E52: Conversation with Fiona Agombar - Talking about chronic fatigue, burnout and Long-Covid
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05/10/2024
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This podcast episode is a recording of my conversation with Fiona Agombar during our 2022 Virtual Summit: Through a Trauma-informed Lens: Yoga, Somatics and Business. We chat about Fiona's personal journey including her health challenges, her journey of supporting others, and her passion for working with clients with CFS/ME, burnout and long-Covid. Fiona Agombar is an author and yoga therapist in the Viniyoga Tradition. She is accredited as an advanced teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY). Fiona is passionate about changing attitudes to those with fatigue conditions and describes herself as a Rest Activist. She specialises in teaching yoga for CFS/ME, Burnout, stress and long-Covid and has set up teaching modules on stress and fatigue for Yoga Campus together with CPD training for the BWY. Fiona was a key speaker for Global Yoga Therapy Day in August 2020 and a speaker at the Wellness After Covid Symposium in May 2021. In March 2021 she contributed to the British Council of Yoga Therapy on guidelines for teaching those with long-Covid. She runs successful training for teachers on Burnout, CFS and Long-Covid with Sarah Ryan through Yoga Teachers Forum. Fiona has had referrals for long-Covid from a major teaching hospital in the UK. She is the author of Beat Fatigue with Yoga (Cherry Red Books) and Yoga Therapy for Stress, Burnout and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Singing Dragon). Fiona has written a book on Long Covid with Nadyne McKie Breathe, Rest Recover which will be published in November 2024 by Singing Dragon. She runs weekly Zoom classes for those with fatigue, payable by donation. You can find more information about Fiona's work at: https://www.fionaagombar.co.uk/
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