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Practice Human

Caitlin Casella

52 episodes

9 months ago

BioDr. Leah Humphries is a Physical Health and Performance Coach passionate about empowering individuals to navigate their health journey through movement. Growing up on the bayou of Louisiana, Leah developed a deep-rooted connection to physical activity, exploring various sports, and immersing herself in the natural world. Her journey led her to a prep school in Lake Placid, NY, where she honed her athletic skills and gained a broader perspective on health and fitness.With a background in Ex...

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BioDr. Leah Humphries is a Physical Health and Performance Coach passionate about empowering individuals to navigate their health journey through movement. Growing up on the bayou of Louisiana, Leah developed a deep-rooted connection to physical activity, exploring various sports, and immersing herself in the natural world. Her journey led her to a prep school in Lake Placid, NY, where she honed her athletic skills and gained a broader perspective on health and fitness.With a background in Ex...

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Episodes (20/52)

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Ep 053: Dr. Leah Humphries | Training for the Season You’re In

BioDr. Leah Humphries is a Physical Health and Performance Coach passionate about empowering individuals to navigate their health journey through movement. Growing up on the bayou of Louisiana, Leah developed a deep-rooted connection to physical activity, exploring various sports, and immersing herself in the natural world. Her journey led her to a prep school in Lake Placid, NY, where she honed her athletic skills and gained a broader perspective on health and fitness.With a background in Ex...

11 months ago

54 minutes

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Ep 052: Macklen Mayse | Getting Comfortable with Discomfort

BioMacklen Mayse is a strong believer that every woman should lift heavy things. That's why she specializes in weight lifting and mobility for women.Macklen was born and raised in a woodland area of Kansas City. She fell in love with fitness during graduate school while making durational performance art, video art and kinetic sculpture. She compressed her body into metal sculptures, held awkward body shapes while scaling walls, and flung herself at pillars for cold hugs. It was all quite weir...

1 year ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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Ep 051: Juniper Boggs | Movement Munchies - Strength Training Outside of Weight-loss

BioJuniper is dedicated to helping plus-size individuals discover the joy and benefits of exercise beyond weight loss. After struggling with his weight for most of his life and experiencing the frustration of restrictive diets and ineffective workout routines, he found a transformative experience in a welcoming HIIT class. This shift in focus from weight loss to strength-building led to increased energy, motivation, and overall well-being. Now, Juniper is on a mission to share this approach w...

1 year ago

46 minutes

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Ep 050: Giulia Pline | Path to Physical Therapy School

BioGiulia Pline’s journey has evolved from a career as a professional dancer to becoming an educator of movement and now a Doctoral student in Physical Therapy. Her experiences, including several injuries, inspired her to pursue extensive studies in anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and biomechanics. The years she spent healing and recovering from these injuries have equipped her with invaluable tools and a unique skill set that shape her approach to treating and caring for others on their ow...

1 year ago

1 hour 7 minutes

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Ep 049: Domini Anne | How Music Shapes Movement and Exercise

CHECK OUT THE SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE!Caitlin Playlists: Practice Human 🔥 Gym Amped-up pop + aggressive rock to fuel your heaviest lifts.Practice Human 🐢 RunEqual parts lively + chill to keep your easy runs easy.Domini Playlist:Joy, Sweat and No FearGetting our groove on for sweaty Gyrokinesis.BioDomini Anne is a multi-disciplinary movement educator, dedicated to helping people fully inhabit their bodies. Through her unique approach, she supports an aging population in mai...

1 year ago

48 minutes

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Ep 048: Ben Cormack | Movement and Exercise with Low Back Pain

Ben Cormack owns and runs Cor-Kinetic. He is a musculoskeletal therapist with a clinical background in sports therapy, rehabilitation, pain science & exercises stretching back 15 years. Ben specializes in a movement and exercise-based approach with a strong education component and patient-centered focus and runs evidenced-based courses nationally and internationally.Join us at Practice Human in NYC for Ben's course September 28-29, 2024. For details and registration CLICK HERE.Learn more ...

1 year ago

55 minutes

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Ep 047: Alia Bisat | Training for Vitality and Independence Later in Life

Alia began teaching yoga in 2015, but quickly became frustrated with the limitations of a single discipline. It was clear that there was infinite value in helping people become stronger and more mobile beyond the purpose of performing yoga poses, but to improve function in daily life. She developed a passion for helping make inaccessible movements more accessible, especially for those left in the margins of the fitness industry – older adults, people with pain, and the average not-so-flexible...

1 year ago

1 hour

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Ep 046: Greg Lehman | Building a Healthy Movement Ecosystem

Greg Lehman will be presenting a weekend course on SATURDAY, July 13 - SUNDAY July 14, 2024 at Practice Human in NYC. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP NOW.Greg Lehman is a physiotherapist and strength and conditioning specialist, specializing in musculoskeletal disorders within a biopsychosocial model.He teaches two internationally recognized continuing education courses: Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science and Running Resiliency, which have been conducted over 100 times in 40+ countries and 5 co...

1 year ago

54 minutes

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Ep 045: Brian Nevison | Hip & Low Back Resilience for Athletes

Brian Nevison will be presenting a day of workshops on SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2024 at Practice Human in NYC. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AND SIGN UPBrian is a playful person: Innately and intentionally. Professionally, he’s a personal trainer, strength & conditioning coach, and mobility specialist. He loves games and sports of all kinds—he played many growing up and still plays Ultimate Frisbee competitively. He tries to bring a sense of joy, play, and wonder to everything he does.He has a BS in...

