance, and long-term tissue health – especially as we age. Listeners will contemplate whether cannabis supports or undermines their unique physiology, life stage, and long-term vitality. A must-listen for anyone navigating reproductive system challenges or considering the role of cannabis in aging.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is the former president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych interviews Jill Pepper, CEO of Ozer Health, for a thought-provoking conversation about how the U.S. health insurance system really works—from the inside out. Together, they explore why so many Americans feel frustrated or failed by Western medicine, the critical gaps in the system, and why Eastern and natural medicines like Ayurveda often sit on the outskirts of mainstream care. They dive into what makes someone trust a healthcare provider, why trying holistic modalities can feel strange at first, and how to increase access to and adoption of natural healing approaches. It’s a powerful dialogue between two women who have navigated both conventional and alternative medicine industries—and are passionate about transforming how we care for our bodies and minds.
Jill Pepper, CEO at Ozer Health, with over 18 years in healthcare and employer wellness solutions, has extensive experience in western group insurance for large employer groups, wellness program sales, retention, and strategic distribution. Previously serving in leadership roles, she managed key relationships with employer groups, focusing on traditional western insurance, wellness programs' strategy and engagement and customer relationship management. For the past 15 months, Jill has directed her expertise toward launching The Ozer Health app, a digital platform aimed at delivering an accessible, holistic health solution that marries western and eastern practices. Her background also includes consulting services and advisory roles, such as her contributions to Impact100 Nashville board, where she continues to engage with healthcare innovation and community health initiatives.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych explores the pervasive influence of the negativity bias - the psychological tendency to focus more on what's wrong than what's right - and how it can disrupt our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Drawing from both spiritual and Ayurvedic wisdom, she unpacks how this mental habit creates emotional and physical impacts and blocks the subtle channels of the mind, leading to imbalances in the doshas and depletion of vitality. Heather shares practical tools for shifting out of this feedback loop. She reminds us that healing is not about perfection but about letting go - of criticism, shame, and old stories - so we can return to wholeness.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych speaks with health innovator James Maskell about one of today’s most pressing health concerns: cognitive decline. James shares his personal story of helping his father recover from severe memory loss due to mold exposure and explains why the current medical model is failing to address conditions like Alzheimer’s effectively. The conversation explores the early warning signs of cognitive issues, the importance of community-based care, and how lifestyle factors like sleep, nutrition, and social connection play a critical role in brain health. James also discusses his work at the intersection of functional medicine, technology, and community, including new tools like AI-powered decision support and virtual care groups aimed at reversing cognitive decline and transforming how we deliver healthcare.
James Maskell is on a mission to flatten the curve of healthcare costs and has spent the past decade innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. To that end, he first created the Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference with record-setting participation online and growing physician communities around the world. His first organization, podcast and best selling book of the same name, Evolution of Medicine, prepares health professionals for this new era of personalized, participatory medicine. Since then he has created a number of organizations to scale access to health focused care. His projects include Knew Health (affordable alternative to health insurance acq. 2019) HealCommunity (virtual groups as a service acq 2023, and TruNeura (AI powered decision support for reversing cognitive decline). He also consults startups, healthcare systems and sovereign nations in their efforts to adapt to Non Communicable Disease. He is an in demand speaker, thought leader and impresario, being featured by the World Health Organization, TEDMED, HuffPostLive and TEDx, as well as lecturing to healthcare audiences internationally. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two daughters. www.jamesmaskell.com
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych explores what it really means to address the root cause of illness – beyond symptoms and surface-level fixes. She shares two compelling case studies: a nurse with a Pitta imbalance and thyroid issues from shift work, and a high-performing executive who thought he had a gluten intolerance, but actually had weakened digestion from overusing supplement drinks. Heather discusses how healing often requires simple-but-not easy changes, and what to do when the source of imbalance isn’t something you can just walk away from.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych interviews Dr. Kela Smith, a holistic-integrative fertility and hormone expert, to explore how to decode and optimize hormones for enhanced fertility and treating infertility. As the founder of The Hormone Puzzle Society and a double board-certified Doctor of Natural and Humanitarian Medicine, Dr. Kela shares insights from over 25 years of experience helping women and couples reclaim reproductive vitality. Heather and Dr. Kela discuss the root causes of hormonal imbalance, the key differences between functional and conventional lab testing, and the roles of estrogen, progesterone, and AMH in conception. They also explore biohacking hormone health, as well as the impact of lifestyle factors like sleep, stress, and diet on fertility. This conversation is filled with empowering wisdom for anyone looking to better understand their body and support their reproductive health naturally.
Heather Grzych, ADLC is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally. www.heathergrzych.com
Dr. Kela Smith is a Holistic-Integrative Fertility and Hormone Doctor. She holds a Ph.D. in Natural and Holistic Medicine as well as Double Board Certification as a Doctor of Natural Medicine (DNM) and Doctor of Humanitarian Medicine (DHM). Dr. Kela is also a Board-Certified Functional Nutritionist (BCFN) and a 5x Board-Certified Health Coach (BCHC). She founded The Hormone Puzzle Society and the Hormone Puzzle Society Educational Institute. Dr. Kela has over 25 years of experience in integrative health and has published multiple books on fertility, hormones, and pregnancy as well as seven distinct online courses. She is also the host of The Hormone Puzzle Podcast, Solving Infertility Summit, Healthy Happy Pregnancy Summit, and Fertility Coaching Mastery Summit. www.hormonepuzzlesociety.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych speaks with Reema Datta — yogini, singer, and author of The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health, and Reality. Reema shares how her early exposure to yoga and Ayurveda from her Indian family shaped her path, from working at the United Nations to becoming a globally respected teacher of ancient yogic wisdom.
Heather and Reema explore the powerful influence of the mind on our health and reality, diving into yogic concepts like the kleshas (mental afflictions), the pain of regret, and how sensitivity can be transformed into a superpower. They discuss the role of the heart in cultivating peace and equanimity, and how practices like non-grasping and service lead to greater freedom and fulfillment.
Reema also opens up about her personal journey, including the challenges of life, and why yoga is not just for the good times — but a vital preparation for the tough ones.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally. www.heathergrzych.com
Reema Datta is the author of The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health, and Reality. Datta first learned yoga and Ayurveda from her mother and grandmothers as well as her grandfather, who wrote several books on Vedic philosophy. After receiving her master’s from the London School of Economics, Datta worked for the United Nations before leaving to study ancient yogic wisdom and practice. Since 2002, she has taught yoga and Ayurveda workshops, retreats, and trainings in twenty countries across five continents. Her students include Sting, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Zainab Salbi, Sujatha Baliga, and thousands of other practitioners globally. Visit her online at http://www.ReemaYoga.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych explores the Ayurvedic principles behind adjusting our clothing, food, and even the colors we wear as the seasons change. Heather emphasizes the importance of aligning our daily habits with nature’s cycles, suggesting that these changes help maintain balance and wellbeing. She explains that there is a deeper reason for altering what we eat and wear, as these shifts support our physical and emotional health in harmony with the seasons. Drawing from Ayurvedic teachings, she highlights how tuning into these natural rhythms can improve our overall vitality and prevent imbalances.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych interviews Nina Schuyler, acclaimed author of the short story collection In This Ravishing World. Nina discusses her exploration of nature's voice in her latest work, delving into the idea of moving beyond a human-centric world to one where humans coexist with other-than-human beings. Nina reflects on the challenges and beauty of giving nature a more nuanced, deep-time voice, inspired by everything from the songs of humpback whales to the language of bats. She also shares insights into her creative process, the importance of fiction in moving people, and how stories can foster deeper connection and sustainability in the face of the climate crisis. With her impressive literary background, including novels like The Translator and Afterword, Nina offers a thought-provoking perspective on the power of words and storytelling in shaping our cultural and environmental future.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally. www.heathergrzych.com
Nina Schyuler is the author of 6 books – novels and books about craft. Nina Schuyler’s short story collection, In This Ravishing World, won the W.S. Porter Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature and was published in July 2024. Her novel, Afterword, won the 2024 PenCraft Book of the Year in Fiction, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Science Fiction and Literary, and the PenCraft Spring Seasonal Book Award for Literary and Science Fiction. Her novel, The Translator, was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction. Her novel, The Painting, was shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award. Her books, How to Write Stunning Sentences and Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal are bestsellers. Her short stories have been published by Zyzzyva, Chicago Quarterly Review, Fugue, Nashville Review, and elsewhere, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies, The Writing Salon, and Book Passage. www.Ninaschuyler.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych interviews renowned yoga teacher Peter Walters for an insightful and candid conversation. They dive into the importance of social connection in yoga, with Peter emphasizing the value of encouraging conversation in classes to foster a sense of community. They reflect on the vibrant yoga scene in San Francisco during the 2010s and the profound impact of Peter’s mentor, Rusty Wells, whose devotional and sweaty yoga classes left a lasting impression on his own teaching style.
The discussion also explores the balance between memorizing scripts and teaching authentically, with Peter offering guidance on finding one's true voice as a teacher. They touch on the sometimes unexpected dynamics in yoga classes, like the social element of people looking for romantic connections, and delve into the essence of Bhakti yoga — the yoga of love and devotion. Through this lens, Peter reflects on how yoga can help us transcend differences and connect with something greater than ourselves.
The episode also explores the benefits of meditation, Peter’s daily rituals, and his humorous take on “biohacking” and eating what you love. They discuss the shift to virtual yoga classes during the pandemic and the unique dynamics of teaching on Zoom versus in person. Peter shares his favorite books, including Bringing Yoga to Life by Donna Farhi and The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer, and they explore the deeper aspects of yoga beyond the asana, touching on the true meaning of yoga.
Listeners can expect a conversation that blends personal anecdotes, yoga philosophy, and a sense of humor, offering fresh insights into the practice and teaching of yoga.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally. www.heathergrzych.com
Peter Walters is a Bay Area yoga teacher and devoted student of Life. He teaches an experiential, sweaty, music-infused, and celebratory Bhakti Flow Yoga practice. With over a decade of teaching public classes in person and online, leading workshops, retreats, and global festivals, Peter is on a mission to help people become students of their own lives—to practice acceptance and kindness, to open their hearts, and strengthen their voices (and bodies!) so they may truly Begin Again for all beings. In his former life, Peter was an EMT, tall ship sailor, fisherman, line cook, and social entrepreneur. When he's not teaching yoga, you can find him motorcycling on windy roads, reading in the sun, and going on hikes with his trusty companion, Sir Huckleberry Finn. Join him online, or at a retreat somewhere around the world! www.peteryoga.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych discusses the impact that emotions have on the body, and the risk of doing nothing about it. She discusses how not to let negative emotions hold you back, and what people do to make a major shift when they’ve been holding onto harmful emotions for too long. She shares a client story about Sarah, who was struggling with anger and burning sensations.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Heather Grzych interviews author Becca Powers about how to live up to your full potential and rock your radiance. Becca shares the real reasons behind burnout and gives practical lifestyle and mindset strategies for recovering from it. She also gives very practical tips for getting at the root cause of your own burnout.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally. www.heathergrzych.com
Becca Powers is the author of A Return to Radiance and Harness Your Inner CEO. A Fortune 500 high-tech sales executive, keynote speaker, and CEO of Powers Peak Potential, she has worked with industry giants Cisco, Dell, Royal Caribbean International, and Office Depot. With an impressive record of leading large teams and hitting $500 million in annual revenue, Powers has earned the coveted President’s Club award seven times. A certified kundalini yoga teacher and Reiki Master, she lives in Florida. http://www.BeccaPowers.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych gets creative by imagining what ashwagandha would be like if it were a person. With a grounding and powerful presence, ashwagandha would exude warmth and strength without being flashy—like someone who helps you build resilience, both physically and emotionally. Heather explores how this ancient herb, known for its stress-relieving and balancing properties, would guide you toward regeneration, improved energy, and hormonal harmony. Through this fun, imaginative exercise, Heather helps us see ashwagandha not just as a supplement, but as a wise, healing companion—offering gentle encouragement to slow down, trust the body, and find balance in times of stress.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is in the top 3% of podcasts globally.
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych interviews Happy Ali, author of The Intuition Bible, about the art of connecting with your intuition. Ali shares practical tools for tuning into your body's subtle signals, helping listeners recognize when they are receiving intuitive guidance rather than being influenced by fear, ego, or conditioning. They dive into the importance of cultivating a deep sense of trust in your own inner wisdom, as well as the transformative power of dreams in this process. Ali explains how dreams can serve as a direct channel to the unconscious mind, offering clarity, insight, and guidance. The conversation highlights the value of quieting the mind, developing self-awareness, and learning to honor your intuition as a powerful tool for personal growth and decision-making.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Happy Ali is the author of The Intuition Bible: How and Why to Tap Into Your Inner Wisdom. With a BA degree in psychology from UCLA, he is a prophetic dreamer, certified master NLP practitioner, certified master clinical hypnotherapist, and host of the Happy Insights podcast. Happy’s spiritual journey began in 1995 when he dedicated his life to the exploration of metaphysical disciplines after a near-death experience inspired a dramatic awakening. Now, Happy teaches and shares the Subconscious Manifestation Methodology he created globally. He lives in Los Angeles and you will find him online at http://www.HappyInsights.net. Connect with Heather:
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych covers how to stay healthy in the winter season - mentally, physically and emotionally. She discusses how to balance your energy and mood and avoid getting affected so much by the seasonal change. This is especially helpful for anyone who might be interested in seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Learn a couple tips and tricks from Ayurveda to keep your skin looking healthy, to stay fit, and glow from the inside.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews Rachel Kaplan, a licensed psychotherapist, TEDx speaker, and author of Feel, Heal & Let That Sh*t Go, about emotional resilience, personal growth, and the complexities of healing. Kaplan delves into her unique approach to processing emotions, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and embracing all feelings rather than avoiding them. She explains the concept of "emotional potty training" and why many people are stuck on an emotional rollercoaster, trying to avoid pain instead of allowing emotions to flow. Kaplan also discusses the significance of understanding core wounds, how maladaptive strategies form around them, and why emotional resilience is ultimately more valuable than the pursuit of happiness. They touch on the vulnerability of finding the right therapist, navigating trauma, and how emotional imbalances can affect our lives. The conversation highlights the importance of sitting with discomfort, integrating emotions, and giving ourselves space to heal.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Rachel Kaplan, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist, TEDx speaker, and respected educator, whose first book, Feel, Heal & Let That Sht Go: Your Guide to Emotional Resilience and Lasting Self-Love (New World Library), presents a “radically new, extraordinarily effective tool kit for recognizing, embracing, and processing all the feelings that life has to offer” (Eva Hagberg). Creator and host of the acclaimed podcast Healing Feeling Sht Show, Kaplan is active on a variety of social media channels. She has studied yoga, meditation, and hands-on healing practices in India and Nepal, earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and trained in cutting-edge trauma modalities such as EMDR. She runs a thriving therapy practice based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and currently divides her time between Oakland and Joshua Tree, California. https://thefeelingsmovement.com/
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych covers how women leaders can be themselves in leadership positions, avoid being called a bitch, and just feel good in their roles. She discusses why it’s important to lead from a state of balance. She explains how knowing your prakruti, your true nature, will help you understand your authentic leadership style and be a compassionate, strong, effective leader.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews acclaimed author Katya Cengel about her own experience of being treated in a psychosomatic ward as a 10-year old child with a serious eating disorder. Katya shares her deeply touching personal story, which she wrote about in her memoir, Straightjackets and Lunch Money, along with what she learned from clinical experts about the unique ways that psychosomatic disorders are treated. Heather and Katya cover what makes psychosomatic disorders unique to treat and the challenges of treating mind and body together in the current healthcare environment. They also discuss how we are shaped by our environment, and why writing is so helpful for personal development.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She currently serves as the president of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is part of the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Katya Cengel is the author of four non-fiction books including most recently the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) winner Straitjackets and Lunch Money. The San Francisco Chronicle called Straitjackets “incredibly affecting” and Kirkus Reviews called it “harrowing but engrossing”. Cengel’s earlier titles cover everything from minor league baseball in Bluegrass Baseball to falling in love at Chernobyl in From Chernobyl with Love. She has received an Eric Hoffer Academic Press award, two Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), and a Foreword INDIES. As a journalist Cengel has written for New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine and Atavist Magazine among others. Her writing has taken her to Utah to search for Bigfoot (she didn’t find him) and to Mongolia to write about female street artists. www.katyacengel.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych covers some of the most important things that should be considered about herbs through an Ayurveda lens. She introduces nine different features of herbs that are studied in Ayurveda, and explains why generic terms like “women’s formula”, “digestive formula” or “mind support” can be misleading to those who haven’t studied herbal medicines. She also discusses marijuana from an Ayurvedic perspective.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts and is ranked in the top 3 percent of podcasts globally. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych interviews Master Certified Nutrition Coach and Ayurvedic Health Counselor Sarah Teeple about setting healthy habits with food and supplements. They cover common misconceptions about nutrition, and how to transcend toxic diet culture with Ayurveda and functional medicine. They also discuss why so many doctors can’t help people with metabolic or other chronic conditions get to the root cause because healing is very spiritual, and why it’s not the doctor’s fault.
Sarah Teeple is a Women's Integrative Health Practitioner who blends the modern science of Functional Medicine with the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda. She helps women with hormonal and digestive issues, and anxiety, live their best lives by uncovering root causes of their health issues. She then guides them down a natural path of healing using personalized nutrition, herbs, and lifestyle. https://www.sarahteeple.com/
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych covers some of the questions people ask about nature, nurture and improving health. She describes how people are held back by certain qualities of the mind that are programmed both mentally and physically. She covers the three qualities of the mind: sattva, rajas and tamas.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews fellow author and Mission Fellow of Athletics Mary Volmer about the role of spirituality and religion in sports and the role of sports and religion in spirituality. They discuss what artists and athletes have in common with each other, and even have a quick chat about Joe Mazzulla, the head coach of the 2024 championship Boston Celtics team, and how other coaches use faith to drive missions forward. They also address what success looks like in sports, and if the concept of the dumb jock is really fair one.
Mary Volmer is the author of two novels (Reliance, Illinois and Crown of Dust) and is the Mission Fellow for Athletics at Saint Mary’s College of California. In this interfaith, lay chaplaincy position, she counsels and attends to the spiritual well-being of NCAA D-I athletes and coaches. She specializes in meditation, deep listening, and centering prayer techniques and teaches athletes and coaches to manage and alleviate anxiety, rediscover joy, and develop their gifts in a balanced and healthy way. In private practice, Mary works with artists, especially writers. She utilizes “talk story” to help artists discover the voice and the underlying emotional (and dramatic) structure of their work. As a former D-I women’s basketball player and a working novelist, Mary shares unique insights into the emotional and spiritual challenges experienced by athletes and artists. She understands the rigors and joys of discipline, the quiet rush of the flow state, the pain of failure, and the courage it takes to try and to try again. It is her mission to help artists and athletes of all spiritual and religious traditions to grow gracefully into their many gifts and to share those gifts with the world. www.maryvolmer.com
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych covers some of the questions people ask about holistic and natural interventions when someone is experiencing work-related toxicity from their job. Whether it’s rude coworkers, unreasonable email demands or sitting down all day, we often feel that our job is affecting our health in a negative way. You’ll learn what you can do about it, whether you want to run off to a yoga retreat, find your true calling in life, or just feel better in your body every day.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews fellow author Yael Goldstein-Love about maternal mental health and sometimes confusing nature of reality during the altered state of new motherhood and the postpartum period. They discuss some of the trippy things that can happen and how individuals make sense of it through writing, therapy and other alternative support. They also address how attachment styles are far more complex than people think, and how people are affected by loss.
