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Alison Zak

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The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast

The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained

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Humans are one of hundreds of thousands of lifeforms on this planet, and each has its own unique place in the ecosystem. In this conversation, we're talking about the inherent connection between humans and the world of living things. Our guest is Alison Zak, environmental educator, anthropologist, yoga teacher and author of "Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World. This book is a delightful mix of wildlife science, Hindu mythology, Eastern philosophy, and personal stories. Alison sits down with Mary and Emma to discuss the importance of curiosity and wonder in our relationship with nature and how the yoga poses inspired by animals help foster that connection. Alison also shares fascinating insights and stories stemming from her academic studies in human-animal interactions and her involvement in beaver conservation. Tune in to hear things you never knew about beavers as a keystone species in the ecosystem--and about how the creature living in the wall of Mary's kitchen challenges her own feelings about the human-animal connection!Topics Discussed • Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time• Human-Wildlife Conflict• How Yoga, Wildlife Conservation, Writing, and Anthropology Connect• Balancing the Mystic with the Scientist• The Inherent Worth of Animals• The Academic Path to Conservation• Anthropomorphism &amp; Anthropo-Denial• Why We Should Not Separate Humans &amp; Animals• The Rise of Animal Acceptance &amp; How Dogs Might Save the World• Coyotes &amp; Wolves and Other Threatening Animals• Animal Boundaries in Society• The Creature in the Kitchen• Keystone Species• The Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund• Beavers Before Humans• The Beaver's Ecological Impact• The Conservation Movement's Evolution• Honoring Each AnimalEpisode Resources:• Shop Holy Lamb Products at The Lady Farmer Marketplace!• "Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World" by Alison Zak • Listen to The Good Dirt: "Jason Schaefer"• Listen to The Good Dirt "Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth with Asia Suler, Author of 'Mirrors in the Earth' "• "Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World" by Asia SulerConnect with Alison Zak:• Website: https://alisonzak.com/• Instagram @animal_asana: https://www.instagram.com/animal_asana/• Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund on IG @coexistwithbeavers: https://www.instagram.com/coexistwithbeavers/• Links: https://linktr.ee/aazak127• A Yogic Lens on Animal Conservation with Alison Zak Podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌻 About Lady Farmer:• Our Website• Follow @weareladyfarmer on Instagram• Join The Lady Farmer ALMANAC• Email us at thegooddirtpodcast@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail! Call 443-459-1950 and ask a question or share what the good dirt means to you!Original music by John Kingsley. Editing and podcast production by Fast Forward Production.

