Yoga and its connection to mental health | Nikolai Blinow | TEDxSalveReginaU

Verbalizing the similarities between yoga philosophy and evidence-based, Western mental health practices. Identifying mindless-based yoga practice that can be utilizes in mental health treatment to enhance cognitive change and a mindfulness-based yoga practice that can be utilized to enhance behavioral change.
Nikolai Blinow is a certified yoga instructor and licensed mental health counselor in the state of Rhode Island. She founded OMpowerment Psychotherapy with the goal of serving a unique niche in the mental health and personal development community. Nikolai integrates research-based Westernized, mental health practices with holistic approaches to treatment and does this by combining training in interpersonal communications and mental health counseling with yoga and mindfulness practices.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @TheVaayuputra
    @TheVaayuputra6 жыл бұрын

    Sanathana Dharma one of oldest 'Way of Life' has contributed and still contributing for humanity in many forms ( Yoga, Ayurveda, Astrology, ZERO,. etc) Practice, enrich and explore Sanathana Dharma !

  • @AI-ch3if

    @AI-ch3if

    2 жыл бұрын

    If we are to judge by the poverty, filth, and other problems of India, an outsider can safely conclude it hasn't contributed anything for humanity.

  • @malikdelaun782
    @malikdelaun7823 жыл бұрын

    Appreciate the professional approach to describing the Ashtanga eight limbed path of yoga and how it correlates to the cognitive therapy. Combining yoga with professional medical guidance to map out and track how exactly one is changing and overcoming their mental imbalances would bring about wonderful, radical change in this world

  • @robb6059
    @robb6059 Жыл бұрын

    "The real purpose for practicing yoga is to realize that I am not this body. I want eternal happiness, complete knowledge, and eternal life-that is the ultimate end of the true yoga system." Hare KRSNA.

  • @ozlemdogan8923
    @ozlemdogan89236 жыл бұрын

    WOW... I wanted to thank you for your inspiration insight!! I am currently in my last year of counselling and have been practicing yoga initially to heal both a physical injury but also to strengthen my mind.. and like so many surprises in life, I have been gifted with something a whole lot bigger than just a specific outcome. Wholistic... yoga has not just allowed my injured body to realign and heal but something magical has happened and happening beyond my functional neuroplastic brain... my soul connection and strength.. I KNOW this works because I am experiencing a change I have always dreamt of.. after years of counselling, self help books etc. only yoga has allowed me to shift my perspective.. anyway, I'm not going to keep rambling with excitement but I too am on your path... together with others who live this, we can move towards a world where people can become autonomous.. this to me is building a happier world from the inside out!! ✨🙏🏼

  • @pontiacmon

    @pontiacmon

    5 жыл бұрын

    good comment.

  • @bradleylatham8184

    @bradleylatham8184

    4 жыл бұрын

    How and where do I start? Please. I'm an alcoholic and nothing else seems to work

  • @HunLady

    @HunLady

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bradleylatham8184 Find AA meeting ...That only a fellow alcoholic can understand..

  • @dattagrace

    @dattagrace

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bradleylatham8184 Hey! A deep understanding of Yoga philosophy and dedicated Yoga Practice can definitely help you drop the need for alcohol. Please find a yoga studio nearby and start a practice. See if you can speak to some experienced Yoga teachers. Please drop me your email or something and I can send you specific resources that might help. One great thing about Yoga Philosophy is that it does not judge. I wish you well!

  • @bradleylatham8184

    @bradleylatham8184

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dattagrace I'm in Brisbane, Australia too. Suburb is Greenslopes. I'm just not sure what style to begin with. Stay in touch, you are a good soul.

  • @vijayshirgurkar7701
    @vijayshirgurkar77012 жыл бұрын

    Very apt presentation on application of Yoga in today's world with full of enxities. 👌👌 Yoga practice, shows a holistic path of happiness. I strongly believe that practicing Yoga is a preventive measure. It helps us before we fall in ditch.

  • @bexxg2123
    @bexxg21234 жыл бұрын

    When you find out one of your friends did a TEDx talk... yes yes yes. I love yoga.

