Chris and Jim from Upping Your Elvis explore how to get your energy right, to get your extraordinary on. Upping Your Elvis is all about energy. In 2019 we are exploring how our energy affects us physically, mentally and spiritually. We have hooked up with a series of experts who will set an experiment every month to help us discover a way of managing our energy. In our monthly podcasts we'll be sharing the highlights of our experiments, what worked, how we felt after the experiments, and wha ...
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Twenty Four – Qigong with Tamas Konya
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Qigong is a 4000-year-old Chinese practice that combines gentle movement, mindfulness, and controlled breathing techniques. For this month’s experiment Chris & Jim have been working with the brilliant Tamas Konya to explore how Qigong can improve the flow of natural healing energy and integrates our body, mind and spirit. This was was great fun! FI…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Twenty Three – Hyperbaric Chamber Therapy with Dr Will Buxton
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Chris is flying solo this month for our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment, where he’s been diving deep into the world of hyperbaric chamber therapy, with the brilliant Dr Wil Buxton. Hyperbaric chamber therapy involves climbing into a purpose-built chamber where you’re exposed to an atmosphere of 100% oxygen, pressurised to up to 3 times the normal atm…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Twenty Two – Improv with Neil Mullarkey
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Chris and Jim chat about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment, where we've been delving into the wonderful world of improvisation with one of the world’s most experienced and accomplished improv performers – Neil Mullarkey. You may recognise him from his performances in 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' and two 'Austin Powers' movies. He still performs most S…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Twenty One – Laughter with Lotte Mikkelsen
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Chris, Jim and Neil chat to Laughter Ambassador and Laughter Yoga Master Trainer Lotte Mikkelsen about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we’ve been giving our energy a huge boost by delving deep into the healing power of laughter. Laughter Yoga is growing in popularity as a way to boost staff wellbeing. Not only does laughter release endorphi…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Twenty - Nutrition with Harry Hewiston
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Good nutrition is the difference between surviving and thriving. Our bodies are beautifully complex and amazing organisms that need loads of different nutrients to thrive. We could survive for a while on coffee, processed food, and take-aways but sooner or later it’ll catch-up with us and our ‘engines’ will simply break down. This month Podcast is …
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Nineteen. Talk It Out, with Geoff McDonald
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Chris & Jim chat to Geoff McDonald about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we've been giving our energy a huge boost by using Talk It Out. They've been playing with the Talk It Out app and giving ‘The Friday Download’ a go. It’s a simple, fun challenge that’s proven to help free you from the baggage of your busy week so you can skip into the …
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Eighteen. Singing, with James Sills
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Chris & Jim chat to James Sills about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we've been giving our energy a huge boost by singing. The benefits of singing for physical and mental health are widespread and well-documented. From boosting mood, reducing anxiety, improving posture, and lowering blood pressure. And here’s the great thing - none of thes…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Seventeen. Experiencing Awe.
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Chris & Jim chat to Emily Graces from The Living Project about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we've been getting into the outdoors to experience awe to see how it impacts our energy. The Living project’s philosophy is that getting outside and spending time in nature is good for the soul. It inspires connection to self, others and the natur…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Sixteen - Daily Energy Routine with Amanda Allan
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Chris & Jim chat to Amanda Allan about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we've been testing the Daily Energy Routine to see how it impacts our energy. The Daily Energy Routine was created by Donna Eden, one of the world’s foremost Energy Medicine practitioners and teachers. Deceptively simple, it is a short routine of exercises that balances …
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Fifteen - 4 Day Week with Joe Ryle
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Chris & Jim chat to Joe Ryle from 4dayweek.co.uk about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we've been testing how a 4 day week impacts on our energy and makes everything becomes easier, more fun, and more successful. A 4 day week is proven to be great for our wellbeing as we get the time and space to focus on our lives outside of work, but it’s…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Fourteen - NAD+ with Iain De Havilland & Dr Philip Schoettle
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Chris & Jim chat to the amazing Iain De Havilland & Dr Philip Schoettle from the NAD Clinic Group about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we have been testing the impact NAD+ has on our energy, our focus, and even Jim's football team (spoiler alert - he got man of the match!). The NAD Clinic Group are research driven cellular innovators and N…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Thirteen - Food Memories with Gill Meller
