Send us a text In this episode I speak with Christine Barnes, a naturopath, wellness professional and long term yoga practitioner. We dive into some important topics for modern yoga practitioners. What is the best diet for you versus what some tradition might say or what the latest You Tube influencer wants to sell you. Diet is an individualised journey that should be based on intuition, testing and some trial and error. There is no one size fits all diet that will work for everyone on the plane...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Send us a text In this second episode about NLP and Yoga we discuss how to develop real compassion by learning how to respect everyone's model of the world. We discuss the NLP Communication Model and how all your results in life are determined through your behaviours which are in turn driven by your physiology and internal state. Change your physiology and tweak your internal maps and you will see profound shifts in the results you achieve in life. In this episode, Michael and Vanessa continue t...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Send us a text NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming is a set of tools and practices that has the power to change your life, business, relationships and health. In this episode, Michael and Vanessa talk about how NLP has impacted their life and just why they consider NLP to be a modern form of yoga. We discuss some of the founding principles of NLP and just why these are like installing an upgrade to your human operating system. We talk about two central ideas in NLP that have deeply impacted us. ...
Nov 30, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Send us a text In this episode I speak with Dan Alder about the ancient yoga text known as the Yoga Sutras. We talk about the nature of the human condition and why this really hasn’t changed in the 2000 years since this book was written. We talk about the deeper human thirst to find peace and calm and just how to do this in a busy modern world. We also take a slightly deeper dive into some of the inner philosophies of this text that speak about why we suffer and how we can overcome this. We disc...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us a text This episode could save your health and maybe your life! Mold exposure is a lot more than just a few black marks in the bathroom. Many people may be suffering from mold toxicity and not know it. Extreme mold exposure can kill. However, for most people it's more of the low grade chronic exposure to water damaged buildings and moldy foods that causes major health problems. You just start feeling unwell in your body, depressed, anxious, moody and lethargic, your memory suffers and yo...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us a text Discover why most of the meditation instructions we are taught don't work for modern Western minds. Lorin Roche has been teaching meditation for 40 years with a unique perspective on this path. His way of Instinctive Meditation lets you decide what feels right for you and allows you to follow your own inner guidance. Lorin Roche had an interesting start into meditation in the 60's as a research subject in early meditation experiments. He had a profound experience in his first ever...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Send us a text Kids are our future and helping them grow up to be strong, resilient and kind is an incredible gift. Stacey Louise has devoted a good portion of her adult life to teaching kids and teens the practices of yoga and mindfulness. She is a Kids Yoga Teacher Trainer and leads courses across Australia. In this episode we also chat about Stacey's work as a Calm Fairy going into hospitals and bringing some joy, love and happiness to sick children. I describe her as the modern day Patch Ada...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Send us a text In this episode you will learn about trauma, how common it is and how yoga practices and specific styles of trauma sensitive yoga classes can be highly useful in helping people develop stronger coping tools for trauma and also regulate their nervous system away from its regular triggering of the stress and fear mode. Shirley Hicks is a Somatic Psychotherapist as well as a yoga teacher in the Dru tradition. She has worked in the field of trauma for over 25 years. She helped launch ...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Send us a text Your gut health not only determines how well you digest foods, it's also responsible for your emotions, energy levels and overall state of mind. It's that important! In this weeks episode you will be going back to school to learn all about how and why your gut health matters and precisely what you can do to make it better. My guest is Marcus Freudenmann from Truly Heal. Marcus has spent nearly 20 years researching and training doctors and health practitioners all over the world in...
Sep 25, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Send us a text Tantra yoga is possibly the most relevant and incredible path of yoga for modern times. Tantra is about how you can live 'fully' with passion and incredible energy in all the circumstances of your life. It's about getting into, not away from, what's going on in your relationships, feelings and worldly experiences. In Tantra Yoga you use your body, your breath, your energy and your incredible mind to transform yourself fully. In this episode, I give my unique insights and understan...
