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MENTAL HEALTH AWARE YOGA WITH DR LAUREN TOBER
On Losing a Parent and Choosing Life with Bex Tyrer
What does it look like to say yes to life in the very week your father has died? I recorded this conversation with Bex Tyrer (she/her) at the Bali Spirit Festival in Ubud, exactly one week after her father passed away at the age of 98. I wasn't sure we were going to do it. We'd been planning this...
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It’s Not About the Practices
Yoga has such an amazing wealth of practices to help us to calm our minds and regulate our nervous systems. However, it’s easy to focus on the practices themselves and forget about why we’re doing...
Can I Call Myself a Yogi?
In today’s video episode, Dr Lauren Tober is joined by Sunita Baste Patil (she/her), a Yogini, Wellbeing Coach, Mentor, Speaker, Podcaster, Yoga Meditation & Ayurveda Teacher, and writer based...
Choice, Empowerment and Touch
In today’s video episode, join Dr Lauren Tober to talk about choice, empowerment and touch in yoga. In the past few episodes we’ve talked about why touching your yoga students is not a good idea,...
What are Consent Tokens?
In today’s video episode, Dr Lauren Tober is talking about all things Consent Tokens. Consent Tokens are a simple and effective way to communicate consent about touch in your yoga classes or private...
Touch and Consent in Yoga
Let’s talk about touch! In the last few episodes, Dr Lauren Tober explored why some yoga students might not want to be touched, and how we can offer assists in our yoga classes without using touch....
Verbal and Visual Assists
In the last episode, Dr Lauren Tober talked about why your students might not want to be touched. In today’s episode, she’s sharing two alternate ways that you can offer support, guidance, or...
Why Students Don’t Want to Be Touched In Yoga Classes
Touch is a controversial subject in the yoga world. Is it nourishing and healing? Or is it triggering and re-traumatising? Actually, it’s not that simple. Join Dr Lauren Tober for this latest video...
Listening Well
Dr Lauren Tober is flying solo on the A Grateful Life podcast this week, with a whole episode on listening well. We’ve all been through SO much over the past few years. And sometimes it just feels...
How To Help Anxious Students Feel Comfortable
In today’s video episode Dr Lauren Tober answers a question from Nikola: “How can we make people with anxiety feel as comfortable as possible in our group classes?” Given that anxiety is a common...
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As a Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Teacher of nearly two decades and the author of Mental Health Aware Yoga: A Guide for Yoga Teachers, I'm passionate about integrating yoga and psychology on the mat, in the counselling room and in the world.
With the growing interest in mental health and yoga, yoga students are attending yoga classes for the mental health benefits in unprecedented numbers.
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