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Kathryn Bruni-Young grew up in the yoga community and has been teaching for over a decade. Inspired by her own life’s journey and a passion for helping all people feel more capable and confident in their bodies, Kathryn created Mindful Strength, a method that synthesizes mindfulness, strength training, yoga, movement, mobility, and body acceptance, to inform a well-rounded, embodied practice. This podcast is dedicated to sharing knowledge and fostering curiosity. Kathryn's conversations with ...
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This week our 10-minute Bonus episode is on the main features we look for when we are shopping for cameras. - To practice with Kathryn and Kyle in their online Membership click here. Strength training made mindful and accessible with live and on-demand classes. To Join Kathryn's Handstand Club beginning Feb 10th click here.…
Julie Wiebe, PT, DPT has over 24 years of experience in both Sports Medicine and Pelvic Health. Her passion is to return women to fitness and sport after injury and pregnancy and equip pros to do the same. This passion led her to pioneer an integrative approach to promote women’s health in and through fitness. A published author, Julie is a sought-…
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Bonus: Sequencing for strength on the mat and in the gym
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This week our 10-minute Bonus episode is on sequencing and programming. To request a topic for the Wednesday Bonus email support@mindfulstrength.ca - To practice with Kathryn and Kyle in their online Membership click here. Strength training made mindful and accessible with live and on-demand classes. To Join Kathryn's Handstand Club beginning Feb 1…
Welcome to our end of the year episode! - To read through the transcript and see who said what visit https://mindfulstrength.ca/mindful-strength-podcast/ - To get more info about Kathryn's 300-hour training and apply for Early Bird Pricing before Jan 1st click here. - To practice along with Kathryn and Kyle in the Mindful Strength, Membership click…
Welcome to our end of the year episode! - To read through the transcript and see who said what visit https://mindfulstrength.ca/mindful-strength-podcast/ - To get more info about Kathryn's 300-hour training and apply for Early Bird Pricing before Jan 1st click here. - To practice along with Kathryn and Kyle in the Mindful Strength Membership click …
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184 James Crader: Mindset and Movement in Pandemic Times
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James Crader's work is about helping people access their personal power as they connect more deeply with their Self and Others. He's a Resiliency Expert focusing on movement and mindset coaching. He's a creative and artist who expresses his connection to / and perceptions of human-ness through writing and media content. You can find out more about …
This 10-minute podcast is the first in a new series that Kathryn and Kyle are doing on the basic principles of strength training. Today's topic is reps and sets, and how learning more about reps and sets can influence strength training in the gym as well as on your mat. Join us on Wednesday's for these quick episodes, if you have a topic request em…
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183 Rochelle Miller: Redefining Trauma-Informed Movement
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Rochelle creates spaces for embodied movement; through education of primary principles of movement, she offers a unique blend of Yoga and movement that empower students to explore movement as a practice of self-discovering and joy. Through playful inquiry, practitioners are given the space to explore what is possible in their body and build the cap…
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182 Neil Pearson: Pain Science and Yoga | Repost
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Neil Pearson is a physiotherapist and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is an experienced yoga teacher, a yoga therapist, and creator of the Pain Care Yoga training programs for health professionals and yoga therapists. Neil is founding chair of the Physiotherapy Pain Science Division in Canada, recipient of the…
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181 Diane Bruni: Life and Death on My Own Terms
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Diane has been at the forefront of the yoga scene in Canada, she was the first Ashtanga teacher in Canada, founder of the Downward Dog Yoga Studio, and creator of 65 episodes of Breathing Space Yoga After decades of ‘traditional’ yoga, Diane became disillusioned, her own injuries and the injuries she was witnessing in her community were dishearteni…
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180 jamilah malika: Towards an Embodied Understanding of Power
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jamilah malika abu-bakare makes anti-oppression accessible to mindfulness practitioners by connecting the two as practices. her skill relating anti-oppression as a practice akin to our mindful movement practice is rooted in her work as co-visionary of the (now defunct) Positive Space Initiatives at Kula Annex dating back to 2010. she is currently t…
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179 Natalia Mehlman Petrzela: Race, Feminism, and Origins of Fitness in America
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Ph.D. is a historian of contemporary American politics and culture and is currently writing a book on American fitness culture, FIT NATION: How America Embraced Exercise As The Government Abandoned It (under contract with University of Chicago Press). She is the author of Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Mo…
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178 Kevin O’Connor: Fascia Science and Embodied Anatomies
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Kevin O’Connor is a multidisciplinary artist working as a choreographer, dancer, improviser, circus artist, and installation artist from Ontario, Canada and now based in the Bay area. He is involved in a decade-long artistic collective exploring participatory de-colonizing performances within polluted watersheds in Ontario. Over the last few years,…
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175 Carly Stong: Genuine Accessible Movement in Online Spaces
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Carly Stong is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT®500) as well as the Educational Director of and Lead Instructor at Yoga Teacher Training Kingston. Having completed her post-secondary degrees in Kinesiology and Health Studies as well as Education, Carly offers a contemporary movement education informed by science as well as experience t…
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176 Dr. Rima Thapar: Power, Authority, and Self-Advocacy in Health Education.
