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The Inner Practice-Stories of Healing from the Yoga mat into Life
Real people. Real stories. Real healing.
The Inner Practice Podcast shares heartfelt journeys from the yoga mat—authentic stories of presence, practice, and personal transformation. Through honest, emotional conversations, host Jackie Vandertuin explores how the healing power of yoga reaches far beyond physical poses, touching everyday life in meaningful and unexpected ways.
Each episode dives into real experiences of pain, anxiety, grief, resilience, and growth—revealing how yoga, mindfulness, and breathwork can become tools for grounding, strength, and hope. These are stories of becoming: stories that remind us that healing is possible, transformation is real, and no one walks this journey alone.
Join Jackie as she connects with guests who share powerful narratives of struggle turning into insight, suffering turning into strength, and everyday practice turning into deep personal awakening. Discover how lessons learned on the yoga mat translate into life—building resilience, emotional wellbeing, and a path back to the self.
May these stories remind you that hope exists. May they help you feel rooted, supported, and empowered to continue your own healing journey.
Yoga is more than movement—it’s a way of life that can change you forever.
About the Host:
Jackie Vandertuin, MSc, CAT(C), is a certified Athletic Therapist, professor, and student yoga therapist. Her personal journey with yoga began as simple exercise but quickly became a lifeline during a period of anxiety and depression. Yoga continues to be her anchor and her healing modality of choice.
Learn more at jackievandertuintherapy.com
Follow on Instagram: @jackie_vandertuin_therapy
Episodes
39 episodes
S1 E17 Cancer, Resilience, and Yoga Therapy - Dr. Amy Wheeler on Healing, Nervous System Regulation and Integrative Health
In this episode of The Inner Practice, host Jackie Vandertuin sits down with Dr. Amy Wheeler—yoga therapist, educator, former varsity athlete, and sports psychologist—to explore what it truly means to live the practices we teach.
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S1 Trailer 18 Facing Cancer Surgery with Calm — Dr. Amy Wheeler on Yoga, Nervous System Regulation, and Finding a Sattvic State
In this deeply moving trailer of The Inner Practice, Dr. Amy Wheeler shares an intimate reflection on the moments before undergoing surgery for tongue cancer—and how yoga transformed what could have been a state of fear into one of cal...
S1 E16 Questioning Dogma, Choosing Coexistence: A yoga-inspired spiritual journey with Stacie da Ponte
In this episode of The Inner Practice, host Jackie Vandertuin sits down with Stacie da Ponte for a thoughtful and expansive conversation on spirituality, yoga philosophy, humanism, and the courage to question inherited be...
S1 Trailer 17 From Cave to Consciousness: Stacie da Ponte on Plato's allegory and awakening
In this trailer Stacie describes Plato's Parable of the Cave. Stacie delves into the philosophical thought of truth, and how those with different experiences or backgrounds may perceive it, much like spirituality or religion. Stacie...
S1 E 15: When Trauma Comes Home: Understanding PTSD, Loss, and How We Care for Those We Love Part 2 Cailea Davis
In this second conversation with Cailea Davis, The Inner Practice moves deeper into the lived experience of PTSD within a family system. Together, we explore what it means to witness trauma up close, especially through the lens of of s...
S1 Trailer 16 When PTSD Goes Unseen — A Daughter’s Story of Love, Distance, and Understanding with Cailea Davis
In this deeply moving episode, Cailea Davis shares a powerful and intimate perspective on PTSD, one that is often overlooked: the experience of a child trying to make sense of a parent’s invisible struggle.Through her story, Cailea refle...
S1 E14 From Grief to Grounded: The Healing Journey of Cailea Davis- A Story of Grief, Intuition, and the Transformative Power of Yoga
In this episode of The Inner Practice, we speak with Cailea Davis, a yoga teacher, multidimensional healer whose journey through grief reshaped her life, her work, and her understanding of healing.Raised in a family devoted...
S1 Trailer 15: When grief speaks: Cailea Davis
In this trailer, Cailea speaks of the heartache and pain of the loss of her father to suicide. Cailea describes her journey through a path that she felt was carved in stone until her father's death sent her on a path of discovery....
S1 E13: Breath by Breath: Healing Chronic Illness Through Yoga, Pranayama & Self-Compassion with Amanda Halls
In this episode, athletic therapist and yoga teacher Amanda Halls shares her powerful journey of navigating chronic illness and rediscovering her identity through yoga, Pranayama, and self-compassion.Amanda first encountere...
