Late 2020, in the ‘middle of the pandemic’ I was interviewed by former guest Niraj Shah for a mediation platform project he was working on. We chatted about creating balance from chaotic and unexpected situations. We explore the ancient system (not yoga) that helped me take massive action when faced with financial uncertainty during lockdown, how Uber drivers can help you become a better communicator, and exactly how yoga helps you to develop your mind. We’ve taken a little break from recording ...
Oct 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min
In 2014, while undergoing breast cancer treatment, Andrea Ferretti ( @andreaferretti ) fell in love with podcasts. In 2015, she decided to start Yogaland . Now, more than 275 episodes, 100+ guests, and 5.8 million downloads later, Yogaland is a favorite of yoga teachers and students around the world. Prior to creating Yogaland, Andrea spent more than a decade as an editor at Yoga Journal, where she was fortunate to work with luminaries of American yoga like Shiva Rea, Cyndi Lee, and Maty Ezraty....
Sep 27, 2022•55 min
Tony Riddle ( @thenaturallifestylist ) is a natural lifestyle coach, author of best-selling “ Be More Human: How To Transform Your Lifestyle for Optimum, Happiness, Health and Vitality” and record-breaking barefoot endurance athlete. Regarded as a trailblazer within the field of natural movement and lifestyle, Riddle is the creator of the Natural Lifestyle Philosophy, which encourages modern urbanites to reconnect with certain innate, ‘wild’ behaviours in order to increase physical, emotional, s...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Jennifer Earle ( @jennifer.earle ) started food tour business Chocolate Ecstasy Tours ( @chocolatetours ) in 2005 and is an internationally known chocolate expert and judge. She also hosts the podcast The Next Delicious Thing ( @thenextdeliciousthing ) which accompanies the blog of the same name, helping people know what food in London and beyond is worth their time and money to seek out. WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT -Chocolate as meditation -The benefits of good quality chocolate -Developing the McFlurry...
Aug 30, 2022•48 min
From performing original pop tunes at the London O2 stage to an audience of 20,000 people in her girl-band days, to singing healing mantras and playing magical instruments to seas of sleeping yogis at events, festivals and studios across the globe, Holly Husler’s ( @iamhollyhusler ) journey has taken some unexpected turns! Holly’s yoga practice over some years of feeling lost eventually led her back to herself and to her musical roots, drawing to the surface a deep desire to help people find con...
Aug 09, 2022•48 min
Naomi Annand ( @naomiyoga ) has been teaching yoga full time since 2002. Over this time she has developed a deeply compassionate style of teaching that emphasises the therapeutic benefits of yoga and also its potential to uplift and inspire. In 2012, she set up Yoga on the Lane with the intention of creating a dynamic community of teachers and students united by their commitment to practicing mindful, breath-led, vinyasa yoga. And then, in 2015, she designed the 200hr Yoga on the Lane Teacher Tr...
Jul 30, 2022•55 min
Nina Zolotow, RYT500, MFA, is Editor in Chief of the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog as well as a contributing writer, and is the author of the book Yoga for Times of Change. She is a long-time yoga writer as well as a long-time yoga practitioner and a certified yoga teacher. Her special areas of expertise are yoga for emotional well-being (including yoga for stress, insomnia, depression, and anxiety) and yoga for healthy aging. She completed the three-year teacher training program at The Yoga Room ...
Jul 20, 2022•58 min
Johanna Hector ( @johannahector_ ) is a pioneer of physical and spiritual transformation, and a leader in the global fitness and wellness industries. One of the most respected mind-body coaches and fitness experts in Scandinavia today, Johanna has 20 years of experience as a yoga teacher and fitness trainer. Featured as NIKE Elite trainer for many years, writer and expert in Womens Health magazine and leading concept developer for many Scandinavian wellness brands. In 2007 she founded Global Yog...
Jul 07, 2022•52 min
Specialist Yoga teacher Vicky Fox (@yogaforcancer) shows how to mitigate the side effects of cancer diagnosis and treatment using yoga (‘breath-informed movement’), starting with A for Anxiety and working through to Z for Zzzzzz ( sleep/insomnia) to help anyone diagnosed with any type of cancer cope with the symptoms and side effects of treatment. They won’t have to read it from cover to cover but can dip into it at will to access information about a specific problem relevant to them personally....
Jun 07, 2022•50 min
Jasmin Bahia ( @bahiayoga ) has 20 years of experience teaching a range of yoga styles including classical hatha yoga, vinyasa, restorative, and yoga nidra, always learning her craft from leaders in their field and trained with Jason Crandell in 2015. She has her own Nottingham studio, Bahia Yoga , where she’s supported hundreds of teachers. Jasmin is also a chartered psychologist, clinical supervisor and has been a student of Zen for 15 years. Adam Hocke, Adam Husler and Jasmin Bahia will be te...
