Niklaus Frey worked as an HR Business Partner for the Trading Floor of an Investment Bank while secretly suffering from a porn addiction for 15 years. The addiction robbed him of the will to take care of his health and made him mentally and physically ill culminating in a herniated spinal disc that needed surgery as it paralysed his leg. He no longer had any motivation or purpose in life. Finding himself frustrated, angry, lonely, lost, he felt powerless and at the mercy of his addiction....

In this week's podcast, I sat down with the very charming, energetic, and joyous Rebecca Pflaum, a well-known kundalini teacher who discovered the practice when she encountered crippling pain in her back, hips, and neck. Kundalini yoga was the transformational and sacred gift she received to recover and reclaim her body, mind, and spirit. Rebecca’s lightness of being is contagious and during our conversation, we speak about how kundalini yoga as a practice taught her self empowerment and...

This week's podcast I sat down with the extremely raw, real, and incredibly open-hearted Alexia Usgaard, the founder of the FEARCE movement, whose life changed dramatically when her alcoholic father passed away in 2014. After quitting her job, she took a flight out to Bali and began a long and meaningful journey with grief. Alexia’s story is inspirational and a testament that simply putting one foot in front of the other is more than enough in devastating moments in one's life. And that when...

This week's podcast I sat down with a very humble, lighthearted, and joyful raw, vegan & macrobiotic chef Sayuri Tanaka. Her previous life in the conventional food industry left her unsatisfied and questioning how can we live a healthy, balanced life? This took her on a journey through India which led her to meet fruitarians and breatharians that inspired her life's work of physical and spiritual transformation through the food choices we make. During our conversation, Sayuri speaks...

This week's podcast I sat down with Shiv Charan Singh, a Kundalini Yoga Teacher, and trainer of teachers, Founder of Karam Kriya, and wise teacher, whose life living on the streets of Amsterdam had him question the point of life. This led him to spend 90 days not eating to consciously make his way towards death so that he could process the entire experience. After encountering a number of near-death incidents, he acquired intimate knowledge of the process of living and dying that we all seek...

This week's podcast is with the calm and serene Aja Rose, who suffered from chronic headaches from 6 to 22, leading her to drop out of University, and take 46 different drugs just to cope with the pain. She was told by countless doctors that the headaches were hereditary and she would just have to 'live with it'.  When she hit rock bottom at age 20 and was bedridden for months, she made a choice to take the power into her own hands and embarked on almost a decade of experimenting with...

During this week's podcast I sat down with Aren Bahia,  an incredibly really generous and kind human being, whose previous life as an ex-gangster, and drug abuser entangled in organised crime in Vancouver, Canada left him incredibly unfulfilled and hungry for a big life change.  After years of a fast life filled with drugs, money and beautiful women,  he booked a flight to Bali and made a decision to radically transform his life and grow.  And wow how his life transformed for the better....

This weeks I spoke with Cole Chance, a globally well-known yoga teacher, founder of an online yoga platform OmYogaTribe and Emerge Recovery, a programme to support recovery from addiction.  She is an ex-alcoholic and drug abuser who was in and out of rehabs, detox centres, hospitals, and 12 step programme rooms, throughout her 20’s until she overdosed at 29 and finally decided to turn a page in her life. During our conversation Cole opens up deeply about her path with addiction, the moment...

This week I sat down with Danah Mor, an Ayurvedic Physician, Certified health educator and book author of "Shine Brighter Every Day" . We spoke about how it's not so much about the food you eat, than the small steps you take towards gaining motivation to take care of yourself. In our interview we learn about how losing her eyesight made her an incredibly resilient human and some great advice on how to get started with a holistic healthy lifestyle today! Danah Mors details: Website:...

This week I spoke with Margaret Rosania, a certified health coach with specialisms in integrative and Ayurvedic nutrition, cosmo-biology, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and Mysore Ashtanga Yoga. She is also the founder of Siendo, an incredibly peaceful and nourishing boutique holistic health space in the heart of Lisbon. We spoke about how we are not alone in our awareness process, "even though the process is a lonely process, and evolution is individual. The mission is collective." In our...

Welcome to MyGuru where we interview wellbeing and holistic professionals who have overcome massive life obstacles,  speak to them about how they overcame them and ask them to share bitesize, digestible tools that got them to where they are in themselves today. Making self care accessible for all.  In this trailer episode, I share with you why I launched this podcast,  why I believe you should listen in and some of the struggles these practitioners have overcome. I will be posting a new...

This week I sat down with Danah Mor, an Ayurvedic Physician, Certified health educator and book author of "Shine Brighter Every Day" . We spoke about how it's not so much about the food you eat, than the small steps you take towards gaining motivation to take care of yourself. In our interview we learn about how losing her eyesight made her an incredibly resilient human and some great advice on how to get started with a holistic healthy lifestyle today!