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Dr. Rima Thapar MD is a graduate of Windsor University School of Medicine and School of Etheric Healing who delicately weaves the threads of science, spirituality, and yoga. During her medical studies, she became fascinated with the art of medicine and began to explore the sciences with the lens of a spiritual mind. Practicing yoga and meditation f…
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175 Laura Baehr: Pain science and the core
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Laura Baehr is a rehabilitation scientist, movement artist, and teacher who melds her interdisciplinary trainings in order to inspire strength, confidence, and quality of life through body awareness. She earned her clinical doctorate in physical therapy from Temple University and her undergraduate training includes a dual degree in dance and neuros…
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174 Susanna Barkataki: Embrace Yoga's Roots
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An Indian yoga practitioner in the Shankaracharya tradition, Susanna Barkataki is the founder of Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute and runs Ignite Be Well 200/500 Yoga Training programs. She is an E-RYT 500, Certified Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT). She is the author of the forthcoming book Honor Yoga…
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173 Matthew Remski: Conspiracy Theories in the Wellness Industry
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Matthew Remski is the author of eight books, the most recent being Practice and All is Coming, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond. He has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1996, learning from teachers from the Tibetan Buddhist, Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Iyengar streams. Along the way, he has trained as a yoga therapist and an Ayurve…
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172 Scotty Butcher PhD: Mindful Strength Training
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Dr. Scotty Butcher is an Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science at the University of Saskatchewan and co-founder of Strength Rebels. He holds a BSc PT and MSc Kin from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology and Experimental Medicine from the University of Alberta. He is certified as a Registered Clini…
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171 Sheela Zelmer: Breath, Core and Pelvic Floor
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Sheela Zelmer is a pelvic physiotherapist and instructor for the post-grad pelvic physiotherapy program. She is also a women's health coach and founder of the Below Your Belt Method for women who want to have better bladder control and great sex life. To learn more about Sheela click here To learn more about the Mindful Strength Membership click he…
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170 Melanie Camellia: Yoga For Everybody, Accessibility, Hierarchy, and Truth
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Melanie Camellia (née Williams), E-RYT 200 & YACEP, is a fat, queer, non-binary yoga teacher and accessibility advocate in Washington, DC, called to create profoundly inclusive spaces for self-inquiry and the inward journey by integrating spiritual teachings and accessible, trauma-informed movement practices with the spirit of social justice. Melan…
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169 V. Ophelia Rigault: The Grieving Process and Yoga
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V. Ophelia Rigault whole-heartedly believes that grief is our greatest teacher and there comes a time, that the griever has to choose to get through their grief or become mired in it. Ophelia knows that grief is not meant to be fixed - it is meant to be witnessed and healed. After the death of her mother, Ophelia tried to "fix" her grief, and was w…
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168 Travis Pollen: Assessing Risk of Injury
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Travis Pollen is a Philadelphia-based personal trainer and PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences. He also holds a master’s degree in Biomechanics and Movement Science. His research interests focus on movement screening, training load, and injury risk appraisal for athletes. To learn more about the Mindful Strength Membership click here.…
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167 Lizette Pompa: Strength Training to Complement Yoga
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Lizette was born in Mexico, and started her yoga journey while living in Madrid. After taking her first Yoga TT in USA 2010, she moved to Stockholm with her now-husband to finally open their yoga studio Hot Yoga Uppsala in Uppsala, Sweden, in 2011. Her teaching style incorporates strength and functional movement in different ways; she likes to inte…
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166 Christy Harrison: Diet Culture, Health At Every Size, and Social Determinants of Health
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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the book Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating (Little, Brown Spark 2019). She offers online courses and private intuitive eating coaching to help people all over the…
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165 Madeleine Shen Lopez: Neck Anatomy and Decolonizing the Body
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Madeleine Shen Lopez shares home between the city jungle of Toronto and the vast mountains of Patagonia, Argentina. As a movement educator, certified Axis Syllabus teacher and Doctor of Chiropractic, she spends most of her time teaching movement, dancing, and helping people connect with and regain agency over their bodies. To learn more about the M…
In this episode Kathryn and Kyle talk about why they started their online studio membership (the MINDFUL STRENGTH MEMBERSHIP), and how they managed to figure out how to do everything in-house. They talk about the original equipment set-up, why they bought certain cameras, what they eventually upgraded to, what they decided to spend more money on an…
Megan Spears is a coffee-loving body nerd who loves to blast NPR in the car. She lives and teaches yoga in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has been teaching yoga full-time for 6 years and specializes in teaching private yoga. She loves to geek out with her clients as they learn about their body, discover new movement patterns, and gather their favorite medita…
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162 Jenn Pilotti: Proprioception, Interoception, and Body Mind Movement
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Jenn holds a B.S. in exercise science with an emphasis in physiology and a M.S. in Human Movement from A.T. Still University. She began training people and teaching classes in 2001 while she was still working on her undergraduate degree. She has studied many different modalities and techniques and likes looking for the common threads between system…
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161 jamilah malika: Anti Oppression (REPOST)
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jamilah malika is a Mentorship Lead at New Leaf Foundation which does work to bring mindfulness and yoga-based tools into spaces that are least-served and often most stigmatized; increasing access to positive resources for youth who face violence, neglect, poverty and marginalization. As well as an artist and writer passionate about anti-oppression…
Lorimer is Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. He has over 25 years clinical experience working with people in persistent pain, has authored hundreds of articles, multiple books and chapters and continues to present keynote lectures globally. His community outreach and whol…
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159 Dr. Rashmi Bismark: Meditation For All and Finding Om
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Dr. Rashmi Bismark focusses on a mindfulness based integrative approach to health. Rashmi is a medical doctor, she has an additional degree in Public Health, she is a yoga and meditation teacher with Yoga Medicine, and the author of the children's book Finding Om. To learn more about Rashmi click here. To learn more about Mindful Strength, the memb…
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158 Greg Lehman: Explaining Pain Research, Biomechanics and Strength
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Greg Lehman is a physiotherapist, chiropractor and strength and conditioning specialist treating musculoskeletal disorders within a biopsychosocial model. He teaches two 2-day continuing education courses to health and fitness professionals through out the world. Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science and Running Resiliency have been taught mor…
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157 Stuart McGill: Spine Mechanics and Adaptation
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Dr. Stuart M. McGill is a professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, where he was a professor for 30 years. His laboratory and experimental research clinic investigated issues related to the causal mechanisms of back pain, how to rehabilitate back-pained people and enhance both injury resilience and performance. His advice is often sought by gover…
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156 Kathryn Bruni-Young: Muscle Contractions, Strength and Mobility
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Kathryn Bruni-Young is the host of the Mindful Strength Podcast, an international teacher, and a creative thinker in the world of progressive movement. She has been practicing yoga since age 16, and has studied strength training, pain science, and human movement in depth. Kathryn runs a membership where folks practice together from all over the wor…
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155 Shelly Prosko: Pain Science and Compassion
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Shelly Prosko, PT, C-IAYT, CPI, is a Canadian physiotherapist, yoga therapist, author, speaker and educator dedicated to empowering individuals to create and sustain meaningful lives by teaching and advocating for the integration of yoga into modern healthcare. She is a respected pioneer of PhysioYoga, a combination of physiotherapy and yoga. To le…
Robin Lacambra is the founder of GOODBODYFEEL Movement Studio and the GOODBODYFEEL Movement Method. She is an empowered embodiment educator - blending practices like Pilates, yoga and mindfulness and sharing them from anti-oppression, trauma aware and eating disorder informed frameworks. Robin is also a somatic coach, social justice advocate and ea…
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153 Erin Godfrey: The Art and Science of Movement
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Erin Godfrey is a movement and body wellness educator. She began her career as a ballet dancer, studying with the National Ballet School of Canada, followed by studies in Anatomy and Kinesiology at George Brown College. Additional studies include Meditation, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Developmental Movement, Pilates, Personal Training, Welln…
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152 Chris Ruffolo: Redefining Physical Education
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Chris Ruffolo is a PE teacher who also sees one-on-one clients for pain, play, and problem solving. To learn more about Chris click here. To learn more about Mindful Strength or get started with our movement membership click here.
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151 Jules Mitchell: Teaching Asana and Hypermobility
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Jules Mitchell is an international teacher and the author of the book Yoga Biomechanics Stretching Redefined. Jules is a long time student, she has a masters degree in biomechanics, she is a researcher, a critical thinker and a teacher trainer. To learn more about her work click here. To sign up for the Mindful Strength Membership and get your firs…
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150 James Crader: Being A Movement Innovator
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James Crader's work is about helping people access their personal power as they connect more deeply with their Self and Others. He's a Resiliency Expert focusing on movement and mindset coaching. James is the founder of MoveLab, a fun and innovative approach to whole body movement for whole person health. He's a creative and artist who expresses hi…
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149 Clare Kelley: Pandemic in yoga and movement, what we can do now!
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Clare Kelley is a movement and nature therapy guide. She did her graduate studies in global public health and health research and program design, monitoring and evaluation (MA/MPH) at The School of Public Health and The Elliott School at George Washington University. Her interdisciplinary work combines her years of work in the health sciences with …
Brooke Thomas is a long time podcaster, a Rolfer, and a Realization Process teacher. She has a new online community called Liberated Being, and works 1 on 1 with clients in New Haven Connecticut. To learn more about Brooke click here To learn about the MINDFUL STRENGTH MEMBERSHIP click here
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147 Trina Altman: Integrating Modalities in Practice and Teaching
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Trina Altman was has received her training through STOTT Pilates® and is an E-RYT 500. She created Yoga Deconstructed® and Pilates Deconstructed® to show teachers how to take an interdisciplinary approach to foster an embodied understanding of yoga and Pilates in relation to modern movement science. Her work has been published in Yoga Journal, Yoga…
This is part two of the I'm Still Alive series with Diane Bruni. To learn about Diane Click Here To start practicing with Mindful Strength Click Here
Diane Bruni is Kathryn's mother, she founded one of Canada's first yoga studios, and has been exploring movement since her 20's. Diane has been on the podcast before, and is now going through treatment for cancer. To learn more about Mindful Strength click here To learn more about Diane click here
Anula Maiberg was born in Israel and moved to NYC in 2001 in order to pursue a career in photography. While working on her degree at the School of Visual Arts she fell in love with Pilates through the classes and private sessions she took around the city. After receiving her Masters in Fine Art from the Royal College in London and a few years at a …
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143 Dr. Shanté Cofield: Online Business and Knees Over Toes
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Physical therapist turned entrepreneur, Dr. Shanté Cofield, aka The Movement Maestro, is the founder of The Movement Maestro LLC, a social-media based company that provides both online and in-person education for movement professionals around the world. Shanté’s passion for digital business has helped her amass a social media following of over 53,0…
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142 Christopher Bourke: Movement for Mental Health
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Christopher is a movement instructor and mental health professional working in Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario. He has worked in the field of mental health and addictions for over a decade and roots his teaching in that experience - placing a strong emphasis on practices that respect, support and encourage an individual’s innate resilience. Christoph…
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141 Shannon Marion: Practical Pain Science and Rehab
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Shannon Marion is a graduate of the University of Ottawa in 2001 and am a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapists (FCAMPT) since 2008. She is certified in a number of different dry needling techniques including a Certificate of the Acupuncture Foundation Institute (CAFCI) in 2004 and a certificate in the Chan Gunn Intramuscu…
