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Sacred ListeningDiaphragmatic breathing for perinatal care with Dr Samantha QuezetThe following episode is a guide practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. *** Diaphragmatic breathing is a powerful tool to connect to our deep core and pelvic floor during the prenatal and postpartum periods...and beyond! Not only does it help strengthen and relax our deep abdominal muscles, it is a simple practice for managing stress as well. Follow along Dr Samantha Quezet's guided practice for diaphragmatic breathing. *** Dr. Samantha Quézet is a highly...2025-04-1504 minSacred ListeningThe truth about postpartum care that nobody talks about with Dr Samantha QuezetThere is a drastic difference in postpartum care between the Eastern and Western cultures, in which we explore in this episode with Dr Samantha Quezet. In the East, there is an emphasis on nurturing the mother during the month-long postpartum period, whereas in the West, it is more DIY. Dr. Samantha Quezet shares her insights on the significance of prenatal and postnatal care, and personal experiences with postpartum confinement. The discussion highlights the need for a cultural shift in how we view motherhood and self-care, advocating for a more supportive environment for mothers. Key takeaways:2025-04-1545 minSacred ListeningMatrescence Part 2: On 1 year into motherhoodThey say that motherhood changes your life, and we had expected it to, but we weren’t prepared to the extent that the changes brought our lives. As we celebrate our baby girl's 1st birthday, I am reflecting on this whirlwind of a year full of extreme emotions, of being able to love so unconditionally, and on the self-nurture lessons I learned along the way. LISTEN IN: The unconventional way of me realizing that I want to become a mother How becoming a mother is healing my wound My struggle with my identity in the f...2025-02-2817 minSacred ListeningMatrescence Part 1: Self-nurture, Compassion, healing from C-sectionOur baby girl is turning one! In celebration of her 1 year birthday, I am sharing a glimpse into my pregnancy journey and birth experience, what I learned about self-nurture (and what it is NOT!) in the process of becoming a mother. To be honest, I struggled with a lot of disappointment and guilt for myself with the outcome of the birth experience, and I did a lot of inner work to turn myself around from that. LISTEN IN to this episode on: My experiences on pregnancy, labor, and having had to transition to unplanned C...2025-02-2821 minSacred Listening7-Min Morning Contemplation (Gratitude, Forgiveness, Guidance)The following episode is a guide practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. In Episode 21, our guest Heather Grzych concluded that if there was one thing she wished everyone could do for their own self-nurture, it would be to spend a few minutes of quiet contemplation or meditation as we watch the sun rise. In this episode, I've included a simple guided contemplation that I learned 14 years ago, and still use till this day, to start my mornings. Listen and practice along with this recording the first fe...2025-02-0506 minSacred ListeningNurturing our reproductive health and fertility with Heather GrzychFertility is an issue that usually doesn’t cross a birthing person’s mind until they are thinking about getting pregnant or having trouble getting pregnant. But fertility actually starts with a good foundation of not only healthy tissues, but also a healthy connection with one’s body and oneself. Even though becoming pregnant is a very natural occurrence, the way we live our lives today is anything but natural, which can affect the health of our reproductive tissues, our hormonal balances, and the levels of toxins within our bodies, just to name a few. Caring for our reproductive health...2025-02-0543 minSacred ListeningMedita con Elena en EspañolElena Velez, the Founder/Director of Community Restorative Training (CRT), brings 18 years of experience as a Certified Medical Interpreter (CHI) to create a bilingual stress reduction wellness program for essential workers. Her insights from community behavioral practices, learned through interpretation, fuel CRT's mission of offering simple stress reduction techniques to prevent workplace injuries. With a background in bilingual environmental education, Elena extends her workshops to the Latino community, aiming to build a multicultural support network emphasizing empathy and mutual respect. CRT's approach, rooted in neuroscience and neuroplasticity, focuses on facilitating lasting mental, emotional...2024-10-2203 minSacred ListeningSelf-care for marginalized communities with Elena VelezWhen we think about the term “self-care,” images of pampering retreats, luxurious spas, expensive bedsheets, an exclusive gyms flash before our minds. Self-care has become a commodified term and activity, and oftentimes attainable by niched demographic and socioeconomic classes. Because of this, I will be using the term “self-nurture” from here on out, to differentiate between