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Happy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHow to keep your body and mind in the same roomWelcome to another episode!  Today we’re talking about: -my 3am realization that’s changed my mindfulness game -Our new livestream yoga schedule! -What the differences are between my various class offerings -Black Breastfeeding Week and the Momnibus Bill -A yin yoga practice to focus your attention through stillness -A delightful playlist! If you enjoy this podcast, please share it with a friend who might also enjoy! I love to hear your feedback and reflections on the...2020-08-2917 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaIt's good to look at the handsWelcome back for another episode! For easy access to the links and references in this episode, subscribe to my newsletter at spirocollective.com. If you enjoy this podcast, please share it with a friend who might also appreciate it!  I love to hear from you - send me a message on instagram: @spirocollective, or go to the contact page on spirocollective.com!  In this episode, we’re talking about: -The chant I do every morning to create a calmer and more easeful day. -T...2020-08-2218 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaWhy I stopped talking like the folks on the newsShare your reflections on this week's podcast with me! DM me on Instagram - @spirocollective or go to spirocollective.com/contact.  On this week's episode:  -Communication styles that you might have picked up from the media -My favorite yoga practice from this past week and what song I’m listening to -How you can help Elijah McClain -Next week’s livestream yoga schedule Links from this week's episode: -Fall Yoga Survey -bit.ly/sam-yoga-survey -Sign up f...2020-08-1515 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHow to actually get benefits from AyurvedaShare your feedback and reflections from this podcast - I'm on Instagram at @spirocollective, or send me an email: sam[at]spirocollective[dot]com. In this week's podcast: My history with Ayurveda and how to actually get benefits from the practice A yoga practice that breaks down ardha chandrasana (half moon pose). The interview with Rep John Lewis that I loved Understanding the racial wealth gap in America New week's livestream yoga schedule! Links and Recommendations: Sign up for an Ayurvedic consultation! - spirocollective.com/ayurvedic-consultation Ayurvedic Dosha Quiz - spirocollective...2020-08-0116 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaA time to changeHello and welcome back!  In this week's podcast: Why this quarantine is THE time to re-group, re-prioritize, and re-organize your life. My favorite yoga practice and podcast of the week. How you can take action to support ethical elected officials. Next week's livestream yoga schedule. Links and Recommendations: Sign up for an Ayurvedic consultation!  60 Minute Intermediate Vinyasa Register for this week's yoga livestreams!  Watch this video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes' response to Representative Yoho. Look up your representative AND your voter registration status! Brene Brown's podcast...2020-07-2521 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaThe Upside of StressHello friends! It's so wonderful to be back with you for another episode. I had been taking a bit of a podcasting break because 1) it's difficult to record with a full house and 2) there have been so many podcasts out there about life in quarantine, and I didn't want to make an episode JUST to make an episode. BUT - I started writing about this idea of stress leading to evolution and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I started to see these ideas EVERYWHERE and knew I needed to share them with you...2020-05-1323 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMy Meal Planning GuideFor YEARS I thought I would never be a meal plan-type person. I love going to a farmer’s market or co-op and seeing what vegetables look good,  or coming across a recipe and making it that day. I am grateful to have a skill of looking at a fridge full (or not so full) of groceries and being able to sense what flavors and combinations might work well together. But then I got pregnant, and it all fell apart. I had this weird issue where the idea of eating any food was disgusting until I wa...2020-04-0914 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaCaprice Abowitt: Prenatal Yoga and Navigating Birth in a COVID worldHello all! Today's podcast is a fabulous interview with Caprice Abowitt. Caprice Abowitt is a certified yoga instructor, birth doula, childbirth educator and certified breastfeeding counselor. A classically trained dancer, Caprice fell in love with yoga after sustaining a back injury and now specializes in kids yoga, pre- and postnatal, and yoga for the pelvic floor. She is a senior teacher at the Prenatal Yoga Center, where she co-leads teacher training in New York City and along the East Coast in addition to directing Continuing Education Programs. Additionally, Caprice leads Childbirth Education for expecting parents as a...2020-04-0252 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMeditation to Keep Emotions and Energy in MotionWe are in our second week of social distancing in DC, and you might be feeling a little cabin fever. But even when our bodies are not in motion, our inner world is. We still have thoughts, feelings, and emotions bubbling up. In today's meditation, we'll be directing our breath, energy, and attention to make sure that emotions keep moving through the body, instead of getting stuck and causing distress.  Practice meditation or yoga with me live over on Instagram - @spirocollective. Find the updated schedule on Instagram.  --- Send in...2020-03-2511 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula60 Minute Vinyasa: Trusting Your FoundationHello! I hope you and your family are well during these crazy times. I've been staying sane during social distancing by doing livestream meditations and yoga sessions over on Instagram Live. You can join it at @SpiroCollective! Most of our recordings happen at 7pm EST. I'm also uploading some of the videos up to YouTube, so you can practice there as well! But for my audio fans, I wanted to upload this 60 minute vinyasa session so you can do it anywhere, anytime. In this practice, we focus on finding our foundation, so we can step...2020-03-191h 02Happy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula20 Minute Yin Yoga to Open and Clear Your LungsIt's kapha season, which means that our lungs can easily get congested and sticky. Use this gentle, simple, yin yoga practice to expand the rib cage, stretch the upper spine, and relieve congestion in the lungs and heart. This yin yoga practice is beginner friendly and the perfect introduction to yin yoga.  To learn more about the lungs in Ayurveda, visit http://spirocollective.com/lungs-ayurveda/. