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“Returning to the Body Mind”
with Dr. Melissa West

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Returning to the Body Mind is a radio show that revisits the wisdom of the body as the seat of the soul. With so much talk in the media about manifesting and mind over matter we may have forgotten about the importance of the health of our bodies as the foundation for spiritual and personal growth. There is a deep-seated tradition of thinking in the Western world that privileges the mind over the body. Yet even as spiritual beings we inhabit human bodies. The body is truly a temple for our spirit. In order to honor our bodies we need to treat them with optimal respect by properly nourishing them with good hydration, oxygenation, sleep, nutrition, and activities that uplift the soul. On Returning to the Body Mind, radio talk show host Dr. Melissa West will lead you through a series of common sense topics from breathing, hydration, sleep, digestion, and sex as tools not only to optimal health but as a gateway to the soul.

About Dr. Melissa West

Dr. Melissa West is a holistic lifestyle coach, psychospiritual energy worker and yoga and pilates instructor who helps people surrender to peace in their lives by connecting to and feeding the vital energy in their bodies. Melissa has spent ten years in the health and wellness industry helping adults decrease stress in their lives and improving overall functioning of their bodies from brain longevity to digestion, optimal organ function to healthy weight loss. Melissa learned the importance of a healthy lifestyle as a way to cope with the stress of academia during her studies in a Masters of Arts in Music Criticism and a Ph.D. in Communications and Cultural Studies. Her skills as a scholarly researcher, combined with her experience teaching adults within the university institution adds to the pedagogical skills Melissa brings to talk radio. Melissa now helps people find peace amidst the turmoil of their anxiety-ridden lives as a holistic lifestyle coach, yoga and pilates instructor and psychospiritual energy worker.

UPCOMING SHOWS

August 18 Yogini: Unfolding the Goddess Within with Shambhavi Chopra
Shambhavi Chopra will connect us to a direct experience of the Goddess and deeper yoga practices. She will talk to us about the essence of tantra and the connection to Goddess in our everyday lives. Chopra will explain how the Yogini is a woman of profound inner experience and realization. Yogini Shambhavi Chopra is the co-director of the American Vedic Institute.
American Vedic Institute

August 25 Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind with Michael Stone
Buddhism and yoga share a common history that goes back centuries. But because yoga and Buddhism came to North America from Asia as two separate traditions, their commonalities in the West often seem invisible. Most people choose to study either yoga or Buddhism and generally don't combine the practices. Michael Stone brings together a collection of intriguing voices to show how Buddhism and yoga really do share the same values and spiritual goals. The contributors' themes are rich and varied, yet they all focus on the common threads among the traditions that offer guidance toward spiritual freedom and genuine realization.
Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity

September 1 Yogini: The Power of Women in Yoga with Janice Gates
YOGINI traces the rise of women teachers in modern yoga and offers insight and wisdom for women interested in integrating yoga practice into their daily life. Filled with personal stories of intention, intuition, and devotion, and illustrated with candid photos of notable female practitioners, YOGINI is a spirited guide for the modern yogini, providing a fresh perspective on the yogic path.
Janice Gates Yoga

September 8, TBA

September 15, Sacred Activism with Andrew Harvey
With The Hope, Andrew Harvey has given a name to the path that so many of us are now following and to which many are being called: "Sacred Activism". As he explains, "When...the joy of compassionate service is married to a practical and pragmatic drive to transform all existing economic, social and political institutions, a radical and potentially all-transforming holy force is born. This radical holy force I call Sacred Activism.... My deepest prayer for the vision of Sacred Activism is that it will inspire you to harness the energies of love, both in yourself and with others, and to discover, with wonder and hope, the joy and power of...that fiery passion of compassion that, when allied with grounded wise action, will help us change everything."
Sacred Activism

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"And the time came when the wish to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin
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