  • @literarycompost
    @literarycompost8 ай бұрын

    been getting into yoga recently (outdoors whilst this belated UK summer lasts!) and enjoyed listening to this analogy. My god does she rock those jeans too

  • @cathyl2338
    @cathyl23382 жыл бұрын

    Massively improves both Mental health and chronic pain.

  • @stephanle9510
    @stephanle95104 жыл бұрын

    One of the better Tedx talks that’s I’ve seen!! So inspired now!! ❤️❤️

  • @fromburnouttobalance6384

    @fromburnouttobalance6384

    4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome, thanks so much for the positive feedback!

  • @yogawithkalidasa8503
    @yogawithkalidasa85035 жыл бұрын

    I have had many yoga students tell me how much their practice helps with their mental attitude.

  • @fromburnouttobalance6384

    @fromburnouttobalance6384

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's great to hear. Thank you for sharing!

  • @dharmayogaashram979

    @dharmayogaashram979

    3 жыл бұрын

    Real yoga is all about the Hindu religion.

  • @Thespecster212125

    @Thespecster212125

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dharmayogaashram979 Stop doing this.

  • @dharmayogaashram979

    @dharmayogaashram979

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Thespecster212125 doing what? Telling the truth?

  • @yogafriend8849

    @yogafriend8849

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fromburnouttobalance6384 🥰

  • @abhishekkj9664
    @abhishekkj96644 жыл бұрын

    Yoga has been reduced to "self improvement industry". It's much more than that. The physical exercises and pranayama are just 2 layers out of 8.

  • @exp3905

    @exp3905

    4 жыл бұрын

    abhishek k j lol, really?😂🤣

  • @abhishekkj9664

    @abhishekkj9664

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@exp3905 why are you laughing ? Original name of yoga is "asta-anga-yoga" , meaning eight limbed yoga. Physical yoga is one of the eight limbs. Search on the internet instead of lolling here.

  • @exp3905

    @exp3905

    4 жыл бұрын

    abhishek k j ok, then what are the other 7 limbs?

  • @abhishekkj9664

    @abhishekkj9664

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@exp3905 1. yama ( descipline w.r.t society ) 2. Niyama ( descipline w.r.t yourself ) 3. Asanas (physical postures , the only thing everyone seems to care and know ) . 4. Pranayama ( breath control ) 5. Pratyahara ( internalising one's attention, withdrawal of senses) 6. Dharana ( concentration, meditation techniques, meditation involving effort ) 7. Dhyana ( meditation without effort ) 8. Samadhi ( empty mind, no thoughts , Shunya ) 9. Mahasamadhi ( concious dieing )

  • @abhishekkj9664

    @abhishekkj9664

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ORIOL MARE it has become commercial unfortunately

  • @satyapratapnayak4853
    @satyapratapnayak48534 жыл бұрын

    Thx India 😍🥰🤩🇮🇳✌️✌️✌️

  • @exp3905

    @exp3905

    4 жыл бұрын

    Satya Pratap Nayak what are you happy about

  • @biswaranjanmallick7407

    @biswaranjanmallick7407

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@exp3905 because it's Indian

  • @lorrainetimms869
    @lorrainetimms8692 ай бұрын

    Bin doing yoga about 18months now I love it it helps with pain flexibility and camnedss within

  • @yogawithbelle
    @yogawithbelle2 жыл бұрын

    Yes! Love it👏🏽 reasons I do yoga and wanted to create a KZread to help other people!

  • @AI-ch3if

    @AI-ch3if

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't do it -- you will do more harm than good. I'm warning you so you don't make a big mistake. Go watch on Steven Bancarz's channel "Former Kundalini Yoga Teacher Reveals All (Mike Shreve)." Yoga is NOT innocent exercise we have been deceived into accepting.

  • @yogawithbelle

    @yogawithbelle

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AI-ch3if wow. I’ve been doing daily yoga for almost 2 years now and I will look into the video but I absolutely love my yoga and honestly no one could change my mind about it. Yoga has done me way more GOOD than bad… I have not gotten one bad thing out of doing DAILY yoga

  • @christophergrennan4485
    @christophergrennan44853 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @juliecroteau2954
    @juliecroteau2954 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so very much. ❤️

  • @croyland7605
    @croyland76057 жыл бұрын

    Insightful presentation. Well done!

