I remember how I came to hear of Cathy Louise Broda of Purple Yoga in Hawaii. First, a listener from Chicago wrote me an email asking me to interview Cathy. She said she’d just gotten back from one of her retreats and was just really inspired. I didn’t know Cathy but I let the student know I’d certainly try. And I would’ve too if Cathy herself didn’t reach out to me before I even had a chance. Apparently she read a blog I wrote on my struggle with menopause and was so moved, she called Christine...
Dec 31, 2016•1 hr 18 min
A special gift from Harmony Slater and Ashtanga Dispatch: A Loving Kindness Meditation to begin the new year.
Dec 23, 2016•12 min
Synchronicity. It’s not luck that puts us in a place and with people we need … at just the right time. No, there was nothing random finding myself spending really needed time with Certified teacher, John Scott last month at the EcoYoga Centre in Scotland. Just how needed I’d come to find out this week in the aftermath of an incredibly emotional election here in the states. In fact, I found myself turning to this discussion again and again for both comfort and guidance. Because in this podcast, J...
Nov 14, 2016•1 hr 19 min
For the next hour, be a fly on the wall as David Keil and I cover the gamut of topics including how we both have changed in the ways we practice and how we look at practice. David calls himself lazy, and me, hippy-dippy. But his laziness is actually efficiency and my more laid back approach these days is simply inviting more ease. In other words, we’re growing and changing. Towards the end of our talk, David and I did touch upon a pretty serious subject: yoga and injuries. In fact, David is righ...
Oct 24, 2016•1 hr 13 min
In today’s episode,Taylor and Jessica Hunt talk about their experience with addiction and how they are now working to bring hope to others still struggling. This is an important podcast - please listen!
Aug 18, 2016•57 min
Olivia Hsu is a longtime dedicated student of Richard and Mary Freeman, and taught with them in Boulder, CO for years. She is also a PrAna ambassador and these days, she teaches all over the world - but not just Ashtanga yoga. In fact, you could say this girl is pretty hard to keep up with! You see, Olivia has another passion that rocks her world, and that's climbing. This sort of blows my mind because up until I met Olivia, I would’ve believed yoga and rock climbing did NOT go together. Of cour...
Jul 20, 2016•1 hr 3 min
We have a new interview with Saraswathi Jois from her home in Mysore, India, plus Peg shares about reclaiming the passion of your practice.
May 31, 2016•10 min
Ashtanga yoga Authorization. A controversial topic I'd avoided - until now. Meet Authorized teacher, Zoë Ward, and listen to our rather spirited discussion on how yoga teachers become teachers, in Ashtanga.
Apr 20, 2016•54 min
To set the stage for you, our conversation takes place at the Green Hotel in Mysore, India. It's probably the quietest place we could find to record and they serve the most amazing cakes - just ask Jeff and my daughter, Meghan who were enjoying theirs during the broadcast! You don't see Jeff and Harmony out in the usual hangout near the Shala. And that's because when they are not practicing in the morning, they are busy being parents to Jediah, their 5 year-old son. That means, while many are ha...
Jan 27, 2016•1 hr 4 min
The tables are turned and now PEG is the one answering the questions! Special thanks to Bryan Sims for video and audio recording as well as CITYOGA in Indianapolis for sponsoring today's episode. What's super cool is Bryan is the son of Dave Sims, owner of CITYOGA - I love the father/son team and being a part of that! So thanks guys! Visit CITYOGA's website at www.cityoga.biz and check Bryan out at http://www.bryanthesims.com
Dec 14, 2015•1 hr 2 min
Peg clearly has a girl crush! Meet Jessica Walden in Episode 13 of the Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast and find out why!
Nov 09, 2015•1 hr 8 min
Part Two of our conversation with Ashtanga Certified teacher John Scott, who imparts his knowledge and experience of the Ashtanga yoga practice it in a way that is almost poetic. This was not as much an interview as it was John doing what he loves - teaching, as he spent more than 90 minutes sharing his experience with Guruji, his passion for the breath and vinyasa, and the method of Tristhana, as I hung on every word - and you will too. And why we broke this podcast into two parts, so you could...
