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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to insights at the edge. Today my guest is Lauren Walker.

Lauren has been teaching yoga and meditation

since 1997.

A writer since childhood, Lauren's work has been featured in the New York Times, the Jerusalem Post, and in Yoga Journal.

She's a teaching assistant for Donna Eden and is a certified energy medicine practitioner.

Lauren founded and ran the yoga program at Norwich University for four years and she now teaches energy medicine yoga across the world.

With sounds true, Lauren Walker has written a new book, Energy Medicine Yoga,

which combines the techniques of energy medicine with yoga to enhance your health and vitality.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Lauren and I spoke about the release of trauma through

combining techniques from energy medicine with yoga poses. We talked about specific energy medicine techniques you can do on the

spot to calm the fight-flight response in the body and to awaken the proper directional flows of energy in the body.

Lauren also shared with us the pure breath technique, a profound transformational breathing practice that she learned from her yoga teacher,

Rod Striker. And finally, Lauren talked about her wilderness experiences and how they informed her development of energy medicine

yoga. Here's my conversation with Lauren Walker. Lauren to begin with I'd love if you could tell me a little bit about the history of how you started combining your practice of yoga with

techniques from energy medicine. Sure, well it's kind of a long and winding road really. I had been teaching yoga

for many years and had a yoga studio and left that in a kind of, it was a really shattering series of events that made me, sort of forced me to leave that.

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