Sep 24, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Send us a text Many yoga teachers honestly feel they are doing this for the love not the money but is it possible to actually make a great living teaching yoga? Ryan Rockwell from Grow Yoga Biz is living proof that teachers can create great abundance when they find their unique voice and create their niche offering. This is part two of a podcast series where we explore the business principles that can take your yoga business from Struggle Street to Wall Street! Hear about the success stories of ...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Send us a text Lisa Petersen is a somatic movement specialist and yoga teacher who teaches through a rich understanding of embodiment, experiential anatomy and development movement positions. She helps students move out of pain and tension toward relaxed ease in their bodies. In this episode we discuss the principle of early life Developmental Movement Patterns - why we all have them and how it can be extremely healing to tap back into these primal movements in your yoga practice. We discuss the...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Send us a text Simon Borg Olivier is one of Australia's and the world's leading experts on yoga and movement. He is a physiotherapist and a practitioner of yoga, meditation and breathwork for over 40 years. He is the founder of Yoga Synergy and runs retreats, training courses and workshops regularly across the world. In this episode we discuss Simon's deeper understandings of how yoga works in the body. We talk about movement, breath and bandha, the circulation of blood flow and how yoga is a pr...
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Send us a text In this episode you will discover the inner secret to the practice of meditation that is rarely taught but when learnt will change everything. Michael shares his experiences of being introduced to the deeper nature of the mind many years ago by his teacher and how this gave him a fresh and new love affair, not only with meditation but with life. Most students become frustrated with meditation because they don't know what the practice is really supposed to be doing. Is it just to q...
Aug 25, 2020•42 min
Send us a text In this episode, Michael Daly and Vanessa Rudge, the two founding teachers of Being Yoga sit down to chat about the principle of Vinyasa Yoga, which they say not only helped them live a better life but also probably saved their relationship! The beauty of yoga is that what we do on the mat actually helps us live a better life off the mat. Vinyasa yoga is the art of flowing, not only with your breath but with all the cycles of your life. This is the 'real' teaching of what has beco...
Aug 19, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Send us a text Sacred Earth are Australia's most successful bhakti yoga, devotional music act, touring the world, leading mantra and yoga retreats and being played on every yoga studio playlist imaginable! Hear about their love and passion for the path of yoga and how this devotion to living life from a bigger perspective inspired them to express their unique gifts through music. From humble beginnings playing music at local markets, Prem and Jethro have continued to take that leap into the unkn...
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Send us a text Prepare to be inspired as you hear from a young man who is fearlessly living his truth and sharing his message about the power of the breath with schools across the world. In this episode we talk about how Bodhi and his partner Kat have been relentlessly sharing their message about good breathing in schools across the country. We talk about the challenges Bodhi has faced with teachers and students as well as the really inspiring stories of young people's whose lives have been chan...
Aug 07, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Send us a text Ryan Rockwell as founder of Grow Yoga Biz helps yoga teachers build their business by finding their unique audience and passion. He coaches yoga teachers to find out 'why' they are really in this industry and what their unique offering is to clients. He then helps them build a niche and premium offer for that audience. He says that there are enough yoga teacher training programmes out there and the world doesn't need more of these. What it does need is yoga trainings for people wi...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Send us a text My guest is one of Sydney's most successful yoga studio owners, formerly Body Mind Life and now 'In Yoga'. We talk about how Nicole built her yoga business with passion, belief and a sprinkle of good fortune. We discuss the development of yoga in Australia over the past 20 years, the changes in the industry and the current challenges with issues such as consent, touch and trust. We also talk about the future of this industry and how yoga teachers really need to find a niche for th...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send us a text Breath expert Tess Graham shares some life changing and fascinating information about how to use your breath for optimal health. We discuss how most people are breathing poorly and how this is affecting their energy, sleep and also their yoga practice. Tess Graham is a physiotherapist who established Australia's first dedicated breathing clinic 27 years ago. She is the director of Breatheability International is accredited with the Buteyko Breathing Method and is the author of two...
