The Wholly Aligned Health Podcast

How to support your bone health:

The new series for 2024 zooms in on a particular part of the body. Bones are many parts of the body! And a wonderful living tissue to appreciate how to take care of, in your unique context. In this episode, Ciara shares some ideas to encourage better bone health, from nutrition, to the importance of movement and an overview of key bone cells and their function.
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Love,
Ciara
Ciara Jean Roberts

Writer, Yoga Teacher, Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, Creative Spark

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TedxSpeaker:
https://www.ted.com/talks/ciara_jean_roberts_unlocking_you_inner_physician

Ciara Roberts brings you a series of guided meditations. You can listen seated, laying down, on a train, in a plane, under a tree...make it work for you.
Beginning with Arriving and Centring.
The energies of Arrive. The energies of Centre.

Arriving and centring into the contours of our physical form.

Centring into the essence of the deepest inner truths we hold.

Arriving and Centring is a practise Ciara experienced with long time yin yoga teacher, Sarah Lo. A useful way to expand our feelings of body. How we experience sitting, in physical form, within an entire cosmology - which can seem so very peculiar or abstract when we have not had direct experience of this sense of connection. This enduring vastness.

It resides within each one of us. Without exception.

We arrive into the landscape of body.

We centre into the inner beingness - perhaps we could call this grounding in our Buddha self. Or tapping into the well of sustenance within. Our inner power. It whispers and willows much further than the constraints of body.
Enjoy.
Ciara Jean Roberts
Yoga teacher, Writer, Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist
https://www.whollyaligned.com

In this episode, Ciara shares 3 key learning outcomes for coherent breathing, expanding more on the intricacies of the nervous system and reflective invitations to allow you to explore your current inner state:
1. Breathing through the nose
2. Breathing into the belly
3. An even rate and rhythm
It's all about balance.
With a guided 15 minutes at the end to help regulate, sense and feel.
For the 20 minutes guided coherent breath episode, listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/246643/3199480

In the ongoing season of the Recalibrate/Recalibrating your nervous system, season of the Wholly Aligned podcast, Ciara welcomes Dr Ela Manga.
Ela is an integrated medical doctor, practising in South Africa. Trained originally as a GP in conventional medicine, a few years into her GP work, she swiftly discovered that patients kept coming back with the same issues. Her work then broadened out into energy management and conscious living. Very much including the power of breath. She is also the founder of Breathwork Africa. A key passion for her, is training practitioners to shine this work more out into the world.
She shares the Zulu word (also present in many other African languages across the southern part) Of Ubuntu. Hear her speak more of this as a way if life, a sacred way of being in the podcast.
To discover more about wonderful Ela and er work in the world, her website is: https://www.drelamanga.com including links and detail of her upcoming virtual breath work sessions.
Her book, which this episode title draws inspiration from: Breathe. Strategising energy in the age of burnout is available via Amazon, with the link also via her website, listed above.
Love Ciara
Find your voice. It's your real power now
Ciara Jean Roberts
Writer, yoga teacher and Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist
https://www.whollyaligned.com

Darryl Edwards is a movement coach and author of the 2018 bestselling book, 'Animal Moves'. His Tedx talk, 'Why working out, isn't working out' has almost 830k views at time of recording (March 2021). Darryl sojourned from software engineering in the investment banking world, to creating primal play. Hear more about his story of transformation on this Inspiring Souls episode. A very honest, well articulated and vulnerable sharing.
He is also bringing his passion for inclusion and diversity, as a trustee for British Association for Holistic Medicine and Healthcare.
To explore more about Darryl's work, check out his Primal Play Method and blog pieces. You can also find his wonderful Tedx talk there too: https://www.primalplay.com/who-is-darryl-edwards