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Jan 2024
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Ep. 105 – Finding Light Through Loss wit...

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About this episode

Sharing her personal story with loss, yoga therapist Wendy Stern joins RamDev to talk about somatic grieving through yoga and mindfulness.

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In this moving episode, RamDev and Wendy Stern converse about:

  • Wendy’s journey with yoga therapy
  • How the loss of her first born child, Noah, propelled Wendy into working with grief
  • Turning to yoga as a sanctuary for exploring difficult emotions
  • How visiting Bali and Thailand showed Wendy that death is just a part of life
  • The way that grief can open our hearts
  • A new appreciation for life after loss
  • What blocks westerners from enlightenment
  • The split between the intellectual body and the emotional body
  • The tantric 3-step and mindful breathing curriculum
  • The profound changes that come from grieving in community
  • Evolving our cultural understanding of grief
  • Accepting and acknowledging grief
  • How retreats can accelerate healing
  • Yoga postures for grief

About Wendy Stern:

Wendy dedicates her life’s work to supporting people to heal and transform through the process of grief. Wendy has devoted the last 20 years to being a student and teacher of yoga. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and is certified as a yoga therapist, teacher, reiki practitioner and facilitator of yoga therapy groups for grief support and self-empowerment. Wendy offers a unique fusion of prana flow yoga and Phoenix Rising, interweaving deep, personal reflection into a vinyasa style class. Through Wendy’s own personal journey with loss, she found herself deepened in her commitment to support others and birthed the Center for Somatic Grieving and the Grief Support Network.

“Until you really have felt loss, until you’ve really inhabited your humanity in that way, for most people there is a place in the heart that hasn’t broken open yet. It’s in those broken places that God can come into each of us.” – RamDev


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