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Deepen Your Practice is a podcast dedicated to helping you explore the many layers of yoga, both on and off the mat. Hosted by Lauren Leduc, founder of True Love Yoga, each episode delves into topics like anatomy, philosophy, meditation, and the deeper spiritual aspects of yoga. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or just beginning your yoga journey, this podcast offers insightful conversations, expert interviews, and practical guidance to help you enrich and elevate your practice. Join u ...
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The podcast that shares our real, raw and brave body stories. Featuring real diary entries and deeply honest conversations between Andi (@andi.matthies) and some of the world's most inspiring body-led humans, this podcast smothers us in a tonne of love as we finally give ourselves permission to release our shame, unleash our full bravery and become EVERYTHING we are here to be. If you have ever felt disconnected from your body or you’re craving to finally unlock your whole experience, Body D ...
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The Benefits and Disadvantages of Hands-On Assists in Yoga
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Summary In this episode, Lauren discusses the power of hands-on assists in yoga. She shares her personal experience with hands-on assists and how it led her to explore trauma-informed yoga and consent tools. Lauren explains the benefits of hands-on assists, such as increasing proprioception, creating trust and connection, and revealing the energeti…
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Ayurvedic Rituals for Autumn: Balancing Vata and Embracing the Season
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Summary In this episode, Lauren discusses supportive Ayurvedic practices for autumn and how to support the season change through yoga. She explains the principles of Ayurveda and the doshas, with a focus on vata dosha during autumn. Lauren provides tips for balancing vata dosha, including warming and grounding foods, self-massage, breathing practic…
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Becoming a Yoga Teacher: Overcoming Doubts, Embracing Growth, and Finding Your Path
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Summary In this episode, Lauren discusses the readiness and considerations for becoming a yoga teacher. She shares her personal journey and highlights the importance of understanding one's why, committing to personal practice, and embracing continuous learning. Lauren also emphasizes the need for emotional intelligence, holding space for others, an…
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Finding Stillness: Katie Brown on Yin Yoga and Overcoming Body Image Challenges
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Summary In this episode, Lauren Leduc interviews Katie Brown, a yoga and mindfulness specialist, about her journey into yoga and her passion for yin yoga. Katie shares how she fell in love with yoga after years of competitive bodybuilding and struggling with body image issues. She explains that yin yoga is a meditative practice that focuses on stil…
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Off of the Mat and Into the Voting Booth: Why Voting is Yogic
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Summary In this episode, Lauren discusses the intersection of yoga and civic engagement, specifically voting. She explores how the principles of yoga, such as ahimsa (non-harm), satya (truthfulness), and swadhyaya (self-study), can be embodied through the act of voting. Lauren emphasizes the importance of voting as a way to reduce harm, promote wel…
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Summary In this episode, Lauren breaks down the pose Adho Mukha Svanasana, or downward facing dog. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the energy and purpose of the pose, which is spinal decompression. Lauren provides five tips to elevate your downward facing dog, including using your hands correctly, finding external rotation through th…
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Summary In this episode, Lauren Leduc discusses the benefits of traveling for yoga and participating in yoga retreats. She shares her personal experience of how traveling for yoga has deepened her practice and allowed her to connect with different cultures. Lauren highlights the benefits of disconnecting from daily life to reconnect with oneself du…
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From Living Room to Studio: Sedona Alvarez on Yoga, Art, and Community
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Summary In this episode, Lauren Leduc interviews Sedona Alvarez, a yoga teacher at True Love Yoga. Sedona shares their journey of falling in love with yoga, starting with online videos and eventually stepping into a yoga studio. They discuss how yoga and art influence each other in her life, and how both practices help them process emotions and con…
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Starting Fresh: 5 Essential Tips for Beginning or Restarting Your Yoga Practice
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Summary In this episode, Lauren Leduc shares five tips for starting or restarting a yoga practice. The tips include starting where you are, using props and modifications, finding a style that works for you, finding the right teacher and community, being patient with your progress, and embracing the full yoga experience. Lauren emphasizes the import…
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Summary Lauren shares her personal yoga journey, starting from her first exposure to yoga in a hospital during treatment for an eating disorder. She talks about her experience with different forms of yoga, her struggles with mental health, and her decision to become a yoga teacher. She also discusses the creation of her yoga studio, her passion for…
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Summary In this episode, Lauren explores the question of what yoga really is. She explains that yoga is a subjective experience and that it has roots that date back thousands of years. She introduces the definition of yoga from the Yoga Sutras, which states that yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. She breaks down the Sanskrit wor…
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14. The Journey Through Adult ADHD with Chandra Arrington
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This episode is a powerful one, diving into the world of adult ADHD. Chandra shares with us what it is like to live with ADHD and how it contributed to her long struggle with her body image, weight, and eating habits. She also shares how important it is to bring awareness to the aspects of ourselves feel like they don’t belong to us. If you’d love …
