MyBody - Ask Anything w/ DeAnna Batdorff : Recent Episodes
dhyana Essentials
A question and answer series where DeAnna Batdorff gets real. She calls on you to own your wellness through the time-honored power of ancient elemental wisdom. Answering listener-submitted questions with holistic recommendations and a dash of humor. Nothing is TMI here!
DeAnna Batdorff, renegade heath detective, Ayurvedic Practitioner with 30+ years of experience supporting over 250,000 individuals on their journey to better health through owning their right to ‘self-care as healthcare.’
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Client Care, Osteoarthritis, and All About Breasts and Chests
Learn more about the Integra Collective at integracollective.org or follow them @integracollective on Instagram. You can sign up for the Integra Convergence in Costa Rica July 10-15 at https://www.integracollective.org/convergence-2022-1
Where can you learn from DeAnna?
- Spirit Weavers Gathering: June 2-6, 9-13
- Birth Alchemy Immersion: 5 weekends in July & August 2022
- Aromatherapeutics Course with Gathering Thyme in Petaluma, CA August 26-28
Clinical Foundations Course in PORTUGAL: Sept 28- Oct 22, 2022
Osteoarthritis: cold condition from calcium buildup that becomes inflammation
- Electrolytes- ½ tsp of gray salts in water
- Helpful herbs: Boneset, Self heal
- Guasha on the inflamed parts
- Mahanarayan oil
- Kala Namak- use as electrolyte -¼ tsp 2x day - also good for digestion
- Or use as a soak
- Sweating techniques, get more exercise
- Rosemary essential oils
For loose skin after weight loss:
- Dry brushing
- Trampoline & exercise
- Cardio
- Tonifying salt scrubs: warming or cleansing salt scrub from website
- Massage with 2 wood guashas
- Med Massager- large pad massager
Additional Recommendation:
Visible Body App for learning about anatomy
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DeAnna digs into cleansing protocols for all sorts of springtime situations!
4:50: Repairing cartilage and cleaning out a Baker’s cyst.
23:05: Cleansing and fasting for each dosa
33:41: All about Ozone therapy
Repairing Cartilage and Cleansing a Baker's cyst:
- Kala namak sulfered salt
- Castor Oil
- Cypress essential oil
- Custom essential oil blends for individual situations
- Gua Sha
- Nutmeg essential oil
- Atlantic Grey Salt
Cleansing Support
- Spring Cleanse Protocol
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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DeAnna talks about heart health in this love month episode!
4:15—DeAnna's history with self-care
11:30—Heart & kidney health and how DeAnna saved her mom's life
25:16—Natural heart tonics
39:40—Unproductive cough solutions
Heart tonics:
- Cardamom, pods or seeds steeped as a tisane.
- Cardamom essential oil
- Black pepper essential oil
- Turmeric essential oil
- Obtain a custom essential oil blend suited to your specific needs
Unproductive mucoid plaque and lung/bronchial support:
- Elecampagne
- Bee balm
- Cinnamon
- Linden flowers
- Niaouli essential oil
- Cajeput essential oil
Forever wood gua sha now available in the store!
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
Get the assurance and support you need, send your wellness questions to DeAnna through the dhyana Essentials website.
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Ayurvedic Foundations Course Begins March 22, 2022. Register Now!
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Happy 2022!
1:45—DeAnna's New Year challenge for you!
11:20—Any gua sha contraindications?
21:48—Essential liver care
32:47—Transforming a lump on the body
40:53—Changing a white line across the bridge of a nose
Valentine's Day savings on the website.
Communication of Hormones webinar February 26 2022. Register here.
Suggestion for melting down lumps (lipoma, calcification, swollen lymph node)
A dollop of castor oil mixed with ½ tsp kala namak on a small cotton pad and apply to lump
Forever wood gua sha now available in the store!
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
Get the assurance and support you need, send your wellness questions to DeAnna through the dhyana Essentials website.
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Ayurvedic Foundations Course Begins March 22, 2022. Register Now!
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DeAnna discusses immune-boosting for a variety of conditions and symptoms.