commodified self-care and deep self-nurture that comes from within. People of color and marginalized communities, who face a disproportionate amount of societal stress and burden, are often the ones who need self-nurture the most. But because of the economy around s...2024-10-2235 minSacred ListeningHow to abhyanga (Ayurveda oil self massage) with Yvette RacinesThe following episode is a guide practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. Abhyganga, or Ayurvedic self-massage, applies warmed oil (oftentimes infused with herbs for unique bodily constitutions) to our entire body from head (including scalp) to toes. This ancient and traditional practice helps with regulating the nervous system, nourishing the skin, and relieving tension from muscles and tendons. Yvette guides us into a simplified practice of Abhyanga that you can easily fit into your busy schedule! *** Yvett...2024-08-2806 minSacred ListeningSelf-care for perimenopauseHow often do we feel that we are not in control when it comes to our hormonal health, and that we are unfortunate victims when it comes to menstruation and menopause? In this episode, I speak with Yvette Racines, founder of Vital Living Wellness, an Ayurveda inspired bodycare brand, on simple self-care and self-nurture practices that can aid us throughout our hormonal transitions, especially the transition into menopause. Listen IN to our conversation on self-care principles based in Ayurveda for a more easeful perimenopausal period. Even if you are not yet in that stage in yo...2024-08-2650 minSacred Listening15. Lean into the superpowers of our menstrual cycles with Nicole TillotsonMany of us are oblivious to the knowledge and awareness that how we care for our menstrual cycles can greatly impact our energy, mood, sleep, PMS symptoms, and more. Furthermore, when we choose to ignore, alter, and/or suppress the natural rhythms of our menstrual cycles, our entire bodily functions can be thrown off course, resulting in hormonal-related health issues. Listen in to my conversation with Nicole Tillotson, founder of Season and Cycle, on menstrual health, cycle syncing, and how we can actually revitalize our health when we lean into the little known secret superpowers of our...2024-08-0648 minSacred Listening14. Guided Relaxation for Inner Rest and NourishmentThe following episode is a guide practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. This short and sweet yoga nidra / guided relaxation practice is suitable for when you are in a pinch with time, yet feel the need to nurture yourself. Embrace rest with these little moments of self-soothing to help regulate your nervous system throughout the day. The yoga nidra guides you through the contemplation that, when you tend to your body, your body will tend to you in return. Elaine Oyang...2024-07-2208 minSacred Listening13. Our resistance against restIn this episode, Elaine explores our relationship with rest and the resistance many of us have towards it. She shares her own journey of learning to embrace rest and the importance of balancing busyness with rest. Elaine encourages listeners to have an honest conversation about their relationship with rest and to reframe the idea of deserving rest. She emphasizes that rest is the foundation for success and caring for oneself and others. The episode concludes with a reminder to constantly listen to our bodies and adapt our forms of rest as our circumstances change. Key t...2024-07-2215 minSacred Listening12. Guided Meditation to Anchor Into YourselfThe following episode is a guide practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. This guided meditation helps you anchor into yourself, so that you can reconnect to who you are and what you value. This is a perfect accompanying practice with Episode 11: Prioritize Your Days Better With This Simple Trick. Use this meditation to help you with the exercise discussed in Episode 11. Elaine Oyang is an IAYT-certified yoga therapist and a self-nurture advocate. Throughout her 12+ year of teaching yoga in studios and private prac...2024-07-0904 minSacred Listening11. Prioritize your days better with this simple trickHave you ever sat yourself down on the couch at the end of the day, feeling completely exhausted from a busy day, and yet, you couldn't quite remember exactly what you did? This is because we often fill our days somewhat mindlessly with busy activities that feel urgent (but may not be so important), and by the end of it all, you still didn't complete what you set out to do that day. And forget about personal down time! In this episode, discover a simple experiment that can help you reprioritize your days so that y...2024-07-0918 minSacred Listening10. Guided contemplation and journaling for setting compassionate boundariesThe following episode is a guide practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. Disclaimer: Do not participate in this exercise if you are currently undergoing emotional distress. Tend to your emotional needs and nurture yourself at this time. Every event and/or interaction that feels triggering to