Welcome to the Chicken Yogi Show
The Chicken Yogi Show discusses a broad range of topics related to Free Range Wellness–the ways in which we find holistic wellness by focusing on our physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic health. An outspoken holistic wellness coach, Kit Caelsto shares from their lived experience as a neurodivergent, chronically ill (fibromyalgia), disabled, and nonbinary farmer yogi. 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 yoga, meditation, socioeconomic impacts on health, energy work, mental health, physical health (including the failings of the US healthcare system), and the intersection of how living as part of a marginalized group can impact any or all of this.
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%...
Explaining The Autistic Yoga Teacher & Fibromyalgia Yoga Teacher Blogs
In today's episode I do a little "shameless self promotion" by talking about a couple of sub-blogs in the Chicken Yogi universe. Please forgive the fibro fog. I had a few moments of trying to find my words. But in this episode, I discuss my philosophy and the reasons...
Safety is Required for Wellness
CW: This podcast episode mentions within the context of needing safety in all aspects of our lives the topics of: restrictive eating, diet plans (like Weight Watchers), physical safety, physical assault, and sexual harassment and assault. This episode is very close to...
What’s Wrong With the Narrative of Control
On the blog lately I've been talking about connection and how the wellness wheel doesn't exist in isolation. Last episode, I talked about expanding the wellness wheel by adding charkas and energy work. However there's one thing that both our western health and...
Episode 12: Expanding On The Wellness Wheel
In this episode, we take the Free Range Wellness Wheel and expand it to provide a path towards finding holistic, radical wellness. Each section of the wheel can be taken into its own wellness wheel in order to provide a fuller picture of that area and the steps toward...
Episode 11: An Introduction to the Wellness Wheel
The Wellness Wheel was created in 1976 as a way to visualize what holistic wellness looks like. It's been used by many organizations, and each one seems to put their own twist on it. Understanding that not everyone's wellness will be the same, in this episode, I...
Episode 10: Rethinking Physical Exercise And Gym Class
Welcome to our first episode after our holiday vacation. This time of year people think about adding exercise as a resolution, and while that's not a bad resolution for many of us exercise sounds a lot like PE class. There's a lot of trauma there to unpack, especially...
Episode 9: What is wellness? (The Early Episodes)
The WHO defines health as the absence of disease and being physically healthy. Except, for many people, especially those with chronic illness, this seems an unachievable dream. Instead of thinking of health as a switch you flick on or off (healthy/not healthy), let's...
Episode 8: Affirmations and Neurodiversity (The Early Episodes)
In this episode, Kit discusses why affirmations may not work for neurodiverse people and how that's not a failing or something bad. It simply means that to change our mindset as we wish to (if we wish to) we need to go beyond "lying to ourselves" and other tools...
Episode 7: Who are you? (The Early Episodes)
If you're a fan of Babylon 5, then you know the Vorlons asked "Who Are You?" while it was the Shadow that asked "What do you want?". Sometimes we need to ask these questions to ourselves and discover the answers. Note: The Early Episodes are shows I recorded before...
Episode 6: Accessible Yoga Classes (The Early Episodes)
Accessible yoga is so much more than the ability to use props like a block or strap and asana adjustments. It's also about the way yoga is marketed, the language that's used, and how the yoga instructor creates and sets the space, as well as teaches those who may not...
Episode 5: Grief in the subtle body (The Early Episodes)
The subtle bodies (koshas) are made up of different layers of the body including the emotional body, the energy body, the wisdom body, and the bliss body. Grief permeates all layers including our physical body. Join the host for a discussion about the power of grief...
Episode 4: How hustle culture separates us from ourselves (The Early Episodes)
Seems like everyone is doubling down on side gigs and hustling to make ends meet. And who can blame them. This is late stage capitalism after all. But hustle culture is dangerous. It works to separate ourselves from our goals, our dreams, and even our essential sense...