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2020-03-1222 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaDr. Rachel Aronson DPT, PT: Why We Need Pelvic Floor Physical TherapyHi all - I am so excited for today's podcast with Dr. Rachel Aronson, DPT, PT and owner of Core Elements Physical Therapy. Rachel is a pelvic floor physical therapist and works with people at all stages of life. I went to see her after having my baby to help with postpartum support and recovery, and I was so impressed by her deep knowledge and care about the subject. I had so many questions, I needed to get her on the podcast!! I believe that pelvic floor physical therapy is a must for all women postpartum, and...2020-03-0454 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaRewriting the lyrics to "you are my sunshine"According to Wikipedia, "you are my sunshine" is the 3rd most sung song in America, following behind "Happy Birthday". But when I started singing this song to my 3 month old son, I realized just how much I disliked the lyrics. In fact, the lyrics are the opposite of what I have learned from yoga, Buddhism, and modern relationship research to be the foundations of happiness! And so in today's episode, I'm breaking down the lyrics to "You are my sunshine". I share the relationship pitfalls that the song idolizes. Then, I give my re-write that better reflects...2020-02-2621 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaPlank Prep and Shoulder Strengthening YogaI am so excited about today's short yoga sequence. I had created this set of movements to prepare for a heart-opening, backbend-heavy yoga class, and in the process realized that they made my plank and chaturanga dandasana feel AMAZING.  By working both stability and mobility, these movements will help you identify the muscle actions and movements that will help you build strength for your plank pose. If you already are a plank master, you'll appreciate feeling the extra activation in your shoulders and muscles as you move seamlessly through your vinyasa. 2020-02-1922 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaYogeswari Jessica Bertin: Listening to the Universe and Selfless ServiceToday's interview is with Yogeswari Jessica Bertin, founder of Twisted and Found, and it's a *great* one. YJB is one of my dearest friends - we met working in specialty coffee back in 2008 - and she is now also a yoga teacher and practitioner. We laugh because our conversations always skip the "how are you"s and go straight to deep conversations about living our yoga and being present in the world. After she last visited in January, I realized it was time to get her on the podcast, so you could all hear from her wisdom...2020-02-131h 04Happy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Setting Full Moon Intentions and Understanding the Moon in your Birth ChartHello all! I'm so excited for our second Moon Chat of the year. We're joined by astrology expert and yoga instructor, Kathleen Barry (instagram.com/kbb323) to learn all about the stars and how they're affecting us. Today we're talking all about the moon! We talk about the different phases of the moon and how to set full and new moon intentions. Then we dive into what your moon sign represents in your chart and how to distinguish your Sun, Rising, and Moon signs. I particularly love today's episode because I got to address my long-standing guilt at not...2020-02-0546 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaExperiencing Change with GraceEven though we are constantly experiencing change, humans typically aren't that great at handling it. In this episode, we're diving deep into how you can experience more grace even in the midst of huge change and transition. We'll talk about anchoring to the unchanging part of your nature, not sabotaging  your change, tapping into courage, and trusting. You'll find that change doesn't have to be an anxiety-filled difficulty.  Announcements: -Kapha Cleanse and Ayurveda Workshop at Zweet Sport Feb 16th - zweetsport.com -Free Prenatal Yoga at Spark Feb 23...2020-01-3023 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula25 Minute Yin Yoga to Rebalance After a Long DayModern life can be harsh on both our bodies and our minds. We often stay in one position for extended periods of time (usually hovering over our computers or our phones) and the stress and stimulation of our work days can cause tightness throughout the body.  This yin yoga practice is designed to help you rebalance after a long day. We'll stretch the lower back, the front of the chest and shoulders, and the sides of the waist. By the end of this practice you'll be ready for a good night's sleep or...2020-01-2427 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Connecting to Yourself in 2020Hi team! We're back!!! Kathleen Barry, our resident astrology expert, is here to talk about what 2020 has to bring. You'll learn about numerology (why being a 4 is so darn cool), Aries energy in 2020, and how to reconnect to yourself authentically. As always, you'll hear about the things that Kathleen and I are loving (like Rumi, Hafiz, Myths of the Asanas, and more!). We are glad to be back, and we know you'll love this episode. -Connect with Kathleen on Instagram - @kbb323! -Send me an email with feedback - sam@spirocollective.com. -Don't...2020-01-1851 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaResults from my No Social Media ExperimentHi gang! A few months ago, I decided that it was time for me to get my act together about social media. I was officially addicted, and I knew that I didn't want to be using social media like that when my baby was born. So, I deleted Instagram and Facebook to see what life would be like without them. Check out the episode to learn what made me finally pull the trigger and ditch the apps, what happened when I quit, and why I run experiments when I want to change a habit.  2020-01-0922 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaWelcome to 2020!HELLO!!!! It is so wonderful to be back. I hope you and your families had wonderful holidays and New Years and that your 2020 (a whole new decade!!) is off to a great start. I had my baby back in November, and it's been a wonderful, wild ride ever since.  In today's podcast, I'm breaking down 3 big lessons from the first 6 weeks of motherhood that are applicable to everyone - you don't have to have kids to appreciate and use these tools.  In other news - I'm back...2020-01-0423 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaKerry Harling: The 25 Day Ayurveda CleanseToday we have a special bonus episode of the podcast! I recently had the opportunity to speak with Kerry Harling, a certified Ayurveda practitioner and CEO of The Holistic Highway. Kerry just wrote a great book called The 25 Day Ayurveda Cleanse and it's full of such useful wisdom that I knew we had to share it before our new season in 2020. I love that Kerry sees such a diverse set of patients through her work at The Holistic Highway as well as through her practice at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Integrative Medicine. We talk about...2019-10-2550 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Making peace with all of your piecesHello friends! This is our LAST Moon Chat of 2019!! What a year it's been. Join me and Kathleen Barry for a quick retrospective on what we've learned in the last year. Plus, we talk about how to make sense of the dissonant parts of your personality, so you can move through your life with a little more ease. Lastly, we talk about doing birth charts for babies. It's been an amazing year of Moon Chats, and I can't wait to get back to it in 2020! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-10-1827 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaAli Cramer and Modern AyurvedaI am so excited for today's episode, because we're talking to my Ayurveda teacher, the brilliant and insightful Ali Cramer. Ali just wrote a great new book on Ayurveda called "Modern Ayurveda". It's the perfect book to help you move from the theory of Ayurveda to actually practicing it on a daily basis. I absolutely love it and will be recommending it to clients (and taking some of the recommendations for myself!). Listen to this episode to learn more about Ayurveda and integrating it into your daily life. Be sure to check out Ali's yoga...2019-10-1157 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Libra Season and Answering to SaturnHi all!  