  • @alexandratamarblack8880
    @alexandratamarblack88802 жыл бұрын

    Restorative yoga helped and is still helping my ED recovery

  • @keegan2030
    @keegan2030 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant speaker!

  • @Vankudothu_Thanda
    @Vankudothu_Thanda3 жыл бұрын

    I started yoga&meditation within a month some kind of changes in my body and mind.....

  • @waltataengwa

    @waltataengwa

    2 жыл бұрын

    Totally worth it!

  • @turtleflo_
    @turtleflo_2 жыл бұрын

    Yoga really works 💖

  • @suryayoga5820
    @suryayoga58202 жыл бұрын

    Good class and informative

  • @richardharding2942
    @richardharding29426 жыл бұрын

    excellent video could not agree more!

  • @ilovegodandjesusjohn316
    @ilovegodandjesusjohn3163 жыл бұрын

    Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

  • @NinjaPandallnight

    @NinjaPandallnight

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is Einstein’s famous equation E=MC^2, in which E is energy (rajas), M is mass (tamas), and C is the speed of light (sattva). Energy, mass, and light are endlessly bound together in the universe.

  • @sureshsuresh-mr8ol

    @sureshsuresh-mr8ol

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NinjaPandallnight tractor by kapda step paragon for a 7

  • @elizabethryan1713
    @elizabethryan17133 жыл бұрын

    Great talk!

  • @CrossHIIT50
    @CrossHIIT503 жыл бұрын

    I love ashtanga xx

  • @tehjaculaaa3069
    @tehjaculaaa30693 ай бұрын

    Is there somewhere we can see the last slide in full? Wondering what the notes on ‘thoughts’ and ‘physical sensations’ were?

  • @satyajeetgiram5115
    @satyajeetgiram51156 жыл бұрын

    👌👌👌👌👌

  • @yogafriend8849
    @yogafriend88492 жыл бұрын

    Love

  • @SunilThummala
    @SunilThummala4 жыл бұрын

    Astanga Yoga is a real technology to unite self with creation. Its side benefits are many incl disease modification, improvement in focus, treatment of various mental and physical disorders

  • @exp3905

    @exp3905

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sunil Thummala no way. Really?🤣

  • @mr.nobody194
    @mr.nobody1943 жыл бұрын

    And Yoga guys and gals... You need to thank India... Yog is from India... It is of India...

  • @inforthewin3231

    @inforthewin3231

    2 жыл бұрын

    no

  • @inforthewin3231

    @inforthewin3231

    2 жыл бұрын

    yoga is from china

  • @ank7652

    @ank7652

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@inforthewin3231 nice joke😂👍

  • @sachinnayak8558

    @sachinnayak8558

    2 жыл бұрын

    Right

  • @sachinnayak8558

    @sachinnayak8558

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@inforthewin3231 🤣🤣

  • @thesoul369
    @thesoul3693 жыл бұрын

    @spitual (in telegram) audio of Bhagavad Gita in different languages...

  • @sarumathi618
    @sarumathi6182 жыл бұрын

    Masss❤️

  • @likenoother13
    @likenoother133 жыл бұрын

    Who can help with accessing the power point slides on the back screen of her presentation, please? They are not shown fully in this video.

  • @khushikepaljindagikesang9722
    @khushikepaljindagikesang9722 Жыл бұрын

    👍👍👍👍

  • @travelinghussain7583
    @travelinghussain75832 жыл бұрын

    Great 👍👍

  • @keepcool-hearitout2504
    @keepcool-hearitout25042 жыл бұрын

    Start listening at 1:25 and thank me later.

  • @freshouttafucksforever698

    @freshouttafucksforever698

    Жыл бұрын

    you’re 6 minutes late

  • @chaitu48
    @chaitu482 жыл бұрын

    I have full respect to this lady..but she became yoga teacher in very less span of time..how?..Here in India to reach that stage it will decades..is she learned full yoga or only physical exercises and breathing exercises..that's doesn't make yoga teacher right?..plz correct me if I'm wrong

  • @chrystianrodriquez
    @chrystianrodriquez4 жыл бұрын

    Oh? So it isn't just stretching, there's psychological connection to it. I see. And Christians in favor of yoga just say it is stretching.