you can be an opportunity for further self-reflection and self-healing. This guided contemplation and journaling practice takes you through a compassionate exploration into your more reactive moments in certain events and/or interactions with people. While hold...2024-06-2708 minSacred Listening9. Mental self-care and redefining “setting boundaries” with Irene OyangCan "setting boundaries" with other people be yet another form of finger-pointing rather than turning the mirror back to ourselves? How do we know whether we are trying to avoid a healing opportunity (which can be messy and painful) by "setting boundaries?" Listen in to this week's {potentially} controversial topic with my very dear sister Irene as my guest. We speak about: How we can miss out on healing opportunities and bypass deeper self-work when we are too quick to set boundaries with people who trigger us Recognizing good...2024-06-2652 minSacred Listening8. Feel your feelings, get to sleep (Guided Meditation with Lauren Ziegler)The following episode is a guided practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. Why is it so hard for us to fall asleep at night? In the previous episode, sleep coach Lauren Ziegler suggests that it's in those quiet, dark hours of the night when our feelings catch up to us to a point of overwhelming us. In this guided meditation, she guides us through a tender journey of feeling our feelings and softening into them rather than fighting against them to help us get peacefully to sl...2024-06-1022 minSacred Listening7. Improve your sleep quality to regulate your emotions with Lauren Ziegler In this episode, I have the honor of having Lauren Ziegler, IAYT-certified yoga therapist and a sleep coach to discuss the importance of sleep, and how it impacts our physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Lauren also shares her experience with sleep difficulties and how she overcame them through yoga nidra and meditation. She discusses five ways to know whether your sleep quality is poor, how sleep and emotional regulations are closely tied to one another, and offers tips on improving sleep by practicing mindfulness during the day. Be sure to check out Episode 8 for a yo...2024-06-1048 minSacred Listening6. Guided meditation for busyness, urgency, and "not-enoughness"The following episode is a guide practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. We are often driven by the insecure need to keep accomplishing and achieving things in this busyness culture. When this need is driven by the feeling that no matter what we do, it never is enough, then success becomes a constantly moving target. This guided meditation is designed to anchor ourselves back into what we already have, what we have already accomplished, and the fact that who we are, right here and right now, is...2024-05-2711 minSacred Listening5. Is burnout real? Transforming busyness and exhaustion to nourishment and flowHave you noticed that oftentimes when asked: “how are you?”, many reply by saying: “oh, I’ve been super busy.” Busyness seems to be a badge of honor nowadays. There’s this constant need to do, achieve, perform, and succeed. While there is nothing wrong with accomplishing goals in healthy measures, when there’s an obsession with it, when the drive to accomplish stems from feeling insecure about ourselves, then that could be a recipe for burnout. In this episode, we discuss the burning (pun intended) question: "Is burnout real?" We will dive into the definition of bu...2024-05-2725 minSacred Listening4. Meditation: Find what nourishes your soulThe following episode is a guide practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. This meditation practice guides you through a body scan and a inner contemplative experience to discover what truly nourishes your body, mind, and soul. The purpose is to find your own unique self-nurture practice that you look forward to do a few times a day on a daily basis. Elaine Oyang is an IAYT-certified yoga therapist and a self-nurture advocate. Throughout her 12+ year of teaching yoga in studios and private prac...2024-05-1308 minSacred Listening3. Self-nurture: Redefining and revolutionizing self-careWhat is self-nurture and how does it differ from self-care? This is the topic we are going to explore in today’s episode, and you can say is my crusade in revolutionizing the way we think about self-care, or rather, RECLAIM what self-care is for ourselves rather than being SOLD what self-care is. We will discuss why self-care portrayed by the media is inaccessible and unsustainable, and what you can do instead to take care of yourself without the glitz and glamor. Elaine Oyang is an IAYT-certified yoga therapist and a self-nurture advocate. Throughout her 12+ year...2024-05-1321 minSacred Listening2. Somatic practice to tune in to your bodyThe following episode is a guide practice meant to accompany the previous episode. For context, please refer to the previous episode. This somatic practice takes you through a slow and mindful journey in your body to hone your listening skills for your bodily