***Please note this is a personal account and not to be mistaken for medical advice***
Join Jeanie and Jenni, dear friends, as they discuss life after a surgical menopause from full hysterectomy including:
- Sex after menopause - "I felt like an almond"
- Is your spiritual love and power connected to your womb? If so what happens when it's removed?
- How "Fanny cream is like a facial for your fanny"
- Are you welcome in womb circles when you don't have a womb?
- Menopause or Metamorphosis? Your next chapter.
- Doing a ceremony on your womb to say goodbye.
Please seek trusted medical advice before using any pharmaceutical items mentioned in this episode.
References - Women who run with wolves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Who_Run_with_the_Wolves
Do you teach mainly women over 35?
Are you a women over 35?
Then listen to this!
In part 2 of our Menopause series Jeanie interviews Sally Parkes - Women's Yoga Specialist
Sally and Jeanie discuss:
- How hot flushes can be a way to burn up tamas (stagnant or 'manky' energy as Sally says) creating room for new ideas, creativity, healing.
- Sally's realisation "I'm probably over half way through my life and there really is no time to waste", how perimenopause has allowed her live better.
- Adaptations and focus points for 35+ yr old body pelvic floor or pelvic carriage.
- Are you postnatal or perimenopausal....or both!?
- The intense dreams and processing during perimenopause
- What can yoga teachers do to help those over 35/40 with their movement practice
- And so much more!
Connect with Sally and check out her upcoming trainings here: https://sallyparkesyoga.com/
If you have a womb then you need to listen to this episode.
If you know someone with a womb, you need to listen to this episode!
Join Jeanie as she goes on a deep dive into the hormonal shifts in the womb with Rachel Boon, exploring various stages, including Menopause.
We discuss:
- How Oestrogen is the Party Animal Twin ordering shots on a school night
- Progesterone is Sensible Twin ordering the Uber and carrying the high heels
- Why pooing is so important for our hormonal balance
- Perimenopause is like a second puberty
- Connections between the womb and our brain including the Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Ovarian Axis - Communication Super Highway
- Non hormonal Contraception
- Menopause is technically only 1 day!
- HRT - what's it all about?
- Herbs and foods for balancing hormones
- How Low Progesterone can mean more anxiety
References:
Rachel Boon - www.rachelboon.co.uk
Instagram: @naturopathherbalist
Facebook: @naturopathandherbalist
Red school - https://www.redschool.net/
4,000 weeks - https://www.oliverburkeman.com/books
Clinical Psychologist Episode - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WtK5AFnGzu8NDNMgoaqDT?si=Q3XY6BQFTp2ETuW503GmNQ
Ananda's Episode - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Ees2vx0Prw9M4mPavGLwI?si=CIE2MIFST_6YDZDhVp6w4g
Join us for a chat about Jeanie's most recent trip to India. We discuss:
- Should you say Namastae at the end of yoga class?
- Ashram life including the food and daily schedule
- What are the traditional clothes worn for yoga in India
- Why Jeanie loves the people
- We end with 4 traditional Mantras and you can practice them here yourself - https://youtu.be/rvmHXelZdEU
Akhanda Yoga - https://akhandayoga.com/
Alchemy Collective: www.instagram.com/alchemycollective.ie
Robbie was our first ever guest back in Season 1. We had so much to chat about, we invited him back on.
We discuss some wonderful topics:
- Do you only appreciate your body's health when you're sick?
- How the yogic path can lead you to deep place of autonomy within yourself so you're less affected by your interior world and instead you can affect the exterior world form a place of calm.
- Are we all responsible for our own feelings, but where do we stand when someone uses this to manipulate us?
- How the knife in the had of a surgeon is going to save a life but the knife in the hand of a murderer will take a life. Tools are only useful when used with awareness.
- The irony of the fact that yoga has become hijacked by the ego and is being used to further cement the ego. This is the opposite of what ALL yogic teachings were about.
- How we can get fixated on achieving things when the more important question is "what are you doing right now, for yourself and your community?"
- Are you always rehearsing for your future?
- Is nuance the new N word?
