79: Using breathwork as a path to wellness with Kiesha Yokers
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Using your breath can be a powerful wellness tool whose benefits have been backed by scientific research. This free, easily accessible tool can be used by anyone at any time to help regulate emotion and bring a sense of well-being to your life. Breath is at the core of Pilates and can be used for wellness both on the mat and off.
Our guest today is breathwork coach, Kiesha Yokers. Kiesha is passionate about breathwork and education and is striving to bring the gift of breathwork as a path to wellness to as many people as she can.
Check out this episode to hear all the ways you can benefit from using breathwork as a wellness tool. Make sure to listen until the end to hear a few breathing techniques that you (and your kids) can use right now to help you relax and enter rest and digest mode.
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- KieshaYokers.com
- @KieshaYokers on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of Lindy Well. Here on the Balance Life |
| 0:14.7 | podcast, you'll find honest conversations about health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. |
| 0:23.4 | We'll cover it all and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you become |
| 0:29.2 | the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome back. I'm excited about today's episode. We are going to be diving into |
| 0:40.8 | breathwork, discussing the power of our breath, what it means to have conscious breathing |
| 0:46.6 | and to be aware of our breath throughout the day and not just throughout the day, but what |
| 0:50.1 | it even looks like to dabble in and explore a breathwork practice. You guys know that I am |
| 0:56.1 | passionate about breath, being a Pilates instructor and someone who has struggled with anxiety |
| 1:00.9 | in the past and just like everybody else needs to manage my stress on a daily basis, |
| 1:06.0 | breath has been a powerful tool for me. And so I really want to continue to bring you |
| 1:10.6 | resources to help you |
| 1:12.3 | use it in your life as well. Breath is accessible to all of us. It's something that is free. |
| 1:17.8 | It's with us wherever we go. And the actual physical research backed and proven benefits are very |
| 1:25.9 | real and very powerful for what it can do for our health and our |
| 1:29.2 | well-being. So I'm excited to introduce you to today's guest. Keisha Yokers is a certified |
| 1:34.8 | breathwork coach. She runs the blog Green and Well, and she's really passionate about helping |
| 1:40.3 | women who value clean beauty, health, and wellness really learn how to live a healthy |
| 1:45.0 | lifestyle. She's passionate about education, providing great resources, and making wellness |
| 1:49.8 | and particularly breathwork accessible to all. She's a Navy wife, a mama tattoo, adoption |
| 1:56.1 | advocate, long-time runner, and passionate supporter of social equality through health and holistic living. |
| 2:02.3 | I adore Keisha. I know you will too. So let's go ahead and dive into our conversation. |
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