Today's moon chat is AWESOME. I will be re-listening to this episode quite a few times to soak up all of the wisdom. As always, I'm talking with our resident astrology expert, Kathleen Barry (@kbb323). You'll learn about the new moon in Libra and what to do if you're born on the cusp of two signs. We also have an extended conversation about Saturn, which recently went from retrograde to direct. Learn how to answer to Saturn's taskmaster qualities and find growth personally and professionally this season. 2019-10-0255 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula15 minute yoga for neck and shouldersOur shoulders and neck do a lot for us. Our head is heavy! And our shoulders don't have an easier job, given all of the funny positions they're put in to type on computers and phones. It's time to relieve some tension and increase some mobility in our necks and shoulders.  Today's yoga practice is a super simple, do-anywhere stretch session that will calm your body and and make you take a deep sigh of relief. No special equipment necessary. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message...2019-09-2718 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula33 weeks Pregnancy Update + Favorite Labor ResourcesHi all! I hope you're having a fabulous week. It's time for another pregnancy update - now that I'm about halfway through the 3rd trimester, things have started to change yet again! Here about what I'm working on right now. Plus, I'm sharing some of my favorite pregnancy/birth related resources: Mindful Birthing The Birth Partner The Birth Kweens Podcast The Startup Pregnant Podcast Evidence Based Birth I'd love to hear your favorite birth-related resources. Head over the spirocollective.com/contact to leave me a note! --- Send in a voice message...2019-09-2016 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula15 Minute Yoga for your FeetMy friends, we ask our feet to do a lot for us. They carry us day in and day out in all types of weather, footwear, and situations. So today, I wanted to share with you some poses you can do to strengthen and stretch out your feet. This is a short, simple, and sweet yoga sequence you can do anytime to help your feet feel at their best!  Don't forget to check out spirocollective.com for the beautiful new website. Then, make sure subscribe to my weekly...2019-09-1114 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Yoga off the mat + Virgo seasonHello friends! After a few weeks away, we're back with another AMAZING moon chat with the brilliant Kathleen Barry (@kbb323). We'll be recapping her recent trip to Peru (!!!), including all the yogic lessons she learned OFF of her yoga mat. Then, we'll dive into this beautiful Virgo season with some great tips on how to channel Virgo energy (without driving yourself crazy). It's another not-to-be-missed episodes. Some important things happening this fall: -The new website is here! spirocollective.com -I am running a 4-week stress cleanse course...2019-09-0451 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaFall Updates + Body Scan MeditationHello friends! This episode started as just being a body scan meditation (more on that later), but as I started doing the intro, I realized there was a lot to talk about! So this episode has two parts: a fall update (this is the first 10 minutes), and then a body scan meditation (start at minute 10:00 to experience that!) Let's talk about body scans! Body scan meditations are *amazing*. They're so great for helping you relax, falling asleep, or getting in touch with your body. I currently do a body scan every morning as...2019-08-2922 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaEveryone is your mirrorThere's a common teaching that says that every thing you find angering or annoying in other people are actually things that you dislike or see in yourself.  While I've theoretically understood this, in the past week, I've had first hand experience in seeing how things that I find annoying are also things that I am actively doing. So today, I'm sharing what these situations were, how I am dealing with them, and what I would do differently in the future. Check out this special garden edition of Happy Healthy Human Radio!  ...2019-08-2120 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaWhy we don't have to justify all of our life decisions.Hello friends!  Today's episode of Happy Healthy Human Radio is a special one - I'm recording from my family's cottage on Lake Erie! It's been so nice to be outside (without sweating all of my body weight) and be near the water - I needed to share a little piece of what it's like here with you!  In today's episode, I'm exploring a concept that I was working on recently with a client. We were talking about how to not over explain and justify all of your decisions with the people around you...2019-08-1519 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHow to eat healthy when everything makes you want to barf (aka: prenatal nutrition!)Hello all! Today let's take a deep dive into pregnancy nutrition. It's a crazy time. Not only is your nutrition super important (you're making a new human out of what you eat!), it's also incredibly hard to stick to a healthy eating plan when most foods make your stomach turn. So on this episode, I'm sharing: The vitamins and minerals that are important to get tested for and to watch during pregnancy. The best ways to get your omega 3's (hint: fish isn't my top choice). How to eat more vegetables when they make you want...2019-08-0735 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Eclipse Season, Mercury Retrograde, and all the feelsHello my friends! It's time for another amazing moon chat with my friend Kathleen Barry. Kathleen is a yoga instructor and astrology expert, who always lays down some amazing wisdom in these conversations. Today, we're talking about living through the swirl of emotions that is brought on by eclipses, mercury retrograde, and Cancer season. We dive into the ins and outs of living a mindful life, and how to handle the seasons our lives take. I hope you'll love this conversation as much as I did. As always, be...2019-07-3151 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaAtara Bernstein: Food as Personal StyleWOW what a delight it was to talk with Atara Bernstein, co-founder of Pineapple Collaborative. We dove into her history with food, living in a new city, and creating balance as an entrepreneur. Atara is a master holistic thinker who feels food can influence every part of our lives. Her work with Pineapple Collaborative is bringing women together all across the country to use food to express their personal style. This conversation was wonderful, and I think you'll love it too. You can find Atara and Pineapple at: pineapplecollaborative.com instagram.com/pineapplecollaborative2019-07-2458 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHealing Our Relationship with OtherHello friends! Welcome to another episode of Happy Healthy Human Radio.  Let's talk about the other - our brains developed to split the world into me vs you and us vs them. But is that really the healthiest way to look at the world? Let's talk about how to turn the world to one big US, and why that's so important.