One of the most accomplished U.S. track athletes of all time, Shannon's career longevity is unmatched. Shannon is a 3x Olympian, Olympic Bronze Medalist, 2x World Bronze Medalist, World Record holder (DMR), and American Record holder at three distances (1500m, 2 miles, 5000m). Ranked in the world's top 10 for over a decade, Shannon made history at the London 2012 Games as the first American woman ever to medal in the Olympic 1500m. Shannon is also an Emmy Award winner, recognized for he...

On this episode: I’m joined by Dr. Erica Sharpe to discuss our yoga research project that we’ve started at a hospital. Our goal is to bridge the gap between doctors, their patients and yoga teachers, by providing a tool for physicians to refer their patients to the most appropriate yoga class and effective teacher for their needs. There is a huge variety of yoga styles and an even greater variety of teachers. Often, yoga students come to class after their doctor told them it was safe to pract...

Jon Macaskill is a retired Navy SEAL Commander turned mindfulness teacher. He’s taking what helped him excel in his professional life and heal in his personal life and now sharing this with others to help them do the same. Jon's Website Movember Support the show

Andrew Tanner is the Founder of the American Yoga Council and the co-founder of the Berkshire Yoga Festival. He’s a yoga teacher himself and he helps teachers and studios make a career in yoga. He explains to me the direction he believes yoga is going, how yoga studios and teachers could thrive as businesses, and how he plans to help pave the way to a more successful future for yoga with his American Yoga Council movement. American Yoga Council Website Support the show

After completing a PhD in Neuroscience and training in psychiatry, John Kruse began working with adults with ADHD - at a time when the condition was widely thought to be present only in children. He has written several hundred popular articles on ADHD and other mental health topics as well as posting more than 300 informative videos on his YouTube channel and hosting a weekly Q & A session. After three decades in San Francisco, he moved to the Big Island of Hawaii in 2022 where he continu...

My guest today is Dierdre Rae, and she usually goes by the name Dee. She shares with me, very candidly, her battle with OCD, what it cost her and how she regained her life back with hard work and grit and by giving herself grace throughout the process. I found Dee through her NOCD – online therapy and app page, and when I saw her social media page I knew I had to talk to her. Dee’s willingness to share the raw truth about living with OCD on her page is breaking the stigma of mental heal...

Dr. Hezel is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State and an Assistant Professor and researcher at Columbia Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her goal is to create a warm, secure environment in which people feel prepared and able to address their concerns and meet their goals. Dr. Hezel has trained extensively in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with adults and children suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety, mood, and personality disorde...

Don Noble is an Instructor in the Department of Cell Biology at Emory University. He received his BS in Neuroscience from the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2008, and his PhD in Neuroscience from Emory in 2016. Dr. Noble’s academic interests include understanding fundamental sensory processes that contribute to the benefits of meditation, with an emphasis on slow, deep breathing. For his PhD, he developed an animal model of the relaxation response by using operant conditioni...

About Amy: Although I’m best known as a yoga therapist for my books and teachings on Yoga and mental health, Yoga for Depression (Harmony Books), Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton), and my new card deck Yoga for Your Mood (Sounds True), my passion, ever since I picked up a pencil in the second grade, was to write a book with a character like Nancy Drew who could transport me to a world beyond my suburban bedroom. I grew up in Pittsburgh before it was green and beautiful. Like the darken...

Susan Verde is a #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and yoga-mindfulness expert. Susan has written over 20 books for children and adults, including all nine books in the New York Times bestselling I Am series illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds. Her picture book The Water Princess was an ALA Notable Children’s Book, Amazon Best Book of the Month, and New York Public Library Best Book. Her nonfiction book for adults, Say One Kind Thing, is an original essay collection about th...

Reggie Hubbard, certified yoga and meditation teacher, senior political strategist, and influential changemaker who is paving the way toward a more conscious world by sharing techniques that cultivate peace and ease as a foundation. He is on a mission to help activists find balance while inspiring the wellness community to become more engaged, socially conscious citizens. He believes that when inner peace aligns with civic responsibility, it creates the foundation for meaningful, transformati...

Heather Mason, MA, MA, MSc, is the founder of The Minded Institute, The Yoga in Health Care Alliance, and joint founder of the APPG on Yoga. She holds master’s degrees in Buddhist Studies, Psychotherapy, Medical Physiology, and has extensive education in Neuroscience. Heather has been a yoga teacher since 2001 and specialised in yoga therapy for mental health since 2007. As a world leader on this topic, Heather has lectured at universities from Harvard to UCL and at an array of academic confe...

Dr. Ali Seidenstein is an orthopaedic surgery resident at Johns Hopkins and longtime yoga teacher with nearly 20 years of experience which included three years living and studying in India. Before medical school, Ali was on faculty at NYU’s School of Engineering, where she continues to advise premedical students. Her Ph.D. research focused on how trauma and PTSD influence gene expression through epigenetic changes. She continues to bridge science and movement in her clinical research on yoga ...

Jivana Heyman, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of Accessible Yoga, an organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings and supporting yoga teachers. He’s the author of Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body; Yoga Revolution: Building a Practice of Courage & Compassion; and The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body. His books, classes, and trainings support yoga teachers and yoga therapists in finding...

Dr. Tracey Shors is a Distinguished Professor in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers University, where she is also a member of the Center for Collaborative Neuroscience. Dr. Shors has more than 150 scientific publications in journals including Nature, Science, PNAS and Nature Neuroscience, and her research findings have been featured in popular publications such as Scientific American, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on NPR and CNN. Her ...

Dr. Susanna Søberg is a Danish scientist and expert in cold and heat therapy, with a PhD in metabolism. She's the founder of the Soeberg Institute and creator of the Thermalist Method and Søberg Principle, which combine cold and heat exposure to improve health. Søberg's research focuses on how deliberate exposure to heat and cold can improve metabolism, reduce stress, and promote longevity. Susanna's Website Susanna's Instagram Support the show

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is a historian of contemporary American politics and culture. She is the author of CLASSROOM WARS: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 2015), and FIT NATION: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession (University of Chicago Press, 2023). She is Executive Producer and host of the podcast EXTREME (BBC/Novel) and host of WELCOME TO YOUR FANTASY ( Pineapple Street Studios/Gimlet). She is a columnist for MSNBC, a fre...

Leslie Kaminoff, co-author of the bestselling book “Yoga Anatomy” and creator of YogaAnatomy.net, is a yoga educator and internationally recognized specialist with over four decades’ experience in the fields of yoga, breath anatomy and bodywork. His approach to teaching combines intellectual rigor, spontaneity and humor, and is always evolving. Link to Leslie's Instagram. Support the show

Today, I share a podcast that I had the honor to be a guest on: The Brain Shaman Podcast, where I talk about why I started practicing yoga, how I went from college wrestler to men’s yoga teacher. I also discuss men’s health, men’s mental health, and why I believe yoga is uniquely equipped to help men work through their challenges and do so without it being awkward or forced. Please go support Michael Waite and the brain shaman podcast, he did a really nice job with this, I’m very pleased with...

Jonathan Rosenthal, MD is a neurologist in NYC and a yoga student of Sri Dharma Mittra. He is passionate about understanding how yoga affects the brain. He hosts educational events on neuroscience and yoga, conducts scientific research on yoga, and teaches yoga to clinical populations. Jonathan's Website Jonathan's Instagram Support the show