Latest Kimberly searl Podcast Episodes
Santosha
Where The Lotus Grows - March 11, 2020 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsContinuing on our series exploring the yamas and niyamas, today we’ll be discussing Santosha or contentment. Practicing contentment consciously choosing to stay in the moment and let things be exactly what they are is a surprisingly difficult practice. And yet, it has been one of Tonya’s favo...
Future Self Journal
Where The Lotus Grows - March 04, 2020 18:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsSince last March, Tonya has been using a journaling technique created by Dr. Nicole LaPara called Future Self Journal. In todays episode, Tonya shares the practice with Kim and Kim shares fun facts regarding the known benefits of journaling in general. Enjoy this fun episode and follow the @ho...
Yoga Therapy and Diabetes
Where The Lotus Grows - February 26, 2020 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsDo you have trouble controlling your blood sugar level? Did you know that having diabetes for more than 5 years can increase your likelihood of developing the cardiovascular disease? Did you know that regular exercise could make you more sensitive to insulin, which can reduce medication dosage...
Yoga Therapy and Diabetes
Where The Lotus Grows - February 26, 2020 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsDo you have trouble controlling your blood sugar level? Did you know that having diabetes for more than 5 years can increase your likelihood of developing the cardiovascular disease? Did you know that regular exercise could make you more sensitive to insulin, which can reduce medication dosage...
Interview: Dawn Wallen, Certified Vibrational Sound Therapist
Where The Lotus Grows - February 13, 2020 21:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn addition to being a licensed and certified Vibrational Sound Therapy practitioner, Dawn Wallen describes herself as an artist, a sound junkie and a believer. She loves helping people and seeing them grow and thrive. She's been practicing Vibrational Sound Therapy for over a year and is excite...
Interview: Dawn Wallen, Certified Vibrational Sound Therapist
Where The Lotus Grows - February 13, 2020 21:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn addition to being a licensed and certified Vibrational Sound Therapy practitioner, Dawn Wallen describes herself as an artist, a sound junkie and a believer. She loves helping people and seeing them grow and thrive. She's been practicing Vibrational Sound Therapy for over a year and is excite...
Ahimsa
Where The Lotus Grows - February 12, 2020 12:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsAhimsa is respect for all living things and avoidance of violence towards others and yourself. It is a Yama and part of restraints. Join Kim and Tonya in a discussion about the practice of nonviolence toward the self and others and it’s impact on day to day life. This is the second in their 10...
Making Peace With Money
Where The Lotus Grows - February 05, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsMoney mapping offers a mindful way forward. A money map is like a litmus test of a budget and whether it’s leading you toward a happy life. And only you can determine what a happy life looks like for you and what steps you are willing to take toward it. Money mapping is about discerning what is ...
Saucha
Where The Lotus Grows - January 29, 2020 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsLast season we did a few series episodes that discussed a general topic related to yoga/yoga therapy and dropped them in about every six weeks. This season, we wanted to do something similar but go into a little more of the philosophical foundation of the practice of yoga beginning with the yam...
Saucha
Where The Lotus Grows - January 29, 2020 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsLast season we did a few series episodes that discussed a general topic related to yoga/yoga therapy and dropped them in about every six weeks. This season, we wanted to do something similar but go into a little more of the philosophical foundation of the practice of yoga beginning with the yam...
Breathing Your Way Out of an Afternoon Slump
Where The Lotus Grows - January 22, 2020 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday Kim & Tonya Discuss breathing techniques that help to invigorate or improve focus for those times when a natural “pick me up” is needed. While many yoga styles use the “skull shining breath” kapalabhati, Kundalini’s aim when practicing this technique is to let the energy of your lower ...
Yoga Therapy and Chronic Pain
Where The Lotus Grows - January 15, 2020 15:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhat is Pain? Pain occurs when something hurts, causing an uncomfortable unpleasant feeling. The presence of pain often means something is wrong. Each individual is the best judge of his or her pain. What is the difference between acute and chronic pain? Acute pain usually comes on suddenly a...
Interview: Marlysa Sullivan, MPT, C-IAYT, Co-editor - Yoga and Science in Pain Care
Where The Lotus Grows - January 08, 2020 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday, Kim and Tonya share an insightful conversation with Marlysa Sullivan, MPT, C-IAYT, about her contribution to the latest research on the role of yoga in pain care, relevant yoga research, poly-vagal theory and so much more! Marlysa, is a physiotherapist and yoga therapist with over 15 ye...
Failure
Where The Lotus Grows - January 01, 2020 15:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsFailure sucks. Failure feels terrible. Failure is a blow to the ego. And nobody wants to be a failure. As a matter of fact, the whole concept of failure is what keeps most people from trying in the first place. But what is a failure? Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desir...
Simple Tips that Really Work
Where The Lotus Grows - December 23, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsModern life is stressful. We often get so wrapped up in that stress that our poor coping mechanisms turn into bad habits. Today, Kim and Tonya discuss simple tips to stay mindful, release poor patterns and start healthy ones. Habits help us survive, but they can also cause us to crave what’s...
