Awake Athlete Podcast

Awake Athlete Podcast

Hosted by: Jess Gumkowski

The Awake Athlete Podcast is a short form exploration of life perspectives from a 10,000-foot view. An all-encompassing offering of time-tested knowledge, techniques, and practices that allow for more ease along the...

Episodes

S1 Ep13: BONUS: In The Dread Of The Night

Season #1 Episode #13

We’ve all woken up in the middle of the night with the weight of the world on our chests. We’ve all laid there for hours trying to get back to sleep while our mind catastrophes our future and our nervous systems hold...
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S1 Ep14: BONUS: Yoga Nidra Practice

Season #1 Episode #14

Are you ready to go deep? Because that’s where this 15-minute Yoga Nidra practice takes you, into a deep yogic sleep. It’s a practice that I’ve been incorporating into my training since I first heard about its...
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S2 Ep1: Season Two Opener

Season #2 Episode #1

Season two is here and the work remains the same. Present moment awareness is the key to it all; lifting limits, detaching, identifying when the ego is living our life, figuring out who we are and never holding back....
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S2 Ep2: Are You Trapped In Trying?

Season #2 Episode #2

Have you ever considered that trying is an invitation for failure? I never did until I heard a friend of mine say it one day, and then it all made sense.Contemplate this, if we're always trying, then we never really...
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S2 Ep3: Injury: What Can I Do?

Season #2 Episode #3

What is your first reaction when you hear the word injury? How do you respond when your own body shows signs of damage? Have you ever considered that it could be a time to expand gratitude, increase mind training, and...
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S2 Ep4: Intuition or Mindstuff?

Season #2 Episode #4

Knowing which race to sign up for, what coach to work with, honestly, any decision in life never needs to be the paralyzing process of deliberation that it is for many. As we wake up and flex our muscle to be present...
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S2 Ep5: We Are So Self-Absorbed!

Season #2 Episode #5

The ego needs to be seen as a separate autonomous being and, at the same time, makes everything about itself. When we act from this separation mechanism, we operate from the lower self and are in no way at our best to...
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S2 Ep6: Always Be Tuning

Season #2 Episode #6

Awakening begins when we realize there is more to this life than what we see, taste, smell, touch, and hear. If we are dissatisfied with our reality, we can tune ourselves towards a new reality just like a musician...
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S2 Ep7: Things WILL Fall Away

Season #2 Episode #7

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. " - Lao TzuIt wouldn't be a season without an embarrassing story, and this one is around a time in my life when results stalking was a regular part of my race...
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S2 Ep8: Yoga Of Food

Season #2 Episode #8

Ahimsa is doing the least amount of harm in any given situation. If we look at our world today, I think we can all agree that practicing ahimsa would benefit the whole, and don’t forget the whole includes you. When we...
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S2 Ep9: Stop Shoulding On People!

Season #2 Episode #9

“I should be running faster,” “my family should get along better,” “he shouldn’t work so hard,” “I should be more fit” - sound familiar?We should on ourselves and others, all the time. Our society is full of people...
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S2 Ep10: You WILL Be Tested

Season #2 Episode #10

Let's get one thing straight; the mind is a thought-producing machine. The meditation assignment is not stopping thoughts, so if your excuse for not meditating is your mind is too busy, excuse no more. To even know...
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