Yoga for Weight Lifters, Breathing Techniques, Meditation Made Easy, Calming Your Nervous System, & More…
The Jordan Syatt Podcast
Jordan Syatt
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Jordan Syatt Podcast I speak with Sonya Azad (@sonyaazadtv) and we discuss:
- Yoga for weight lifters
- Breathing techniques and strategies
- Meditation made easy
- How to calm your nervous system
- And more...
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| 0:00.0 | Sonia, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:01.8 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:02.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:03.5 | Thank you, Mitch, for introducing us. Yeah. Mitch, thank you. So for everyone listening, Mitch has introduced us to Sonia. Sonia, before we dive into fitness and health and everything we're going to get into, introduce yourself to my audience. Who are you? What do you do you from phyllis in oh my gosh this is i feel |
| 0:21.0 | like the hardest question that you'll probably ask me because when someone asks who are you i'm |
| 0:26.4 | like which aspect of me are you asking about there's we have so many dimensions um every aspect |
| 0:31.7 | every aspect okay okay okay uh so i was born and raised in houston Okay. My parents are from Iran, both of them. They came to America in the 70s before pre-revolution. Yeah. Did they feel something was happening? No. There's a huge swath of Iranians who came to America during that time to study for education. Yeah. And a lot of them |
| 0:57.4 | were planning to go back. And then the revolution started so they couldn't go back. So my parents |
| 1:02.9 | actually met in Brenham, Texas. It's amazing. Like what? And yeah, so then I was born. |
| 1:11.6 | And so they, thankfully, chose to stay here. |
| 1:14.8 | And then my sisters were born. |
| 1:16.2 | And so, yeah, I grew up in Houston, went to undergrad at UT in Austin. |
| 1:21.8 | Oh, nice. |
| 1:22.7 | Studied journalism. |
| 1:24.1 | Okay. |
| 1:24.6 | And eventually went to grad school at Northwestern in Chicago. So that was the academic route. So I was a journalist on television for 20 years. Oh, wow. For 20 years. That's amazing. Do you like it? Loved it. Love it. But then you got out of it? I do freelance right now. Okay. So it was, you know, I did everything from reporting on crime to immigration, to politics, to law, and then finally got into health and wellness. |
| 1:55.3 | Interesting. |
| 1:55.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:56.3 | This is really cool. |
| 1:57.1 | I didn't know any of this. |
| 1:58.0 | I know. |
| 1:58.3 | Welcome to the party. |
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