S1 Trailer 14: When the Body Becomes the Teacher with Amanda Halls
In this trailer episode, Amanda shares the moment her body asked her to listen. After experiencing a significant health event marked by neurological symptoms, she was forced to slow down and seek support from her physician—something that didn’t...
S1 E12: From People-Pleasing to Personal Power: Mel Grime on Healing Through Yoga
In this episode, Mel Grime shares a courageous and deeply personal story of growing up in England with an alcoholic father, navigating a culture of “stiff upper lip” expectations, and learning to survive by becoming the good...
S1 Trailer 13: Stillness and hearing my mind in yoga - Mel Grime
In this trailer Mel, describes her experience of being still on the mat but hearing her mind. Being still doesn't mean the mind is still.Stay tuned for the full episode where Mel shares how growing up in England with the stoic atti...
S1 E11: Life Before and After Yoga: Sabine Maarse & Michele Salchurt on Retreat Transformation in Costa Rica
This episode was recorded on November 20, 2025, at the beautiful Bodhi Tree Yoga Resort in Nosara, Costa Rica, during a week immersed in practice, nature, and community.Join Sabine and Michele as they share a heartfe...
S1 Trailer 12: Live from the Bodhi Tree Yoga Resort in Nosara Costa Rica
Listen to this trailer as Sabine and Michele discuss if one is considering going to a yoga retreat what should they do. This episode was recorded outside at the dining hall of the beautiful Bodhi Tree Yoga resort.
S1 E10 Kundalini Yoga & Conscious Leadership: How Inner Listening Shapes CEOs with Mark Macleod
In this episode, I’m joined by Mark Macleod—CEO coach, musician, and devoted practitioner of Kundalini yoga. Mark offers a thoughtful and deeply philosophical conversation about how yoga influences both his personal life and his w...
S1 trailer 11 Kundalini and the intuitive mind
Kundalini yoga plays an integral part in Mark's life allowing him presence, achievement and so much more. Mark describes his initial hesitation to how his life was enhanced.Tune in for the full episode to learn how Kundalini and the prac...
S1 E9: Calm Under Pressure: Meditation Tools for High-Stakes Business Moments - Shelley Wishart
In this episode, I speak with Shelley Wishart—a lifelong entrepreneur, passionate mover, and the heart behind GoYoga. Shelley shares her inspiring journey through business ownership and the challenges that come with high-stakes decision-...
S1 Trailer 10: Shelley Wishart: Meditation and manifesting business
In this trailer, Shelley talks about the high stakes world of selling a business and the fear of the unknown. However, what eased the fear was meditation. Shelley manifested the success which created calm in what could have been cha...
The Gift of the Magi: A short story
In this episode, I read The Gift of the Magi, a story that has stayed with me since the first time I heard it. My husband and I had just gotten married. We were living in our first little house, stretched thin on one income while I was...
The Gentle Whisper of Women: A short story
The Gentle Whisper of Women is a heartfelt exploration of grief, love, and the quiet guidance we receive from those who shape us—whether they’re still here or part of the lineage that walked before us.The episode opens in the stil...
S1 E8: Anxiety, Addiction & Disordered Eating: Quieting the Mind to Heal the Body: Tracy Armstrong
In today’s episode, I’m joined by Tracy Armstrong, a retired school administrator and yoga teacher from Orangeville, Ontario, who shares a powerful and deeply honest story of anxiety, insomnia, perfectionism, eating disorder recovery,...
Trailer 9: Tracy Armstrong, Trying yoga and struggling to pay attention
Welcome to the Inner Practice. In this trailer, Tracy talks about how she was "required" to try yoga from her treatment facility, Homewood. This initial struggle led to something beautiful and lifesaving, giving her the tools to hel...
The Path Lined with Mustard Seeds: A Short Story
The Path Lined with Mustard Seeds | The Inner Practice Podcast**In this episode of The Inner Practice Podcast, host Jackie Vandertuin shares her original short story, The Path Lined with Mustard Seeds — a reflect...
S1 E7: Labels don't define a person-Embracing being "weird": Brian Hames
In this episode of The Inner Practice, Brian Hames shares his journey from childhood labels to healing through yoga and nature. He opens up about resilience, living with anxiety, and the gifts that help him see the world differently.&n...