May 27, 2022•54 min
Adam Hocke (Adam_hocke) is a London based, American born, yoga teacher and teacher trainer, who blends yoga tradition with contemporary understanding of body and mind. He leads in-person and online teacher trainings, workshops, and immersions and offers comprehensive home practice resources through his Yoga with Adam podcast and streaming classes for Movement for Modern Life. In London, his beginner courses, weekly classes, and workshops have begun and inspired the yoga journeys of thousands of ...
May 08, 2022•59 min
Phillip Suddick (@phillipsuddick) is an award winning photographer & director, who has been working in the industry for over ten years. Based in London, he specialises in making energetic and authentic work for advertising clients at home and internationally. His photography captures moments of presence and feelings of peace whilst being heavily influenced by a love of travel, surf and skateboarding. A sense of connection to environments can be felt through documenting our relationship to th...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min
A senior teacher and trainer in the UK, Anna Ashby (@ashby_anna) has been studying and practicing yoga for over 30 years and teaching for over 20. She holds the highest level of certification with Yoga Alliance E-RYT-500. Anna’s teaching style weaves together flowing and artful movement, healthy alignment and stillness - all of which express the essence of yoga as awareness. She curates a purposeful sequence at a slow and measured pace which enables a process that can result in deep connection a...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Lauren Armes (@laurenarmes) is the Founder and CEO of Welltodo (@welltodoglobal), a global industry platform for the wellness industry – now worth an estimated $4.5 trillion. She is also the leading Business Coach for experts and coaches in the wellness sector – with an esteemed client list which includes Dr Hazel Wallace, Zoe Blaskey, Adrienne Herbert, Alice Liveing, Chloe Brotheridge, Amy Rushworth, Becki Rabin and many more. Lauren also hosts both the Business of Wellness podcast and EXPERTS ...
Feb 10, 2022•57 min
Kimberly Snyder (@_kimberlysnyder) is a spiritual guide, meditation teacher, nutritionist, and holistic wellness expert. She is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of five previous books, including Radical Beauty, which she co-authored with Deepak Chopra. Kimberly hosts the top-rated Feel Good podcast. She is the founder of Solluna®, a holistic lifestyle brand that offers wellness products, digital courses, Practical Enlightenment MeditationTM, and the Solluna Circle. She has been f...
Jan 28, 2022•52 min
David and Andreas are the founders of Yoga Games (@yogagames); the largest yoga events happening in Scandinavia, including Stockholm, Malmo, Gothenburg and Copenhagen. Their events are well known for the incredible organisation, wonderful atmosphere, great accessibility to all levels of practitioner and for having a world class line up of international and local teachers, including….Rusty Wells, Tiffany Cruikshank, Patrick Beach, Dylan Werner, Raghunath, Matt Giordano, Noah Mazé, Guru Dharam Kha...
Jan 18, 2022•52 min
Hiro Landazuri (@actionhero) always knew he wanted to heal others from a young age. He began teaching yoga in 2007, while pursuing a dual master degree in medical pharmacology and cardio pulmonary surgery. He ultimately realized he had a greater purpose in life, to help more people through the power of Yoga. He began to develop a style of yoga that would help heal injuries along with increasing functional strength, flexibility and emotional intelligence. Incorporating his vast knowledge in anato...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr
Tara Stiles (@tarastiles) is the founder of Strala, the revolutionary approach to being, moving and healing., that is practiced in100+ countries. Strala teaches yoga, tai chi, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, to help people release stress, let go of bad habits, and move easily through all kinds of challenge. Tara has authored several best-selling books including Yoga Cures , Make Your Own Rules Diet , Strala Yoga, and most recently Clean Mind Clean Body , all translated and published in several...
Dec 14, 2021•54 min
Camille Vidal is Founder of La Maison Wellness (@lamaisonwellness) and creator of Mindful CocktailsTM. She is a globally recognised bartender and drinks expert turned mindfulness, Yoga and Meditation teacher. A true pioneer Camille (@mindfullycami), is on a mission to inspire the world to bring mindfulness into the glass showing that Tasty doesn’t have to be Boozy. For her its all about celebrating Epic Nights & Early Mornings for a hangover-free life. Named Forbes Women Leading the Drinks I...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Chloe Brotheridge (@chloebrotheridge) is hypnotherapist, mentor and coach at www.calmer-you.com and the host of The Calmer You Podcast (1.8 million downloads and counting) . She’s the best-selling author of The Anxiety Solution and The Confidence Solution. WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT -Setting boundaries around phone time -The pros and cons of social media -Managing pressure and overwhelm -Suffering panic attacks in teen years -How meditation isn’t always the answer -Processing anxiety through body work -...
