The Mindful Revolution: Recent Episodes
The Mindful Revolution
"The Mindful Revolution" is a newer, cooler radio show. Be a part of the weekly conversations with some of today's leading experts in mindfulness: Dharma Mittra, Mastin Kipp, Yogi Roth, and Ana Forrest to name a few. Yoga, meditation, sustainability, and of course, mindfulness are some of the topics we explore each week. It's enlightening and super fun.
The Mindful Revolution's host, Jeff Bogart, is joined by friends of the podcast. They talk a little bit about everything including some of their favorite guests.
Music legend Greg Anton joins Jeff Bogart for a full hour. Greg is a 25-year veteran of the Bay Area music scene. Initially from the state of Washington, Greg was one of the founding members of the "Heart of Gold Band", along with Keith and Donna Godchaux, when the band was formed in 1980. Greg has performed as a drummer at hundreds of concerts with well-known artists world-wide, recorded on over 40 albums, and published over 50 original songs. Joel Selvin of the San Francisco Chronicle describes Greg as "a musical drummer with powerful dynamics that puts down a beat that is the heart and soul of the band.”
Today, he talks about his first novel Face the Music: a story of love, self-discovery, and the spiritual power of music. Barry "The Fish" Melton of Country Joe and the Fish says, "This book flows like a moody, mystical, musical composition."
In addition to co-founding the prolific Jam Band Zero, Greg is a lawyer and advocate for marijuana legalization.
Host Jeff Bogart explores the newest pain reduction techniques with two specialists from the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine. Kellie N. Kirksey, PhD is a certified heart-centered hypnotherapist and a licensed clinical counselor with more than 25 years of experience counseling and teaching both nationally and internationally. A long-time advocate of healing through creative avenues, she is a holistic psychotherapist with the Center for Integrative Medicine, as well as the director of the Live Happily Foundation.
Dr. Josie Znidarsic practices general family medicine with a focus on preventative medicine through healthy lifestyle choices. As an osteopathic physician, she believes that all aspects of body, mind and spirit need to be well in order for a person to be at their healthiest.
As the body of evidence for alternative medicine grows, you’ll hear the most updated education and practices to improve your health and quality of life. Listen and gain control of your own well-being and engage in your own healing.
Didn’t get tickets to the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well Tour? This is the next best thing. Wavy Gravy may be best known to millions as a cosmic cut-up and the inspiration for a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, but it’s because of his good work on behalf of the planet and its least fortunate residents that Wavy Gravy has achieved his own brand of sainthood. His friend and satirist, Paul Krassner, has called him "the illegitimate son of Harpo Marx and Mother Teresa."
Wavy Gravy, who's reached official geezerhood, is more active and more effective in the world then he was decades ago. Back then, when still known as Hugh Romney, he stood on the stage of the original Woodstock concert and announced...."What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000!" He was at Woodstock as a member of an entertainment/activist commune known as the Hog Farm. Today, the Hog Farm still exists, collectively owning and operating the 700-acre Black Oak Ranch and hosting the annual Pig-Nic.
Don’t miss this pop culture history lesson from the Grateful Dead’s original clown Wavy Gravy.
Sage Rountree is an internationally recognized authority in yoga for athletes and an endurance sports coach specializing in athletic recovery. Sage is the author of six books, including The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga and Racing Wisely; her latest, Everyday Yoga, was recently launched. Her classes, training plans, videos, books, and articles make yoga and healthy living accessible to everyone. Her goal is to help people find the right balance between work and rest for peak performance in sports and in life.
Preston Smiles is the founder of The Love Mob, "a global community igniting a multi-generational movement that promotes love as a lifestyle." Under the guidance of Michael Beckwith, Preston has become an internationally recognized motivational speaker. He is one of the spokespersons for Generation Waking Up and has a dedicated following on his "Questions with Preston" YouTube channel. Preston states: My mission is to empower, inspire and ignite a mutli-generational movement of radical growth through conscious, creative content, acts of love and living boldly. I believe we're here to leave the planet better than we found it, and I'm committed to motivating others to join me on that mission, and live their best life NOW.
Preston has been featured in LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine and RYOT News.
Taylor Conroy is a disruptive social entrepreneur best known for starting the social enterprise 'Change Heroes' that has funded over 160 projects including schools, libraries, girls scholarships, anti-sex trafficking work, clean water systems, and more in 13 developing countries around the world. Change Heroes won 'Best Social Enterprise' at the StartUp World Finals in San Francisco, is credited with impacting over 150,000 people to date, and has partnered with Morgan Stanley, Disney, DHL, and some of the worlds largest nonprofits including Free The Children and the United Nations Foundation to effect change where it is needed most.
Taylor is a sought after speaker who has presented around the world to over 100,000 people. He regularly presents at the United Nations in NY, and has lectured (or is currently teaching classes) on social entrepreneurship at Harvard, Princeton, NYU, Cornell, and Stanford. He has studied meditation with Zen monks in Japan, surfed the longest wave in the world in Peru, filmed documentaries in Cambodia, Uganda, and Ecuador, become a yoga teacher in Costa Rica, run with the bulls in Spain, travelled to 35 countries, and explored every continent on earth.
Our amazing guest host, Fadia Bascom, talks with Dave Jordano and John Carlisle about the poverty in America, specifically Detroit.
Dave Jordano is an award-winning documentary photographer based in Chicago, IL. Jordano has exhibited widely and his work is in several private, corporate and museum collections, most notably The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. His current project, Detroit: Unbroken Down, will be released in the fall of 2015. It documents the cultural and societal identity of his hometown, Detroit, with the intent of showing a human side to the city.
Since 2007, John Carlisle has fascinated readers with his untold stories of Detroit in his "Detroitblogger John" column for the Metro Times. His words and photographs shed light on the overlooked and forgotten while bringing life to neglected, far-flung neighborhoods. The Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists named Carlisle the 2011 Journalist of the Year for his work on the city. He’s also the author of 313: Life in the Motor City.
Sage Rountree is an internationally recognized authority in yoga for athletes and an endurance sports coach specializing in athletic recovery. Sage is the author of six books, including The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga and Racing Wisely; her latest, Everyday Yoga, was recently launched. Her classes, training plans, videos, books, and articles make yoga and healthy living accessible to everyone. Her goal is to help people find the right balance between work and rest for peak performance in sports and in life.
Host Jeff Bogart explores the newest pain reduction techniques with two specialists from the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine. Kellie N. Kirksey, PhD is a certified heart-centered hypnotherapist and a licensed clinical counselor with more than 25 years of experience counseling and teaching both nationally and internationally. A long-time advocate of healing through creative avenues, she is a holistic psychotherapist with the Center for Integrative Medicine, as well as the director of the Live Happily Foundation.
Dr. Josie Znidarsic practices general family medicine with a focus on preventative medicine through healthy lifestyle choices. As an osteopathic physician, she believes that all aspects of body, mind and spirit need to be well in order for a person to be at their healthiest.
As the body of evidence for alternative medicine grows, you’ll hear the most updated education and practices to improve your health and quality of life. Listen today and gain control of your own well-being and engage in your own healing.
Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa and a staff physician at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Hospital, where she teaches medical students and resident physicians, sees patients in traumatic brain injury and therapeutic lifestyle clinics with complex chronic health problems that often include multiple autoimmune disorders, and conducts clinical trials.
She is also a patient with a chronic progressive neurological disorder, secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. But thanks to the power of the Wahls Protocol™, which is based on Functional Medicine and the Wahls Paleo™ diet, Dr. Wahls restored her health and now pedals her bike five miles to work each day.
To learn more or to participate in Dr. Wahls’ clinical trials, visit: www.terrywahls.com
For more than fifteen years, J. Brown has been developing techniques to teach people how to practice yoga in a deeper and more fulfilling way. He is also a well-known writer appearing in Yoga Therapy Today, the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, Elephant Journal, and Yogadork. Outspoken and sometimes controversial as a yoga teacher and blogger, J. Brown has sparked broad discussions in the yoga community via his award winning blog.