  • @emokid6944

    @emokid6944

    4 жыл бұрын

    Anzu love it’s so much more than that! It’s mobility training as well it serves to prevent osteoporosis later on in life, gives you mental clarity, strength, flexibility and stress relief!

  • @claudialu

    @claudialu

    4 жыл бұрын

    Everything has a mental connection.

  • @catty250

    @catty250

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi I wonder, what Christians? say its a form of stretching. I am someone that feels called to live my life for God, and to learn to become less self centered and more other centered “love your neighbor as your self”. I also truly believe yoga is a very real form of aligning your mind, your spirit, and your body into a learned harmony. We are tri-beings, I believe made in the image of the trinity. So I’m a Christian, I believe yoga is one part stretching, but it is so much more than that. Yoga is complex and yet simple, its learning to be in complete harmony with your complete being. Completely aligning with the Christianity that I know.

  • @dattagrace

    @dattagrace

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh NO! It is not just stretching. IT is a complete road map to enlightenment, awakening, Buddhahood, Self-Realisation, Oneness, Freedom from Suffering... whatever you may call it.

  • @mariahgutierrez4481

    @mariahgutierrez4481

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its a connection between your body and your mind, being able to control every little bit of your body while moving through emotional experiences. It's almost a like exercise + prayer combo depending on your intention.

  • @dharmayogaashram979
    @dharmayogaashram9793 жыл бұрын

    Incredible! Divorcing Yoga from the Hindu religion and pretending to be a "yoga teacher" is a serious mental health issue!

  • @andrewcerow1511

    @andrewcerow1511

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi, Swami Paramatma. I'm wondering if keeping yoga connected to Hinduism makes it okay to use shameful language. Further, more traditional styles of yoga introduced to America go unpracticed due to major cultural differences. In my opinion, we want as many people practicing yoga as possible. More people doing yoga = a better world. I'm wondering if connecting yoga to American counseling could be a helpful way to introduce the American mainstream to more esoteric and helpful practices. Namaste

  • @fromburnouttobalance6384

    @fromburnouttobalance6384

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewcerow1511 Thanks for this very supportive and thoughtful response! As a therapist, I see MANY clients who are interested in yoga + meditation practices, but are intimidated for various reasons, and so they never try them. My goal in providing this talk is to demystify yoga and mindfulness practice + make it more accessible to people. Honestly, some people are going to hate that; Like you, I feel like its a disservice to the broader population to only encourage people to do these practices if they are done in more strict, "traditional" ways. Not that I think the old ways should be ignored or unappreciated. I just think we have to meet people where they are at

  • @biswaranjanmallick7407
    @biswaranjanmallick74074 жыл бұрын

    Hinduism is LOVE

  • @dharmayogaashram979

    @dharmayogaashram979

    3 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, this "yoga teachers/therapists" are not Hindus and therefore what they are doing is a cruel scam.

  • @official_rehan_5555

    @official_rehan_5555

    2 жыл бұрын

    ✌🖕☺💪👇☺👑☺🎂🥵🙌👀🥶🎂❤🎂🔥☺🙂🙂😇😇🙂😇☺😇🙂🙂🙂☺☺😁😌😅😄😌🙂🥲😅🤗☺😅☺🤗😆😌😄😆😉😆😄😄😁🙂😁😁☺😁😍🙃😍🙂🥰🥰😅😆😇🤗🤑😋

  • @jiya2027
    @jiya20272 жыл бұрын

    Yall couldnt get a indian person to talk about this, like not only are our practices appropriated but white people have become the face of yoga

  • @sachinnayak8558
    @sachinnayak85582 жыл бұрын

    Now do you believe...that India is great?

  • @kshemendrasharma4072
    @kshemendrasharma40722 жыл бұрын

    Fate of India is learning Yoga from foreigners who don’t know nothing about it...