Yael Goldstein-Love is the author of the novels Overture: The Passion of Tasha Darsky, and most, recently, The Possibilities, which The New York Times called "a beautiful, exciting book", PEOPLE magazine called, "A powerful page-turner with deep wisdom" and Good Morning America said, "Taps into those primal feelings every nurturer feels - and fears." She is also a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology and sees psychotherapy patients in private practice in Oakland, focusing on maternal mental health and the transition to parenthood. She lives with her son in Berkeley. www.yaelgoldsteinlove.com
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych covers some of the questions people ask about holistic and natural interventions when considering or undergoing medical fertility treatments like IVF. She discusses the most optimal times to explore an Ayurvedic cleanse during the conception journey when utilizing IVF, and why we get out of balance when undergoing fertility treatment. You’ll learn why herbal formulas that say “women’s formula” can be very misleading, and what you can do instead to ensure you are taking the most impactful herbs for your fertility.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
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https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews mindset expert and fellow author Chloe Panta about manifestation, the topic of Chloe’s inspiring 2024 book Untapped Magic. They discuss how to make your life better. They address why we sometimes feel like we can’t get what we want, and the challenges of trying to improve your life when others around you are struggling. They also discuss how we know when we’re close to manifesting versus when it’s still far away.
Chloe Panta is the author of Untapped Magic and a highly sought-after mindset expert and transformational coach who helps people achieve their ultimate life goals. She uses an evidence-based, proven system with scientific data to support its effectiveness to help her clients overcome obstacles that are keeping them stuck in life. Chloe has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and Medium. She lives in Los Angeles and you will find her online at https://chloepanta.co.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych covers some of the questions people ask about sex after the main reproductive years. She discusses why sex at age 25 is different than at age 55, addressing how the body may be different as it ages, how often people should have sex, and some herbs and supplements that are commonly used for the reproductive system. You’ll learn a few, easy tips from Ayurveda for looking and feeling healthy, strong and gorgeous as you age.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews journalist and fellow author Sasha Vasilyuk about several difficult themes from her debut novel, Your Presence is Mandatory, which is set between World War II and the current Russia-Ukraine conflict and is loosely based on the life of Sasha’s Jewish-Ukranian grandfather, who was a POW and ostarbeiter in Germany during World War II. They discuss the silence, fear and shame that can come from having family secrets, and why we decide to hide things from our family or community. They also discuss how groups manipulate others through fear, propaganda and othering, and how we can still love individuals when we don’t agree with what their government has done.
Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of a debut novel, Your Presence is Mandatory that spans between World War II and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, CNN, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Telegraph, KQED, and elsewhere. Sasha grew up between Ukraine and Russia before immigrating to the U.S. at the age of 13. https://www.sashavasilyuk.com/
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych covers why some people age faster than others, and what you can do to maintain your youthful glow as you get older. She discusses the common aesthetic, functional and psychological issues people struggle with when aging, and introduces natural alternatives to anti-aging treatments like Botox and plastic surgery. You’ll learn a few, easy tips from Ayurveda for looking and feeling healthy, strong and gorgeous.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews poet-author Meredith Heller about all the ways in which writing is therapeutic, and what the real job of the artist is. They discuss who gets called to write, why so many healers are also writers, and how to find your unique voice. They also chat about common misconceptions about writing and how to work with feedback and the inner critic. And Heather has a heck of a time trying to think of a metaphor for her heart when Meredith puts her on the spot.
Meredith Heller is the author of Writing by Heart, Write a Poem, Save Your Life, and several poetry collections. A poet, singer-songwriter, avid nature lover, and educator with degrees in writing and education, she leads writing workshops online and in-person at schools, juvenile detention centers, women’s prisons, and wellness retreats. Visit her online at http://www.MeredithHeller.com.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych asks whether religion is helping or hindering fertility and reproduction today, considering that a large percentage of children today are actually born to unwed mothers. Religion and science can both shape one’s approach to their wellness, medical and even fertility journeys, including when it’s okay to have sex and who we can have sex with. While many aspects of religion may be beneficial, are they also limiting modern people? Do we still have to follow the rules of religion or our family culture and get married to have kids today? How can people build rituals for the rite of passage into becoming a parent outside of religion?
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews author Lee Kravetz about what makes people susceptible to psychological and emotional contagion, and what creates growth and resilience. Lee discusses his book Social Contagion, where he researched a mysterious string of suicides that occurred at a high school in Silicon Valley, and why bulimia began to increase worldwide once it became more discussed in the media. He also discusses his book, SuperSurvivors, where he wrote about positive psychology and post-traumatic growth vs. post-traumatic stress. They discuss how even the mental desires of getting married and wanting a baby can be a type of social contagion, and why Heather is afraid to read books about Sylvia Plath, including Lee’s most recent work, The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
Lee Kravetz is the author of the national bestselling novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia P., (The Millions Most Anticipated Pick and A Good Morning America Reads Pick) as well as acclaimed nonfiction, Strange Contagion and SuperSurvivors. He has written for print and television, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, The Daily Beast, The San Francisco Chronicle, and PBS. He teaches at the Dominican University of California MFA Program, and lives in Berkeley, CA. www.leekravetz.com
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych discusses how to listen to your heart from an Ayurvedic and yogic perspective, and explains why the heart is a connector of inner and outer intelligence. She guides you through a short heart opening chakra meditation, helping you connect better with your own heart and feel gratitude. She discusses healthy levels of attachment, and the benefits of connecting with your own heart when you want to connect with others too.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Certified Lactation Counselor Hannah Bowers about the role of nutrition in fertility and health, and why it’s completely left out of modern medicine. They discuss what resources are available when a person gets a diagnosis of PCOS. Hannah is an example of a thin person who was diagnosed with PCOS, which breaks the stereotypes that people have about PCOS. Learn what a fertility awakening is, why fertility nutrition is dependent on your body type, and how a nutritionist prepares for labor and postpartum period.
Hannah Bowers is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Certified Lactation Counselor, host of the Baby Dust Fertility Podcast, and writer who is passionate about supporting women from preconception and infertility through postpartum. www.blissberrywellness.com
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Wellness expert Heather Grzych discusses the topic of spirituality: what it is, how it’s different than religion, and whether there is really a split between the fields of science and spirituality. Heather discusses the meaning of the English words spirit, spirituality and materiality, and the Sanskrit words prana and vata. She addresses what influences our beliefs, the problems that so many many religiously unaffiliated people see today, and why they still crave a spiritual experience.
Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews author Scott Stabile about how to liberate ourselves to be able to love ourselves and others, and why it’s never too late to learn this. Scott challenges the idea that the body doesn’t lie, and points out that sometimes the body can be wrong. They discuss how minds work and how you can observe yours with lightness. You’ll get some tips on how to deal with people who don’t want to love and accept you, and how to deal with your mind when it’s beating you up.
Scott Stabile is the author of Enough as You Are and Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart. He is a passionate love advocate who believes there is no force more powerful than love to create real connection and healing in our world. Scott guides transformational breathwork journeys and leads personal empowerment workshops internationally. His inspirational posts have attracted a huge and devoted social media following, including more than 350,000 Facebook fans.
Heather Grzych, AD is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic Practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and healthcare companies, and even ran an infant studies psychology lab in undergrad. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych discusses what a vision board is, how it works, how to make one to create a powerful transformation in your life. Vision boards help the conscious mind observe subconscious desires, which leads to deeper self-realization. You’ll learn how to avoid the common pitfalls involving vision boards when you’re looking to manifest change in your life, health, career or relationships. She addresses the idea of fate vs free will, and stresses the importance of manifesting through striking a balance between making goals and making the unknown known.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. An Ayurvedic Doctor-level certified professional, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and health plans. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness author Heather Grzych interviews Richard Dixey about meditation as a fundamental necessity of being human. As a Buddhist teacher with a background as a biotech CEO, Richard discusses why, even though science is very valuable and useful, people are being duped every day into believing that science is the ultimate truth - when it’s actually the status quo. You’ll learn how long is a good time to meditate, and why it’s essential that educated people practice it in today’s world to live a fully human life.
Richard Dixey, PhD, is the author of Three Minutes a Day: A Fourteen Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life and a senior faculty member at Dharma College in Berkeley, California. A research scientist and a lifelong student of Buddhism who holds advanced degrees in biophysics and the history and philosophy of science, Dixey directed a bioelectronic research unit at a London hospital before becoming CEO of his own biotech company. He moved to the US in 2007 to devote himself to teaching meditation, deepening his own practice, and running the Light of Buddhadharma Foundation in India with his wife Wangmo, the eldest daughter of the well-known Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku. For more information visit him online at http://www.richarddixey.com
Heather Grzych, AD is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic Practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and healthcare companies, and even ran an infant studies psychology lab in undergrad. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Wellness expert Heather Grzych discusses the ways people heal from miscarriage and pregnancy loss. She addresses why it’s essential to recognize the emotional, physical and mental toll it takes on those who go through it, and why it’s so important to take some time for rejuvenation after a loss, even when it may be difficult to take time off from day-to-day work and duties.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. An Ayurvedic Doctor-level certified professional, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and health plans. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews Gil Hedley about what he has seen in decades of dissecting human bodies, and what we can glean about spirituality through studying the body’s tissues when they aren’t animated. You’ll learn about how no two bodies are truly the same, and how to look at a body with fresh eyes.
Gil Hedley has been teaching integral anatomy in the dissection lab, lecture circuit and online since 1994. He is the author of several books, has taught thousands in the fields of bodywork, movement and fitness. His subscription site gilhedley.com offers hundreds of hours of approved continuing education for massage therapists, yogis, Pilates teachers and more. https://www.gilhedley.com
Heather Grzych, AD is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic Practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych discusses ways to support your pregnant friends and make their journey to motherhood a little easier. Pregnancy can be an exciting, yet challenging and transformative time in a person's life, and offering your support and care can make a world of difference. Your pregnant friends might be experiencing morning sickness, fatigue, mood swings, and a whole host of other symptoms. They may be hopeful, excited or even scared. You probably know that morning sickness is common in the first trimester, for example. But not all pregnancies are the same. How can you be there for them and help make their journey easier?
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. An Ayurvedic Doctor-level certified professional, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and health plans. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews medical anthropologist Dr. Tess Bird about how humans respond to uncertainty: the condition or experience of not knowing. They discuss types of uncertainty, why people have different tolerances to uncertainty and ambiguity, and the desire to control and fix. They cover how adults and kids can avoid going down the spiral of anxiety and sustain their wellbeing during transition and change. They also discuss how anthropological research is valid and useful, even though it is different than most other scientific research.
Tess Bird has a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Oxford where she conducted anthropological research with households facing major life transitions in the Northeastern United States. She later conducted a study on uncertainty and wellbeing with over 80 households in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. She's a former Mellon Fellow in Writing for the Social Sciences at Wesleyan University, where she taught courses on uncertainty, environmental change, and writing. Tess currently works as a scientific editor and is working on a book about finding wellbeing in uncertain times. https://www.tessbird.com/
Heather Grzych, AD is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic Practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych discuss a case where a woman had lost some hair, and her process for growing it back naturally with Ayurveda and Ayurvedic medicines. She addresses the unique psychological and emotional challenges that women face when their hair falls out.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews mental health expert Vasavi Kumar about the power of saying things to yourself out loud. They discuss finding your own voice and why other people want to silence others and may feel uncomfortable when we are speaking our truth, as well as emotional perfectionism that many people struggle with. Learn why saying things out loud can be like a verbal Morning Pages for people who don’t write, and why repeating things is important.
Vasavi Kumar, author of Say It Out Loud, is a life coach and licensed therapist with a myriad of in-person, print, televised, and social media experience. A first-generation Indian American growing up on Long Island and diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 19, she learned to become extremely self-aware and take action to create the life she wanted for herself. She lives in Austin, Texas. www.VasaviKumar.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic wellness expert Heather Grzych discuss why we humans always seem to want what we can’t have, and what we can do when it’s driving us crazy. She discusses the space element in Ayurveda and how giving something up and embracing space can act as a catalyst for benevolent surprises.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews Harvard-trained clinical cardiologist, mindfulness meditation teacher, and organizational well-being and resiliency leader Dr. Jonathan Fisher about the mind-heart connection, and fun facts about the heart, such as how we influence each other’s heartbeats. They discuss the challenges of the mainstream medical system where physicians only get 15 minutes with a patient, and physician burnout is getting more common. Dr. Fisher shares how he still manages to connect deeply with his patients during a visit, and explains the four aspects of the heart that we need to integrate to have a full life.
Dr. Jonathan Fisher’s personal mission is to help others train the mind and heal the heart. He is a Harvard-trained clinical cardiologist, mindfulness meditation teacher, and organizational well-being and resiliency leader at Novant Health for a team of 38,000. He has delivered keynotes and workshops on heartful leadership, stress mastery, and total well-being for teams and organizations globally including IBM, Bank of America, IE Business School, The American College of Lifestyle Medicine, along with universities and healthcare organizations. In 2020 he co-founded the Ending Physician Burnout Global Community and organized the world’s first global summit dedicated to ending physician burnout, with over a thousand participants from 43 countries. His forthcoming book "Just One Heart" offers a practical guide to the mind-heart connection. www.happyheartMD.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych discuss the disappointing transition that happens when we move out of the honeymoon phase, out of limerence, and what that’s all about. She discusses human connection via the heart and sacral chakras, and addresses what’s more important than love at first sight, how to maintain and recreate connection and attraction, and provides all-natural ways to improve attraction and libido.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews Ayurvedic Doctor Manas Kshirsagar in a series on love at first sight. Manas and Heather discuss arranged marriages and different attitudes about marriage in the US vs India. They also discuss several relationship topics, including finding the right partner, liking your in-laws, bringing families together through marriage and what’s more important than love at first sight. Other topics include destiny and how love can actually be discovered and cultivated.
Manas Kshirsagar is a NAMA-recognized Ayurvedic Doctor. He comes from a Rig Vedic Brahmin tradition with an extensive Ayurvedic background. He graduated from Aloha Ayurveda Academy and completed his MS in Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine from Maharishi University of Management. For the last five years, Manas has traveled the nation setting up protocols for Ayurvedic medicine in yoga studios, hospitals, and integrative wellness clinics. He is currently a resident practitioner at Ayurvedic Healing in Santa Cruz, CA.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych discuss how yoga and Ayurveda can help with fertility issues, hormonal imbalances and issues with libido. Heather addresses the mind-body connection in fertility and fertility challenges, and compares human reproduction to plant and animal reproduction in her brief explanation of the Four Fertility Factors, which she wrote about in her book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility. She also discusses some yoga practices that can impact fertility, and how to preserve fertility naturally instead of freezing your eggs.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Benjamin Von Wong on Love at First Sight Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews artist and environmental activist Benjamin Von Wong in a series on love at first sight. Ben and Heather discuss why we fall in love with people and whether love at first sight is realistic and necessary. They also discuss several topics that many people in relationships struggle with, including finding and maintaining a spark, learning what you want from a relationship, defining yourself through other people, long-distance relationships, breakups, how to build connection, emotional and sexual connection, expressing boundaries, rules and desires, and the difference between love and connection. Other topics include:
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Being of services to others in conversation
- Debriefing and getting feedback after a date
- Tantra
- How vata people date
- Why short-term connections are the easy ones and long-term connections are harder
- Loss of self vs. othering
- Why consistently lighting someone up matters
- Learning how to stay in contact with people through contact improv
Benjamin Von Wong's work lies at the intersection of fantasy and photography and combines everyday objects with shocking statistics. It has attracted the attention of corporations, like Starbucks, Dell, and Nike and has generated over 100 million views for causes like ocean plastics, electronic waste, and fashion pollution. Most recently, he was named one of Adweek's 11 content branded masterminds. He is also the host of the Impact Everywhere Podcast and a creative advisor for the Ocean Plastic Leadership Network and the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. https://www.vonwong.com/
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych discuss how to get out of your head and get into your body when making decisions, whether they are big life decisions or small ones. Heather addresses how meditation can also keep you trapped in your own head and what you can do to reconcile issues between your head and your heart. She identifies the organs in the heart chakra area, and how they each are involved in making sound decisions for your life.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Heather Grzych interviews UC Berkeley psychology researcher Felicia Zerwas about the social dynamics of emotion regulation and emotional suppression. Felicia discusses what happens when emotions are expressed and not expressed, clarifying terms like emotional suppression, reappraisal and acceptance. People with greater social power are less likely to control their emotions, and Felicia discusses the measurements used to gauge emotional experiences and their expression. She also discusses the nuances of suppressing positive vs. negative emotions, and what happens when we suppress emotions over time.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Dr. Felicia Zerwas was a Ph.D. candidate in the social-personality psychology area at the University of California, Berkeley at the time of this interview, and has since completed her Ph.D. Her work focuses on understanding the role that emotions play in the formation and maintenance of close relationships. https://eerlab.berkeley.edu/people/
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych discuss why so many people face relationship challenges and why it can be difficult to decide whether you want to have kids with someone. Heather explains why repairing relationship wellness, much like repairing individual wellness, sometimes requires you to look like a crazy person. She addresses the impact of technology, culture changes, work/life balance and trauma on relationships today.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she is on a mission to improve healthcare sustainably. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Heather Grzych interviews podcaster and psychedelic expert Zach Leary about why such a high percentage of people are turning to psychedelics today to improve their wellbeing, and the importance of using these medicines with ritual and sacredness. Zach explains why your life changes after a psychedelic experience, and why integration is so important, whether you’re using LSD, psilocybin from mushrooms, MDMA, ayahuasca or other natural or synthetic medicines in the psychedelic category. They discuss how the psychedelic movements actually led to modern Americans connecting with Indian sciences like yoga, meditation and Ayurveda, despite these medicines often being frowned upon in these communities. They also delve into how technology and AI is being used to recreate famous deceased teachers like Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, etc.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Zach Leary is a podcaster, writer, cognitive dissident, yogi and psychedelic advocate. Growing up in Beverly Hills in the 1980s, he came to realise that the man who often took him to school in the morning and “tossed the ball” in the backyard with him, was not only one of the instigators of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, but also “had a front row seat for some of the most important cultural movements of the late twentieth century.” This led Zach to create a path for himself that’s been rich with many different incarnations ranging from digital marketing ace for Apple to futurist to psychedelic integration specialist and advocate.
Zach currently hosts The MAPS podcast and has in depth knowledge of psychedelic assisted facilitation, is a trained meditation teacher, a student of bhakti yoga, an IFS enthusiast and expert in the history of psychedelic culture and its many methodologies. Zach is also a facilitator at the Evolution Retreat Center in Negril, Jamaica. Evolution Retreats is a beautiful retreat center that does legal psilocybin retreats using the most modern and effective methodologies available. As an author, Zach’s first book “And Now, The Work Begins – Psychedelics in the 21st Century and How to Use Them” will be published by SoundsTrue in late 2023.
Books referenced: Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram, Ayurvedic Pharmacology and Therapeutic Uses of Medicinal Plants Dravyagunavignyan by Vaidya V.M. Gogte, Be Here Now by Ram Dass, and Zach’s book in development about the history and modern use of psychedelics being used safely, wisely and effectively.
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych discuss how a flower knows when it’s the right time to bloom. Heather explains why your blooming matters and what your mind-body-spirit health, daily routines and ability to ask for help have to do with it. She discusses how to avoid comparing yourself to other people and instead focus on reading your own body because your body tells the story that matters.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych address the importance of listening to your body in Spring. She addresses the significance of the new moon and Spring equinox, why Spring is a rebirth, and how your body changes seasonally, regardless of what you do anyway. Heather also addresses topics like: fate vs. free will; whether it’s good to have an ego; the material world vs. the spiritual world; the benefit of directing your awareness internally; how the microbiome changes seasonally, and even when you are pregnant; and different types of changes you can make in your life, and their risks.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to author and US-based Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych address the ten most common questions people ask about Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Medicine, including:
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What is Ayurveda?
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How does Ayurveda work?
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What are the benefits of Ayurveda?
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Is Ayurveda safe?
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How do I learn more about Ayurveda?
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What are the different types of ayurvedic medicine?
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Are there any ayurvedic treatments for specific diseases?
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Is there an ayurvedic diet I should follow?
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Does Ayurveda have any side effects?
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Does insurance cover ayurvedic treatments and medicines?
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Heather Grzych interviews author Rebecca Wildbear, on her book, Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth. Rebecca was a cancer survivor at a young age, and she explains why listening to the body is very similar to listening to Nature. She discusses why we need to embody the mysteries our dreams invite, and how to let dreams actually guide your life. Many different practices are mentioned, including specific yoga postures, journaling and a solo fast, in which the individual sleeps outdoors overnight while fasting.
