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The Glo Podcast

The Glo Podcast

Derik Mills, Glo.com

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The Glo Podcast asks questions about self-care, deepening your sense of self and inspiring you to take action for a better world. Derik Mills, co-founder and co-CEO of Glo.com, speaks with guests about their practices and solutions for managing burnout, getting more sleep, dealing with anxiety, and becoming a better listener. We deepen our understanding of the connections we make in inner experiences that emerge from our biology, within our psychology, and through physical movement, and bring them into our outer experiences of relationships, workplace culture, and leadership. Self-care extends into our work life, our family life, and our innermost experiences of self. Self-care is not merely a concept we use to explore ourselves. It is a complexity of practices we can do with each other and by ourselves. We cover meditation and yoga practices, strategies to develop more inner strength and calm, and life choices to help you work with anxiety and burnout. Glo connects people through self-care so that, together, we can heal ourselves and our planet.
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Join our conversation with host Rachel Autumn and Darby Ray, a trauma-informed yoga teacher. Darby discusses how yoga spaces can be a sanctuary, supporting students’ experiences with stress and trauma. In the compassionate world of trauma-informed yoga, personal agency and resilience are at the heart of a healing practice.

Darby has been teaching yoga for more than ten years, and is a passionate advocate for bringing trauma informed practices into wellness spaces. She’s worked in different treatment centers and communities, offering yoga as a modality to assist the body’s inherent capacity for healing and growth.

The conversation covers how to navigate the delicate balance of personal boundaries and growth within yoga, we share candid reflections on maintaining focus amidst distraction, and the power of listening to one’s body over external cues. Breathwork, often a cornerstone of yoga, is dissected for its dual role as a grounding force and a potential source of discomfort, prompting a deeper conversation on offering choices and normalizing a spectrum of responses. Moreover, we tackle the practical aspects of teaching, like the use of consent cards for hands-on adjustments and the necessity of self-care to sustain the quality of teaching, especially in group dynamics post-pandemic.

Included is a discussion about the art of crafting a yoga practice rich in options and variations that honors all bodies and abilities. Rachel and Darby explore the challenges of online instruction, affirming the critical role of language and pacing when visual cues are absent, and how the universal benefits of trauma-informed yoga that can extend beyond trauma survivors to anyone coping with life’s stresses.

Key Takeaways for this Episode

(00:00) Introduction to Darby Rae

(06:53) Addressing trauma in classes

(11:27) The language of trauma-informed teaching

(18:00) Teachers' responsibility in trauma-informed classes

(24:01) Creating a supportive and flexible classroom environment

(26:31) Step-by-step exploration of trauma-informed yoga practice

(34:27) Importance of self-care in yoga teaching

(37:11) Building a trauma-informed public yoga class

(45:12) Trauma-informed yoga classes online

(51:02) Collective Resilience yoga teacher training

Links:

Darby Rae on Instagram

Darby Rae Website

Collective Resilience

Hala Khouri

Kira Haglund

Santa Monica Yoga

Exhale to Inhale

GLO classes:

Listen To Your Body Qi Gong with Stephanie

Regulate Emotions Flow with Elena

Nervous System Gentle Flow with Divya

Grief Support Hatha with Ivorie

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In this episode, part of our series of 30-minute conversations with Glo teachers, Ali Owens talks about what it is like to work with Glo behind the scenes, how her teaching focus has shifted to pre- and postnatal yoga classes; she also discusses the connection she feels with Glo students, both on and offline.

What if you could strengthen your relationship with those around you by practicing mindfulness? That’s the transformative journey Ali embarked on through her practice of yoga and meditation. She discovered the power of presence, especially in the face of chaos, and how her energy can influence her three children in a positive way. Allie also shared her journey into the subtle body concept, learning more about energy work and understanding her physical and energetic self.

A few key points in the episode:

0:01:11 - Present moment awareness

0:05:47 - Meditation’s ripple effect on children

0:13:27 - Feedback on Ali’s classes

0:21:24 - The subconscious mind and the subtle body

0:26:00 - Exploring dreams

Links:

Ali on Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.

GLO classes:

Ali Owens Classes on Glo

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Marc Laws discusses his inspiring journey from professional soccer player to sports therapy practitioner to yoga teacher with a popular following on Glo.com. In this deep-dive conversation with host Derik Mills, Marc shares about the life-changing power of yoga, discusses how he discovered a yoga teacher who changed his view of life, and shares insights that he discovered when he was an ultra-competitive professional soccer player who later became a sports medicine therapist and then yoga teacher.
Marc also mentions how thankful he is for the Glo team’s work in making yoga more accessible worldwide. He believes that the skills developed in yoga allow people to live with more love and connection in their lives.