In 2007, after more than a decade as a popular teacher at various schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn, J. founded Abhyasa Yoga Center (AYC) in Brooklyn, NY. AYC was created to provide a home for yoga practice that adapts to individual needs.
Brown writes: “Fast and intense may serve for a time but it is unsustainable and will invariably require some re-evaluation. For in the slowness of our lives is where we are able to perceive its worth. Yoga practice is no different.” Join us today for the slow yoga revolution with J. Brown.
We are witnesses to the advent of a new age: a medical and recreational one. And unless you’ve been behind a cloud of smoke, we’ve recently witnessed more than 20 states approve marijuana use for medicinal purposes. Fadia Bascom, our awesome guest host, takes over the airwaves once again to discuss marijuana in America. Her two special guests are Larry Love and Sohum Shah.
Sohum Shah is the Chief Operating Officer of the Cannabis Commodities Exchange (CCX). CCX is the premier online wholesale transaction platform for state-licensed canna-businesses in Colorado and was launched at the 2014 High Times US Cannabis Cup in Denver. Soon after, CCX expanded operations to Washington's adult-use system.
Larry Love has been a patient and advocate for the Medical Cannabis Program (MC) in New Mexico since 2009. He also produces and hosts a weekly live MMJ Talk Show on the internet. For two years, Love managed one of Santa Fe’s first Medical Marijuana Dispensaries which specialized in front-end sales and patient cannabis consultations. In addition, Love's a LOTTO expert and has appeared on several networks including NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN.
Wavy Gravy, who's reached official geezerhood, is more active and more effective in the world then he was decades ago. Back then, when still known as Hugh Romney, he stood on the stage of the original Woodstock concert and announced...."What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000!" He was at Woodstock as a member of an entertainment/activist commune known as the Hog Farm. Today, the Hog Farm still exists, collectively owning and operating the 700-acre Black Oak Ranch and hosting the annual Pig-Nic. And Wavy lives a third of the year in a Berkeley Hog Farm urban outpost, a big communal house he refers to as "hippie Hyannisport" But Mr. Gravy has expanded his activities over the past two-and-a-half decades to include co-directorship (with his wife, Jahanara) of Camp Winnarainbow, a performing arts program for children which takes over the Hog Farm for 10 weeks every summer, and the organization of all-star rock concerts to raise money for a variety of environmental, progressive, political, and charitable causes, most notably Seva, a foundation he cofounded in 1978, initially to combat preventable and curable blindness in the Third World. On May 17, Mr. Gravy will host a concert benefitting Seva to coincide with his 79th birthday.
He may be best known to millions as a cosmic cut-up and the inspiration for a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, but it is because of his good work on behalf of the planet and its least fortunate residents that Wavy Gravy has achieved his own brand of sainthood. His friend and satirist, Paul Krassner, has called him "the illegitimate son of Harpo Marx and Mother Teresa." Wavy says, "Some people tell me I'm a saint, I tell them I'm Saint Misbehavin'."
Yogi Roth has been described as a modern day Indiana Jones. He is a media personality, college football analyst, best-selling author, motivational speaker, actor and an Emmy nominated filmmaker. At heart, though, he’s a guy from a small town in Pennsylvania who loves to share a good story.
Win Forever, the New York Times best-seller that he co-authored with Pete Carroll, is one of those good stories. His most recent story, though, is Life in a Walk, a documentary about a walk Yogi took with his dad. It’s not just any walk but one through Portugal and Spain along the Camino De Santiago. Yogi says that the film is about making a decision to act on his strong feeling to spend more time with his father.
Today he’ll discuss the making of that film and his ongoing exploration of human potential. He is the co-founder of Win Forever, a brand inspired by Pete Carroll, that furthers human potential, elevates mentorship and inspires leaders through a philosophy of competition. When he’s not doing all of the above, Yogi travels the nation delivering motivational presentations about living a Life Without Limits.
Our show’s number one fan and guest host, Fadia Bascom, is keeping it real with Sal Annunziato. Sal is an activist, singer, songwriter, and a Kundalini yoga teacher. As he likes to say, he’s spreading good as best he can. With over 25 years of recovery from addiction, Annunziato believes that anything is possible when finding the right tools that work for one’s self. Founder of "Love Tribe: Open Hearts No Matter What!", Sal has started a campaign of distributing a simple red wrist band as a reminder that we are all on this journey together. To date, Love Tribe boasts over 20,000 members and is growing. Its mission is simple: We love and support one another-keeping our hearts open-no matter what. Sal is also the author of “Let’s Love and Be Real.”
Listen and get inspired to think outside the box (it's okay) with these two great yogis.
The future may indeed be in plastics. David Katz is the founder and CEO of The Plastic Bank, an ambitious social enterprise that aims to solve the plastic pollution problem and poverty at the same time.
The Plastic Bank provides an opportunity for the world’s poor to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency. That's right. Plastic waste found at beaches and other waterways is turned into a source of income for our world's most marginalized citizens. What's more, plastic collectors can get access to 3D printers creating entrepreneurial opportunities.
Today David Katz, who is the President of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (E.O.) Vancouver Chapter and recent winner of the organization's Global Citizen Award, will share his inspiration for reducing global poverty and stopping plastic from entering our oceans.
The future may indeed be in plastics. David Katz is the founder and CEO of The Plastic Bank, an ambitious social enterprise that aims to solve the plastic pollution problem and poverty at the same time.
The Plastic Bank provides an opportunity for the world’s poor to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency. That's right. Plastic waste found at beaches and other waterways is turned into a source of income for our world's most marginalized citizens. What's more, plastic collectors can get access to 3D printers creating entrepreneurial opportunities.
Today David Katz, who is the President of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (E.O.) Vancouver Chapter and recent winner of the organization's Global Citizen Award, will share his inspiration for reducing global poverty and stopping plastic from entering our oceans.
Yogi Roth has been described as a modern day Indiana Jones. He is a media personality, college football analyst, best-selling author, motivational speaker, actor and an Emmy nominated filmmaker. At heart, though, he’s a guy from a small town in Pennsylvania who loves to share a good story.
Win Forever, the New York Times best-seller that he co-authored with Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, is one of those good stories. His most recent story, though, is Life in a Walk, a documentary about a walk Yogi took with his dad. It’s not just any walk but one through Portugal and Spain along the Camino De Santiago. Yogi says that the film is about making a decision to act on his strong feeling to spend more time with his father.
Today he’ll discuss the making of that film and his ongoing exploration of human potential. He is the co-founder of Win Forever, a brand inspired by Pete Carroll, that furthers human potential, elevates mentorship and inspires leaders through a philosophy of competition. When he’s not doing all of the above, Yogi travels the nation delivering motivational presentations about living a Life Without Limits.
Today, start getting your life back with Paula Rizzo. Paula is an Emmy Award winning broadcast journalist and the senior health producer for Fox News Channel in New York City. What’s more, she’s the founder of ListProducer.com. Paula attributes much of her success to her compulsive list making.
If you’re trying to save time, be more organized, more productive, save money and reduce stress, then don’t miss this full hour with Paula. Her new book is Listful Thinking: Using Lists to Be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed, and she shares the tools and techniques that have made her successful at work and applies them to the art of list-making.
Paula believes that making lists is the easiest way to stay organized, productive and efficient. Moreover, she’ll tell us how making lists can make us healthier. Listen now and start taking your life back.
Cameron Shayne is sometimes identified as an artist, writer, innovator, movement pioneer, people liberator, father, virgin saint, voyager of the unknown, and bullshit exorcist. His current identity was founded 1971. He founded the Budokon University in 2001. His students include artists, olympians, movie stars, rock stars, prostitutes and sinners. He travels the world sharing the same message, "Why take your thoughts so seriously? They're not even real."
Guest host Sandy Gross interviews Jill Miller, a leader in the field of mind-body fitness and pain wellness relief. Jill is the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the corrective exercise format Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model Method®. With more than 28 years of study in fitness, yoga therapy and anatomy, she is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, massage, and pain-management.