From December 2, 2021
4:45 Swollen tonsils and sinus care
16:41 Working with traditional urine therapy
38:29 Mold exposure treatment with the herb spilanthes
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
Get the assurance and support you need, send your wellness questions to DeAnna through the dhyana Essentials website.
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Ayurvedic Foundations Course Begins March 22, 2022. Register Now!
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2:59 - DeAnna introduces how little we know about the prostate, yet how prevalent prostate dis-ease is in our culture
5:37 - DeAnna teaches about the prostate and the imbalances that can occur
6:39 - Milking the prostate
9:45 - Urine flow as an indicator of prostate health
15:35 - Hormone connections to prostate health and how to eat for a healthy prostate
18:32 - Essential oils for the prostate
21:51 - Success stories of clients improving prostate health
26:48 - Tracking prostate health on your visible body the Ayurvedic way
33:10 - Thoughts on the challenge for male-bodied humans to take charge of their health
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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Receive 10% Off Banyan Products!
MyBody Mapping Course Begins January 8, 2022. Register Now!
Visible Body app DeAnna loves
Roman Chamomile Essential Oil — anti-inflammatory
Blue Cypress Essential Oil — anti-inflammatory
Rose Geranium Essential Oil — anti-inflammatory
Cypress Essential Oil — regulates edema
6 drops cypress (for edema) + 6 drops rose geranium directly on tailbone into groin
Rose geranium is a long-term tonic. 4 drops on the tailbone each night as preventative care.
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DeAnna discusses care post transition surgery.
From August 20, 2021
2:39 — Surgery prep
4:38 — Working out scar tissue
11:00 — Skin conditions and other reactions from yeast
Arnica montana homeopathic 30c -- reduces medication and surgical residue
Enemas to clear out the system to help with flushing toxins during and after surgery
Gua sha and castor to work with scar tissue once a surgery site is COMPLETELY healed
Aloe vera juice and electrolytes with water
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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In this continuation of the previous episode, DeAnna takes questions from breast cancer survivors. She discusses effective self-care tools, essential oils, methods of hydration without increasing inflammation, and spices to bolster cell strength and immunity.
DeAnna shares self-care techniques with top lymphatic tools such as the Chinese gua sha, salt scrubs, Mahanarayan oil, and basalt rocks.
Learn to soothe inflammation by draining the Warrior lymph. Increase circulation and lymphatic immunity movement with the gua sha and salt scrubs. Warm the tissue and work with pain through hot water bottle and basalt rock tapping. Break down healed scars with Mahanarayan oil massage.
Learn more through her Lymphatic Care workshop.
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Cancer survivor Molly Rinaldi welcomes DeAnna as she discusses lymph care for those who have had chest tissue removed due to breast cancer treatment. In this first part, she discusses the basics of the lymphatic system and the Ayurvedic approach to its health as well as the elemental perspective on immunity care. She presents an overview of how to work with scar tissue, reduce inflammation, meet pain, and how to get comfortable with your body. She brings a variety of self-care tools and describes how to use them.
DeAnna shares self-care techniques with top lymphatic tools such as the Chinese gua sha, salt scrubs, Mahanarayan oil, and basalt rocks.
Learn to soothe inflammation by draining the Warrior lymph. Increase circulation and lymphatic immunity movement with the gua sha and salt scrubs. Warm the tissue and work with pain through hot water bottle and basalt rock tapping. Break down healed scars with Mahanarayan oil massage.
Learn more through her Lymphatic Care workshop.
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DeAnna answers questions about cysts and how to reduce them, soothing hot flashes, and working with yeast.
From August 12, 2021
3:40 — Breast cysts and how to support breast tissue
17:16 - Natural remedies for hot flashes
27:46 - Dealing with yeast
Breast cysts
Yeast (sugars: alcohol, grains) can increase cystic activity
Food Aggravators: Oily Nuts, hard cheese, processed salty foods
Suggestions: Frankincense, lavender, chamomile, cypress (endocrine regulator)
EOs -- these are anti-inflammatory
Chamomile: 4 drops/day
Lavender: 8 drops/day
Cypress: 8 drops/day
Frankincense: 6 drops/day
Could blend them all together.
Massage the tissue to awaken the lymph.
