Positively Clucked Podcast: Recent Episodes
Yoga Hens Ltd
Yoga Hens Ltd Podcast bringing you real & raw content to educate, create debate and find new perspectives on life. Yoga Hens Stacey & Angela are wellbeing consultants qualified in nursing, yoga, mindfulness & therapeutic coaching. With an original, vast and varied offering for businesses and the general public alike, Yoga Hens focus on 'Wellbeing for ALL Bodies' with a particular emphasis on bolstering mental health & developing resilience.
MOTIVATION can be an ENIGMA for us all and keeping motivated can be even more of a mystery…
Whether it’s pushing YOURSELF to get up early, eat HEALTHY, follow an EXERCISE regime, reduce alcohol, or do the housework … MOTIVATION can be difficult to find never mind MAINTAIN!
WE are told over and over that MOTIVATION is the key to SUCCESS but if we can’t FIND that motivation how can we REACH our GOALS?
Being MOTIVATED is a universal STRUGGLE that we all encounter at various points in our lives but is MOTIVATION something we can CREATE and if so, HOW?
We discuss the importance of your WHY as well as the key indicators of what really motivates YOU
We talk about WHY we struggle to MOTIVATE ourselves, the problem with relying on WILLPOWER alone and how upleveling your MOTIVATION could be simpler than you think!
We can’t wait for YOU to hear us chat about this widely searched topic. Grab a pen and paper as you may wish to make some notes!
HERE WE GO!
Your YOGA HENS fix awaits ... Enjoy!
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Often the BIGGEST BATTLE we face in FITNESS is where and how to start…
Then there is the story you tell YOURSELF about why you can’t!
But if you’re not careful these lies can sabotage your wellbeing repeatedly!
In this show, with the help of fitness coach SEAN LEACH we talk about WOMEN’S FITNESS and how LIFTING WEIGHTS can help to age proof YOUR BODY no matter what your current level of fitness!
We FACE THE STIGMA head on in relation to WOMEN lifting weights and search out the physical & mental health BENEFITS of creating a physically STRONG FEMALE body.
As you will hear SEAN explain; WEIGHT LIFTING is the BEST option for WEIGHT LOSS especially as women age. What’s more lifting weights can be fun! YES FUN! YOU CAN begin at any age, and you can fit it around your lifestyle. No crazy diets, no extreme exercises.
We also LEARN how with his FIT & VITAL LIFE coaching Sean can help you to SCULPT your BODY, BOOST your SELF-ESTEEM and CHANGE YOUR STORY about FITNESS!
WE also get vulnerable with SEAN on his own MENTAL HEALTH and the fitness CHALLENGES all of us encounter. YOU will hear some great TIPS in these areas as well hearing how SEAN has overcome struggles in his own journey.
So, GET READY for some AMAZING advice and maybe the KICKSTART you need to FIRE UP your own fitness!
Your YOGA HENS fix awaits ... Enjoy!
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www.yogahens.com
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It can be a scary thing to be a BEGINNER in YOGA …
It’s a whole other challenge to join a beginner’s yoga class on DOCTOR’S orders, when you have HEALTH & MOBILTY issues and think yoga isn’t even your jam!
On this show we invited former school teacher and loyal yoga student Karen Cook to share her experience of DISCOVERING yoga in LATER LIFE, when she really didn’t think it was for her at all!
You better clear your schedule and grab your favourite drink to listen to this one as Karen has an AMAZING story to tell!
She will share with you how she went from not even being able to get up and down from the floor in her first class to trending around the world on social media for her ‘yoga body’!
This PHENOMONAL woman will tell you how with the help of yoga she has overcome health obstacles and achieved things she never thought possible.
Karen shares REFRESHING & UPLIFTING insights not just on yoga but on LIFE. We also dig into Karen’s time in the ARMY and how now later in life due to yoga she is discovering her ADVENTUROUS nature all over again.
Karen also gives some important advice for those who are thinking of trying yoga and she explains the SECRET to having a Yoga BODY!
Our advice ? … grab the popcorn, get comfy & LISTEN NOW!
Your YOGA HENS fix awaits ... Enjoy!
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On this show Yoga Hens get candid with a question they are forever being asked… Can you be too FAT for YOGA?
It’s no secret that yoga in the west has long been linked to slender, flexible body types with a focus on FITNESS and athletic clothing.
