What we covered in the Episode
The new way we are going to conduct season 2 that you can look forward to
What moms told me how they felt after the affirmations I created for them
What should be the bread, butter and rice of mom’s daily practices
The meditation that Yoga Avec Moi translated in 22 languages
What Nahal wants to stop all mothers from feeling
The importance of daily practice for mothers
Where the Mama Comfort Toolkit interviews took Yoga Avec Moi
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How the Ukrainians ended up in Germany
How the Ukrainians are adjusting to life in Germany
How the companies that Farid used to work with banded together to help again
How the Syrian refugees reacted when the Ukrainian refugees arrived
How the Ukrainian’s are learning German
What are the challenges with this refugee crisis
What it’s like to be half Ukrainian and Russian at this time
How the Ukrainians dealt with their children during this war
How the Russians are also fleeing to Germany
Yoga Avec Moi creating Ukrainian meditations for the Bicentenary Meditation Project
What are conversations that people are engaging with in society about the situation
What can the mothers on the YAM Podcast do to help the situation
How a Afghani refugee took in the same Ukrainian family that took him in initially
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Sunita’s beginnings of learning The Bhagavad Gita
What is the Bhagavad Gita about?
What is a Guru？
What is Guru Tatva?
What is the difference between Sikhism and Hinduism?
The unconditional love you feel for your children
The importance of being an example for your children
The importance of praising other children in front of your own
How to overcome jealousy
The importance of surrender
What to say when the child is being disciplined
The importance of mothers doing breath practices
What is condemned in the Bhagavad Gita?
What we need to teach our children?
How to reuse toys and get children involved with it?
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How long you should wait before you go to the hospital after your water breaks
What helped Mona during the most painful parts of labor
The miracle of Mona’s sister coming to the rescue
An angel professor came to help
How one challenge after another came even after the birth
The power of prayer
Recalling those who have passed during childbirth
The mystery of death and birth
The unexpected complications that happened after birth
How birth is a miracle for the mother and the baby
How spiritually high you feel after birth
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What the society in Thailand is like
How the realities in Thailand are like for Mona Greenspoon being half white half Thai
The importance of understanding English to access knowledge of the world
Baha’i Sacred Writings and book translations
What is the Ruhi Institute and how it can help your community?
What the Thai society thinks about birthing
Mona Greenspoons first birth with cesarean delivery
Mona’s search to do a VBAC in Thailand
Difference between Trial of Labor After Cesarean (TOLAC) & Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)
Prices of VBACs in Thailand
VBAC’s in Chiangmai
Envisioning the delivery process
The importance of prayer in decision making
What are braxton hicks and what does it feel like
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What is naturopathic medicine
How naturopathic medicine is not susceptible to the placebo effect
How homeopathic medicine be used for animals
Typical reasons why mothers would approach a naturopath
How does hypnotherapy work
The prerequisite conditions you need for your body to heal
How dreams work
What is naturopathic medicine good for
Read moreHow Farid Bidardel ended up helping Syrian refugees
What Farid was working on before creating a start up
Why Farid started prioritising training female Syrian refugees
Why Farid hired a female CEO to run the company
What Farid learned from his mother
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What are micro greens
How much micro greens do you really need
How the colours of micro greens relate to yogic chakras
How long do microgreens take to grow
What are the benefits of microgreens
How Josh started to think about microgreens
How to grow microgreens
How to sneak microgreens in your recipes for your kids
Some thoughts on how to make microgreens as your business
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Humble origins of Elikah’s music career
The first album Elikah released
The miraculous gifts Elikah developed with little sleep
All the things that Elikah does
Where organization and beauty came into the picture
Behind the scenes of what it’s like to create a album
Composing music for the departed
How music for the departed helps people grieve
Joining music and videos together
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Humble origins of Elikah’s music career
The first album Elikah released
The miraculous gifts Elikah developed with little sleep
All the things that Elikah does
Where organization and beauty came into the picture
Behind the scenes of what it’s like to create a album
Composing music for the departed
How music for the departed helps people grieve
Joining music and videos together
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How do you assess children with special needs
What is Autism
How to open the portal of communication with children with Autism
How can we go deep into the world with children with Autism
What can a parent do to get into their child’s world
How can parents become attentive of their children
Children are the expert of who they are
How do you deal with children who crumble after criticism
How to help children navigate the world
How to view the word discipline
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My aunts background in Iran
What it’s like to age beyond years my aunt thought she would live
What it was like in Iran after the revolution
Who are Baha’is and what are their beliefs?
How my aunt was personally affected by being a Baha’i after the revolution in Iran
What it was like for my aunt to mother after grief and a traumatic event
What it was like for my aunt to live in a third world country
What it was like living and mothering in Malawi as an expat
What it was like to mother without a mother
Dreams that my aunt had of her parents during her mothering
My aunt sharing her experiences as a therapist
The one client that just couldn’t kick out of her office
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Quote A Mom shared about motherhood
The unique relationship I have with A Mom
The challenges that ensued after birth
Statistics of perinatal mood disorders
What got A Mom hospitalized for perinatal mood disorder
The shocking number of hospital beds available for perinatal mood disorders
How do you know you have a perinatal mood disorder
The important lesson of learning to drop breastfeeding in favour of moms mental health
What it was like for A Mom to be in a 7-day perinatal mood disorder program
When A Mom realized she was back
The yoga class that changed A Mom life
How loving yourself during hard times is what brings you back to centre
How no body focuses on the mom after birth
What A Mom message is to other women who have perinatal mood disorders
How A Mom prepared for her second birth
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What it was like for my sister-in-law to be a first-time mom
The best decision she made about breast feeding
How I learned to get on board with my sister-in-law’s decision
How my sister-in-law coped with lack of sleep
The trade-off people make during motherhood
What it was like for my sister-in-law to have a second-baby
The incredible birth story of the second birth
What breast feeding was like second time around
How my sister-in-law instills virtues in my nephews
Activities you can do with your kids to instill virtues
My sister-in-laws perspective on how to raise boys that will become gentlemen
What I learned about healing my own inner masculine
One of the most un-conventional decision’s my sister-in-law made after second baby came
Our relationship with the male counterpart
How do masculine and feminine energies come to the fore with toys
The advice my sister-in-law had for me
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How I almost died when I was one years old
Importance of knowing your Human Design energy types
Why my parents decided to put their kids in a Chinese local school
Why my mom put me in kindergarden after starting Grade 1 in China
How my brothers adapted in Chinese school compared to me
That time when the principle called my mom to come to the school
How my siblings and I were when we were teenagers
The only time I lied to my mom
How I shaped my mom as a mother
The timeless yogic principle about parents
How we helped each other see the purpose of our lives
What my mom has found the most rewarding being a mother
What my parents decided before they had kids
My mothers advice to other moms about believing in their own intuition
Perspective on why some women are miserable in motherhood
Bonus of my mom reading my favourite children’s book for my audience :)
Read moreThe YAM Podcast was born out of a request from 31 one interviews that we did with women from around the world for a product we wanted to create called The Mama’s Daily Comfort Toolkit. These women interviewed were from 12 countries and 25 different cities, nearly one woman per new city, where we ask them the question of “What brings them comfort?”
Read moreThe YAM Podcast is a podcast dedicated to mothers, mothering and their journeys. It launched on September 9th, 2022. You can expect a new episode every Thursdays! Feel free to e-mail us at yogiavecmoi@gmail.com to let us know any topics or guest speakers you'd like us to have on!
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