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Chris & Jim chat to the wonderfully talented, Chef, Author and Food Writer, Gill Meller about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we've been creating food memories with those we hold dear as an incredible way to give our mental, emotional, and spiritual energy a huge boost. Gill writes a monthly recipe column in Delicious Magazine, his 2017 boo…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Twelve - Spread Thanks with Elena Anguita
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Chris & Jim catch-up with the fantastic Elena Anguita, Founder of the Spread Thanks Movement about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we've been exploring the impact spreading thanks has on our emotional and spiritual energy and look at how a renewed focus on gratitude can give us all a massive energetic boost. Elena is a change agent, author,…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Eleven - Primal Play with Darryl Edwards
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Chris & Jim chat to the brilliant Darryl Edwards from Primal Play about our latest #ElvisEnergyExperiment where we've been exploring the impact movement has on our energy, and looked at how moving our bodies brings an enormous energetic return! It’s fair to say that most of us don’t relate exercise to playtime, but Darryl Edwards, leading movement …
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Ten - De-Cluttering with Katherine Blackler from SortMySpace.co.uk
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Chris & Jim chat to the fantastic Katherine Blackler from SortMySpace.co.uk about the #ElvisEnergyExperiment we ran with her recently and how de-cluttering is an amazingly powerful way to bring a new energy to our environment. In fact it's often said that our physical environment is a mirror image of what goes on in our head (and vice versa), so it…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Nine - Napping with Cara & Sam from ProNappers
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Chris & Jim chat to the brilliant Cara & Sam from ProNappers about the #ElvisEnergyExperiment we ran with them recently and how napping is a superpower we all have at our finger tips, but yet we don't always use. Napping gets a bad press at times and can carry a stigma of being a bit lazy, but nothing could be further from the truth! ProNappers are…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Eight - Creative Writing with Kat Lewis
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Chris & Jim chat to Kat lewis, founder of Creative Writing consultancy With The Undertow about how creative writing is not only an opportunity to express yourself creatively, but it can help us to process our emotions and even help us form stronger connection with those around us. Something happens when you set pen to paper and allow the words to f…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Seven - Courage with Kyle Hermans
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Chris & Jim chat with Kyle Hermans Founder and CEO of Be Courageous, about February's Energy Experiment which was all about Acts of Courage. Research suggests that courage is a habit, which like any other, needs to be practiced to become part of who we are. It’s the secret sauce that allows us to act despite those fears we might be harbouring. It g…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Six - Cold Water Immersion
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Chris & Jim chat about Novembers Cold Water Immersion experiment set for us by the Wild Swimming Brothers. The physical and mental benefits of taking an icy plunge have long been celebrated; from Victorians gathering in public baths, to the lido boom of the early twentieth century. Science now backs this up with studies suggesting that there are la…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Five - 'Time and how to spend it' with James Wallman
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Chris & Jim chat to James Wallman about the impact our time has on our energy, and how using our time more positively, productively and on the things that creat stories for us, not only feels good, but gives us more energy for the things we;re doing too. James set us a challenge for the months of July & August built around his 7 rules for richer, h…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Four - One Year No Beer, with Andy Ramage
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Chris & Jim chat to Andy Ramage, co-founder of One Year No Beer about breaking the social stigma's around drinking. We discuss how taking a break from the booze means not only are we saying goodbye to those wasted hours and days feeling hazy from a night on the sauce (we all know that feeling right?), but we’ll have more clarity, more consistency a…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Three - Digital Detox with Tanya Goodin
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Upping Your Elvis is all about energy. In 2019 we are exploring how our energy affects us physically, mentally and spiritually. We have hooked up with a series of experts who will set an experiment every month to help us discover a way of managing our energy. On this months Upping Your Elvis Podcast we've been chatting to Tanya Goodin about how w…
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode Two
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Chris & Jim talk about our Social Enterprise Talk It Out, where it came form, how it works and the impact it's has been having on their energy, and the energy of our clients.By Chris Barez-Brown & Jim Lusty
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The Upping Your Elvis Podcast. Episode One
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Chris and Jim from Upping Your Elvis explore how to get your energy right, to get your extraordinary on. Upping Your Elvis is all about energy. In 2019 we are exploring how our energy affects us physically, mentally and spiritually. We have hooked up with a series of experts who will set an experiment every month to help us discover a way of managi…
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