Even with the BODY POSITIVITY movement social media is still a key player in maintaining the out-of-date yoga stereotype as much of the images we see are of thin, contorted bodies in the latest yoga gear.
So, is it any surprise that Stacey & Angela often get told they don’t ‘Look like Yoga Teachers’ – NO WAY! Maybe they’re in the wrong job then?
They also receive messages daily asking:
‘Can I come to class as I’m overweight and I’m not very flexible?’
‘Are you sure I’m not too fat to come?’
‘I don’t have any fancy clothing and I don’t feel nice in Lyra so what will I wear?’
If you don’t meet the yoga stereotype it can be difficult to even ask about a yoga class never mind attend one, but can you really be TOO FAT to yoga?
Should bigger bodies have their own yoga sessions? Do FAT people have to do more gentle yoga? Is curvy the same as fat? What, if anything should we consider in our yoga practice when our body is bigger or less toned than the stereotype?
In this controversial episode Yoga Hens tackle all these questions and more! Maybe you will agree, maybe you won’t but this is a topic that calls for DEBATE, openness, and change! As always this is REAL, raw, and thought-provoking listening! So what are you waiting for?
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
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Yoga Hens bring you your 'Daily Meds'. Bite size, simple guided meditations to make daily meditation practice easy and achievable.
Are you feeling STRESSED? Maybe your life has been filled with stressful situations and difficult emotions lately? Are YOU seeking physical and mental RELAXATION?
Take this visualisation meditation to reconnect with the SOOTHING ways of NATURE and her elements. Mindfully exploring the surroundings of the countryside and focusing on nature's relaxing beauty. A stunning waterfall lies at the centre of this meditation and the cool, crisp water soothes stress and relieves tension within the BODY and MIND.
Useful first thing in the morning to prepare for the day ahead.
Thank you for allowing us to meditate with you.
A regular meditation practice can help to lower BP, improve sleep patterns, relieve tension, support pain management, improve productivity, reduce fatigue, assist emotional regulation, improve mood, support digestion, bolster resilience & so much more!
So, what are you waiting for?
Enjoy!
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Yoga Hens bring you your 'Daily Meds'. Bite size, simple guided meditations to make daily meditation practice easy and achievable.
Is your life so BUSY that you often forget to stop until you become OVERWHELMED? Is your mind filled with racing thoughts? Do you feel the need for a RESET so that you can RECHARGE?
Take this short meditation with us to provide the mind with a productive short break to help BALANCE and REFOCUS your thoughts. This restorative reset will allow you to be more productive and ready to take on the rest of your day!
Thank you for allowing us to meditate with you.
A regular meditation practice can help to lower BP, improve sleep patterns, relieve tension, support pain management, improve productivity, reduce fatigue, assist emotional regulation, improve mood, support digestion, bolster resilience & so much more!
So, what are you waiting for?
Enjoy!
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Yoga Hens bring you your 'Daily Meds'. Bite size, simple guided meditations to make daily meditation practice easy and achievable.
Are you always criticizing yourself? Or do you feel a need to hide who you really are for FEAR of what others will think?
Do you want to feel more SELF-ACCEPTANCE and COMFORTABLE in your own skin? Join us for this gentle meditation to be with yourself and find peace and freedom in who YOU are! You deserve to RELAX and feel WORTHY exactly as you are.
This meditation will liberate you to feel FREE to BE YOU!
Thank you for allowing us to meditate with you.
A regular meditation practice can help to lower BP, improve sleep patterns, relieve tension, support pain management, improve productivity, reduce fatigue, assist emotional regulation, improve mood, support digestion, bolster resilience & so much more!
So, what are you waiting for?
Enjoy!
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It’s on everyone's minds at the moment and it’s causing much anxiety but what is the real cost of the cost of living crisis?
Fuel, Food, Energy bills, Rent is all on the UP and as a result planning how we are spending is now critical.
So what do we do? Where does the extra cash come from to make ends meet?
Maybe working more hours, getting a second job or reducing outgoings and spending?
But what actually happens when you no longer have the money for those things that keep you well?
Are they luxuries or essentials?
In this episode Yoga Hens discuss 'The Cost of Living Crisis' and its cost to health. We discuss why its essential to budget for your own wellbeing and what the real cost to our health is if we don’t.
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
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Yoga Hens bring you your 'Daily Meds'. Bite size, simple guided meditations to make daily meditation practice easy and achievable.
