Moved To Meditate Podcast
The Moved To Meditate Podcast is a place for vibrant discussions about mindfulness, movement practices, and ways to find more balance and presence in daily life. Here, you’ll find down-to-earth resources to help you progress on your path, as well as insightful conversations with mindful movement, yoga, meditation, and dharma teachers from a range of traditions. On this podcast, we spotlight embodied approaches to mindfulness and the more contemplative aspects of movement practice. Together, we’re exploring topics like gentle therapeutic yoga, meditation, somatics, yin yoga, qigong, nervous system practices, and more. Listen in, and connect to a community of like-minded practitioners.
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In this episode of the podcast, I’m talking with Francine Ang about the joys and challenges of teaching yoga and mindful movement during tumultuous times. Francine shares what it’s been like leading classes in her community since they were impacted by the recent LA Fires, and we reflect on what it means to find ground
Yes, AI meditation is a thing now. So, in today’s episode, I’m taking a look at how the current rapid expansion of AI tech is reaching the meditation world…and why I don’t think human meditation teachers are going to be replaced by these tools anytime soon. Like me, you may be immediately skeptical that AI can play a r
In this podcast episode, we’re exploring Somatic Dance as a form of movement therapy. My guest, Anika Voy, is a trained psychotherapist who helps her clients and students find authentic self-expression and healing through dance. Anika explains that “the dance floor is a microcosm of our life,” and describes how creativ
Happy All The Holidays! It’s almost the solstice and the end of the calendar year, so it felt like a natural time to pause and reflect. In this short episode, I recap some of my favorite podcast moments from the past year. A few themes really stood out across multiple conversations: the symbiotic relationship of mindfu
This episode is an EPIC conversation with my friend Nyk Danu about the question of if, when, how, and why we use yoga props in Yin Yoga. Nyk is the host of A Yin Yoga Podcast, and she reached out to propose this crossover episode to share on both of our shows, because the no-props-in-Yin myth is a topic near and dear t
This week’s episode of the podcast is a short post-election reflection - just me sharing some of what’s currently on my mind and what’s sustaining me right now. This one is a little different, because I don’t really hide my political views, but I also don’t usually make them a focal point of my teaching. While I certai