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-07-1822 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaWhen a Yogi DoubtsWhen do you think the yoga poses were invented? While there were about 12 poses that were defined in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika over 3,000 years ago, the majority of the shapes that we do in our Western yoga classes weren't invented until the early 1900s. In today's conversation, I'm talking about the history of our yoga poses and what to do with that information. While the podcast is inspired by my experiences in the yoga world, it is useful for talking about any tool that you use to find more happiness, health, and joy in your life. --- Send...2019-07-1138 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula40 minute yoga sequence for hipsI don't know about you, but my hips could use some love. Whether it's from sitting too much throughout the day, your latest run or spin workout, or you're just naturally a little tighter in that area, let's do a 40 minute yoga sequence to specifically stretch out the hips.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-07-0338 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaGuided Meditation: Let Emotions FlowIn today’s 12-minute guided meditation, we’re focusing on letting thoughts and emotions rise and fall. You’ll experience old thoughts and experiences flowing out of your body, releasing stuck emotions and finding new space to be present in your everyday life. No meditation experience necessary! Just find a place to sit or stand where you’ll be uninterrupted for 12 minutes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-06-2712 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaKathleen Barry: Making peace with our shadow selves + Trauma Recovery YogaHello friends and welcome back to another amazing conversation with our resident astrology expert, Kathleen Barry. This episode is a little different. While we talk a bit about the summer solstice and Cancer season that we are in, we quickly turned our conversation to other topics, most notably how to make peace with our shadow selves. We also talked about the Trauma Recovery Yoga teacher training that Kathleen just completed down in New Orleans. This is an important and full conversation. Enjoy!  --- Send in a voice message: https...2019-06-2458 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaPregnancy Update - 20 weeks!Halfway there! In today’s episode, I’m talking about lessons I’ve learned through my conversations with clients as well as experiencing my own pregnancy. We’re going to talk about: Creating connection with your baby How to involve your partner with your pregnancy The wonderful Spinning Babies technique - standing release How to feel good about what you’re eating (even if it feels super unhealthy compared to your usual diet) Why more exercise might not make you feel more tired If you're pregnancy or know anyone else that is, please come on out to my worksho...2019-06-2027 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaYou can always win the gameYou can always win the game. The game of your relationships, your work, your energy, your life. You are in charge of you. And thus you can choose the rules. That means you always have the possibility of winning. Today we're talking about how changes in the weather and our life situation can impact us physically and emotionally. But just because they impact us doesn't mean that we're at their mercy. It's time to pay attention to the game you're playing and take action to bring body and mind into balance. 2019-06-1722 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaDiana Morales: Social Media as a Tool For ConnectionI love doing this podcast because it's an opportunity to talk to people with a completely different skillset and set of experiences. I so loved talking with Diana for this reason. She's a social media expert that has worked for larger corporations, non-profits, small businesses, and for herself. She uses these experiences to craft social media strategies for her clients. We had a wonderful conversation that ranged from the nitty-gritty of social media strategy to the over-arching role that social media can play in our lives. It was a beautiful conversation, and I hope that you enjoy it as...2019-06-141h 03Happy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula25 minute slow flow yoga to find calmLife moves pretty fast. So take 25 minutes out of your day to slow down, breathe deep, and feel some peace. Today's yoga sequence is a gentle practice designed to help you find peace and ease. Enjoy!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-06-1225 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Time, Self-Talk, and the new moon in GeminiHello friends!  We are BACK with another Moon Chat with the fabulous Kathleen Barry. Today we're talking about the new moon in Gemini and Mercury in Cancer, which leads to conversations about time, following your intuition, and your positive (or not so positive) self-talk. It's an amazing conversation with tons of information to help you feel your best.  Enjoy!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-06-0737 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaFinding Calm in the Eye of the StormToday's podcast comes out of a mix of yogic teachings, self-reflection, and conversation with clients. It's so common to feel pulled in multiple directions. First you're happy about this, then sad about that. An issue at work turns into problems at home, or anger at something you did turns into frustration with others. We can tell when we're not acting from integrity and when we're not proud of our actions, but how do we handle those feelings? Today we're using a visualization that I come back to again and again. Being the eye of...2019-06-0420 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula30 min Chakra Balancing Yoga SequenceToday let's tap into the steady energy of the body by doing a chakra-balancing yoga sequence. This practice is designed to help you steady your energy throughout the body. It's a 30-minute practice. Enjoy!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-05-3134 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaChakra Balancing MeditationToday's guided meditation will walk you through the 7 energy centers known as the chakras. It's the perfect reset button if you want to rebalance your energy, and it's a powerful framework to understand emotions and energies that arise in your life.  If you do enjoy this meditation, consider getting the chakra meditation program from my website - it has 8 guided meditations to lead you through each chakra, plus a workbook to show you other ways to balance each chakra in your life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard...2019-05-2813 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHit the Energy Reset ButtonHello friends! I'm back from a wonderful weekend hosting an Ayurveda and Yoga Retreat at Lake Anna. WOW did it feel good.  I was actually surprised at HOW good I felt upon my return to Arlington, so I wanted to share some thoughts on why that was, plus how we can all find opportunities to reset and renew in our days.  This is a great podcast to listen to if you've been feeling stale in your habits or like your days feel full, but not always meaningful.2019-05-2223 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaGretchen Schutte: The Power of Yin Yoga in a Yang WorldToday's interview is an absolute delight. Gretchen Schutte is an amazing yoga instructor who specializes in teaching yin, restorative, and yoga nidra. In this podcast, we dive in to her path from a Power Vinyasa yoga training to a full-time teaching career that focuses primarily on these modalities. We talk about the benefits of yin, and take a deep dive into yoga nidra - what it is, how to do it, and why it's so powerful. Beyond that - Gretchen is an amazing teacher and has a beautiful way with words. It's a delight just to listen to her...2019-05-1559 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Daily Rituals, Full Moon in Scorpio, and Spring EnergyWelcome to another installment of Moon Chat, where astrology expert Kathleen Barry and I talk about what's happening in the stars and how that's impacting us down here on Earth. Today we're talking about about that growing Spring energy, how that relates to the waxing moon, and daily rituals to keep you happy, sane, and connected.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-05-1038 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaNotes on Pregnancy - 13 weeks editionYou might have heard when I announced it last week - I'm pregnant! It's a very exciting time, and I wanted to share some of the things I've been learning and thinking about in the period between my miscarriage last November, attempting to get pregnant again, and these first 13 weeks of pregnancy.  As always - everyone's experience is incredibly different! I had some difficult times mentally and emotionally in between my two pregnancies, and it's felt like my pregnancy has been one lesson after another every day. If you're thinking about getting pregnant, already are pregnant...2019-05-0929 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaChris Parkison: Yoga Studios vs Gyms and the DC Yoga SceneChris Parkison is the Group Program Manager at VIDA Fitness (Yards), Director of the Yoga Alliance RYS-200 school at VIDA Fitness, and host of the DC yoga Podcast. He's an incredibly funny, genuine, and thoughtful guy. In our conversation, we talked about why Chris prefers to teach yoga at a gym versus a yoga studio, why he has the best job in fitness, and why he thought it was important to create his podcast, the DC Yoga Podcast.  As always, talking with Chris is enlightening and fun. Check out this episode, then be...2019-05-0250 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula4 Keys to Serenity According to the Yoga SutrasWe all want to feel a little more peaceful right? Well, the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali have a formula to help us find this ease and calm in our lives. Here's what Patanjali offers: "In relationships, the mind becomes purified by cultivating feelings of friendliness towards those who are happy, compassion for those who are suffering, goodwill towards those who are virtuous, and indifference or neutrality towards those we perceive as wicked or evil." Today we're breaking down those four different situations - why they're not so easy to do, and how...2019-05-0118 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Finding Quiet and Comfort as We Enter Taurus SeasonHello friends! We're back with another Moon Chat with the amazing Kathleen Barry. In today's episode, we're talking about the shifts into Taurus season (and what Uranus' transit into Taurus means for future generations). Plus, we take a deep dive in acceptance, trust, and weathering all of the seasons of your life, whether it's an off day, an off month, or an off year.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-04-2637 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaYoga Sutras, Jane Austen, and Faulty CarsHello friends! Time for another episode of Happy Healthy Human Radio. I so enjoyed recording this podcast. Today we're talking about how the book "Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen got me thinking about the Yoga Sutras, which in turn led me to a thesis on whether we should punish our senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) for all the stress and messes we humans make or if it's actually the fault of our ego/atman and inherent biases. Listen in for a fun riff on how to be a happier human in the...2019-04-2319 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula20 minute yoga: Wake up your upper backToday's yoga practice is a joyful, brief 20-minute practice designed to help you turn on the muscles of the upper back. If you get a tense, tight spine or sore shoulders, this is the practice for you!  Enjoy!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-04-1823 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaAmanda Greenwell: Mantras, Malas, and Creating a Supportive Wellness WorldWOW - what a great conversation with Amanda Greenwell, the founder of GreenwellNYC. Amanda works at an investment bank and is a yoga teacher who right out of yoga school realized that the yoga and wellness world in NYC was a more competitive and difficult landscape than she thought it would be. In this conversation, we talk about those early days teaching and how it led her to create her business, GreenwellNYC. We also talk about Amanda's self-care habits, particularly her use of malas and mantras for her daily meditation. If you've been interested...2019-04-1555 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Black Holes, Aries, and Self-LoveToday we are back for another moon chat with the fabulous <a href="http://instagram.com/kbb323" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Kathleen Barry</a>. We're knee-deep in Aries season, so we're talking about action and inaction, as well as making peace with some of the more reckless and high energy aspects of Aries. We're also talking about the latest Black Hole sighting and how it impacts our personal world, PLUS we take a nice detour into self-love vs self-care, simplifying your routines, and the struggle of decision making.  2019-04-1246 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula40-minute vinyasa yoga - Basic GoodnessToday, a sweet vinyasa yoga practice to remember your basic goodness. It's a beginner-intermediate level class with a lot of great hip work. Please use a yoga block (or a Harry Potter book) as a prop! If you like to practice with music, try this playlist I created.  For more information on basic goodness - check out my podcast on the topic!  Thanks for listening to Happy Healthy Human Radio. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe, rate and leave a review, and share with a friend! --- Send in...2019-04-1038 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaWe're Only HumanHello hello! Today's podcast is a big one. My trip to Tokyo plus an apartment move created a HUGE disruption in my routines the last few weeks. I was feeling pretty angry at myself for not sticking with my meditation and movement routines, and it made me think of a favorite quote from a book by  He says - "there's no embarrassment in being human." This got me thinking....am I embarrassed to be human?  Today's podcast is an investigation into embarrassment at being human, basic goodness, and overcoming deep fears.  2019-04-0903 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaLessons from my trip to Tokyo: Why you don't want to be like a cheap coffee grinderHello friends! I'm back from my week in Tokyo, and I'm bringing with me some powerful life lessons.  Tokyo was a beautiful, bustling city, but it was also incredibly friendly and personal and quiet. In today's podcast, I'm sharing these lessons on quiet, mindfulness, presence, and human connection.  