Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Originally from the East Coast, Tom Myers moved to California as a young man, where he met and trained with Ida Rolf, a biochemist and creator of Structural Integration, or “Rolfing”. He went on to work with Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais Method, and Buckminster Fuller, the systems theorist who popularised “tensegrity” – or how biological structures are made strong by the unison of parts. Today, Tom is one of the world’s foremost...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Originally from Idaho, Zephyr Wildman has been teaching yoga in the UK since 2002 and currently leads Vinyasa Flow and meditation classes at our Ealing centre. Seven years ago, she lost her former husband to cancer and has used yoga and the Twelve Steps recovery programme to navigate her grief. In this episode of triyoga talks, she speaks candidly about the death of her husband, working through grief and the daily practices that keep her feeling...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher For our latest podcast, we met up with the sisters of wellness – Nadia Narain and Katia Narain Phillips. In this episode, they reveal how to set and stick to new year’s resolutions, the value of rituals and how small actions can have a huge impact. Nadia was one of triyoga’s original teachers and today is one of the country’s most respected yoga instructors, teaching professional athletes, pregnant women and total beginners. Katia opened London’s first...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Following the death of his mother when he was 16 years old, J Brown moved to New York and eventually, in 1995, began to reconcile her death through yoga. Having practised Jivamukti, Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga, he settled on a therapeutic orientation inspired by Desikachar and Krishnamacharya. He went on to coin the phrase “gently is the new advanced” and opened his own yoga studio in Brooklyn, geared towards feeling well and lessening pain. He now lives...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Naomi Absalom, Anna Ashby and Jean Hall are three of triyoga’s highly experienced teachers who have mentored and worked with teacher trainees for many years. They also teach triyoga’s Teachers’ Practices in Soho, Camden and Shoreditch – a weekly class that welcomes teachers from every tradition to come together and create a sangha, or community. In this episode of triyoga talks, they speak about a wide variety of subjects from striking the right...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Jason Crandell is an internationally renowned Vinyasa teacher who delivers his highly sought-after teacher training programmes around the globe, as well as writing for major yoga publications and delivering classes online. In this episode of triyoga talks, Jason answers some tough questions on the upcoming generation of yoga teachers, how yoga is evolving – for better or worse – in modern times, and whether yoga and politics should go hand in hand. On...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Yoga practitioners can have a complicated relationship with food and become hyper-aware about what they do – and don’t – put in their body. In recent years we’ve seen the rise of the clean eating movement that divides food into two camps: heroes (kale, the avocado) and villains (meat, bread). Clean eating has been accused of being slimming in disguise. Eating disorders are not uncommon in the yoga community as the practices can trigger and reinforce...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher In part two of our triyoga teacher’s symposium podcast, the panellists open the discussion out to the floor and take questions from students and teacher trainees. If you haven’t listened to part one, click here first to hear what the panellist had to say about their research and experience on this complex topic. This two part podcast was recorded at our symposium on “what is yoga?” in September 2018. Five of the world’s leading scholars on yoga...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher What is yoga? In September 2018, five of the world’s leading scholars on yoga philosophy gathered at a special triyoga teachers’ symposium to try to answer this deceptively simple question. The event sold out so, due to popular demand, we’re releasing it as a two-part podcast. If you missed out, you can now tune in to what proved to be a fascinating and thought-provoking discussion on a complex topic. This question itself is likely to provoke as many...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Dr Melody Moore is a yoga teacher and clinical psychologist with a specialisation in eating disorders. She is the founder of the Embody Love Movement, a non-profit with a mission to empower girls and women to see and celebrate their inner beauty. In this episode of triyoga talks, Dr Melody speaks about the importance of self-love, how media myths perpetuate a sense of ‘not enoughness’ and the complex relationship between contemporary yoga and eating...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Vicky first qualified as a Power yoga teacher in 2008, before taking a therapeutic specialisation in 2013 to teach ‘Yoga for Survivors’. She now teaches yoga for cancer for patients at any stage of their recovery, which she does at no charge. The classes are designed to provide a safe refuge to come and practise yoga, to build strength, increase range of motion and help to manage some of the anxiety and uncertainty associated with diagnosis and...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa is a teacher of Kundalini yoga and a pioneer in the field of pre-natal yoga. She studied directly with Yogi Bhajan, who gave her her Sikh spiritual name meaning “one who helps people across the world ocean”. Since then, she has dedicated her life to fulfilling that responsibility – co-founding and directing Golden Bridge with her husband Gurushabd, the premier centre for the study and practice of Kundalini yoga and meditation in Los...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Wellness and breathing expert Max Strom is one of the world’s most respected yoga teachers. He is a TEDx speaker and best-selling author, travelling from the west coast of America to continental Europe and the Middle East, giving speeches to major corporations, government bodies and hospitals. In this episode of triyoga talks, Max discusses the ethics a yoga teacher should uphold, how breathing techniques can release feelings of grief, and how...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Richard Rosen has been a student of yoga for nearly 40 years. He trained at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in the 1980s and, in 1987, co-founded the Piedmont Yoga Studio with Rodney Yee. He has also written four authoritative books on breath, pranayama and the traditional practices of yoga. In the latest podcast in our triyoga talks series, he talks with Genny Wilkinson Priest about yoga in the modern world, how traditional practices have evolved over the...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Sharon Gannon is an author, musician and animal rights activist. She is perhaps best known as the co-creator of Jivamukti yoga, a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings. In this latest episode in our podcast series, she talks with Genny Wilkinson Priest on the nature of teachers and students, her own personal sadhana and more. When asked if the best yoga teachers are the one who have suffered, she says, “I don’t know if I could say 100...

Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Bo Forbes is a clinical psychologist and is at the forefront of new approaches within the world of yoga. Having realised that the field of psychotherapy was missing something crucial, she investigated body-centred and spiritual approaches in her work. The result? A synthesis of healing philosophies drawn from yoga, science, mindfulness and psychology that can have a profound impact on mental, physical and emotional wellbeing. We asked Bo why...

In our inaugural triyoga talks podcast, we speak with Yogaworks co-founder Maty Ezraty who tells us why advanced posture work alone cannot lead to enlightenment, when self-exploration shifts into self-absorption, and the effect social media has had on the yoga landscape. And for the first time ever, Maty discusses the sexual misconduct of Pattabhi Jois, … read more