Yoga With Jake Podcast
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173 episodes
Dr. Elizabeth Joy: Establishing Physical Activity as a Vital Sign in Healthcare. Pioneering an Online Community for Health. Leveraging AI and Tech in Healthcare.
Dr. Joy is the Chief Medical Officer for Lore Health. Prior to that, she served as Senior Medical Director for Wellness and Nutrition at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City, UT. She received her B.S. and M.D. degrees at the University of Min...
Mike Alpert: How to Make Health Clubs Impactful, Profitable and Sustainable. Bridging the Gap Between Healthcare and Fitness.
Mike Alpert was the President/CEO of The Claremont Club from 1997 – 2020. Locatedin Claremont, California, The Claremont Club is a full-service athletic, aquatic, tennis,wellness and social facility encompassing 19 acres. During his tim...
Dr. Elias Aboujaoude: How Our Obsession With "Leadership" Has Made Us More Unhappy and Less Healthy. His Book: A Leader's Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference.
Dr. Elias Aboujaoude is a psychiatry professor, researcher, and author at Stanford University, where he heads the Anxiety Disorders Section and OCD Clinic. He has also held positions at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the University of Cali...
Dr. Gordon Mitchell: How Intermittent Hypoxia or Low Oxygen Affects Neuroplasticity. Hypoxia for Spinal Cord Injuries, ALS and Disorders That Compromise Movement. The Potential Benefits of Hypoxia for Athletic Performance.
Dr. Mitchell joined the University of Florida in 2015 as a Preeminence Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Physical Therapy and McKnight Brain Institute. He founded and directs the UF Center for Breathing Research and Therapeutics ...
Amber Zimmerman: Elite Runner. This Year's Broad Street Run Winner. Sleep Scientist.
Amber is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Her research is in the field of neurogenetics where she studies how genetic variants contribute to sleep dysfunction and p...
Diana McLain Smith: Her Book: Remaking The Space Between Us. How Media Further Divides Us. How We Can Purposefully Eliminate Divsion.
I began my life’s work in two communities on opposite sides of Boston, one predominantly Black, the other predominantly White, both made up of hard-working, low-income families. For twelve years, I worked alternately as a community organizer, a...
Dr. Gina Poe: How Sleep Works and It's Effect on Learning and Memory. The Relationship Between Sleep and Emotions. How to Optimize Your Sleep.
Gina Poe has been working since 1995 on the mechanisms through which sleep serves memory consolidation and restructuring. Dr. Poe is a southern California native who graduated from Stanford University then worked for two post-baccalaureate year...
Dr. Adriaan Louw: How Acute Pain Becomes Chronic Pain.
Adriaan Louw, PT, PhDAdriaan earned his undergraduate, master’s degree and PhD in physiotherapy from the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa. He is an adjunct faculty member at St. Ambrose University and the University ...
Kerrie Bodendorf: How she alleviated debilitating sciatic nerve pain with self-care and massage using the MELT Method.
Kerrie is a MELT Master Trainer, Groove facilitator, Yoga instructor and owner of Balance Total Body Fitness. As one of six Master Trainers selected by MELT creator Sue Hitzmann to train other instructors to teach MELT, she has led MELT Lab Tra...
Sue Hitzmann: How to rewire your neural patterning to alleviate pain using her MELT Method.
Fascia and feeling good. You’ll be hard-pressed to find more of an expert on those two topics than Sue Hitzmann, creator of the MELT Method—a pioneering self-treatment that can ease and prevent pain while it boosts performance.A fitness ...
Martinus Evans: The Slow AF Run Club Movement. Size-Inclusivity in Running. Turning Negative and Insensitive Remarks Into Something Positive.
Martinus Evans has run over eight marathons since his doctor told him to “lose weight or die” in July 2012. Since then, he’s also coached hundreds of runners and founded the Slow AF Run Club, a community of over 20,000 members worldwide. He is ...
Sandy Abrams: Optimizing Your Breath for the Most Health Benefit.
Sandy Abrams is a longtime entrepreneur, 2x author, 2022 TEDx Speaker, Chair of the Global Wellness Institute’s Breathe Initiative and a Board Member of Health & Human Performance Foundation. She’s now focused on Well-Being and Mental Healt...
