Yoga for Lupus and Autoimmune with Annemarie Sampson
07/13/22 • 50 min
Lupus and other autoimmune conditions are prevalent in our society, and yet they are called invisible diseases because you might not know someone is suffering from one unless they tell you.
As a yoga professional, it is important for us to have an understanding of what someone with one of these diagnoses might be going through so we can best serve them.
In this episode, Annmarie Sampson joins us to share her experience with Lupus and some things we need to be aware of as yoga facilitators.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or find it at www.theyogapropodcast.com
Anne Marie has served the Chicagoland health community for the past 38 years. She is a certified personal trainer and yoga instructor and has nutrition and wellness coaching training. She currently coaches high school girls cross country and works with individual clients to achieve physical, mental, emotional, and social health.
Topics:
-How Annemarie found yoga
-Getting her diagnosis of lupus
-Why you can’t always tell when someone has an autoimmune disease and how to deal with that as a yoga professional
-Scope of practice as a yoga pro
-Keeping an open mind when working with a particular populations
-Why some people are hesitant to share information on intake
-Annemarie takes us through a value assessment
-How lupus affects different populations
-Why people suffering from autoimmune diseases need to move and how yoga pros should approach that
-Making yoga all about the exploration
-Removing affirmative language in yoga classes
-What to avoid for people suffering from autoimmune conditions
-Dealing with judgement of yourself and from others working in this space with autoimmune disease
-Why Annemarie generally isn’t vocal about her disease
-Managing environmental toxins in the yoga classroom and beyond
-Why accessibility to (or lack of) healthy products and food is yoga
-The importance of understanding that everyone has some experience with inflammation
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Connect with Annemarie:
www.instagram.com/sustainablelife.live
https://sustainablelifelive.com/
Kaya’s episode on advanced yoga we referenced:
https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/what-is-advanced-yoga-with-kaya-mindlin/
Connect with Pamela:
www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance
Email: [email protected]
Music: The State of Things (The Bouncy Song) by Rena Wren is used with permission.
Lupus and other autoimmune conditions are prevalent in our society, and yet they are called invisible diseases because you might not know someone is suffering from one unless they tell you.
As a yoga professional, it is important for us to have an understanding of what someone with one of these diagnoses might be going through so we can best serve them.
In this episode, Annmarie Sampson joins us to share her experience with Lupus and some things we need to be aware of as yoga facilitators.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or find it at www.theyogapropodcast.com
Anne Marie has served the Chicagoland health community for the past 38 years. She is a certified personal trainer and yoga instructor and has nutrition and wellness coaching training. She currently coaches high school girls cross country and works with individual clients to achieve physical, mental, emotional, and social health.
Topics:
-How Annemarie found yoga
-Getting her diagnosis of lupus
-Why you can’t always tell when someone has an autoimmune disease and how to deal with that as a yoga professional
-Scope of practice as a yoga pro
-Keeping an open mind when working with a particular populations
-Why some people are hesitant to share information on intake
-Annemarie takes us through a value assessment
-How lupus affects different populations
-Why people suffering from autoimmune diseases need to move and how yoga pros should approach that
-Making yoga all about the exploration
-Removing affirmative language in yoga classes
-What to avoid for people suffering from autoimmune conditions
-Dealing with judgement of yourself and from others working in this space with autoimmune disease
-Why Annemarie generally isn’t vocal about her disease
-Managing environmental toxins in the yoga classroom and beyond
-Why accessibility to (or lack of) healthy products and food is yoga
-The importance of understanding that everyone has some experience with inflammation
Please fill out our survey and receive a FREE I’m a Yoga Pro sticker! https://lynxshort.com/podcastsurvey
Would you or someone you know make a great guest?
Apply with this podcast guest form and waiver
https://forms.gle/wGDiv3i1ZSDAzu8o6
Connect with Annemarie:
www.instagram.com/sustainablelife.live
https://sustainablelifelive.com/
Kaya’s episode on advanced yoga we referenced:
https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/what-is-advanced-yoga-with-kaya-mindlin/
Connect with Pamela:
www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance
Email: [email protected]
Music: The State of Things (The Bouncy Song) by Rena Wren is used with permission.
Previous Episode
The Importance of the Spine in Yoga with Kaya Mindlin
Our spine is the center line of our body but many of us take for granted this amazing structure by holding on to tension in the body, missing out on the spiritual and yogic relationship of the spine, and clinging to outdated cues and teachings around core strength.
In this episode, Yoga Therapist and Educator Kaya Mindlin joins us to challenge old ideas around the spine and show us how the softer side of yoga can truly make us strong.