sensations. By slowing down a simple movement rather than rushing through it mechanically, we get to pick up on so much more about what our body is trying to tell us. Elaine Oyang is an IAYT-certified yoga therapist and a self-nurture advocate. Throughout her 12+ year of teaching yoga in studios and...2024-05-1309 minSacred Listening1. Listening to our own body's wisdom: An intro to Sacred ListeningWelcome to our very first episode of the Sacred Listening podcast! In today's episode, I am laying out the meaning behind Sacred Listening, and how I aim to guide you to "listen IN" to your body with this podcast. Chances are, if you've been living an over-scheduled, over-busy life, you haven't listened to what your body's needs are lately. Tune in to learn more about how to return to your body's wisdom to nurture, rather than neglect, your own self. Elaine Oyang is an IAYT-certified yoga therapist and a self-nurture advocate. Throughout her 12+ year of te...2024-05-1315 min
Sacred ListeningSacred Listening Podcast TrailerWelcome to the Sacred Listening podcast — a sanctuary for those who feel overwhelmed, overscheduled, and overbusy. I’m your host, Elaine Oyang, IAYT-certified yoga therapist and a self-nurture advocate. In this podcast, we explore the various paths of restoring balance in our body from issues such as depletion, anxiety, chronic pain, and stress. We do this by redefining what self-care means on an individual level as we dive into cutting-edge research, personal stories, expert interviews, as well as listening in to the magic and mysticism of our body’s wisdom. I welcome you to join us to reclaim self-agency over y...2024-04-2901 min
THE CHAIR YOGA PODCASTChronic Pain and chair yoga with Elaine OyangElaine. is a yoga therapist who helps individuals with persistent pain and chronic illness rise above the limitations of their symptoms and create a life of resilience: https://elaineyoga.com/2022-08-1014 min
The Unapologetic EntrepreneurEp. 105: Ditch the perfectionism when it comes to content with tips from Elaine OyangDo you struggle when it comes to creating marketing content? From social media posts to blog posts to writing emails, it can feel like a lot. That was the case for my student Elaine Oyang too but she found a system that works for her and I’m thrilled that she’s sharing it with you today. We talk through how she found this system and how she navigated all the not-so-fun feelings that come with marketing content too. You’re going to learn a ton! Show notes available with all links mentioned here: https://www.amanda...2021-07-1946 min
Just Kidding with Jatin KhannaHealing Through Yoga with Elaine OyangFour years ago, I suffered a tennis injury that led to two years of chronic leg and lower back pain. After seeing almost a dozen medical professionals including PTs, doctors, and chiropractors, I finally met Elaine Oyang. She is a certified yoga therapist, and after just four sessions with her, she gave me a simple sequence of yoga poses that helped me finally become pain-free. Her philosophy is that she can give her students the tools and framework to succeed, so that they are not ultimately dependent on her for their health. She specializes in chronic pain, but also...2021-04-1454 min
Just Kidding with Jatin KhannaHealthy Habits with Vanika JethwaThis week, I speak with Vanika Jethwa, a registered dietitian and certified personal trainer! We spend a lot of time busting fitness myths that may be holding people back from their progress, and the overall attitude of sustainable, healthy lifestyles vs. fad diets and quick fixes. We also go in on misleading nutrition labels (including the one on my White Claw), and talk about hot fads like Intermittent Fasting and Keto.
Hope this episode helps you stay healthy during the holidays! Ho Ho Ho :)
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Inspire Her HealthA Yoga Therapist's Tips For Managing Pain & Discomfort - With Elaine OyangPain has debilitated many lives all over the world. In this fast-paced world wherein there is no lack of complicated systems to first create and then address problems, there is no denial that we all live a terribly imbalanced life. Diagnosis might just give your condition a name but no permanent solution to get rid of it. So we brought this serious issue to the renowned pain management therapist and a yoga expert, Elaine Oyang, to help you address pain in the simplest and yet effective manner. Listen to the this podcast episode dedicated to all who are suffering from...2020-09-1549 min
Serena yoga 楊祖寧- 心之瑜伽09-瑜珈老師經營大小事 with 瑜珈療癒師 Elaine（歐陽良怡）很高興邀請到來自台灣，現居舊金山的Elaine，跟我們分享：
1. Elaine 為什麼開始接觸瑜珈，為什麼成為瑜珈老師
2. 當私人課老師跟團課老師，經營上最大的心態轉變是？(接受自己內向的樣子，其實很適合帶領療癒的私人課）
3. 如何找到私人課學生：與不同職業聚會、合作，彼此轉介
4. 瑜珈療癒師、瑜珈老師遇到疼痛學生，要怎麼跟醫師、治療師合作？界線如何拿捏？我們可以做哪些幫助學生？
5. 私人瑜珈事業經營的模樣、各種心境挑戰、起起伏伏。
6. 教療癒的瑜珈，不是因為做不到比較難的體位法而屈就的選擇。💕教療癒、靜態的瑜珈，也是一種非常進階的練習。
7. 私人瑜珈課會需要做很多手技的調整嗎？學生會期待這些嗎？要如何拿捏？
8. 如果遇到讓自己不舒服的學生怎麼辦？去人家家教課會危險嗎？如何保護好自己？（這邊有個有趣的小故事😂)
9.給要從團課轉變私人課老師的兩個建議
謝謝Elaine分享他私人瑜珈教學、經營的經驗給我們，大家可以加入他給慢性疼痛照護社團、IG，給Elaine支持喔！
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