Cole Chance has made a career out of helping people get to know their own nervous systems, not to fix some broken part of themselves, but so they can stop running on autopilot and start choosing. In this conversation, she and Nik trace mindfulness back to a Pali word that means to remember, sort the nervous system into a traffic light you can read from the inside, and ask why your intuition might be the last voice to trust when you're in the red.

About Cole:
Cole is a trauma-informed yoga teacher, addiction recovery educator and retreat leader. She founded Emerge, an eight-week recovery program informed by Buddhism, neuroscience and modern psychology, and the Mindfulish School, which runs 200- and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings.

Mentioned in this episode
Books: The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
Concepts and frameworks: samskaras · sati, the Pali root of mindfulness · the hungry ghost · polyvagal theory and the red, yellow, green map · Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the eight Cs · somatic experiencing · holotropic breathwork · interoception · earth altars
People and other media: Gabor Maté · Pema Chödrön · Richard Schwartz · Deb Dana · Carl Jung · Wayne Dyer · the myth of Shiva's dreadlocks · Nyepi and the ogoh-ogoh, Bali · Green School, Bali

Links
Cole Chance: colechanceyoga.com
Emerge: emergerecovery.com
The Mindfulish School: themindfulishschool.com
YouTube: Cole Chance Yoga
NextUs: Orienteering at nextus.world

Your move
Light: at your next check-in with yourself, ask two questions: what state am I in, red, yellow or green, and how do I know?
Medium: map your green. Who are you with, what are you doing, when and where does it happen?
Deep: Emerge, Cole's eight-week program, or a teacher training at the Mindfulish School.