Season 2, Episode 4: The Inner Work of Inclusion: Yoga Philosophy for Thriving Workplaces featuring Jeremy David Engels, PhD.
Workplaces invest in inclusion and wellbeing, yet the day-to-day experience often falls short. What if the missing piece isn't a better policy, but a deeper practice? Svadhyaya, empathy, gratitude, and compassion aren't soft skills — they're the actual practice of building workplaces where people belong and grow.
Read MoreYoga Philosophy for Everyday Living, Season 2, Episode 3: Leading With Courage in Uncertain Times featuring Angela Cheng-Cimini
In this episode, she shares what courage looks like in the workplace and why it’s a critical skill for today’s leaders. Learn what courage looks like in practice for a leader today, how small acts of everyday bravery build a culture of courage and the ripple effects they have throughout an organization, and how courage champions inclusion.
Read MoreCourageous Presence: How Yoga Shapes Modern Legal Leadership (Yoga Philosophy for Everyday Living, Season 2, Episode 2)
Join us as our host, Monica Phillips, is joined by two extraordinary leaders who embody what it means to lead with presence, clarity, and courage: Carolyn Herzog, Chief Legal Officer at Elastic, and Alice Geene, former Chief Legal Officer at Paycor.
Read MoreFrom Dosha to Dialogue: Transforming How We Connect at Work (Yoga Philosophy for Everyday Living, Season 2, Episode 1)
Jeanne Heileman specializes in discovering the needs of an individual and gently guides each student to their own grace and balance. She has been a Teacher Trainer with YogaWorks since 2005. She is a Level II Certified ParaYoga Instructor and a 500-ERYT. She is the founder of Tantra Yoga Flow.
Read MoreIn this episode we look at these universal questions through the lens of yoga philosophy and the path to Samadhi, a state of meditative consciousness and how this process of concentration and focus can be part of what we do in this very busy modern world.
Read MoreYoga in executive coaching and to heal trauma, a conversation of leading coaches in leadership, mental fitness, and yoga.
Read MoreWithdrawal of Our Senses - Pratyahara featuring Marc Holzman
Read MoreThe Significance of Breath - Pranayama featuring Lisa Walford
Read MoreYoga for Peak Performance and Wellness featuring Bob Levant
Read MoreThe Physical Practice of Yoga - Asana featuring Camille Moses-Allen
Read MoreThe Niyamas and Svadhyaya, our self-study featuring Tiffany Russo
Read MoreSameer Bhide, author, One Fine Day: Overcoming Adversity and Embracing the New Normal with Grace
Before January 31, 2017, Sameer Bhide’s life was pretty good. He moved to the US from India in 1990. He had already completed an accounting degree, and then completed a management degree followed by his MBA in 1993. He had a career he enjoyed in consulting and technology, was married with kids, and settled outside of Washington DC.
But that notable day in January, just as he was beginning the workday from his home office, he suffered a catastrophic stroke in his cerebellum. He required two brain surgeries and spend the next month in a medically induced coma before transitioning to the path of recovery. Learn about his journey and the impact of yoga.
Read MoreDianne Bondy is a social justice activist, author, accessible yoga teacher, and the leader of the Yoga For All movement.
Her inclusive approach to yoga empowers anyone to practice—regardless of their shape, size, ethnicity, or level of ability. Dianne is revolutionizing yoga by educating yoga instructors around the world on how to make their classes welcoming for all kinds of practitioners.
In this episode we discuss the Yamas – yoga’s ethical guidelines, with a focus on Ahimsa (non-violence), our inner-critic and self-judgment, social justice, body image, antiracism, and yoga’s call to stand up for civic action and specifically to call out the wrong things when you see it.
Read MoreIn this episode, Navi Radjou explores the idea of increased consciousness through yoga.
The famous Yogi philosopher Vivekenanda said that “yoga is a science of accelerating consciousness.” If we allow nature to evolve our consciousness, it will take centuries. So yoga is like being on a fast track. And that's why I think we all have to be yoga so that we can evolve.
Read MoreOn this episode, Tiffany Russo and I discuss the eight limbs of yoga from Patanjali’s yoga sutras. They are: Yamas, Niyamas, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi.
Read MoreYoga's Journey to the West featuring Nishanth Selvalingam
Read MoreWhat can we learn from yoga to help us live every day?
Jeanne Heileman specializes in discovering the needs of an individual and gently guides each student to their own grace and balance. She has been a Teacher Trainer with YogaWorks since 2005. She is a Level II Certified ParaYoga Instructor and a 500-ERYT. She is the founder of Tantra Yoga Flow.
Read MoreWhat is yoga? Excerpts from leading yoga instructors and executives
Hear from leading yoga instructors and executives as they share their answers to the question, "What is yoga?"
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