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MENTAL HEALTH AWARE YOGA WITH DR LAUREN TOBER
You Are Protected with Michelle Cassandra Johnson
What if protecting your energy didn't mean keeping the world out? When I was training as a psychologist, I was taught to imagine a stop sign as people shared their stories with me. Later, in yoga circles, I was told to surround myself with white light. Neither worked for me, and holding everything...
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On Ahimsa, Mental Health and Yoga with Dr Lauren Tober
Welcome to the first episode in a special five part pop-up series on Patanjali's eight limbs of yoga, exploring what each limb means for us as yoga teachers supporting our students' mental health....
On Interoception and the Wisdom of the Body with Dr Lauren Tober
Your throat tightens in a conversation, a few seconds before you've worked out why. You feel a flutter of anxiety in your belly before your mind catches on to what’s happening. Your body is always...
On Yoga as a Work-In, Not a Work-Out with Indu Arora
Some things are simple by nature and we tend to complicate them. Others are complex by nature and we dilute them. Indu Arora (she/her) is a Yoga and Āyurveda teacher, mentor and author who has been...
On Abuse, Power and the Guru Myth with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
It starts small. A teacher who tells you rather than asks you. A little too much praise when you fall in line, a little too much silence when you don't. Most of us have felt it and shrugged it off....
On Living Ritual with Tracee Stanley
Every Monday morning, as the sun is coming up, I walk down my friend's garden path to her house for tea ceremony. Gentle music. Incense. Bowls of tea. A handful of women from my little town, sitting...
On Aerial Yoga as Therapy with Jo Stewart
Before I met Jo, my mental image of aerial yoga was mostly circus-like. Beautiful, yes. Fun, sure. Relevant to the yoga teachers and therapists I work with? I wasn't convinced. Boy, was I wrong. Jo...
On Sacred Places, Big Leaps and Following Your Bliss with Charley Patton
What does it take to leave behind everything you've built, cycle 8,000 miles across the world, with no clear plan for what comes next? I recorded this conversation live at the Bali Spirit Festival,...
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...
On Motherhood and Menopause on the Road with Janet Stone
I met Janet Stone at the Bali Spirit Festival in Ubud last week, where we sat down together between workshops to have this conversation. Janet is an internationally recognised yoga teacher who has...
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Hi, I'm Dr Lauren Tober!
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.
In fact, 79.4% of yoga students report practicing yoga for the mental health benefits.
It's important that Yoga Teachers know how to support them.
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