“ The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for your soul to reside in.” - B. K. S. Iyengar

Your gut health is vitally important for your immune system, digestion, and even your mood. On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, gastroenterologist and wellness expert, Dr Robynne Chutkan, teaches the importance of a cultivating a balanced microbiome; and she warns against the severe impact digestive distress can have on your body and your life.

Dr Chutkan founded the Digestive Center for Women (DCW) in 2004, an integrative gastroenterology practice that includes nutritional therapy, meditation, biofeedback and counseling, as well as gastrointestinal procedures like endoscopy, colonoscopy, and video capsule endoscopy.

Dr Chutkan makes regular appearances on The Doctor Oz show, and has been a featured expert on The Today Show, The Early Show, The Doctors, and local news programs. She has been featured in numerous articles on GI diseases in The Washington Post, Self, Shape, Healthy, Yoga Journal, Ladies Home Journal, Fitness, Women’s Health, and the Huffington Post among others.

What You'll Learn:

• Why you should aim for "clean wipe" bowel movements
• Why your colon is not blocked—but it might not be so healthy
• Why probiotics cannot replace dietary healthy bacteria
• Why inulin fiber is crucial for feeding good bacteria
• How a plant-based diet can shift your microbiome (for the better) in as little as 30 hrs
• Why sweat when stressed out smells bad

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Why Kombu (seaweed ) is so good for you!

Links & References from the Show:

• Gut Bliss

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• Write to us: podcast@yogabody.com

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 YOGABODY Business  

Are You a Yoga Teacher or Studio Owner? YOGABODY Business is excited to announce their first-ever Facebook Marketing for Yoga Teachers course to begin on 2 November. This online course can be attended from anywhere in the world and guarantees to double your impact, audience and sales through Facebook.

The course starts Monday. To learn more, visit: http://www.yogabodybusiness.com

You’ve probably measured your heart rate while exercising with a chest strap or a wrist device - but have you ever measured your heart rate variability (HRV)? It’s fascinating stuff for yoga students. Ronda Collier joins Lucas Rockwood on this week’s Yoga Talk Show to explain why HRV is a crucial health metric, the importance of "coherent breathing", and how all of this ties in with your yoga practice.

Ronda has more than 25 years of experience in high technology product development with a proven track record of delivering leading-edge consumer electronic products within both privately held startups and Fortune 500 corporations. She spent years as an independent scholar researching non-invasive health monitoring techniques to improve overall personal well being, research that led to the founding of SweetWater Health in 2010.

SweetWater is a leading tech company provided heart rate variability monitoring software you can use on your smart phone.

What You'll Learn:

• How your breathing and state-of-mind dramatically impact your heart rate
• How your heart rate variability can act like a sneak peek into what’s going on with your central nervous system
• Why high frequency heart (HF) rates are associated with parasympathetic nervous system response
• Why low frequencies (LF) are associated with sympathetic nervous system response
• Why elevated heart rate + reduced high freq waves + increased low frequency waves = stress response

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Why you should be drinking turmeric tea

Links & References from the Show:
SweetWater Health 

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Magic Carpet Yoga Mats
Magic Carpet Yoga Mats are hand-painted by Sophie Leininger and printed in California. Magic Carpet Yoga Mats are made in the USA.They are non-toxic, phthalate, latex, and lead free as well as certified child safe. They also just launched a new line for kids and babies!

If you’re excited about inversions, and handstands in particular, than you’re going to love this week’s Yoga Talk Show. Ryan Hurst, Program Director and co-founder of GMB Fitness, shares his tips for how you can get started with handstand and what kind of training program you should follow if you want to advance.Hurst holds black belts in Kendo, Judo, and Shorinji Kempo and practiced 10 years as a competitive gymnast. He has extensive experience and a personal passion for arm balancing.

What you'll learn:

• How a "Cuban Rotation" can help strengthen and stabilize your shoulders for inversions
• Why "wall facing" handstand can be superior to kicking up with your back to the wall
• Why "hollow body" can be very helpful for building your core strength in handstands
• How much and how often to practice

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• The medicinal power of mushrooms!

Links & References from the Show:
GMB Fitness

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YOGABODY Business

Results-Driven Business Education for Yoga Professionals

In an attempt to lead the healthiest life possible, food and movement often become the main focus - but you must also address your mental and emotional health, particularly as you age. More and more research links physical health problems to root emotional problems meaning stress, worry, and anxiety left unchecked can have horrendous long-term implications on your health.

On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, clinical psychologist, David Carbonell, decodes anxiety: why we worry, how anxiety sets in, and what can be done to address it and regain control.  

He's the author of Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick and the soon-to-be released, The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

What You'll Learn:

• Why talk therapy is probably not the best choice for anxiety

• How generalized anxiety vs. panic attacks differ

• Practical tips for dealing with anxiety-inducing situations

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Glorious, glorious water!

Links & References from the Show:

• Anxiety Coach Website
• David’s Books on Amazon

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• Write to us: podcast@yogabody.com

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Lems Shoes

Lems Shoes is a 100% family-run company that bases its decisions on "doing what is right", not "doing what is most profitable". Lems shoes are made with less. The Lems shoes team spend their time getting the important things right and eliminate the rest; no added material, no gimmicks, and no fluff.  From the beginning, their goal was to design a shoe that considers the foot above all else, a shoe that is flat, flexible and fits the natural shape of the foot, and that will never change.

Yoga is unique and powerful as a mind-body fitness modality in that it can restore balance to the body's electrical system (aka your nervous system) - and breathing is the secret key that makes it all possible. In the same way that our breath changes very predictably during times of fear, sorrow, love, or rest, we can flip that equation around and change our breathing patterns in order to change our mood.

Why then do psychiatrists prescribe drugs before using this age-old practice of balancing breath to treat mental health issues? To answer that question, Lucas is joined by Patricia Gerbarg MD who shares her years of research and on-the-ground training using breathing as therapy.

Dr. Gerbarg reveals some of the current challenges in our modern world and in psychiatric medicine - and she’ll share with you how she uses breath in her practice, often in lieu of traditional treatments like prescription drugs - and it’s working!

Dr. Patricia Gerbarg is a Harvard Medical School trained psychiatrist who practices Integrative Psychiatry, combining standard and complementary treatments. Her research focuses on mind-body practices for reducing the effects of stress and trauma, particularly in survivors of mass disasters.

Along with Dr. Richard P. Brown, she has co-authored over 40 scientific articles, book chapters, and health books on complementary and integrative treatments.

Her books include: The Rhodiola Revolution, How to use Herbs, Nutrients, and Yoga in Mental Health Care, Non-Drug Treatments for ADHD, and The Healing Power of the Breath.

Listen & Learn:

• Why some breathing might cause manic reactions
• How the body-mind is more accurate than mind-body since 80% of the vagus nerve fibers are carrying signals from the body to brain, and just 20% brain to body
• Why most people breathe at 12-15 breaths/min but should aim for “coherent breath” at around 5 per min
• Why some breathing can make you zoned-out and spacey while others can amp you up
• How balance is usually the most useful aim and type of response to strive for

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Chickpeas: friend or foe?

Links & References from the Show:
www.breath-body-mind.com

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Absolute Yoga Academy 

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