Thank you for bearing with me while I’ve taken a short break! I’ve missed doing the podcast, and I’m so glad that Ty Powers, mindfulness guide extraordinaire, is the person to bring me back and round out this year.
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A multidisciplinary practitioner, teacher, innovator, woman, mother, and global citizen, Sarah Powers offers 35 years of some of the deepest and most committed messages of interpersonal insight on how best for our species to thrive.
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This year, we’re retreating again, November 17-19 at Stonewall. Join us for a weekend filled with deep yoga practice, community, and fun.
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I first met Dr. Webb through a research presentation she gave with Sat Bir Khalsa and me on media misperceptions of yoga. Seeing the numbers from Dr. Webb on how media has portrayed yoga as being either for loin-clothed men with long beards, or for thin, able-bodied white women in skin-tight athleisure wear is real.
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James Fox started out in mindful meditation and yoga 30 years ago and soon after began teaching yoga to men facing life sentences at the San Quentin Prison.
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Dr. Shyam Ranganathan holds an MA in South Asian Studies and an MA and PhD in Philosophy. He’s a strong voice on social media, and his is one of the few yoga handles that actually stops my scroll.
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It was a delight hearing about Patty's early days with Ashtanga, and then Iyengar, and then Tantra, and her other influential teachers, but what struck me most was her relationship with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, a movement artist interested in every type of healthy, holistic movement you can imagine.
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I would suggest that Jillian is part of a new cadre of experienced teachers exploring the art and practice of restorative yoga, which, yes, has its roots in Iyengar Yoga, but which is evolving beyond this original offering through such interdisciplinary health-span studies as the ones Jillian has been engaged in.
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Shannon Crow started her podcast, The Connected Yoga Teacher, in 2017. She did so after taking multiple teacher trainings and finding herself disconnected from her fellow trainees right after the training ended.
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I met Reggie about 10 years ago as he began his mindfulness and wellness journey at the age of 40. Our conversation here, about what it means to practice being well, had all the threads of love, health, grace, peace, and joy (words he used in an email exchange after our talk).
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I decided to keep going with Doug Keller, whose first talk with me continues to be one of our most popular episodes. We did a minor review of his first talk, which was as dense and captivating as this one.
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Seane Corn is one of the most influential people in modern yoga. Her journey in yoga teaching and service work started after her teacher training and at the moment she "niched" into a student group she believed she could help.
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Eddie Stern has been a spiritual seeker and curious contemplative his whole life. He has spent most of his time in the Ashtanga Yoga tradition and was a student of Pattabhi Jois, but along with many in the school, he has worked hard to heal traumas and elected to expand his view of practice participation in the world for the greater good.
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Kino MacGregor manages to walk a fine line between the scroll-stopping stuff of Instagram and the deep practice of belonging, discernment, and freedom in yoga. If you do just take her in on Instagram, I wonder if you look past her flawless yoga asanas and pictures of the far-flung places she teaches, and read what she writes about her practices and experiences.
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Rob Schware and Chelsea Roff are doing so many interesting things in yoga that I don't know where to start.
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This episode is such a great reminder of how great a practice Integral Yoga is—how deep, earnest, and sincere its roots. Swami Asokananda embodies this practice in all of his being, in every syllable.
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Richard Rosen wrote The Yoga of Breath in 2002, after he had been teaching for 15 years, and just before he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. He has a lot to say about the nature of the breath, and our conversation was the first of what I hope will be many on this podcast.
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Beryl Bender is an iconoclast. She took the Ashtanga Yoga teaching tradition and translated and made it accessible for westerners. She wanted the phrase to describe strength (versus just flexibility), appeal to men, and show that yoga could be a workout. I
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Andrea Ferretti is a risk-taker and explorer. She's one of the first people I've talked to who legitimately seems to be pondering where yoga might go in the next few decades and beyond.
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I wanted to bring Barbara Benagh and John Schumacher back onto Practicing Well to take the conversation on yoga lineage further. They have been teaching yoga for decades—100 years between the two of them—so I brought them back to talk about what it means to be an elder in this craft.
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