Appreciating and savoring what is going well in our bodies, homes, relationships, and communities counteracts negativity and bestows health onto our bodies and minds. Practicing gratitude supports healing. People who practice gratitude are more positive, compassionate, and generous. They also sleep better, have healthier hearts and less aches and pains. Try this simple gratitude practice.

WCWB Inspire Women Podcast Episode 21

Learn about how Annie got in to wellness, how she built her business, her values, and the services she offers.

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In this meditation, we connect to the Five Great Elements that make up ourselves and life and matter on this planet. These are known in Yoga and Ayurveda as the panchamahabhutas, and they represent the foundational aspects of nature and matter: space, air, fire, water, and earth.

Here is a beautiful and simple meditation to connect with the earth that is inspired from the Andean Tradition. This meditation is for bringing the different aspects and parts of your being into harmony with the energy of Mother Earth.

Ground the body. Bring attention to the here and now. Soothe the nervous system. Helpful for times when you feel anxious or overwhelmed.

A self-compassionate practice to help you activate your care response toward yourself, decrease stress hormones, and give your body comfort through kind, gentle, supportive touch.

In this audio, you'll learn the basics of mindful breathing meditation.

In this audio, you'll learn a simple mantra meditation practice for inner calm, stability and equanimity.

Loving kindness meditation is a meditation practice aimed at cultivating compassion to oneself and to others.

Belly breathing is a breathing practice that can help regulate the nervous system, shift one's mindset to greater positivity, decrease stress, increase alertness and allow the body to release toxins.

Learn alternate nostril breathing, a balancing breath practice for inner calm

This podcast will help you bring your yoga practice home and establish an effective yoga practice for yourself for personal growth, as well as physical and emotional wellbeing.

This podcast talks about how to navigate habit change amidst relationships. How to pay attention to the company we keep and how we can evolve faster when when we spend time with the people who have the habits you want to have.

In this audio lecture, you'll be introduced to Ayurveda and the Ayurvedic dosha model, a model that can help you understand your own unique mind-body so you can make choices to optimize your wellness.

This lecture is for you if:

• You feel like you are on the run too much and your life feels chaotic or overwhelming
• You feel anxious
• You begin the day racing and feel like you are racing right up until bed time

• You are experiencing stress in your workplace or in your relationships
• Your body-mind is showing signs of stress and tension
• You think there must be another way to do things and you want to explore what this is.

If this is you, I want to give you a recipe for ease

This talk is for you if:
· You want to eat for better energy and restful sleep.
· You want to learn simple ways to detox daily.
· You want ideas for healthy, easy-to-prepare meals.
· You want effective tips for reducing inflammation, shedding extra weight and improving overall health.

Join me and get on track with healthy eating this season!

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Introduction to Meditation

In this hour long audio lesson, Annie talks about:
1) about the benefits of meditation,
2) how meditation works and
3) how you can start a simple and effective meditation practice that you can start benefiting from right away.

I have spent most summers on the go for as long as I can remember.  By foot, plane, train, bus, car, taxi.  Sleeping in airports, hotels, homes, cabins, and cabins.  I’m a pretty darn good traveler, but it hasn’t always been this way. Tune in for my best tips for travel.

Are you living the daily habits for long term health and happiness?

This talk is for you if..

• You are experiencing some age related health issues that are getting in the way of living life the way you want to
• You know you may be genetically predisposed to particular health issues and diseases and you want to prevent them
• You want to live a healthy, active life right now and into the future.
• You want to learn the key habits associated with longevity.

In this talk, I focus on the 5 key habits for aging gracefully taken from research done on the so called "blue zones," the places on the planet where there are the largest concentrated numbers of centenarians.

Are you tired of being tired?

​Tune in to this talk to learn 7 simple and effective strategies from for getting great rest including:

Why getting great sleep begins the moment you get up in the morning
• How eating a lighter, earlier dinner can help you sleep better
• Why you should cut your evening screen time
• How to make your bedroom a haven for relaxation and rest
• What do to if and when you wake up in the night

I am delighted to be featured on my dear friend Jasmin Faulk Dickerson's podcast: I Want You To Meet. In this interview, I share my story of how I was drawn to the yoga and wellness path, the lessons I've learned along the way, and my tips for living well during this challenging time.

Yoga teaches us how critical our patterns are, not only in shaping our bodies, but also in shaping our destinies. Through the work of habit evolution we can prepare our minds and bodies to do the deeper work of self-understanding.

Annie Barrett raps about how her family is evolving their health and connectivity with weekly family meetings. Annie talks about how she got her husband and two teens on board with weekly meetings, which was not an easy feat, and how it is improving their connectivity, communication, habits and health.

In today’s Yoga Health Coaching episode, Annie Barrett and I sit down to talk about what happens as you develop as a Yoga Health Coach.

Do you feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to engage in your own self-care and business, and take care of your family or community? Tune in for strategies for mastering your time and energy.

Work can take over. Life can take over, leaving little room for fun and relaxation. That is if we are not intentional about how we use time and implement strategies to direct our day. Annie is the mother of 2, well-preneur, yoga health coach and someone who intentionally creates ease in her life. She walks her talk. We chat about key tools to become master of your time, get a S#%! load done and create more room for quiet and fun.

Finding one’s life purpose, or dharma, ain’t easy especially if you don’t have a roadmap. Many people get stuck, frustrated or disoriented along the way, longingly wanting to arrive at their one god given mission. Annie enlightens us that dharma is not static but instead dynamically changes and evolves as we shift, grow and change.

In our enculturated western lives, we often neglect our relationships with nature. There is a lot we can learn about this relationship from the Andean people, who follow indigenous wisdom regarding their interactions with the Earth. Our ancestors all over the world lived as land stewards in harmony with their ecosystems and with the cycles of nature. The Andean people not only value their relationship with the Earth, but also those within their communities.
What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Andean wisdom can inform our lives
• How to become a successful land steward
• Why Anyi – sacred reciprocity – is so important

It was an honor and a pleasure to be interviewed by Dancer, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher, Holistic Life Coach, Chris Casely of BELLA*LIFE. In this podcast, I share my thoughts on Dharma, life purpose, aging gracefully.