Empathy vs. Sympathy
Where The Lotus Grows - December 18, 2019 02:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsEmpathy is the ability to experience or embody the feelings of another person. Empathy goes beyond sympathy, which is defined as caring and understanding for the suffering of others. This is not to say that sympathy is not an important emotion. Often times these words are used similarly and even...
Empathy vs. Sympathy
Where The Lotus Grows - December 18, 2019 02:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsEmpathy is the ability to experience or embody the feelings of another person. Empathy goes beyond sympathy, which is defined as caring and understanding for the suffering of others. This is not to say that sympathy is not an important emotion. Often times these words are used similarly and even...
Revisit of the Moon Cycle
Where The Lotus Grows - December 11, 2019 13:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsLast season we dedicated an entire episode (#40) to living Under the Moon Cycle and during that episode, Tonya vowed to try some intention setting, manifesting and just basic emotional tracking according to the cycle of the moon. In this weeks episode the ladies revisit the moon cycle and go ove...
Revisit of the Moon Cycle
Where The Lotus Grows - December 11, 2019 13:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsLast season we dedicated an entire episode (#40) to living Under the Moon Cycle and during that episode, Tonya vowed to try some intention setting, manifesting and just basic emotional tracking according to the cycle of the moon. In this weeks episode the ladies revisit the moon cycle and go ove...
Yoga Therapy for Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome
Where The Lotus Grows - December 04, 2019 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsChronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) is a pain in the area below the belly button and between the hips lasting six months or longer. CPP can be its own condition or symptoms of another disease. Treatment is symptomatic abortive therapy to reduce acute exacerbation. CPP is a problem for health care provider...
Yoga Therapy for Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome
Where The Lotus Grows - December 04, 2019 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsChronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) is a pain in the area below the belly button and between the hips lasting six months or longer. CPP can be its own condition or symptoms of another disease. Treatment is symptomatic abortive therapy to reduce acute exacerbation. CPP is a problem for health care provider...
Interview: Katie Valley, Registered Health and Nutrition Practitioner
Where The Lotus Grows - November 27, 2019 12:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday Kim and Tonya chat with Katie Valley, Certified Holistic Nutritionist and Registered Health & Nutrition Practitioner about Intuitive Eating, breaking away from a diet culture that promotes disordered eating habits and developing a healthy relationship with food. Katie is based in Ann Arbo...
How to Live like a Modern Day Sophisticated Hippie
Where The Lotus Grows - November 20, 2019 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsHippie is a term synonymous with the 1960s. In Europe Amsterdam was the hippie capital. The Netherlands had a reputation of a country with widespread tolerance and openness. The United States had Woodstock. Do these ideas of love, freedom, and joy still hold true today? Early in Kim’s career ...
Women Who Changed Us
Where The Lotus Grows - November 13, 2019 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhile many, many women have been mentors, teachers, role models, and supportive advisories and we gratefully honor them all, this episode takes a peak at a few of those that stand out as non family members who helped to influence and shape the women we’ve become. Reflecting back on people who...
What is it like to be a mindful woman?
Where The Lotus Grows - November 06, 2019 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsKim has heard elders in her family say this “If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way your wife told you!” We laugh at this statement, but she wonders - What are we really saying here? That men are a bit incompetent? That they’re overgrown children that still need women to channel th...
The Power of Power
Where The Lotus Grows - October 30, 2019 12:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIt’s time for a fun one guys! Looking back on past episodes, the word “power” shows up a lot and when we took a good look around, that word is VERY common in our lexicon. Is the word power just a current buzzword in our zygest? Is it just a marketing term that gets thrown around to “sell” so...
The Power of Power
Where The Lotus Grows - October 30, 2019 12:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIt’s time for a fun one guys! Looking back on past episodes, the word “power” shows up a lot and when we took a good look around, that word is VERY common in our lexicon. Is the word power just a current buzzword in our zygest? Is it just a marketing term that gets thrown around to “sell” so...
Yoga Therapy and ASD
Where The Lotus Grows - October 23, 2019 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsAs defined by Leo Kanner back in 1943, children with autism have an innate inability to form the usual biologically provided affective contact with people. He suggested that individuals with autism have difficulty reacting to the input of new stimuli encountered on a daily basis and that they li...
Yoga Therapy and ASD
Where The Lotus Grows - October 23, 2019 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsAs defined by Leo Kanner back in 1943, children with autism have an innate inability to form the usual biologically provided affective contact with people. He suggested that individuals with autism have difficulty reacting to the input of new stimuli encountered on a daily basis and that they li...
Welcome to Season 2!
Where The Lotus Grows - October 16, 2019 17:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWelcome back to season 2! WTLG has undergone a great deal of growth and change in the last year and we feel so privileged to be building this community of Couragitarians. Today we revisit season one, sharing clips from some of our top downloaded and most favorite episodes. We've also made a few...
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