The Wholly Aligned Health Podcast
Wholly Aligned comes to you from Ciara Jean Roberts Ciara is a writer, yoga and movement teacher of over 11 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 35 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
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 through from Ancient Mesopotamia, these symbols, each corresponding to the degrees on the zodiacal wheel. 360 in total, with 30 degrees being assigned to each of the 12 signs. Th...
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 their bodies and how we can continue to remember our agency, sovereignty and autonomy. Bit by bit, remembering too, to be gentle in the process.
Ciara Jean Roberts
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 energy, an equipoise to the excess of yang we tend towards in modern life.
With some reference to yoga and yin yoga, mainly though, an invitation to sip at the slower cup of repl...
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 this episode, Ciara shares some ideas to encourage better bone health, from nutrition, to the importance of movement and an overview of key bone cells and their function.
For more ideas,...
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 Roberts
Yoga Teacher. Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, Author, Creative Spark
https://www.whollyaligned.com
Twitter @WhollyAligned
Check out my Tedx Talk: Unlocking your Inner Physician: ht...
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. The energies of Centre.
Arriving and centring into the contours of our physical form.
Centring into the essence of the deepest inner truths we hold.
Arriving and Centring is a practise Cia...
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 nose
2. Breathing into the belly
3. An even rate and rhythm
It's all about balance.
With a guided 15 minutes at the end to help regulate, sense ...
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 GP in conventional medicine, a few years into her GP work, she swiftly discovered that patients kept coming back with the same issues. Her work then broadened out into energy man...
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.
Making it relatable to your daily life. So not laden with jargon - infused with real life story and reminders to be kind and compassionate in your exploratio...
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, when a burgeoning interest in the wellbeing of medics working in a dysfunctional system became a passion I wanted to understand more about. Mike was open in the challenges he felt...
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 were both young students at different universities. And over 25 years later, they remain firm friends.
Through the rollercoasters of their own unique journey ...
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 London, and a NIHR post-doctoral research fellow. She co-chairs the UK Kidney Research Consortium, and Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership (KQuIP), and is the President of the UK Kid...
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 infection that left her in hospital for over 3 months this year. Including days in intensive care.
We cover the ache of her brother wanting to give her a kidney, her...
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.
Zambia is a beautiful country in southern Africa. Hear more in this episode of a family moving abroad. Very fortunate to live an expatriate life, with a big house, yet also...
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 were trained in use of firearms as standard (my Dad included) and being stopped by the police for having our nanny Emily riding upfront. Such white hierarchy.
Nonetheles...
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 if haven't yet) onto her brave journey into London. So young. Arriving in 1961 at just 19 years old.
From the localised domain of Cork to exploring th...
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 with Marley (as she calls her mother). Catherine Roberts turns 80 this year, 2021. Increasingly I have found her capacity to remember dates, names, places as if they were only ...
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 in the investment banking world, to creating primal play. Hear more about his story of transformation on this Inspiring Souls episode. A very honest, w...
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 Sobriety Rocks!
Janey is an author, commentator, and co-presenter on the UK’s biggest radio show, BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon. She has writt...
Ciara in her brand new ' Inspiring Souls' podcast series, chats with Columbian born and raised Isabel Firecracker.
A world traveler, avid kitesurfer, and childfree intersectional feminist, Isabel describes herself as a pragmatic, no-nonsense coach for childfree women who struggle with feelings of anger, insecurity, shame, and guilt that surround their choice to not have children. She has designed h...
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