- What states the mind goes through when it's thinking?
Join us for a deep dive into the Education of Yoga.
We discuss:
- We don't care about your qualifications, do you understand the majesty of movement?
- What to look for if you want to become a Yoga Teacher.
- What's the difference between a Yoga instructor vs a Yoga Teacher?
- Who are the head honchos in the Yoga Governing bodies and are they any craic?!
- Yoga Teacher Trainings are a privilage, let's be real!
- Jeanie talks about her upcoming trainings and her scholarship options.
Check out her trainings here:
200hr for New Teachers -https://www.alchemyschoolofyoga.ie/yoga-teacher-training-courses/
25hr series for Yoga Teachers looking to devlelop their craft: https://www.alchemyschoolofyoga.ie/ytt-25hr-series/
We are back with our 4th Season. And we dive straight in with the most pressing topics...
- How lots of people think myself and Kelly are the same person.
- How there are more dead dogs :(
- Jeanie DOESN'T tell you what she did for New years!
- And we dissect the New year New you rhetoric that plagues January.
- Instead we share our dreams for 2023 and our word for the year.
- And Jeanie shares her fears of not being taken seriously as a yoga teacher without a studio.
Mary O Regan - potter and print maker - https://www.maryoreganpottery.com/
2 Norries podcast - https://twonorries.com/
Previous nude swimming - https://www.instagram.com/p/ChJ2NRMMFtL/
Our most popular episode of 2022 - Amy's episode - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Ki7Gummgo6owLhSC3wpR7?si=8c66a6d4d7184d74
Legs up the wall - video
Love and light confessionals - https://open.spotify.com/show/0MgJVyniDGAuulCtxVC3zX?si=589087196f284760
Conspirituality - https://open.spotify.com/show/2imIsM2NZRPpQvI56TLdM5?si=9669ad8eae3f498e
Living room logic - https://open.spotify.com/show/5F6GbSVNEvKTspQXY4iOBA?si=d4a9419926e44e07
We're back and we have a major catch up on what's been going on over the last few months and why we took a break.
College life, travel, YTTs in Greece, triplets separated at birth and not a whole lot of yoga chat, but a few giggles.
Some dose - https://www.instagram.com/some_dose/?hl=en
enneagram test 2s and 3s - https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test
Pre and Peri natal somatic psychology - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R37u_CNg0lQ
Triplets seperated at birth Documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Identical_Strangers
Join us FINALLY getting to chat to Sarah Fox.
We discuss:
- The origin of the cream cracker!
- Lineage in Yoga and Early Irish Teachings
- Herbal Science and how smart plant and animals are
- Chinese hamsters and their ovaries
- Early Irish Cauldrons and wells of 5 streams
And we finish off with a beautiful Irish circle cast and breath meditation.
References:
https://www.sarahfox.ie/
https://www.oakandwillow.ie/
The Cosmic Serpent - Jeremy Narby: https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Cosmic-Serpent-Jeremy-Narby/9780753808511
Encyclopaedia Celtic Wisdom by Caitlin Matthews - https://www.bookdepository.com/Encyclopaedia-Celtic-Wisdom-Caitlin-Matthews/9780712611053
The Well of Five Streams - Erynn Rowan Laurie - https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Well-of-Five-Streams-Erynn-Rowan-Laurie/9780993237119
Deirdre Wadding - https://www.coiresois-schoolofirishspirituality.com/about
https://www.archeoastronomy.org/
https://mythicalireland.com/
Join us this week as we tease apart what Vinyasa Yoga means to each of us and how it makes us feel.
From the original traditional version to what we see being taught today.
Kelly guides us through her understanding of it with beautiful imagery and authenticity.
Jeanie tries to figure out was it where she was in her life, the style or the teacher.
Listen to find out!
"Stop this obsession with past lives. Yes, you were powerful in a past life, but you were also an ass hole at one time!"
This week we speak to Amy Russell about her experience of the Kundalini world, including its controversy in recent years.
As an artist and a former raver she speaks about how Yoga saved her life, literally.
She journeys us through her work as a cross community artist in Belfast, discovering yoga and living in an ashram in San Fransisco.