If you like this episode, be sure to subscribe, rate and leave a review on iTunes, or share with a friend!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-04-0427 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaGreen Beauty and Authenticity with Professional Makeup Artist Ky WashingtonI am SO excited to introduce you all to Ky Washington, founder of Modern Green Goddess. Ky is an amazing professional makeup artist who uses exclusively green/non-toxic makeup products. We met when she taught me how to do my makeup for my wedding, and I was so in awe of this bright spirit and knowledgable guide.  In today's episode, we talk about her transition from regular to green make-up products, including how she decided to stand up for her beliefs regarding the importance of green beauty. Plus, we talked about the power...2019-03-2641 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula45 Minute Vinyasa Yoga: Enjoy the ProcessAnd we're back! After a long hiatus, our beloved yoga podcasts are back. My apologies for the delay. I was trying to improve my process, and in doing so, forgot to actually record. But no longer - I'll be uploading yoga sequences more regularly in the future.  Today's yoga sequence is a favorite and a companion to our lesson on Enjoying The Process. It's an intermediate level class that has good side bends, twists, and hip work. I know you'll love it. If you do...2019-03-2145 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaLearning to Enjoy the ProcessAre you a super goal-oriented person? I'm right there with you. Today on the podcast, I'm talking about how to have goals *and* enjoy the process. We'll be using wisdom from a former Jain monk, Stoic philosophy, and the founder of the Spartan Race to learn how to have goals and move forward while still dealing with the difficulties, uncertainties, and discomforts of the process.   You'll also get to hear some personal examples of how I've reframed past "obstacles" and "lost years" to be essential parts of my journey. This is...2019-03-1823 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Reframing Mercury RetrogradeToday on the podcast we have Kathleen Barry back to talk about Mercury Retrograde! I know - it's everyone's favorite astrological phenomenon (or at least the one we hear about the most), but in this podcast, we're going to do a deep dive in Mercury Retrograde to understand how it can be a catalyst for self-discovery, boundaries, and rebalancing in our crazy, tech-obsessed world. This conversation, while wonderful, is imperfect - our tech, unsurprisingly, wasn't working wonderfully, so you might miss a few words throughout the podcast. No fear - you'll still get some amazing...2019-03-1531 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaNicole Lanteri: Work/Life Balance (or lack thereof) and using your giftsI am SO grateful for this conversation with Interior Decorator Nicole Lanteri. Nicole is an amazing creative and business woman. She started her interior design business 10 years ago when she realized that being a lawyer wasn't using her gifts and energy to the best of her ability. I'm so glad that she made that change, because she now brings a wealth of kindness, empathy, and a brilliant design eye to her client's homes. I often think that Nicole has so many clients because you just want to hang out with her, and after this conversation, I know...2019-03-1143 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoving through fear and setting big audacious goalsSetting goals is such an important aspect of being human - we're always aiming for something that's just out of reach. But how do we deal with the fear that comes along with setting these goals? In today's podcast, you'll learn why setting goals are so scary and how to overcome that fear so that you can feel good about your progress, however fast or slow it is moving!  Mentioned in this episode: -Momento Mori -The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People -Ira...2019-03-0714 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: How to Find and Read your Astrology Birth Chart!Most of us know the sign based on our date of birth, but do you know that you actually have MULTIPLE signs? These signs are based on the positions of the planets at the time and place of your birth. With this information, you are armed with a fuller picture of your personality, work, life, and values.  Today on our Moon Chat, resident astrology expert Kathleen Barry is sharing how to find your birth chart and how to interpret it. We're dropping a TON of knowledge, and it's going to help you look...2019-03-0151 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaGetting rid of "should" - an interview with social worker Jerusha HullToday on the podcast, we have an interview with the talented and caring Jerusha Hull. Jerusha is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the founder of Virtue Counseling in Arlington, VA. Jerusha specializes in issues particular to women such as prenatal loss, infertility, birth trauma and recovery, postpartum depression and anxiety, your role as a mother, wife, and woman as well as childhood trauma and relationship concerns. She works with women both individually and with their loved ones. Jerusha believes that every woman should have access to quality mental health care. You can find Jerusha at...2019-02-2238 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaEmbodying Your Heroic Identity - Guided MeditationHere’s a 10-minute guided meditation to help you embody your heroic identity. The warrior poses are actually based on a sage, Virbhadra, who was a great hero and friend. We’re going to embody the virtues of a hero - a protector, someone with strength and loyalty and stamina. In the process, we’re going to strengthen and balance the 3rd chakra (our center of identity). Learn more about embodying hero virtues in the latest blog post: http://behappyhealthyhuman.com/happyhealthyhuman/warrior-poses-name-hero-virtue/ And, if you’re interested in balancin...2019-02-2013 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat: Embracing the Light and the DarkIt's time for another amazing moonchat with our resident astrology expert, Kathleen Barry.  In today's episode, we're talking about the full moon in Virgo, getting your inner life in order, and embracing the light and the dark. You'll learn about how linear thinking and overthinking can get us into trouble, why seasonal affectedness disorder is *definitely* a real thing, plus learn a little biology along the way!  