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This week we introduce to you: Jane Hardcastle.
Jane is an absolute gift to the Christchurch wellness community, and further afield through her contribution to quality yoga teacher trainings. Jane is one of those people who have healing running through their blood - for over thirty years, in one way or another - Jane has supported people towards feeling more well, more worthy, and more present in their body-mind.
As a Yoga therapist, educator, and health care provider Dr Jane Hardcastle has been helping people with their health since she was 14. Originally qualifying as a registered nurse in the UK, Jane has held senior nursing, education and leadership roles in England, Scotland, and New Zealand before bringing this skillset, knowledge, and experience together as a yoga teacher and registered yoga therapist over the last ten years.
Within this conversation we explore how Jane brings a beautifully balanced weaving of eastern and western approaches to wellness, looking at the whole being, and focusing on empowering individuals to achieve optimal health, rather than just an absence of disease.
We discuss the kosas and how these inform Jane’s expression of Yoga Therapy. We unpack some of the modalities that might feature in a yoga therapy session with Jane; including tailored movement practices, Ayurveda, Breathwork, Meditation, iRest and lifestyle medicine.
Both Sarah and Alex finished this conversation in awe of the depth and breadth of Jane’s knowledge and experience, and how skillfully she applies it to best support each individual client. The conversation really highlighted to us the importance of “strengthening through softening” as Jane puts it, and in looking at ourselves as a holistic and whole being worthy of optimal health and vibrancy, and we hope you feel the same, as well as gaining some insight into what yoga therapy is and how it can be used to achieve a greater sense of wellbeing.
Perhaps while you’re here you could also take a moment to leave us a review and subscribe if you haven’t already? It hugely supports the growth of this neat little pod and enables us to bring you more incredible guests like Jane!
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Jane's website
Jane's Instagram
Ayurvedic Dosha Quiz
Living Ayurveda Book
Find Jane in person in Christchurch:
Wel clinic - the Tannery, Wednesdays and Fridays from 30 October
Home clinic in Purau Tuesdays & Thursdays
… she has her all important day off/garden day on Mondays!
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Join Kate Cooksley for this delicious full body relaxation and light wash meditation - sure to leave you feeling relaxed, cleansed, and renewed
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Your Guide: Kate Cooksley
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Ooof - this week’s episode left us tingling with enthusiasm and curiosity about life and all its wonder, and I am confident it will inspire you too.
We got to korero with the beautiful Mari Halina Colbert - yoga teacher and Embodied Flow™ teacher trainer, with trainings and specialisations in Somatics, Biomechanics, Humanistic psychology, Hakomi Psychotherapy, Body Mind Centering, and Trauma-sensitive yoga.
We explore the world of non dual tantra in a very relatable and understandable way, exploring the concept that we are all unique expressions of the oneness/the wholeness/the divine.
We discuss how the body can be used as a vehicle for awakening, as a tool for exploration, and how we can use our experience within our body to serve the greater good. Mari shared the concept of choosing to embody the mystery of this human experience, over trying to demystify it.
There is so much in this - and it all feels so rich and beautiful and applicable.
We really hope you enjoy this episode, and if you do please share it with a friend or two, and help us to spread the love!
Resources and links:
Mari's Instagram
Satsang with Shambhavi - Podcast
Tova Olsen
Tantra Illuminated by Christopher Hareesh Wallis
Your Hosts:
Alex Ballagh
Sarah O'Connell
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Enjoy this snippet from a longer conversation with Rebekah Ballagh - Best Selling Author, Counsellor, and Founder of Journey to Wellness, an online membership dedicated to supporting your mental health and wellbeing
In this bitesize clip Rebekah talks about how emotions might get stuck in the body, how these manifest, and some helpful body-based tools we can use to help move them through, to heal, and to grow in to better brighter versions of ourselves
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Sarah O'connell
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Your weekly guided meditation to help you find your bliss
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Join Alex for a quick solo episode in which we explore how and why maintaining a yoga practice when travelling is so worth it!
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Join Dan for a delicious loving kindness meditation to help you drop in to your heart space and generate kindness all around, and within
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Enjoy this snippet from a longer episode with Tamara Pitelin on the Energy Body
Within this bitesize clip we cover the chakras - what they are and their role, how to balance and align them, working on an individual level to heal the collective, and how yoga is a self healing modality
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Take a journey with us towards a dreamy, restful sleep with this sleepy train ride visualisation
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Join Alex for this short episode in which we chat about the benefits of prioritising a yoga practice amidst the busyness of parenting
Alex shares her own personal experience, acknowledges some potential road blocks, and then suggests some super helpful tips and tricks to help you carve out the time and space for your self care
We also look at the value of sharing our yoga with our little ones
As promised, resources to support post-partum return to exercise here:
Core and Floor Restore
She Moves
Glow Body PT
Get in touch:
Soul Studio
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Oh my goodness guys we feel so lucky to be able to bring you this week’s guest. We dove deep m , and we finished the conversation feeling like we had both learned a tonne.
Sarah and I got to talk to Georgia Vavasour of GV meditation. Georgia is one of the most experienced teachers worldwide, having personally taught over 1500 people to meditate.
After experiencing burnout & bowel cancer at 32, she sought out Vedic Meditation as a tool for increasing energy, releasing anxiety & stress, improving mood & optimising mental & physical health, and her story is amazing.
She shares more about this journey within this chat, as well as offering deep insight into how stress affects our ability to be present and mindful, the distinction between vedic meditation and other forms which are more conservative or contemplative.
We discussed some big topics including transcending stress states and making feeling good our natural state, and whether or not a world of people with inner fulfilment could ever be possible. We look at the links between meditation and the yamas and niyamas, ahimsa in particular.
Honestly, Georgia is so intelligent and such a conscious human, who so willingly shares her wisdom and insight in to the world of meditation and how powerful it can be for us in supporting increased energy, clarity, calm, improved sleep, memory, mood & a significant reduction in stress & fatigue.
Be sure to tune in, and please give the pod a review and a subscribe to help us to continue to bring you amazing guests like Georgia!
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We loved our chat with the super sparkly, super grounded and real Jess Campbell. Jess is the creator and teacher of the super popular sunrise beach yoga club, as well as founder and teacher of She Blooms, an online platform for women’s wellness.
Jess is a gal of such substance, deeply rooted in her values, which bring such a sense of authenticity to all of her offerings.
Within this korero, we explore with Jess what a values-aligned life looks like, and she shares how she aligns all of her mahi with her core values of inclusivity, community, and love.
We talk about her incredible sunrise beach yoga sessions, which have ballooned to see up to 700 yogi practising yoga together on the beach here in Christchurch, we also chat about the difference between yoga communities online and offline, and how Jess believes we can have both. She shares with us her super meaningful work developing mindfulness programs for women in prisons, and we dive into meditation, mindfulness and the difference between the two.
This episode is so inspiring, seeing how much Jess is living her dharma and doing it with such a calm and collected approach helps us to realise that we too can love out our dreams, and it all starts with knowing and aligning with our core values in life.
We know you are going to enjoy this episode, and we are so honoured to bring it to you. Please feel free to share this with your friends if you think they will enjoy it also, and of course, follows and reviews make such a difference and really do help us to grow this podcast and bring you more amazing guests.
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Click here for Sunrise Beach Yoga
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Grab your notebook and your pen, light a candle, get comfy and join Alex for some end of week journaling to help you reflect on the week that has been and prepare for another with intentionality and care
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Today we have a solo ep with Alex on the power of journaling
Whether you’re already a journaller or not, we encourage a listen as it may give you some tips to deepen your practice, or inspire you to start!
Alex shares her own personal journey to journaling, and then cover what journaling is,a variety of approaches you might take, the powerful benefits it can have on mental health and wellbeing. She also chats about how to introduce journaling into your life and how to make it stick. We conclude with some helpful journal prompts to get you going.
Journal Recommendations:
Olive and Page: https://oliveandpage.com
Magic of I: www.magicofi.com
Note To Self Journal: www.whitcoulls.co.nz/note-to-self-journal-6674999
Journal Prompts: Instagram - @alexballagh_yogawellness (check out the tab JOURNAL)
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This week’s conversation will, we hope, leave you feeling uplifted, motivated and inspired - as it certainly did this for us!
We have a heartfelt conversation with the amazing Kylie Gates, Creative Director and Head Program Coach, Les Mills International, a Master Certified Integrative Wellness & Life Coach, Certified Professional Coach in Transformational Coaching and a Certified Level One Yoga Instructor!
Kylie talks to us about how she lives what she teaches - the importance of creating solid foundations and continuing daily practices which inspire her, and how she views self care and self development. She shares with us some common themes that come up in her role as a coach and a leader in the fitness industry, and some very helpful words of advice that she often shares with her clients. We talk about the newfound vitality she has as a postmenopausal woman, and how she is balancing life and work with all of the exciting offerings she has on the menu right now!
We were humbled as this key player in the Australasian fitness industry talks about finding inspiration everywhere, every day, and sometimes in the most unlikely of places - and we connect deeply with her as she shares with deep emotion about just how important yoga is for her on this journey.
Kylie is warm, smart, and super inspiring, and we are so excited to bring you some of her unique wisdom and experience. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's episode of That Yoga Podcast.
For more of Kylie visit:
www.kyliegatescoaching.com or find her on Instagram @kyliegatesfitness
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