Returning to Ireland with a head injury into post Celtic Tiger Cork, finding her community and her deep connection to spirit and Shamanism.
She articulately describes her relationship with her Spiritual and Birth Name and how she strives to stay authentic.
Real, witty and profoundly honest this episode has it all!
This week we discuss Spiritual Names, how Jeanie/Jyanti was offered hers, her process around it and what it means to her now.
What's your experience of Spiritual names - do they give you the ick?
And of course we cover the important topics:
How Jeanie finds Tik tok. Follow her here: https://www.tiktok.com/@alchemyschoolofyoga
How Kelly is getting her back to school supplies ready.
Who's excited by Quinoa?
And Jeanie's Spain retreats. Details here: https://www.alchemyschoolofyoga.ie/retreats/
This week's guest is the humble Jivana Heyman (he/him), founder and director of Accessible Yoga School (non profit) and author of Yoga Revolution and Accessible Yoga. He joins us from sunny Santa Barbra and as we chat you can hear the murmurings of his garden and wildlife in the background.
We discuss:
- The dance between keeping yoga accessible and respecting the lineage
- How often the best we can do is be quiet and allow all to be revealed
- Abuse in the yoga world and connection to lineage
- Activism and turning anger into service
- We ask Yoga teachers to reflect on the power dynamics within their communities and classes
- Hard conversations - where is the future of yoga?
- How the 3 Gunas - rajas (activity), tamas (stability), sattva (consciousness) in yogic anatomy had a potential influence on and relation to the discovery of the theory of protons, neutrons and electrons in chemistry.
- The 4 paths of yoga and how these can often reflect or represent the ways we are in the world, or the ways we find yoga.
Connect with Jivana: https://www.accessibleyogaschool.com/ or on social media
Link to join Accessible Yoga Ireland FB page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/378687852689191
Duncan Kruger effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Love and Rage book - https://www.lamarod.com/
In this episode we disect the difference between Chatty Savasanas and Yoga Nidra.
Is it Sleepy Yoga or a Deep Internal Awakening?
Jeanie has actually done some research for once and details the different brain waves compared to the sections of the Om symbol.
And Kelly weighs in with the Psychology to back it up.
Jeanie will be hosting a Yoga Nidra Challenge and you can sign up for it here: https://momence.com/video/courses/6782/6788
And if you'd like to support us on Patreon you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/YogaUnCorked?fan_landing=true
100hr YTT in Yoga Nidra in India with Jeanie's Teacher: https://akhandayoga.com/offerings/yoga-nidra-meditation-teacher-training-course/
Resources:
Thirty AF Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamthirtyaf/
Rachel Roberts Yoga: https://www.instagram.com/rachelrobertsyoga/
Reluctant Conversations by Grace Tempeny: https://open.spotify.com/show/54XL6EOGsRbMq30MMgZ7Bh?si=02c9a33a755041e7
Tracee Stanley - Radiant Rest - https://www.radiantrest.com/
Uma Dinsmore Tuli: https://umadinsmoretuli.com/
Our first guest of the Season Usha Anandi, founder of Womben Wellness and dear friend of Jeanie Jyanti, speaks to us about all things birth and womb wonders.
Do you know how you were born?
What's your birth story?
Have you connected to your womb ancestry?
What's your origin?
We discuss this and so much more. Its juicy. It's plugged in. And it's beautiful.
You can connect to Usha and all the Womben Wellness offerings here: www.wombenwellness.com
And on social media here: https://instagram.com/wombenwellness
You can apply for the 100hr Prenatal YTT with Jeanie and Usha in Greece this Oct here. Quote this Podcast to avail of the extended early bird: https://www.prenatalyogateacher.com/pn-enroll
Join us for part 2 as we wander through the grief of loosing our beloved dogs and explore loss by asking the hard questions.
We sniffle through using our free PCR test tissues! After being de-hydrated by our tears we relive Kelly's Wedding with more man buns and beards than a Viking feast.