One of my favorite parts of the conversation is about how we're never *quite* at perfection. We are always learning, retooling, and reshaping. This doesn't mean...2019-02-1539 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaFinding Stable Equilibrium and Trusting Your BalanceThroughout biology and even in our own biochemistry, the world is held together by stable equilibrium: when something gets out of balance, compensation mechanisms come into play, bringing us back to balance. Unfortunately, we often find it harder to believe in that stable equilibrium within ourselves. We fear feeling emotions fully, or get overly controlling in our own lives. In this podcast, we'll talk about having the courage to trust that we are in stable equilibrium, PLUS share a short guided meditation to help us embody that truth. Mentioned on this podcast: ...2019-02-1115 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHow do you know if you're burned out? Interview with Ingrid VaiciusToday on the podcast, we have a special interview with my friend, colleague, and fellow wellness warrior - Ingrid Vaicius. We talked about her path from foreign policy to wellness coaching, the major signs that told her she was in the throws of burnout, and how she nursed her body back to health. We also talk about her evening routine, what she does when she turns off screens at night, and the lesson she would share with the listeners and world at large. Ingrid is smart, funny, practical, and honest. I know you'll love her as much...2019-02-0741 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaNew Moon in Aquarius and Finding OnenessWelcome to another Moon Chat with the fabulous Kathleen Berry! (@kbb323). Today we’re talking about the New Moon in Aquarius. You’ll learn about the types of intentions and initiatives will be most superpowered during this next month. We’ll also talk about the Age of Aquarius (and how it’s a real thing!!), how the astrological signs relate to the Hero’s Journey, plus the connection between the astrological signs, the elements, and approaches to solving problems. This is a great, free-form chat - Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-02-0124 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMoon Chat! Super Blood Wolf MoonJoin me and the amazing Kathleen Barry (@kbb323) to talk about the upcoming super blood wolf moon, personal power, shedding kapha, and setting intention. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2019-01-1821 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaYour 2019 VisionWe're baaackkk! I'm so excited to be back for 2019. In this episode we'll dive into some lessons about creating your vision for 2019 (hint: everyone has a vision, you just decide to intentionally choose it or not).  PLUS learn all about what's coming up in 2019 for Happy Healthy Human Radio. *Sign up for virtual or in person discounted private yoga! *Prenatal Yoga at Spark Yoga *Happy Healthy Human Yoga starting in mid-February!  *4-Week Stress Cleanse 2019-01-1614 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula2018 in Review!Can you believe it!? We're at the end of 2018. I'm getting ready to go on official break - I'll be back with more blogs and podcasts mid-January. In the meantime - here are some of the best things that happened in Happy Healthy Human world in 2019: --I started a podcast, Happy Healthy Human Radio, which has 116 episodes and over 10,000 downloads. --In August, I started a charitable giving arm to Happy Healthy Human, giving proceeds from my services to charities such as Charity:Water and the Thich Nhat Hanh foundation. --I led a weekend Ayurveda immersion retreat in June! --We held 20+...2018-12-1909 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaOvercoming Fear in the Heart ChakraWe all want to feel more connected. But what's stopping it from happening? In this podcast, I explore the reasons why we cut ourselves off from others and how you can reach out a little more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-12-1118 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaGuided Meditation: 4th Chakra and Heart ConnectionHave someone that you're not seeing eye-to-eye with? Want to feel a little more heart connection? This guided meditation will help you reconnect to your own heart, and also spread some of that love to someone else in your life as well. Let's feel the connection. If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear your feedback and questions! You can send me a message over on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-12-0609 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula30 minute yoga: Softening and opening the heart chakraThis yoga podcast is a simple yoga flow to open up the shoulders and heart. It's perfect if you've been sitting or slouching at your desk, and will leave you feeling open and calm. If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear your feedback and questions! You can send me a message over on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-12-0531 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaUnderstanding the Fourth Chakra - "Courage, Dear Heart"Let's continue our exploration of the chakra system! We're halfway through at the 4th chakra. Learn why strengthening your heart also leads to better (and easier) decision making. As always, if you like this episode, please subscribe, rate and leave a review, and share with a friend! I want to hear your feedback - send me a message on instagram - Instagram.com/behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-12-0414 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaBalancing Energy This Holiday SeasonThe holidays tend to go one of two ways: 1. Working super hard to finish work deadlines, organize parties and holidays, shopping lists, and activities. 2. Living fun and free, with plentiful holiday parties, cocktails, and sugar comas. Both of these situations relate to an imbalance in the second chakra. So this holiday season, let's look at how you can find balance. The benefit of balancing this second chakra energy? You'll finish the holiday season with good energy, no guilt, and some joy. You'll learn the mantras to use for balancing your second chakra, plus practices you can do to help you...2018-11-2909 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaFinding one's own place with svadhistana - the 2nd chakraSvadhistana! Let's talk about the second chakra. The second chakra is just *fun*. It's about joy, sensuality, and creativity. When we connect with the 2nd chakra, we connect with our creative potential and power. Ruled by the element of water, the 2nd chakra allows us to get into the flow and find joy in life. We move from the stability and material goods of the 1st chakra to the emotions and creativity of the 2nd chakra. Too little 2nd chakra energy? You survive, not thrive. Too much 2nd chakra energy? You might deal with issues like addiction or inability to...2018-11-2813 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaGuided Meditation: 3rd Chakra and the Power of the SunWant to feel confident and powerful? Embody the strength of the sun. I know...sounds like a little much, but as Hafiz said - "you are the sun in drag"...so let's put the outfit on for a few minutes and see how it feels, shall we? If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear your feedback and questions! You can send me a message over on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-11-2711 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaRemover of Obstacles - YOU! All about the 3rd ChakraLet's talk Third Chakra. This is the center of your confidence, esteem, and strength. In today's episode, I'll discuss how you can build your confidence through affirmation, meditation, exercise, and action. PLUS the difference between preparation and anticipation. You'll learn why fear isn't as useful as we all pretend, and how you can become your own remover of obstacles. Have feedback on this episode? Leave a message on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-11-2121 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaVinyasa Yoga - Continuous MovementToday's yoga sequence is a short, continuous, and circular flow. Use this sequence to reset your energy and find smooth, continuous movement. If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear your feedback and questions! You can send me a message over on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-11-0912 