Her self-care fitness programs have become staples at fitness centers, spas, hospital-based gyms, CrossFit boxes, yoga studios and corporate wellness centers such as Equinox, Canyon Ranch, YogaWorks, Cedars Sinai, Occidental Petroleum, Apple, Google and more. Miller and her products have been featured in O Magazine, Self, Shape, FITNESS, Yoga Journal, Fit Pregnancy, Natural Health, Huffington Post, The Today Show, Good Morning America, FOX and is a guest expert for the LA Times and on the Oprah Winfrey Network's OWN Show.
Jill’s critically acclaimed DVDs and self-care therapy products include Treat While Your Train with Dr. Kelly Starrett, Coregeous®, Yoga Tune Up® At Home Program, the Yoga Tune Up® Quickfix Rx Series, the Pranamaya produced Yoga Link series, and Gaiam's Yoga for Weight Loss. Her first book, The Roll Modelwas released Fall 2014.
Visit: www.yogatuneup.com.
Guest host Sandy Gross interviews Jill Miller, a leader in the field of mind-body fitness and pain wellness relief. Jill is the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the corrective exercise formats Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model Method®. With more than 28 years of study in fitness, yoga therapy and anatomy, she is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, massage, and pain-management.
Jill's self-care fitness programs have become staples at fitness centers, spas, hospital-based gyms, CrossFit boxes, yoga studios and corporate wellness centers such as Equinox, Canyon Ranch, YogaWorks, Cedars Sinai, Occidental Petroleum, Apple, Google and more. Jill and her products have been featured in O Magazine, Self, Shape, FITNESS, Yoga Journal, Fit Pregnancy, Natural Health, Huffington Post, The Today Show, Good Morning America, FOX and is a guest expert for the LA Times and on the Oprah Winfrey Network's OWN Show.
Jill’s critically acclaimed DVDs and self-care therapy products include Treat While Your Train with Dr. Kelly Starrett, Coregeous®, Yoga Tune Up® At Home Program, the Yoga Tune Up® Quickfix Rx Series, the Pranamaya produced Yoga Link series, and Gaiam's Yoga for Weight Loss. Her first book, The Roll Model was released Fall 2014. Visit: www.yogatuneup.com
Listen up (!) and get ready for an all-new experience that will extend the boundaries of your yoga practice. Today, we’re introducing the Yoga WaterMat, the world’s first floating yoga mat. The Yoga WaterMat is a unique, cutting-edge product that will complement anyone’s yoga practice.
Guest host Fadia Bascom interviews Christelle Chopard, internationally recognized yoga expert, and Bob Pole, Yoga WaterMat’s creator. Hear about the new opportunities for you with The Yoga WaterMat and how this innovation will take your practice to the next level. Christelle has taught yoga in 25 countries and has distinguished herself as a pioneer in stand up paddleboard (SUP) yoga since 2009. She says: “Imagine my excitement when I tested the new Yoga WaterMat for the first time! Very light and buoyant enough to support 170 pounds, it is the perfect option to practice yoga in any large pool, whether at a resort, hotel, or at your own residence.”
With summer fast approaching, you won’t want to miss this full hour of possibilities for entirely original water experience. You can learn more at: http://thewatermat.com/ or http://thewatermat.com/store/products/yoga-watermat-1.htm
Jamie Walker is revolutionizing the fitness experience. She is the CEO and co-founder of SweatGuru and is on a mission to help make the world more fit. “We are creating SweatGuru to take the pain out of managing and taking fitness classes,” says Walker. SweatGuru is a place where people can discover, book and pay for fitness classes online and where fitness professionals can manage and grow their business.
At SweatGuru, Jamie leads business development and marketing for the San Francisco-based start-up. “What we love most about working on SweatGuru is that we are solving a huge problem, not only for ourselves but for the fitness community at large.” Jamie and co-founder, Alyse Mason-Brill, bring more than 15 years of combined technology, marketing, and entrepreneurial experience to SweatGuru, their second joint venture. Prior to SweatGuru, Jamie and Alyse owned and operated Fit Approach, a wildly popular San Francisco boot camp, blog, and online community.
Today Jamie Walker shares how she has turned her personal brand of fitness knowledge into two successful businesses.
Ana Forrest is an internationally-recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing, a Medicine Woman, the creatrix of Forrest Yoga and author of the highly-acclaimed book, Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit. [Hyperlink for Fierce Medicine: http://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Medicine-Breakthrough-Practices-Ignite/dp/0061864250]
Ana teaches yoga from an intuitive and highly-developed understanding of the human body and psyche. Native American Medicine and the clinical application of healing modalities—including homeopathic and naturopathic remedies, anatomy, reflexology, pressure point therapy, craniosacral therapies, Shiatsu, chiropractic, polarity and hands on healing—always inform her work.
Ana is a certified regression therapist, Reiki Master, ordained practitioner of Native American Medicine and consultant to a number of education and research bodies, including: F.A.R.E. Play (Foundation for Athletic Research and Education) and The University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic. She received a Los Angeles Mayoral Commendation for her outstanding teaching and healing work in the community — the first time a major US city bestowed such an honor on a yogi or yogini!
San Franciso Bay music legend Greg Anton joins Jeff Bogart for a full hour. Greg has performed as a drummer at hundreds of concerts with well-known artists world-wide, recorded on over 40 albums, and published over 50 original songs. Joel Selvin of the San Francisco Chronicle describes Greg as "a musical drummer with powerful dynamics that puts down a beat that is the heart and soul of the band.”
Today, he talks about his first novel Face the Music: a story of love, self-discovery, and the spiritual power of music. Barry "The Fish" Melton of Country Joe and the Fish says, "This book flows like a moody, mystical, musical composition."
In addition to co-founding the prolific Jam Band Zero, Greg is a lawyer and advocate for marijuana legalization.
If you've notice more men sporting mustaches in November, well, that's the work of Tom Whiteside. Tom's part of the Business and Community Engagement team at Movember. Movember is the leading organization committed to changing the face of men's health, figuratively and literally. During the 30 days of November, the organization encourages men to grow a mustache to raise awareness of men's health. Tom's focus within the organization is on the Midwest and Texas to help provide structure and support across local committees, corporations, colleges and communities. He also oversees the MOVE initiative within the US, a program designed to introduce more physical activity, including yoga, into the lives of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas. Before coming to Movember, Tom worked for three years with the LIVESTRONG Foundation in Austin, TX. There he helped build Team LIVESTRONG's endurance athletics program.
Tom graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in English. He is a survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma and credits yoga for being instrumental in his recovery. He also grows a mean Mo.
Is yoga too exclusive in America? Is a regular yoga practice at a studio a privilege for only the affluent? Our show’s number one fan, Fadia Bascom, will discuss these questions and more about what yoga means today in America. Loyal listeners know Fadia as a passionate yogini who is an advocate for the underserved. She is joined by Malik Wilson, a certified Vinyasa yoga teacher at Dhyana in his hometown of Philadelphia. Together, they'll examine the ironies of a practice which was founded on the traditions of unity and connection but has become more of a self-serving practice for only the haves. Whether you wear lululemon or Target yoga pants, don't miss this important conversation about the two economies of yoga in America.
Yoga For Freedom by John Vourlis is the true story of how twenty American yoga students traveled to Nepal to raise awareness about child slavery and how they came home forever changed. One student described the experience saying, "This trip was like a bed of nails." Today, the author recounts their riveting journey of self-discovery in the ancient land of Buddha.
John Vourlis has been practicing yoga since 2000. He has over 20 years experience working in Hollywood in the entertainment industry in various capacities. Currently, he is an adjunct instructor in Film and Digital Media at Cleveland State University. He has written for children's educational videos, online video games, and feature films.
NFL Star Athlete Keith Mitchell #59, a former linebacker for the New Orleans Saints, Houston Texans, and Jacksonville Jaguars, was at the top of his professional game when he ascended into the 2000 NFL Pro Bowl.