Meditation doesn't have to be complicated and it shouldn't need to take a huge amount of time from your day. However a little time in meditation can have a massive positive impact on your day!
A regular meditation practice can help to lower BP, improve sleep patterns, relieve tension, support pain management, improve productivity, reduce fatigue, assist emotional regulation, improve mood, support digestion, bolster resilience & so much more!
So what are you waiting for?
Try this Grounding Tree Meditation to help to ease a busy mind, refocus and make you feel more rooted in the present. This mediation will support you to feel more balanced and connected to the world around you as you find your connection with nature.
Enjoy!
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Let's talk about self-belief ...
We can be unstoppable and confident in all situations if we just choose to believe it right? Is it really that simple though? What does self-belief even mean and how can we harness it?
It is widely accepted that believing you can do something increases your chances of actually achieving it. So if we don't believe in our own abilities we are also less likely to succeed and we may even allow opportunities to pass us by as we simply don't believe we are worthy of them.
However self-belief is not fixed. The good news is we can change our self-belief, rebuild it and even argue with it!
In this episode Yoga Hens discuss 'Self-belief' and what it really means to believe in yourself. We discuss how you can maintain self-belief, whether its important and whether we can change our self-belief.
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
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Are you feeling fatigued or depleted most days of the week? Do you snap at your colleagues, partner, children or other family members. Do you feel overwhelmed even when you don't have much planned in your day?
Have you lost interest in things you used to love as they seem too effortful and you just feel emotionally worn out? Maybe sleep is all you want to do but then sometimes you feel so wired you can't sleep at all?!
It could be that you're suffering from 'burn out' . According the the World Health Organisation 1 in 4 of us will experience 'burn out' at some point in our lives.
'Burn out' is becoming a modern epidemic stopping people in their tracks with physical and mental health symptoms including irritation, mood swings, anger outbursts, changes in sleep patterns, headaches, exhaustion, negative outlook, forgetfulness, becoming unwell more often, wanting to isolate or avoid interaction and the list goes on ...
Yet not many of us see 'burn out' as a potential problem and we choose not to notice these changes in our health or behaviour until we have to or we are extremely unwell. Most of us see this state as modern life and we just have to 'keep going' without realising that we are sacrificing our long-term health.
In this episode Yoga Hens talk openly about why 'burn out' has became acceptable, how to avoid it and things you can do to manage it. In their usual down to earth manner the Yoga Hens chat about their own thoughts and experiences in relation to 'burn out'; whilst hopefully sparking some debate and giving you a nudge to consider how you can 'burn out' proof yourself!
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
Is this it? Is this new reality what our lives look like now? With 'Social Distancing' being the new way of living for us all, what should we be aware of when protecting our wellbeing?
We are now in the midst of the largest global health problem of our time? A time when we need to come together and connect. A time where human to human support is essential to our survival. Yet, as a society we are being advised to be more physically distant than ever before!
Will we be able to manage in these uncertain times when there is already a significant impact on our emotional health? What are the main difficulties? Do we all feel the same? How will we stay motivated?
Can there possibly be any benefits to our mental health?
In this show your Yoga Hens discuss the topical subject of social distancing, sharing their own views and debating our options as individuals for creating connection and seizing opportunities as we begin to move towards a new global reality!
As always the shows offers a real and honest debate with a pinch of humour to keep you smiling! Don’t wait ... listen NOW!
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
A much anticipated gift for you ... from your Yoga Hens
A FREE guided relaxation to induce calm, reduce tension & help you to restore.
In these uncertain and challenging times we face across the globe; taking time out and recharging is even more important than ever.
Whilst relaxation techniques may not seem like a priority in the modern world; employing them is often just the tonic you mind & body need in order to not only repair but to thrive!
The use of guided relaxation can lower BP, improve sleep patterns, relieve tension, support pain management, improve productivity, reduce fatigue, support anxiety management, improve digestion, bolster resilience ... and the list goes on!
Sounds like a TOP priority for wellbeing then doesn't it?
Yet relaxation doesn't come easy when we spend our days pushing through, engaging our sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight response). We may feel fatigued and count down the minutes until we can veg on the sofa or climb into bed but... once we get there we are often agitated and unable to settle, causing further fatigue and frustration.
Therefore for this very special show...
Yoga Hens wanted to respond to the exhaustive requests for something to use at home in between sessions; by sending some kindness and calm across the globe with their famous guided relaxation techniques.
