Non-Diet Yogi
Casey Conroy, MNutrDiet, APD, YT
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Ep 24. Bonus Sample: First, Do No Harm
Non-Diet Yogi
05/26/22 • 12 min
There is an inherent fat phobia and weight stigma in the natural health and wellness communities. Leanness is conflated with health: we're consistently told that fat is the problem, and weight loss is the solution. But focussing on weight loss directly opposes the naturopathic principle of "first, do no harm". Here's why, and what we can do instead.
Ep 11. Wildly Accessible Food & Medicine: Foraging Edible Weeds & Bush Foods with Pat Collins
Non-Diet Yogi
05/12/20 • 58 min
Foraging for edible weeds is an accessible and inclusive healthcare skill. Pat Collins is a highly experienced herbalist, natural health practitioner and bush craftswoman with a passion for sharing her foraging know-how and instilling in people a deep appreciation of edible and medicinal weeds: nature's gifts.
In this episode:
- How being able to support her children’s health by making at home remedies motivated Pat into studying herbal medicine formally
- Why familiarity with the abundance of edible foods around us - and how to harvest and use them - is so valuable, especially at this time in history
- Why Pat published her book The Wondrous World of Weeds (it wasn’t because writing books pays well!)
- “Once upon a time we were all wise women” – the need to take back our power by reclaiming our knowledge of foraging
- The many uses of Chickweed (Stellaria media) and Paddy’s Lucerne (Sida rhombifolia)
- Weeds grow where the soil is right for them, and will tell you what is wrong with your soil
- Herbs in the time of COVID-19: Some of Pat’s favourite weed allies and ways to use them, to support immune and respiratory health, and to calm our nerves when “it all gets too much”
- Which native Australian bush foods are in season right now, how can to use it – think, lemon myrtle cheesecake and bunya nut curry (!)
- Pat’s views on MLM essential oil companies doTerra and Young Living, concerns about the safety of ingesting essential oils, and more affordable, practitioner grade alternatives to these brands
- The beauty of using whole herbs
- Menopause: How Pat views this powerful life stage, helpful plant allies, organ systems to take extra special care of, and how St John’s Wort helped Pat through her surprisingly tumultuous peri-menopausal years
- “If we as a culture respected our elders, we’d have far fewer problems with menopause”
- The call for wise, old women
Links:
- Pat's Website & Facebook
- High quality, affordable alternatives to MLM essential oil companies: New Directions, Sydney Essential Oil Company, Essential Therapeutics
- Funky Forest Apothecary
- Casey's blogs:
Gym culture can be incredibly toxic for people struggling with body image and eating concerns. Monique Jephcote, APD, PT and Intuitive Eating Counsellor, is infusing weight-neutral principles into the fitness world with compassion, respect and gusto.
In this episode:
- How and why Monique opened her non-diet private practice soon after graduating
- HAES just makes sense: “Every single body deserves dignity and respect” (and weight loss dietetics is SO boring!)
- Monique’s lived experience of disordered eating recovery from her days as a competitive bodybuilder (including the fun, sassy “Beyonce” side of things)
- “We get obsessed with food when we’re under-eating”
- How Monique never disliked her body as much as she did when she was closest to society’s ideal body shape
- The contrast in body diversity and body acceptance between the bodybuilding VS powerlifting scenes
- The myriad ways diet culture manifests in the gym setting
- On being a non-diet dietitian in a gym, and dealing respectfully with weight-centric fitness professionals: “We don’t know what we don’t know”
- The way Monique is challenging perspectives on weight and health in the gym world
- The importance of informed consent, body autonomy and compassion regardless of whether clients take a weight-centric or weight-neutral approach
- Low energy availability or RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport), Hypothalamic Amenorrhoea in female athletes, and the problem with dismissing menstrual disturbances as “just what happens to active women”
- Monique’s experiences with Vipassana meditation, and where this fits in with her work as a dietitian and fitness professional
Links:
03/16/22 • 44 min
In this episode I share why this podcast went quiet in the past year. I discuss divorce, compassion & critical thinking, and working as a holistic health practitioner in communities burdened by COVID misinformation. It contains a lot of personal details and reflections. If that's not your thing, no worries - scroll on.