1 year ago

1 hour 2 minutes

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Ep 044: Laurel Beversdorf | Yoga with Resistance Bands

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR LAUREL'S FREE YOGA WITH RESISTANCE BANDS CLASSES!2 free classes + training Q&A sessions will be held live online January 23rd and January 30th from 12-1p EST. Replays will be available to watch for two weeks after the live classes.Laurel Beversdorf is an international yoga educator, certified kettlebell specialist, and strength and conditioning coach. She runs her own Virtual Studio with over 150 members. Classes blend strength training, rehabilitation practices,...

1 year ago

1 hour 7 minutes

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Ep 043: Dr. William Klein | Men's Pelvic Health

William Klein is a Brooklyn-based physical therapist specializing in treating men’s health and pelvic floor. His background as a yoga instructor and passion for learning have helped inform his clinical practice. He can be reached at @willkdpt Instagram, and is currently working on posting educational content on that account.

1 year ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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Ep 042: Dr. Shanté Cofield The Movement Maestro | Why Physical Therapy is the Best First Career

Dr. Shanté Cofield, The Movement Maestro is a physical therapist turned entrepreneur, who teaches health and fitness professionals how to build profitable online personal brands, with a focus on brand strategy and development in the ever-growing digital marketplace. Find out more about The Maestro's work at themovementmaestro.com and on Instagram @themovementmaestro

1 year ago

38 minutes

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Ep 041: Clayton Law | Person First Client Second

Clayton Law is a marketing and sales coach who teaches health and fitness experts how to get more online clients from Instagram. He has over 13 years of clinical and professional experience in the health industry and has helped over 130 experts get more online clients and make more money.In this episode we discuss:Motivational Interviewing in Health CoachingHow a "Person First, Client Second" approach can support growing a business, enhance client relationships, and promote better results for...

2 years ago

1 hour 24 minutes

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Ep 040: Kathryn Bruni-Young | Mindful Strength

Kathryn (she/her) has been teaching yoga and movement since the age of 17. Growing up in her mother’s (Diane Bruni) yoga studio she has been learning about mindful movement her entire life. In 2012 Kathryn started exploring other modalities including powerlifting, gymnastics, and various forms of strength based exercise. She has competed in powerlifting, and has been coaching her own style of strength building to people of all ages. She has completed a professional pain science mentorship wit...

2 years ago

53 minutes

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Ep 039: Elizabeth Wipff | Autonomy and Self-determination in Strength Training

Elizabeth Wipff is on a mission to demystify strength training for women who want to get in the gym but just don’t know where to start. As a Gen X woman, she sees strength and conditioning as the perfect way to deal with stress and anxiety, stave off aging, and gain confidence & power. She loves working with her peers to help them realize their strength potential. As a coach and teacher, Elizabeth is known for her keen eye and her ability to make complicated concepts simple and clear. An ...

2 years ago

1 hour 18 minutes

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Ep 038: Brian Nevison | Balancing Discipline and Play

Brian is a playful person: Innately and intentionally. Professionally, he’s a personal trainer, strength & conditioning coach, and mobility specialist. He loves games and sports of all kinds—he played many growing up and still plays Ultimate Frisbee competitively. He tries to bring a sense of joy, play, and wonder to everything he does.He has a BS in Kinesiology from Penn State and has been working as a trainer/coach for 13 years. In that time, he’s come to understand that genuine, uninhi...

2 years ago

1 hour

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Ep 037: Dr. Sarah Court and Laurel Beversdorf | Scope of Practice and Cognitive Biases

Dr. Sarah Court is a physical therapist, movement mentor, and a yoga teacher trainer. She’s the creator of Quantum Leap Community, a continuing education online mentorship group that helps movement teachers methodically and clearly understand how to work with their more challenging clients while staying within their scope of practice. She teaches public workshops and teacher trainings online and in person, bringing together the worlds of yoga, strength, and neuromuscular exercise. Sarah lives...

2 years ago

1 hour 36 minutes

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Ep 036: Dinneen Viggiano | Education for Treatment of Back Pain

Dinneen helps active people with low back pain develop the holistic think, eat, move skills they need to confidently retrain their back pain with ease. A true “teachers’ teacher” with 23 years experience, Dinneen is the creator of Retrain Back Pain®. She is a Backfit Pro as well as a NeuroKinetic Therapist, a Craniosacral Therapist and a Certified Nutrition Counselor.Find out more about Dinneen's work at retrainbackpain.com or on IG @retrainbackpainKeep an eye out for the relaunch of Dinneen'...

3 years ago

1 hour 16 minutes

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Ep 035: Reboot 2022 | Welcome Back After Two Years!

Hey there! We're back on air. Listen in for a quick recap of why the Practice Human podcast began, how it has evolved, why the two year pause, and what I have planned for new episodes this fall. Thanks for being here and supporting the Practice Human community. Looking forward to continuing the conversation— Caitlin

3 years ago

22 minutes

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Ep 034: The Connective | Building a Teacher Owned Cooperative from the Ground Up

The Connective is cooperatively owned and powered by teachers. We provide a sustainable livelihood for yoga and movement professionals and raise industry standards for quality, diversity, anti-racism, and accessibility. We offer students an online space to explore movement, build community, and discover new potential. Our vision at The Connective is to ensure movement professionals have the tools to thrive, and make the practices of yoga, movement and fitness accessible to traditionally under...

5 years ago

1 hour 23 minutes