Prenatal yoga helps prepare the body for labor and delivery, and the benefits can include stress reduction, improved emotional well-being, and increased self-awareness. As in any health or exercise program pursued during pregnancy, it’s important to listen to your body and consult with your doctor or health practitioner for guidance, before you begin. Guest-host Katie Baki is in her third trimester and guest Ali Owens is a mother of three. They are both teachers at Glo. Katie has a three-part cl...
Aug 18, 2024•51 min•Season 6Ep. 84
In this extended conversation for The Glo Podcast, Glo teachers Annie Carpenter and Kia Miller discuss their journeys through the energy of the asana poses to the subtle energetic shifts the poses bring about. Kia and Annie emphasize why a safe and sacred space is important to create in yoga classes, where students can pursue an investigation into and questioning of the self. Both Annie and Kia talk about how their yoga practices have evolved over time. During Kia’s thoughtful line of questions,...
Jul 14, 2024•58 min•Season 6Ep. 83
In this deep dive into yoga’s origins and history, guest-host Stephanie Serrano interviews scholar Dr. Christopher Jain Miller about the yoga sutras and their role as the guiding texts for modern yoga. They discuss the connections between the yoga sutras and Samkhya philosophy, the relationship between the yoga sutras and the Bhagavad Gita, and the origins of the yoga sutras and Patanjali himself. Their discussion also covers how these texts were reinterpreted, and even misinterpreted, during th...
Jun 30, 2024•50 min•Season 6Ep. 82
Kia Miller and Elena Brower discuss Elena’s continuing journey into her Zen practice, covering her methodology and some key insights that the practice has brought her. They discuss how their spiritual practices have led them to positively embrace imperfection, and steer away from perfectionism. They discuss the challenges and rewards of meditation, and how to bring a fresh perspective to one’s practice. Elena emphasizes the importance of self-compassion and shares techniques for practicing nonvi...
Jun 16, 2024•53 min•Season 6Ep. 81
Kia Miller guest-hosts this episode in which she interviews Jason Crandell about ADHD, self-regulation, and turning challenges into assets. Kia shares her insights about how yoga has been useful as a practice to recognize egoist behaviors and cultivate self-awareness. Kia and Jason talk about how they apply the principles learned on the mat to everyday life. They wrap up their conversation by discussing the value of staying curious, continually learning and innovating as teachers, seeking new ch...
Jun 02, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 6Ep. 80
Join guest host Rachel Autumn as she welcomes the incredible Goli Gabbay, a pioneer at the intersection of mental health, wellness, and environmental sustainability. Goli bridges the worlds of mind and earth, speaking to the connections between the human home of our body and the bigger, Earthly home of our planet. As Goli says in the interview, “What we’re doing to the planet, we do to ourselves. What we are doing to the planet harms us. Our wellbeing is intrinsically tied to the wellbeing of th...
May 12, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 6Ep. 79
Join guest host Rachel Autumn and music artist, poet and author Londrelle as they discuss how to take a “spiritual selfie,” seeing oneself through a lens of unconditional love, and explore the joys and challenges of being a parent. The structure of their conversation takes the chakras as a theme, offering insights on how to cultivate peace amidst the tumult of life. Londrelle shares that life doesn’t hand out responsibilities on a whim, but instead, life says you are worthy of that responsibilit...
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 6Ep. 78
Guest host Rachel Autumn welcomes her mentor and friend Natalia Benson on The Glo Podcast to discuss astrology and business coaching, and to celebrate Natalia’s podcast, which has surpassed a million downloads. They explore Natalia’s astrology origin story, starting with a pivotal moment that led to Natalia discovering her passion for astrology and commitment to learn more about it. Natalia emphasizes the impact that astrology has had on her understanding of her personality and business, and how...
Mar 24, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 6Ep. 77
Derik Mills interviews longtime friend and colleague Elena Brower about writing poetry, teaching yoga, friendship, and podcasting. They discuss Elena’s debut collection of poetry, Softening Time: Collected Poems . Elena shares an inspiring encounter she had a Glo student who had taken classes with her online. Derik and Elena also turn the conversation inward, discussing the therapeutic journey from poetry to prose as Elena shares about her book of poems and her upcoming book. In a previous episo...