SHOW NOTES:
02:30 On being a "muscles and bones" yoga teacher instead of a philosophising one
05:40 Prajna and critical analysis as ways of inner knowing
11:33 The place of compassion in reducing COVID transmission
16:13 Moving through separation and divorce
18:40 Career changes to make ends meet
21:20 Working as a holistic health practitioner in communities burdened by COVID conspiracy theory and medical misinformation
26:14 Vaccines and naturopathic medicine principles
31:32 The value of combining compassion with analytical reasoning
42:37 How this podcast will evolve
LINKS:
Support the pod! BONUS episodes and exclusive goodies for subscribers:
https://www.patreon.com/nondietyogi
Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing - online non-diet nutrition consulting services and in-person yoga classes
https://www.funkyforest.com.au
Grab your copy of my free e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing!
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/a-modern-yogis-bs-free-guide-to-wellbeing.html
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/funkyforesthealth
Instagram:
@nondietyogi https://www.instagram.com/nondietyogi/
@funky.forest.health https://www.instagram.com/funky.forest.health/
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Dr. Dan Wilson, PhD: A compassionate case for COVID vaccination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-KdEgh4Ps8
Max Cohen, ND: Are vaccines consistent with naturopathic medicine?
https://ndsforvaccines.com/reconciling-the-irreconcilable-are-vaccines-consistent-with-naturopathic-medicine/
Pennycook, Gordon. (2019). Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking. Journal of Personality. 88. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jopy.12476
Ep 5. Orthorexia in Yoga Teachers with Amy Reich
Non-Diet Yogi
02/13/20 • 71 min
Research and experience tells us that in yoga teachers and practitioners, orthorexia may be the norm, rather than the exception.
SHOW NOTES:
- Food rules in yoga and wellness circles
- That moment when Amy was holding a can of beans thinking, “I can’t eat this!” - and she realised something was up
- How becoming a mum tipped the scales towards Amy’s recovery from orthorexia
- The study that showed 86% (yes, you read that right) of yoga teachers have orthorexic tendencies
- People come to yoga classes and teacher trainings with wounds
- Yoga teachers can be well-meaning and still disseminate dangerous nutrition advice to susceptible people
- When “everyone thinks they’re a nutrition expert” and the industry is not regulated
- Crazy shit yoga gurus tell their students about food: The Rajasic Girls in my first yoga teacher training, and coming back as a cockroach in your next life if you eat the wrong foods (WTF!)
- Intuitive eating for yogis to prevent disordered eating
- Self-compassion in orthorexia recovery
- “Your tissues hold your issues” - partaking in psychological therapy as part of a yoga teacher training
- Weird stuff that becomes normalised in yoga bubbles
- Accessibility and social justice issues – how can we make our yoga and nutrition services accessible and sustainable?
- Amy’s professional education journey, from health coach to masters degree in nutrition
- “Sugar free” mania in parents, and raising kids who are competent, intuitive eaters
LINKS:
Where to find Amy:
www.curatednutrition.com and www.SOSStressRelief.com
Amy’s personal website, including art and music: www.amyreich.com
Facebook: Amy Reich - Curated Nutrition and Health Promotion
Resources mentioned:
Valera et al. (2014) Prevalence of orthorexia nervosa among ashtanga yoga practitioners: a pilot study. Eat Weight Disord. 2014 Dec;19(4):469-72.
“Everyone’s a Nutrition Expert” by Tara Leong
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Learning opportunities:
Social justice and accessibility in yoga www.yogaalliance.org/New_RYS_Standards/The_Ethical_Commitment
Dianne Bondy https://diannebondyyoga.com
Lucy Aphramor https://lucyaphramor.comBody Positive Australia www.bodypositiveaustralia.com.au
Trauma-informed yoga http://collectiveresilienceyoga.com
Ep 8. Inclusivity, Rage, and Other Forms of Kindness: Merging Yoga and Dietetics with Fiona Sutherland
Non-Diet Yogi
03/31/20 • 81 min
In this episode:
- The book that pivoted both Fiona’s and my own trajectory (If not dieting)
- Fiona’s yoga teaching as embodied movement VS a fitness class
- The 3 C’s: Care, consent and choice as essential factors in being inclusive dietitians, inclusive yoga teachers and inclusive humans
- Doing the work doesn’t always feel good
- What determines whether the yoga we practice will help or hinder healing from disordered eating and body image issues
- Healthsplaining, healthism and the actual determinants of health
- “We don’t sit separately from harm” – the way we show up in the world really matters
- Thin privilege, weight bias and systematic oppression
- Working with clients who want to lose weight, and what people might be actually looking for when they pursue weight loss
- Some of the 100's of evidence based things a non-diet dietitian can do that isn’t giving out a meal plan
- The power of the question “I wonder if you’re eating enough?”