Without warning, his football career suddenly ended after being confronted with a paralyzing spinal injuryduring a game, resulting in the agony of early retirement by the young age of 31.
Unwilling to surrender to the plague of emotional depression and physical defeat he often observed in many NFL peers facing similar traumas, he channeled his energy into the practice of yoga and meditation for healing.
By great surprise, he discovered that these two daily practices not only helped him physically recover from his injury but created a refreshing sense of self-awareness and fulfillment which surpassed his love for football.
Kancho Cameron Shayne is sometimes identified as an artist, writer, innovator, movement pioneer, people liberator, father, virgin saint, voyager of the unknown, and bullshit exorcist. His current identity was founded 1971. He founded the Budokon University in 2001. His students include artists, olympians, movie stars, rock stars, prostitutes and sinners. He travels the world sharing the same message, "Why take your thoughts so seriously? They're not even real."
Don't miss this full hour with a guru killer, primate provocateur, literary warrior and liberated thinker. By the way, Kancho can be translated as "kan" meaning building or dojo and "cho" meaning the head or top. Essentially, Kancho means Top or Head of the Organization.
Yogi Cameron left the world of high fashion in 1998 to seek the higher path available to all of us. He began his ongoing studies in Ayurveda at Arsha Yoga Vidya Peetam Trust in India under the guidance of his guru Sri Vasudevan after training at the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City and Yogaville of Sri Satchidananda. Since then, Yogi Cameron has worked with individuals throughout the world to provide them with these ancient methods to live healthier, greener, more spiritually-minded lives in accordance with the Ayurvedic and yogic path.
Using a combination of treatments, meditation, herbal remedies and diet guidance, Yogi Cameron helps treat specific conditions and set his clients on a path to greater mental, physical, and spiritual health. A primary goal of this path is helping each person find their purpose and practice.
With the help of the Amanuddin Foundation, Yogi Cameron has brought Yoga and meditation to Afghanistan as part of a peace and education program for Afghan children, soldiers, and other members of the civilian population. He also works with young girls rescued from sex trafficking practices in Cambodia in coordination with the Somaly Mam Foundation.
Yogalosophy: 28 Days to the Ultimate Mind-Body Makeover; creator of the yoga-hybrid DVD YOGALOSOPHY; and a celebrity fitness and wellness expert. Her 20 years of teaching experience have attracted such clients as Jennifer Aniston, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Lawrence, Emilia Clarke, Ricki Lake, Brooke Shields, jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, and Helen Hunt.
Mandy’s class has been awarded “Best of LA” in LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine and Daily Candy. She is a keynote speaker and event headliner for such events as People Magazine’s A-List Workout, Boston Red Sox Foundation’s FenwaYoga, SELF Magazine’s Workout in the Park, and more. She is also a spokesperson for Silk Soymilk and a contributing fitness and wellness advisor on such outlets as Yahoo, PopSugar, Shape, Health, Women’s Health, USA Today, and Self.
Mandy is a fitness blogger for E! Online and People.com, The Daily Love and is featured regularly in publications such as Self, InStyle, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, O Magazine, Los Angeles, People, Us Weekly, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Elle, and more. Television appearances include The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Chelsea Latley Show, E! Daily News, E! Daily 10, Access Hollywood, Good Day L.A., and Extra, among others. Mandy is also on the Advisory Committee for Cancer Prevention Clinic at Margie Petersen Breast Center at Providence Saint John’s Health Center.
Make your life more meaningful with creativity guru and bestselling author, Marney Makridakis. In her new book, Hop, Skip, Jump: 75 Ways to Playfully Manifest a Meaningful Life (New World Library, November 15, 2014), Marney promises that you’ll manifest your desires faster, and with more ease and joy, if you approach them from the perspective of play.
In the next hour, Marney explains that manifesting ultimately comes down to momentum, and play connects us to the power of momentum, without us even realizing it. “I believe in a world where work feels like play, and while it’s not always as easy as I’d like, I try to spend as much time there as possible,” writes Marney. “My goal is to help you identify, activate, and use the powerful intersections between play and productivity in order to manifest whatever you desire.”
Today Marney presents a blueprint for melding work and play into a single approach and shows how doing so can transform every aspect of our lives — from work to health to family to money, and beyond.
In addition to founding the online community ArtellaLand.com, Marney wrote the #1 Amazon bestseller Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life.
Live the “sweat life” with guest deejay, Deanna Black and her guest, Anjua Maximo. Anjua is a life coach and the catalyst/co-founder of Grooveryde, Cleveland’s premiere indoor cycling, yoga fusion and boot camp experience. This fitness entrepreneur is also the creator of Pure Mvmnt and says, "I am truly experiencing that moment when what I think, say and do are in alignment. I love coaching. It is my calling, what fills me up, what I could do every day. Helping others to see their greatness and possibility is what I dedicate my life to. Amen and a high five!"
Deanna and Anjua will also share their professional experience with lululemon, the fitness clothing company (possibly more famous for its see-through yoga pants), and how it transformed their lives. Find your calling and live your purpose now with Deanna and Anjua.
Guest Gina Vucci is the co-author of The Relationship Handbook: A Path to Consciousness, Healing, and Growth. Written with the beloved, bestselling author, Shakti Gawain, The Relationship Handbook offers a different approach. Gina explains how relationships of all kinds — from romantic partners to co-workers to family and friends — can be our greatest teachers if we know how to view them in the right way. Gina and Shakti's approach shifts the focus away from relationships themselves and looks instead at the lessons they can teach us about ourselves.
“When we view relationships as a path of consciousness, we recognize that the most important relationship we have is with ourselves,” write Shakti and Gina. “Ultimately, this is our primary relationship, the one that provides the foundation for the rest of our life."
Gina Vucci is the creator of soccermomspirituality.com. She is also a swim team mom, a single mom, a survivor of Domestic Violence, a sober alcoholic for over twenty years, a mentor, a friend, an advocate, and a seeker.
Bryan Kest has been practicing yoga since 1979 and has been teaching since 1985. He developed his unique, distinctive style of yoga, Original Power Yoga, in 1979. Over the years, this style, an amazing workout for the body, mind and spirit, has made him a well-known, popular teacher across the country and around the world.
His mainstream popularity is matched by an authentic foundation in the ancient practice of yoga and a long path of development as a yogi (a practitioner of yoga). At age 15, Bryan uprooted from his native Detroit home to make a life change in Hawaii. He moved to live with his father, a doctor, who understood the benefits of yoga. Like many of us, Bryan originally thought yoga was nothing more than strange contortions, but that changed when his father introduced him to a physical style of yoga called Ashtanga. This appealed to him immediately, and he soon observed great changes in himself, both physically and mentally. Yoga quickly became his passion, one that would take him to India for a year to study with the great yoga masters of the world, PattabhiJois. He has been continuing on his yoga path ever since.
Fadia Bascom, our show’s number one fan, returns as a guest host and welcomes two guests: Mario Aguirre and Matilda Juliette.
Matilda is the author of the sexy read Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe—Dating and Sexcapades of a Yogi, a collection of beautiful short stories of risky, seductive encounters paired with tasteful karma. A sultry storyteller, no doubt, will discuss her hilarious and messy search for true love and how finding yoga changed her life.
Mario has extensive training in the Military, Sports, Yoga, and many years of Martial Arts experience. His Sports Medicine education adds to his understanding of the bio-mechanics and health of the Body, Mind, and Spirit. He’ll share his expertise with Fadia in Eastern mindful movement.
Matthew Remski is a writer in the morning, therapist in the day, and teacher in the evening. The creator of Threads of Yoga, Matthew writes about yoga, ayurveda, and evolution. Shyam Dodge, author of Wet, Hot & Wild American Yogi, says, "Matthew is not only the most stunning writer in prose working in the (underpaid) world of yoga discourse, he's also one of its most fluent cultural critics."
Now through November 30, Matthew is running a large campaign to raise money to fund his next book's project What Are We Actually Doing in Asana, an important work for the future of modern postural yoga with the aim of elevating the discourse around yoga injury.
