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20th Jul 2022

#67 NINA ZOLOTOW - On yoga as a tool to combat stress & anxiety and making yoga accessible to all

Nina Zolotow, RYT500, MFA, is Editor in Chief of the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog as well as a contributing writer, and is the author of the book Yoga for Times of Change. She is a long-time yoga writer as well as a long-time yoga practitioner and a certified yoga teacher. Her special areas of expertise are yoga for emotional well-being (including yoga for stress, insomnia, depression, and anxiety) and yoga for healthy aging. She completed the three-year teacher training program at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, California, has studied yoga therapy with Shari Ser and Bonnie Maeda, and is especially influenced by the teachings of Donald Moyer. She has studied extensively with Rodney Yee, and is inspired by the teachings of Patricia Walden on yoga for emotional healing. She has taught workshops and series classes on yoga for emotional well-being, yoga for stress, yoga for better sleep, home practice, cultivating equanimity, and yoga for healthy aging.

Nina is also the co-author with Baxter Bell of Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being and co-author with Rodney Yee of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body and Moving Toward Balance.

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT

-Writing one-sentence stories 

-Making yoga accessible for everyone

-Exploring calming vs stimulating poses

-Yoga as a tool to combat stress and anxiety

-Why meditation isn’t always a good thing

-How yoga poses have an emotional effect

-Not using the word ‘negative’ to describe emotions

-The idea of ‘pre-grief’

-Why humans resist change

-The different degrees of anxiety

-Ways to trigger the relaxation response Full notes available at thehuslers.com

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Adam Husler (@adamhusler) & Holly Husler (@iamhollyhusler). Follow us @thehuslers

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Honestly Unbalanced
Honest and open conversations with people that have spent their lives, trying to makes yours better.
The surface level of the wellness world is often a high gloss, picture perfect representation of balanced living. Adam and Holly Husler dig under that shiny surface and discover that the balanced-state is often a fleeting moment, with the rest of life being an ever-changing obstacle course of; struggles, opportunities, sweat and hard work.

Though honest conversations, we track our guests' unique paths to success, how they navigate changing tides and the continuous search for their own version of happiness.

@adamhusler and @iamhollyhusler are a London-based couple, leading yoga classes, trainings and sound journeys around the world.

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