EPISODE 13: EXHALE – The Art of Metabolizing Stress with Yoga Trauma Therapist, Dana Brechtel

EXHALE…

2020 is a global gut-punch … add the 2020 Presidential debates and election to it, and as news anchor Jake Trapper so eloquently put it, “That was a hot mess, inside dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.”  However you voted last week, this week is about the EXHALE. 

Some of us are celebrating. Some of us are somber. Wherever you land this week, this episode is FOR YOU. Exhale with us. 

Yoga trauma specialist (and one of my closest friends) Dana Brechtel takes us on a journey. In this episode, we don’t just talk about becoming spiritually grounded, we get to experience it together. Dana’s voice of peace walks us through a guided meditation (which you can also do in motion while walking, jogging, or driving), offering us the chance to metabolize the stress and emotions of the last few months. 

Come experience the desert with us in this profound and pivotal episode.

“The Body Keeps the Score” – emotions live inside your body. If you do not metabolize them, they will metastasize, creating toxicity. 

Let’s exhale. Let’s focus on connection. Let’s get grounded…TOGETHER.

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Dana Brechtel

Dana is a certified 200-hour yoga instructor, Christ-centered yoga instructor, and she is currently completing her 500 hour certification in Healing Emphasis Yoga. Her training focus has been on acquiring various tools that can support healing – mind, body, and spirit. This is what initially drew her to the mat to many different styles of yoga and life-long learning adventure. The idea that yoga can feel really good and always leave you feeling better on and off the mat has become an anchor for Dana’s own practice as well as the guideline for her teaching as well. She believes yoga is good medicine because when we breathe and move, we can feel our connection with the Divine – and that love has the power to heal us from the inside-out.

Bressel Van Der Kolk – The Body Keeps the Score

Resmaa Menakem – My Grandmother’s Hands

Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski – Burn Out: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Brene Brown – Unlocking Us Podcast about Burn Out