In this episode, Heather and Rebecca discuss:
- Why nature can feel scary sometimes
- Camping and backpacking alone
- Earth grief
- Receiving the love of trees
- Animistic perception
- Why climate change and environmental issues make people not want to have kids
- Why giving birth and becoming a mother is possibly the wildest yoga
- The importance of getting off your computer and going outside for a walk
- Why fasting and camping can both raise vata dosha
- Fasting indoors vs outdoors
- How having cancer impacts the way you appreciate nature
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Rebecca Wildbear is the author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth. She is also the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the earth community, dreams, and their own wild nature so they may live a life of creative service. She has been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guides nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute. www.rebeccawildbear.com
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych talk about herbs for love, sex and attachment. Heather addresses when herbs can be helpful and how to use them responsibly. She discusses the Ayurvedic rasayana therapy called vajikarana, which is for rejuvenating the male reproductive system, and talks about the importance of love in our lives. Herbs discussed include ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), shatavari (Asparagus racemosus), shilajit (Asphaltum punjabianum), cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum, and Cinnamon cassia) and several others that work on reproductive, emotional and whole-body health.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych discuss the single most important thing you need to know about giving things up. Heather addresses what happens mentally, physically and spiritually when we give something up. She discusses our fear of the unknown, how to help someone give something up, and how you really get a person to change. Learn why some uncomfortable therapies can be effective for healing, including why spiritual therapies such as sacrifice, asceticism, austerity, and the yogic practice of tapas, can produce magical results.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Heather Grzych interviews movement master, recovery advocate and author Steven Washington, on how people know they have an addiction or a negative habit, as well as what drives us to give something up, and then what it takes to make a person change. Heather and Steven discuss how to deal with some of the most common addictions like, drinking, drugs, sex, coffee, food, etc. And address why we get addicted to things in the first place, and the complicated relationship between addiction and creativity.
In this episode, Heather and Steven discuss:
- What is necessary to truly give something up
- Where we feel powerful decisions in our body
- Why we get addicted to things that are bad for us in the first place
- Why pleasurable experiences are hard to give up
- How to overcome what you’re addicted to
- Why self care is critical for addicts
- Using substances to fuel creative endeavors, and what happens when you stop
- Addiction and creativity
- How our addictions help us understand the different parts of ourselves
- Why some drugs are like a wolf in sheep’s clothing
- Whether dance offers more range of motion than yoga and other movement practices
- The importance of space and expansiveness in healing
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Steven Washington is the author of Recovering You: Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction. As a former professional dancer who performed on Broadway in Disney’s The Lion King, his love of movement inspired him to become the highly acclaimed Qigong and Pilates teacher that he is today. Steven lives a joyful life of recovery and is passionate about helping others as they navigate towards health and happiness. He offers Qigong, Pilates, Dance, Meditation, Laughter, and more through his website. www.stevenwashingtonexperience.com.
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Get up close and personal with Ayurvedic authors Heather Grzych and Kate O’Donnell, as they discuss how we view and approach aging, and the changes that women in their 40s start experiencing. Heather and Kate discuss how the collective US population is getting older because people are having fewer children and living longer, and what that means for our wellness goals. They discuss exercise habits, sleep challenges, aging parents, elder care, how to find healthy role models in their 70s, and why we aren’t having more conversations about how to die well.
In this episode, Heather and Kate discuss:
- Why the pinnacle of success in yoga and Ayurveda is to be prepared for the moment of death
- Whether family history predisposes us to the same diseases our parents have
- The extent to which should we keep people alive when they are dying
- Making a decision NOT to fix something on your body, and why some people choose to forego a medical intervention
- Why we think our bodies are supposed to be perfect
- How people in the 20s, 30s, and 40s exercise
- Why people have more sleep challenges as they get older
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Kate O’Donnell is a nationally certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, senior yoga teacher, and the author of multiple Ayurvedic books including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care and The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well. She studied in India for twenty years and continues to travel there annually for study. She is a contributor to many publications including Yoga Journal, Women’s Health Magazine, and NPR. She teaches trainings, cooking classes, seasonal cleanses, retreats, and online programs when she isn't practicing yoga or having a chai. Kate’s Ayurveda offerings aim to help others come closer to their true nature. She is based in Portland, Maine and teaches internationally. https://ayurvedicliving.institute/
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych address female fertility vs. male fertility, including all the things that women are doing to improve and preserve fertility. Learn about the challenges of globally shifting male sperm counts, why people are having sex less, and what types of activities preserve healthy fertility. Find out what people can do to have some sort of control beyond freezing their eggs, and getting IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies. Are both males or females doing the right things to improve their health and fertility, and change the fate of the future generations?
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explain how to feel amazing after a cleanse. She explores the way a cleanse helps release toxins held from the past and unblock vital areas by shifting the rasa of the body, clearing the way for a beginner's mind, improving health and immunity, and moving toward new intentions. Learn the importance of cocooning during a cleanse, how our tastes change during and after a cleanse, and how to ensure that problems don’t come back after the cleanse through proper reintegration. Learn how to take on and transmit new energies in your body and mind. Enjoy this Wisdom of the Body Meditation!
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych explore the reasons why we don’t tell people what we love, and what might happen if we do. Practice turning a negative into a positive, so that you can create the impact you want to see in the world. Enjoy this Wisdom of the Body Meditation!
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Ellen Meredith, renowned energy healer and author of Your Body Will Show You the Way, provide some tools you can use to get to know the language your body speaks, regardless of whether you’re a yogi, athlete, or someone who isn’t as physically oriented. Listen to Heather and Ellen discuss why our culture limits us to the brain, what it’s like to hear voices in your head, and whether raising the vibration is always a good thing. Find out what exactly intuition is, and whether you can always trust it. Then find out what listening to the body has to do with personal and global change.
Ellen Meredith is the author of Your Body Will Show You the Way and The Language Your Body Speaks. She has been in practice since 1984 as an energy healer, conscious channel, and medical intuitive, helping over ten thousand clients and students worldwide. As an energy medicine practitioner, Ellen helps clients engage with the body’s energies to activate healing. She teaches energy medicine courses on the Shift Network and has served on the faculty of energy medicine pioneer Donna Eden since 2010. http://www.ellenmeredith.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych give you the kudos you didn’t know you needed. Making changes in your life and health can be challenging, and can feel like you’re Sisyphus in Greek Mythology, pushing a boulder uphill. Sometimes it can feel like you’re getting nowhere. Sometimes you wonder if it’s worth it. Yes, it’s worth it, and listen to this to hear that you’re doing a great job.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Susan Piver, New York Times bestselling author of nine books and insightful meditation teacher, school Heather on the enneagram from her Buddhist’s perspective, and at the same time, divulging the single most important thing to know in order to have a successful relationship. Discover how tools that help you understand the differences between people actually help you connect better with people. Get real about whether you want others to be what you want them to be, or what they really are.
In this episode, Heather and Susan discuss:
- Why no one knows where the enneagram came from.
- Difference between exoteric vs esoteric teachings of Buddhism.
- Why it’s such a painful time, and why things that have worked in the past may not work today.
- Two ways to work with difficult emotions: 1) Get away from it, but then your world shrinks. 2) Go towards it, and expand to include everything you feel.
- How the enneagram, and other tools that help you understand the differences between people, actually help you feel love and connect better with other people. This can help you improve relationships.
- How the enneagram is different from Myers-Briggs and DiSC.
- How a real relationship exists when you can answer the question, “Who is this person outside of my own mind?”
- What you can transform when you can see where someone else’s attention can go. Do I want you to be the person I want you to be, or the person that you really are?
- How to spot when you’re projecting.
- In order for another person to understand you, you have to know yourself.
- The benefit of being fully loved.
Susan Piver is a Buddhist teacher and the New York Times bestselling author of The Hard Questions, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart, Start Here Now, The Four Noble Truths of Love, and others. Her latest book is The Buddhist Enneagram. Piver has been a student of Buddhism since 1993. She is founder of the Open Heart Project, a virtual meditation community with 20,000 members all over the world. She lives in Somerville, MA, and Austin, TX. https://openheartproject.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych address how to be present by releasing ourselves from the previous phase, letting go of the past, and accepting both gain and loss. Heather addresses why change is the name of the game, the difference between stress and distress, and why people do seasonal cleanses in Ayurveda. Maybe you’re having a hard time answering when someone asks, “How are you?” You’ll be relieved when you accept that you are not supposed to be the same way all the time, and learn when to spot your grasping, holding on, and obsessions.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych address how to be present by releasing ourselves from the previous phase, letting go of the past, and accepting both gain and loss. Heather addresses why change is the name of the game, the difference between stress and distress, and why people do seasonal cleanses in Ayurveda. Maybe you’re having a hard time answering when someone asks, “How are you?” You’ll be relieved when you accept that you are not supposed to be the same way all the time, and learn when to spot your grasping, holding on, and obsessions.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych address whether you can really reprogram yourself through affirmations and conscious activities. Learn what makes something a spell, and how you can make changes that stick. Heather addresses the challenges of using a top-down approach, whereby the conscious mind tries to change the somatic body, and the challenges of transforming through a more somatic, bottom-up approach. If you are feeling frustrated, this will help you understand why you feel like you’re forcing things sometimes, and how you can find more receptivity in your persistence.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych address whether you can really reprogram yourself through affirmations and conscious activities. Learn what makes something a spell, and how you can make changes that stick. Heather addresses the challenges of using a top-down approach, whereby the conscious mind tries to change the somatic body, and the challenges of transforming through a more somatic, bottom-up approach. If you are feeling frustrated, this will help you understand why you feel like you’re forcing things sometimes, and how you can find more receptivity in your persistence.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych address the challenges of being too goal-focused, and when it’s time to take a break, whether it’s from training in the gym or trying to conceive. Heather discusses the idea of fasting from something, not just from food, and addresses some of the pitfalls to avoid. Heather shares why body awareness is so important, the best way to prevent disease, and why it’s dangerous to vilify a food.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych address the challenges of being too goal-focused, and when it’s time to take a break, whether it’s from training in the gym or trying to conceive. Heather discusses the idea of fasting from something, not just from food, and addresses some of the pitfalls to avoid. Heather shares why body awareness is so important, the best way to prevent disease, and why it’s dangerous to vilify a food.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych and some of her guests discuss what the wisdom of the body really means. Hear from inspiring guests like transformational teacher Kute Blackson, immunologist Dr. Azza Gadir, fertility specialist Dr. Cindy Duke, physicist Sky Nelson-Issacs, neuroscientist Rowshanak Hashemiyoon, Native American healer Kevin Martin and musician Jack Stafford. Learn how you too are a part of nature, and how to find that perfect balance between fate, free will and surrender.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych and some of her guests discuss what the wisdom of the body really means. Hear from inspiring guests like transformational teacher Kute Blackson, immunologist Dr. Azza Gadir, fertility specialist Dr. Cindy Duke, physicist Sky Nelson-Issacs, neuroscientist Rowshanak Hashemiyoon, Native American healer Kevin Martin and musician Jack Stafford. Learn how you too are a part of nature, and how to find that perfect balance between fate, free will and surrender.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych guide you to feel deeply into the experience of one part of your body using the sense of touch and your interoception. Discover how to stop going an inch deep and a mile wide, and instead develop both internal and external sensory perception. Spend a little time feeling your own body and see how your experience of the world changes!
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych guide you to feel deeply into the experience of one part of your body using the sense of touch and your interoception. Discover how to stop going an inch deep and a mile wide, and instead develop both internal and external sensory perception. Spend a little time feeling your own body and see how your experience of the world changes!
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych guide you through a meditation to rebalance your relationship with gravity. Whether it’s depression or feeling ungrounded or spacey, some moods have a directional feel, so we can learn to balance the direction of our energy through will, effort and even the food choices we make, and enjoy the duality of being human.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych guide you through a meditation to repattern a dysfunctional relationship with a family member. They come in every flavor. You pick the person. Feel free to repeat for each family member. Once you let go of the dysfunctional baggage, you can have a real relationship if you like.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych guide you through a meditation on your family lineage - your mother, father and grandparents. One of the keys to eliminating mental stress is to understand how your past has shaped you, including how the lives of your ancestors have impacted you, so you may free yourself from being a slave to generational patterns and move on with your life in the present. Gauge whether you are being held back by someone else's past.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Request a Fertility Visioning Call to learn how to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Carolyn Warsham, life and career coach, author, entrepreneurial journalist and publicist, describe to Heather the unmistakable feeling that there was something more out there, and all the things she did to find out what that something was. Listen to Carolyn read Heather’s human design in this episode. A master at communications, Carolyn also provides some advice about how to avoid using jargon if you really want to connect with new people.
In this episode, Heather and Carolyn discuss:
- When Carolyn almost started flipping houses in a moment of trying to find herself
- What to do when you feel like you are searching everywhere for answers
- Looking for clues inside ourselves vs outside ourselves
- How to be less impulsive
- Knowing what is the right decision
- Heather and Carolyn’s human designs
- How you can use coaching to find that next place you’re going to
- Whether it’s important to care how your message is received by others
- How people connect with each other in different worlds - home world, work world, wellbeing world
- What jargon is, and the risk of using it
- How we know when something is spiritual jargon
Carolyn Warsham is a cookbook author, food writer, and corporate director turned life and career coach centered in spirituality. She coaches in 1:1 and group settings, dedicated to helping her clients end the patterns that aren't working for them and start fresh - whether that's at work, in relationships, mindset shifts, and more. She’s an entrepreneurial journalist and publicist who has written several books, including Eat Plants Every Day and Rich Table. Clients call her when they feel the nudge that there's something more out there for them but they're not quite sure what, when they are ready to pursue their dream vocation, or when they realize that negative thought patterns are holding them back. Typical outcomes are healed relationships, new jobs, and finally starting that "one-day" "someday" project on the back burner. Check out Carolyn’s Begin Again Program.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
www.Instagram.com/heathergrzych
www.Facebook.com/grzychheather
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych, in this relaxing solocast, talk about body awareness and what this has to do with how you interact with people in relationships, at parties or at work. Learn about how deaf and hard-of-hearing people communicate with each other differently than those with hearing, and contemplate not just how you connect with people, but also about what superpowers you may have gained from your own disadvantages.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Request a Fertility Visioning Call to learn how to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych take you through a meditation on the cells of your body, and why it’s so important that you appreciate them. To improve your health and fertility, it can be helpful to realize how much these little cells are doing and have gratitude for their intelligence and hard work.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:
https://www.heathergrzych.com
Request a Fertility Visioning Call to learn how to balance your health for your fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to AmarAtma Singh, a grief coach, discuss with Heather the surprising impact of talking about grief, the ways in which grief hits us, and what we can do about it. AmarAtma explains why effectively dealing with grief is one of the ways we can reclaim humanness. We discuss all the forms of loss: loved ones, money, property, functioning, autonomy, relationships, even losing things we’ve never had. Go fearlessly into your grief because the body will share the truth.
In this episode, Heather and AmarAtma discuss:
- What grief is
- How grief comes with several other emotions at the same time
- Emotion phobia
- Face, Embrace and Release Model
- Hopes, dreams and expectations loss
- How the degree of a loss can change the way we experience grief
- Emotional resilience
- Why being told to “man up” and “push through” may not be the best thing to do when it comes to grieving
- The risks of suppressing instincts
- Why you can’t think your way through grief
- The need to move the unresolved feelings
- How we know if we’re dealing with our grief well
- How we become what we avoid wanting to become
- Importance of asking yourself “who am I if I’m not protecting?”
- The strength of the human spirit
- The importance of doing advance directives and taking time to have deep and uncomfortable conversations
- What grief feels like
- Anticipatory grief
- Grieving something you haven’t had yet
- Why we hold onto grief
- What happens when we let go of grief
AmarAtma Singh is a Grief Coach with advanced certification as a Grief Recovery Specialist. He has spent the better part of the last decade helping hundreds and thousands of grievers in both 1:1 private coaching along with emotional and spiritual care as a board-certified Chaplain in the Acute care hospital setting. https://amaratmacoaching.com/
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Dr. Saloni Sharma, author of The Pain Solution, explain to Heather how to reduce the need for pain medications and how pain, like fertility issues, can disrupt the vision we have for our lives. Learn what you can do before a surgery to reduce pain and opioid use after a surgery, and why alternative treatments for pain are a win over conventional medicine in the long run. Dr. Sharma’s advice is useful for anyone experiencing pain or caregiving for a family member in pain.
Heather and Saloni discuss:
- How to manage pain without opioids
- Why pain is so difficult to measure and treat
- How mindfulness exercises, sleep hygiene, and dietary changes can impact your pain levels
- How complementary medicines treat pain differently than conventional medicine
- The 5 ways to treat pain in conventional medicine - lifestyle modifications, physical therapy, medications, injections, surgery - and why people don’t focus on the less invasive methods enough
- Why we need to look at the whole person when treating pain
- How you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with and what that has to do with your health and resiliency
- How simple, little tweaks can make a big difference
- Pain is a signal that something is wrong in your body
- Why activating the sympathetic nervous system from pain can impact your blood pressure and your whole body
- 5 steps where you can focus on microboosts to improve your pain: Refuel, Revitalize, Recharge, Refresh and Relate
- How your relationships can affect pain levels
- Whether Rumi’s words are true, “The cure for pain is in the pain”, and whether pain is a teacher
- Why pain can be a path to healing
- How loved ones being in pain impacts friends and family members too
- Whether using a substance like CBD, cannabis, THC and medical marijuana for pain is a viable option
Saloni Sharma, MD, LAc, is double board-certified in pain management and rehabilitation medicine. She is the medical director and founder of the Orthopaedic Integrative Health Center at Rothman Orthopaedics and has treated thousands of patients. She is also cochair of Pain Management and Spine Rehabilitation for the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A popular speaker at Google and an award-winning clinical assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, she lives near Philadelphia. www.salonisharmamd.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Participate in the FREE 3-Day Mind-Body-Spirit Fertility Activation to create the family of your dreams and have the wellness to enjoy it:
https://regenerativefertilitymethod.com/vfaoptin
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych take you through a meditation on those things that are being created in your life and body right now, as well as those things that are being destroyed. Ultimately find the beautiful balance point between growth and breaking down, which is the maintaining energy of the middle years of life - adulthood - after you’re a child, and before you’re officially old.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Listen to Robin Mastro, co-founder of Vastu Creations and the American Institute of Vastu, explain to Heather how she has been using the science of Vastu, combined with her innate knowledge of the divine feminine, to manifest love, luck and life for herself, loved ones and clients for decades. Robin covers the ways in which people can design Vedic altars to ask for what they want in their lives. Influence your own life and get inspired to explore the power of the full moon and the elements.
Heather and Robin discuss:
- How Robin has been building full moon altars for 35 years following a difficult circumstance that occurred in her life
- Co-creating with her husband for decades and designing spaces for some of the most powerful organizations and people in the world
- Power and grace in relationships
- Divine feminine power
- Why we need witchy rituals
- Why older cultures are more in touch with nature
- Male-female partnership roles and relationship dynamics
- Spirituality in the home and in day-to-day life
- The role of the feminine teacher in the teacher-student dynamic
- How to be an inspiration to others just by being you
- How we know beauty when we see it
- How to build an altar when you’re thinking about starting a family or developing a relationship with a new partner
- Why it’s important for women to look at their relationships with their fathers
- Understanding that you have a right to ask for what you want
- How to not damage your kids when you’re going through your own stuff
Robin Mastro is co-founder of Vastu Creations and the American Institute of Vastu - consultancy, design and educational companies that focus on eliminating environmental stress for greater productivity, improved health and wellbeing. Robin has been a teacher of meditation and Vedic breathing for over 25 years. Her research in accessing the power of altars in the Vedic tradition led her to study ancient cultures around the world and how they connected with unseen forces to support their deaily lives. She has co-authored three award-winning books on Vastu: Altars of Power and Grace, The Way of Vastu, and Making Room for Mr. Right. For decades, Robin has worked with students and clients to live healthier, more harmonious and productive lives. She is in service to others through her award-winning books, courses and on-going offerings. Create a full moon altar: https://vastucreations.com/full-moon-altar-final/
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Participate in the FREE 3-Day Mind-Body-Spirit Fertility Activation to create the family of your dreams and have the wellness to enjoy it:
https://regenerativefertilitymethod.com/vfaoptin
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
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Listen to Michael Mastro, co-founder of Vastu Creations and the American Institute of Vastu, and North America’s leading expert on Vastu Shastra, or the Vedic science of buildings, talk with Heather about the importance of the design of the building you live and work in. He explains the spiritual science behind why you feel the way you do when you walk in a room, and how you can make small changes and improve your health, life, relationships, productivity and even your sleep! Understand why things in the environment affect you the way they do!
