The Wholly Aligned Health Podcast Ciara

How to support your bone health:
The new series for 2024 zooms in on a particular part of the body. Bones are many parts of the body! And a wonderful living tissue to appreciate how to take care of, in your unique context.  In this episode, Ciara shares some ideas to encourage better bone health, from nutrition, to the importance of movement and an overview of key bone cells and their function.

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Love,
Ciara

Ciara Jean Roberts
Writer, Yoga Teacher, Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, Creative Spark
Wholistic Health Lighthouse
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Twitter:@WhollyAligned
TedxSpeaker: 
https://www.ted.com/talks/ciara_jean_roberts_unlocking_you_inner_physician

A lovely soothing shorter journey into your own wise heart. Great for when you need a gentle reset in times of emotional turmoil. Also a useful soother to listen to before falling asleep.

Ciara Jean Roberts
Yoga Teacher. Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, Author, Creative Spark
https://www.whollyaligned.com
Twitter @WhollyAligned

Check out my Tedx Talk: Unlocking your Inner Physician: https://youtu.be/y0lmkEkNIuk

Ciara Roberts brings you a series of guided meditations.  You can listen seated, laying down, on a train, in a plane, under a tree...make it work for you.

Beginning with Arriving and Centring.

The energies of Arrive. The energies of Centre.
Arriving and centring into the contours of our physical form. 
Centring into the essence of the deepest inner truths we hold.
Arriving and Centring is a practise Ciara experienced with long time yin yoga teacher, Sarah Lo. A useful way to expand our feelings of body. How we experience sitting, in physical form, within an entire cosmology - which can seem so very peculiar or abstract when we have not had direct experience of this sense of connection. This enduring vastness.
It resides within each one of us. Without exception.
We arrive into the landscape of body.
We centre into the inner beingness - perhaps we could call this grounding in our Buddha self. Or tapping into the well of sustenance within. Our inner power. It whispers and willows much further than the constraints of body. 

Enjoy. 

Ciara Jean Roberts
Yoga teacher, Writer, Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist
https://www.whollyaligned.com

In this episode, Ciara shares 3 key learning outcomes for coherent breathing, expanding more on the intricacies of the nervous system and reflective invitations to allow you to explore your current inner state:

1. Breathing through the nose
2. Breathing into the belly
3. An even rate and rhythm

It's all about balance.

With a guided 15 minutes at the end to help regulate, sense and feel.

For the 20 minutes guided coherent breath episode, listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/246643/3199480

In the ongoing season of the Recalibrate/Recalibrating your nervous system,  season of the Wholly Aligned podcast, Ciara welcomes Dr Ela Manga.

Ela is an integrated medical doctor, practising in South Africa. Trained originally as a GP in conventional medicine, a few years into her GP work, she swiftly discovered that patients kept coming back with the same issues.  Her work then broadened out into energy management and conscious living.  Very much including the power of breath. She is also the founder of Breathwork Africa.  A key passion for her, is training practitioners to shine this work more out into the world.

She shares the Zulu word (also present in many other African languages across the southern part) Of Ubuntu. Hear her speak more of this as a way if life, a sacred way of being in the podcast.

To discover more about wonderful Ela and er work in the world, her website is: https://www.drelamanga.com including links and detail of her upcoming virtual breath work sessions.

Her book, which this episode title draws inspiration from: Breathe. Strategising energy in the age of burnout is available via Amazon, with the link also via her website, listed above.

Love Ciara
Find your voice. It's your real power now
Ciara Jean Roberts
Writer, yoga teacher and Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist
https://www.whollyaligned.com

In the second episode of 'Recalibrating the nervous system' series, Ciara expands a bit more on the Autonomic Nervous Systems and its 3 key branches of sympathetic nervous system, para-sympathetic nervous system and the enteric nervous system. 

Making it relatable to your daily life. So not laden with jargon - infused with real life story and reminders to be kind and compassionate in your explorations! It's deep work...

Touching upon the activating and pacifying components of the breath and how that ties in with the nervous system. Linking it in with the 3 key functions of the brain: learning, regulation and selection.

Such a vast and fascinating arena to explore. Most importantly you are the adventurer of your own inner journeys.  

Ciara Jean Roberts
Yoga Teacher. Writer,  Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, Creative.
https://www.whollyaligned.com
Twitter @WhollyAligned
Tedx Talk: Unlocking your Inner Physician: https://youtu.be/y0lmkEkNIuk
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