Welcome! Something unusual for the Yoga Podcast, this time James Altucher (my husband) is interviewing me (the Yoga Teacher) And he is not holding back, he asks about personal things (very personal), about yoga, about what brought me to it, what it did to me, what it can do for you and how it influences every moment of my life There was talk ranging the whole gamut from Patanjali to Professor Krishnamacharya and his teacher, to BKS Iyengar to Pattabhi Jois (founder of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga System) to BKS Iyengar to Paul Dallaghan, Jessica, Kino... everybody! And he asked me about the Periscope LIVE yoga class I offer for 30" EVERY FRIDAY - Why Periscope? Why should you go into it? How would you benefit from it? Will you like it? Is it for you? And we even talked about relationships, specifically our relationships, and the challenges that we face when working, teaching, dealing with children or step-children and god-children, to cooking and travel, to who packs the clothes and wh...
Let me tell youwhat happened to me when I read “The Surrender Experiment” by Michale Singer, which by the way, JUST hit the NY Times Best-Seller… Of course. The Surrender Experiment, highly recommended It was a big surprise! Mostly because I didNOTread it. Instead… IEXPERIENCEDit! It went something like this, in every chapter, and in an endless loop… – Wait. What!” – Oh C’mon! Seriously!? – And he surrendered to THAT? – Really? – And then THAThappened? – WOW…. wow wow wow Next chapter: Repeat… and on, and on, and on… I could not put it down, in fact, I switched between reading and listening in audio. He read the audio himself so it is very special, you are there with him, you feel what is happening, in every blow that life throws him over the past 40 years, and how he just “surrenders” But this was just the beginning… The book mentions all the things that happened to him, when he decidedNOT to listen to the voice on his head anymore… All the things from someone b...
Paul Dallaghan has a yoga retreat that I can only describe asthe Richard Branson's Isand for yoga... Any yoga "real thing" you'd like is there at his place in Ko Samui, Thailand (I've been to the place twice). For example: ayurvedic treatments, infrared saunas, pool, steaming showers, excellent food, exceptional yoga and pranayama instruction and amazingly beautiful accommodations by the ocean... And he is one of the most humble people I know. What We Talked About He drops a bomb on me.I get news about his life right off the start which I did not know. Paul does NOT get jet lag...and he gives tips on how to avoid it as much as possible His start in yoga in New York after business school Since he got clear that yoga was his thing, doubts melted away and he felt a surrendering come over him. Paul is one of ONLY two students of pranayama and yoga master Tiwariji (of the Kayvalyadhama Institute in India) we talk about it and Paul says it all happened very naturally... We talk about how ...
Laruga Glaser couldn't help but being a yoga teacher... It kept calling her, even when she was kicked out of a yoga teacher training! What is Special About Laruga Even though she experienced hardships growing up, meaning abuse, which I can relate to, she learned through yoga to transcend and heal. I was taken by her presence and her pace. She exudes stillness, and she is very friendly. As a teacher she has a heavy international traveling schedule as well as a Mysore program she runs daily in Stockholm. I also appreciated how she helps us all give ourselves a break when she says (talking about the brutal winters in the Northern hemisphere)... I do feel it is important to be sensitive to the seasonal shifts and adjust the rhythm of one’s practice during these times of external extremes, instead of trying to force the same pacing month after month What we talked about How she grew up in the United States and stepped into yoga by "chance" How Ashtanga picked her curiosity at a very you...
I had to go. Badly. But one of my three roommates was taking a luxury long shower in the only bathroom. What to do?! No oh no! The thought crossed my mind... Use theIndianbathroom? Me? None of the four of us sub-leasingthat house in Mysore, South India circa2008 had yet opened THATdoor. None of us had dared step into the vortex of how two thirds of the world do their business. But Ihadto. What was the alternative? So I did. I opened the door.... Slowly. Would the walls be splashed? Would there be water in the pot next to it? Would it even be clean? Would I fall into an infinite tunnel of shit? No. Phew!Very clean. I went outside to refill the pot with clean water, grabbed some extra toilette paper, closed the door, and did what I had to do. Wait. What is this? Fascinating! Even though it was uncomfortable, everything was easy... It almost felt... Hm, what is the word?NATURAL, human, normal.DIFFERENT. Imagine my delight when I saw the episode of Shark Tank in which Bobby and Judy pre...