Jeanie bears her soul as she speaks about her new love and partner. In the process she shares her experience on the difference between men and women on dating apps. Oh and we kind of forgot to talk about Yoga this week soz. We'll be back with yoga bits next week we promise.
Abbeyville: https://abbeyvillevet.ie/
Hinge dating app: https://hinge.co/
Yes! We're back and it's been a long 7 months, thanks for waiting lads. This episode kicks off as we battle to record with a little terrier causing chaos in background as we discuss:
- life as a yoga teacher post lock down
- Kelly's smugness about not getting Covid
- are we aroused when Tony Holohan makes a speech?
- Kelly's Hen and her inability to pronounce Gloucestershire
- Jeanie's battle with sexist landlords and her search for a new yoga studio
- how we can ask for help and trust we'll be OK
- summer freedom and where to next with yoga
- and we touch our the greatest loss of the year so far, our beautiful dogs.
Yoga on the beach and in the park: https://momence.com/u/alchemyschoolofyoga
Our instagram featuring highlight pics of Kelly's hen: https://www.instagram.com/yoga_uncorked/
Aparigraha meaning: https://www.yogapedia.com/definition/5076/aparigraha
Amazing Wild Design created by the kind Bonnie where Kelly works: https://www.wilddesign.ie/
Micheal Martin Son: https://www.thesun.ie/news/8537920/micheal-martin-son-awful-slagging-viral-picture-ridiculously-hot/
Shard: https://www.the-shard.com/news-events/news/afternoon-tea-at-the-shard-s-oblix-restaurant
Magic Mike London - https://magicmikelondon.co.uk/
Niamh Lee - https://www.instagram.com/niamh_lee__/?hl=en
Link to Bikram -https://www.bikramyogacork.ie/
For our Season Finale we invited my dear, friend, teacher, and love Ananda to chat with us and he did not disappoint. Those who've attended Jeanie's retreats will be familiar with him and his beautiful presence and heart. So snuggle up and bask in this bliss. It's potent, it's comforting and it's heart opening.
Join us as we discuss:
- Building sandcastles on the every shifting world around us, toasting marshmallows off Dante's Inferno and explore where you can find stability in the space of limbo.
- Ananda reflects on his 60 years around the sun having survived abuse at a very young age and how mystical experiences showed him the way.
- His experience of meeting Mohammad Ali and Sylvester Stallone, experiencing Chronic Fatigue and meeting Amma the hugging Saint.
- Training as interfaith minister, coming out of the closet as a lover of God and feeling the presence of Jesus.
- Reclamation of self and reunion with the beloved
- "Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, herein lies the peace of God"
- And his final message to us all, "trust and know you are loved and held in love"
What do you think Mary ate after giving birth to baby Jesus? Tea and toast?
Is eating sugary cereal watching day time TV yoga?
We discuss toxic purity culture in spiritual spaces.
Kelly starts spittin' suts (sturas) instead of spittin' truths!
Food as a fuel, ritual, medicine.
Violence from Vegan Activists.
We encourage you to notice your narattive around food - Do you have 'good' and 'bad' foods? Do you punish and reward yourself with food? How do you feel after certain foods?
Buy Jeanie's Recipe Cards here https://momence.com/Alchemy-School-Of-Yoga/products/6782
Juspy https://juspy.com/ discount code - JEANIE10
We chat to Dr. Stephen Quigley, Clinical Psychologist and Yogi
- On how he created calm in Chad while serving as an Officer in the Irish Defense Forces with the United Nations.
- The ways in which Yoga influences his life and his work as a Clinical Psychologist.
- How an MP3 from his mum broguht internal peace to the chaos around him.
- We discuss where Yoga and Psychology meet...and where they dont!
- Evidence based practices vs practice based evidence
- How we all need to be more kind to ourselves right now.
You can contact Stephen here: http://oakwoodpsych.com/about/our-team/#gallery-details-789
Jon Kabat-Zinn - https://www.mindfulnesscds.com/
The Body Keeps the Score - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313183/the-body-keeps-the-score-by-bessel-van-der-kolk-md/
Clare Island https://macallafarm.ie/
Mary Kelly Yoga https://marykellyyoga.com/