Mar 10, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 76
Join our conversation with host Rachel Autumn and Darby Ray, a trauma-informed yoga teacher. Darby discusses how yoga spaces can be a sanctuary, supporting students’ experiences with stress and trauma. In the compassionate world of trauma-informed yoga, personal agency and resilience are at the heart of a healing practice. Darby has been teaching yoga for more than ten years, and is a passionate advocate for bringing trauma informed practices into wellness spaces. She’s worked in different treat...
Feb 18, 2024•56 min•Season 6Ep. 75
Join Glo Teacher Annie Carpenter as she interviews Richard Rosen, a revered teacher in the yoga community, for an enlightening chat about breath, practice, mentors, and finding your voice as a teacher. Their heart-to-heart talk explores the essence of persistence in yoga and how commitment enriches both our practice and life’s purpose. Richard shares about his influences and mentors, and how he evolved his own yoga teaching voice. He and Annie talk about Pranayama and how it is often underestima...
Feb 06, 2024•38 min•Season 6Ep. 74
Jo Murdock is committed to creating wellness spaces and practices where self-care and healing is not a privilege but a right. She emphasizes the role that representation and shared experiences play in creating safe spaces to practice, where people of color and the LGBTQIA+ community are welcome in wellness spaces. But her conversation with guest host Rachel Autumn isn’t just about obstacles; it’s a celebration of real solutions to address the root chakra issue of diversity in the wellness commun...
Jan 21, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 6Ep. 73
Glo instructor Kia Miller recounts her transformative journey of self-discovery through yoga and meditation. She describes how her Kundalini practice helped reframe her sense of self and examine limiting beliefs. Kia shares how a summer-long spiritual retreat surfaced deep-seated negative patterns. As her practice unfolded, she began releasing layers of self-doubt and reconnecting with core human emotions like joy, fear, anger, and sadness. Listen as Kia and host Derik Mills discuss yoga’s poten...
Dec 03, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 72
Marc Laws discusses his inspiring journey from professional soccer player to sports therapy practitioner to yoga teacher with a popular following on Glo.com. In this deep-dive conversation with host Derik Mills, Marc shares about the life-changing power of yoga, discusses how he discovered a yoga teacher who changed his view of life, and shares insights that he discovered when he was an ultra-competitive professional soccer player who later became a sports medicine therapist and then yoga teache...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 71
Guest host Ali Owens visits with Tracee Stanley, author of Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity and a new book, The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices and Rituals to Remember Who you Are. Tracee opened her first yoga studio in Los Angeles in 2001 and has been a Hollywood film producer. She is the founder of Empowered Life Circle, a sacred community and portal of practices, rituals, and Tantric teachings inspired by more than 25 years of studentship in Sri Vidya Ta...
Nov 06, 2023•41 min•Season 5Ep. 70
Jeni DelPozo realized that she had a passion for dance at an early age, and has transformed that passion into a love of all things fitness. Jeni’s Glo classes focus on strength training, cardio, mat Pilates, and HIIT. Jeni describes herself as “slightly obsessed with fitness,” and says that she loves strength training, boxing, cycling, and yoga. She finds connections amid all of these forms of training and fitness because of her deep roots in Pilates. “Pilates is the base to all of my training. ...
Oct 22, 2023•42 min•Season 5Ep. 69
How can the practice of yoga transform your approach to one of life’s most enduring challenges—parenting? Meet Sarah Ezrin, award-winning author of The Yoga of Parenting: Ten Yoga-Based Practices to Help You Stay Grounded, Connect with Your Kids, and Be Kind to Yourself . She’s a mother, yoga teacher, and freelance writer. In this week’s interview, with guest host Ivorie Jenkins, a Glo teacher, Sarah Ezrin opens up about her struggles with postpartum depression and anxiety, and how she successfu...
Oct 08, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 68
Listen in as our guest, Glo teacher and celebrity wellness coach Amy Rosoff Davis, shares her perspective on accepting benefits of meditation to help stay in the present moment despite the challenges of juggling a fast-paced lifestyle. As a wellness coach, mother, and entrepreneur, Amy is all about finding balance when possible, not only in her professional and personal life, but also in her fitness journey. She tells of feeling torn between work and parenting, and how she continues to work towa...
