The Inner Fire of Yoga is where yoga meets real life. Whether you're on a personal yoga journey. Teaching yoga. Or looking to deepen your practice. This podcast unpacks the true power of yoga. Beyond the poses. Hosted by Liz Albanis a senior yoga teacher and yoga therapist in training. Episodes explore topics such as how yoga supports mental health. Including ADHD, trauma recovery, and nervous system regulation. But we go beyond the mat! Diving into holistic well-being, From everyday habits ...
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The Voice is the official podcast of United University Professions, America's largest higher education union. We spotlight our hard-working members, and issues that are important to them and others who believe in a strong effective union.
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Yoga Teaching Confidence Starts Here: Anatomy, Mindset & Authenticity with Karen Fabian
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Send us a text Outline What if the thing holding you back as a yoga teacher wasn’t your knowledge, but your mindset? Liz Albanis joined by Karen Fabian. Karen Fabian is an experienced yoga teacher, anatomy educator and author. Whether you're a new teacher feeling overwhelmed . Or an experienced practitioner ready to go deeper. This episode delivers…
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The Scariest Night of My Adult Life: Surviving My Second Fire
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Send us a text Content Warning: This episode contains personal accounts of house fires and may be triggering for some listeners. Please listen with care. If you're in Australia and need support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. On 11 January 2024, Liz's life changed in an instant. In this emotional and episode, she shares the story of the night her ne…
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Healing Through Yoga, Somatics, EFT & Reiki with Justine Janssen
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Send us a text Liz Albanis speaks with the inspiring Justine Janssen. A senior Australian yoga teacher. Former owner of three yoga studios, mentor, retreat facilitator, and a lifelong student now training in holistic counselling and somatics. This heartfelt and powerful conversation is for yoga teachers, practitioners, and anyone interested in the …
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How to Reduce Hidden Toxins in Your Home & Body with Michelle Diener
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Send us a text Overview Liz chats with Michelle Diener, to explore the hidden dangers of everyday toxins and their impact on our health. Including their role in hormone disruption, chronic illness, and breast cancer risk. She is naturopath, building biologist, and certified low-tox coach. Through 1:1 coaching, group education and in-home assessment…
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Ayurveda, Teaching and Living Your Yoga with Lisa Weller
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Send us a text Overview Liz speaks with senior yoga teacher and therapist Lisa Weller based in Brisbane, Australia. With over 20 years of yoga experience. Lisa shares how her yoga practice has evolved into a spiritual and holistic lifestyle. Far beyond poses on a mat. Together, they discuss the intersection of Ayurveda and yoga. Adapting your pract…
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Yoga Alignment: Why Some Yoga Poses Feel Impossible
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Send us a text Overview Have you ever struggled with a yoga pose and wondered, Why can’t I do this when others can? You’re not alone. Many people assume that flexibility and strength are the only factors in yoga poses. The truth is your unique bone structure plays a huge role in what poses feel accessible. Or impossible! In this episode, Liz shares…
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Decluttering Tips to Improve Your Mental Health with Melinda Ferrier
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Send us a text Overview Liz sits down with Melinda Ferrier, a psychologist and professional organiser. Did you know clutter can increase stress and anxiety? Research it can make it harder to focus, relax, or feel at peace. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by “stuff”. Struggled to let go. Or wondered if decluttering could actually improve your well-b…
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Grief, Pain Relief & Transformation Through Yoga & Tips for Teachers with Rebel Tucker
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Send us a text Liz sits down with yoga therapist, naturopath, and senior yoga teacher Rebel Tucker. To explore how yoga goes far beyond the poses. And can become a lifeline in times of adversity. Yoga is often misunderstood as just a physical practice. But its true power lies in its ability to heal the mind, regulate emotions, and build resilience.…
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My Personal Yoga Journey: Addiction, Resilience & Self-Belief
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Send us a text Outline In this episode, Liz share's her personal yoga journey. From her very first Bikram (hot yoga) class in 2011. To becoming a yoga teacher and eventually embracing a home practice. While she initially started yoga for fitness and flexibility. Liz soon discovered that its most profound benefits had nothing to do with weight loss …
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A conversation with New York Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado
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People are really important to Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado. As a member of Congress representing District 19—a vastly rural 8,000-mile district spanning 11 counties—the lieutenant governor held dozens of in-person and virtual town hall meetings during his two terms as a House member, reaching out to thousands of his constituents. His dedica…
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Send us a text Hosted by Liz Albanis, a senior yoga teacher and yoga therapist in training. This podcast was born in 2024, after Liz survived her second fire. Fire has been a recurring theme in her life. Not just in the literal sense, but as a metaphor. It has asked her to burn away what no longer serves her, to transform, and to rise stronger each…
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A conversation with New York AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento
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New York AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento talks about his role in leading one of the most powerful state federations in the country on the latest episode of The Voice Podcast. Cilento and UUP President Fred Kowal, the podcast’s host, talk about Cilento's role in making the state AFL-CIO into a year-round legislative action network that has only grow…
