Join me as I chat with Mariann about how our major life transitions can be less overwhelming by implementing mindfulness into our wellness.

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of Midwest YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Mariann Johnson

Before dedicating her professional life to teaching mindfulness, Mariann was an accomplished organization development consultant and mediator, having worked extensively with national leaders of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Since 2011, she has designed and taught mindfulness programs throughout the United States and consulted on the design of Mindful Leadership and mindfulness at work programs in corporate, professional and academic settings. https://csh.umn.edu/

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Have you ever wondered how Ayurveda and Eastern Philosophy can help support your mental wellness and overall well-being??

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of Midwest YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Marianna Ferri

Marianna works as a high school teacher in Toronto, Canada. Her business, "The Conscious Educator" began after completing her yoga teacher training focusing on supporting mental wellness through yoga, Eastern Philosophy and Ayurvedic teachings. Marianna began implementing meditation into her classroom while building on a trauma informed approach in her classroom to highlight and support her student's wellbeing while focusing on compassion, kindness and community pillars within her classroom. Marianna seeks to inspire, educate and lead people on journey's of highlighting developing self-awareness and mindfulness through ancient wisdom incorporating Vedic teachings, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Stoicism to support mental, spiritual and physical wellbeing. Marianna believes a big component to healing is understanding our nervous system to get regulate and tap into the parasympathetic state to allow oneself to heal. Marianna's current offering's include an e-book called "Unraveling: Understanding the layers of self through through yoga and yogic philosophy to promote mental wellness" which looks at how the different limbs of yoga can support mental wellness and how understanding our different layers of self (koshas) can also bring about homeostasis in the mind, body and soul. https://www.theconsciouseducator.ca/

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Learn what to expect when creating a safe space and atonomy in yoga thereapy.

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Hannah Lee, LSW, CYT

Hannah Lee, LSW, is a therapist and yoga instructor at Room To Breathe Psychotherapy and Yoga in Chicago, IL. A social worker by training, Hannah worked on social issues such as housing, incarceration, and access to higher education before joining Room To Breathe. There she provides individual and group therapy, focusing primarily on trauma healing; perinatal mental health; parenting/caregiving; identity exploration for people of color; and neurodiversity. She is a graduate of RTB’s psychologically sensitive yoga teacher training and teaches a weekly online class.

In both yoga and therapy, Hannah and Room To Breathe emphasize accessibility, autonomy, and the importance of participants building an internal sense of safety. By prioritizing “function over form,” participants have the space to explore the sensation of postures and experiences without the pressure of achieving a particular form or outcome. Practicing these values in the yoga and therapy spaces changes the power dynamic in the room and can be a tool for healing for folks that have had their choice taken away from them. Hannah and Room To Breathe know that these are practices that benefit everyone, not just those that identify with a trauma history, and hope that both participants and practitioners can learn how psychologically sensitive care can benefit everyone.

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