Bold Vitality

In this episode, Carolyn and Ashley discuss the core principles of Expansion Therapy and how they apply it to one of the most common complaints they see clinically: low back pain.They explore the physical and anatomical contributors to pain, as well as the energetic patterns that often accompany it. Through a case study, they walk listeners through how Expansion Therapy can support those experiencing low back pain or SI joint dysfunction.The conversation centers on building a more intimate, trusting relationship with the body—so healing supports not just relief from pain, but continued participation in the activities you love.✨ Join our free masterclass: The Depth of Your Breath📅 January 11 at 11am CST🤍 Work 1:1 with Carolyn & Ashley Website: ⁠https://www.expansion-therapy.com/starthere⁠ Connect with Us:🌿📱 Instagram & TikTok: @expansion.therapy | ⁠@ashleyribaudo.yoga⁠ | ⁠@dr.carolyn.meister⁠🎵 Music by Nver Avetyan via Pixabay

With the holiday season upon us, Carolyn and Ashley reflect on gratitude and how we can cultivate more of it in our daily lives. They explore how gratitude helps ground them in the present moment and deepens their work with breath and awareness.They also discuss how they integrate expansion therapy practices—both in their work with clients and in their own lives—especially during the busyness and emotional intensity of the holiday season.Connect with Us:🌿 Website: ⁠https://www.expansion-therapy.com/starthere⁠📱 Instagram & TikTok: @expansion.therapy | ⁠@ashleyribaudo.yoga⁠ | ⁠@dr.carolyn.meister⁠🎵 Music by Nver Avetyan via Pixabay

How does money feel in your body? What emotions arise when you think about wealth, abundance, or finances — and do you see abundance as something that extends beyond money itself?In this episode, Carolyn and Ashley open a grounded, soulful conversation about our relationship with wealth and expansion. Together, they explore how our beliefs and energy around money mirror our deeper patterns of receiving, self-worth, and flow.If you’ve ever felt resistance around abundance or struggled to welcome overflow into your life, this episode offers reflection, compassion, and guidance for realignment.Ready to deepen your healing journey? Book an Expansion Therapy session or join our community through the link below.If this conversation resonates, leave us a comment, follow, like, and share — your energy helps our message reach more hearts.Connect with Us:🌿 Website: https://www.expandwithbreath.com/about-3📱 Instagram & TikTok: @ashleyribaudo.yoga | @dr.carolyn.meister🎵 Music by Nver Avetyan via Pixabay

Have you ever paused to notice how gratitude feels in your body?In this episode, Carolyn and Ashley invite you to explore gratitude as more than a thought — as a felt experience that lives and breathes within you. Together, they dive into how the body responds to different emotions, how gratitude shifts our energetic state, and what it means to truly embody appreciation in everyday life.Discover gentle, tangible ways to reshape your thoughts, calm your nervous system, and open your body to deeper presence and joy.Ready to continue your healing journey? Book an Expansion Therapy session or join our community through the link below.If this conversation resonates, leave us a comment, follow, like, and share — your energy helps our message reach more hearts.Connect with Us:🌿 Website: https://www.expandwithbreath.com/about-3📱 Instagram & TikTok: @ashleyribaudo.yoga | @dr.carolyn.meister🎵 Music by Nver Avetyan via Pixabay

Have you ever experienced manipulation — and wondered how it shaped your body’s responses and sense of safety?In this second part of the Trauma in the Body series, Carolyn and Ashley continue their exploration of how emotional experiences manifest physically. Together, they discuss the subtle ways manipulation and control can imprint on the nervous system, influence our energy, and affect how we move through the world.They also offer insight into what it means to reclaim your body, rebuild trust within yourself, and embody the version of you that feels whole, grounded, and free.This is Part 2 of a two-part series on trauma in the body — a conversation for anyone ready to reconnect with their inner strength and begin truly inhabiting their body again.Connect with Carolyn & Ashley:🌿 Website: https://www.expandwithbreath.com/about-3📱 Instagram & TikTok: @dr.carolyn.meister📸 Instagram: @ashleyribaudo.yoga🎵 Music by Nver Avetyan via Pixabay

Have you ever paused to consider how your life experiences shape your physical body?In this episode, Carolyn and Ashley open a grounded conversation about the deep connection between mind, body, and overall wellbeing. They explore how trauma can manifest physically, how emotions live within our tissues, and how past experiences continue to influence our health and energy long after the initial event.This is Part 1 of a two-part series on trauma in the body — an invitation to listen inward, reconnect, and begin the process of gentle healing.Connect with Carolyn & Ashley:🌿 Website: https://www.expandwithbreath.com/about-3📱 Instagram & TikTok: @dr.carolyn.meister📸 Instagram: @ashleyribaudo.yoga🎵 Music by Nver Avetyan via Pixabay

Join Ashley and Carolyn for a discussion on power dynamics and manipulation. They explore how power over others is much different than power with others. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

In this episode Carolyn interviews Ashley about the current issues of abuse that have come to light in Ashtanga Yoga. This is a raw and candid episode you will not want to miss. This episode contains discussion our abuse and adult language, listener discretion is advised. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

When you hear the word HABIT what comes to mind? Join Ashley and Carolyn for a discussion on creating new habits, releasing ones that no longer serve us, and the radical idea of REST. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join Carolyn and Ashley for this episode where Carolyn shares her philosophy overlaying the chakras, meridians and dermatomes as a way to map and work with the body through Expansion Therapy. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as they explore yoga practice on and off the mat. How the practice can inform and shape our lives. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn for a special episode where Ashley shares her understanding of Yoga. Inspired by her Teachers and those who walked the path before her. This perspective is filtered through her own studies and lens of perspective. Special note* Pratyahara was unintentionally missed when listing the 8 limbs. This is the 5th limb of yoga and is the withdrawal of senses. Yamas: Ahimsa (non-harming), Satya ( truthfulness), Asteya (non-stealing), Brahmacarya (non-excess), Aparigraha ( non-greed) Niyama: Sauca (purity), Santosa ( contentment), Tapas ( discipline), Svadhyaya (self study), Ishvara Pranidhana (devotion/ surrender) For more on Ashley's teachings: www.saintlouisashtangayoga.comMusic by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