Key Takeaways

(00:00) Yoga, sports, and gratitude
(09:01) Discovering the power of yoga
(18:45) Influences of soccer on yoga teaching
(28:35) Reflections on identity, empathy, and parenting
(40:22) Yoga's impact and reach
(51:47) Exploring personal practices and relationships
(58:53) Gratitude for team, teachers, community

Links:

Marc Laws' Website

Marc on Instagram

The Glo Podcast: How Understanding Neuroscience Can Expand Your Yoga Practice, with Celest Pereira on Apple Podcasts

GLO classes:

Marc Laws' classes on Glo

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The Glo Podcast - Seane Corn on The Glo Podcast: Spiritual Growth
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04/11/21 • 86 min

The work of uncovering your authentic self can be challenging because it means relinquishing control and feeling the difficult emotions we suppress. However, it’s in the process of developing this kind of empathy for others that we begin to lead our most fulfilling life. Seane shares these and other lessons she’s learned along her spiritual journey. She and Derik talk about her experience uncovering her own biases and the importance of accepting ourselves as humans who are both good and flawed as a way to start reckoning with systems of oppression and white supremacy. They also discuss Seane’s social action work on and off the mat.

Practice with Seane on Glo! Her all-levels ‘Elements of Flow’ is a series of seven Vinyasa classes, 30 minutes each that focus on how to approach this powerful practice more mindfully. The core concepts include proper alignment, fluid transitions, and modifications.

Links:

Off the Mat: https://www.offthematintotheworld.org

Seane Corn’s website: https://seanecorn.com

Revolution of the Soul: https://seanecorn.com/book/

Seane Corn on Glo: https://www.glo.com/teachers/seane-corn

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Derik discusses the founding years of Glo with the first teacher he approached, Jo Tastula. Located in Western Australia, Jo chats with Derik about her unique upbringing, how it changed her teaching style, and the ups and downs of her journey to becoming a yoga teacher. She shares how her practice has helped to create a sacred space for healing in some of her most difficult moments—losing both of her parents, pregnancy, and parenthood. Jo shares profound anecdotes about her own journey to becoming a yoga teacher from mysticism and plant medicine, to the enigma of defining yoga, “Just when you think you have it, it slips from your fingers.”

Links:

http://jotastula.com

Jo Tastula on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jo_tastula/

The Stuart Watkins Podcast https://stuartwatkins.org/podcast/

The Stuart Watkins Podcast on Apple Podcasts

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-stuart-watkins-podcast/id1435966879

Yoga Heart Mind App: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/yoga-heart-mind-app/id1533800821

GLO classes:

Yoga Nidra for Burnout https://www.glo.com/class/10921

Earthing Meditation https://www.glo.com/class/9397

Mystical Morning Meditation https://www.glo.com/class/7972

Meditative and Spacious Practice https://www.glo.com/class/2758

Good Morning, Sun https://www.glo.com/class/9390

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Do you talk to yourself? Don’t worry, we all do. In today’s episode, Lisa speaks with Dr. Ethan Kross, an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and author of the bestselling, Chatter: The Voice in Your Head and How to Harness It. Dr. Kross shares his research in the world of inner chatter and the ways it can be harmful to our relationships, our confidence, and even our creativity when it becomes part of an ongoing stress response to the outside world. As Dr. Kross says in the interview, “The stress response was not designed for long engagements, only short-term deployments.”

Dr. Kross shares tools from his recent book for successfully navigating the inner world of your thoughts and harnessing your inner voice to your advantage.

Links:

Ethan Kross website: https://www.ethankross.com/

Chatter Quiz - How well do you know your inner voice?

GLO classes:

Calm the Mind Through Flow

Settle the Mind Flow

Mental Reset Flow

Meditation for Focus and Clarity

Tonal Meditation

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“What should I eat?” can be an emotional question for many of us, particularly during the holidays. In today’s episode, Lisa Brooks Mills speaks with Vanessa Rissetto, a registered dietitian, the co-founder of Culina Health, and the dietician intern director at New York University.

Vanessa shares lifestyle adjustments for healthy eating habits that are sustainable, and how to prepare and support yourself with healthy choices throughout the holidays. She also discusses the key differences between dieticians and nutritionists so you can learn to navigate the growing world of social media and wellness.

Links:

Vanessa’s website

Vanessa on Instagram

Culina Health

Vanessa in Bon Appetit

GLO classes:

Yoga Before Big Meals

Digestion Light Flow

Healthy Habits Flow

Digestive Booster

Digestion Supporting Flow

Pilates for Digestion

Antidote Yoga for Holiday Excess - Restorative

Mindful Meal Meditation

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Journalist Beth Macy was moved by the stories she reported about addiction. As she says in her interview with Derik Mills, “I’ve learned to pay attention to things that make the hair stand up on the back of my neck.” In her book Dopesick, she takes the reader into the epicenter of the nation’s opioid crisis. On the podcast, Beth shares her work process and some astounding statistics about the depth of the crisis. For example, in America, there is an 88% treatment gap, meaning that only 12% of people addicted to opioids have gotten treatment.

