The Mindful Strength Podcast has transformed from a DIY project made completely at my kitchen table, to a fully produced show where I talk to different professionals in the yoga, movement, rehab and body positivity worlds. As a young person my biggest fear was public speaking or performing, I would forget my gymnastics routines in the middle of the competitions and freeze.
In the fall of 2017 I decided to face my fears, put my expanding contact list to use, and started talking to people I knew about yoga and strength training. After a number of very awkward interviews, fiddling with dials and hoping not to say something weird or sneeze I started to really enjoy the making of the podcast, and as my confidence grew so did my voice. It dawned on me that I wasn’t only interested in talking about movements and exercises, and the podcast expanded into new topics once again. I realized that I wanted to talk to people about our ideas around exercise and movement, the ways in which body image and diet culture rule our lives, how trauma impacts the body, how tissue adaptation is so interesting, how foot health is essential, and how strength training and movement affect us on so many levels that we hardly understand.
This podcast keeps me inspired and teaches me something new literally each week. I hope that you will listen, learn and grow with not only me, but the thousands of monthly listeners from all over the world.
This week we are re-posting a favourite episode from last year’s lineup. Shante Cofield is a constant inspiration and as we know it’s easy for old episodes to get lost in the shuffle. There is always something new to learn and we hope that you enjoy listening to this conversation again, and if you are …
jamilah malika is a Mentorship Lead at New Leaf Foundation which does work to bring mindfulness and yoga-based tools into spaces that are least-served and often most stigmatized; increasing access to positive resources for youth who face violence, neglect, poverty and marginalization. As well as an artist and writer passionate about anti-oppression, jamilah is currently …
Amy Matthews has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a movement therapist and yoga teacher based in NYC. Her vast experience and interest in studying movement and anatomy has lead her to develop a variety of programs and projects …
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Sarah Kim is a Sport & Exercise Medicine physician and movement practitioner based in Toronto, Canada. Complementary to her medical practice, she is a certified yoga instructor and mindfulness meditation and movement educator. She has a creative practice in Dance and Contemporary Circus Arts, integrating her previous training in martial arts, hip hop and the Axis Syllabus as part of …
Karen Rain is a writer, tutor and nature lover. She is also a survivor of a cult and sexual assault, who speaks truth to power. She enjoys dancing, going for walks in the woods with her three cats and playing games with friends. This conversation covers topics like sexual abuse that might be sensitive to …
Donna Farhi is a world renowned teacher and is considered to be the “teacher of teachers”. She is the author of four contemporary classics: The Breathing Book, Yoga, Mind, Body and Spirit: A Return to Wholeness, Teaching Yoga: Examining the Teacher-Student Relationship and Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living. Donna is a …
Glenn Black has been studying yoga, movement and therapeutic body work for fifty years. He is known in the yoga community as a master teacher and is the only person certified in Body Tuning by Shmuel Tatz. Glenn has spent years in solitude and continues to teach the yoga and movement he believes is powerful …
Gil Hedley holds a doctorate in theological ethics, became a rolfer in the early 90’s, has guided thousands of “somanauts” through dissections and is one of the leading voices in the fascia based anatomy world. He offers hands-on dissections, trainings and online courses, and has written a handful of books and has produced four feature …
Kathryn and Kyle live in the tiny eastern Ontario village of Williamstown where they run a movement studio out of their house, produce a podcast and a virtual studio, garden (in the summer) and run their businesses. Kyle is the founder of the Cornwall Weightlifting Club and brings over ten years of strength training experience …
Michael Stone was a buddhist teacher, writer, father and educator who taught silent meditation retreats in North America and Europe, as well as yoga and meditation workshops that combined practice and study. He gave talks, trained other professionals, and mentored future dharma teachers. He wrote and published several books and hosted the Awake in the …
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Kim Vandenberg is an American competition swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist. She now lives in New York and travels the world public speaking, is an athlete mentor for RISE Athletes and writes for the Women’s Sports Foundation. Aside from swimming, Kim also practices yoga and meditation and believes in the power of self awareness and …
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Chris Kummer is a naturopath, a movement enthusiast, a gifted anatomy teacher and a yoga teacher trainer. His teaching delivers engaging education in fascia based movement anatomy and he has been teaching on the faculty of YTT programs for over 18 years. Chris continues to travel the world teaching and also offers online education that …
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