A Natural Approach to Autoimmune Disease with Claire Missingham

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Claire Missingham is back on the podcast this week, and we're talking about how she's been using yoga and other natural healing modalities to manage a recent diagnosis of an autoimmune disease.

She tells us:

*How the grief of losing a yoga teacher in her community to suicide led her to start running, learn to swim (as an adult), and compete in marathons and triathalons

*How she became diagnosed with Lupus, and how she manages it through food, adaptogenic herbs, and other natural methods of healing

*Why she takes a freezing cold shower every morning before her yoga practice and wears a bikini in the snow!

*What herbs she found to be most helpful in her healing, travel, and daily life and why she says they're worth every penny (Plus, she offers a few

tips for stretching your dollar when buying and using herbs)

*How her diagnosis has impacted her asana practice and her thoughts on how yoga is always changing to meet her where she is

Show notes (and Claire's smoothie recipe) at: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode116

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 116 of Yoga Land.
0:06.7	Today I'm joined by my friend Claire Missingham.
0:09.7	Claire as you may know was on episode, and we go way back from when she was on the cover of
0:16.7	Yoga Journal.
0:18.2	Claire is a renowned yoga teacher.
0:19.9	She's based in London.
0:21.0	She's been teaching for nearly 20 years and doing yoga much longer than that.
0:26.4	And she also has a new podcast called Radiantly Alive. So I very much encourage you to go over and listen to it. Claire is so smart and so creative and just has a really deep wisdom background that she draws from.
0:42.4	The first episode of her podcast is with her old
0:45.5	friend from the Spice Girls, Melanie Chisholm. So it's really fun to listen to.
0:50.8	Today Claire and I talk about her experience with having an autoimmune
0:55.4	disease. So obviously I don't see Claire as often as I would like but I see her
1:00.4	on social media and I noticed she'd started posting about coping with
1:04.8	lupus. So I wanted to ask her how she's navigated that, the treatments she's
1:10.9	incorporated, the natural treatments she's figured out for herself how it's affected her
1:16.4	yoga practice and what she's drawn from in her yoga practice to get through it and
1:21.6	of course as I said she's so super sharp so
1:25.8	she's researched things to the hilt and has figured out a protocol that really
1:31.1	works for her it's obviously not medical advice, we're not doctors, but it's just kind of fascinating to hear about her journey.
1:38.0	We get into some of the adaptogenic herbs that she uses, which I'm pretty fascinated by. I've been taking one of them for the past few months, and I wanted to hear more about that. And also as a side note, if you would like to hear a specific episode with a
1:54.0	naturopath or an iavitic doctor about adaptogenic herbs, will you let me
1:58.4	know? It's something I've thought about and tossed around in my head and a little cheer from the audience
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