Lisa walks Jay through “Crouching Tiger,” a standing exercise built around grounding, sounding, and vagal tone.
1. Parenting Tips: Young Dad Podcast focuses on Lisa D.’s approach to calm, nervous-system-based parenting and yoga practice.
2. Lisa D. is the guest, identified as an educator, entrepreneur, founder of Create Calm Yoga, author, former school administrator, and former law firm manager.
3. The episode asks how parents can bring calm, balance, and nervous system regulation into family routines.
4. Lisa says she has been bringing yoga into schools for almost 30 years and has used meditation and mindfulness with her two grown sons.
5. The host connects the conversation to younger millennials, citing 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, hurricanes, massacres, and social upheaval as part of their background.
6. Lisa responds with Erik Erikson’s theory of identity formation versus role assumption in late teens through early thirties.
7. She says younger adults are navigating who they are while also being pulled into old-fashioned social roles.
8. Lisa brings in astrology, describing a shift from the Piscean age to the Aquarian age and mentioning “The Age of Aquarius.”
9. She argues that kids are also coming into their own knowing, which contributes to energy dysregulation in families.
10. The host describes how roles can become identity for men, especially through jobs and home responsibilities.
11. Lisa says values often get compromised when people over-identify with roles and lose sight of needs, strengths, and gifts.
12. She explains that mind-body practices let people see thoughts, feelings, and body sensations and then raise or lower energy.
13. The host describes using gaming, driving, and breath work to access ideas and mental space.
14. Lisa says breath work can regulate physiology and create space for creativity.
15. She adds that some people need movement first, such as running, walking, yoga, or other big-body activity, before breath work feels accessible.
16. Lisa leads the host through Crouching Tiger, which includes grounding the feet, tiger claws, sounding, stomping like lava, and balloon breath.
17. She says yawning is a sign that the nervous system wants more breath, and she calls it a natural response to regulation.
18. The interview stays conversational and practical, with live coaching, laughter, and back-and-forth examples from parenting, swimming, and daily routines.
19. People who like practical parenting tools, breath work, and yoga-based regulation will get the most from it.
20. People looking for a fast, story-driven episode with little hands-on instruction may skip it.
