The Wholly Aligned Health Podcast
Wholly Aligned comes to you from Ciara Jean Roberts
Ciara is a writer, yoga and movement teacher of over 13 years, and a naturopathically trained nutritional therapist. Early teenage kidney failure, dialysis and two kidney transplants serve as rites of passage into deeper understanding of health systems and the imperative to take exquisite care of oneself and in turn each other and our living planet. Born in South Africa, raised in Zambia, an adventurer across nearly 40 countries to date. Birthing Wholly Aligned in 2012, she stepped away from a successful career in banking, to fully embrace the wonderous world of health and healing. Bringing yoga, nutrition, and a sense of the sacred to groups, communities, and individuals. Leaving London in Summer 2022, she now lives in Ramsgate, the place where the ravens fly, with the swell of the vast salty seas nearby.
Episodes
30 episodes
An integrated approach to healing after a kidney transplant
The culminating episode, the integrating finale to this series. We touch upon healing as an integrated approach. That our wholeness does not require perfection. We take it day by day and trust the process as much as we are able. Hea...
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Looking after your heart after a kidney transplant: A holistic approach
The Heart - the Hrid (sanskrit), the Kokoro (Japanese). What's the word for Heart in your native tongue?Yes we need to tend to our cardiovascular health when living with a kidney transplant. To keep circulatory capacity flowing. To nouri...
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Building and preserving healthy muscles after a kidney transplant: A holistic approach
From skin and bones, we travel into the active tissues - the muscles. Muscles are all about motility. Movement. To build muscle tone, we need to create some stress to these tissues. Stronger muscles wraps more tightly to the bones, in turn maki...
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How to protect your bone health after a kidney transplant: A holistic approach
We continue in our series, to bones. What weight bearing movements do we invite to keep the bones healthy. Do we understand that certain dietary intake of sugary sodas strip bones of calcium as the body excretes more calcium via the urine in an...
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Taking care of your skin after a kidney transplant: A holistic approach
In this second episode of the 6 part series, we explore the skin - this semi-permeable interface between inner and outer worlds. Skin is nourished from the inside. Often dysbiosis (imbalance in the gut microbiota) can present on the skin. There...
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A holistic approach to living with a kidney transplant from a practitioner and patient
This is the introductory episode to A Truly Holistic Approach to living with a kidney tranplant. This 6 part series is niche in that it speaks to an audience that has the experience of kidney transplantation.In this opener, Ciara shares ...
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An introduction to the Sabian Symbols: Soulful vignettes
In this episode, Ciara shares her interest in the Sabian Symbols. Coming through via astrologist Marc Edmund Jones and psychic medium, Elsie Wheeler, in 1925, in San Diego in a parked car, all in one day. The two of them collaborated to bring t...
What is embodied movement: Let's dive into the incredible body
Embodied movement over the years has infused into the world of yoga. In this episode, Ciara introduces terms such as interoception and proprioception, with useful anecdotes and invitations for the listener to reflect on the stories held in thei...
Introducing the spirit of yin: The art of slowing down
An introduction or indeed, a river of meandering into the slow lane of yin. Weaving in stories and contemplation on how yin, as a balancing energy, can help you in the currents and mysteries of your life. discover more about yin as a spirt and ...
Wholly Aligned Health News: BONES
How to support your bone health:The new series for 2024 zooms in on a particular part of the body. Bones are many parts of the body! And a wonderful living tissue to appreciate how to take care of, in your unique context. In...
Guided meditation journey: Awakening your heart song
A lovely soothing shorter journey into your own wise heart. Great for when you need a gentle reset in times of emotional turmoil. Also a useful soother to listen to before falling asleep.Ciara Jean RobertsYoga Teacher. Naturopathic ...
Arriving and Centring: A guided 15 minute journey
Ciara Roberts brings you a series of guided meditations. You can listen seated, laying down, on a train, in a plane, under a tree...make it work for you.Beginning with Arriving and Centring.The energies of Arrive
Coherence: Breathe better: Live better
In this episode, Ciara shares 3 key learning outcomes for coherent breathing, expanding more on the intricacies of the nervous system and reflective invitations to allow you to explore your current inner state:1. Breathing through the n...
Breathe. Strategising energy in the age of burnout with Dr Ela Manga
In the ongoing season of the Recalibrate/Recalibrating your nervous system, season of the Wholly Aligned podcast, Ciara welcomes Dr Ela Manga.Ela is an integrated medical doctor, practising in South Africa. Trained originally as a...
Balance in the breath, balance in the nervous system. Inhale. Exhale...
In the second episode of 'Recalibrating the nervous system' series, Ciara expands a bit more on the Autonomic Nervous Systems and its 3 key branches of sympathetic nervous system, para-sympathetic nervous system and the enteric nervous system.&...
Mike: Kidney transplant surgeon, father and runner
In episode 4 of Integrating a holistic approach to kidneys, Ciara speaks with Mike Stephens. Kidney transplant and vascular access surgeon. Part of the leadership team in Cardiff, Wales. I first spoke with Mike, about 3 years ago,...
Vivien. 25 year friendship through dialysis, transplants, pregnancy, love and laughter
Episode 3 in the series 'Integrating a holistic approach to kidneys'.Ciara talks to one of her closest friends Vivien, who has a working transplant for over 25 years now. Ciara and Vivien met in the St Helier dialysis unit when they wer...
Sharlene: Beaming out Kidney Beam
Episode 2 of Integrating a Holistic Approach to Kidneys features another brilliant human.Dr Sharlene Greenwood is a Consultant Physiotherapist at King’s College Hospital, an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College Lon...
Anoushica: Sibling kidney donation and the healing power of receptivity
In the bright start of a brand new series,' Integrating a holistic approach to kidneys', Ciara chats to her good friend Anoushica.Including the very turbulent rollercoaster with her kidney transplant following a serious fungal in...
The Zambia years. The blessings of Africa
In our fourth episode, Marley and Ciara talk about memories of Zambia. The change in dynamic, as now the memories include her daughters. The previous 3 episodes, were before children, or when both daughters were still very young.
The Cork woman moves to Africa with her English husband
In episode 3, we travel with Marley leaving London, soon after marriage to Philip. On their first adventures living in another land, to South Africa.Arriving in an apartheid Johannesburg. The reality of this meant certain workforces wer...
In Sacred Conversation with Marley: Farewell Cork. Hello London
It's episode 2 of Ciara and Catherine. Mother (Marley) and daughter. Sacred conversations in the now. To be remembered in the generations to come.In this episode, we've travelled from Marley growing up in 1940s Cork (check out episode 1...
In sacred conversation with my Mother: 1940s Cork
One of the great boons of this past year for me, has been the depth and vulnerability of conversation with my mother. These sacred women in our lives.In this new series on the Wholly Aligned podcast, Ciara lands in sacred conversation w...
Darryl Edwards: Movement is medicine
Darryl Edwards is a movement coach and author of the 2018 bestselling book, 'Animal Moves'. His Tedx talk, 'Why working out, isn't working out' has almost 830k views at time of recording (March 2021). Darryl sojourned from software engineering ...
Janey Lee Grace: Happy Healthy Sober
In this episode, Ciara chats with Janey Lee Grace in the week her latest book 'Happy Healthy Sober' is released. Janey speaks with honesty and clarity around her own journey with booze and where that has now lead her to as a strong advocate of ...