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13. Learning To Trust Your Body Through Deep Self-Connection with Hannah Kopen
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In this episode Hannah shares her life-changing journey of self-discovery from an unhealthy relationship during the pandemic to becoming deeply in love with her body and her life. We dig into the power of self-trust and how, despite struggle, healing is possible when we become self-aware, acknowledge our worth and choose to walk our own chosen path…
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12. Connecting With Your Body Through Spiritual Expansion with Emily Sorenson
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In this beautiful episode, we dive deep into how our bodies with our spiritual selves are so deeply interconnected, and how we can cultivate deep self-awareness and self-acceptance through body-led spirituality. Emily vulnerably shares her journey with self-image and body acceptance as a gymnast - how being in this world impacted her own body and s…
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In this episode, we chat with the beautiful Lauren Leduc as she shares her own spiritual and emotional journey to discovering and embodying her inner goddess. We dig into the societal norms that engender self-doubt and insecurities, as Lauren shares the transformative movement modalities that enabled her own self-discovery and healing. If you’re re…
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10. How to Unlock Your Body’s Innate Healing Power Through Rest with Mette Flindt
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In this episode, we delve into Mette’s personal journey, and how she shifted her mindset from blaming external elements for her “stress” to acknowledging responsibility for herself. She shares with us the importance of practices like rest and grounding so that we can create more peace in our bodies. And how we can use it to help ourselves heal. Thi…
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9. Overcoming Eating Disorders Through Intuitive Eating with Meg Henkenhof
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In this episode, Meg shares her eating disorder journey and how she discovered intuitive eating - the powerful practice that revolutionised her life. We discuss how it’s so important to get out of the trap of “shaping our bodies” and instead cultivate self-love, self-compassion and body peace within ourselves. And how we can start this journey with…
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In today’s episode, we dive into Norma’s experiences with emotional eating, how this can start so early in childhood, and how it shapes our self-esteem, body image, and social interactions. Norma offers the most beautiful insight into the importance of patience and self-compassion with ourselves, and the small steps we can take to navigate these ti…
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7. Body Love & Acceptance - A Goddess Journey Through Cancer with Nicole Lite
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In this epsiode we chat with the beautiful Nicole Lite, an intuitive healer and two-time cancer survivor, about her journey of self-acceptance and body love after going through breast implant illness, breast cancer and lymphoma. We dive into the role of spirituality, how to foster self-love and self-empowerment in the face of cancer, and how her jo…
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6. Transcending Domestic Violence Through Inner Strength & Intuition with Yvonne Cole
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In this vulnerable and honest conversation, we dive deep into Yvonne’s journey through domestic abuse, and how this lead to her to discover and activate her own incredible inner strength and intuition. Yvonne shares with us key turning points and realisations from her own story, and insight into where we can turn our own experiences into an incredi…
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5. Body Neutrality, PCOS & Embracing Our Whole Selves with Eden Davis
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In this episode we dive into the reality of eating disorders, weight inclusivity, striving towards body neutrality and living with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Eden shares her own road to recovery, and how she learnt to lovingly create body neutrality and love for ourselves at any size. It’s also loaded with lots of practical tips - Eden gives…
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4. Overcoming Body Fear to Fully Embody & Unleash Your Goddess Within with Chelsea Renee
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In this episode we dive into how to overcome body fear and build body positivity through the incredible power of somatic practice, meditation, breathwork, and intuitive movement. Chelsea shares her journey with her own body fear, how she was able to finally embrace her own gorgeous body, and the somatic breath activation techniques that she develop…
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3. Reclaiming Your Sexual Liberation & Self-love with Katrin
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In this episode, we dive into the important topic of vaginismus - a condition involving the involuntary contraction of the vagina making penetration painful or impossible - and how it can impact our self-esteem, sexual liberation and self-love. Katrin shares how she navigated her personal experience with vaginismus, the societal pressures and insec…
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2. Body Addiction, Radical Honesty & Choosing Conscious Sobriety with Lauren Fay
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In this episode, we dive deep into Lauren's experiences with body addiction, alcoholism and her journey to recovery. Lauren shares her personal diary entries, with raw honesty about her past struggles with body image, eating disorders, and alcohol dependency. We explore her path to conscious sobriety and her incredible transformation as an Holistic…
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1. Uplevelling Your Body Connection Through Human Design with Malaine Leah Butler
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In this episode we dive into Malaine's transformative journey from grappling with disordered eating to developing a deep-rooted connection with her body through Human Design, and how it helped her to understand her relationship with food and her body. She shares with us the concepts of human design, how pregnancy and motherhood can impact our body …
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