- The pervasive expectation on women and femmes to be “nice” and never angry: how mindfulness is not the same as niceness, and how recognising compassion and kindness in all its forms (including a box of rage!) can help us move away from “nice girl” syndrome
Links:
Fiona's Instagram
The Mindful Dietitian Facebook page
The Mindful Dietitian Private Facebook group for practitioners
Support the podcast at the Non-Diet Yogi Patreon!
05/12/22 • 69 min
Naturopathy was never intended to focus on weight loss. And when it comes to women’s health - especially preconception care, postpartum and peri-menopause - taking the emphasis off of weight and shape and onto health becomes even more imperative. Dr. Caitlin O’Connor, a naturopathic doctor based in Denver, Colorado shares her wisdom.
SHOW NOTES:
09:08 What brought Caitlin to naturopathy and HAES®
14:25 The differences between naturopathic training in Australia vs. the USA
20:07 How Caitlin navigates weight loss conversations with clients
26:27 How we can take what’s helpful from naturopathic traditions without it causing harm
33:00 Addressing weight bias in our clients, our colleagues, and ourselves
34:08 Weight-neutral preconception health and fertility
39:20 Avoiding the shame spiral for people who are not getting pregnant
41:40 How long the 4th trimester really lasts
47:50 The pressure postpartum mothers are under to return to their "pre-baby body"
51:50 Uncoupling aesthetic goals from health goals
55:40 All about peri-menopause, or “The Change” that occurs from age 35 onwards
RESOURCES mentioned:
Caitlin's article for ASDAH: https://asdah.org/haes-and-naturopathic-medicine-using-haes-principles-to-facilitate-healing/
LINKS:
Support the pod! BONUS episodes and exclusive goodies for subscribers:
https://www.patreon.com/nondietyogi
Caitlin's website: https://www.drcaitlin.com
Caitlin's Instagram: @drcaitlino https://www.instagram.com/drcaitlino/
Casey's website: https://www.funkyforest.com.au
Casey's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/funkyforesthealth
Casey's Instagram: @funky.forest.health https://www.instagram.com/funky.forest.health/
Non-Diet Yogi Instagram: @nondietyogi https://www.instagram.com/nondietyogi/
Grab your copy of my free e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing!
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/a-modern-yogis-bs-free-guide-to-wellbeing.html
01/15/20 • 94 min
SHOW NOTES:
- How Ayurveda didn’t accompany yoga to the west, and the effects of this on contemporary yoga practice
- Different spiritual practices (e.g. Vipassana, Tantra) are not suited to everyone
- Everything can be medicine or harmful, depending on context
- Your constitution informs the medicine you need
- Diet culture vs. the introspective curiosity inherent to Ayurveda
- Ojas, or vitality: is your “cleanse” giving you that?
- Cleanses are effective at short-term weight loss, but not effective at long-term weight loss
- Keeping digestion healthy is key in Ayurveda
- Cleanses and fasting can disrupt agni and metabolism, and aggravate vata
- The Magic Bullet Syndrome: cleanses won’t fix the lifestyle problems causing your health issues in the first place
- Nara’s experience with chronic fatigue, discovering how stressful dieting was on his body, and how he recovered
- Navigating the touchy issue of Ayurvedic “cleansing” amidst the sea of diet culture and accusations of pseudo-science
- The differences between a juice cleanse, and pancha karma or “cleansing” in the traditional Ayurvedic sense
- Where I feel a few days of kitchari might be appropriate, and where it definitely would not be appropriate
- Hardcore cleanses in Ayurveda
Support the pod! Bonus episodes and exclusive goodies for subscribers:
https://www.patreon.com/nondietyogi
Nara’s company Evolution Botanicals
Website: https://evolutionbotanicals.com.au/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evolutionbotanicals
Instagram: @evolutionbotanicals
Casey's articles on Ayurveda, TCM and Intuitive Eating
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/ayurveda-tcm-intuitive-eating-or-dietary-dogma
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/beyond-pitta-kapha-vata-ayurveda-tcm-intuitive-eating
Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing - online non-diet nutrition & naturopathic consulting services and in-person yoga classes
Grab your free e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing
Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing Facebook page
Instagram @nondietyogi @funky.forest.health
Ep 2. Cleanse, Detox, Hurt: The Allure of Unhealthily Strict Diets to the Ascetic Yogi Psyche
Non-Diet Yogi
12/26/19 • 69 min
Why juice cleansing is so popular in yoga culture, how detoxification actually works, and what you can do to support your body's detoxification processes without starving yourself.