Craig Terry: How Yoga Helped Him Rebuild His Life and Identity After Losing His Leg in a Motorcycle Accident.
Born and raised in Utah, Craig Terry is well-traveled and has lived in various places in the US. He recently retired from a successful career in sales and sales management, and now is an amputee peer mentor, a licensed certified life coac...
Dr. Matthew Dewar: Personalized Breath-Work Based on Biofeedback. Debunking Popular, "One-Size-Fits-All" Breathing Techniques. His "Stress Better" Framework Based on Self-Understanding Before Self-Intervention.
Matthew Dewar, Ed.D., is a professional educator, speaker, and author. For fifteen years, he has researched the impact of mindfulness and emotion regulation practices on teaching, learning, and leadership in schools. More recently, he has focus...
Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Why We Don't Have Free Will and Why That is Good.
As a boy, Robert M. Sapolsky dreamed of living inside the African dioramas in New York’s Museum of Natural History. By age twenty-one, he made it to Africa and joined a troop of baboons. Although being a naturalist appealed to him because it wa...
Tiana Ringer: A Whole-Person Approach to PT. Movement Analysis, Fascia, Everyday Habits and Exercises to Avoid Pain and for Overall Health.
BSc(Hons), MSc(A)PTAs a movement aficionado, Tiana Ringer specializes in training and rehabilitation integrating superficial and deep fascia tissue release, acupuncture based trigger point work, movement analysis, soft mobilizations, str...
Danielle Friedman: Contributor for The New York Times, Well section. An award-winning, health and culture journalist. Author of Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World.
Danielle Friedman is an award-winning health and culture journalist and a regular contributor to The New York Times Well section, where she has written about everything from the joys o...
Nick Heath: A holistic approach to diabetes management that revolves around wellness, not just the disease.
Nick Heath, Ph.D., is a breath coach, researcher, and writer living with type-1 diabetes. Nick’s formal education is in atmospheric science, but he has spent the last 7+ years studying, teaching, and applying breathing principles in his l...
Abigail Atkinson: How A Chiropractic Adjustment Caused Her Stroke. How Yoga Helped Her Recover From Stroke. How Her Stroke Informs Her Teaching.
Abigail is a Utah-based yoga teacher and educator. She became dedicated to sharing yoga with others after it helped her recover from a devastating stroke in 2012. Her mission is to spread adaptive, inclusive yoga throughout Utah and beyond. Abi...
Dr. Rodrigo Cerdá: How to access healthcare. Affordable options for healthcare. How men can take advantage of healthcare. Men's health concerns.
Rodrigo Cerdá, M.D., MPH, is senior vice president of Health Services and chief medical officer at Independence Blue Cross (Independence). He leads Independence’s collaborative efforts to bring together health insurers, hospitals, and doctors t...
Improving Men's Health: How Men Approach Mental Health Differently. How Men Should Workout As They Age. Misconceptions About Men's Health.
This is a segment on improving men's health that I'm featured on for the "Better Off Podcast" by For29 Philly. It is hos...
Dr. Charles Raison: What Causes Depression? How and Why Heat Exposure Help with Depression.
Charles Raison, MD, is a Professor of Human Ecology and Psychiatry in the Departmentof Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison.Dr. Raison also serves as Director of Clinical and Translational Re...
Dr. Sat Bir Singh Khalsa: The Science-Backed Benefits of Yoga for Anxiety, Insomnia, PTSD, Chronic Stress, Yoga in the Workplace and Public Schools.
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. has been fully engaged in biomedical research on theefficacy of yoga and meditation practices in improving physical and psychological healthsince 2001. He has practiced Kundalini Yoga since 1971 and is a cert...
Sarah Platt-Finger: Her book "Living in the Light" that she co-authored with Deepak Chopra. How to develop a yoga practice for mental, physical and emotional health.
Sarah Platt-Finger is the Director of Chopra Yoga at IIN, and the co-founder of ISHTA Yoga, LLC. Sarah coauthored the book Living in the Light ...
Ryan Whited: Pain & Performance: The Revolutionary New Way to Use Training as Treatment for Pain and Injury.
Ryan Whited, a dedicated Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist since 1996, has a profound passion for his work. Armed with expertise in athletic performance and injury prevention, along with certifications in Gait Analysis, Mobility, a...
