The Lucas Rockwood Show

Breathing for health can be learned in quickly and its benefits experienced in as little as 10 minutes, and yet this practice is all but lost from most modern yoga classes. Yoga that should revolve around breath as the central, unifying theme are suddenly missing this most-important mind-body integrating practice altogether. How did yoga lose its way? On this week's show, you'll meet breathing teacher, Max Strom, who is helping to revitalize the age-old tradition of yoga breathing—and doing it in an accessible and extremely practical way.

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Listen & Learn:

  • How 90% of communication in relationships is non-verbal, so digital relationships are extremely limited
  • Why the Seattle Seahawks, the U.S. Military, and top athletes everywhere are using breath work for optimal performance
  • Why 30% of the population uses sleeping medications when breathing could really help  
  • Why the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that by 2020, depression would be the leading disability worldwide

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Max Strom is a teacher, speaker, and author of the books: A Life Worth Breathing and There is No APP for Happiness. His innovative method incorporates exercises, breath-work, and breath-based yoga movement to generate personal health and growth. As a speaker, Max has presented his method at the first Wellness Symposium in Saudi Arabia, The Inner Idea Conference, the Happinez Festival in the Netherlands, The Singularity University in the Silicon Valley, The Sea Island resort, on TEDx, as well as many yoga conferences.

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

  • Carbonated Water

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Direct download: 261_-_Learn_to_Breathe_with_Max_Strom_.mp3
Category:Health -- posted at: 12:23pm CET

80% of people will suffer from back pain at some point in their life, often debilitating pain, but most problems are undiagnosed, self-diagnosed, and it can be chronic. So what do you do? For better or worse, it seems that your spinal health must be taken into your own hands. If you're going to have a healthy back, you'll need to educate yourself and take action. This week's guest, Dr. Stuart McGill, will help you do just that.

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Listen & Learn:

  • Why proximal stability is essential for functional human movement
  • Why tight hamstrings might not be the cause of back pain and how back pain might actually cause tight hamstrings (chicken vs. egg)  
  • Why nerve tightness might be the real issue  
  • Why disks are hydrophilic and require movement to hydrate
  • How lying down on your belly for 3 minutes, and then walking around can help
  • Why spine hygiene is essential to remove pain

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Stuart M. McGill is a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada). His advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts and elite athletes and teams from around the world. Difficult back cases are regularly referred to him for consultation. Any product associated with this website has been tested in Dr. McGill's laboratory at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Learn more at:  www.BackFitPro.com

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

  • Worst Food In The Grocery Store

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    The Definitive Mind-Body Fitness Training for Career-Minded Professionals.

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Direct download: 260_-_A_Way_Out_of_Back_Pain_with_Dr._Stuart_McGill.mp3
Category:Health -- posted at: 12:23pm CET

Everyone is familiar with vegetarians, vegans, and macrobiotics... but what about reducetarians? This new movement focuses less on hard-line extremes, and instead, encourages any and all steps toward a healthier, happier, and more compassionate diet. As we always emphasize at YOGABODY, balance is always the goal, and it's also the most elusive. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet the founder of this reductionist approach to eating, Brian Kateman.

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Listen & Learn:

  • Why hard-line diets are not necessarily the right choice for everyone
  • How to think about food systems holistically in terms of personal health and environmental health   
  • Why factory farms are responsible for 15% of greenhouse gases, 10x the amount of water as plant-based alternatives   
  • How Average Americans eat 270 lbs of meat per year
  • Why "clean meat" or lab-grown meats could be the future of foods

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Brian Kateman is cofounder and president of the Reducetarian Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing meat consumption in order to create a healthy, sustainable, and compassionate world.

Brian is the editor of The Reducetarian Solution: How the Surprisingly Simple Act of Reducing the Amount of Meat in Your Diet Can Transform Your Health and the Planet. He has appeared in dozens of media outlets including The Washington Post, Vox, The Huffington Post, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Forbes, Fast Company, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, Fox News, NPR and The Daily Mail. He is an instructor in the Executive Education Program at the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability at Columbia University.