  • @onkarvigy
    @onkarvigy2 жыл бұрын

    What is Sorcery?? Controlling (natural/external) spirits through imitating physical actions of the spirit in question (Like storm, rain, etc). With the leap in knowledge that there resides an inner spirit within (human) body(the animus hypothesis), Sorcery was directed towards this inner spirit aka mind and viola it became Yoga!!Subsequently Yoga was given a very broad interpretation that virtually appropriated everything under the sun which is not my focus here.....Where I’m going is Yoga{which Comes from the root Yoke(protoIndoEuropean)=>that (object)which reins in} is using the physical/the material, the body to control the non-material/the nonphysical aka the mind!!! You see we(Indians) were the first Marxists(of sorts)!!! Our tryst with Marxism doesn’t stop there!! Take, for example, Krishna’s grand dictat in Gita “Do your work(action) with no regards to the (fruits of) result “. Here again, the stress is on the work/action!! That is Marxist to the core!! And also the whole Gita is about friction/antagonism in the format of dialogue which is nothing but dialectical!!! Thus the two most dominant themes of our thought are Marxist in nature!!! [I would go even further to quote another ( Indian)ubiquitous adage of ours “Do not seek the roots of a guru or a sage” implying our wonder about the roots/origins of our gurus aka our educators!! This pertains to another very significant Marxist question. Marx wondered“Who will educate the educators??]. Had Marx asked the same question in his younger days it would have been in his characteristic acerbic style, Who would educate these #%*$!? Now, why I thought this (going from physical to nonphysical) aspect of the original (Indian)Yoga as important is, as I briefly noted earlier, that later with the passage of time Yoga was prescribed as a (spiritual) remedy to all our problems, without really addressing the underlying material conditions!!! That’s is escapism of the governing class through this easy and cheap (so called) spiritual remedy!!!

  • @AnimatedV
    @AnimatedV6 жыл бұрын

    doesn't matter what we focus on? hmmm

  • @gshrdy5415

    @gshrdy5415

    5 жыл бұрын

    Focus on Jesus and do Yoga, its not meditation.

  • @152manoj

    @152manoj

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's the state of mind or consciousness that is important. What we do outwardly are just frills.

  • @Jsinka48

    @Jsinka48

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gshrdy5415 there is no relation in jesus and yoga And did you just assume he is Christian

  • @ilovegodandjesusjohn316
    @ilovegodandjesusjohn3163 жыл бұрын

    Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

  • @hollyreilly2035

    @hollyreilly2035

    3 жыл бұрын

    How does this help with mental health? Praying doesn’t make mental illness go away. The f*** outta here with this none sense

  • @ilovegodandjesusjohn316

    @ilovegodandjesusjohn316

    3 жыл бұрын

    I loose Peace in the name of Jesus.

  • @abhinavsingh.1818
    @abhinavsingh.18182 жыл бұрын

    YOGA! If you do Yoga without spiritual connection. Then it is just a joke . Jai shree krishna🕉️

  • @nalni
    @nalni2 жыл бұрын

    Yoga comes from Indian culture Non Indians do not have the rights to teach yoga

  • @varunmuralidhara2986
    @varunmuralidhara29862 жыл бұрын

    Let's stop whitewashing yoga!

  • @danamclemore3805
    @danamclemore38054 жыл бұрын

    Geeze! Wonder how much she got paid being on TEDX just for providing people with .....ummm...common sense?? GEEZE

  • @shehanijayalath9828

    @shehanijayalath9828

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s not so common sense as so many people are not aware of the benefits the practice of Yoga has to our mental and physical health. As mentioned, people still think of Yoga as being “woowoo”.

  • @dattagrace

    @dattagrace

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did you not know that TedX speakers don’t get paid? Further, they have to foot their own bill when it comes to travel to the venue and other allied expenses. TedX gives a platform to speakers. Speakers have to apply to get a chance to speak at an event. Then they’re shortlisted based on the theme of the event. Nobody gets paid to give a Ted Talk. Nobody. But smart speakers make money by using this opportunity to promote their other work and strengthen their brand.

  • @fromburnouttobalance6384

    @fromburnouttobalance6384

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dattagrace is correct here. TEDx speakers receive no compensation.

  • @PeteS_1994

    @PeteS_1994

    3 жыл бұрын

    It sounds like you need to try yoga

  • @ilovegodandjesusjohn316
    @ilovegodandjesusjohn3163 жыл бұрын

    Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.