Welcome to the Chicken Yogi Show
The Chicken Yogi Show exists at the intersection of lived neurodivergent experience, spirituality, liberation, and creativity to help neurodivergent individuals connect with themselves and with the wider universe. Too many people are trying to tell how neurodivergent people should live in a world designed for neurotypicals–be more productive, do more, act more neurotypical–and few people are discussing the creative and spiritual lives of those who are neurodivergent. A
An outspoken spirituality and creativity mentor, Kit Caelsto shares from their lived experience as an extra spicy neurodivergent person who exists in a trans and disabled body. They’re not afraid to talk about controversial topics or get into the policy weeds, all while maintaining information that especially the neurodivergent and chronically ill community can use. Expect to hear about topics such as spirituality, pursuing connection, remembering who you are, yoga, meditation, socioeconomic impacts, liberation (autistic, disabled, and mad liberation), and the intersection of how living as part of a marginalized group can impact any or all of this.
Episode 30: Why Body Theology Is Vital For Neurodivergent People
Body theology is a way of looking our experiences in the world, and our relationships and connections to ourselves, and to something larger than ourselves, such as the universe as a whole, from the perspective that we are embodied, whole, complete human beings with...
Episode 29: A Message to Neurodivergent Coaches
I've been doing a lot of thinking about unmasking including what I do, which is help people unmask their true selves, and how this relates to being an embodied being with all of our social, cultural, and integrated thoughts, feelings and "norms". The truth is, there...
Episode 28: How Unmasking Affects Burnout
One of the biggest tips given to neurodivergent people succumbing to burnout is to unmask--fully and completely. But like anything offered as a "cure" or a "quick fix", unmasking in this manner can actually acerbate burnout. In this episode, I discuss why unmasking...
Episode 27: Remembering Who You Are
Remember who you were before the world told you who you couldn't be. To me this is an extremely powerful statement and one that I help people with through my yoga philosophy based spiritual mentoring. I talk about this statement, the three steps to working through and...
Episode 26: How Do Our Stories Affect Burnout and Our Spirituality?
The stories we tell ourselves affect more than just our mental health and the way we think. These stories also affect our spiritual self because too often the stories are tied to the way we learned and processed our spirituality. Additionally, the stories we tell...
Episode 25: Examining Shame and the Neurodivergent Brain
This week I go a bit deeper into the blog posts I wrote reviewing the book How To Keep House While Drowning and my post about my procrastinated (but now finished!) yard project. I'll break down the four things that are necessary for shame, why shame doesn't always...
Episode 24: Spirituality and Neurodivergent Burnout
How does spirituality help keep burnout, especially neurodivergent burnout, in remission? And what are the three D's of burnout and how can spirituality help them? Learn how dissonance, demands, and disconnection lead to burnout and the ways in which spirituality can...
Episode 23: Similarities Between Neurodivergent Burnout and a Dark Night of the Soul
This week's episode follows up on last week's when I talked about what a dark night of the soul was and how it specifically applied to neurodivergent individuals. After a quick recap of what I mean when I talk about neurodivergence, and an explanation of how I...
Episode 22: An Overview of the Dark Night of the Soul and Neurodivergence
Welcome to season 2 of the podcast. I am proud to announce we're now distributed by the MuseCharmer Network. I believe we'll be appearing other places soon as well, so stay tuned! CW: This week's episode begins our discussion of the Dark Night of the Soul which may...
Episode 21 – Ending Season 1 With a Transition
We're ending our first season of the podcast with an explanation on a shift in focus. As you know there's been a break in the show, and I explained why that happened (life, college, disability, burnout, finding focus, etc.), but also, I realized that to be true to my...
Episode 20: Ableism in the Guided Meditation Space, an Interview with Emma Barnes
In this interview Emma Barnes, we chat about the big problem of ableism in the meditation space (and we talk about yoga, too) and how the image of a thin, white, affluent person seeking "just a little stress relief" does a big disservice to a lot of individuals who...
Episode 19: Meditation, Tea, and an Interview with The Punk Rock Autistic
Today's episode brings together a conversation about tea ceremonies, meditation, Buddhist philosophy, yoga, and the love of autistic special interests in a discussion that hopefully changes the way you think about meditation and perhaps, even tea. I'm pleased to be...
Episode 18: Rethinking Our Stories
What stories are you telling yourself? When you hear voices or narratives in your head talking about you, your choices, your life, whose voices are they? Where did they come from? One of the hardest and most important things late diagnosed (and all diagnosis...
Episode 17: Rekindling Yoga’s Power of Liberation
Liberation has been forgotten in the modern yoga movement, especially modern postural yoga, from which today's yoga studios, yoga teacher trainings, and yoga organizations have arisen. And yet, if we put the liberation back into yoga, we can use it as a tool for...
Episode 16: Same Foods and Wellness
Today's show discusses same foods within the context of being neurodivergent and chronically ill. We discuss how food is trust and how same foods represent a trust with your body, which is vital to feeling safe and well. We'll also talk about how same foods help...
Weight Loss Programs & Weight Stigma
Did you know you can now "watch" our podcasts on YouTube? Check it out and subscribe to our channel. The entire weight loss industry is built around two things: control and making money. Except our weight isn't an indicator of health and it isn't something that's 100%...