The Simple Ayurveda Podcast: Episode 166
Join Angela and guest Steff Gallante in this episode: Practices for Healing From Trauma, Supporting Your Mental Health, and Fortifying Your Self-Care During the Holiday Season.
In this episode, Angela and Steff Gallante discuss practices for healing from trauma, supporting your mental health, and fortifying your self-care during the holiday season. Thank you for listening and for having an open heart and open mind to dive into what may be uncomfortable in looking at your own trauma and how that can make you more compassionate for others. We appreciate you for being here and being part of this discussion.
Steff Gallante is a professional wellness coach and instructor who empowers her clients to uplift their day-to-day life by incorporating tools such as yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and Ayurveda self-care practices. Her services provide mental, emotional, energetic, and physical health support through one-on-one and group sessions. Steff holds a Masters of Education in Kinesiology and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She is a a mental health and trauma-informed yoga teacher, certified Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist licensed by the Himalayan Institute in Pennsylvania, E-RYT 200 and Continuing Education Provider with Yoga Alliance, and Zumbaⓡ Instructor for 12+ years. Steff works with clients to enhance their mental, emotional, and physical health. Her services include Mindfulness & Meditation Coaching, Ayurveda Wellness Coaching, Private Yoga Sessions, Livestream Yoga and Zumba classes, and wellness courses and workshops. Steff is a lecturer for Rutgers University's Department of Kinesiology.
In this episode, learn more about:
• The importance of learning how different experiences have an effect on you
• A definition of trauma and how needed it is to normalize what people are going through and the support they need
• One of the greatest lessons in becoming more self-aware
• Ways to support ourselves during times of stress, overwhelm, and during the holiday season
• Simple tools to bring us back to ourselves when we're feeling unbalanced
• How powerful it can be to hold space for ourselves and acknowledge our feelings and experiences in the moment
• Having boundaries in place to control the energies you're going to allow in and out
• and more!
Healthy Happy Holidays is back for the 3rd year in a row! Included are self-guided video lessons walking you through real-life interpretations of ayurvedic philosophy and ancient traditions and how to use them to support us in modern day life, especially through the holidays and pandemic times. Receive a combination of self-paced video lessons and practices that are simple and easy to support you, as well as 2 live video check ins and 2 live yin yoga classes. Join us for Happy Healthy Holidays!
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