Decolonising Wellness ~ The Podcast Jyoti

Join Jyoti & Claire Shen as they explore:


Claire's journey into becoming a Chinese Medicine practitioner
The roots of Chinese Medicine 
The history of how Chinese Medicine came to the Western world
The two secrets of Chinese Medicine
How Chinese Medicine has been colonised & appropriated
What actually is yin and yang
The key difference between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine
How Qi flows in our body at different times of the day
Chinese Medicine and periods
A distant healing session to release sadness

ABOUT CLAIRE:

Claire Shen is a Chinese medicine practitioner, acupuncturist, Qigong healer, educator, and one of the pioneers of the Qi healing movement in eastern Asia. Her work on healing with Qi has been unique in its efforts of unearthing the ancient science behind native Chinese medical practices and bringing forth a narrative which is the Taoist perspective on the universe for physical and mental wellness. She is the one of the leaders in Taoist Qi Global Healing Program, and also works as a TCM practitioner in healing centers and educator in Taoist Qi Therapy Institution.

She started her journey as a disciple in an ancient school and began to conduct training with her master since 18, in hopes of healing her own health issues since childhood, through systematic study of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture,  Chinese healthcare ways of Yang Sheng and other ancient healing practices such as Qigong, Taoist meditation, alchemy, and Qi diet.

Ten years later, she began to heal patients with various physical and mental issues such as chronic and acute disease, COVID and sub-health conditions, emotional trauma, depression or mental illness in clinic centers, and gradually took up leadership roles on the Global Healing Program. Since the COVID-19 era from 2019 to 2021, this program which she is one of the key leads, had successfully trained over 1000 Qi healers to help more than 375,000 people to prevent COVID-19 and heal post-COVID conditions in China. Since 2022,in order to heal people worldwide, her program spread to the globe, with the aim of benefiting millions of people in more than 30 countries and 100 regions worldwide, with a focus on places with epidemics, wars, or natural disasters, and trains 1,000 Qi healers worldwide

Website: www.taoistqi.com

Facebook: @taoistqi

Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/taoistqi



CONNECT WITH JYOTI:

Jyoti (she/her) is the Founder of Jyoti Rani. She is a Menstrual Cycle Coach and Yoga Teacher.

View her offerings & free menstrual meditations: ⁠www.jyotirani.com⁠

Instagram: ⁠@_jyoti.rani_⁠

Email: ⁠hello@jyotirani.com⁠





With special thanks to Hanna Francis who has written & performed the music & song for this podcast

Website: www.selfhelpsongwriter.com

Instagram: @selfhelpsongwriter 


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Join Jyoti & Harpinder Mann as they explore:


Haprinder's journey into her work
The meaning of Sadhana and how it can support us to feel grounded
Harpinder's personal sadhana and how it sets her up for the day
The 8 limb path and how to bring the teaching into your everyday life
How to clean the window of your mind during meditation
How yoga has been colonised, culturally appropriated and commodified 
What the Womxn of Color Summit is, why it exists and how you can get involved



ABOUT HARPINDER:

Harpinder Mann (she/her) is a Sikh Panjabi-American yoga teacher, mindfulness educator, and community builder living on Tongva land. Her childhood consisted of trauma from domestic violence, sexual abuse, and bullying which set her on a journey of healing through yoga, meditation, activism, and brave community. Now she aims to move through the world with compassion and joy.

This led her to create Harpinder Mann Yoga in 2018, where Harpinder works with women of color 1:1 on reclaiming their power & intuition to be free through yoga asana, meditation, breathwork, and spiritual connection. She has over 800 hours of yogic training within the traditions of Raja, Vinyasa, Kundalini, and Prenatal Yoga from respected teachers across the globe. Without her teachers, ancestors, and women before her, none of this would be possible.
She is also actively working to decolonize wellness by creating community and providing real accessibility to her ancestral practices for BI&POC as the co-founder of the Womxn of Color Summit, an equitable community organization focused on creating brave and inclusionary spaces for women and non-binary people of color to share stories and knowledge as well as make impactful change.

Website: www.harpindermann.com

Instagram: @harpindermannyoga

Womxn of Color Summit Website: www.womxnofcolorsummit.com

Womxn of Color Summit IG: @womxnofcolorsummit



CONNECT WITH JYOTI:

Jyoti (she/her) is the Founder of Jyoti Rani. She is a Menstrual Cycle Coach and Yoga Teacher.

View her offerings & free menstrual meditations: ⁠www.jyotirani.com⁠

Instagram: ⁠@_jyoti.rani_⁠

Email: ⁠hello@jyotirani.com⁠





With special thanks to Hanna Francis who has written & performed the music & song for this podcast

Website: www.selfhelpsongwriter.com

Instagram: @selfhelpsongwriter 


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Join Jyoti & Dr. Taqdir Kaur as they explore:


Taq’s journey that led her to share menstrual cycle knowledge
Taq’s journey with her menstrual cycle growing up
The seasonal framework of the menstrual cycle
An overview of Taq’s book titled ’Self-Care Down There’
Taq’s experience of writing a book
Taq’s work with Mahwari Research Institute
3 ways the menstrual cycle is being reclaimed



ABOUT TAQ:

Hi & Sat Sri Akal I’m ਤਕਦੀਰ ਕੌਰ Taqdir Kaur (or simply Taq), the CEO of I'm With Periods and a recruiter at BIPOC Executive Search. I am physically based in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Mi’kmaw Territories after spending many years living in Vancouver. My ancestors and family are from the Punjab region of India/Pakistan. I’m passionate about long walks in the forest with my dog!