Sep 24, 2023•31 min•Season 5Ep. 67
In this episode, part of our series of 30-minute conversations with Glo teachers, Ali Owens talks about what it is like to work with Glo behind the scenes, how her teaching focus has shifted to pre- and postnatal yoga classes; she also discusses the connection she feels with Glo students, both on and offline. What if you could strengthen your relationship with those around you by practicing mindfulness? That’s the transformative journey Ali embarked on through her practice of yoga and meditation...
Sep 10, 2023•36 min•Season 5Ep. 66
Gustavo Padron had had to cope with imposter syndrome and his own inner critic, but to support his personal growth, he’s learned how to bring out his inner advocate. As Gustavo, a Glo teacher, says in this interview with host Derik Mills,”You are enough just as you are. There’s nothing to fix, there’s nothing to prove.” Gustavo talks about bringing love and acceptance to his classes for Glo and his experiences working with the Glo team. Gustavo has guest-hosted The Glo Podcast , exploring breath...
May 07, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 65
Glo teacher Katie Baki hosts a conversation about yoga and mindfulness with Jordan Matthews, who has played pro football for the Eagles, Patriots, Buffalo Bills, and most recently, the 49ers. Jordan was experiencing injuries as he played, and decided he needed to switch positions, and yoga was an important part of his journey to make that switch. Katie worked with him every week on stretching, mobility, and also mindfulness and breathwork. In the interview, Katie and Jordan discuss how playing f...
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 64
Divya shares with Derik Mills about how she has reframed her relationship to movement through yoga. In the conversation, Divya tells the story of her journey into yoga as a Tamil-American who did not see herself represented in the yoga industry born out of her own culture. She shares her thoughts about how to decolonize yoga by creating diverse, inclusive spaces and furthering collective wellness as a form of social justice. Divya breaks down yogic techniques in a way that are transferable off t...
Apr 09, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 63
Stress is a presence that we cannot deny in our lives. We will find some evidence of it every day. Professor Douglas Brooks says that it’s up to us to rise to the challenge of stress and in so doing, head it off before it turns into burnout. Stress, says Professor Brooks, is a natural and important feature of our human constitution. He recommends resources and practices that can help counteract it. Foremost among them is to simply breathe , and to make a commitment to our yoga practice. That eng...
Mar 26, 2023•2 hr 6 min
Etienne Maurice, Founder & CEO of WalkGood LA, wants the organization to be a bridge for people to heal, be more mindful, and become more self-aware, through the practice of yoga and self-care. In an interview conducted by Glo teacher Ivorie Jenkins, Etienne, along with Namaste Marley Rae, Director of Health & Wellness WalkGood LA, and Ivy Coco Maurice, Stylist, Creative Community Entrepreneur, and Vice-President of WalkGood LA, discuss WalkGood LA’s mission. During the podcast episode,...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 62
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo. In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast , Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philos...
Mar 02, 2023•2 hr 8 min
In this interview with Glo teacher Katie Baki, Derik Mills asks questions about how to handle burnout. Katie describes how she seeks a yoga practice that balances Yin and Yang, and how practicing yoga online can be rewarding. Katie has a Costa Rica yoga retreat coming up and discusses the details in the interview. Links: Katie’s website . Katie’s upcoming retreat in Costa Rica . GLO classes: Katie Baki’s classes on Glo ....
Feb 28, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 61
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo. In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast , Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philos...
Feb 23, 2023•2 hr 3 min
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo. In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast , Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philos...
Feb 15, 2023•2 hr 2 min
In this interview with Glo teacher Khetanya Henderson, Khetanya shares about the power of connection, whether it is online in her Glo classes or teaching in person, and she discusses the daily routine she uses to keep herself centered. Khetanya has a retreat coming up July 22-27 with Natalie Valle that will feature Pilates, Reiki, and sound healing. There’s a link for it below. Khetanya has guest hosted two episodes of The Glo Podcast, The History of Home Birth and Midwifery in America, featurin...
Feb 12, 2023•30 min•Season 4Ep. 60
Dr. Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He’s published over 20 books about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and religion and ecology. He’s also a featured teacher on Glo. In ten bonus episodes of The Glo Podcast , Professor Chapple will chant the Sanskrit for the Sutras, explore their themes, and talk about how they apply in life. He’ll give you the Sutras’ philos...
Feb 08, 2023•2 hr 3 min
