After a 2 year hiatus, I'm back at the mic! This time on a new podcast called Jess on the Mountain: A podcast about yoga, chakras, and becoming your own guru. Today's episode is an introduction into this exciting new project that I know you're

106: Letting Go as the Snow Melts

Feb 23rd, 2021 13m 8s

As timing would have it, I’m currently teaching Chakra 2 (water element) in my online course, Chakra Savvy. The metaphor of water and our emotional self was everywhere last week! And it helped me make one important decision.Links from this

105 Yoga Therapy Found Her Voice

Feb 9th, 2021 14m 54s

Do you know what yoga therapy is or how it works? Over the next few episodes, I will be sharing with you some of my clients stories and their greatest successes. It’s a misnomer that Yoga has to take an hour of your life every day to feel bette

104: Releasing Tension with Long Exhales

Jan 26th, 2021 10m 51s

Learn to release tension with the pranayama practice of long exhales. Didn’t it feel like we were all holding our breath, living in tension, until the inauguration? Warnings of danger and violence will grab our “lizard brain” and cause us to

103: Embodiment

Jan 11th, 2021 9m 10s

On January 11 we kicked off Virtual Open House, 2021! This has been a long time coming, and I’m thrilled we are underway. We are starting right at the beginning, with embodiment. In this podcast episode, I give you a sneak peek into our cour

102: Open to Possibility

Jan 5th, 2021 14m

I think we’ve all acknowledged that 2020 hit us like a mack truck in every chakra. So now we can make our new year's resolutions and get back on track at being better and setting goals! Right?! Well...I’m gonna say, not so fast.I believe t

101: A 2020 Retrospective Through the Lens of the Chakras

Dec 29th, 2020 16m 25s

We are right now in that in-between space. The gifts have been purchased, wrapped, given, and opened. The wrapping paper (mostly) thrown away. The leftovers are eaten and the waistline has grown. And we wait to ring in the calendar New Year

100: Your Heart Center: Anahata

Dec 15th, 2020 11m 5s

Today, I’m inviting you into my donation-based online Hatha yoga class and the opening chat for Anahata, or heart chakra. Naturally, what followed this was a heart-opener asana sequence. You are welcome to join the class any time and access all

99: Vedic Astrology: How it impacts YOU

Dec 8th, 2020 54m 34s

Do you ever get the sense that something is pushing and pulling, blocking and advancing you? Do you notice that some times you are rocking and rolling and others you can’t think straight enough to do simple tasks easily and efficiently? There

98: My 7 Favorite Moves to Balance Your Chakras

Dec 1st, 2020 30m 8s

Today we get right to the work of energizing and grounding each chakra with a quick-reset of movement and breath. Over my last 15+ years of teaching, the number one question I get from students is, “When are you going to teach the chakra ser

97: Who are all those voices in your head?

Nov 17th, 2020 13m 13s

I came across this one line from the book Big Change, Small Groups, by Heather Zempel, and it cut into my heart immediately:"Everybody needs someone who knows their name and knows what's happening in their life."I think for many of us, this

96: The 3 R's of Surviving and Thriving in Transition

Nov 10th, 2020 21m 51s

Transition is all around us: our presidency in the U.S., the season of Autumn, and we're closing in on the end of a very intense year. I sat down to remember some of my favorite yoga teachings about maintaining balance in transition, and I've

Election Week Meditation

Nov 3rd, 2020 14m 4s

This is the opening chat and ending meditation from class on Election Day. Use as often as needed! If you're craving movement as well, go to www.jessgoulding.com/election-practice2020 for a 20 minute anxiety-busting Chakra One therapeutic yo

92: Tame Your Election Tension

Nov 3rd, 2020 17m 17s

You voted. Your work is done. The rest you cannot control. So breathe and have a little faith because this too shall pass.To get you there, here's a gift of Chakra One grounding yoga: www.jessgoulding.com/electionOr create a therapeutic yoga

91: Rituals for Release on this Halloween Full Moon

Oct 27th, 2020 12m 39s

Halloween is coming this week, and I’ve been thinking about things that haunt. Not spirits, in this case, but haunts from the past. Old experiences, relationships, and patterns that appear from time to time to hijack our present happiness. S

90: The 3 Most Important Cues for Yoga Asana

Oct 20th, 2020 11m

I love good alignment cues. I love finding tiny little adjustments to a posture that have big benefits and “aha moments.” I love it when one principle applies to a broad range of postures and their accessibility. So today I’m going to share w

89: Object Meditation to Create Change

Oct 13th, 2020 11m 38s

You can affect your whole life by being purposeful about where or on what you are placing your attention. In this episode, I talk about and take you through a third type of meditation: object meditation.Check out my three other short podcast

88: Contemplative Prayer and Spaciousness for Peace, with Nancy Herlin

Oct 6th, 2020 42m 40s

Nancy Herlin is a practitioner and guide of Contemplative Prayer, which is a meditation practice from the Christian tradition. In this episode, she shares with us her experiences with different kinds of practices, as well as takes us through a

87: Label Your Thoughts "Thinking," a Meditation from Pema Chödrön, Part 2

Sep 28th, 2020 12m 42s

In the last episode, we learned to "be with the breath as it goes out." This episode describes and gives you a short practice in the next part of that meditation: "label your thoughts thinking."If you are interested in joining the class tha

86: Be with your breath as it goes out...a meditation from Pema Chödrön

Sep 22nd, 2020 10m

For my Calm Your Mind, Lift Your Spirits Therapeutic Yoga Class, I’m using the book Start Where You Are, by Pema Chodron as a jumping off point for our group intentions and meditations. Because it’s a yoga class, we infuse the teaching with ou

85: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself When Deciding on Your Online Yoga Classes

Sep 8th, 2020 19m 49s

Now that so many yoga classes have moved online, it can be very hard to choose which to take. Geography is no longer what decides where you practice or with whom. The yoga world is your oyster! And that can be overwhelming. Here are the 5 qu

84: From Interruption to Devotion

Sep 1st, 2020 8m 2s

2020 has been nothing but interruptions! And your yoga practice, like mine, has likely suffered. Let's reframe this experience through the lens of the Yoga Sutras and Nischala Joy Devi's interpretation of Abhyasa, or Devoted Practice. I hav

83: Now There's This

1 Mar 24th, 2020 11m 4s

This is the first episode since the COVID-19 pandemic hit American shores. My classes are now online. You can join us Live on Facebook every Tuesday and Thursday at 9am CST on Jess G Yoga Facebook Page. If you miss the live event, you can en

Yoga to Boost Your Immune System

Mar 10th, 2020 14m 28s

Right now I am ESPECIALLY glad to have the practice of yoga in my life. There is now a large body of scientific evidence stacked in favor of yoga's claims of boosting the immune system, which is very empowering at a time like this. In this

81: Yoga and Micro-Activism with Sera Bonds of Waking Giants

Mar 3rd, 2020 39m 15s

Sera Bonds, co-founder of Waking Giants, joins me for this week’s podcast to talk about how we can bring our yoga practice “off the mat” and into the world to be engaged citizens and demand a better reality for the planet and the people on it.