Website: www.imwithperiods.com

Instagram: @imwithperiods



CONNECT WITH JYOTI:

Jyoti (she/her) is the Founder of Jyoti Rani. She is a Menstrual Cycle Coach and Yoga Teacher.

View her offerings & free menstrual meditations: ⁠www.jyotirani.com⁠

Instagram: ⁠@_jyoti.rani_⁠

Email: ⁠hello@jyotirani.com⁠





With special thanks to Hanna Francis who has written & performed the music & song for this podcast

Website: www.selfhelpsongwriter.com

Instagram: @selfhelpsongwriter 




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Join Jyoti & Nimisha as they explore:


Nimisha's journey into her field of work
Nimisha personal experience with food
What does it mean to decolonise our food?
Why understanding your ancestral heritage is key in your food journey 
Why ghee is not the enemy! 
The impact of globalisation of food on the world's health
How we can reclaim our health using foods
Simple steps we can follow to decolonise our food
Money saving tips to support local & organic eating



ABOUT NIMISHA:

Nutritionist, mother, researcher and educator, Nimisha Gandhi is well-known for her work and life passion for womxn’s health issues. Nimisha Gandhi is a functional medicine nutritionist, Ayurvedic counselor, Yoga Nidra/meditation teacher, and former tech founder. She holds a B.S. in pre-med Psychobiology from UCLA and has years of additional education in her field. In Nimisha’s private practice, Moon Cycle Nutrition, she specializes in fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum care with an emphasis on the mind, body, and soul. Nimisha combines functional medicine nutrition with ancient Ayurvedic principles to help her clients find deeply personalized eating and lifestyle plans. Her clients learn to awaken their untapped healer and empower themselves about their own health journey. She also uses the innate wisdom of changing hormones and cycles of nature to help her clients flow with their body.

Website: www.mooncyclenutrition.com

Instagram: @mooncyclenutrition



CONNECT WITH JYOTI:

Jyoti (she/her) is the Founder of Jyoti Rani. She is a Menstrual Cycle Coach and Yoga Teacher.

View her offerings & free menstrual meditations: ⁠www.jyotirani.com⁠

Instagram: ⁠@_jyoti.rani_⁠

Email: ⁠hello@jyotirani.com⁠





With special thanks to Hanna Francis who has written & performed the music & song for this podcast

Website: www.selfhelpsongwriter.com

Instagram: @selfhelpsongwriter 


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Join Jyoti & Susanna as they explore:


Susanna's experience growing up as a mixed race child
Susanna's journey to becoming a yoga teacher
The history of yoga and how it came to the West
The effect of colonisation on yoga
Susanna's book - Embrace Yoga's Roots
The 8-fold path of yoga
Simple steps we can all take towards decolonising yoga 


ABOUT SUSANNA:

Author of #1 International Bestseller in Yoga, Nov 2020 Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice. She has an Honors degree in Philosophy, UC Berkeley, and a Masters in Education, Cambridge College. Barkataki is a diversity, accessibility, inclusivity, and equity (DAIE) yoga unity educator who supports practitioners to lead with equity, diversity, and yogic values while growing thriving practices and businesses with confidence. Learn more and take her free masterclass: www.namastemasterclass.com. An Indian yoga practitioner, Susanna Barkataki, is founder of Ignite Institute for Yogic Leadership and Social Change,  200/500 Yoga Teacher Training programs. She is an E-RYT 500, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT).

Website: www.susannabarkataki.com

Instagram: @susannabarkataki 



CONNECT WITH JYOTI:

Jyoti (she/her) is the Founder of Jyoti Rani. She is a Menstrual Cycle Coach and Yoga Teacher.

View her offerings & free menstrual meditations: ⁠www.jyotirani.com⁠

Instagram: ⁠@_jyoti.rani_⁠

Email: ⁠hello@jyotirani.com⁠



With special thanks to Hanna Francis who has written & performed the music & song for this podcast

Website: www.selfhelpsongwriter.com

Instagram: @selfhelpsongwriter 










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Join Jyoti & Meesha as they explore:


Meesha's experience of yoga growing up in a South Asian household
Meesha's journey within the wellness and yoga space as a South Asian Queer individual
What Alchemystic Studio is 
What yoga means and what it is 
How yoga has been colonized and appropriated
What decolonizing yoga means
How we can honour and appreciate yoga



ABOUT MEESHA:

Meesha (she/they) is a queer desi who founded the inclusive yoga space Alchemystic Studio in 2020. The goal of this studio is to provide accessible yoga and healing to those often left out of wellness spaces (including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, the scheduled tribes of India, those suffering from chronic pain and illness, and those who are neurodivergent). Meesha combines the ancestral medicine that runs through them with the fire of freedom fighting activists to provide a holistic and progressive approach to yoga and wellness.

Website: www.alchemysticstudio.com

Instagram: @alchemystic_studio



CONNECT WITH JYOTI:

Jyoti (she/her) is the Founder of Jyoti Rani. She is a Menstrual Cycle Coach and Yoga Teacher.

View her offerings & free menstrual meditations: ⁠www.jyotirani.com⁠

Instagram: ⁠@_jyoti.rani_⁠

Email: ⁠hello@jyotirani.com⁠





With special thanks to Hanna Francis who has written & performed the music & song for this podcast

Website: www.selfhelpsongwriter.com

Instagram: @selfhelpsongwriter 


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