Cultivate Calm

About Cultivate Calm

This podcast will weave together ancient wisdom with modern science to share the best tools and techniques to cultivate calm in your life. Armed with a degree in behavioural science and a decade of running a thriving yoga studio, I'm here to share my wealth of knowledge on the science of stress, the art of relaxation, yoga philosophy, breathing, and meditation, all with a hint of personal development. Yoga transformed my life from being a stressed out IT professional to a calm and relaxed yoga teacher and throughout this podcast, I’ll be sharing my own journey and stories of my yoga clients. My philosophy is that busyness is overrated, stress makes us stupid, and anxious living is a recipe for burnout. In this podcast, we won't just scratch the surface of relaxation techniques; we'll dive deep into the impact of stress on our minds and bodies and how to think better, feel better and live better. I'll explain why nervous system health is at the heart of our yoga classes and our overall well-being. If you’re in need of some inspiration and motivation to help you take back control of your life and find calm in the chaos, look no further. I’m so excited to share this journey with you.

Publisher

Monica Rottmann

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Sept 2023

Latest episode

30 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jun 2026

   This is what I really want you to know

   Send us Fan Mail This is the final episode of the season. It started with a text from a radiology office and ends here, with a life that looks ordinary from the outside and is irrevocably different on the inside. This episode is about what the full arc of that journey actually looks like and what the word surrender really means when it's tested against something serious. Cancer recovery, life transitions, surrender, yoga philosophy, emotional resilience, Inanna myth. The episode explores the ...

2. 

   30 Jun 2026

   Why this felt so hard

   Send us Fan Mail This episode is about grief. Not managing it, avoiding it, or reframing it into something more comfortable, but actually sitting inside it. After a decade of cancer diagnoses, divorce, and losing her father, the emotional landscape that built up over those years is finally being examined honestly. This episode is where that examination happens. There's also something here that doesn't get talked about enough: the financial reality of serious illness. More than $100,000 in med...

3. 

   23 Jun 2026

   What did I do wrong?

   Send us Fan Mail After three cancer diagnoses across a decade, the question that keeps surfacing isn't about treatment or recovery. It's why. This episode is an honest look at that search, what it turned up, and what it didn't. Including Gabor Maté's work on emotional repression and physical illness, the BRCA testing process, and what it actually means to carry significant family cancer history without a clear genetic answer. The episode also gets into the limits of explanation. By the second...

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

24 ratings

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