In the episode, Heather and Michael discuss:
- The process of building a nest
- Vastu: the science of buildings
- Feng Shui vs. Vastu
- How to work with the different energies in each direction in your house
- The chance meeting in San Francisco with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles guru, which kicked off Michael’s study of vastu
- How buildings can affect people’s lives
- Finding out where energy is stuck and how to get it moving again
- Why vastu aligns your energy with the solar energy from the east and the magnetic energy from the north
- How to design for optimal sleep, and why not to put your headboard on a north wall
- Where to sit in a room when you’re taking a test
- What you can do about the reproductive energy in the southwest corner of the home
- Why the size and shape of your house matters
- The impact of electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) from the environment on your body
- Proper materials to make a house with
Michael Mastro is North America's leading expert of Vastu Shastra. For over 40 years, Michael has used Vastu for his clients worldwide to align their homes and workspaces to optimize productivity, success and wellbeing. He designed and built the first Microsoft building and many buildings for The Boeing Company employing the principles of Vastu. Corporate clients include The World Bank, NASA, Oracle, Microsoft, Nordstrom, Amazon, Boing and Intel. Michael has been a teacher of yoga and meditation techniques since the early 1970's. Along with his wife, Robin, he has co-authored three award-winning books on Vastu: Altars of Power and Grace, The Way of Vastu, and Making Room for Mr. Right. Michael has presented Vastu at the United Nations and he has taught Vastu courses at the Chopra Center and Bastyr University. Michael also presented Vastu on the Doctor Oz Show and co-authored articles on the Doctor Oz Expert site and on Chopra.com. Michael was named one of the Top 100 Trailblazers of Yoga and Ayurveda in the World by Spirituality and Health Magazine. https://vastucreations.com/vastu-for-success-special/
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method and the Ayurvedic approach to health, vitality and fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych guide you into acceptance of changes that are happening in your life because of changes happening in the environment around you. Acceptance does not mean you will go numb. It doesn’t mean you won’t take action. You’ll be invited to sit with the full experience of these changes for a moment so that any actions you take happen after you’ve more completely processed what’s happening and have greater passion and clarity. Get ready to experience why letting go is a gift. Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call to explore the path of surrender with the Regenerative Fertility Method:
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych guide you through a meditation on what to do when things feel like they are speeding up too fast. You’ll hear how to pull your energy back into your center, set boundaries and slow things down. Environmental and spatial changes do affect our bodies, and we are all like dynamic puzzle pieces.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call to explore the path of surrender with the Regenerative Fertility Method:
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Join Body Church Mind-Body-Spirit New Moon Fasting Group on Facebook
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse.
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Listen to Kute Blackson, a next-generation leader in the personal development field and author of The Magic of Surrender, explain to Heather what happens when we surrender to the forces that are bigger than us. He addresses the frustration that many of us get when trying to manifest our dreams and achieve our goals, and tells us what we can do to get back into the flow. But can you make yourself surrender? Find out! In the episode, Heather and Kute discuss:
- What keeps us from surrendering
- What resistance is really about
- How to meet resistance with compassion
- Getting frustrated with ourselves for not surrendering
- What exactly an ego is
- Ego is a process. It’s conditioning that enables our protective mechanisms.
- Why we are our radiant selves as children and how fear and resistance happen as we get older.
- How our parents, and their histories, shape us
- Disconnecting from our hearts to not feel the pain, which buries our true essence in unprocessed layers of emotion
- How positive reinforcement can also create ego issues for us later on
- How to get available to the flow again
- Levels of surrender
Kute Blackson is a beloved inspirational speaker and transformational teacher. He speaks at countless events he organizes around the world as well as at outside events including A-Fest, YPO (Young Presidents' Organization), and EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization). He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, a select group of one hundred of the world's foremost authorities in the personal development industry. Winner of the 2019 Unity New Thought Walden Award, Blackson is widely considered a next generation leader in the field of personal development. His mission is simple: To awaken and inspire people across the planet to access inner freedom, live authentically and fulfill their true life's purpose. He’s the author of two books, The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go and You Are the One: A Bold Adventure in Finding Purpose, Discovering the Real You, and Loving Fully
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book a connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method and the Ayurvedic approach to health, vitality and fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Listen to Jovanka Ciares, author of RECLAIMING WELLNESS: Ancient Wisdom for Your Healthy, Happy, and Beautiful Life, explain to Heather the importance and benefits of reconnecting with indigenous roots in wellness. She noticed how so many of the wellness practices today come from multicultural backgrounds from around the world. She shares her experience of being a minority in the wellness industry, and developing the desire to teach someone other than privileged people.
In the episode, Heather and Jovanka discuss:
- Yoga, ayurveda and food as medicine
- How the indigenous is the alternative now
- The challenge of moving to the big city and eating the way people with money eat
- The wellness smackdown
- The diversity and inclusion problem in the modern wellness industry
- Decolonizing wellness and how to decolonize our minds
- Bringing wellness to communities who don’t have access right now
- The need for more support for black maternal health
- Why preparation is the key to success in wellness
- Ending fat shaming
- How receiving is also an act of generosity from someone else
Jovanka Ciares is the author of Reclaiming Wellness and several other titles. A certified wellness expert, integrative herbalist, nutrition educator, and coach, she offers lectures and workshops in Spanish and English. Ciares studied nutrition with bestselling author T. Colin Campbell, PhD, at his Center for Nutrition Studies (in partnership with Cornell University) and herbalism / plant medicine with Tieraona Low Dog, MD. A native of Puerto Rico, she lives in Los Angeles. http://www.jovankaciares.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method and the Ayurvedic approach to health, vitality and fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych guide you through a meditation on how to see your mother and father as they are. Our parental upbringing influences our lives more than we know. Heal generational trauma and also release any dependence on your parents that may stand in the way of other relationships. Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call to explore the path of surrender with the Regenerative Fertility Method:
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych guide you through a meditation on your original blueprint and all the parts of you that are unique to you. You’ll appreciate your individual identity, and want to protect and support it. Keep practicing to reconnect with your whole self.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call to explore the path of surrender with the Regenerative Fertility Method:
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Listen to Jacqui Lalita, founder of the Wild Wisdom School of Earth Medicine & Embodiment, explain to Heather why self-acceptance is necessary for natural healing, and the divine feminine magic that happens when we accept ourselves. Jacqui shares her journey with breast implant illness and ultimately getting explant surgery, and reveals why she began exploring herbalism at age 17. (Jacqui’s first episode on Wisdom of the Body was episode 3 on Divine Feminine, Rewilding and Liberating the Body.)
In the episode, Heather and Jacqui discuss:
- How Jacqui first got into herbalism after using aloe to heal a burn from a lobster pot spilling on her back at age 17
- Breast size and body image
- Self-acceptance
- Breast implant illness - when breast implants begin to create toxicity in the body
- Breast explant surgery
- What it takes to feel sexy
- How to trust a way of healing
- The pitfalls of cosmetic surgery
- Cosmetic implants vs. functional implants
- Being celibate temporarily
- Dance as a way to reconnect with one’s feminine magic
- What women are missing in their education growing up
- How not to be your own worst critic
- Why connecting with the whole body as a living ecosystem is just as important as connecting with the whole earth as a living ecosystem
Jacqui Lalita is an herbalist, medicine woman, dancer, poet and teacher devoted to helping women rekindle the flame of their wild feminine and deepen their connection to the natural world. In her Wild Wisdom School of Earth Medicine & Embodiment, she leads 6 month herbalism apprenticeships, belly dance trainings, dance and detox programs, and inspirational courses all online. She is the author of two poetry books, Romancing the Divine and Rebirth of Venus, and considers the beauty of the living Earth and the ancient stars to be her greatest muses. https://jacquilalita.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book a connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method and the Ayurvedic approach to health, vitality and fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych in this solocast guide you through a meditation of what has influenced your mind and body to be how they are. You’ll understand how you came to see things how you do, and why your body is the way it is. You’ll get an understanding of the term prakruti, and learn how to find your true nature, or essence.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call to explore the path of surrender with the Regenerative Fertility Method:
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Join Body Church Mind-Body-Spirit New Moon Fasting Group on Facebook
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse.
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych in this solocast guide you through a meditation of how your body experiences the world around it. You’ll understand why you may feel things differently than others and you’ll be reminded of your ability to be an observer - not only of the world, but what’s inside you. Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call to explore the path of surrender with the Regenerative Fertility Method:
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Join Body Church Mind-Body-Spirit New Moon Fasting Group on Facebook
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse.
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych in this solocast guide you through a meditation of feeling your body deeply. You’ll get out of your head and feel the channels of your body, including your entire digestive tract! Learn how you are both solid and spacious inside, and notice which areas need a little more attention. Tip: Don’t listen to this while driving!
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book a connection call to explore the path of surrender with the Regenerative Fertility Method:
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Join Body Church Mind-Body-Spirit New Moon Fasting Group on Facebook
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse.
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Listen to Michelle Clark, a mom of 3, womb wellness coach and a world-champion in double dutch explain to Heather how she was once told by her doctors that the only way she’d ever have children was if she got an abdominal myomectomy due to a fibroid, but instead how she decided to try fasting and got rid of the fibroid naturally.
In this episode, Heather and Michelle discuss:
- Why Michelle opted not to get an abdominal myomectomy and try fasting to get rid of a fibroid instead
- How to get rid of fibroids naturally through fasting
- Why some patients prefer to be told that something they are doing is creating a situation in their body.
- What a heavy, painful period is a sign of
- Michelle’s book, Bye Bye Fibroids
- Various options available for fibroids
- Why a bad experience with a doctor causes patients to look for other options
Michelle Clark is the co-owner of DoubleDutchAerobics and a Womb Wellness Coach, specifically focused on helping women eliminate fibroids naturally with the intention of getting pregnant. After 2 miscarriages and multiple doctors telling Michelle she could not have a baby without an abdominal Myomectomy, Michelle is now a Mom of 3. During a 17-day water fast Michelle had a fibroid fall out in the toilet. Along with fasting and diet change Michelle was able to prove doctors wrong and had children without the abdominal Myomectomy. Now she’s on a mission to help women heal their wombs for their fertility. Also, Michelle and her husband Sean Clark are the Owners of Double Dutch Aerobics Studio in Atlanta Georgia. She’s a world champion in DoubleDutch. She’s been featured on Wendy Williams, Good Morning America, essence magazine, New York Times and more. https://www.doubledutchaerobics.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method and the Ayurvedic approach to health, vitality and fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych in this solocast talk about the role of structure and routine in our lives. You may have a love-hate relationship with structure, and this largely depends on how busy you are, how much space you have in your schedule, and whether you feel you are in charge of your own time. Learn when we need a different degree of structure, and especially how important it is when you are implementing mind-body-spirit changes in your life. After all, your body is a collection of structures!
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call to explore the path of surrender with the Regenerative Fertility Method:
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Join Body Church Mind-Body-Spirit New Moon Fasting Group on Facebook
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse.
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Listen to Chadd Schaefer, a 20-year yoga teacher, explain to Heather his approach to being authentic in your work and as a student. Chadd was an early student of Bikram Choudhury, a once-famous yoga teacher who is now on the run from Interpol, and Chadd discusses the process of evolving from these Bikram days. He discussed the natural questioning that starts to happen as we gain more awareness, and how to teach yoga classes while allowing people to freely express their version of a yoga pose In this episode, Heather and Chadd discuss:
- Longevity, recovery and resilience
- Magical thinking, cult-like mentality and getting caught up in things
- Yoga gurus who put themselves on a pedestal
- Propaganda about how the body is supposed to move
- Falling under the spell of a teacher
- Sweating and detoxification
- How to stop taking what people say at face value and do your own inner work
- The importance of peeking under the hood and studying cadavers when you are leading movement and doing healing work
- How political beliefs impact how our bodies move
- How to disrupt thinking through a movement class
- How people’s bodies are changing and how their treating their bodies differently in the pandemic
- How masks have become a physical feedback loop that caused many people to pay more attention to their breathing
Chadd Schaefer is the co-owner of Body Temp Yoga in San Francisco, CA and began teaching hot yoga back in 2001. He has since expanded into movement and myofascial release classes with the aim of educating people on how to better understand and move their bodies to promote longevity, recovery and resilience. Chadd is also a whole-food, plant-based nutrition coach. www.bodytempyoga.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book a connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method and the Ayurvedic approach to health, vitality and fertility:
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych in this solocast talk about what it means to be a visionary, and whether you can apply your worldly vision to the health of your body. She also discusses the two most important mental powers you need for how to clearly observe the environment, and call out the best parts of yourself. Understand how your life is shaped by dreams, memory, imagination and understanding - sometimes to your benefit, and sometimes as a curse. Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Michelle Oravitz, an acupuncturist specializing in fertility health, share her personal story with Heather and answer the question, “How does acupuncture work?” Michelle explains the pitfalls of going on the pill to fix imbalances that are changeable if you are taught how to change them. And Heather and Michelle talk about why the fertility journey for women today often looks like: get a partner, take a prenatal vitamin and if that doesn’t work, then go to an acupuncturist. In this episode, Heather and Michelle discuss:
- How people will do all kinds of things to reconnect with their fertility
- Why so many people who are trying to conceive try acupuncture
- How acupuncture works
- What chi is
- How the energy of the healer transmits into the patient
- How Michelle was influenced by the book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
- Whether affirmations really work
- Why two people can have completely different experiences of the same journey
Michelle Oravitz L.Ac, FABORM is an acupuncturist, ayurvedic practitioner, and certified hypnotherapist specializing in fertility health. Michelle was inspired to change her career from architecture to acupuncture after having her own reproductive imbalances resolved by her acupuncturist. Her method of treatment encompasses not only herbs and acupuncture, but also incorporates diet, supplements, essential oils, and most importantly the mind and how it influences conception. She helps women and couples both online as well as in person, and is the host of The Wholesome Fertility podcast. www.michelleoravitz.com www.thewholesomelotus.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book a connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method and the Ayurvedic approach to health, vitality and fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych in this solocast talk about what it looks and feels like when someone is all-in on something. Fear and doubt get the best of us sometimes, and you’ll be contemplating those areas of your life where you may be creating some of your own hesitations, and where you can align more with your true nature. Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
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Listen to Patricia Muehsam, MD, the author of Beyond Medicine: A Physician’s Revolutionary Prescription for Achieving Absolute Health and Finding Inner Peace, explain to Heather why much of what we feel is tried-and-true in Western medicine is really otherwise because there is a whole world beyond what our conscious minds can perceive. Patricia offers how you know you are experiencing absolute health, and what you can do differently when you feel emotional and physical pain. She addresses embracing what is, and how to be fully present with your human experience, including with illness, dying and death.
In this episode, Heather and Patricia discuss:
- Patricia’s out-of-body experience many years ago
- How to deal with your woo woo side
- Reality beyond our thinking brains
- What is was like being committed to a mental institution
- Why watching her father heal from a stroke with energy healing shifted Patricia’s view of medicine
- Apparent miracles of healing
- Mind-body connection
- Why the Rumi poem, The Guest House, inspired Patricia’s book
- Why we need to embrace what is
- How to move from disease to ease
- Emotional freedom technique, EFT, otherwise known as tapping
- Why chronic pain longer than 6 weeks activates the emotional center in the brain
- How to know when you are experiencing absolute health a calm, peaceful mind - a state of equanimity mentally, emotionally and physically
- The differences between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
- Why some people do not fear death or the demise of the physical body
- What exactly consciousness is
- How consciousness is studied in science, and at the same time, why scientists are not the ultimate arbiters of truth that they are made out to be in the media
- Why certain research doesn’t trickle down into modern medicine
- The importance of slowing down to find the stillness where the body speaks
Patricia A. Muehsam, MD, a pioneer in the synthesis of science, holistic health, and contemporary spirituality, has distinguished herself as a practitioner, educator, and research scientist, and has been an influential force in shaping the landscape of health-care options available today. Dr. Muehsam is the founder of Transformational Medicine™, a whole-person approach to health and well-being, offering tools and resources for individuals and communities in person and online. She lives in New York City. https://transformationalmedicine.org
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych in this solocast talk about humanity’s special relationship with plants, and learn how to reduce the need for transcendence or escaping by establishing more frequent connections with plants in your daily life. Plants are more than just pretty green things. Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
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Listen to Madison Madden, founder of LiveWise and author of Mind Body Food, discuss with Heather how she moved from disordered eating to an intuitive diet based on the Ayurvedic diet principles. She addresses the importance of discerning between good or bad cravings, whether it’s okay to eat gluten, meat or other foods vilified today. She also talks about what food has to do with other types of pleasure and connection humans experience. In this episode, Heather and Madison discuss:
- How a battle with bulimia turned into a passion for helping others get healthy
- How gluten has been used as a filler in so many prepackaged and processed foods
- How do I know what’s good for me when I get contradictory health advice from different sources
- Our relationship with food is similar to the relationship we have with an intimate partner or other people in our life: we have control games, codependencies, fantasies, private activities, hiding relationships
- The way we relate to food reflects how we relate to our body, to people, to the earth
- Why it’s so much more than counting calories, protein, and vitamin B we are getting
- What disordered eating actually means
- Whether being a dancer fuels disordered eating in women
- How it’s so easy to carry forward unhealthy behaviors
- Having discipline vs. going wild - in both the food context or sexual context.
- Comfort foods being associated with comforting experiences as a child
- How to relate to desire in a way that’s healthy
- Why people who live alone may get sweet cravings late at night
- An answer to the question “What is Ayurveda?”
- Why each food is neither healthy, nor unhealthy, and why determining whether something is actually healthy requires us to look at how it is being used
- The relationship between environmental sustainability and human health
- Our unhealthy relationship with waste
- How what we choose to eat impacts the environment around us and the people around us
Madison Madden is a practitioner of Ayurvedic Medicine, Sustainability Educator, and expert Yoga & Somatic Practitioner. She is the author of MIND BODY FOOD: Redefining Your Relationship with Food. Having overcome a transformative battle with her own health starting as a child, Madison's story and gained expertise is deeply inspiring and hauntingly relevant to our times. She bridges science and spirituality, health and environmentalism, and speaks to many of the most pressing conflicts of our modern day. www.livewiseheal.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
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Listen to Erika Kimball, a visionary former practicing nurse who was once horrified by the amount of garbage at the end of her shift, describe to Heather how she changed careers to reduce healthcare’s environmental impact. Erika discusses the basic challenges of sustainability and environmentalism in healthcare, which in the US is responsible for 10% of greenhouse gases and is a huge contributor to plastics in the environment. She also addresses the importance of maintaining optimism as really smart people work to improve the system.
In this episode, Heather and Erika discuss:
- Healthcare industry is responsible for 10% of US greenhouse gases.
- Healthcare generates 5.9 million tons of waste per year and 25% of that is plastic
- Healthcare system uses 2.5 times the energy of a commensurate commercial building because of all the technology.
- Why if we can get it right in healthcare, it will pave the way for other industries
- The majority of materials used in a hospital setting are single-use plastics.
- The environmental challenge we have with buying supplements and herbs from overseas, including a lack of sustainable packaging
- Why the goal is to have healthy materials, used in optimal amounts, and processed in ways that benefit the environment at end of life
- How to improve sustainability in healthcare without driving up costs
- Conservation in healthcare. For example, how to we waste less and how do we take better care of our things.