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us a text We turn the tables and you hear about your hosts life and passion for yoga, the challenges of modern life and stress, self love, building a successful business and how to create a great relationship. This is a re-post from the Struggles to Success Podcast and while I'm on holidays, I thought it could be nice to give you an insight into my own journey and why I'm so motivated to share this message of yoga with the world. Hope you enjoy! Links: Struggles to Success Podcast https://o...
Jul 03, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us a text In this episode we discuss the principles of healing through wholeness. We talk about the power of creating intermittent stressors on your body, through fasting, cold exposure, breathwork and psychedlics, so that you can re-build your internal systems to be stronger and live longer. We talk about his practice of Mitochondrial Yoga and how you can use a combination of these ancient practices as well as cutting edge science to improve the functioning of your energetic powerhouses li...
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send us a text Gwyn Williams is a movement based therapist and the founder of Zen Thai Shiatsu. For over 20 years he has built a world wide reputation as a leader in the field of healing and yoga. He has a training and education business called Zen Thai which is a fusion of Zen Shiatsu, Thai Massage and Osteopathy. In this episode we talk about the bridge between body work and yoga - touch. We discuss the modern challenge of adjusting in yoga and the ways skillful teachers can work around this w...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a text In this episode, my partner Vanessa Rudge and I sit down for a fireside chat where we discuss how to make great choices in yoga and in life. Vanessa talks about her own experiences in yoga when dealing with struggle, pain and injury. We talk about the Being Yoga model of playing the edge and the three choices when meeting any threshold - exit, hold and deepen. Vanessa says that it was this model that actually saved our relationship - so that was good to know! I also discuss my mod...
Jun 18, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a text Find out how to use mindfulness, psychology and yoga to re-train your mind and body to be okay with emotional discomfort, free yourself from anxiety and live a happy, fulfilled life. In this episode of the Being Yoga Podcast, I chat with Davina Donovan about her work as a clinical psychologist, yoga and meditation teacher and how all these worlds come together. We discuss the modern practices of yoga and how this has deviated from traditional paths in India. We also discuss the cr...
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us a text Do you ever experience pain in your hips, lower back and around the joints when you do yoga? If so, you're going to love this episode. I speak with Nichole Hamilton from Synergy Physio about why people are experiencing so much pain in their pelvis from a practice of yoga that is supposed to be making you feel great. Most importantly we talk about what you can do in your yoga practice and what to avoid so as to start feeling more balanced. Nichole is also a pain management expert a...
Jun 08, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us a text Join Michael Daly as he takes you on a journey back in time to discover the roots of this incredible path of yoga. Find answers to the questions, when, why and how did yoga begin. What might have caused people living thousands of years ago to dive into meditation, movement and rituals. Michael explores the bigger questions - is yoga part of a bigger universal picture. Is the very intent of the universe to help us wake up? Take this fascinating journey into the history of yoga from...
Jun 01, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us a text Julie Smerdon is an international yoga teacher, writer and storyteller who has studied and taught yoga in the US and Australia for over 20 years. She is the founder of Shri Yoga, one of Brisbane's most popular yoga yoga centres. In this Podcast we talk about the power of community and how yoga studios can support their students to come together, connect and feel bonded by a common goal. We discuss Anusara Yoga and the ability of its founder, John Friend to help people find their o...
May 27, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send us a text In this episode I speak with Andrew Roberts about the challenges and possibilities for yoga teachers to build their businesses during challenging circumstances. Andrew is a business coach, mentor and entrepeneur who has built a number of million dollar businesses from the ground up. He is currently the CEO of Farm Owners Academy, a business education programme aimed at helping farm owners maximise their business potential. He is the author of 'What the hell are you chasing', a fat...
May 08, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text In this episode with physiotherapist Shelly Fruend, we learn about how to practice yoga safely and how Somatic Therapy can be integrated into regular Vinyasa Flow Yoga classes to add a new dimension of strengthening and flexibility. We also discuss breathing practices and techniques and why gentle slow breathing is preferred when it comes to long term sustainable yoga practice. In her somatics practice, Shelly describes the technique of pandiculation whereby we can learn to regain...
May 08, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 2
