259: Where do you hold stress in your body? | Gail Parker, Ph.D., E-RYT 500

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Gail Parker, Ph.D., E-RYT 500: “Emotional pain is just as painful as physical pain, because they share the same neural pathway.” Parker, a psychologist and certified yoga teacher, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the common areas people store stress and how to release it, plus: *How yoga can help strengthen your emotional resilience* *The strange reason you may feel antsy during meditation* *The difference between body awareness and cognitive awareness* *How to use yoga to help heal from race-based stress and collective trauma* *How to take your yoga "off the mat"* Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:44.6	guaranteed. Dr. Gail Parker is a psychologist, certified yoga teacher, and a lifelong
0:52.1	practitioner of yoga.
0:53.8	She became the president of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Board of Directors in
0:57.8	2020 and is well known for her pioneering efforts to blend psychology, yoga, and meditation as effective self-care
1:05.4	strategies that can enhance emotional balance and contribute to the overall
1:09.7	health and well-being of practitioners. She's been a featured psychology expert on
1:14.3	nationally and internationally syndicated talk shows including numerous
1:18.0	appearances on Oprah.
1:22.0	Gail, welcome.
1:25.0	Thank you. It's lovely to be here.
1:28.0	So your work is so interesting because you truly sit at the intersection of one of my favorite practices,
1:35.3	yoga, and then also psychology, and I think, wow, given what's going on in the world right now,
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