Hippocrates, the father of modern western medicine, is famous for his expression “All disease begins in the gut."

On this episode, past guest, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Dietician Donna Papania joins us again to answer questions about Panchakarma at home.

Host Rosemary Holbrook presents several research studies around gut health and hormones, connection between microbiome and doshas/prakriti, and how Ayurvedic lifestyle practices impact all of the above.

Studies Presented:

The Gut Microbiome and Sex Hormone-Related Diseases (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8506209/)

The Microbiome in Health and Disease from the Perspective of Modern Medicine and Ayurveda (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559905/)

Prakriti phenotypes as a stratifier of gut microbiome: A new frontier in personalized medicine? (source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0975947620300413)

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Kate is the parent of an amazing atypical kid, an inclusive yoga and meditation teacher, and author of the upcoming book, Atypical Kids, Mindful Parents: The joys and struggles of raising neurodivergent kids. She began teaching yoga and cultivating community in 2002, hoping to relieve some of the suffering in the world after 9/11. Since then she has shared the tools that help her find joy, healing and calm in the face of self-doubt, pain and anxiety. Kate's students include deeply feeling, empathetic people who are ready to take themselves off the back burner. Her membership, workshops and retreats are welcoming and friendly, and reflect her core values: empathy, integrity, equity and respect.

Tune in to this raw, real, and relatable story to hear how she went from a stressed out fashion designer in Manhattan, to full time yoga teacher, parent of an atypical kid, and author.

Key topics in the episode:

• Kate's yoga story
• harm done by the fashion industry (and ahimsa)
• trying to conceive and fertility treatments
• toxic positivity around birth and infancy
• getting her son's diagnosis
• mindfulness and co-regulation as a parent
• Tara Brock's RAIN technique for self compassion
• writing a book from what she's learned through the pandemic and other life challenges
• the Kundalini scandal and how to recognize cult dynamics, vs trauma-informed circular (rather than hierarchical) space-holding
• Kate's book, and her definition of "Atypical Kids" and Neurodivergence
• tools to use in a meltdown (for any parents!)

To get in touch with Kate or find resources mentioned in the episode:

How to Stay Calm During a Meltdown: https://www.healthyhappyyoga.com/meltdown
3 Audio Guided Relaxations for Better Sleep: https://www.healthyhappyyoga.com/free-guided-relaxation-audios-for-better-sleep
The Compassion Club is an inclusive yoga membership for deeply feeling people who want customized support, encouragement, and connection so they can change what's not working, break cycles, and fall back in love with their lives. New members get a 7 day free trial. https://www.healthyhappyyoga.com/Compassion-Club-Free-Trial
Kate's website: https://www.healthyhappyyoga.com/
Kate's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthyhappyyoga/

To get in touch with Rosemary:

Join an astrologically-based yoga class/free meditations every Monday: https://www.yogiscopes.com/classes

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Tune into this riveting story to hear how yoga can bring healing and self-realization after addiction and despair, and leave the episode feeling uplifted inspired, and with new tools in your toolbox.

Rosie took her first yoga class in Coconut Grove, Florida in 1974. Her instructor was Eve Diskin-then the Director of the American Institute of Yoga. During college and for a short time after, Rosie concentrated on her ballet studies, incorporating her yogic knowledge into her ballet exercises. For the next ten years, she began an intense Yoga practice incorporating Bikram and The Barkan Method under the guidance of Jimmy Barkan in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Rosie received her Teacher Training Certificates from Asheville Yoga Center and has been teaching in Asheville, NC since 2005. Rosie is certified in Pre-natal yoga, Vinyasa Flow yoga, Children’s Yoga and has her 500-hour ERYT from Yoga Alliance. Her passion lately is teaching the ways in which combining Yoga with the 12 Steps of AA can offer a freedom from addictions in life- after all, we are each addicted to something! Rosie likes to mimic the challenges we face in real life on the mat, practicing how to share compassion and kindness in everything we do!

Key topics of the episode:

• Rosie's story of growing up in catholic school in south florida
• experimenting with other people's medications, other partying in high school
• starting teaching yoga and going down a dark road -- disordered eating, alcohol, other drugs, suffering in college, codependent relationships, etc.
• moment of surrender: never pretty, the universe forces you
• finding her way into AA and teacher training after many years of teaching, weaving in the 12 steps with yoga for ultimate healing
• emotional sobriety definition
• how to cultivate emotional sobriety
• a breath technique you can use right now / anywhere for overcoming desires, addictive impulses, and cravings

If you want to connect with Rosie:

www.RosieYoga.com

Join the Asheville Y12SR facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/615885036091742/

Sign up for a Y12SR Class (every Wednesday at 8:30am EST, in person at Asheville Yoga Center, or online from anywhere with recording sent afterwards no matter how you attend)
https://www.union.fit/events/y12sr-y12sr-meeting-with-rosie

Get more info about the Yoga and Addiction workshop at Asheville Yoga Center (or online!) on Feb 17, 2023
https://www.union.fit/events/asheville-yoga-center-yoga-addiction-hybrid

If you want to connect with Rosemary:

Yoga + Astrology facebook group

Dharma worksheet

I'd love to connect with you on Social Media:

Instagram - Facebook - Link In Bio

If you enjoy this podcast and want to say cheers or support this work, buy me a coffee!

Or you can poke around on my website to find out more about who I am and what I do: www.yogiscopes.com

If you're reading this or listening, I'm grateful that our paths have crossed and would love to connect with you on instagram or facebook!

Don't forget to like, subscribe, rate, follow, share, give me all the digital warm and fuzzies, and stay in the light!