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

  • Ghee

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    The Definitive Mind-Body Fitness Training for Career-Minded Professionals.

The Yoga Teachers College offers master-level training for those looking to build a career as yoga professionals. Our trainees benefit from the best of modern learning technology combined with old school apprenticeship. Graduates walk away with the skills, confidence and experience needed to become not just teachers, but community and business leaders as well.

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When you're a teenager, you get acne. As you age, you get wrinkles, sun spots, and sagging skin. No matter what age you are, your skin is probably something you think about each morning when you wake up and look in the mirror. Whether is redness, dryness, bags under the eyes, or just general age, we all want to look and feel our best. Skincare can be superficial, but its impact on our lives is undeniable. So how to do approach is with a yoga mindset? How do we do it naturally? On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet, Rachael Pontillo, who will share her research and personal experience transforming faces around the world.

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Listen & Learn:

  • Why vitamin A deficiency can cause or contribute to acne
  • How acne medications can be toxic and even cause birth defects
  • Why rancid fats, inflammatory foods, grains, and dairy can cause skin problems  
  • Why skin care is often an "inside job"
  • How to think holistically and not get overwhelmed by all the skin problem triggers in our modern world 

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Rachael Pontillo is the bestselling author of the book Love Your Skin, Love Yourself, and co-author of The Sauce Code. She’s a Certified Health Coach, licensed aesthetician; and natural skincare formulator and educator. She’s the president and co-founder of the Nutritional Aesthetics™ Alliance, the creator of the the blog, Holistically Haute™, as well as the 6-week online course, Create Your Skincare.

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

  • Canola Oil

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  • Wonder Wheel -- Yoga mats and blocks have been around for decades, but the Yoga Wonder Wheel™ by YOGABODY is the latest addition to any at-home practice room or yoga studio that will help you take your postures to the next level. Deep, awe-inspiring backbends are what draw most people to the Wonder Wheel initially, but backbends are just the beginning. You’ll also build balance, core strength, release tension, and find ways to practice challenging poses that are otherwise inaccessible.

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Direct download: 258_-_Beautiful_Skin_Naturally_How_to_with_Rachael_Pontillo_.mp3
Category:Nutrition -- posted at: 1:19pm CET

80% of the opioid drugs in the world are consumed in the United States, and addiction, abuse, and even death are commonplace across all demographics in society. Why such growth in abuse? One word: pain. Back pain, knee pain, mental and emotional suffering—all of these conditions are driving consumers to their doctors (or the streets) in search of relief. Living with chronic pain can be debilitating, but we want to use drugs and surgery as a last resort. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll beet Dr. Joe Tatta, pain expert and best-selling author on pain management.

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Listen & Learn:

  • Why "pills for pain" has been the norm for the past 50-years
  • USA consumes about 80% of the world's opioids  
  • 20K/year deaths correlated or caused by opioid medications  
  • Why the mind-body connection to pain cannot be ignored
  • Pain catastrophizing: negative rumination about pain issue
  • Food is your pharmacy, movement in medicine

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Joe Tatta is a doctor of physical therapy, board certified nutrition specialist and functional medicine practitioner who specializes in treating persistent pain and lifestyle-related musculoskeletal, metabolic and autoimmune health issues.

His mission is to create a new paradigm around treating persistent pain and reverse our global pain epidemic. He is the creator of the Healing Pain Online Summit and The Healing Pain Podcast designed to broaden the conversation around natural strategies toward solving persistent pain. Dr. Tatta is the author of Heal Your Pain Now; A Revolutionary Program to Reset Your Brain and Body for a Pain-Free Life.

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

  • Lucuma

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The Yoga Teachers College offers master-level training for those looking to build a career as yoga professionals. Our trainees benefit from the best of modern learning technology combined with old school apprenticeship. Graduates walk away with the skills, confidence and experience needed to become not just teachers, but community and business leaders as well.

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Direct download: 257_-_Reset_Your_Brain_for_a_Pain-Free_Life_with_Joe_Tatta_.mp3
Category:Health -- posted at: 12:36pm CET

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