Join us for a full hour with modern yoga's renaissance man.
Melanie Klein and Anna Guest-Jelley share their remarkable, first-of-its-kind book Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body. The anthology's 25 contributors—including musician Alanis Morissette, internationally-recognized yoga instructors Seane Corn and Bryan Kest, and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Sara Gottfried—discuss how yoga and body image intersect. Through inspiring personal stories you’ll discover how yoga not only affects your physical health, but also how you feel about your body.
Melanie Klein, M.A., is a writer, speaker and Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Santa Monica College. She is a contributing author in 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics and Practice and is featured in Conversations with Modern Yogis. She is the co-editor of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery + Loving Your Body, and co-founder of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition. Web: http://yogaandbodyimage.com Twitter: @feministfatale
Anna Guest-Jelley, M.A., is the founder of CurvyYoga.com., a training and inspiration portal for curvy girls tht has been featured in The Washington Post, Yoga Journal, US News & World Report and Yoga International, among others.
Mandy Ingber is the New York Times best-selling author of Yogalosophy: 28 Days to the Ultimate Mind-Body Makeover; creator of the yoga-hybrid DVD YOGALOSOPHY; and a celebrity fitness and wellness expert. Her 20 years of teaching experience have attracted such clients as Jennifer Aniston, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Lawrence, Emilia Clarke, Ricki Lake, Brooke Shields, jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, and Helen Hunt.
Mandy’s class has been awarded “Best of LA” in LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine and Daily Candy. She is a keynote speaker and event headliner for such events as People Magazine’s A-List Workout, Boston Red Sox Foundation’s FenwaYoga, SELF Magazine’s Workout in the Park, and more. She is also a spokesperson for Silk Soymilk and a contributing fitness and wellness advisor on such outlets as Yahoo, PopSugar, Shape, Health, Women’s Health, USA Today, and Self.
Mandy is a fitness blogger for E! Online and People.com, The Daily Love and is featured regularly in publications such as Self, InStyle, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, O Magazine, Los Angeles, People, Us Weekly, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Elle, and more. Television appearances include The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Chelsea Latley Show, E! Daily News, E! Daily 10, Access Hollywood, Good Day L.A., and Extra, among others. Mandy is also on the Advisory Committee for Cancer Prevention Clinic at Margie Petersen Breast Center at Providence Saint John’s Health Center.
“Some heavy lifting will be involved: the psychological heavy lifting of adopting a new attitude and a new vision of life and the practical heavy lifting of manifesting that attitude and that vision in the real world,” writes Eric Maisel of his newest book Life Purpose Boot Camp. “That amounts to a lot, but the reward is the highest prize available to you: an authentic life.”
Eric Maisel stresses that no life purpose can exist until we step back and consciously identify, embrace, and implement the ones that we choose. Further, there is no one meaning of life but rather a multitude of subjective meanings, and that there is no purpose to life but rather a multitude of subjective life purposes. Life Purpose Boot Camp provides the framework and tools readers need to sort out their life purposes and to make meaning based on their personal values and principles.
Eric Maisel, PhD, is a licensed psychotherapist and the author of more than 40 books including Mastering Creative Anxiety, Brainstorm,Coaching the Artist Within, and Rethinking Depression. He writes on a wide variety of subjects from the challenges of living the creative life to natural psychology and the new psychology of meaning. To learn more, visit: http://ericmaisel.com/
Bryan Kest has been practicing yoga since 1979 and has been teaching since 1985. He developed his unique, distinctive style of yoga, Original Power Yoga, in 1979. Over the years, this style, an amazing workout for the body, mind and spirit, has made him a well-known, popular teacher across the country and around the world.
His mainstream popularity is matched by an authentic foundation in the ancient practice of yoga and a long path of development as a yogi (a practitioner of yoga). At age 15, Bryan uprooted from his native Detroit home to make a life change in Hawaii. He moved to live with his father, a doctor, who understood the benefits of yoga. Like many of us, Bryan originally thought yoga was nothing more than strange contortions, but that changed when his father introduced him to a physical style of yoga called Ashtanga. This appealed to him immediately, and he soon observed great changes in himself, both physically and mentally. Yoga quickly became his passion, one that would take him to India for a year to study with the great yoga masters of the world, PattabhiJois. He has been continuing on his yoga path ever since.
Carin Gorrell, editor-in-chief of Yoga Journal, is this week’s guest, and she directed the re-launch of the world’s leading yoga media brand, redesigning the magazine from cover- to- cover.
Beginning with the October 2014 issue, Yoga Journal and its website debut a cleaner, more modern design, new departments, engaging graphics, and easy-to-navigate content. The rebranding is all geared toward serving the needs and aspirations of today’s smart, sophisticated, and ever-growing diverse yoga practitioner. “The yoga community is growing and becoming more diverse daily, and with that growth, their needs and desires are evolving,” says Gorrell. “We want to better reflect and serve that community by delivering on their call for a more welcoming,inclusive voice; more accessible instruction that meets them wherever they are on the mat; and more timely news and trends.
The debut issue features on its cover internationally known yoga teacher and social media luminary, Kathryn Budig who now writes a weekly online Yoga Journal column "Find Your Inspiration."
Listen now and learn about yoga’s news and trends, the future of yoga, and even the more controversial issues that are happening in today's yoga community.
How can we become our best self and share that self with another? Linda Carroll's our guest, and she tells us how to attain this goal in her newest book Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love. In it you’ll find a road map to the mysterious, difficult, and wondrous journey of wholehearted love. It offers a framework for following love’s path, combining insight into the latest research on the physiology and psychology of love with practical techniques for managing conflicts and developing greater intimacy.
Linda Carroll has worked as a couple’s therapist for over thirty years. She is certified in Transpersonal Psychology and Imago Therapy and is a master teacher in Pairs Therapy. She lives in Corvallis, OR, offers workshops across the country, and is a frequent speaker at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico.
Did you know that 40% of your happiness is your choice? That’s right. 50% of your individual level of happiness is determined by your DNA, your “happiness set point”. 10% of your happiness is determined by external factors such as food, water, shelter, basic financial stability. That leaves 40% of your potential individual level of happiness entirely up to YOU, and science tells us that that 40% is your choice.
Scott Simon and Jen Margolis, the founders of Thrive, join guest host and Thrive volunteer, Deanna Black, for a full hour to help us realize that 40% happiness potential. Thrive is a volunteer group of professionals committed to a single focus: spreading happiness and sharing well-being with people one Thrive experience at a time. And since we know that happiness is contagious (it’s a science-based fact), when you get happier, so do those around you. Listen and find out how you can impact a community. One happy, thriving person at a time.
Fadia Bascom, our radio show’s number one fan, is guest-hosting for Jeff Bogart this week. Loyal listeners will know Fadia as a passionate yogini and an ambassador of peace. She interviews Nancy Ruby, the creator of Yoga Motion. Nancy is a pioneer in the use of yoga as a transformative healing process for mind, body and spirit. She developed the YogaMotion method to invite people of all ages and abilities to experience yoga in a non-dogmatic, safe and supportive atmosphere integrating alignment and intuition, strength and fluiditiy, meditation and wisdom in action.
Don’t miss this sure-to-be enlightening conversation between two friends and great yoginis.
Mastin Kipp is the founder of TheDailyLove.com – a website, daily e-mail, and twitter account that serves soulful inspiration to a new generation. Originally started as a feed of quotes that were sent just to Mastin’s friends, The Daily Love exploded to global fame after just a single tweet from Kim Kardashian. And, a love monster was born.
Mastin’s passion for helping people transform their lives, matched with his dynamic personality, explains why his seminars sell out around the world. His first book, Daily Love (Hay House September 9, 2014), is written with his signature engaging spirit and humor where he encourages other young seekers to discover their own paths. In Daily Love, he shares his personal stories of near-death experiences, as well as how he found the resolve to survive and overcome them, embracing all of his experiences as part of his journey to becoming who he really is. Says Mastin, “All spiritual-type teachers have come to teach the world what they themselves need to learn.”
