Welcome to the feel good podcast with Kimberly Snyder. My goal is to help you develop a holistic lifestyle based on our four cornerstone philosophy, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth.

This holistic approach will help you feel good, which I define as being connected to your

most authentic highest self, and this is the place from which your energy, confidence,

creativity, true power and true beauty will start to explode. Every week we

provide you with interviews from top experts in their field or a solo cast from yours truly to support you in living your most beautiful, healthy and joyful life.

I'm your host, Kimberly Snyder, founder of Saluna, New York Times best-selling author and holistic wellness, nutrition and meditation teacher.

Let's get started.

Hi, ladies and welcome back to our Monday interview podcast, where I'm very

excited to delve into a topic today which you may or may not have heard of,

it's energy medicine and it's said to have been around since the

beginning of time. It's how we work with our bodies in bringing energy in to

heal blockages and to rejuvenate the body in different ways.

This is something that's been talked about in terms of practices like Tai Chi and Chigong and yoga and from some pioneers in this field in the Western world, including Donna Eden,

was able to heal herself of fibromyalgia just through working with her own body bodily practices.

And today on the podcast we have another teacher in the space called Lauren Walker, who is a yoga practitioner and teacher. She is the founder of Energy Medicine

Yoga, and she has written a book called The Energy to Heal. Finding Lasting Freedom through Stress and Trauma. the energy

freedom through stress and trauma through energy medicine yoga.

So I was really called to bring this topic up today

into our community because we want to always take a multifaceted approach to our healing,

to our wellness, and there's so many different forms of nourishment, including the foods that we put into

our body and clean water and sunlight and healthy environment and relationships,

but also the ways in which we move the energy in our bodies through our will, through physical movement. So I'm really

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