- Implementing circular economy principles in healthcare
- How today the healthcare system is contributing to breaks in biological cycles
- The rise of green chemistry – and how that could produce healthier materials for healthcare
- The big problem of single-use plastics in healthcare
- Some of the sustainable policies and practices that are being implemented now in healthcare practices and hospitals
- How hospitals and doctors and healthcare workers get involved in climate action
- Why the social determinants of health are environmental determinants of health
- How do we operate in a way that supports those health goals
- Why sustainability in healthcare, like COVID, is an all-hands-on-deck moment
- The biggest change that the healthcare system could implement that would make a dramatic effect on the environment
Erika Kimball is a sustainability leader who works to reduce the environmental impact of healthcare. She advises hospitals and healthcare companies on sustainability and climate action, healthy materials, circular economy principles, and sustainable policy and practices. A nurse by training, Erika takes a holistic approach to healthcare change management, building the systems, relationships, and capacity to achieve better environmental outcomes. kimballsustainablehealthcare.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
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Listen to author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych talk about why people seem to crave babies and pets because the reason might surprise you. It’s not just happening to women during their peak fertility years! Find out what being around a baby or an animal does to us that doesn’t happen when we’re around others. Learn various ways to tap into your beginner’s mind.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to songwriter Jack Stafford discuss with Heather the role that Ayurveda has played in his personal development and songwriting, including how he healed a fertility issue and why it helped him win the heart of his girlfriend. At times comedic and other times deeply poignant, he shares how he connects with his highest self and even what he thinks is the best way to clean your bum after going to the bathroom.
In this episode, Heather and Jack discuss:
- Jack’s podcast, PODSONGS, and his songs that are based on the interviews he does on his podcast.
- Getting Ayurvedic treatment for fertility in India.
- Jack’s experience of Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis.
- Why going to Chinese and Ayurvedic doctors is about going to get your pulse felt.
- The book, the Serpent Power, about kundalini.
- Seeing the state of the whole from the singular.
- Why we ultimately end up taking unexpected paths when we go on a spiritual journeys, like the story told in the book The Alchemist, by Paulo Coehlo.
- What it’s like to sense the nadis and prana, and have a spiritual awakening.
- What it means to be in touch with your higher self and your not-highest self.
- How Jack found his teacher and got involved with the Aetherius Society.
- Waking up at 3:33 am.
- Why so many people need greater access to mysticism today.
- How to use Ayurveda to woo your girlfriend.
- Jack’s song, Clean and Regular, which is about him trying to help his girlfriend improve her bowel movements.
- Whether toilet paper, a bum gun or a bidet is best, and how to properly clean your bum after going to the bathroom.
- Seasonal eating and the Mediterranean diet.
Jack Stafford is a British singer-songwriter renowned for his thought-provoking lyrics, and is the host of Podsongs, a podcast where artists interview activists and write a #songforgood to help them with their work. Jack is also a talented singer-songwriter in his own right and has released 18 albums over the last 20 years. In the last year alone he has released over 100 songs.
Jack grew up in the UK but quickly moved to Amsterdam, where he lived a toyboy lifestyle working as a copywriter, musician and fashion designer. However, this led to burnout, so Jack sold all his possessions and set off on a bicycle tour as a nomadic troubadour. He travelled through 45 countries, playing hundreds of house concerts in return for a place to sleep. He recorded many of his crazy adventures in his songs, and through those—plus countless self-help books and podcasts, as well as yoga, Ayurveda and Vipassana meditation—he grew and grew to become a unique modern-day troubadour. He is on a mission to bring spirituality to the centre stage and mysticism back into the mainstream. www.podsongs.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
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Listen to Heather discuss what your diet and digestion have to do with your immune responses, and whether you can predict how your body will respond to a toxin or pathogen by understanding the factors that influence the body’s reaction patterns. You’ll learn about what doshas and digestion have to do with natural immunity. If you want to strengthen your immune system, do not miss this episode! It’s better than an echinacea shot.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- How what you eat, when you eat and where you eat influence diet, digestion and toxicity levels
- Three characteristics to build if you want a robust immune system
- How diseases are formed and how to reverse them
- The connection between the mind and the immune system
- How digestion impacts the body's immunity
- How germ theory and terrain theory can co-exist, and why you can try to build natural immunity even if you are getting a vaccine or a booster
- Whether you can predict how you will react to a substance
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to part 2 of Heather’s interview with America’s only dual Fertility Expert and Virologist, Dr. Cindy Duke, about the factors influencing fertility and reproductive health today. Dr. Cindy discusses the common definition of infertility, and addresses why it’s not just about ovaries. Discover why learning to take care of your own body is also learning to take care of your future kids. You can either listen to this episode first, and then go back to Episode 63, or vice versa.
In this episode, Heather and Dr. Cindy discuss:
- Differences in sperm count and erectile dysfunction after COVID infection vs. vaccine
- Active misinformation/disinformation about scientific research
- Why most people do not understand the immune system
- How little the immune system is covered in medical school
- The importance of good communication at this specific time in history
- Why societal values need to shift to allow for adequate processing of loss
- The drawbacks of employers only covering bereavement leave for first degree relatives
- A fertility doctor’s perspective on the factors that influence fertility: age, environmental impacts affecting your body, endocrine disruption, what you eat, what you drink, what you cook in, what cosmetics you are using, inflammation, disease processes, liver health, vitamin D, smoking, nicotine
- Why it’s less likely to have a natural conception in your 40s
- The importance of knowing what’s in your products
- Why 50% of the time today, fertility issues with heterosexual couples are present in the male partner of the couple
- The importance of not just high sperm numbers, but also healthy sperm quality
- The massive drop in the total number of sperm being made globally, and why fertility is a numbers game
- Humans have one of the least efficient forms of reproduction of all mammals. Young, healthy couple having regular, unprotected intercourse at the right time - chance of pregnancy is 22%
- The chance that a mouse or rabbit will get pregnant each time they have sex is 90%, so how do you have sex like rabbits?
- 50% of pregnancies are unintended (not people who are actively trying)
- The specific definition of infertility
- US currently has highest rates of STIs in history - vaxxed, waxed and ready to relax
- People are putting their vaccination status on their dating profile
- The importance of being in tune with your body, connecting at your soul level, and reprogramming ourselves
Dr. Cindy M. Duke, MD PhD FACOG, America’s only dual Fertility Expert & Virologist, is a highly accomplished Johns Hopkins and Yale-trained physician, scientist, entrepreneur, blogger, podcaster, motivational speaker, philanthropist, content creator, and influencer who speaks and writes about issues as they relate to life, health, fertility, female empowerment, and international telemedicine. The Physician Founder, Medical and Laboratory Director of the Nevada Fertility Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, Dr. Cindy has a very engaged social media presence with a monthly audience reach of over 250 thousand, across multiple platforms, where she is a highly regarded influencer. Her Hobbies include: Gardening, Photography, Baking, and Writing Poetry. www.drcindyduke.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to America’s only dual fertility expert and virologist, Dr. Cindy Duke, discuss with Heather why fertility and reproductive health are in flux, and what that means for both women and men. Dr. Cindy discusses a virologist’s perspective on immunity and fertility, and why so many people are misinformed today about their health, immunity and reproductive health. She discusses some of the social factors involved in fertility, and for someone asking, "Should I have kids?" This is part one of a two-part series with Heather and Dr. Cindy.
In this episode, Heather and Dr. Cindy discuss:
- Why we are seeing more men get involved in the reproductive health narrative
- Change being caused by having more women in clinical, hospital, research and femtech roles
- How reproductive health extends beyond making babies
- Why so many physicians are not familiar with the many forms of PCOS, and why there’s not one diet or hormonal fix for all cases
- The ethical considerations around having kids, including what an antinatalist is
- How the environment and climate change are being factored into so many people’s decision to have kids or not
- The rumored rift between Prince Harry and Meghan and Prince William on what number of children is OK to have if you are concerned about the planet
- What the studies have shown so far on fertility and SARS-COVID-2 and vaccination, including how sperm counts peak following vaccination
- Why there’s a split between conventional and functional medicine
- The need for more science literacy and health literacy
Dr. Cindy M. Duke, MD PhD FACOG, America’s only dual Fertility Expert & Virologist, is a highly accomplished Johns Hopkins and Yale-trained physician, scientist, entrepreneur, blogger, podcaster, motivational speaker, philanthropist, content creator, and influencer who speaks and writes about issues as they relate to life, health, fertility, female empowerment, and international telemedicine. The Physician Founder, Medical and Laboratory Director of the Nevada Fertility Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, Dr. Cindy has a very engaged social media presence with a monthly audience reach of over 250 thousand, across multiple platforms, where she is a highly regarded influencer. Her Hobbies include: Gardening, Photography, Baking, and Writing Poetry. www.drcindyduke.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
Instagram.com/heathergrzych
Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Heather discuss four gratitude practices that will help you feel more gratitude, even if you’re not feeling so grateful. Gratitude has been shown to improve immunity, mood and reduce blood pressure and inflammation, and is an especially helpful practice for problem solvers and innovators, and anyone who doesn't like status quo. There are practices you can do by yourself, or you can magnify the effects if you share them with others. Try one or all four!
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to author of The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook, Sarah Kucera, explain to Heather the importance of consistent routines in the foundation of your self care and why you need to take charge in building them. She addresses why wellness is so much more than knowing what foods or supplements are healthy. She discusses how pets impact our daily routines, and also gives two simple secrets to keeping your house clean.
In this episode, Heather and Sarah discuss:
- Why so many people are confused about what Ayurveda is
- Changing your routines vs. taking medicines
- Creating a container for your life
- Inner nature and outer nature
- Self care in the entrepreneur life
- Benefits of doing a weekly or seasonal check-in with yourself on your routines
- Preventing illness with rituals
- When rituals get too rigid
- Why following a food list can become a trap
- Two secrets to keeping your house clean
- Whether pets help us build healthy routines
- Being a pet parent, petsitting and why people with pets live longer
- How to find time to cook fresh food when you’re busy
- Making food look pretty
- The joys of staying local
- Having a minimal commute
Sarah Kucera has been championing healthy practices professionally for over a decade and personally for her whole life. A licensed chiropractor, certified Ayurvedic practitioner, registered yoga teacher and yoga therapist, and entrepreneur, she is the founder of Sage, a healing arts center and herbal apothecary in Kansas City, Missouri, where she combines these methods to help others find well-being. Sarah is the author of The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook and The Seven Ways of Ayurveda. https://sarahkucera.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
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Listen to Heather discuss the many forms of grace, from the images of the Virgin Mother or Parvati, to your grandma, or the dancer we love to watch move. You’ll be left wanting to have a listen to the 1994 Jeff Buckley album, Grace, and deeply questioning whether grace is something that you are, something that is bestowed upon you, or something that you feel.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to neuroscientist Dr. Rowshanak Hashemiyoon explain to Heather some of the real reasons why people feel so stressed and overwhelmed today. She explains why the cultural splitting off of science, spirit and magic has been detrimental to individual and collective wellbeing, why the benchmarks for mental health are all changing and how self care changes your brain function. She also addresses how our beliefs get formed, and why trust is so important where you both live and work.
In this episode, Heather and Rowshanak discuss:
- Why the fractionation of information in our environments today is impacting mental health
- How we get programmed and how our beliefs get formed
- The impact of your first social circle
- Differences in the brains between men and women at the critical neurodevelopmental period at puberty
- Why we outgrow people
- Why work impacts your health so much
- Importance of practicing physical, emotional and spiritual hygiene
- Why it’s important to connect more with the wisdom of the elders
- Why benchmarks for mental health are all changing to look more at the biopsychosocial and spiritual perspective than a mental-only perspective
- The wisdom of tribal elders
- Why the DSM-V is being heavily scrutinized
- The pitfalls of looking at mental health issues without looking at biological contributors
- The importance of being happy at work because you spend so much time connected to work
- Why employers need to support employees in new ways, focusing on their physical, mental and spiritual health
- Why many self-care practices result in improved executive function, creating a thicker cerebral cortex, thicker hippocampus, and/or increases in GABA
- Why you don’t want to get inflammation, the “kiss of death”
Dr. Rowshanak Hashemiyoon is a behavioral neuroscientist and the founder of Access to the Path. As a highly trained scientific researcher, she combines the power of modern science with emotional and spiritual intelligence to generate compelling and innovative strategies that help people and businesses become more purposeful, effective, and prosperous. Her mission is to promote the ethical growth and success of businesses and help individuals elevate to the greatest version of themselves. Her passion has always been understanding and improving the human condition. Before launching Access to the Path, she was the founder and chief of the Human Brain and Behavior Laboratory in the Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Cologne. Dr. Hashemiyoon is a trained computational, clinical, and behavioral neuroscientist with a PhD in physiology and biophysics. Her work has spanned studies of the physical senses, social neuroscience, and the pathophysiology underlying neuropsychiatric disorders. After spending decades studying the interplay of the brain; behavior; and environment, she realized it was time to serve more than just the scientific and medical community; thus was born Access to the Path.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Heather explain the stages of life for a biological female and how the five elements change through the years for women. She explains the transition of from childhood to adulthood in puberty, the transition from perimenopause to menopause, and why the years of adulthood can be very intense. You’ll understand why it makes sense for females to have a biological clock, despite the challenges it presents for fertility and reproduction.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Kori Hahn, the author of Rituals of the Soul, explain to Heather how you can find your intuition through connecting with “the soul behind the wall” and how it creates a guidance system. Learn why intuition is your way of perceiving the world through the lens of your soul, how your soul guides you back to your truth, and the importance of creating rituals to find your soul. Sit with what you are feeling in your emotional body, and learn why prayer, trust and sacredness open you up to miracles.
In this episode, Heather and Kori discuss:
- What exactly intuition is
- The layers to get to the soul, or atman
- Dark night of the soul
- Yogic philosophy, and its importance in a world with declining religions
- Why the yamas and niyamas of yoga are helpful for self-development in the modern world
- Rebecca Campbell’s book: Light Is the New Black: A Guide to Answering Your Soul's Callings and Working Your Light
- Getting turned off by religion
- What happens to us when we doubt our system
- How to trust in the universe and be open to whatever shows up tomorrow
- Why to answer the question, “Who am I?”
- The pros and cons of listening to a meditation app
- Whether guided meditation is really meditation
- Living in the US vs. Sri Lanka
- The dark side of convenience
- How to give up your ego
Kori Hahn is the author of Rituals of the Soul, and the founder of a community gathering place called the Santosha Society, which is dedicated to travel, surfing, and the soulful. She hosts numerous trips around the world for hundreds of women who study Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, and all things related to soul growth, knowledge, and fulfillment. When she isn’t traveling, she divides her time between Sri Lanka and Southern California. http://www.SantoshaSociety.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to begin learning about the regenerative power of women’s bodies and fertility:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Heather address the way your relationships affect your health and vice versa. Is a toxic relationship causing an imbalance in your body? Or are you lacking clarity and an ability to be present with people because of the state of your health. While our diets and environmental toxins can have great impacts on your health, the people who you surround yourself with do too. Tune in and feel inspired to practice more self care and have more self awareness as you navigate your relationships.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- Conditioned patterns
- Reactivity
- Presence
- Diet
- Self care
- Healing toxic relationships
- Breaking cycles of imbalance
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she teaches the Regenerative Fertility Method to support future generations worldwide. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather to explore the Regenerative Fertility Method:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to theoretical physicist, musician and author of two books, Sky Nelson-Isaacs, explain to Heather the physics of synchronicity, flow, and wholeness. You’ll want to pay a lot of attention to your energy and thoughts if it’s possible to attract what you align yourself to. Feel empowered by the possibilities, rather than helpless by conditioned limiting beliefs. Be inspired to come from a place of wholeness when making acts of self care. Tune in and feel the love that creates our destiny.
In this episode, Heather and Sky discuss:
- Self care vs self interest
- Self care at the expense of self improvement
- Synchronicities and law of attraction
- How much control we have over ourselves and our lives
- How synchronicity played a role in Sky linking up with his wife
- Following your heart
- Whether it’s possible to design for synchronicity
Sky Nelson-Isaacs is a physicist, musician, and author of two books, Leap to Wholeness: How the World is Programmed to Help Us Grow, Heal, and Adapt, and Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World. Sky began his pursuit of an understanding of the cosmos as a student of the Yogic master Sri Swami Satchidananda when he was less than five years old. Discovering an early fascination with holograms and some of the most fundamental questions in physics, Sky holds a Masters degree in physics and has sought for over two decades to establish a scientific connection between synchronicity, wholeness, and flow. His most recent research on holism has been published in the scientific journal Quantum Reports. His mission is to contribute to a transformation of human nature which enables us to be more whole and have healing conversations about privilege, equity, and climate justice. An educator with nine years of classroom experience, Nelson-Isaacs is also a multi-instrumentalist and professional performer of award-winning original musical compositions. https://www.physicsofwholeness.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych discusses the natural energy of letting go, destruction and cleansing that is present in the fall, and how creation ultimately arises out of destruction. Release your burdens and blocks, then give yourself time to strengthen. Healing and transformation should not be rushed.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
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https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
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Listen to Tesia Love, a Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner, Bodyworker, Herbalist and Yoga Teacher from Charlotte, NC, discuss with Heather various ways we can nurture ourselves and be nurtured through Ayurvedic bodywork. Understand the importance of surrender and allowing someone to care for you. Ayurveda is not all about the food you eat. It encompasses so much more, including self care, herbalism, yoga, massage practices to heal and balance the doshas and the spiritual self, and even yoni steaming. Enjoy!
In this episode we discuss:
- Supportive healing touch
- Spiritual suffering
- Connecting to the divine
- Healing imbalances before they become a disease
- Body therapies to aid digestion
- Body therapies to help you sleep
- Abhyanga and shirodhara
- Self massage vs clinical massages
- How oil is used to balance vata dosha
- How body workers must care for themselves in order to be of good service to their clients
- How the environment, intention and intimacy of body work with a therapist serves in the healing process
- Benefits of yoni steaming, or vaginal steaming
- The benefits of allowing someone else to do some of the work for you
Tesia Love is a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner (NAMACB) from Charlotte, NC where she practices as a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Clinical Herbalist, 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapist. She has spent the past eight years professionally helping her clients transform their health through this profound science. Tesia is a graduate of the California College of Ayurveda, Duke Integrative Medicine’s Integrative Health Coach training, and numerous other training and mentorship programs with top teachers of Ayurveda and herbalism. www.tesialove.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych reflects on the messages she’s gotten from one year of deep listening with podcast guests and community members. New listeners will get a taste of some of the key themes in the episodes of the first year of the podcast, and loyal listeners will feel inspired to catch up on what they've missed - themes like body intelligence and interoception, interconnectedness, relationship with the environment, culture, divine feminine, seasonal changes, emotions, control, willpower and surrender.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Kevin Martin discuss the Native American culture with Heather, and the various ways in which native tradition is being passed down to future generations. Reflect on the vast differences between a society that values individualism and that of a tribal and community-focused culture. Get a deeper understanding of the native perspective on the environment and medicine, and how one becomes a “Medicine Man”. Learn how Native Americans face cultural appropriation, identity challenges and poverty, all while possibly being the sacred torch bearers for the soul of America. Feel inspired to hold reverence, give back and educate yourself on those who lived on this land before we did.
In this episode, Heather and Kevin discuss:
- Learning about Native plant medicines from the elders in the tribe
- Education on a reservation
- Individualism v.s. tribal community
- Ceremonies
- Matriarchy
- Peyote ceremonies in the Native American Church
- The story of the White Buffalo Calf Woman
- Cultural appropriation outside of Native communities
- How many parts of many Native rituals are being borrowed by modern-day spiritual groups, especially those promoting the use of mushrooms (psilocybin) and Ayahuasca
- Mental health
- Cultural identity
- Family identity
- Personal identity
- Environmental identity
Kevin Martin is the founder of StarLife Foundation, an organization to restore indigenous livelihoods through the intersection of tech and native culture. Kevin is a Sioux and Assiniboine Tribal Member from the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. He is the Father of the known Navajo entertainers, the Martin Sisterz, and is a Traditional Counselor at Rock Point High School in Arizona. Kevin has a Masters in School Counseling and is CACREP (multicultural counseling) accredited. https://starlife.earth
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Heather Grzych to find out what you hold reverence for in your life. Come reflect on the ways in which English-speaking society had a decline in its use of the word reverence in culture and notice how it is coming back. Contemplate the complex relationship between creativity and reverence. Feel the presence, the emotions, and deep respect in your body as you open yourself up to what is being offered in life on earth.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- The decline of words like reverence, sacred and prayer in books in the 19th century, just as words like technology, creativity and innovation increased in usage
- How reverence has become a trending word again
- The impacts of technology on presence and reverence
- Importance of regeneration
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to airline pilot Gary explain to Heather how a pilot prepares his body for flying. Gary has flown the U-2 Dragon Lady, a high-altitude plane that goes twice as high as the planes that most humans have been on. Learn about the physical demands of being a pilot and what can happen if you don't properly exercise, hydrate or eat right before or during the flight. Reflect on the changes that occur during air travel and how those affect your body - and what you can do to maintain your health and balance when traveling.
