In this episode host Andrea Ferreti talks to Reema Datta, an Indian-American teacher, speaker, humanitarian, musician and author about developing a yoga practice founded on our emotional health and healing. They also discuss how to act when something doesn’t resonate and the cultural appropriation of yoga that Datta recently discussed in her Elephant Journal essay. Gives a holistic view of yoga sometimes missed.

This episode of The Guilty Feminist focuses on how movement can help with our emotional and mental wellbeing. Hosts Deborah Frances-White and Jessica Fostekew talk to two New Zealand-based organizations, the Shift Foundation and Kia Haumaura on how ideas of movement impact women, girls, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community and how it can be the thing that ultimately brings them a sense of confidence, safety, and belonging.

Suleika Jaouad talks about the main takeaways from her memoir Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, which covers the 15,000 miles she traveled across the US meeting people touched by her New York Times column about her Leukemia diagnosis. About how we rethink our relationship with our bodies and recovery and full of inspirational advice about moving through and on.

Host Pandora Sykes talks to Pooja Lakshmin MD, writer, psychiatrist and founder of the women's health platform Gemma, about all things self-care. In this episode, they cover how the idea of self-care has been co-opted by Wellness Inc, how it can put pressure on individuals to fix something, its origins in the voices of black women, and the difference between burnout and despair. We particularly appreciated the discussion about how wellness, self care and mental health are interrelated but different (that a practice is not necessarily a treatment). Ultimately though it’s about how to make space for yourself in ways that work for you.

More a series recommendation, than a single episode, this podcast from New York Magazine unravels some of the hidden practices around psychedelic healing and how some of our understanding of the mind/body connection is shifting. Hosted by iO Tillett Wright, with collaborator Lily Kay Ross, who uses her own experience of learning to be a healer as a framework, Power Trip is less about efficacy and more about ethics. A fascinating expose into a world we’re just coming to understand, even as it’s fast catching our attention.

Host Poppy Jamie talks to Kate Moyle, one of the UK’s leading psychosexual and relationship therapists about how anxiety impacts our sex lives and how our stressful modern lives might be affecting us in ways we’re not yet naming. Full of understanding, and honesty, about what can be a tricky subject, this episode makes sure that sexual wellness is something we’re talking about too. Pair with Kate’s own podcast The Sexual Wellness Sessions.