Hosting him on her weekly show Super Soul Sunday, Oprah dubbed Mastin an “up and coming thought leader of the next generation of spiritual thinkers.” Mastin’s work is also lauded by Kim Kardashian, Russell Simmons, Tony Robbins, Mena Suvari, Virginia Madsen, Louis Hay and Marianne Williamson. His mission today is to reconnect people with what makes them happy. Mastin feels happy people make better choices, and better choices make for a better planet.
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Arvind Chittumalla, producer and director of Yoga Maya, has been practicing yoga for the last 30 years. He moved to the US ten years ago. Since then, he has actively participated in the American yoga industry as a practitioner, teacher and yoga entrepreneur. He has owned yoga studios and produced many yoga festivals and conferences. He has often wondered why a vast and profound way of life such as yoga has been relegated to a primarily physical practice. After interacting with hundreds of yoga teachers, yoga businesses and students, he has come to the realization that there are many misconceptions of yoga in America, and it is these misconceptions that are preventing many people from embracing all aspects of yoga. In Yoga Maya, he wishes to shed light on these thought provoking misconceptions.
Stefanie Spear has been publishing environmental news for more than 25 years. She is the founder and CEO of EcoWatch, a leading news website reporting on environmental news, green living and sustainable business.
“EcoWatch is at the forefront of uniting all shades of green to ensure the health and longevity of our planet. EcoWatch is leading the charge in using online news to drive fundamental change.”- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., EcoWatch board member.
Stefanie has created a dedicated platform for environmental news that helps transform the ability of individuals to learn about environmental issues and take action. What's more, EcoWatch provides timely access to relevant information that motivates individuals to become engaged in their community, adopt sustainable practices and support strong environmental policy.
Stefanie Spear chairs the Renewable Energy Committee for Sustainable Cleveland 2019 and is on the advisory board for Lake Erie Waterkeeper and GreenCityBlueLake Institute
Diana is a teacher, storyteller, healer and soul activist. She has dedicated her life to guiding people toward the path of their soul. She is very grateful that her very first student showed up with some of the strongest resistance she’s ever seen. Through understanding bound with grace, she committed to never giving up on that one. All of her classes are an inimitable creation. She uses body, breath, heartfelt words and stories as tools to remove emotional and mental blocks, as a prayer that each person may remember they are free. Because that is what we were made for.
A bus, a bike, and a Boston terrier. These are the only major constants in Bob Votruba’s life as he continues a ten-year journey across the country to encourage everyone to reach one goal: To do one million acts of kindness in your lifetime.
We discovered Bob at the Hessler Street Fair in Cleveland this past spring. His bus advertises his mission in giant letters painted on one side, "One Million Acts of Kindness." It's a goal, he says, that a person under 30 can realistically meet if he or she makes it a point to be kind to someone every day.
Painted on the back window is the reason why the mission exists: “Because of Virginia Tech 4-16-07 End All Forms Of Hatred!!” In the aftermath of the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007, Bob bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten-year journey with his Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince our nation’s youth about this much needed movement for this world.
For the next 60 minutes, journey with Bob Votruba and pave the road to kindness.
Tammy Lyons very well may be northeast Ohio's best ambassador (besides that LeBron guy). Tammy, a yoga instructor and owner of Inner Bliss Yoga studios in Cleveland, has a unique way of celebrating businesses in Cleveland. She's doing 365 days of handstands. That's right. Each day she does a handstand at a local business and promotes it via social media outlets. What's more, she co-founded Believe in CLE, a yoga movement taking shape in the heart of Cleveland. In partnership with Cleveland-area landmark venues, local yoga studios and like-minded organizations, Believe in CLE is a meaningful event anchored by a dynamic community yoga practice that includes music, dancing, education and food. Last summer, 1,400 yogis congregated on the plaza of the world-famous Rock and Roll Hall of Fame creating Cleveland’s largest outdoor yoga practice in its history.
For the next 60 minutes, "put fear aside and step into possibility" with Tammy Lyons. By the way, that's how she describes doing a handstand.
Ana Forrest is an internationally-recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing, a Medicine Woman, the creatrix of Forrest Yoga and author of the highly-acclaimed book, Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit. [Hyperlink for Fierce Medicine: http://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Medicine-Breakthrough-Practices-Ignite/dp/0061864250]
Ana teaches yoga from an intuitive and highly-developed understanding of the human body and psyche. Native American Medicine and the clinical application of healing modalities—including homeopathic and naturopathic remedies, anatomy, reflexology, pressure point therapy, craniosacral therapies, Shiatsu, chiropractic, polarity and hands on healing—always inform her work.
Ana is a certified regression therapist, Reiki Master, ordained practitioner of Native American Medicine and consultant to a number of education and research bodies, including: F.A.R.E. Play (Foundation for Athletic Research and Education) and The University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic. She received a Los Angeles Mayoral Commendation for her outstanding teaching and healing work in the community — the first time a major US city bestowed such an honor on a yogi or yogini!
Simone Wright, “the Evolutionary Mind Coach for Elite Performers and Visionary Leaders,” is the author of First Intelligence. Simone breaks new ground in First Intelligence by explaining intuition within the normal functions of human biology. She defines intuition as the language of the authentic self, a unique “marriage of science and spirit” and shows readers exactly how to “put it all to work” through “Seven Steps to Accessing Your Highest Wisdom.” Simone believes that “the power of intuition is our spiritual and material birthright and learning how to use it is more important now than ever before.”
Simone has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and uses her intuitive skills to assist in police investigations, missing children cases, and corporate business strategies.
James Bailey inspires an awakening to authenticity as the highest expression of faith in oneself on the path of yoga and healing. His teachings are eclectic and entertainingly provocative. He is sought out by yoga schools for his vast knowledge in traditional eastern teachings and modalities and the ability to bridge them to modern day living and individual healing. James also leads retreats to India annually with his Sevanti Adventures. He maintains a private practice in Pacific Palisades, CA between his travels. He thinks a lot about yoga, healing, and his family.
Ana Forrest is an internationally-recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing, a Medicine Woman, the creatrix of Forrest Yoga and author of the highly-acclaimed book, Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit. [Hyperlink for Fierce Medicine: http://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Medicine-Breakthrough-Practices-Ignite/dp/0061864250]
Ana teaches yoga from an intuitive and highly-developed understanding of the human body and psyche. Native American Medicine and the clinical application of healing modalities—including homeopathic and naturopathic remedies, anatomy, reflexology, pressure point therapy, craniosacral therapies, Shiatsu, chiropractic, polarity and hands on healing—always inform her work.
Ana is a certified regression therapist, Reiki Master, ordained practitioner of Native American Medicine and consultant to a number of education and research bodies, including: F.A.R.E. Play (Foundation for Athletic Research and Education) and The University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic. She received a Los Angeles Mayoral Commendation for her outstanding teaching and healing work in the community — the first time a major US city bestowed such an honor on a yogi or yogini!
Sandy Gross is the co-author of the new website Hot Yoga Science whose mission is to educate and empower yoga teachers and students about the benefits, truths, and myths of heated yoga classes. She discusses what hot yoga studio owners and teachers need to know to keep their students safe and educated about the heat. This timely discussion follows LeBron James' recent challenge with complications from heat exhaustion and the controversies surrounding open-air CrossFit gyms. And as we enter into the hottest time of the year, be informed about playing summer sports and staying healthy in the heat.
Sandy is also the founder and director of Evolution Yoga in Cleveland, Ohio.
Elizabeth Kipp is on a mission to empower patients to discover their own healing powers using the tools she has learned and developed over the last 30 years of her own journey to self-healing. Elizabeth is in recovery after 32 years of pain medication addiction and attributes her being clean and sober to her multi-layered withdrawal program: the guidance of the Pain Program professionals, tools and modalities, her own sense of patient empowerment, and to the guiding hand of The Universe. Her story is one of hope, willingness, faith and patient empowerment, especially for those who suffer from chronic pain.