In this episode, Heather and Gary discuss:
- What your body feels like to fly different types of planes
- Aging and wind
- Exercising to increase blood flow and avoid decompression sickness
- The importance of hydration
- How to manage your diet when you’re on a mission in a spacesuit, and can’t poop for 12 hours
- How the curvature of the earth looks when you are up so high (nope, the earth is not flat)
- What G-Force is, and what it feels like when one is “pulling Gs”
- Passing out and tunnel vision
- Ayurvedic travel tips
- When planes hit turbulence because of changes in thermal energy
- How safe the air is on a plane
Gary is a current airline pilot with approximately 7,000 hours flying both military and civilian aircraft. Gary started flying when he was 19 years old where he earned his private pilot's license in 1998. In 2000, Gary went to the US Navy's Officer Candidate School where he was commissioned as an Ensign in February, 2001. From there he went to pilot training and earned his Naval Aviator wings in April of 2002. Gary was selected to fly the P-3C Orion in Brunswick, ME. From 2003-2006, Gary completed two six month deployments as a P-3C Pilot and Mission Commander. After his P-3 he relocated to Pensacola, FL where he instructed new Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard aviators during their primary phase of flight training in the T-34C. After this 3-year tour, Gary received a unique opportunity to fly the U-2S Dragon Lady, and T-38A Talon for the US Air Force at Beale Air Force Base, CA. After several deployments and 1,000 hours in the U-2, Gary left active duty and relocated back to the east coast to fly the C-130J for the Rhode Island Air National Guard. Gary has recently retired from the military and now flies the Airbus A-320 for a legacy airline. Only astronauts fly higher than Gary has.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Dr. Siri Chand Kaur Khalsa and reflect on conventional, western medical practice vs. lifestyle and integrative medicine. Learn about Dr. Siri Khalsa’s transition from working at the Mayo Clinic to studying Ayurveda and finding empathy for the internal battles and burnout that many physicians face. Be reminded to fill your cup first and realize that the healer must give to themselves what they wish to extend to others.
In this episode, Heather and Siri Chand discuss:
- The challenges in bringing change to a deeply ingrained system.
- How Siri Chand’s desire to learn how to stop supporting the course of a disease led her to study yoga, reiki and Ayurveda.
- Supporting physicians and physician burnout.
- When the healer needs to be healed.
- 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine: Removal of harmful substances, movement, restorative sleep, plant based diets, loving connections and stress reduction.
- Dean Ornish’s approach to lifestyle medicine through evidence based studies.
- How change is on the way with eastern medicines being popularized
- Answering the question: What could be shifted in our day-to-day lifestyle that will impact our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing?
- The challenges of being an empathic physician because medicine is undoubtedly emotional and compartmentalization has its pros and cons.
- Why it’s important for physicians to care about the impact to the the earth and maybe even support plant-based eating, regenerative agriculture, farming and environmentalism.
Dr. Siri Chand Kaur Khalsa has had a life-long interest in mindful living as the basis for long-term vitality of mind, body, and spirit. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at The Mayo Clinic in 2005 and is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Hospice/Palliative Medicine. Dr. Khalsa has deepened her studies on health and healing by becoming a Yoga Instructor, Reiki Master, and participating in a 2-year full-time program on Ayurveda at The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque and India. Serving as an Integrative Medicine PCP, an instructor at the University of Arizona Integrative Medicine fellowship for physicians, and consultant to other medical practices, she has dedicated her career to promoting an increased understanding in clinical medicine of the link between long term vitality and the daily choices we make. She is currently focusing her energy to support physicians who want to expand their personal understanding of new ways of healing through an experiential process utilizing techniques in Ayurveda, yoga, mindfulness, and plant-based nutrition. www.drsirichand.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to environmental microbiologist Tom Lie explain his lifelong fascination with studying why certain microbes thrive in one environment, but not in another. Discover how microbes act around other microbes, how they affect our bodies and our actions, and how we impact them. Learn why microbes are used to create fermented foods, and why you have them inside your poop. Gain a deeper understanding of the microbiome inside and outside your body. Move over dogs... microbes may actually be man’s best friend!
In this episode, Heather and Tom discuss:
- Learn about bacteria and archaea, and how such microbes interact with and are impacted by their environments both inside and outside the human body.
- Microbes that live in more extreme environments
- How we can tell if a bug is bad vs. good
- The importance of transferring the mother’s vaginal microbiome to a newborn baby born via cesarean section (c-section)
- Whether microbiome tests and products that claim to alter your gut microbiome really work
- If one microbe can be good for one person and bad for another
- How a microbe evolves to thrive in an environment
Tom Lie is an environmental microbiologist with an interest in microorganisms that thrive in extreme environments. Tom was born and grew up in Singapore, where he went through primary and secondary school education. He then studied in the U.S. during high school before returning to Singapore for two years of mandatory army service. He then pursued his bachelors and PhD in Microbiology at the university of Connecticut, where he focused on bacterial growth on sulfur compounds in the absence of air. He furthered his education as a postdoctorate fellow at the University of Washington, where he cut his teeth in the field of genetics for these same organisms. https://faculty.washington.edu/leighj/contact.html
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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Facebook.com/grzychheather
Book an Ayurvedic consultation or connection call with Heather:
https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online
Join the Wisdom of the Body club on Clubhouse:
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/wisdom-of-the-body
This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Listen to Heather discuss why we really go on retreat, and the impact that environment and relationships have on our need for space. Build a life that you love being in. Also be inspired to find balance in your life through daily self care routines, and learn how to break free from any intensity or frustration you encounter on your journey.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- The art of self care
- Deep transformation
- How to break free from stress
- Purpose of retreats as short-term solutions that need long-term changes to integrated
- Achieving balance
- The environment’s effect on our ability to change
- Relationship dynamics
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to burnout recovery expert Cait Donovan address the causes and symptoms of burnout with Heather. Today, over 50 percent of people report being burned out. Learn about the core definition of burnout and come to understand your own personal threshold. Feel empowered to reach out to others, and remember that success and happiness always comes with a little help from our friends. Bounce back from exhaustion and resentment to feel resilience once again.
In this episode, Heather and Cait discuss:
- How Cait and Heather met at yoga teacher training in 2010
- Symptoms of burnout, including physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, detachment, resentment, lack of feeling impactful or accomplished in work and life, fatigue, IBS and fertility issues.
- Fire element in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine
- Ming Meng in Chinese medicine
- How the pandemic has increased burnout
- Hyperactive amygdala and living in fight or flight mode
- Losing nerve cells as a result of burnout
- The prefrontal cortex and disconnect
- What makes someone have resilience
- How to deal with resentment and boundaries
- Gratitude practices
- How to ask for help
- How to recover from burnout
Cait Donovan is one of New York City’s leading burnout experts, host of “Fried – The Burnout Podcast,” and author of the book The Bouncebackability Factor: End Burnout, Gain Resilience, and Change the World. Her master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine enables Cait to combine Eastern wisdom with her natural practicality. After performing more than 25,000 acupuncture treatments, Cait added 1:1 coaching, corporate workshops, and keynotes for companies such as PTC, Lululemon, Vedder Price, Marsh and Mclennan, and Workplaceless – all with a focus on ending burnout culture. She has been featured on podcasts and online magazines such as “Forbes”, “Elephant Journal,” “Thrive Global,” “Addicted 2 Success”, as well as quoted in Oprah Magazine. www.friedtheburnoutpodcast.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa discuss natural healing and herbalism with Heather. Understand more of the ancient wisdom of nature, and why our bodies know how to respond to medicinal plants. KP was the first person to be professionally certified in both herbalism and Ayurveda in the U.S., and he may inspire you to reflect on our modern relationship with herbs and herbalism. You'll be wondering where your ashwagandha came from. Learn how nature and plant medicine can heal us.
In this episode, Heather and KP discuss:
- How KP turned to natural healing from a childhood illness
- A renaissance of modern herbalism
- How the pandemic has influenced the sales of herbal products
- Ancient vs. modern approaches to healing
- Why grandma herbalists, clan herbalists and professional herbalists exist everywhere except North America and why we could benefit from such spreading basic knowledge of plant medicines
- How natural medicine is impacting the environment
- The quality of medicinal properties in the natural medicines we buy
Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa, A.D., D.N.-C., R.H., is an Ayurvedic doctor, herbalist, nutritionist, yoga teacher and educator who has been making holistic health approaches palatable to the modern mind for over 50 years. He was the first person to be professionally certified in both herbalism and Ayurveda in the U.S. He is president emeritus of the American Herbalists Guild, and director emeritus of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. He was the principal medical formulator for Yogi Tea, a medicinal tea company, and is the curriculum director and principal instructor for several professional Herbalist, Nutritional Therapy and Ayurveda training programs. Check out his book, The Way of Ayurvedic Herbs, co-authored with Michael Tierra and learn about his training programs. https://internationalintegrative.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Heather explain health and fertility through the lens of Ayurveda. Reflect on factors that impact your health and find what individualized methods can help you create the most balance and longevity in your life. Learn about how to best prepare your health for conception, how to create the highest quality tissues for bringing new life into the world, and how interconnected your physical, emotional and spiritual health are - and how Ayurveda encompasses all of these dimensions. A great listen for anyone asking “Should I freeze my eggs?”.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- What Ayurvedic medicine is
- Doshas
- Metabolic patterns
- Excretions
- Cells and tissues
- Dinacharya
- Rasayana - rejuvenation rituals
- Egg freezing and its environmental and social impacts
- Why digestion is a relational study
- Our primal urges
- How seasons affect our health
- How both parents should prepare their health for conception
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Amadea Morningstar discuss how much Ayurvedic cooking has to do with infusing the intentions of love and respect into your meals. Learn about the individuality of how we each experience food both physically and emotionally, and discover ways in which you can simply tailor your diet to balance your energy and doshas. Be inspired to heal and love yourself with nutrition based on the wisdom of Ayurveda.
In this episode, Heather and Amadea discuss:
- What makes your meals Ayurvedic
- Sourness in yogurt increasing pitta
- Lighter meals and lighter experiences when feeling heavy
- Heavier meals and heavier experiences when feeling too light
- Healing drinks
- Vegetable teas
- Who can do juice cleanses
- Purchasing and using herbs responsibly and sustainably
- Rasa, virya and vipaka
- How food affects us both physically and emotionally
- Marma therapy, and a direct experience of some of the marma points at the navel and on the head
- Polarity therapy
- Healing herbs and foods like: Ashwagandha, turmeric, fennel, asparagus, chia seeds, rasa tea
- A tea for women with heavy periods
Amadea Morningstar works with Ayurveda, Polarity Therapy, and Accessible Yoga. She’s been dancing with Ayurveda since 1983 as an educator, writer and cook. She is the director of the Ayurveda Polarity Therapy & Yoga Institute. Her early writing includes the bestselling Ayurvedic Cookbook with Urmila Desai. Her recent publications are Easy Healing Drinks from the Wisdom of Ayurveda and a chapter on Ayurveda in Leininger’s Transcultural Nursing, 4th Edition (2018) with Joanna Basuray Maxwell. She’s been named one of the top Ayurvedic bloggers on the web. Amadea has taught at Omega, Kripalu, the Sivananda Ashrams, and at home in Ghost Ranch and Santa Fe, New Mexico. In her work as an Ayurvedic nutrition educator, she consults with people around the planet. A Registered Polarity Educator, she has a MA in counseling and a BS in nutrition. One chief delight for Amadea is the integration of Polarity Therapy with Marma Therapy in a variety of contexts. She also enjoys inspiring people to realize they’ve got a significant array of tools for healing themselves inside. You can find out more about Amadea here: http://www.amadeamorningstar.net
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Bailey Gaddis break down the walls of shame that many women experience around their fertility, pregnancy and mothering experiences with host Heather Grzych. Feel empowered to navigate some tough or “taboo” concerns that often naturally occur when carrying new life into the world or breastfeeding, and better understand some of the psychological and biological experiences of pregnant women.
In this episode, Heather and Bailey discuss:
- Importance of nesting for a woman moving into motherhood
- Why birth is so often depicted as such a traumatic experience
- Postpartum psychosis, OCD, and anxiety
- Parenting when you had a rough childhood and how to seek out new parenting role models
- Breastfeeding orgasms and arousal
- Hypnobirthing
- Trust that we place in doctors and healthcare providers vs. our own bodies
- Why 10% of partners stray during the pregnancy
- How to deal with the challenges of parenting
Bailey Gaddis is the author of Asking for a Pregnant Friend and Feng Shui Mommy. She is a childbirth preparation educator, birth doula, and hypnotherapist and a regular contributor to media outlets including Working Mother, Fit Pregnancy, Pregnancy and Newborn, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Day, Disney’s Babble, and more. She also volunteers for a program where she offers in-home support to parents of newborn babies, specifically single mothers and those with babies with special needs. Visit her online at http://www.baileygaddis.com.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Dave discuss with Heather the balance between efficacy and safety in pharmaceuticals. Join a conversation about how drugs target certain mechanisms of the body and why we often experience side effects. Learn about how complex nature is compared to chemistry done in a lab, and gain a better understanding of what really goes into making medicine today.
In this episode, Heather and Dave discuss:
- Why pharmaceuticals sometimes work to poison and fool the body
- How to determine when side effects are worth it
- Altering cells to increase longevity
- Aging, cells and tissues
- Senescence and mitophagy
- How hormones can be falsely raised or lowered through drugs
- Whether you really want to take drugs that build the body as you age
- Testosterone and estrogen
- How to explain the process of making drugs to a 5 year old
- How pharmacology grew out of indigenous medicines in the universities during the enlightenment, when there was a movement away from the religious/spiritual traditions of the time toward proven experimentation.
- Drug making methods
- The cost of drug development
- Clinical trials and drug testing
- Why drugs sometimes get taken off the market even after testing
- FDA standards recently being made less stringent
- Why only 1 in 10 drugs succeed
Dave is a pharmacologist and biomedical scientist, whose training and inspiration for getting into the field was from an early pioneer in the field who came from Scotland and spent time in the Amazon with indigenous people.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Heather and bring your awareness to how your body responds to the environment. Reflect on how your “home field” influences your clarity as well as your doshas. Whether you are building a new nest or changing careers, feel inspired to take charge of finding or making an environment in which you can thrive. Meditate on experiencing your senses fully and step into a life you can BE in - without feeling the need to retreat from it.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- How life is a collection of experiences, decisions and actions
- Internal awareness
- External awareness
- Clarity and accurate perception
- Changing how you interact with your environment
- How your position on the planet matters
- Vata, pitta and kapha imbalances
- Self-reflection when factors in your outerworld seem toxic
- How to avoid environmental toxicity
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Jenna Furnari, co-founder of Ayurvedic Mamas, discuss supporting new mothers in the postnatal period. Jenna explains to Heather some helpful tools for navigating the physical, emotional, spiritual and environmental changes that occur once the baby arrives. Recognize the natural challenges that take place after giving birth, and learn how to set women up for success through the art of Ayurvedic self-care. A must-listen for anyone trying to conceive, having a baby or supporting fertility.
In this episode, Heather and Jenna discuss:
- What a postpartum experience is like with and without an ayurvedic wellness practice
- The difference between Ayurveda and conventional medicine in postpartum care
- How you can support someone you love who is going through birth
- How our health is intertwined with those around us
- Mental health and mental illness or disturbance, insomnia, baby blues, anxiety, depression, aloneness
- Vata dosha imbalance post pregnancy
- The importance of communication
- Women going through the postpartum period without support
- Know what to expect after the baby is born to anticipate the support a woman may need
- Women’s circles for the support of newly birthing mothers
- DIY tools for postpartum support – meditation, sitting in a quiet space, and journaling
- The importance of scheduling time for your self-care as a newly birthing mother
- How to restore mother’s wisdom and grandmother’s wisdom in our society to improve family life
- The importance of not getting sucked into binge watching Netflix and instead taking care of yourself.
- Ayurvedic self-care tips for the postpartum period: Sleep more when you can, warm oil massage called abhyanga that you can do for yourself, eating easy-to-digest foods, soups, stews, kitchari, rice congee, bone broths, and being gentle and kind to yourself.
- How to do an abhyanga self-massage with warm oil on your own body.
Jenna J. Furnari is a Santa Monica-based Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner specializing in postnatal care for supporting women through mind, body, and spirit after giving birth. She is co-founder of Ayurvedic Mamas, a membership site that provides whole-body healing for women, and has trained Ayurvedic postpartum doulas from more than 15 different countries. Following her own complete recovery of postpartum depression and anxiety, she is committed to sharing guidance and resources with mothers struggling with postpartum mood disorders through the holistic lens of Ayurveda. https://www.ayurvedicmamas.com/
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Deanna Ansara explain to Heather why our modern relationship with fashion must be disrupted. Deanna’s clothing brand Vincetta attempts to slow down the pace of consumption and production by encouraging people to feel accepted in their identity and bodies, striving for social change by challenging the “I’m not enough” narrative that drives a lot of consumption and mental health issues. Express yourself authentically, and nurture a harmonious relationship with the planet and the clothing you wear.
In this episode, Heather and Deanna discuss:
- Why the fashion industry norms are unsustainable
- Body positivity, self-acceptance and self-exploration
- Making clothes for different body types
- How Deanna got into fashion
- Representing gender fluidity in fashion
- Agency and creativity
- Being an inclusive brand
- Minimalism
- Consumer behaviors
- Creating a community and conversation about social change in the fashion industry
Deanna Ansara is a sustainability focused entrepreneur and human-centered creator, working intentionally through a lens of mental health, social impact, and intersectionality. She is passionate about humanizing the production process and encouraging a collective slowing down in the way we produce and consume. Her brand focuses on community building and education through storytelling, engaging collective discussions, and generating thought provoking conversation and questions. Prior to her clothing brand Vincetta, she worked as a designer at brands like J. Crew and Ralph Lauren. She spent 3 years as a Venture Fellow at a Sustainability Incubator in Brooklyn, NY. Outside of sustainability and fashion, Deanna has spent 8 years independently studying consumer behavior through a mental health focus, which is something that she brings into her current practice. The next chapter of Deanna's life and brand will explore new avenues of education, online community events, and collaborations with the main themes centered around Self-Development, Accountability, and Empathy.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Dr. Azza Gadir explain to Heather the functions of the immune system and the difference between getting the COVID-19 vaccine vs. natural infection or avoiding the virus. Dr. Gadir teaches us about allergies, autoimmune conditions, the microbiome, and the science behind vaccination. She also addresses how women’s health, menstrual cycles, pregnancy and fertility are impacted by the various coronavirus vaccines. Dr. Gadir addresses common pandemic concerns with transparency and research.
In this episode, Heather and Azza discuss:
- How the immune system helps us maintain homeostasis and protects us from disease
- The importance of herd immunity
- How the vaccine affects fertility, pregnancy and menstrual cycles
- Why so many people feel uncertain about whether the vaccine is right for them, and how they made their own vaccination decisions
- How vaccines don't necessarily change the immune system, but rather give the immune system something to respond to
- Allergies vs intolerances
- Autoimmune conditions
- Impact of genetics, environment and diet on immunity
- Innate immune system and the adaptive immune system
- The gut microbiome
- Regulatory T-cells, antibodies, antigen presenting cells, spike proteins, dendritic cells
- Antigen specificity
- Vaccines as a form of training the body
- The memory of our bodies
- COVID-19 vaccination and women’s periods and fertility
- Different types of vaccines, including the mRNA vaccines
- Who should be careful about getting vaccinated
- The importance of supporting frontline healthcare workers who have experienced a lot of trauma in the pandemic
- Ingredients of the Moderna (p. 11) and Pfizer (p. 11) COVID19 vaccines (overview)
Dr. Azza Gadir completed her PhD in Immunology from University College London and spent the next 7 years at Harvard Medical School / Boston Children’s Hospital where her published research focused on understanding the immune system and how it protects us from diseases like allergies. Recently she has worked for biotech companies exploring how academic research can be used to create innovative therapeutic products. Dr. Gadir grew up in London and received a Masters degree in the Immunology of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Azza Gadir on LinkedIn.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to the inspiring Kute Blackson, a next-generation leader in the personal development field, explain to Heather how to let go, and his new book, The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go. Kute also discusses the real secret behind miracles and manifestation. Learn where you might be in the path of surrendering, and what is possible when you are willing to be open and step out of your own way.
