About this episode

Rachel Friedman discusses the transformative power of yoga and breathwork for mental wellbeing.

Rachel Friedman is a yoga practitioner, breathwork facilitator, and mental wellness coach with over two decades of experience helping people use movement and mindfulness to transform their emotional and psychological health. Most people think yoga is about flexibility. They see the poses, assume it's not for them, and never discover what actually makes it powerful. But here's the thing: the postures are almost beside the point. What yoga really teaches you is how to listen to your body — and your body has been communicating with you this entire time. It's been telling you where your anxiety lives, where your trauma is stored, and exactly what it needs to heal. You just haven't been taught how to hear it. Rachel has spent twenty years helping people learn that language, and what she's found is that most of us are one conscious breath away from a completely different relationship with our own minds. Expect to learn why you have between 60,000 and 90,000 thoughts per day and why most of them are the same negative loops on repeat, how breathwork physically changes the structure of your brain and can even alter the way your DNA expresses itself, why the mind-body split is one of the…

People in this episode

Host: Asekho Toto

Guest: Rachel Friedman

Topics covered

• yoga
• breathwork
• mental wellness
• mindfulness
• emotional health
• anxiety
• self-compassion

Keywords

• yoga
• breathwork
• mental health
• anxiety
• mindfulness
• self-compassion
• emotional health

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