So here it is ... for the very first time your very own Yoga Hens relaxation sound bite to use at home ... get ready for an unadulterated relaxation experience that you're going to want to return to time and time again!
Enjoy ...
Don’t wait ... listen NOW!
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
Music Info: Relaxing - AShamaluevMusic.
Music Link: https://youtu.be/CEomyrZCOp4
Is community spirit still alive and kicking? Why is giving to others mutually beneficial? In a world of abundance do we really still need support from our peers?
How can community spirit keep us well? What has all of this got to do with yoga?
In this show your Yoga Hens discuss community spirit with the show's guest Diane Buggy, Community Midwife, Mum, Yogi and co-founder of Mothers to Mothers.
Diane explains why her charitable work is so important to the women she supports as well as why this work is essential to her wellbeing. She also highlights how she overcame the barriers to 'body ideal' yoga.
As ever this is "unedited" RAW discussion to get you thinking!
Don’t wait ... listen NOW!
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
Is there really a connection between our emotions & physical illness in the body? Does mental health now have parity with physical health or is the medical model still playing catch up?
Above all have we forgotten what it means to be healthy?
What does it take for us to notice the impact of matters of the mind on our physical health? Are we really missing the cues when it comes to our health?
Mind-Body Connection seems to be thrown about like confetti these days but do we really understand the impact the mind has on the body? Are we fully aware of the detrimental effects of missing the cues?
In this show your Yoga Hens discuss their understanding of the mind-body connection along with research and personal & professional experiences relating to the topic.
As ever this is "unedited" RAW discussion to get you thinking!
Don’t wait ... listen NOW!
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
In this 24/7 fully connected world are we actually more disconnected than we have ever been? Why does there seem to be a loneliness epidemic and what’s the impact of our modern communication systems ??????
What’s more could we be creating the biggest health problem of our time? If so how do we stop it?
Humans are by nature very sociable with a key need to connect yet statistically we are more lonely than we have ever been!
In this show your Yoga Hens discuss the need for connection, sharing experiences and debating our options as individuals for moving toward a more connected population.
As always the shows offers a real and honest debate with a pinch of humour to keep you smiling! Don’t wait ... listen NOW!
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
What are we really doing to manage stress in the modern world? Stress can be detrimental to our lives and our whole wellbeing but it is also an essential component of survival.
In fact, we are informed that acute stress is beneficial to our health & wellbeing and can support a successful balanced lifestyle. Yet in seeking balance in a busy and often overwhelming world we now appear to be tipping the scale the other way...
As humans it's well known that we are supposed to live with and experience a range of emotions yet could we be reaching for options to numb these emotions more than we think!
Are we actually 'living' our whole lives in 'High Definition' or are we choosing to numb all of the things we feel are less than amazing? Perhaps more importantly... what is this numbing doing to us longer term and how is it impacting our relationships?
In this show your Yoga Hens discuss stress, our so called 'management strategies' and the impact this is having our health, relationships and life! In true Yoga Hens style the hens talk openly about their own struggles and experiences as well as considering current trends and insights.
Offering a real and honest debate with a pinch of humour this is a show you really don't want to miss!
Your Yoga Hens fix awaits ... Enjoy!
Can there really be growth without vulnerability? What does it mean to be truly vulnerable and is it as negative as is often portrayed?
Some would argue that in vulnerability we find honesty and connection but all too often vulnerability is regarded as a 'weakness' or a time when we are 'lacking' in some way. Can you really be authentic without also being somewhat vulnerable? Can you even follow your purpose and live the life you want without embracing your own vulnerability?
In this show your Yoga Hens discuss what it means to be vulnerable in modern times and why social media disconnects us from ourselves as well as the world around us. Listen as they discuss why exposure of your 'true self' is needed if we are to connect with one another. They also explain how yoga and yogic ethos reconnects us by offering us a safe space for our own vulnerability and how from here we can grow!
A thought provoking, honest and vulnerable conversation with the hens awaits.
Fear is the one thing that holds most people back from following their dreams and living the life they want. How much time do you spend considering the 'what ifs' before you decide to do something? What is it you fear the most about getting out of your comfort zone? For most of us it's fear of failure that stops us in our tracks but what if you couldn't fail? What would you do then?
On this weeks show your Yoga Hens will discuss the fear of failure and where this fear is generated from and why. They share their own experiences, views and thoughts and why they believe failure doesn't really exist!