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Non-Diet Yogi

Non-Diet Yogi explores and dismantles the world of #BigWellness, where yoga, spirituality, fitness, diet culture, white supremacy and toxic female entrepreneurship collide in a dizzying spectacle of goji berries and designer mala beads.This podcast is for you if you - love yoga, but don’t always love yoga culture - wish to form a deeper connection with your body and with the natural world around you, minus the wellness wankery - are tired of the classism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fat phobia and other threads of white supremacy woven throughout #BigWellness. Hosted by Casey Conroy, non-diet dietitian, naturopath in training, and yoga teacher.

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Ep 19. Welcome back! Personal reflections on a challenging year

March 17, 2022 • Casey Conroy, MNutrDiet, APD, YT • Episode 19

In this episode I share why this podcast went quiet in the past year. I discuss divorce, compassion & critical thinking, and working as a holistic health practitioner in communities burdened by COVID misinformation. It contains a lot of personal details and reflections. If that's not your thing, no worries - scroll on.

SHOW NOTES:

02:30 On being a "muscles and bones" yoga teacher instead of a philosophising one
05:40 Prajna and critical analysis as ways of inner knowing
11:33 The place of compassion in reducing COVID transmission
16:13 Moving through separation and divorce
18:40 Career changes to make ends meet
21:20 Working as a holistic health practitioner in communities burdened by COVID conspiracy theory and medical misinformation
26:14 Vaccines and naturopathic medicine principles
31:32 The value of combining compassion with analytical reasoning
42:37 How this podcast will evolve

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RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Dr. Dan Wilson, PhD: A compassionate case for COVID vaccination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-KdEgh4Ps8

Max Cohen, ND: Are vaccines consistent with naturopathic medicine?
https://ndsforvaccines.com/reconciling-the-irreconcilable-are-vaccines-consistent-with-naturopathic-medicine/

Pennycook, Gordon. (2019). Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking. Journal of Personality. 88. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jopy.12476

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