In this episode, Heather and Kute discuss:
- Kute growing up as the son of a famous African miracle maker
- The lessons learned in the passing of Kute’s mother
- Kute’s multi-step process of letting go
- Being truthful to ourselves
- How our egos keep us from surrendering and it shows up as resistance
- The importance of making space and time to grieve
- How limiting our grief limits love
- How to stop trying to control things and let life guide you
- Why pain is feedback of some truth you aren’t telling yourself
- What a miracle is
- The drawbacks of taking drugs to surrender
- The difference between acceptance and surrender
- Grace
- The key to unlock the surrender
Kute Blackson is a beloved inspirational speaker and transformational teacher. He speaks at countless events he organizes around the world as well as at outside events including A-Fest, YPO (Young Presidents' Organization), and EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization). He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, a select group of one hundred of the world's foremost authorities in the personal development industry. Winner of the 2019 Unity New Thought Walden Award, Blackson is widely considered a next generation leader in the field of personal development. His mission is simple: To awaken and inspire people across the planet to access inner freedom, live authentically and fulfill their true life's purpose. He’s the author of two books, The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go and You Are the One: A Bold Adventure in Finding Purpose, Discovering the Real You, and Loving Fully
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Is your definition of health a figment of your mind, or are you actually listening to how your body is speaking to you? In this solocast, Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych breaks down the walls of what society deems as normal for our bodies and how the details really matter in the art of self-care.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- Why a fertility diet isn’t what you think it is
- Primal vs intellectual body
- Feeling the animal of your being
- Paying attention to your sleep and bowel movements
- The non-stop balancing act of health - homeostasis
- Body Intelligence
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to chef Blair Warsham and career journalist Carolyn Warsham, the husband-and-wife creators of the plant-based, cookbook Eat Plants Every Day, chat with Heather about how the American palate is changing to be more plant based and influenced by other cultures. Blair is the creative force behind the menu at San Francisco’s critically acclaimed plant-based restaurant, Wildseed, and this is the second cookbook for Carolyn. Find out which one of them went vegan after writing this book, and get inspired to clean and brighten up your diet.
In this episode, Heather, Carolyn and Blair discuss:
- Creating the plant-based menu at Wildseed in San Francisco
- Take the politics out of eating vegan, and focus on eating good food that is healthy and tastes good
- Better than Bouillon
- Umami flavor, found in tomatoes, mushrooms, cooked mushrooms, cheese
- How Blair went vegan for 30 days, and discovered a lot in that time
- Recognizing that it’s not easy to be vegan in certain areas of the world, and even in certain areas of the United States
- Why this way of eating isn’t just for girls in yoga pants; the frat guys are also eating it too
- Blair’s dad’s blood pressure and sugar levels went down while they were visiting for one month and eating plant-based
- How to get protein through certain grains like quinoa
- Why eating plant-based makes you think more about what you are putting into your body
- Beyond Meat products
- How globalism is changing local palates
- Miyoko’s Cultured Vegan Butter
- Gochujang, the Korean spice mix
- Blair and Carolyn’s favorite recipes from the book
- How at Wildseed, they lowered the sugar content in the desserts by 30% and then noticed that the desserts were flying off the shelf. “You taste more of whatever is in there, rather than this sugar bomb. Things taste a lot brighter. Sugar masks the other flavors.”
- The six tastes in Ayurveda
- The book Salt by Mark Kurlansky – and how the priests in ancient Egypt were not allowed to eat salt because it was through to evoke sexual desire
- How to get kids to eat more plants
- Why some vegans won’t eat figs
Carolyn Warsham is an editor, writer, full-time vegetarian, and life-long obsessor over good things to eat. She co-wrote Eat Plants Every Day with her husband Blair Warsham, and previously wrote The Rich Table Cookbook with Sara and Evan Rich. The former global cities director for Eater, Carolyn's writing has also been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, Elle, Zagat, and many others. Instagram: @eatplantscookbook
Blair Warsham is the executive chef of Wildseed, a critically acclaimed plant-based restaurant and bar, in San Francisco, CA. A consultant for well-known restaurant groups across the country, Blair's resume consists of Michelin-starred restaurants such as The Restaurant at Meadowood and Campton Place, but he now likes to cook the way he eats, which doesn't include white tablecloths and fine china. Instagram @eatplantscookbook
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Nikki Trott, CEO/founder of Conscious Accelerator and host of the Going Conscious podcast, explain to Heather the process of going conscious, and how other people all over the world are listening to their bodies and aligning their values and work. Nikki shares how she went from feeling like her life was filled with more doing than being, and how it motivated her to make incredible life and business transformations that improved both her health and her satisfaction with her work.
In this episode, Heather and Nikki discuss:
- How Nikki was told that successful people have coaches -- they aren’t coaches themselves -- and didn’t listen to them.
- The influence of the fashion industry on the destruction of our environment.
- A few of the books Nikki was influenced by: The Power of Now and A New Earth, both by Eckhart Tolle and The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer.
- How podcasts influenced Nikki’s personal development process, especially Under the Skin with Russell Brand.
- Whether coffee plays a role in pushing people to work in an unsustainable way.
- How the logic of, “Treat yourself, you deserve it” can be very destructive for a lot of people.
- Understanding intuition.
- Nikki’s recommendation for connecting with the Wisdom of the Body: Connect your body with the grace of the universe, and allow the body to guide us, to tap into a completely different level of experience and truth.
Nikki Trott empowers conscious entrepreneurs to thrive with purpose. She is the Founder/CEO of Conscious Accelerator which helps conscious entrepreneurs transform both internally (mindset and purpose) and externally (brand and business strategy) to unlock their freedom, impact and success. Her podcast, Going Conscious, explores new ways to live a more conscious life of fulfilment and freedom with conscious entrepreneurs and academics. Nikki believes that the future of business is driven by purpose and that together we can change the world through conscious entrepreneurship. She is a Board Member, advisor to startups and charities, a serial entrepreneur, a certified transformation coach and an expert brand strategist. Nikki previously consulted 100+ top fashion/lifestyle brands globally (from Mulberry to Mango to La Prairie) on strategy and marketing before aligning her work and values. Nikki now understands that purpose drives true success and that we do not need to compromise on profit or purpose.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Arjuna Ardagh, Radical Brilliance coach and author, explain to Heather how evolution happens when original thoughts become actions that have never been taken before. Arjuna is the author of Radical Brilliance and 15 other books, including the 2005 #1 national bestseller The Translucent Revolution, featured in “O” magazine, as well as Better than Sex, and Conscious Men with co-author John Gray. This episode will inspire your creativity!
Listen to Heather and Arjuna discuss:
- The mechanism behind having new ideas and bringing them to fruition, and what happens to our bodies, minds and emotions in the process
- How Copernicus realized that the paradigm was wrong, corrected a misunderstanding, and got rid of superstition, and that Albert Einstein’s big insights actually came when relaxing in the bathtub
- The over 500 interviews that Arjuna has conducted throughout the years with creative greats like Leonard Cohen and seemingly normal people who have creative talents
- How a car accident led to the quest for Arjuna wanting to find out what drives a person to brilliance
- Moments of awakening
- Spanda – naturally vibrating aliveness
- Creative flow
- Parasympathetic flooding
- The book Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal
- Why Arjuna recommended that everyone schedule a nervous breakdown every day around sundown
- People using addictive substances to push them and why it leads to burnout
- The connection between sexual energy, fertility and creativity
- How science hasn’t yet explained emotion through biology or brain chemistry
- How we can boost creativity by seeing that the body is actually a transducer that is picking up experiences and information like radio waves
- The importance of clearing pent-up emotions out of the body
Arjuna Ardagh is a Radical Brilliance Coach, writer and public speaker, and he was the original founder of Awakening Coaching. He has trained more than 2000 people to become Awakening Coaches over the last 25 years. Arjuna is the author of Radical Brilliance and 15 other books, including the 2005 #1 national bestseller The Translucent Revolution, featured in “O” magazine, as well as Better than Sex, and Conscious Men with co-author John Gray. He has been a speaker at conferences all over the world, and has appeared on TV, radio and in print media in twelve countries. He has spoken at Google and at the United Nations, and is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He lives with his wife, Chameli Ardagh, in Nevada City, California. https://radicalbrilliance.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Dr. Jayarajan Kodikannath, Vice President and Director of Kerala Ayurveda Academy, discuss what is similar and different about practicing Ayurveda in India and the United States. Dr. Jay shares how he grew up in Kerala and came from an Ayurvedic family, where his grandfather was an Ayurvedic vaidya. He explains to Heather his mission to spread Ayurveda, and why Nature’s garden is the best medicine cabinet. A great listen for anyone interested in learning about doshas, as well as seasoned vaidyas moving to the US.
In this episode, Heather and Dr. Jay discuss:
- The importance of counseling people to develop a healthy lifestyle in the United States
- The use of leeches in India for raktamokshana, or bloodletting, which is one of the Ayurvedic cleansing processes
- Why the absence of symptoms is not the same as health, where you are a physically, mentally and emotionally balanced human being
- The importance of restoring the affected organs and rejuvenate the whole system when an individual gets sick or has surgery
- Growing up in a family of vaidyas, and the single-herb medicine his maternal grandfather had for migraines
- How long it takes to study Ayurveda to get a decent understanding of it
- The real meaning of the word dosha
- Dr. Jay’s experience moving from India to the United States, and the advice he has for Ayurvedic doctors following in his footsteps
- Dr. Jay’s beginner book recommendation, Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution by Robert Svoboda
Jayarajan Kodikannath is a visionary, researcher, author, and accomplished teacher of Ayurveda, currently working as the Vice President and Academy Director of Kerala Ayurveda (USA), Chief Ayurveda Consultant of Kerala Ayurveda Wellness Centres in the USA. He represents a lineage of Ayurvedic Practitioners in India. He is also on the Board of Directors of National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) in USA with a mission to propagate Ayurveda and make it a credible profession in the Western world. He is conducting various professional education programs in Ayurveda approved by the State of California and the State of Washington. He was on the Curriculum Board of Bastyr University, Washington to create the Masters in Ayurveda program and served as the Board of Director of California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine (CAAM).
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to Teresa Piro, the founder of CAN CAN Cleanse, discuss the practice of seasonal cleansing with local juices, soups and herbal teas. Teresa shares how finding out she had high cholesterol at age 11 set her on the path to discovering healthier ways of eating. She explains to Heather how 99 percent of this kind of fasting is mental, and the two discuss the benefits of doing short cleanses and fasts. A great listen for individuals interested in learning how to make longer-term changes in their diet.
In this episode, Heather and Teresa discuss:
- The importance of eating and drinking plants
- Why we often have to do something uncomfortable to create change
- Willpower and self-restraint
- How Teresa combined her passion for food and organic produce to start her company
- The benefits of fasting with warm beverages vs cold-pressed juices
- How fasting is about much more than losing weight
- Age and longevity
- Detoxification
- Narrow-minded eating: when a person gets fixated on one aspect of the food, such as gluten-free or organic, and doesn’t consider any other attributes of the food
- The benefits of eating plants, organic whole foods, and fats, with minimal modification or engineering
- Getting good sleep when we are fasting
- Why so many feel lighter and brighter from losing excess water and sodium
- The importance of considering what’s going in your food to prevent reactions
Teresa Piro a pioneer in the raw juice and seasonal cleanse industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, who has been in the health and wellness industry for over 10 years as the owner and operator of CAN CAN Cleanse. Teresa is an advocate for eating (and drinking) whole foods and practicing mindfulness. With a background in holistic nutrition and her extensive line of plant-based beverages, including cold-pressed fruit and vegetable juices, nut milks, herbal teas, and savory soups, Teresa develops unique and inspiring cleanse programs for her clients. https://cancancleanse.com/
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to biomedical scientist and pharmacologist Dave explain modern science’s approach to studying and making drugs. In this nerdy discussion, Dave explains to Heather why some people like to take drugs and others are averse to it, and the two compare and contrast the approaches of modern pharmacology with the more indigenous approaches of Ayurveda and herbal medicine. A great listen for individuals interested in either modern medicine or holistic health.
In this episode, Dave and Heather discuss:
- How pharmacology integrates physiology, chemistry and neuroscience
- Understanding what happens when you take something into your body that’s foreign
- What it means to be a scientist
- Pharmacologists traditionally going into the environment to understand the substances that nature has come up with
- Why modern pharmaceuticals are viewed as targeted poison
- That drugs are trying to interfere with a process that has gone awry in a body
- Ayurveda vs. pharmacology: How a pharmacologist would want to know what is the active ingredient in the Ayurvedic medicine that is working, and then synthesize that single active ingredient
- The difference between using the herb itself or the synthesized compound created from it
- What an active ingredient is
- How traditional pharmaceutical companies are making an exodus out of treating mental illness, mood and disposition because there is so little known about the brain - and why that’s an opportunity for Ayurveda
- What doesn’t make sense to Dave about Ayurveda
Dave is a pharmacologist and biomedical scientist, whose training and inspiration for getting into the field was from an early pioneer in the field who came from Scotland and spent time in the Amazon with indigenous people.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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We don’t seem to trust authority the way we used to, but we aren’t sure we trust ourselves yet either. In this solocast, Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych explains the process of becoming a person with integrity through spiritual awakening, and the role of conclusion, transformation and regeneration in this process.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- How you’ll find a deeper connection with everything in your life when you awaken.
- Dr. Vasant Lad’s teaching that “the root cause of confusion is conclusion”.
- Implications of leapfrogging, innovating or drugging our way out of being stuck.
- When going back into the past is needed for healing.
- Being a person with authenticity.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to inspiring musician and voice therapist Nessi Gomes explain the process of really meeting oneself through speaking and sounding. She explains her Vocal Odyssey work, and the process of helping individuals unblock their voices without getting caught up in the stories that formed the patterns. Learn how to reconnect with the primal part of your being that doesn’t care about what it looks or sounds like, or about being perfect or good: your essence.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why so many of us edit our expression.
- That it’s possible to transform discomforts and uncomfortable emotions to release blockages and gain insights about your life from essentially a shamanic journey through the voice, and no drugs necessary!
- How to explore creature language, vowel sounds, gibberish and made-up language so that we keep our minds away from words, which can bring us back into story and block our ability to dissolve the ego state.
- The importance of playfulness and improvisation in healing work, and how we can learn a lot about flow from children.
- The voice as a mirror and a portal to our essence.
- The importance of releasing your emotions and communicating about uncomfortable sensations and emotions, rather than keeping up appearances.
- Encouraging people to bring all of them to the table, including the uncomfortable to the surface – to find liberation.
- Why it’s not just about chasing rainbows and light and the benefit of being with the difficult parts of ourselves.
- How to explore this voicework to plant the seeds for a more holistic relationship with yourself if you feel the call.
Born on the tiny island of Guernsey (UK), singing and music became Nessi Gomes’ way of dealing with challenging life circumstances. From a young age, she discovered the ability to transform discomforts and unspoken emotions by exploring sound and has continued since to root herself more and more in the therapeutic value of music and expression. In 2016 Nessi released her debut album Diamonds & Demons and since then toured in more than 30 countries, sharing her music on major stages as well as her Vocal Odyssey, voice exploration workshops and retreats. Nessi holds a BA in Creative Expressive Therapies in Music (Derby University, UK, 2008). She also has a Diploma in Group Voice Therapy (British Association of Sound Therapy, Chichester, UK, 2015). https://www.vocalodyssey.com/
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to clinical psychologist, founder and CEO of OnePerfect, Dr. Sean Sullivan, discuss with Heather the importance of having tools to shift your mindset and find an authentic feeling experience of life, especially when we’re young and during transitional periods of life. You’ll learn about mindfulness-based stress reduction, how it’s possible to train your mind, and Dr. Sean will guide you through a quick presence meditation at the end.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Dr. Sullivan learned to shift mindset very young from his father who was a professional tennis player, and other tools learned through studying psychology, mindfulness and meditating.
- OnePerfect Meditation is a wellness app focused for employers and universities, which is currently being used by the University of California school system.
- Dr. Sullivan's early work supporting kids in colleges around the time that school shootings were starting to increase.
- How your brain is capable of producing a wide range of mental states, and how it’s possible to train yourself into different states through training.
- How much we can benefit the mental health of young people during the college years by helping them learn about how their mind works.
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction.
- The challenge of getting off prescription drugs for conditions that are often considered mental in origin.
- Why we have triggers about the idea of perfection, and how perfection in meditation is actually silence, presence, and the recognition that life is perfect as it is.
Dr. Sean Sullivan is a licensed clinical psychologist and CEO of OnePerfect, where he leads a fiercely caring design, technology and psychology team spread around the world sharing a common goal — transform every smartphone into a pathway to health and wellbeing. Dr. Sullivan began his formal psychology education at Harvard University and finished with a digital health psychology focused postdoc based at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In the twenty years since completing his graduate clinical research titled, The Application of Technology to Psychology, Sean has been practicing psychology, meditating and developing content and digital health tools to deliver psychology most effectively in our increasingly digital world.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Listen to artist Benjamin Von Wong enlighten Heather on how fantasy can be used to create positive impact, especially when climate and environmental statistics can be shocking and daunting enough to make us look away. Von Wong’s work Mermaid Swims in 10,000 Plastic Bottles tells the tale of how plastics have impacted not just the planet, but also human health. In this episode, he brilliantly articulates how to create for something bigger than yourself.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How to shift from creating for the sake of creating over to creating because you want to have an impact.
- Why once we start seeing something we can’t unsee it.
- How fantasy can ignite a sense of curiosity, give new permissions and bring our attention back to an important issue that we’ve looked away from.
- Mermaid Swims in 10,000 plastic bottles as a metaphor for how plastics have impacted our lives and health.
- The great Pacific garbage patch.
- Why Von Wong likes to start with the hardest part of the project first.
- The difference between a universal Why and a project Why.
- The role of collaboration in creating for impact.
Benjamin Von Wong is an artist focused on amplifying positive impact and the host of the Impact Everywhere Podcast. Von Wong's work lies at the intersection of fantasy and photography and combines everyday objects with shocking statistics. It has attracted the attention of corporations, like Starbucks, Dell, and Nike and has generated over 100 million views for causes like ocean plastics, electronic waste, and fashion pollution. Most recently, he was named one of Adweek's 11 content branded masterminds.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Intermittent fasting has become very popular in the last few years. In this solocast, Ayurvedic practitioner and author Heather Grzych touches on some of the psychological, physiological and spiritual benefits and risks of fasting - and how to cope when it get challenging - based on her personal, clinical and academic experience.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- Whether more people fasting could be good for the planet
- Why we feel compelled to exercise so much
- Heather’s personal experience with starting a fasting practice
- The monofast, including juice and kitchari cleanses
- Tools for coping when fasting gets challenging
- Hunger vs. appetite
- Dry fasting vs. wet fasting
- Dieting vs. fasting
- The spiritual aspects of fasting
- Empowerment of fasting and risks of practicing without guidance
- Why so many religions often involve fasting
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Rak Razam is an experiential journalist whose works include two books on Ayahuasca and the documentary Shamans of the Global Village. In this episode, Rak discusses what shamanism is and describes the plants that are central to the shamanic journeys of Peru and other South American countries. He shines a light on the history of shamanism in the world, why so many today are chasing the visions, and the role of the shaman now to heal the global village.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Ayahuasca, a sacred jungle medicine that grows all over South America that is mixed into a brew that acts as a purgative that can create not just hallucination, but also very deep visionary experiences, when used in particular kinds of sets and settings for healing.
- Ayahuasceros – the people working with Ayahuasca.
- Lisa Ling’s third-party reporting on Ayahuasca.
- The different names of Ayahuasca in certain regions. For example, the Columbians call it Yagé.
- How people report that it feels like 10 years of psychotherapy in one night.
- What a shaman is, as well as any potential connection between the Sanskrit word śamana and the western word shaman, which was coined in the Western world by the book Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy from the 50s by Mercea Eliade.
- How psychoactive plants are part of every landscape.
