Let's get straight into the practice of deep wisdom, beauty and power and re-awaken our inner peace and ability to positively impact our world.

The movement of our mental health and social surroundings, from one extreme to the other, requires pendulation before we discover the middle ground, the healthy path of the new in unknown and unwalked territory.  Sitting with the anxiety, discomfort and uncertainty of this change is the work we need to reclaim peace, wisdom and our human goodness.

So many people feel lost, lonely, isolated and anxious at the moment, partially due to uncertainty, partially due to left hemisphere overdrive, partly due to censorship and extreme abstrations of com-part-mentalising a complex reality. The mind that tries to know, control, manipulate and break apart, greatly distorts the cohesive manifacted whole that at our hearts we know we are, come from, yearn for and strive from to create meaningful relationships. The simple heart exercise of Namaste...

Our loss of joy, pleasure and playfulness has become chronic culturally and seeps into every aspect of our lives. It's time we take back our sense of sacredness and enjoy the beauty of Life, and ourselves as part of the Play. We need to wake up, open our eyes, mouths and stand up for what we know is ours! Reclaiming Our Wellbeing - Shira Cohen Pieter Omtzigt Iain McGilchrist and Dr Schipper

Top-down versus bottom-up is similar to Iain McGilchrist's left and right hemisphere work. We need both but there is a definite imbalance which needs our active attention and action!

Dr Amanda Foo-Ryland, life coach, neural coder and international speaker, shares how her life's incredible experiences led to her strengths, depth, to live life more fully, and help others to rediscover power, passion and mental resilience no matter what life throws at you. And how we have choices. We discuss the neural necessity of context, wholeness and relativity. Resources: Amanda's TEDx talk Find out why you might be stuck - Neural Code report Shira Cohen's book Reclaiming Our...

Breakdowns, the crumbling of the old and the tower falling are all frightening moments in our lives but they are also the bringer of newness and fresh connections and experience of self and our world. Books: Fritjof Capra - The Hidden Connections Iain McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary, The Matter With Things Shira Cohen - Reclaiming Our Wellbeing

Summer holiday full of space, calm and spirituality have me filled with confidence and reserves of joy and freshness! The new is essential to breathing life into the old. Seeing and feeling without bias through meditative and contemplative practices gives us back the space we require to embrace life more fully. Science is a basis for the profound study of the essence of life, but can never reveal more fully what we intuitively already know, that life without devoting some aspect of life to...

Dr Lisa Turner shares her incredible journey to how she arrived at, and developed, her CET training- Conscious Emotional Training. Using neuroplasticity to remove trauma, resistence, emotional blockages, it re-CETs us like it never happened so we're a new YOU ME WE. We talk about why some don't heal or move on, and how CET creates expansion and growth in the nervous system removing the maladapative neural wiring that keeps us stuck and creates more channels. Lisa Turner's book CET Yourself...

This week's podcast Gillian McMichael, Yoga and Ayurveda teacher, transformational coach and educator and trainer, shares how we can Come Home to our true self.  We discuss how through working with the whole person consciously, including physical health, wellbeing and spiritual needs and growth, we come home and feel more connected, not just with self but also our bigger family and self.      

Herbs are potent, rich and powerful because they seek deep in the earth for nourishment, they are intelligent because they find ways to nourish themselves, cooperating with other living species to enhance life for all involved. Hippocratic oath- Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. Elderflower recipe: 20-50 Elderflowerheads 1 kg organic natrual sugar 1.5 L water 4-5 lemon juice and zest 25mg citric acid Gently shake and wash flower heads removing any bugs. Boil water....

Low self-esteem and confidence often cause us to project our own goodness onto others, while being hyper critical of self. Here's a short meditation for uplifting, inspiring and filling ourselves up with our golden self through other.

How important is self-expression to our wellbeing? How does it affect our creativity, emotional and mental as well as physical health?  How can self-expression refine through communication? What can we do to enhance it? Resources: Reclaiming Our Wellbeing by Shira Cohen https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp

Potatoes, rhubarb and eating seasonally can be fun and luscious and bring back the balance to hormonal health as well as wellbeing!! Shira Cohen, Reclaiming Our Wellbeing Burnout podcast Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Link to understanding thyroid health with Dr. Izabella Weltz  

"It's not survival of the fittest but survival of the most nurtured."    - Evolutionaty psychologist Casalino. The basis of life is love. Simple practices to reconnect with our self love don't need to be difficult.  What could be more essential than loving the self for our world? Why is it so hard and what can we do to break the limiting habit and beliefs?  Order Reclaiming Our Wellbeing here for more of these quick yet deep delicious Yogic tools!

A solo on what comes up when we're at the threshold of a breakthrough and why it's so hard even when we know it's better for us seen through the biopsychosocial and spiritual lens.

Soraya Saraswati shares her Awakening Hearts, a culmination of her life work of yoga, trauma work, somatics, chakras, aromatherapy, Ayurveda and Advaita philosophy, and her love for Greece! We talk about after effects of covid regulations and vaccinations; injuries and deaths from the vaccine, the consequences of refusing vaccines such as job loss, persecution, ridicule, smearing and belittling those who are more critical about health measurements. Work With Us: Soraya Saraswati...

Change emotional currents, ride their waves and find out how that affect body through hormonal changes   Take a look inside the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axbc8Y4zjzs&t=51s   Order book here: https://shiracohen.yoga   Much Love, Shira

Sharon L. Coggan, former clinical associate professor of Harvard Universtity of Colorado, Denever, director of Religious Studies programme and author of Sacred Disobiedence, takes us on a wonderful journey through she-story, myth and the collective consciousness of transformation. We discuss the importance of meaning, the difference of the Hero and Hera journey. By discovering courage, fighting our demons, the tasks, trials and tribulations of decapitation of the ego by following our heart...

Sharon L. Coggan, former clinical associate professor of Harvard Universtity of Colorado, Denever, director of Religious Studies programme and author of Sacred Disobiedence, takes us on a wonderful journey through history, mystery and the collective consciousness of now. And how Hera, the Greek goddess of power and fertility became degraded to a jealous bitch, as an expression of supressed energy of our present collective amina and her sons, the animus, which we see back in emotional and...

This solo is full of inspiration, wisdom and love from Tama J. Kieves, Sharon L. Coggan, Diana Tokaji, and a little from me, Shira Cohen!! A quick review of the ways we can quickly co-regulate and co-create through coherence and cohesion!  

What do we need to do to co-create a world that gives us back our meaning, values, humanity and dignity? Which beliefs make us feel and seem stuck in these societies that have lost all moral values? How can we move torward a global society that gives us back our sense of meaning, feelings of belonging and significance? How can we begin to dismantle the systems, structures, dynamic and relationships, is being shut down on every level of freedom of expression and living fully? What steps...

Alina Calinescu, who was on in May '22 talking about functional aging, came to talk about how to choose a good quality yoga therapy training. The fast pace evergreen and modern consumerism mindset is affecting the quality of all institutions, including educational programmes, negatively impacting the quality of trainings; from prior education requirements for entry, to foregoing recommendations and actual depth of a training. We disscus how to research and find authentic, ethical schools,...

Andres Gonzalez, yoga teacher, author and mindfulness instructor, share his, and his friends, journey of creating their project and programes of the Holistic Life Foundation. We talk about the 7 essential steps of set up supportive projects, services and programes for community upliftment and helping children to greater opportunities and success. Andres talks about the book Let Your Light Shine. Work with Shira Resources: PATH SEL - Social Emotional Learning Shepard Pratt Mark...