TRIGGER WARNING- This episode discusses various forms of trauma and may be triggering for some sensitive listeners. Discretion is advised. Join Carolyn & Ashley as the discuss working though challenges in life, and where we might find a little grace for ourselves and others. Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Nver Avetyan⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as they share and educate on the network of connective tissue in our body. Fascia is more than just a "casing" that holds our tissues and organs together but a complex network connecting mind and body. Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Nver Avetyan⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay

Join Carolyn and Ashley for a very special episode of the Bold Vitality Podcast where Carolyn shares her exciting new therapeutic approach to helping individuals take control of their health and wellbeing: Expansion Therapy. Expansion Therapy harnesses the power of your breath to effect changes on the physical and energetic systems of the body. We can't wait for you to listen to this episode and find out more!For more on Expansion Therapy or to book a session or workshop visit: www.expanditude.com Music by ⁠⁠⁠Nver Avetyan⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as they dive into exploring the energetic exchange of our relationships. They discuss the many dynamic relationships that healthcare providers face and how to balance the exchange of energy. Music by ⁠⁠⁠Nver Avetyan⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as they share personal stories of struggles, healing and what recovery looks like from eating disorders and disordered eating. Warning: This episode contains discussion around eating disorders. Music by ⁠⁠Nver Avetyan⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠Pixabay

Join Carolyn & Ashley as they examine the standard of medical care in the US. They don't hold back on issues plaguing our for-profit healthcare model that puts priority on profits over the people proving and receiving care. Music by ⁠⁠Nver Avetyan⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠Pixabay

Join Carolyn and Ashley as they explore neck pain through the layers of emotion, physical and spiritual bodies. Music by ⁠Nver Avetyan⁠ from ⁠Pixabay

Join Carolyn and Ashley as they explore the interplay between upper extremity injuries, emotions and energy. Music by ⁠Nver Avetyan⁠ from ⁠Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as they explore the shoulder joint. They explore anatomy, injury and how our emotions, energetic systems and environment all affect our experience and impact our healing. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as they they work their way up the body, exploring injuries in the mid-body. They take their unique perspective and explore the layers to create meaningful change. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as the explore lower back & SI joint pain. They discuss different presentations and looking at the physical, emotional, lifestyle and energetic systems of the body to create impactful change for individuals. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as they explore how pain or dysfunction in the hips and pelvic floor show up. They look at how our emotions, energetic systems and environment all affect our experience and impact our healing. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as they explore common orthopedic knee and thigh injuries. They share their unique clinical insights looking beyond the injury, to other physical & energetic systems, lifestyle, and emotions. Explaining how these things layer to impact our healing. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join Ashley & Carolyn as they explore common orthopedic foot and ankle injuries. They share their unique clinical insights looking beyond the injury, to other physical & energetic systems, lifestyle, and emotions. Explaining how these things layer to impact our healing. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

 Join Ashley and Carolyn as they explore what it truly means to connect with others and yourself from the lens of secure relationships and knowing your values. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

 Join Ashley and Carolyn as they discuss the understanding of life outside of ourselves as a reflection of our internal beliefs. Listen as they explore real examples and how connecting with your reflection can provide insight into how you really look at yourself inside and out. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join Ashley and Carolyn as they bring together the thoughts, feelings, emotions of each of the energy centers and how they move through the body. Offering their own unique insights and perspectives they review the themes of the chakra series and how it’s all connected. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

The Chakras are the energy centers of the self, in this episode Ashley & Carolyn filter their understanding of the crown chakra through a unique east meets west perspective. Seventh and final episode in the series. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

 The Chakras are the energy centers of the self, in this episode Ashley & Carolyn filter their understanding of the third eye chakra through a unique east meets west perspective. Sixth in the series. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

The Chakras are the energy centers of the self, in this episode Ashley & Carolyn filter their understanding of the throat chakra through a unique east meets west perspective. Fifth in the series. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

The Chakras are the energy centers of the self, in this episode Ashley & Carolyn filter their understanding of the heart chakra through a unique east meets west perspective. Fourth in the series. Music byNver Avetyan fromPixabay

The Chakras are the energy centers of the self, in this episode Ashley & Carolyn filter their understanding of the solar plexus chakra through a unique east meets west perspective. Third in the series. Music byNver Avetyan fromPixabay

The Chakras are the energy centers of the self, in this episode Ashley & Carolyn filter their understanding of the sacral chakra through a unique east meets west perspective. Second in the series. Trigger Warning: This episode discusses sexuality and mentions sexual assault. Music byNver Avetyan fromPixabay

The Chakras are the energy centers of the self, in this episode Ashley & Carolyn filter their understanding of the root chakra through a unique east meets west perspective. First in the series. Music byNver Avetyan fromPixabay

 Sometimes we “know” what we “should” do but we never take the steps forward. What is stopping us? Sometimes it's our own thought patterns.Music byNver Avetyan fromPixabay

Ashley & Carolyn share personal stories of injury, healing and discovering the deeper meaning behind it all.  Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay

Join us for the inaugural episode of the Bold Vitality Podcast! We’re excited to share with you a little bit about ourselves, why we started the podcast and to look at some fundamental differences between “traditional” western medicine and what we call conscious healthcare. Music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay