Kundalini Yoga for Post Abortion Healing
This week’s guest is Valinda Cochella, MA, E-RYT. She has a masters degree in dance movement therapy from UCLA and has been practicing yoga for 26 years teaching for over 20... she’s passionate about helping women create peace in their bodies minds and spirits every day using the tools and techniques she’s been studying teaching and living for over half her life.
Visit her website at: https://www.southbayyoginis.com/
Show Notes:
3:12 My Kundalini Yoga experience
5:28 “I definitely healed myself with Kundalini”
5:48 Conversations with my Soul Sisters
6:05 “If you’re willing to sit with yourself 3 minutes, 6 minute, 9 minutes a day, I can help you”
7:26 Valinda’s introduction and story
7:39 “We can love ourselves just as we are and move forward no matter what we’ve been through in our lives”
9:27 Masters- joining movement and therapy, “ helping people be in their bodies”
10:15 “My soul honors your soul; I see beyond your human form”
11:34 “Sat Nam- truth is my name”
11:49 “It was the first time I had respite from my own thoughts”
12:47 “We’re working on the four aspects of the self. The mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual all in one practice.”
13:40 “It’s great for people with super active minds”
15:00 “We really learn to accept ourselves just as we are”
15:06 “The ultimate goal of yoga is to merge your finite with your infinite. We come from the assumption that we all have a soul and we learn how to contact our soul every day, the highest part of ourselves...”
16:14 “You cannot separate your body and your mind”
16:26 Dying to Be Me- Anita Moorjani
17:40 Mantra- “I am the light of my soul. I am bountiful. I am beautiful. I am bliss. I am. I am.”
18:03 “When do we practice being beautiful and acknowledging ourselves for all that we’ve survived?”
18:17 “When we start this practice we actually heal the seven generations behind us, and we affect the seven generations ahead of us.”
20:28 “When we take the seat every day it’s an honoring of all parts of ourselves”
21:19 “Whatever it is that we take time to do, that feeds our soul, every single day, we begin to build self-esteem”
25:08 “If you are experiencing depression and anxiety, get to a therapist.”
26:20 “Anything that’s gonna help you get your head above the water, and then you can start doing things that bring you joy”
27:00 Blending Western and Eastern medicine
29:48 “Have compassion for yourself; everyday do something kind…”
31:10 “3 deep breaths, left hand on heart. I’ve got you. I see you. Allow Allow Allow.”
32:03 “I am the light of the soul” Mantra for self-esteem
33:05 Full Audio Gurudass Kaur
