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Hosted by Monica Rottmann · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 36 episodes
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This podcast will weave together ancient wisdom with modern science to share the best tools and techniques to cultivate calm in your life. Armed with a degree in behavioural science and a decade of running a thriving yoga studio, I'm here to share my wealth of knowledge on the science of stress, the art of relaxation, yoga philosophy, breathing, and meditation, all with a hint of personal development. Yoga transformed my life from being a stressed out IT professional to a calm and relaxed yoga teacher and throughout this podcast, I’ll be sharing my own journey and stories of my yoga clients. My philosophy is that busyness is overrated, stress makes us stupid, and anxious living is a recipe for burnout. In this podcast, we won't just scratch the surface of relaxation techniques; we'll dive deep into the impact of stress on our minds and bodies and how to think better, feel better and live better. I'll expla
Monica Rottmann hosts Cultivate Calm, a health show with 36 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail This is the final episode of the season. It started with a text from a radiology office and ends here, with a life that looks ordinary from the outside and is irrevocably different on the inside. This ep
Send us Fan Mail This episode is about grief. Not managing it, avoiding it, or reframing it into something more comfortable, but actually sitting inside it. After a decade of cancer diagnoses, divorce, and losing her fat
Send us Fan Mail After three cancer diagnoses across a decade, the question that keeps surfacing isn't about treatment or recovery. It's why. This episode is an honest look at that search, what it turned up, and what it
Send us Fan Mail After a third cancer diagnosis, something fundamental shifted. This episode explores the myth of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess who descended into the underworld, stripped of everything she possessed, and
Send us Fan Mail After 15 months away from teaching, returning to the yoga studio was equal parts terrifying and clarifying. In this episode, the journey back to the mat begins, not as a triumphant comeback, but as an ho
Send us Fan Mail LINKS: Work with Monica: https://cultivatecalmyoga.com.au/energy-alchemy/ Curious about Yoga Alchemy?: https://cultivatecalmyoga.com.au/yoga-alchemy/Website:https://cultivatecalmyoga.com.au/Instagram:htt
Send us Fan Mail May was a month of contradictions. Surgery recovery, grief and a rainbow unicorn birthday party. Life kept moving and I was somewhere in the middle of it, trying to keep up. This episode is about what it
Send us Fan Mail For months after surgery I was living in survival mode. Chest pains, persistent headaches, swollen legs, and a mirror I was avoiding. This episode is about what it actually looks like to hit rock bottom
Send us Fan Mail The surgery was done. I thought the hard part was over. This episode is about the long grey stretch that followed, the part nobody really talks about, where the emergencies have passed but you're still c
Send us Fan Mail The mastectomy happened. This episode is about what that was actually like. The double mastectomy with PAP flap reconstruction, seven hours in theatre, and what I remember from coming around on the other
Send us Fan Mail I've had life-changing news more than once. The first time, I handled it quietly, privately, keeping it together for everyone around me. I became the queen of suffering. But is pushing through really the
Send us Fan Mail The third time, you'd think you'd be ready. You're not. I've had breast cancer twice before, so routine MRIs are familiar territory. This time was different. A text from radiology, images in a portal, ci
Send us Fan Mail Waiting for a mastectomy is its own kind of heavy. I'd been through surgeries before and thought I had some idea of what to expect. I didn't. This episode covers the months leading up to the surgery, fro
Send us Fan Mail Resilience was something I wore like armour for years. Two cancer diagnoses, the end of a marriage, and a lot of pushing through. By the third diagnosis, I started questioning whether resilience was actu
Send us Fan Mail So many of us struggle with overthinking. Trapped in an endless cycle of ruminating thoughts, it can feel overwhelming and like there’s no way to come out of it. Thankfully there are ways to calm a busy
Send us Fan Mail Many of us grew up thinking we had to be hard on ourselves to succeed. We believed that criticising ourselves was the only way to improve. However, constantly criticising and being hard on ourselves ofte
Send us Fan Mail I'm often asked if yoga helps people with anxiety, and as tempted as I am to say that yoga is the cure for everything, it's not so straightforward. Learning to manage anxiety is a journey so today I’m sh
Send us Fan Mail If you’re like many people and your mind is bombarded with busy thoughts, I’ve got something really special for you today. In this episode, I’m sharing a guided meditation and breathwork practice that wi
Send us Fan Mail Today I’m diving into a topic that holds immense power in our healing journey: our emotions. In previous episodes, I’ve talked about the effects of the nervous system on our well-being but today I’m expl
Send us Fan Mail Our nervous system has two main branches: the parasympathetic and the sympathetic. The parasympathetic branch is associated with relaxation and calm, while the sympathetic branch triggers the fight or fl
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Cultivate Calm is hosted by Monica Rottmann. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 36 episodes.
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