Humans are one of hundreds of thousands of lifeforms on this planet, and each has its own unique place in the ecosystem. In this conversation, we're talking about the inherent connection between humans and the world of living things. Our guest is Alison Zak, environmental educator, anthropologist, yoga teacher and author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/wild-asana-animals-yoga-and-connecting-our-practice-to-the-natural-world/18950989?ean=9781623178079" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World</a>. This book is a delightful mix of wildlife science, Hindu mythology, Eastern philosophy, and personal stories. Alison sits down with Mary and Emma to discuss the importance of curiosity and wonder in our relationship with nature and how the yoga poses inspired by animals help foster that connection. Alison also shares fascinating insights and stories stemming from her academic studies in human-animal interactions and her involvement in beaver conservation. Tune in to hear things you never knew about beavers as a keystone species in the ecosystem--and about how the creature living in the wall of Mary's kitchen challenges her own feelings about the human-animal connection! Topics Discussed • Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time• Human-Wildlife Conflict• How Yoga, Wildlife Conservation, Writing, and Anthropology Connect• Balancing the Mystic with the Scientist• The Inherent Worth of Animals• The Academic Path to Conservation• Anthropomorphism &amp; Anthropo-Denial• Why We Should Not Separate Humans &amp; Animals• The Rise of Animal Acceptance &amp; How Dogs Might Save the World• Coyotes &amp; Wolves and Other Threatening Animals• Animal Boundaries in Society• The Creature in the Kitchen• Keystone Species• <a href="https://coexistwithbeavers.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund</a>• Beavers Before Humans• The Beaver's Ecological Impact• The Conservation Movement's Evolution• Honoring Each Animal Episode Resources:• <a href="https://lady-farmer.com/collections/all" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shop Holy Lamb Products at The Lady Farmer Marketplace!</a>• <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/wild-asana-animals-yoga-and-connecting-our-practice-to-the-natural-world/18950989?ean=9781623178079" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World" by Alison Zak </a>• Listen to <a href="https://lady-farmer.com/blogs/the-good-dirt-podcast/jason-schaefer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Good Dirt: "Jason Schaefer"</a>• <a href="https://lady-farmer.com/blogs/the-good-dirt-podcast/asia-suler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to The Good Dirt "Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth with Asia Suler, Author of 'Mirrors in the Earth' "</a>• <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/mirrors-in-the-earth-reflections-on-self-healing-from-the-living-world-asia-suler/17492492?ean=9781623176914" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World" by Asia Suler</a> Connect with Alison Zak:• Website: <a href="https://alisonzak.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://alisonzak.com/</a>• Instagram @animal_asana: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/animal_asana/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/animal_asana/</a>• Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund on IG @coexistwithbeavers: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/coexistwithbeavers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/coexistwithbeavers/</a>• Links: <a href="https://linktr.ee/aazak127" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/aazak127</a>• <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-yogic-lens-on-animal-conservation-with-alison-zak/id1538290776?i=1000611991237" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Yogic Lens on Animal Conservation with Alison Zak</a> Podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌻 About Lady Farmer:• <a href="https://lady-farmer.com/blogs/the-good-dirt-podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Our Website</a>• Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/weareladyfarmer/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@weareladyfarmer on Instagram</a>• <a href="https://lady-farmer.com/pages/the-almanac-2023" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join The Lady Farmer ALMANAC</a>• Email us at thegooddirtpodcast@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail! Call 443-459-1950 and ask a question or share what the good dirt means to you!Original music by John Kingsley. Editing and podcast production by Fast Forward Production.

166. The Human-Animal Connection with Alison Zak, author of  "Wild Asana" 

  The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast   331: Exploring Nature Through Asana with Alison Zak     Description:   Spending time in nature can be a part of your yoga practice, but how can you find a deeper connection to nature through asana? Alison Zak is passionate about this topic and joins Shannon in this episode to share her perspective on how we can understand, respect, and learn from nature through our yoga practice.     Alison is an author, yoga teacher, wildlife conservationist, and (a self-described) animal. She loves to encourage her students to find connection with themselves, their fellow human and beyond-human beings, and with nature through yoga.     Alison shares how we can use our yoga practice to honor nature and connect with other beings and why it is so important to seek connection with other animals. She also shares a little more about how we can take inspiration from nature for our yoga teaching and personal practice. Alison offers some practical advice for finding your authentic teaching voice and also has a special surprise for one lucky podcast listener!    Key Takeaways:   [0:00] There's a book giveaway in this episode!   [0:48] Shannon gives a shout out to sponsor, OfferingTree.   [3:44] Shannon introduces her guest for this episode - Alison Zak.   [6:18] What does Alison do and who does she do it for?   [9:14] Why is it important to bring in the connection between yoga and nature and animals? What benefits does it offer?   [13:16] Many people experience fear or cognitive dissonance when dealing with different animals. Alison shares an example.   [14:49] Alison gives some examples of how she thinks about and reflects on different animals while doing her own yoga practice.   [18:28] What are Alison's reflections on pigeon pose?   [22:44] How does Alison find that connection to animals in her yoga?   [26:45] Not everyone has the same access to nature to observe animals and wildlife. What does Alison recommend in those situations?   [30:39] Shannon has some news from the team at OfferingTree.   [32:11] What inspired Alison to share the book and who is it geared towards?   [35:18] What are some events Alison put together to promote the book?   [36:19] Some people may feel hesitant about making animal noises. Why is that, and how can we work with that?   [44:00] What was the most enlightening or hardest thing for Alison about writing a book?   [48:42] Alison is giving one of her books away to a podcast listener!   [49:20] What is one thing Alison wishes yoga teachers knew about connecting more with nature?   [50:02] Stay in touch with Alison via social media or her website.   [51:11] Shannon shares her biggest takeaway from this conversation with Alison.     Links:    ‌Alison Zak    Alison Zak on  Instagram,  Twitter, and  LinkedIn    ‌Shannon Crow on Instagram    The Connected Yoga Teacher Facebook Group    Pelvic Health Professionals       Gratitude to our Sponsor,  OfferingTree.     Quotes from this episode:   "How many hundreds or thousands of times have yoga practitioners and teachers practiced cobra pose? So many. But rarely ever [do they] think about the animal that it's named after."     "We can just get curious about what that animal's life is like and how they perceive the world. And then, that is the thing that helps us to just realize how connected we are to other beings."     "I hope that that connection that we feel with other animals through a yoga practice, for example, leads to treating them with more compassion in our interactions with real live animals that we share the planet with."     "Writing is a really healing process."     "I will go back to the importance of knowing that we are also animals. We're not separate from the pigeon or the cobra or the scorpion. When we connect with these other animals, we are connecting with ourselves because we're all interconnected."