Elizabeth Kipp is a contributor for The Daily Love and professes to living in the moment and pursuing her growing edges to their highest potential.
Yogi Cameron left the world of high fashion in 1998 to seek the higher path available to all of us. He began his ongoing studies in Ayurveda at Arsha Yoga Vidya Peetam Trust in India under the guidance of his guru Sri Vasudevan after training at the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City and Yogaville of Sri Satchidananda. Since then, Yogi Cameron has worked with individuals throughout the world to provide them with these ancient methods to live healthier, greener, more spiritually-minded lives in accordance with the Ayurvedic and yogic path. Using a combination of treatments, meditation, herbal remedies and diet guidance, Yogi Cameron helps treat specific conditions and set his clients on a path to greater mental, physical, and spiritual health. A primary goal of this path is helping each person find their purpose and practice.
With the help of the Amanuddin Foundation, Yogi Cameron has brought Yoga and meditation to Afghanistan as part of a peace and education program for Afghan children, soldiers, and other members of the civilian population. He also works with young girls rescued from sex trafficking practices in Cambodia in coordination with the Somaly Mam Foundation.
Gillian Gibree is the founder and creator of Paddle Into Fitness. The company offers Paddleboard & SUP Yoga certifications that provide paddle technique and water safety training for aspiring SUP yoga instructors.
When Gillian isn’t busy teaching, she can be found competing in different high profile ocean events and is a regular on the podium at races such as the Battle of the Paddle. Gillian placed first in the Waikiki Quiksilver Festival in the SUP Survivor Race and the Water Woman Race and also raced as a member of Team USA during the ISA World Championships.
Gillian has a Bachelor of Science in Sport Management and is 200 hour E-RYT with Yoga Alliance. She has a decade of ocean lifeguarding experience, is a certified Emergency Medical Technician, and is sponsored by Roxy, Ocean Minded, Kialoa Paddles, and 404 SUP. She was featured on the cover of Yoga Journal and SUP Magazine Australia, and has been a presenting SUP Yoga Instructor at the San Diego Yoga Journal Conference, Wanderlust Festivals, and led the largest SUP Yoga class on Lake Tahoe.
Sandy is the founder and director of Evolution Yoga. In her classes, she strives to meld the physical practice with mindful alignment, middle path thinking, inspiring music, breath awareness, relaxation and meditation. She has taught a variety of movement modalities since 1987 (dance exercise, weight training, water fitness, mobility training for athletes and yoga.) Her yoga training has been vast, but she chose teacher training with Cyndi Lee's OM yoga and completed the 200 & 500 hour level trainings. She also apprenticed with Cyndi for many years and credits the OM yoga's unique method of blending vinyasa with alighment and mindfulness, as her greatest influence.
Sandy is also the co-author of the new website, Hot Yoga Science, whose mission is to educate and empower yoga teachers & students about the benefits, truths & myths of heated yoga classes.
Laura Cornell, PhD, empowers women to heal body and soul, so they can contribute to healing the planet. She mentors Yoga teachers worldwide to leverage their talents for greater fulfillment, income, and service.
As Founder of the Green Yoga Association, Laura spurred a national movement towards Green Yoga studios, inspired thousands to move away from toxic Yoga mats, and produced two major conferences raising awareness about the connections between ecology and Yoga. She has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yogi Times, L.A. Yoga, and Common Ground Magazines.
Laura holds a doctorate in Religion and Philosophy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her research on women, published in the book The Moon Salutation: Expression of the Feminine in Body, Psyche, Spirit, won a Distinguished Service Award from the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association.
Brian Leaf is the director of the New Leaf Learning Center and the author of twelve books, including Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi and most recently Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi. His work has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, USA TODAY, and The Huffington Post, and he blogs for Mothering.com and Kripalu.org. Visit Brian at his website, www.Misadventures-of-a-Yogi.com.
Philanthropist, activist, educator and practitioner of yoga for nearly 40 years, Tara Lynda Guber is author of Contact Yoga, the acclaimed guide for utilizing yoga to strengthen relationships, romantic and familial, and which earned several awards including a gold Independent Publisher Book Award and a Nautilus Book Award.
Tara has been a prominent health and wellness advocate for decades, and regularly traveled to teach at education facilities such as Kripalu Center, the Esalen Institute, and Omega, along with yoga conferences across the US, Canada, and Europe. A former elementary school teacher, in 2001 she founded YogaEd, one of the first full-time yoga programs to be integrated in a public school designed to help children explore body, mind, and self and improve their mental focus, academic achievement, and relationships.
With her husband Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group, they are owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB) and Golden State Warriors (NBA), with Tara serving on the board of the Golden State Warriors Foundation, which works to promote sports and health via youth programs. Also a member of the UCLA Health board and the Joyful Heart Foundation board, she is a founding member of the board of directors of The Accelerated School, the charter school in South Central Los Angeles named “Elementary School of the Year” by Time magazine.
Alanna is "the teacher's teacher" and is listed as one of Yoga Journal's top 20 teachers under 40. Her approach fills in what's missing in yoga: mythology. She is anti-dogmatic in all things, and her love of science confirms her spirituality, rather than negates it. Alanna’s vision picks up where Joseph Campbell left off — to empower people to connect with and embrace their humanness.
She is the author most recently of "Sacred Sound: Discovering the Myth and Meaning of Mantra & Kirtan." Yoga Journal writes: "Her intention is to make the more esoteric and musical parts of yoga approachable, spreading the higher vibrations they inherently embody."
Sara Ivanhoe is the Yoga Spokesperson for Weight Watchers, most recently releasing the “Weight Watchers Yoga Starter Kit.” She began teaching in 1995, shortly after graduating with honors from New York University. She has completed the Yoga Works teacher training, a specialized Therapeutics program and is also certified by Erich Schiffmann in his Freeform Style. Sara is the instructor for the "Yoga for Dummies" series, the "Crunch Yoga" series as well as the collaboration with Russell Simmons "Yoga Live." She had an extended run on Fit TV with "All Star Workouts" and on Exercise TV with "Yoga on the Edge." Sara was a regular on Vh1's "Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab" and has been featured on all the major news channels. She is highlighted in the acclaimed documentary "Titans of Yoga" and "Women of Bhakti." Ivanhoe is one of the few teachers certified by the Green Yoga Association to teach Yoga and Ecology. In addition, Loyola Marymount University has awarded Sara a Certification in Yoga Philosophy. This fall she will matriculate in LMU's Master's Degree in Yoga Philosophy program.
Live your yoga off the mat with John Visnauskas. For the past thirteen years, John Visnauskas, founder of All Faiths Pantry, has been operating a food pantry on wheels. That’s right. Visnauskas is a Northeast Ohio pioneer bringing food to people who have problems leaving home.
All Faiths Pantry (AFP) is a simple and practical program that delivers groceries to elderly people and others with mobility challenges each and every month at no cost to the recipient. AFP envisions an American cultural normalcy where diverse individuals and groups unite to feed those underserved by other hunger relief agencies. AFP is modeling a way that people throughout America can come together and feed those not yet being fed.
Tommy Rosen is a yoga teacher and addiction recovery expert who has spent the last two decades immersed in yoga, recovery and wellness. He holds advanced certifications in both Hatha and Kundalini Yoga and has 20 years of recovery from acute drug addiction. Tommy is one of the pioneers in the burgeoning field of Yoga and Recovery assisting others to holistically transcend addictions of all kinds.
Tommy is the founder and host of the Recovery 2.0: Beyond Addiction Online Conference and presents workshops annually at Esalen, Omega and Kripalu. Tommy’s first book, Recovery 2.0: Overcoming Addiction and Thriving through Yoga, Meditation, and the 12 Steps, is due out from Hay House in 2014. Tommy and his wife, noted yoga instructor, Kia Miller, live in Venice, California, where they teach yoga and grow organic vegetables in their backyard.
Maya "Papaya" Yonika is a world-renowned Tantric practitioner and author of "No Mud, No Lotus: A Memoir of Sex, Betrayal, and Spiritual Awakening."