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The Voice Podcast Episode 10: NYPIRG's Blair Horner tells it like it is
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NYPIRG Executive Director Blair Horner is never at a loss for words when it comes to protecting the public’s right to know—and to act. In his more than 40 years as NYPIRG’s legislative director—and later as its executive director—Blair has advocated for a wide range of important issues, including energy reform, government openness, ethics and accou…
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Defusing microaggressions and enhancing inclusion: How UUP is fostering DEI initiatives on SUNY campuses
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Somehow, diversity, equity and inclusion is under attack. Pushed by a small but very vocal group of right-wing conservatives, attacks on DEI have escalated over recent months as they have been embraced by powerful Republican politicians. And more than a few have been directed at public higher education. In Texas, the Republican-led Legislature vote…
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Hochul, SUNY and Trump: A conversation with New York political insider Liz Benjamin
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On this episode of The Voice Podcast, UUP president and host Fred Kowal talks state and national politics with Liz Benjamin, the former host of Spectrum News's statewide political program “Capital Tonight." Benjamin, who spent 15 years as a hard-hitting political print reporter and columnist for the Albany Times Union and the New York Daily News, m…
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Mental health, addiction and recovery: A conversation with Patrick J. Kennedy
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On this episode of The Voice, UUP President Fred Kowal talks with former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, who for decades has been a champion for mental health equity and combatting substance abuse—and is recognized as one of the nation's most respected voices on mental health equity, parity, addiction and recovery. Kennedy—the son of S…
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Why is childbirth deadlier when you're Black?
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Central Brooklyn is the epicenter of New York City’s maternal health crisis—and has been for far too long. The community, home to Brooklyn’s only public teaching hospital, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, has the highest rates of severe maternal morbidity in the state. Longtime UUP leader Rowena Blackman-Stroud, who died in December 2022,…
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Does Albany have the means to properly fund SUNY? You bet it does.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul released her 2023-2024 Executive Budget proposal Feb. 1, which officially kicked off what’s known as budget season in Albany. In this podcast, Fred Kowal, UUP's president and podcast host, talks about the governor’s proposed spending plan, her 2023 State of The State address, and how SUNY and public higher education could…
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Union trailblazer Kate Mullany and the ALSC
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In this episode of The Voice podcast, host and UUP President Fred Kowal talks about the American Labor Studies Center and its connection to female union trailblazer Kate Mullany with ALSC Executive Director Paul Cole and Jolene DiBrango, the chair of the ALSC’s Board of Directors and executive vice president of the New York State United Teachers. L…
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Get your student loans forgiven under PSLF: The Oct. 31 limited waiver
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In 2007, Congress enacted the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program as a way to attract talented professionals to careers in public service. Under the program, borrowers who work in nonprofit or government jobs for 10 years or more and meet other program requirements can get their remaining federal student loans forgiven. Sound simple? Navigating…
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Environmental justice, electric cars and a greener SUNY
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From finding new homes for desks and other surplus items at SUNY to electric cars, New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act and the federal Inflation Reduction Act, this episode of The Voice podcast is fully focused on the environment. Host Fred Kowal discusses the landmark Inflation Reduction Act and the positive impact it can ha…
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Addressing abortion rights in a post-Roe world
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On this episode of The Voice, UUP president and host Fred Kowal discusses steps being taken to preserve and guarantee abortion rights in New York state just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The court's 6-3 ruling nullified the landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, which recognized …
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A conversation with AFT President Randi Weingarten
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From gun safety reform and protecting students and teachers in the classroom to women’s reproductive rights, public health care, and the environment, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten speaks truth to power. She doesn't pull punches and isn't afraid to say what needs to be said on these and other important topics. On this ep…
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Addressing systemic racism in Buffalo
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In this episode of The Voice podcast, host and UUP President Fred Kowal speaks with three leaders of Buffalo's Black community about systemic racism in Buffalo and the impact of the racially motivated May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo that killed 10 people, all of whom were Black, and wounded three others. Our guests are: Janique Curry, vice presiden…
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A conversation with retired UUP President Nuala McGann Drescher
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Welcome to The Voice Podcast, the official podcast of United University Professions, the nation's largest higher education union. In our debut podcast, UUP President Fred Kowal talks with past UUP President Nuala McGann Drescher. McGann Drescher, who served from 1981 through 1987, is the union's first woman president. A Distinguished Service Profes…
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