Apply EO directly on cyst.
Find the hot spot and pump around it with hands
Shatavari powder - 1 tsp in a cup of hot water
mint, dill, fennel, cilantro, raw ginger -- useful herbs
Soothing hot flashes
Evening Primrose Oil
Aloe vera juice and electrolytes
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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DeAnna answers questions about cardamom and fennel and their many gifts, discusses the Covid-19 vaccine, and reviews the many amazing plants in her garden.
From May 20, 2021
8:41 -- Cardamom and fennel essential oil and how to use them
17:52 -- Heart tonic and heart care
20:44 -- Cardamom and fennel seeds and their use for gut care
22:55 -- Immunization autonomy and support
31:58 -- DeAnna's garden plants and their uses
35:56 -- Effective plants for pregnancy and birth
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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DeAnna presents a multifaceted discussion of topics from probiotics to sustainability to dealing with yeast
From July 1, 2021
5:45 -- Probiotics and avoiding yeast infections
18:08 -- Education and the new treatment yurt along with sustainability
28:22 -- Collagen and whether it feeds cancer
33:52 -- California white sage plant
37:27 -- Eye rash care
44:22 -- Signs of yeast infections for men
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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DeAnna is joined by her student and Empowered Ayurveda practitioner, Simone Oliver to discuss GERD, allergic inflammation and summer insect bites, and the deep inner work of being seen and growing self-esteem.
From June 17, 2021
3:05 -- GERD support to avoid surgery
12:28 -- Reducing histamine response to allergies and bug bites
32:02 -- Simone has a rash and DeAnna offers thoughts on its source and suggestions for it
47:50 -- Healing from the fear of being seen
Find Simone for massage and wellness treatments or teaching @simonheals or simoneoliverwellness.com
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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DeAnna answers a wealth of questions in this jam-packed episode! Listeners inquire about a variety of reproductive tissue-related issues, gut health, blood pressure, and the greater picture of changing careers through online education.
From June 03, 2021
2:04 -- SIBO support
11:48 -- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome support
20:35 -- Increasing the uterine lining for fertility
27:04 -- Holistic support for erectile dysfunction
36:02 -- Oils for Anuvasana basti (oil enema)
41:20 -- Support for low blood pressure and temperature
45:55 -- Ayurvedic education online and starting the professional path of a healer at middle age
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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DeAnna explores our sense of innate balance in our bodies and wellness. What's working for you today? She speaks to the preparation for winter hibernation by cleansing in the autumn. DeAnna welcomes her dear friend and colleague, nutritionist Mary Sheila Gonnella, to talk about their course, Edible Ayurveda.
From September 24, 2020
4:54 -- Fall cleanse
16:10 -- Edible Ayurveda with Mary Sheila. Look for this course at occidentalnutrition.com
21:13 -- Working with deep feelings that may be out of balance
49:19 -- Pleasure and shame around eating
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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DeAnna explores vulnerability in this episode — the pursuit of unhealthy solutions, deep emotional challenges, the immunity front line within the throat, and DeAnna's own response to the unknown in the midst of a global pandemic.
From August 27, 2020
2:00 -- Vices
16:27 -- Tonsil Care
25:02 -- Personal Development
30:42 -- Care During Natural Disasters
37:18 -- Supporting Adrenal Glands with Protein
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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A mini-episode in which DeAnna discusses the benefits of the aloe plant, self-sabotage versus self-care, and how to create a regular self-care routine.
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
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Welcome to DeAnna's first episode where she answers listener-submitted questions. Come together in this virtual community of wellness, guided by DeAnna's 30+ years of experience.
From July 30, 2020
2:00 -- The benefits of a 10-day challenge and practices in that
13:10 -- Summer chapped lips
26:53 -- Treatment for seasonal allergies
35:27 -- Preventing mastitis
45:47 -- How to get a personal consultation with DeAnna
Special thanks for the magical music of Jens Jarvie. Listen to his work at jensjarvieandtheheartwideopen.com
DeAnna answers questions you send!
Get the assurance and support you need, send your wellness questions to DeAnna through the dhyana Essentials website at dhyanaessentials.com
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