Sep 30, 2015•38 min
Ashtanga Certified teacher, John Scott imparts his knowledge and experience of the Ashtanga yoga practice it in a way that is almost poetic. This was not as much an interview as it was John doing what he loves - teaching, as he spent more than 90 minutes sharing his experience with Guruji, his passion for the breath and vinyasa, and the method of Tristhana, as I hung on every word - and you will too. And why we broke this podcast into 2 parts, so you could relax and take it all in. Here's Part O...
Sep 11, 2015•45 min
Get ready because this is our longest episode yet as Greg Nardi and I covered a whole lot of territory. We talked about relationships, about pain, and of course, a lot about the Ashtanga yoga practice.
Aug 05, 2015•53 min
If you’re only familiar with David Keil through his Yoga Anatomy website … or through his Anatomy workshops and DVDs … or even his recently released book, Functional Anatomy of Yoga … then I’d say, you have only even barely scratched the surface. For example, did you know it was David who first lured me into a daily Mysore practice — or tricked me, depending on whose telling the story? It was also David who got me through intermediate series with my sanity still intact. (Though this also is deba...
May 20, 2015•34 min
Christine Hoar, a woman with nearly 20 years of practice and teaching experience, is a direct student of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (Guruji). Though for years, he referred to her affectionately as “Nancy’s (Gilgoff) student,” her teacher to this day. Now, if you’re a woman in this practice, I don’t need to tell you how rare it is to find women with that kind of depth and experience in the practice.
May 20, 2015•51 min
As Ashtanga’s most familiar and easily recognizable couples, Tim Feldmann and Kino MacGregor couldn’t be any more different. While Kino has made it her personal mission to introduce as many students, on a global level, to the Ashtanga Yoga method as she possibly can, reaching millions of students a day through books, blogs, videos and Instagram challenges … Tim prefers a more personal connection, closer to home, teaching at Miami Life Center, the studio they founded together in 2006 and he now r...
May 20, 2015•56 min
When I asked David Garrigues to sit down with me last week to talk a little about "Parampara", that student-teacher relationship and how, in yoga, information is transmitted, he really took me to the mat in more than one way! You see, I once (or twice) have said that David doesn’t teach me asana – which he disagreed with … strongly! So this became less the interview I had planned with David and more of a lesson I think he had planned for me. And the result is probably one of the liveliest, infor...
May 20, 2015•39 min
Welcome to Ashtanga Dispatch: The Podcast Episode 5 and meet Aliya Weise of Ashtanga San Diego and #ThePeoplesAshtangaYoga. Aliya is one of those impassioned people who speaks from the heart – straight to the heart. In fact, his essay, The Call To Mysore, featured in the first Ashtanga Dispatch, received more tearful notes of gratitude from readers than any other featured article. Students who had been feeling excluded, disenfranchised, not worthy – the very ones, I suspect, Aliya had hoped to r...
Feb 05, 2015•1 hr
Episode 4: David Robson by Ashtanga Dispatch
Jan 19, 2015•27 min
This episode, Peg Talks to Taylor Hunt about his past and how it has impacted his practice and his life. For more info about Taylor, go to: http://www.taylorhuntyoga.com/
Dec 29, 2014•35 min
In this episode of Ashtanga Dispatch: The Podcast, Peg sits down for a one on one with her meditation teacher, John Churchill. John is a widely known teacher and psychologist and it only takes a few moments to find out why.
Dec 11, 2014•54 min
Hi and welcome to the first episode of Ashtanga Dispatch: The Podcast. I'm Peg Mulqueen and I am very excited to share with you one of the people most important to my ashtanga practice and my life, my teacher David Garrigues. We talk about his family, his experience as a student of Guruji, and exciting upcoming projects that he's working on, revealed here first!
Nov 18, 2014•48 min