- The theory that you can’t serve the people unless you’ve been served.
- Curanderos, from the Spanish word “to heal”, and the science of curanderismo:
- Ayahuasceros specialize in Ayahuasca.
- Vegetalistas work with plants.
- Tabaqueros work with tobacco for divination and healing.
- Shamanic training in which you have to do a dieta: a purification process (give up sugar, oil, salt, meats) to increase sensitivities.
- The book Thus Spoke the Plant by Monica Gagliano.
- How Gabor Mate used to lead people to Peru for Ayahuasca.
Rak Razam is an alchemical storyteller with his finger on the pulse of tomorrow and the heart of today. A screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, journalist and culture maker, his focus is on the new cultural paradigm birthing in this brave new world. His works include the books Aya Awakenings: A Shamanic Odyssey and The Ayahuasca Sessions: Conversations with Amazonian Curanderos and Western Shamans, and the documentary Shamans of the Global Village. www.rakrazam.com
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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James Maskell is a serial healthcare founder, author and speaker on a mission to flatten the curve of healthcare costs through innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. He’s the creator of the world’s largest integrative medicine conference, and his work has been featured on TEDMED, HuffPostLive and TEDx. In this episode, James talks about how facilitating community in a medical setting can improve the social determinants of health, like loneliness, and how a more feminine approach to medicine is the future.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why James relates more easily to functional medicine than other complementary healthcare practices like Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Social determinants of health
- Downstream negative effects of interventions like antibiotics
- Shifting from masculine thinking in healthcare to a more feminine approach, which is more community-oriented and ecosystem focused
- Why James feels that group-delivered services for chronic disease are the future of healthcare
- Examples of medical groups and facilities implementing group-oriented community care to support care with a clinician, such as Dean Ornish’s heart disease reversal program and Centering Pregnancy
- How Centering Pregnancy’s group prenatal care program improves birth outcomes and nearly eliminates racial disparities in preterm birth
- The difference between conventional medicine vs. obtaining empowerment, support and mentorship from people who have healed from a similar condition
- The need to build a healthcare system around behavior change
- What makes a good healing group
- What it really means to remove the root cause
- The Mankind Project men’s group
- James’ new project, FindFunctional
- James’ books, Evolution of Medicine and The Community Cure
Do you know when you are clearly perceiving reality, rather than under a spell? In this solocast, Ayurvedic practitioner and author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, Heather Grzych, explains how you know you are seeing the truth, the way we get confused by memory, conclusion and understanding, and how we are really interconnected on a cellular and energetic level.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- Cellular and energetic interconnectedness
- The blessing and curse of knowledge
- The truth about conclusions
- How change really happens
- How positive thinking can be both helpful and a form of spiritual bypassing
- What clear, direct perception is
- Biological identity
- Human attachment
- Terrain vs germ theory
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Lee Nelson, MD is a professor and researcher in microchimerism at University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA. In this episode, Dr. Nelson discusses how we have all had other people’s cells actually living inside our bodies, maybe even right now, and the connection with our immune systems. This goes way deeper than the microbiome.
In this episode, we discuss:
- All the ways we share cells with other people - whether naturally or surgically
- Naturally occurring microchimerism, which is when cells of fetal origin persist in mothers and cells of maternal origin persist in fetuses.
- The assumed percentage of cells that are assumed to be from another human organism.
- How a high percentage of our genes are actually viral in nature.
- The idea that we are an ecosystem: including a mix of our cells, other people’s cells and the microbiome.
- Whether microchimerism provides an anti-cancer effect.
- How pregnant women are usually very healthy. For example, some autoimmune conditions, like rheumatoid arthritis, actually improve during pregnancy.
- Cell exchanges that happen in surrogacy, breastfeeding, and other human interactions.
- How you can find these cells in various parts of the body: the blood, the liver, etc.
Lee Nelson, MD is a professor of medicine who researches microchimerism at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA. She has done groundbreaking work in studying naturally occurring microchimerism through maternal-fetal exchange. http://microchimerism.org/
Heather Grzych, CAP, MA is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. https://www.heathergrzych.com
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David Crow is a renowned plant medicine expert who studied Chinese, Tibetan and Ayurvedic medicines and their spiritual lineages. In this episode, David discusses the three indigenous medicines from Asia and what they teach us about immunity and planetary health. He dives deep on the four levels of medicine discussed in the Tibetan tradition, the five elements from Ayurveda, and why it’s difficult to separate the medicine from the spiritual lineage.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why the indigenous medicines are inseparable from the spiritual lineages they came out of -- for example Ayurveda, Yoga and Tantra all came out of the Vedic philosophy
- Tibetan medicine’s poetic description of the nine months of pregnancy and embryology, and - being rooted in a belief in reincarnation - also what happens at the end of life and in the transition between death and the next phase, referred to as the bardo
- The four levels of medicine as depicted on a Tibetan thangka
- Why prana from Ayurveda, chi from Chinese medicine, and ultimately enlightenment, are the goals of medicine and spiritual practice
- How plant medicine is reconnecting us to ecophysiology and the health of the earth and why this is important right now spiritually
- Your definition of “me” at the levels of the microcosm and macrocosm
- How to dissolve the boundaries of the self into the unified field and the stream of consciousness
- Why yoga and meditation create biological unity, where the individual self is part of something else
- The role of herbal medicine, nutrition and detoxification in strengthening the immune system and planetary health
- Why everyone went crazy for herbs like turmeric this year
David Crow, the founder of Floracopeia, is a plant medicine expert, clinician, consultant, researcher, educator and author. He is a specialist in Chinese, Tibetan and Ayurvedic medicines and their spiritual lineages. He is the author of the 2000 book In Search of the Medicine Buddha, offers consultations and is one of the featured teachers with The Shift Network.
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
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Trusting isn't always easy, and some of us don't even trust ourselves enough. In this solocast, Ayurvedic practitioner and author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, Heather Grzych, explains how important interoception is, why you need to add more qualitative language to the phrase “I’m stressed out”, and taking the Ayurveda journey of the five elements and five senses.
In this episode, Heather discusses:
- Five elements from Ayurveda
- Importance of the space element
- How to get less distracted by thoughts
- Using the sensory experience to achieve balance and homeostasis
- Why saying you are stressed is not specific enough
- Examples of how to creatively change the quality of inputs in each of the sense organs: ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose.
- Excerpts from her book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility
Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com
Connect with Heather:
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This podcast is for educational purposes only.
Dr. Raja Sivamani is a board-certified dermatologist and an Ayurvedic Practitioner who is the Director of Clinical research in the Department of Dermatology at the University of California, Davis and the Co-Director of the Microbiome Research Initiative at the California State University, Sacramento. An integrative practitioner of both Allopathic and Ayurvedic medicine, he emphasizes nutrition and achieving beautiful skin through the knowledge of ayurveda. In this episode, we learn about skin on a physiological, psychological and sociological level. Discover how deep skin really goes.
In this episode we discuss:
- Why medical doctors are so attracted to Ayurveda
- The importance of nutrition in skin conditions
- How people who have acne often have a deficiency of short chain fatty acids
- How dead skin actually keeps your skin hydrated
- The many functions of skin and role in the gut-skin axis
- Inner skin and outer skin
- How turmeric, triphala and manjistha are beneficial to the gut microbiome
- How Dr. Sivamani cured his own gut issues through implementing Ayurveda in his life
- Why leading your life with whatever brings you the most vitality is the secret to beautiful skin
Other links for Dr. Raja Sivamani:
- LearnSkin.com
- Jivome
- Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics Textbook
Katherine Standefer is the author of Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life, a book that tells the story of her rare medical condition and the complicated relationship she has with the defibrillator in her chest. With recognitions from the New York Times, O Magazine, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Kirkus Review, People Magazine and NPR's Fresh Air, she provides a unique perspective on what it means to save a life, and how, like the farm-to-table approach to dining, we need to understand what goes into the technology we use.
In this episode we discuss:
- Katherine Standefer’s phenomenal book: Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
- Life with getting an implanted cardiac defibrillator at the age of 24
- How her device misfired and ultimately led to more health risks
- Katherine’s complicated relationship with her defibrillator led her to dive deeper and find out about the device's roots
- What really goes into saving a life
- How to look at medical devices and all objects as sacred
- The organization My Heart Your Heart, which recycles and restores pacemakers
- Living with damage caused by a medical device
- How each of us can sit with the idea that someday we will die
- Having a life-threatening condition without health insurance system in the US
- The mines in Africa where the materials for many of our devices from
- What Lightning Flowers are
- What Long QT Syndrome is
Other links for Katherine
- http://www.katherinestandefer.com/
Social Handles:
- @girlmakesfire for Twitter & IG
Lisa Smartt, MA, is a linguist, book coach and the author of Words at the Threshold: What We Say When We’re Nearing Death, a book based on the data she has collected through the Final Words Project, which she co-founded with Dr. Raymond Moody, who coined the term “near-death experience”. Many of us fear death, but it may not be what we think. In this episode, Lisa beautifully describes the common language patterns of individuals who are dying. She also explains the connection our spirits and bodies have with poetic language like metaphor. Listen, and gain clarity and peace surrounding death.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How witnessing her father’s last days sparked Lisa’s study of the language of the dying
- The work of Lisa’s collaborator, Dr. Raymond Moody, who coined the term near-death experience (NDE), as revealed in his book Life After Life
- Seeing and and speaking with deceased loved ones as we die
- The beauty of nonsensical language and unintelligible speech
- How our dreams, our bodies and the experience of dying speak in metaphors
- Tuning into the language of people passing so you can help nurture the peace of one’s soul transition
More links for Lisa:
- The Final Words Project with Dr. Raymond Moody and Lisa Smartt
Jessica Ann is the CEO and Creative Director of the marketing agency JAM, and a former news producer for national media outlets, such as NBC Newschannel and XM Radio. Jessica is the author of the book Humanize Your Brand, and hosts the Art of Humanity podcast. She discusses how to consume slow media over fast if you want to to reclaim reality. Learn how to have a healthier relationship with social media and technology without shunning what has become such a useful tool and a key part of humanity’s evolution.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The difference between slow media and fast media, and where podcasts fit in
- How blue light blocking glasses can help our nervous systems
- How embodied marketing creates authentic content
- Emotional intelligence and processing
- How empaths are often great visionaries
- The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd
More links for Jessica:
- Jessica’s book: Humanize Your Brand: How to Create Content that Connects with Your Customers
- The Art of Humanity podcast with Jessica Ann
Dr. John Douillard DC, CAP has authored seven Ayurvedic health books, including bestsellers Eat Wheat and The 3-Season Diet, and is a repeat Dr. Oz Show guest, former NBA nutritionist and creator of LifeSpa.com—where ancient Ayurvedic wisdom meets modern science. Dr. Douillard provides insights that he’s discovered from decades of clinical practice - including whether wheat and dairy are bad for you, the benefits of seasonal eating, and how the microbiome isn’t just in the gut. Align your diet to nature’s flow and keep your immune system strong.
In this episode we discuss:
- How wheat and dairy may be able to make your gut immunity stronger.
- Humans are cyclical beings, like everything else is in nature.
- Insights on strengthening our immune systems and our lungs with breath work / pranayama.
- Dr. Douillard's calling to study Ayurveda in India.
- Ayurveda’s meaning: to live out one’s truth.
- How 85% of diseases start with our digestion.
- Rasa: The study of the lymphatic system.
- The link between the gut and the respiratory system.
- Why cleansing and detoxification is so important.
- The importance of nose breathing.
- Kumbhaka: a breath hold that brings more oxygen from our blood to our tissues.
- His earlier books: Perfect Health for Kids and Body, Mind and Sport.
More links for Dr. John:
- John Douillard’s website: https://lifespa.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/dr.douillard
- https://www.instagram.com/lifespa/ @lifespa
- https://twitter.com/JohnDouillard @JohnDouillard
- https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnDouillardsLifeSpa
Rama Jyoti Vernon is an international yoga teacher, founder of numerous organizations, and the author of two highly influential yoga books. Rama first discovered yoga in the 1950s, when it was still being confused with yogurt in the US, and she later taught yoga to Indira Gandhi’s cabinet ministers in India, brought B.K.S. Iyengar to teach in the US, and was the force behind the founding of Yoga Journal. We discuss her experience going to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and later to the Middle East, to do peace mediation work. Tune in to take a breath and realize that you don't need to become empowered - you already are.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How collective fear can be much greater than what is presently occurring in one’s life
- Real female empowerment
- What we can learn from asana and philosophy in yoga practice
- Spending 8 years in the Soviet Union as a peace activist, even meeting Gorbachev and Putin along the way
- Rama’s two books: Yoga: The Practice of Myth & Sacred Geometry and Yoga Sutras: Gateway to Enlightenment
- B.K.S. Iyengar's Book: Light on Yoga
- The founding of Yoga Journal: https://www.yogajournal.com/
More about Rama:
- Rama's website: https://www.rama.yoga
- Rama’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_Jyoti_Vernon
Go deep into mindfulness and the practice of attuning to nature with Mark Coleman, author and longtime teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a facilitator of insight meditation retreats worldwide since 1997. Mark discusses his journey from his rebel-punk-anarchist days in London as a college student, to discovering Buddhism, and ultimately realizing the beautiful teachings naturally occurring in the wild. Mark shares several ways to let go of stress and come back to presence, whether you are working in healthcare, hiding from smoke, or angered over politics. Discover how peace, love and joy are available in nature to soothe your soul right now.
In this episode we discuss:
- The teachings accessible in nature “teaching of life, death and everything in between”
- How you can be self aware, mindful and peaceful as an activist
- Mindfulness and insight meditation
- Mark’s three books: From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness, Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery, and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You From Your Inner Critic
More study with Mark:
- Mindfulness Training Institute: https://www.mindfulnesstraininginstitute.com
- Awake in the Wild website: https://www.awakeinthewild.com
- Nature Meditation Website: https://markcoleman.org/nature-meditation/
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a Fertility Awareness Educator and author of The Fifth Vital Sign and the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook. Lisa discusses the ways a woman can learn about how her menstrual cycle really works, why so many of us were misinformed about it growing up and still continue to be - and why it’s so important to pay attention to it. She shares her personal experience of getting off hormonal birth control and learning how to track her cycle to prevent pregnancy. Tune in to discover the wonders of the menstrual cycle and understand the female body more!
In this episode, we discuss:
- The menstrual cycle as a vital sign
- Why the educational and medical systems haven’t properly educated women about their bodies and how to get educated
- Various Fertility Awareness Methods, such as the Rhythm Method, Justisse Method, Creighton Method, and the Billings Method
- How to look for the signs of ovulation through your own powers of observation or through devices like the Daysy or Lady-Comp
- The magic of your bodily fluids
- How the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility influenced Lisa at a young age
Chandresh Bhardwaj is a seventh generation spiritual advisor and author with nods from both The Dalai Lama and Dr. Deepak Chopra, whose bestseller book and podcast, Break the Norms, challenges our perspectives on relationships, sex, and spirituality. Chandresh shares his story of growing up in India as the son of a famous spiritual guru, leaving India and working on Wall Street, and then following his passion to spirituality.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Truth and misconceptions about Tantra in Western culture (much more than sex)
- How devi consciousness cultivates receptivity and the divine feminine
- The importance of life’s pleasures, like the sweetness of manuka honey, embracing a loved one or watching an episode of Breaking Bad
Kate O'Donnell is the author of the Everyday Ayurveda book series on the Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle. An Ayurvedic practitioner and Ashtanga yoga teacher, Kate shares how her experience traveling to India at age 19, and eventually getting treatment at an Ayurvedic hospital in India for a parasite, unexpectedly gave her a spiritual awakening and shaped her career. She breaks down Ayurveda basics, giving us an understanding of the doshas: vata, pitta and kapha. She also shares her wisdom about how yogis can deepen their practices beyond the mat by developing a personalized at-home yoga practice and implementing an Ayurvedic lifestyle. You’ll get a few insights on traveling in India, Ayurvedic diet tips and how to live in deeper harmony with your body.
In this interview we discuss:
- Intentional communities, like Auroville in India
- Ashtanga yoga and being a yoga teacher
- Ayurvedic cooking
- What Ayurvedic practitioners find from a pulse
- Vata, pitta and kapha doshas
Silicon Valley business professional and active stand-up comedian Chris Tabish helps people implement comedic concepts at work, which emotionally empowers and helps them feel more joy in the daily grind. Chris is the author of the book Comediology: Be More Effective and Fulfilled in Business with Comedy.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What a telling lie does to your body, even if the lie is the unintentional kind that the ego tells
- How laughing, and making others laugh, can improve your health
- One of Deepak Chopra’s classic ego awareness exercises
- Why Heather, the show's host, finds Jim Carrey so funny
Jacqui Lalita, the founder of the Wild Wisdom School of Earth Medicine & Embodiment, has been helping women connect with the divine feminine through ancient dance traditions, plant medicine and poetry for decades. In this episode, she talks about how reconnecting with nature helps you get back to the proverbial garden, establish grace and empowerment, and see how your body has a capacity to heal itself. Giddy about how the earth has gifted us with medicinal plants, Jacqui shares some of her favorites, such as reishi, adaptogens like ashwagandha, tulsi and eleuthero, as well as nervines like milky oats and lemon balm.
In this interview, we discuss:
- Why women are in need of rewilding today
- The difference between sexuality and sensuality
- How the practice of yoga can be a bridge to dancing
- How an meeting with David Wolfe led her to becoming a chocolatier
- Jacqui’s belly dance DVD, poetry books and courses offered
Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar, Ayurvedic physician and medical astrologer, has been pioneering Ayurveda and Vedic Counseling all over the globe for decades, thanks to his background traveling with the organization behind Transcendental Meditation. In this episode, he talks about how humans make sense of the world and the tension between free will and destiny. His son, Dr. Manas Kshirsagar, joins us and shares how he planned to study conventional medicine, and why he ultimately came back to do healing panchakarma work as an Ayurvedic doctor.
In this interview, we discuss:
- Where the word atom actually came from
- Whether astrology, or jyotish, and other quantum sciences, are too “woo woo” for physical scientists
- Fate vs. free will
- Why the truth can be difficult to hear
- How crossing cultures with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru to the Beatles, taught the Kshirsagar family about universal human desires
Wildlife Photojournalist and Documentary Photographer Justin Mott discusses the path to becoming a creative success and the role that personal projects have played in his development as an artist. Now a resident of Vietnam, his assignments have taken him all over the globe for the New York Times, National Geographic and many other editorial clients, and his latest personal project, Kindred Guardians, profiles people who take care of endangered animals. Learn how to find success in your creative endeavors and hear a firsthand account of how yoga transformed an injury that could have ended his career.
A former pro athlete, extreme skier Kristen Ulmer is an expert on fear and anxiety. The author of The Art of Fear: Why Conquering Fear Won’t Work, and What to Do Instead, Kristen will give you an exact definition of why some people struggle with fear and anxiety and others don’t. And she’ll teach you how to deal with issues from the bottom up to get better results.
In this interview, we discuss:
- What is causing the fear and anxiety crisis we have today, and how the patterns start really young.
- Using fear as a motivator to achieve peak performance.
- Why only focusing on the positive does not help.
- Why you should never use the word fear and overcome in the same sentence ever again.
Author and Ayurvedic practitioner Susan Weis-Bohlen loves to teach people about the Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle. Many of us didn’t learn to eat well when we were younger, but Susan shows how it’s possible to overcome our conditioning by making small changes that lead to huge lifestyle benefits.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The difference between a physical craving and an emotional craving, and what you can do when you get overtaken by an emotional craving
- Being ready to meet the love of your life
- How she became Oprah Winfrey’s intern during high school
- How seasonal changes affect the doshas (including what a dosha is!), and what you can do to balance your body
- Ayurvedic practices that are generally safe for anyone to try, even if they don’t know their dosha
Tune in and drop in with author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych to explore the idea of body intelligence as the real key to learning the knowledge of life – or what's called Ayurveda in the ancient language of Sanskrit. Connect with today’s creative leaders and experts who will help you listen to your body, trust your gut and live in deeper harmony with nature. The author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility: A Natural Approach to Getting Pregnant, Heather helps you unlock the golden door to clear, direct perception and deep listening.
A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is also on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Check out her website for virtual consultations and training programs: www.heathergrzych.com.