Beth and Derik discuss how drug addiction has been stigmatized. She shares some behind the scenes stories of filming the Hulu series based on her book, including her appearance in the show, and the fine acting work of Rosario Dawson, Michael Keaton, and Kaitlyn Dever.

Links:

If you are in the front lines in the opioid crisis and would like to get in touch with us to discuss how Glo can help, please email us at: [email protected]

Partnership to End Addiction

Beth Macy

Dopesick the book

Dopesick on Hulu

Glo classes:

Yoga Nidra for Recovery

Cherish The Day

AM Gratitude for Addiction Recovery

Yoga and Recovery

Recovery and Reflection

Poise and Presence in Recovery

Tolerating Discomfort

Forgiveness Floats the Boat in Recovery

If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get on Your Mat

Create Space to Begin Again

Detox & Release Pilates Fusion

Gratitude Shift

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There are many myths about what it means to have boundaries and why we may be afraid or unwilling to set them. Many women, says psychotherapist Terri Cole, are often raised to “be a good girl.” This is the highest virtue many women are raised to offer: Being liked. But when we prioritize other people over ourselves, it leads to a place of anger and bitterness. Terri Cole calls it “the disease to please.”

Her book Boundary Boss-The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen and (Finally) Live Free will show you have to express your preferences, needs, and limits so you can live the happy, healthy life you deserve.

Her mission is teaching women how to attract and sustain healthy and vibrant love into their lives and how to establish and maintain effective boundaries with grace.

Links:

Terri’s special gift for Glo

The Boundary Boss book

Terri’s website

Terri’s instagram

Terri’s youtube channel

The Terri Cole Show podcast

GLO classes:

Speak Your Truth Flow - vinyasa flow

Throat Chakra Truth Flow - vinyasa flow

Voice Your Truth with Kundalini - kundalini

Healing Energy for Neck & Thyroid - kundalini

Udana Pranavayu, Express Yourself - vinyasa flow

Take Time for Yourself - vinyasa flow

Healthy Decisions - meditation

Take Time to Restore & Soften Your Edges - restorative

Yoga Nidra for Total Well-Being - yoga nidra program, six classes over three weeks

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Derik Mills interviews longtime friend and colleague Elena Brower about writing poetry, teaching yoga, friendship, and podcasting. They discuss Elena’s debut collection of poetry, Softening Time: Collected Poems.

Elena shares an inspiring encounter she had a Glo student who had taken classes with her online. Derik and Elena also turn the conversation inward, discussing the therapeutic journey from poetry to prose as Elena shares about her book of poems and her upcoming book.

In a previous episode of The Glo Podcast, Elena took over the microphone to guest host. Her guest was Jeff Rosenthal, co-author of Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community. Listen to her episode, Community is a Powerful Human Technology, featuring Elena Brower and Jeff Rosenthal.

Closing the chapter on this heartfelt conversation, Derik and Elena speak about dreams, the practice of Buddhism, and how to persist in creative endeavors. Both share about their insights drawn from the lectures of professor Douglas Brooks. (A number of Dr. Brooks’s are available on The Glo Podcast as episodes.)

Elena recommends a few books as well. Find them on her Bookshop.org page, where she offers reading recommendations on poetry, Zen Buddhism, perceptive parenting, on death and dying, art and writing, inspiration for daily living, leadership, yoga, mental health, and essential oils.

Key Takeaways for this Episode

(0:00:01) - a journey of friendship and business

(0:06:32) - the impact of curiosity

(0:16:36) - exploring personal growth and healing

(0:34:38) - exploring dreams and Buddhism

(0:46:41) - the art of practice and compassion

(1:00:58) - book recommendations from Elena

Links:

Elena’s Website

Elena on Instagram

Being You: A Journal by Elena Brower

Practice You: A Journal by Elena Brower

The Practice You Podcast with Elena Brower

Elena’s reading recommendations on bookshop.org.

Professor Douglas Brooks's New Winter Sessions for 2024

GLO classes:

Elena Brower on Glo

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FAQ

How many episodes does The Glo Podcast have?

The Glo Podcast currently has 102 episodes available.

What topics does The Glo Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Anti-Racism, Anxiety, Mental Health, Podcasts, Self-Improvement and Education.

What is the most popular episode on The Glo Podcast?

The episode title 'Introducing the Glo Podcast' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Glo Podcast?

The average episode length on The Glo Podcast is 72 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Glo Podcast released?

Episodes of The Glo Podcast are typically released every 7 days, 8 hours.

When was the first episode of The Glo Podcast?

The first episode of The Glo Podcast was released on Mar 7, 2021.

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Mar 18

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A new podcast about self-care. Deep convos. Tina Lifford is the latest guest. (From Queen Sugar and Scandal.) Professor Rhonda Magee is coming up.

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