At the age of 33, after 12 years of life-threatening alcohol and drug addictions, Maya began a radical journey into self-healing. She began by diving deeply into Tantra and “Sacred Sex of the West” which landed her in the controversial documentary film "Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya.” Overwhelmed with the limiting distortions of western Tantra, she ultimately denounced the work and moved to Ubud, Bali where she took refuge into the Sikh tradition of White Tantra/Kundalini yoga and wrote her first book “No Mud, No Lotus”.
In October 2013, Maya traveled to Cape Town, South Africa where she came into contact with a teacher who helped her to realize her path as the Dakini. She continues her studies today in Johannesburg where she currently resides.
Legendary yoga master Sri Dharma Mittra joins Jeff Bogart for a full hour in this very special interview. He's affectionately known as a "teacher's teacher", and you'll understand why after listening to him. Sri Dharma has a delightful sense of humor, and his timeless teachings will inspire you.
Sri Dharma tells us how to stay focused even in an urban environment like New York City where he founded Dharma Yoga Center back in the mid-1970s. In fact, he claims he's never worked in his life since opening his mecca for so many yogis. You'll also hear about his time with the Brazilian Air Force, his thoughts on meditation, veganism, and even George W. Bush.
Listen and learn how to live a more radiant life with Sri Dharma Mittra.
Legendary yoga master Sri Dharma Mittra has been teaching yoga classes almost every day since he first started teaching in 1967. In fact, Sri Dharma was one of the first independent yoga teachers on the East Coast. He has initiated literally hundreds of thousands on the path of yogic practice and teaching.
Sri Dharma is living proof of the benefits of a lifelong yoga practice, and he still makes himself available regularly to anyone who walks through the doors of the Dharma Yoga New York Center in need of help and direction. He is affectionately known as a “Teachers’ Teacher”.
Sri Dharma is the creator of the popular Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures and has dedicated most of his life in service to humanity teaching yoga, the ancient knowledge of how to attain radiant health and develop spiritually.
Mike is a guide and resident healer at Strala. Named “Best Mover” by MindBodyGreen and one of Shape Magazine’s Hottest Trainers, he’s practiced Eastern movement and healing techniques, including tai chi, qigong, and shiatsu, for more than three decades.
In his younger years, Mike challenged centuries of reasonable and well-tested martial traditions in hundreds of competitions, by applying unruly imagination to a world where rules were unbreakable. As he got older, he happily become more interested in supporting bodies than disrupting them, and continued on to medical applications of the mind-body connection in university. Mike studied mind-body medicine at Harvard, and alternative medicine and psychology at Oxford. After running into walls with standard medical practice in the U.S. and England, Mike left his healthcare roots. He worked at a steel mill for a while, joined a web company, and then founded a few more.
Now Mike has found his way back to health care done right, helping people let go of stress in their bodies and minds, become their own best caregivers, and live happy capable lives. Mike is a long-time runner, cyclist, rower, skier and snowboarder, and climbs a few mountains in his spare time.
Live your yoga off the mat with Mary Lynn Fitton. Mary Lynn is the founder and creator of The Art of Yoga Project (AYP), a revolutionary program that focuses on early intervention to help at-risk and sexually exploited girls prepare for a positive future.
Serving about 500 girls annually in northern California, AYP sends specially trained yoga teachers and art therapists into juvenile detention centers and rehabilitation facilities to teach a proprietary intervention program. Through yoga’s physical exercises for strength, health, and vitality and its meditative practices for self-reflection and centering, AYP leads teenage girls toward accountability to self, others, and community by providing practical tools to affect behavioral change.
A yoga instructor since 1998, Mary Lynn has witnessed first-hand the power of a yoga practice to help girls identify and address their physical and emotional issues. One of AYP’s star students is featured in this episode’s slide show. You’ll hear more about her remarkable transformation and other girls who are being empowered through yoga to reach their full potential.
Yoga legend, Alan Finger, and his wife and business partner, Sarah Platt-Finger, join Jeff Bogart for a full-hour. Alan will discuss his inspiring journey from growing up in a yoga family in South Africa to becoming one of the world's most successful yoga entrepreneurs. He is living proof of the benefits of a life long yoga practice. He has been practicing and teaching yoga for just over fifty years. No doubt, this Kriya Yoga Master is a master's master. Sarah co-founded ISTHA Yoga with her husband and runs a highly renowned teacher training program in New York City. Together they travel the world teaching new generations the timelessness of yoga.
This Midwest farmer’s daughter celebrates life with yoga, fitness, and adventure. Born and raised in Iowa, Deanna Black is a long-time student of Shiva Rea and teaches yoga throughout the US and internationally. From dance, to cardio kickboxing, to stand up paddle board yoga, Deanna’s passion for movement knows no boundaries. In spring, she’ll be hosting her 7th Annual Yoga & Surfing Adventure in Costa Rica. With nearly 30 years of fitness and wellness expertise, Deanna's an inspiring and generous mentor to yoga practitioners of all skill levels. What's more, she lives her yoga on and off the mat creating community not just in the studio but in Northeast Ohio where she resides. No doubt, Deanna is a next generation yoga teacher of the heartland.
Cyndi Lee is one of the most influential yoga teacher in the United States. She is the first female Western yoga teacher to fully integrate yoga asana and Tibetan Buddhism in her practice and teaching. In 1998, she founded the OM Yoga Center in New York City. The studio became a mecca for yogis worldwide.
On "The Yoga of Abundance", Cyndi will discuss her newest book, The New York Times critically acclaimed "May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Yoga and Changing My Mind." She'll also discuss her popular "May I Be Happy" retreats, her renowned meditation teaching training, and her evolution from dance instructor and choreographer to yoga icon.
James Miller is one of the most innovative and inspiring modern yoga teachers and the founder of Adamantine Yoga. He discusses this new spiritual discipline that offers a simple, yet, empowering means of discovering the heroic qualities within each us. A former United States Marine, James has practiced yoga as his primary discipline for the past 15 years and is aware of the unique challenges presented by modern society. As a yoga educator, James weaves the ancient wisdom of yogic principles into the needs of today's yogi.
Faith Hunter brings her Louisiana charm to the airwaves for a full hour with Jeff Bogart. An inspiring and generous mentor to yoga practitioners of all skill levels, Faith is the creator of Embrace Your Flow™, a philosophy that celebrates every moment of life and uses yoga's tools of sound, both chanting & music, breath, and movement, in a fresh and modern way to encourage students to embrace their unique flow in life - on and off the mat. A next generation yoga teacher, Faith blends Classic yogic principles and real world personal experiences into an Integrated Flow that is totally grounded & Spiritually Fly.
Yoga legend, Alan Finger, and his wife and business partner, Sarah Platt-Finger, join Jeff Bogart for a full-hour. Alan will discuss his inspiring journey from growing up in a yoga family in South Africa to becoming one of the world's most successful yoga entrepreneurs. He is living proof of the benefits of a life long yoga practice. He has been practicing and teaching yoga for just over fifty years. No doubt, this Kriya Yoga Master is a master's master. Sarah co-founded ISTHA Yoga with her husband and runs a highly renowned teacher training program in New York City. Together they travel the world teaching new generations the timelessness of yoga.
Jeff Bogart interviews Sharon Rose Summers. Sharon is the author of the new book Meditation: Deep and Blissful. A long-time meditator, Sharon will discuss her book which is designed for both the newcomer and the experienced meditator. What's more, she'll share the three essentials to a rich, deep, and satisfying meditation. In addition, Sharon will talk about her month-long spiritual retreat at a monastery in India and her work in humanitarian aid. As an aid worker, Sharon visited 30 countries exploring different cultures and meditative traditions.
If you're looking to take your meditation practice to a whole new level, or you're just starting out, Sharon can get you there while being there. Every step of the way.
Transform your issues of "lack" into a quest for abundance. Shakthi Paramasivam and Fadia Bascom return to the airwaves for another compelling exchange about breaking down barriers and finding truth. Listen to these two wise yogis and learn to create your own inner blueprint of abundance.