Luca Sonzogni on nutrition, fasting, well-being, flow states and leading a fulfilling life

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About this episode

This week we talk to nutritional therapist Luca Sonzogni. Luca successfully runs online nutrition programs, wellness retreats in Thailand where he lives, and writes a personal blog (see links below).

We talk to Luca about how to make big life decisions, and discuss his own big life decisions, including the planned, yet intuitive, steps that he made to create the life he is living today. We discuss nutrition and fasting in great detail, and discuss lifestyle choices that may hinder or support our wellbeing.

Luca talks about societal and childhood conditioning, and habitual responses towards our eating and daily habits. We dissect these topics, discussing the roots of them and how to break harmful or destructive patterns.

This episode if full of useful tips to improve your health. It is inspirational to hear just how much purpose and meaning Luca gets from having created a life he loves. It is fascinating to hear how we may finder greater meaning and self-understanding through focusing on all aspects of our wellbeing!

Key topics

• Luca’s life path so far and transformational moments (01:18)
• Freewill and conditioning (08:35)
• Finding a fulfilling life (11:11)
• Lifestyle/wellbeing changes and advice (24:50)
• Intermittent fasting (30:50)
• Emotions, food and getting to the root of our issues (40:00)
• Flow states (46:29

Book recommendations

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Personal bio and links

Luca successfully runs online nutrition Programs, see here www.smileynutrition.com and writes a personal blog www.nutriyogalife.com.

It was the spring of 2013 when Luca Sonzogni started on a really difficult personal path that transformed his life completely. Luca had been in London for well over a decade working in finance and the corporate world, a very fast paced and demanding lifestyle that in the long run proved to be unsustainable.  Shortly after leaving, he embarked on a soul searching journey to Brazil, Nepal, India and eventually arrived at the Yoga Village of Koh Phangan.

Luca touched the bottom then and climbing up involved completing studies in Nutrition at the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London, becoming a Yoga Teacher at the Sivananda Ashram in Madurai, India and ultimately profoundly changing his value system and lifestyle.

Since September 2016, he has been living in Srithanu, Koh Phangan, where a healthy living community of internationals share the natural beauty of this tropical island, the many yoga schools, workshops, events, gatherings, fresh food and wholesome restaurants. It is a perfect place where to find self-development and healing, sun, peace and connection.

Luca set up a nutritional therapy practice online and worked as Detox Manger for specialist detox centres in Koh Samui. There he had the wonderful gift of witnessing first hand, over and over, the healing power of fasting. Eventually this led to the setting up of the Smiley Detox, a community fasting detox, in Koh Phangan and online. People loved the experience and that prompted him to start the Smiley Retreat, to give everyone the opportunity of a flexible detox and wellness experience, in a truly unique place.

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