Episode 43: Yoga and Neuroscience with Denise Hatch

In episode 43 of the Wisdom of Yoga Podcast, Saraswati interviews Denise Hatch

Denise shares with us:

  • The relationship between movement, the brain, the nervous system, and the transformative potential of yoga.

  • How her understanding of the relationship between the brain and body evolved through her work

  • What neuroscience is revealing about the effects of yoga and mindful movement on the brain.

  • The brain’s ability to change and reorganize throughout our lives.

  • The role can yoga play in creating healthier neural pathways, changing habitual patterns, and developing new ways of responding to life.

  • How yoga supports us to deepen our connection to the deeper layers of the mind and body and how by refining our awareness, creates greater health and well-being.

  • How movement has a profound effect on the brain and how practices involving coordination, balance, strength, and mindful movement support cognitive function, memory, mood, and healthy aging

  • How yoga helps us manage stress from a physiological and neurological perspective

  • How developing strength, balance, and coordination contribute to better movement patterns, injury prevention, and long-term physical independence

  • The power of conscious breathing for self-regulation


Yoga and Neuroscience with Denise Hatch
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About Our Guest

Denise Hatch

Denise Hatch E-RYT 500 | Certified Anusara Yoga teacher is a yoga teacher, a mindset coach, speaker, and lifelong student of human potential. Denise has spent her life exploring what makes people extraordinary and how we can access more of our innate potential. Throughout her professional career,

Denise has worked with elite athletes and teams in the NFL, MLB, motorsports, soccer, golf, and tennis. Her studies have taken her into neuroscience, psychology, hypnotherapy, NLP, massage therapy, fascia, yoga, and meditation. Denise brings together modern science, psychology, and the deeper wisdom of yoga to explore the power of the mind and human consciousness. She believes that we vastly underestimate our potential, and her work focuses on helping people move beyond limiting beliefs, develop a powerful mindset, and align their intentions with meaningful action.

https://powerofthemind.coach/denise-hatch/


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