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaCircles and Seasons Guided Meditation + Listener Q&ALet's do an 8 minute guided meditation to experience the circles and cycles occurring internally as well as externally. We'll converge that energy through our meditation. Then, tune in to an answer to a listener question: "how do I acknowledge and give myself credit for? And How do I let things go? If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear your feedback and questions! You can send me a message over on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-11-0818 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaCircles and Seasons: the most important perspective to bring happinessLet's talk about circles, cycles, and seasons. From a global scale all the way down to the breath - our life is ruled by circles, cycles, and seasons. It's amazing how much of our sadness or anger is due to a desire to stop this change - we either want to hold on to what is here or to push away what we don't want anymore. Let's talk about how to view the circles and seasons PLUS why Ayurveda says we need to adjust our routines based on these external seasons. In Today's Episode: -What cycles and seasons are at...2018-11-0719 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula15 minute Meditation and Yoga for Muladhara ChakraToday's podcast is a combination of yoga and meditation to help you balance muladhara chakra. You'll feel calm, grounded, and abundant after this podcast. If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear your feedback and questions! You can send me a message over on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-11-0215 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaBalancing Muladhara ChakraMuladhara Chakra is our first chakra and our center of stability and safety. In this episode, we'll talk about why balancing Muladhara chakra is so important these days, how to figure out if your Muladhara chakra is out of balance, plus practices to balance it again! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-10-3117 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula30 Minute Vinyasa Yoga: Interdependence & ConnectionToday's yoga practice uses smooth, connected movements and mudras to help you stay connected to your own body and connected to the energy of others. If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear your feedback and questions! You can send me a message over on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-10-2627 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaGuided Meditation: Interdependence and labelsToday's episode is a guided meditation to help you experience interdependence and to start letting go of the labels that can rule our life. We'll use a meditation on our breath, plus a guided meditation into our own roles and values. We'll explore the qualities you find difficult to accept in others, and then practice letting go of our own labels and self-perception. This is a beautiful guided meditation that will leave you feeling expansive, grounded, and connected. If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear...2018-10-2514 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaLabels, Interdependence, and Harry PotterLet's explore the Buddhist idea of interdependence, why we can learn about it from Harry Potter, and most importantly - why it's so great for you as well! Interdependence is all about building more compassion for yourself and for those around you. You'll learn to release inhibiting self-talk and labels, while also connecting better to those around you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-10-2410 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, Doula35 Minute Vinyasa Flow: Let's boost some Prana!Today's vinyasa flow is dedicated to the feeling of prana flowing through your body. We'll do some breath work and invite movements that sync with our breath. Grab a yoga mat and a block, and let's get to it! If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear your feedback and questions! You can send me a message over on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-10-1937 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaPractices for PranaNow that we've done an introduction to prana - let's talk about some practices to increase your access to prana in your body and life. We'll talk about foods that are high in prana (check out this post for more details and a recipe!), breathwork, and do a short guided meditation to connect to the universal flow of energy. In Today's Episode: -What foods are high in prana. -What are the ida and pingala nadis and how to activate them. -What breathwork is good for inviting prana. -A short, guided meditation to connect to prana in your body and your...2018-10-1816 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMay the Prana be with youThis week is all about prana - that life force and energy that's flowing through each and every one of us. In today's episode, we're doing an intro on prana and discussing how do we even notice this subtle energy flowing through our bodies? Get ready for a week full of prana and energy-filled goodness. In Today's Episode: -What is prana -How do we feel prana in every day life? -The connection between breath and prana. -Ways to increase your access to prana. If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend...2018-10-1614 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaMeditation: Finding your PurposeToday's episode is a guided meditation about finding your purpose. Through breath, stillness, and focus, we'll help you tune into your sense of purpose plus help you identify how to know you're on the right path. This is a fast and simple guided meditation, perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike! If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share it with a friend. I also love to hear your feedback and questions! You can send me a message over on Instagram at @behappyhealthyhuman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samantha-attard/message2018-10-1009 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaPurpose, Dharma, and IntuitionLet's talk dharma. Dharma is a purpose - it's why we show up in this body, at this specific time, in this specific environment. We each have our own purpose, but it can sometimes feel elusive. How do we know that we're on the right path? Today's episode explores how to cultivate your intuition to find your purpose. In Today's Episode: -What is dharma. -How do we find our purpose? -What do obstacles mean about our purpose? -How to cultivate our intuition and connect to our purpose. If you like this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes or share...2018-10-0915 minHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaHappy Healthy Human Radio - Find Balance With Samantha Attard PhD, RYT, DoulaWhen Change Doesn't Feel GoodOn a fundamental level, we're always experiencing change. Our cells are constantly in motion, and our energy is as well. We as humans are constantly evolving. But sometimes....this evolution doesn't feel that good. We gain new insights and views into the world that aren't pretty - we see war, sadness, poverty, despair... what do we do when we experience change and can't help but miss that innocence we used to enjoy? How do we deal with our new reality? In Today's Episode: -What happens when we experience change as a negative event. -Why old traumas come up again and...2018-10-0414 min