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 331: Exploring Nature Through Asana with Alison Zak Description: Spending time in nature can be a part of your yoga practice, but how can you find a deeper connection to nature through asana? Alison Zak is passionate about this topic and joins Shannon in this episode to share her perspective on how we can understand, respect, and learn from nature through our yoga practice. Alison is an author, yoga teacher, wildlife conservationist, and (a self-described) animal. She loves to encourage her students to find connection with themselves, their fellow human and beyond-human beings, and with nature through yoga. Alison shares how we can use our yoga practice to honor nature and connect with other beings and why it is so important to seek connection with other animals. She also shares a little more about how we can take inspiration from nature for our yoga teaching and personal practice. Alison offers some practical advice for finding your authentic teaching voice and also has a special surprise for one lucky podcast listener! Key Takeaways: [0:00] There's a book giveaway in this episode! [0:48] Shannon gives a shout out to sponsor, OfferingTree. [3:44] Shannon introduces her guest for this episode - Alison Zak. [6:18] What does Alison do and who does she do it for? [9:14] Why is it important to bring in the connection between yoga and nature and animals? What benefits does it offer? [13:16] Many people experience fear or cognitive dissonance when dealing with different animals. Alison shares an example. [14:49] Alison gives some examples of how she thinks about and reflects on different animals while doing her own yoga practice. [18:28] What are Alison's reflections on pigeon pose? [22:44] How does Alison find that connection to animals in her yoga? [26:45] Not everyone has the same access to nature to observe animals and wildlife. What does Alison recommend in those situations? [30:39] Shannon has some news from the team at OfferingTree. [32:11] What inspired Alison to share the book and who is it geared towards? [35:18] What are some events Alison put together to promote the book? [36:19] Some people may feel hesitant about making animal noises. Why is that, and how can we work with that? [44:00] What was the most enlightening or hardest thing for Alison about writing a book? [48:42] Alison is giving one of her books away to a podcast listener! [49:20] What is one thing Alison wishes yoga teachers knew about connecting more with nature? [50:02] Stay in touch with Alison via social media or her website. [51:11] Shannon shares her biggest takeaway from this conversation with Alison. Links: <ul> <li> <a href="https://alisonzak.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> ‌Alison Zak</a> </li> <li> Alison Zak on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/animal_asana/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/animal_asana" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-zak-226394b8/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> LinkedIn</a> </li> <li> ‌<a href="https://www.instagram.com/theconnectedyogateacher/?hl=es" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shannon Crow on Instagram</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/connectedyogateacher/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Connected Yoga Teacher Facebook Group</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://pelvichealthprofessionals.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Pelvic Health Professionals</a> </li> </ul> Gratitude to our Sponsor, <a href="https://www.offeringtree.com/shannon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> OfferingTree</a>. Quotes from this episode: "How many hundreds or thousands of times have yoga practitioners and teachers practiced cobra pose? So many. But rarely ever [do they] think about the animal that it's named after." "We can just get curious about what that animal's life is like and how they perceive the world. And then, that is the thing that helps us to just realize how connected we are to other beings." "I hope that that connection that we feel with other animals through a yoga practice, for example, leads to treating them with more compassion in our interactions with real live animals that we share the planet with." "Writing is a really healing process." "I will go back to the importance of knowing that we are also animals. We're not separate from the pigeon or the cobra or the scorpion. When we connect with these other animals, we are connecting with ourselves because we're all interconnected."