Kaya has been sharing yogic teaching and practice for 21 years. With thousands of hours of tutelage with masters in the full spectrum of the yoga tradition she seamlessly threads the mystical with the practical in her yoga teachings and practice programs. Her Supreme Release Yoga approach works directly & gently with the spine as the central axis of health and as the subtle conduit of spiritual awakening; and is rooted in the tantric viewpoint that the body and life itself is the vehicle for spiritual revelation.
Topics:
-Kaya’s spine story
-How to know if spinal tension is holding you together and what to do about it
-Hypermobility and instability
-Core strength vs core tension
-Understanding muscular elasticity and it’s relationship to strength
-Looking at the center line of the body holistically
-Moving away from the desire to “fix” pain
-Noting how the body feels without pain
-Why we hold on to pain patterns
-How the yoga world can do better
-Why we should question cues and teachings that we may be falling back on
-Differences in anatomy and why the skeleton model might not be the best for teaching anatomy
-What yoga reveals about the spine (Kaya shares a quote from yoga texts)
-Why the work is ongoing and why you have to keep at it
-How stopping resistance gives space for release
-Why the spine is meant to hold us up
-Patanjali’s relevance to the spine
-Kundalini rising signs and symptoms and why the spine needs to be unobstructed
-Some practices that Kaya likes for softening the spine
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https://yogawithkaya.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kayamindlin/
YogaPro Listeners can try Kaya's Supreme Release Yoga practice for the spine for 15% - find the SRY Studio on Kaya's website and use the coupon code: yogapro15
Catch her other episode: What is Advanced Yoga with Kaya Mindlin
https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/what-is-advanced-yoga-with-kaya-mindlin/
Connect with Pamela:
www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance
https://interoceptiveperformance.vipmembervault.com
Email: [email protected]
Music: The State of Things (The Bouncy Song) by Rena Wren is used with permission.
Next Episode
Shame, Root Chakra, and Pelvic Health with Cheri Dostal Ryba
Have you ever been told to “hold your belly in” or “tighten your core muscles”?
Over recruiting in the pelvic floor can cause trouble throughout the body, and can be caused by so many different physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual factors.
In this episode, Cheri Dostal Ryba unpacks shame, money, sexual desire and more as it relates to the pelvis; and she busts some myths around kegels and core strength that are still being passed around as truth today.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or find it at www.theyogapropodcast.com
Cheri serves as co-director and lead faculty of the accredited program AlcheMe Yoga Therapy Training and helps people globally online who want to improve their pelvic health, back care, and develop self-awareness and resilience. She wrote the book Pelvic Yoga Therapy for the Whole Woman: A Professional Guide and is a songwriter who recently released Matrescence: Mothering Wholeness through Song.
Topics:
-Cheri’s introduction to yoga
-The surprising way she made her way into teaching yoga
-The svadhyaya that led her to specialize in pelvic health
-Overworking in our lifestyle and the relationship to overworking in our pelvic floor
-How you can tell if you have an overworking pelvic floor and what to do (and NOT do!) about it
-The difference between over-recruiting and strength
-Why you shouldn’t hold your belly in
-How rest and relaxation are crucial in cultivating a supple pelvic floor
-Pamela and Cheri share some favorite practices to release pelvic tension
-The correlation between jaw tension, TMJ, and teeth grinding and tightness in the pelvic floor
-The power of awareness
-Why we feel shame around the pelvis and how we can change that
-How to self identify that you need specialized treatment; and how to get the right referral to a qualified practitioner you feel comfortable with
-The ins and outs of vulva mapping for getting to know your body
-Menstrual cups 101
-Cheri talks about unpacking unknown traumas that might be affecting her root chakra
-The unconscious script that rules our patterns around money
-Noticing our default patterns and finding change in the areas that aren’t serving us
-Why you probably don’t need to be doing kegels
-Misconceptions around sexual arousal and women’s desire
-The difference between spontaneous desire and responsive desire
-Embracing being at the center of our lived experience
Please fill out our survey and receive a FREE I’m a Yoga Pro sticker! https://lynxshort.com/podcastsurvey
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Connect with Cheri:
SAVE THE DATE! August 16 6-8 central time for a Masterclass with Cheri, “Bladder Love”Nap ministry Cheri Talked about:
https://www.instagram.com/thenapministry/
Connect with Pamela:
www.instagram.com/interoceptiveperformance
Email: [email protected]
Music: The State of Things (The Bouncy Song) by Rena Wren is used with permission.
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