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
S2 E4 The Inner Voice: Healing Addiction Through Connection, Nature & Social Dieta with Mario Danzer
What if healing isn’t about fixing yourself, but about reconnecting—to nature, to community, and to the parts of yourself you’ve left behind?
In this episode of The Inner Practice, host Jackie Vandertuin sits down with Mario Danzer—a facilitator, retreat leader, and student of traditional Amazonian medicine whose journey led him from health counseling in Germany to spending over two and a half years i...
In this trailer, Mario unpacks the Shipibo diets. This diet consists of an overarching diet that focuses on healing or learning. Mario explains that diets are not calorie reduction as we often think of in the western framework.
Mario unpacks our relationship with ourselves and how diet is so much more. Tune into the trailer with the full episode out on October 14, 2026.
If you ...
What happens after recovery? What comes beyond sobriety, survival, and simply getting through the day?
In this episode of The Inner Practice, Jackie Vandertuin sits down with therapeutic counsellor, transformational facilitator, recovery coach, and author Vince Wishart to explore what true transformation looks like after the initial work of healing has begun.
Drawing from more than 25 years of lived recovery and decades of profession...
In this episode, Vince describes leaving a religious cult and finding himself alone. This came with fear, isolation and a sense of devastation. His support came from others who were abusing and using drugs and alcohol. Vince gives us a sense of how trauma is passed down from one generation to the next and provides insight for the full episode.
This episode is made without the use of Artificial Intelligence. I...
What happens when scientific rigor meets a mother’s intuition? In this episode of The Inner Practice, host Jackie Vandertuin sits down with Dr. Theresa Lyons, Yale-trained scientist, autism educator, founder of AWEtism, and mom, to explore the emotional and practical realities of a parent who has a child child diagnosed with autism. Theresa shares how trusting her inner knowing changed the course of her life and work, and how...
What if just a few moments of stillness could change the way you move through your entire day?
In this episode of The Inner Practice, Jackie Vandertuin sits down with Dr. Theresa Lyons to explore how meditation became an anchor during one of the busiest seasons of her life. Beginning her meditation practice while completing her PhD, Theresa shares how carving out intentional moments of quiet helped her manage stress, regulate her ne...
Welcome back to Season 2 of The Inner Practice, a space dedicated to real stories of struggle, resilience, and profound transformation. While our journey began on the yoga mat, this podcast explores how the lessons learned in practice ripple out into everyday life. In this upcoming season, host Jackie Vandertuin dives into non-traditional paths to healing—exploring how parents navigating autism use yoga for daily groundi...
In this special anniversary episode of The Inner Practice, I pause to reflect on the first year of the podcast and the stories that have shaped it.
What began as a space to explore yoga, mindfulness, and healing has become something far deeper: a collection of human stories about resilience, grief, transformation, self-love, and the quiet courage it takes to be honest with ourselves.
Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege o...
What if you could walk back through your life…
and see it differently?
In this episode of The Inner Practice, Jackie shares her short story, The Corridor of a Life—a story of memory, identity, and the quiet voice within that shapes how we see ourselves.
Through a journey of moments—joy, pain, love, and loss—we are invited to witness how self-judgment can cloud even the most beautiful parts of ou...
The Corridor of a Life — A Story of Self-Worth, Healing, and Learning to See Through Love
How do we heal the quiet, persistent voice inside that tells us we aren't enough?
In this deeply personal and moving story written and narrated by host Jackie Vandertuin, we step into a sacred journey through the "corridor of a life." Passing into a luminous realm after death, a soul is invited to walk through a gallery of their own memori...
Love isn't just something we receive, it's something we demonstrate.
In this powerful follow-up to our Self-Love conversation, host Jackie Vandertuin welcomes back Amanda Halls, Cailea Davis, and Stacie da Ponte for an honest and heartfelt discussion about how the relationship we have with ourselves shapes every relationship around us.
Inspired by Rupi Kaur's words, "How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you," this ep...
In this trailer, Amanda Halls, Cailea Davis and Stacie DaPonte continue the discussion on self love modeled around the message written by Rupi Kaur of how we love ourselves invites a modeling of that love to others in how they love us.
In this trailer Amanda quotes James Baldwin about wearing masks which has been a theme throughout this season. Asking the question of where the mask comes from and how to remove that mask.
What does it truly mean to love yourself?
In this heartfelt episode of The Inner Practice, host Jackie Vandertuin is joined by returning guests Cailea Davis, Jasmine Deleon, and Megan Pomeransky for an honest and thoughtful conversation about self-love, self-compassion, and the stories we tell ourselves.
Drawing inspiration from the Buddha's teaching, "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and aff...
What is self love? Why is it important and how does it show up for ourselves both on and off the mat? Finally, why is it important that we emulate self love for others.
In this trailer, Cailea Davis talks about where the idea for the self love podcast came from.
In April of 2026, Cailea Davis approached me and suggested this idea for a podcast. She had been sitting with this concept, particularly as the theme...
In Part Two of this powerful conversation on The Inner Practice Podcast, host Jackie Vandertuin speaks with trauma-informed educator and Prison Yoga Project Director of Training, Jen Lindgren, about the realities of incarceration, trauma, and the transformative role of embodied healing practices inside correctional facilities.
Drawing from both her personal experience growing up with a father who was incarcerated and her years facil...
In this powerful episode of The Inner Practice, I sit down with Jen Lindren from the Prison Yoga Project to explore the profound human need for connection, healing, and belonging.
Jen shares a moving story from a yoga session inside a correctional facility. After class, one participant found the courage to share a deeply personal experience. What happened next was simple yet transformative—another incarcerated individual respo...
Sometimes the work we’re called to do grows quietly from our own stories—through loss, unanswered questions, and a deep desire to create something different.
In this episode, I sit down with Jen Lindgren, trauma-informed educator, movement facilitator, and Director of Training with the Prison Yoga Project. Jen’s work supports incarcerated individuals and communities navigating adversity—but her connection to ...
What if your healing journey began in the most unexpected place: on a pool table in an after-hours bar?
In this deeply moving episode of The Inner Practice, Jackie sits down with Jen Lindgren, Director of Training with the Prison Yoga Project, yoga facilitator, and teacher to explore a story rooted in pain, resilience, and profound transformation.
Jen shares what it was like growing up with a father who was incarcerated, naviga...
Cassie Doucette didn’t just find yoga—she felt it.
From her very first class, something shifted. The connection between breath and movement offered a new way of being—one that traditional addictions counselling hadn’t fully provided. Over the past 11 years as co-owner of The Loft Yoga Studio, Cassie has cultivated more than a yoga space—she’s built a sanctuary for authenticity in a community where...
What happens when you grow up in a place where emotions are kept quiet and fitting in feels essential for belonging?
In this trailer episode of The Inner Practice, Cassie Doucette shares how yoga became a turning point in her life. From walking into a class where everything felt intimidating and “perfect,” to discovering a deep sense of stillness and inner peace, her journey reveals the quiet power of stepping onto the m...
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