Yoga Therapy Hour with Amy Wheeler

From Āsana to Lived Experience: Yoga, Tantra, Somatics, and Lived Experience

In this solo episode, Amy Wheeler explores a fascinating question: What happens when we look beneath the physical practice of yoga and return to its deeper purpose? Begin

Finding Your Way Back: Trust, Truth, and Regulation Through the Body

Episode Summary In this episode of The Yoga Therapy Hour, Amy sits down with Danielle Burke, a certified yoga therapist and licensed professional counselor, to explore w

Satyam & Ahiṃsā: Telling the Truth Without Harm

In this solo episode, Amy Wheeler explores the second yama, satyam (truthfulness), and its essential relationship to the first yama, ahiṃsā (non-harming). This conversati

Living the Niyamas: Ethics, Self-Study, and the Practice of Inner Alignment

Episode Overview In this thoughtful and grounded conversation, Amy Wheeler sits down with Marlysa Sullivan, a physical therapist, yoga therapist, and educator working wi

Posture, Presence, and the Language of the Body with Posture Ellie

In this episode, Amy sits down with Posture Ellie, a posture specialist based in the Peak District of England, whose work bridges movement, awareness, and human transform

The Niyamas and the Neuroscience of Inner Regulation: Creating the Conditions for Change

Episode Description In this episode, Dr. Amy Wheeler continues the Season 10 exploration of the Eight Limbs of Yoga as a regulatory framework, turning inward toward the

Santoṣa: Meeting Life Without Resistance

In this conversation, Amy sits down with Colleen Carroll for a thoughtful exploration of Santoṣa—often translated as contentment, but experienced as something much more n

Daily Practice, Inner Guidance, and the Living Experience of Sādhana with Lee Mejewski

Episode Overview In this conversation, Amy sits down with Lee to explore the role of daily practice—sādhana—as a living, evolving process rather than a fixed routine. T

Ahimsa in Action: What Aging Teaches Us About Kindness and Strength

Episode Overview In this conversation, Amy Wheeler sits down with yoga therapist and educator Ashley McKeachie to explore the lived experience of ahimsa—non-harming—as i

The Yamas and the Neuroscience of Trust: From Survival to Steady Ground

What does it mean to trust that life will work out—not as a belief, but as a lived, embodied experience? In this solo episode, Dr. Amy Wheeler explores the intersection

Regulating the Inner Landscape: Mala Cunningham on Anxiety, Awareness, and the Nervous System

In this episode, Amy sits down with Mala Cunningham, a pioneer in integrating yoga therapy with mental health care. The conversation offers a steady and thoughtful explor

Loving the Fire: Reinvention, Inner Power, and Living Your Yoga

In this episode, Amy sits down with Deborah Santana—author, philanthropist, and lifelong spiritual practitioner—for a conversation that explores what it means to live fro

Understanding Human Suffering: The Five Kleśas and the Return to Our True Nature

In this solo episode, Amy Wheeler explores one of the most important psychological teachings in the yoga tradition: the five kleśas, described in Chapter 2 of the Yoga Su

When Theories Are Questioned: Polyvagal Critique, Clinical Wisdom, and the Enduring Map of the Guṇas

In this solo episode, Amy Wheeler brings clarity and steadiness to the recent scientific critique of Polyvagal Theory by Paul Grossman and colleagues. Rather than reactin

Sit with Me: A No-BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation with Oneika Mays

In this conversation, Amy sits down with mindfulness teacher and writer Oneika Mays to talk about her new book, Sit with Me: A No-BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation

Five States of Mind, Deeper Self-Reflection, and a New Tool for Titrated Practice

In this solo episode, Amy returns to one of the heart-teachings of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra: learning to observe the fluctuations of mind and how they shape behavior, commu

Post-Traumatic Growth and Neuroplasticity: Healing in Present Time with Colleen Millen

What happens when we stop treating suffering as a fixed identity and start relating to it as a changeable state? In this conversation, Amy Wheeler is joined by Colleen M

Cleaning the Lens: How Daily Practice Rewrites Belief, Body, and Behavior

In this solo reflection, Amy explores why daily practice matters beyond flexibility, strength, or stress relief. Using a simple morning ritual—cleaning her glasses—she of

From Resistance to Resonance: Chanting, Co-Regulation, and the Healing Container

In this warm, clinical-and-traditional conversation, Amy and Lisa explore how chanting and mantra practice can shape the autonomic nervous system and the mind through rep

Practice, Let Go, Trust: Abhyāsa, Vairāgya, and Śraddhā in the Yoga Sūtra

In this solo episode, Amy Wheeler explores three foundational teachings from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra that describe how real transformation unfolds over time: abhyāsa (stea