Nov 04, 2021•55 min
Cristi Christensen (@cristi_christensen) is a star yoga instructor and renowned fitness expert on a mission to shake up the planet. After an injury ended her dreams of Olympic gold, Cristi shifted her focus to helping others heal. Today, she leads workshops with a unique blend of yoga, dance, live music and meditation in over 20 countries around the globe. With more than two decades of experience in helping students transform their lives, Cristi has become a leading global voice for women’s awak...
Oct 16, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Brett Moran (@brettmoran_)is a the author of ‘Wake the F#ck Up”, a modern-day yogi and online entrepreneur. He's been meditating for twenty years since his first wake up call in prison. Through meditation and self-study, Brett found a better way to create more freedom in life and now he coaches people all over the world who want to wake up and create more abundance and joy. Brett lives in Thailand working from his mobile sipping fresh coconuts. Get £1200 off Brett’s online meditation training vi...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Chris Williamson (@chriswillx) is the host of the Modern Wisdom podcast, which has had over 25 million plays of his conversations with some of the worlds most interesting people, including; academic Jordan Peterson, former Greenpeace President Patrick Moore, author Cal Newport, PT James Smith, North Korean defector Yeonmi Park and Dr Rajan Chatterjee. Chris is also a TEDX speaker, club promoter, YouTuber ( over 219k subscribers ), a Newcastle native and, if you recognise his face, it because he’...
Sep 19, 2021•58 min
Cat Meffan (@catmeffan) is a global yoga teacher and founder of the Soul Sanctuary, an online yoga and meditation membership. The Soul Sanctuary is helping thousands of people around the world every day, connect to their body and go on an exploration of the soul. Through the power of movement, meditation and breath, Cat hopes to bring people in closer alignment to their true self, without shame or judgement. She hopes to make women feel more confident in themselves and to know that the yoga mat ...
Sep 04, 2021•58 min
Okiem (@OkiemOfficial) is an exceptional Pianist & Composer who's music is described as "cinematic classical”. He creates his signature sound by combining piano, orchestral instruments and synthesisers. He has toured on keyboards for many of the biggest artists in the music industry from Leona Lewis, to Tinie Tempah, to Boy George. Prior to that he toured with Russian sensation Sergey Lazarev which involved relocating to Moscow for 3 years. Okiem wrote 3 songs for Sergey’s album ‘Electric To...
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr
Adell Bridges (@adellbridges) is an international yoga teacher, health coach, and author who grew up in Mississippi, moved to the UK, and after a few years of wandering aimlessly through life, found yoga. She spent two years travelling as a nomad around the world teaching yoga, and continuing her training in various areas of mindfulness and movement. Adell is a self-proclaimed geek, and applies her degree in psychology with her training in the neurology of movement to her yoga and movement teach...
Aug 10, 2021•56 min
Trina Altman ( @trinaltman) is the creator of Yoga Deconstructed® and Pilates Deconstructed®, which take an interdisciplinary approach to foster an embodied understanding of yoga and Pilates and their relationship to modern movement science. Her work has been published in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and Pilates Style magazine and her classes have been featured on Yoga International and Yoga Anytime. She regularly serves as guest faculty for yoga teacher training programs and leads continui...
Jul 14, 2021•50 min
Giving up a path of self destruction /// Moving through fear /// Consistency & success Fitness has always been a huge part of Jacob Manning’s (@jacobmanningyoga) life; including football, baseball and wrestling, and eventually learning that the key to keeping in the best possible shape of the body and the mind was, in fact, yoga. Jacob has built a huge social following thank to his wisdom in the fields of yoga, fitness and nutrition, and also thanks to his remarkable story of recovery from a...
Jun 10, 2021•47 min
Adam Keen (@adam_keen_ashtanga) has been practicing Ashtanga yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2004. He is one of few practitioners to have completed the Advanced A (third) series in Mysore, India, under the guidance of Sharathji Jois. He has taught and lived primarily in London, with stints in Istanbul, Vancouver, Spain, Crete and India, as well as teaching workshops internationally. Adam’s teaching is committed to the facilitating the individuals experience of yoga. Teaching is approached wit...
May 27, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Dr Tosin Sotubo (@mindbodydoctor) is a medical doctor working in London as a NHS & Private General Practitioner with a passion for spreading health awareness. She founded Mind Body Doctor, as a friendly and accessible space to educate and inspire as many people as possible to look after their health. She has a huge focus on diversity and representation in health and wellness to reflect people from all backgrounds and walks of life. WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT -Balancing caring for others with balanci...
May 16, 2021•55 min