Julie Piatt is my woman crush... She is the embodiment of a yoga teacher, mother, musician, artist, supportive mother and wife, healer, and song writer. Listen to her for a few minutes and you will feel elevated. She excudes calm confidence and centeredness. Ever since I spoke with her last week I have been doing the meditation she "downloaded" - I cried on the first try, it touched something very deep within me. Then I was able to just sing to the beautiful humming and mantras, and I plan on continuing for 40 days. Julie has just releasedTHE PLANTPOWER WAY: Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and Guidance for The Whole Familytogether with her Vegan Ultraman husband Rich Roll In this episode we talk about how what kept her going even when she was first married to Rich and he would eat so differently (he was a recovering alcoholic), what is like to UN-SCHOOL 4 children, why the plant power way is so powerful, how it healed her and how it can heal you and me too. Oh.... And I also ask her ...
Joy Marzec is a movie writer, producer, director, a music band member, an idea machine, a complete choose yourself case (she invested what she would have paid in film school into making her own films), OH AND... A yogi practicing the fourth series of Ashtanga Yoga (which in plain terms means something like winning an olympic gold medal three times, not that asana should EVER be on the olympics... But just to give you an idea) If you cannot see the episode photo with the big play button click here to listen, or play in I-Tunes or Stitcher For the full post and all info click here
What Is Special About Jessica It seems to me Yoga choose Jessica rather than the other way around. She had a great job in Paris in IT, she travelled all the time, and she was making money. But a workshop with David Swenson and meeting Pattabhi Jois in London between 2000 and 2002 changed everything. She could not believe how people would show up early in the morning to "sweat together", and practice this dynamic form of hatha yoga. And she liked it. So she started practicing and traveling to Mysore and meeting people and ... Shejoined Yoga Thailand in its early stages as a teacher and by invitation! and metTiwariwho is one of the most serious and advanced practitioners of pranayama in the world today. That, meeting Tiwari, is something I envy her for (in a good way of course) because she got to study under direct supervision from him... they still talk on the phone. What We talked About Jessica's life in the corporate world, working for IT and traveling most of the time How she star...
I had a chance to record this episode "live". And what a difference it makes! You can listen onStitcher-I-Tunes -Lybsinorclick hereif you are not sure Kino is one of those teachers that barely needs introduction because she is super famous, he has a quarter million subscribers to her YouTube channel, 679,000 followers on Instagram, 43,000 followers on Twitter and another quarter million (almost) Facebook likes to her page. She has also been on the cover of Yoga Journal many times. She is one of those very rare teachers who has gone very deep down the asana route, currently learning the 5th series of Ashtanga Yoga which is the equivalent of performing an athletic feast worth of many gold medals in the olympics, and she is a pleasure to talk to. What is Special About Kino Reading her book "Sacred Fire" her story feelslike a fairy tale. She caught the yoga bug very early on and started traveling to India in her early 20s. Her ability in asana and her power tocommunicate and teach make ...
Saraswathi Jois is the legendary daughter of Sri K Pattabji Jois, who founded the Asthtanga Vinyasa Yoga System out of Mysore, India. She has been teaching yoga for over 50 years, and has taught hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. She is also a pioneer and a woman who lives by her own rules. When her husband was no good to her, even in India, in the 70s, she divorced him. She was also the first woman accepted to the Sanskrit College of Mysore, and a pioneerwoman to teach yoga to both men and woman in India. She has had her own yoga institute for 40 years. For the full episode description readhere For The transcript clickhere