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.
- Update frequency
- every 76 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
An introduction to the Sabian Symbols: Soulful vignettes
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 c…
What is embodied movement: Let's dive into the incredible body
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 invitati…
Introducing the spirit of yin: The art of slowing down
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 myst…
Wholly Aligned Health News: BONES
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 t…
Guided meditation journey: Awakening your heart song
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 aslee…
Arriving and Centring: A guided 15 minute journey
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 Cen…
Coherence: Breathe better: Live better
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 …
Breathe. Strategising energy in the age of burnout with Dr Ela Manga
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, pract…
Balance in the breath, balance in the nervous system. Inhale. Exhale...
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-…
Mike: Kidney transplant surgeon, father and runner
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, Wale…
Vivien. 25 year friendship through dialysis, transplants, pregnancy, love and laughter
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 Vivi…
Sharlene: Beaming out Kidney Beam
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 Se…
Anoushica: Sibling kidney donation and the healing power of receptivity
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 kid…
The Zambia years. The blessings of Africa
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, o…
The Cork woman moves to Africa with her English husband
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 Johannesbur…
In Sacred Conversation with Marley: Farewell Cork. Hello London
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 M…
In sacred conversation with my Mother: 1940s Cork
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 Al…
Darryl Edwards: Movement is medicine
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 recordin…
Janey Lee Grace: Happy Healthy Sober
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 …
Isabel Firecracker shares her decision to be child-free
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 femini…