· What is juice cleansing? How it’s marketed vs. what’s actually going on
· Why it’s so popular in yoga culture
· How tapas and saucha may underlie and amplify the tendency towards spiritually-endorsed disordered eating and body dysmorphia
· Ayurveda and juice cleansing
· Disordered eating and eating disorders in Yogaland
· My personal experiences with harsh yoga practices, fasting and orthorexia
· The physiology of detoxification and how juice cleanses impede this
· Why those initial “detox symptoms” and later, that feeling of “energised bliss” occur on a juice cleanse (it’s not what you think)
· What you can do to safely support detoxification (if you wish to do so)
· The next level of cray: water fasting in yoga circles
LINKS:
Support the pod! Bonus episodes and exclusive goodies for subscribers:
https://www.patreon.com/nondietyogi
My articles on Ayurveda, TCM and Intuitive Eating:
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/ayurveda-tcm-intuitive-eating-or-dietary-dogma
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/beyond-pitta-kapha-vata-ayurveda-tcm-intuitive-eating
The physiology of detoxification, how juice cleanses impede this, and what you can do to support detoxification:
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/detoxification-so-not-about-juice-fasts-colonics
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/your-bodys-lifelong-detoxification-kit
The stress response of restrictive eating:
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/the-honeymoon-period
Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing - online non-diet nutrition consulting services and in-person yoga classes
Grab your copy of my e-book The Modern Yogi's BS-Free Guide to Wellbeing
Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing Facebook page
Instagram:
@nondietyogi
@funky.forest.health
Ep 9. COVID-19 and Diet Culture: Discerning Wisdom from Wellness Wankery in Uncertain Times
Non-Diet Yogi
04/13/20 • 40 min
With great uncertainty comes fear and uprooted trauma. COVID-19 has seen an amplification of weight stigma, wellness wankery, and conspiracy theories that have the potential to magnify our stress and trauma. Here's what to look out for, as well as ways to ground, protect and nurture yourself and your loved ones at this uncertain time.
Show notes:
- The 3 categories of BS “health advice” circulating in the age of COVID-19: The Seemingly Innocuous, The Social Media Misinformation Storm, and The Blatantly Fat Phobic
- Privileged health advice
- Is cutting out sugar the most important thing to consider right now? (Clue: No, it's not.)
- Essential oils, colloidal silver, celery juice: should we be using these to "boost" immunity?
- What I really think about MLM (Multi-Level Marketing), and the ethics of downline recruitment and questionable advertising during a pandemic
- Weight control during COVID VS. just surviving COVID
- Higher BMI is NOT a risk factor for contracting COVID-19, and may even be a protective factor
- Conspiracy theories, and the appeal of these to healers and lightworkers
- What we really need to be focussing on right now
- The ways we deal with stress and trauma, and how this manifests in our relationships with food, eating, our bodies and movement
- How coronavirus is impacting me personally
- Gentle ways we can support ourselves and others
- Supplements and herbs can help support your immune health, but not having access to these is not the end of the world
- Accessible nutrition counselling and yoga services I am currently offering during COVID-19
Links:
All Fired Up Podcast with Louise Adams
Bringing The Body Into the Room: Somatics, Food and Eating Experiences with Tracy Brown and Fiona Sutherland
Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani – author of the book Sick Enough
Dr. Kristin Neff on Self-Compassion
Stephen Harrod Buhner on herbal support for COVID-19 infection
Casey's LIVE yoga classes by-donation
Casey's accessible COVID-19 Nutrition Counselling Services
Mugwort Herbal Body Oil GIVEAWAY!
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FAQ
How many episodes does Non-Diet Yogi have?
Non-Diet Yogi currently has 33 episodes available.
What topics does Non-Diet Yogi cover?
The podcast is about Racism, Yoga, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, Dietitian, Alternative Health, Ayurveda, Podcasts and Health.
What is the most popular episode on Non-Diet Yogi?
The episode title 'Ep 32. Moontime Nutrition Part 2: Nourishing Your Pre-Ovulatory Phase' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Non-Diet Yogi?
The average episode length on Non-Diet Yogi is 54 minutes.
How often are episodes of Non-Diet Yogi released?
Episodes of Non-Diet Yogi are typically released every 15 days.
When was the first episode of Non-Diet Yogi?
The first episode of Non-Diet Yogi was released on Dec 13, 2019.
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