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Anjali Rao, president of the Accessible Yoga Association, thinks of herself as a supporter and co-creator, someone who is focused on exploring the histories (plural) in yoga and the stories of people who’ve been obscured through religion, caste, capitalism, cisgenderness, and patriarchy.

In the conversation on what yoga lineage is and why it matters, I knew that Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor and Barbara Benagh would offer a multidisciplinary, intersectional conversation that carries both deep respect for what has come before us and a passionate, insightful caring about what may be coming—not just for wisdom tradition practitioners but for the world as a whole.

It's difficult to separate the modern popularity of yoga from Rodney Yee. He was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1999 to talk about yoga after creating his landmark videos AM and PM Yoga a few years earlier.

I wanted to talk to Amanda Kingsmith, host of the popular podcast Mastering the Business of Yoga (M.B.Om), because she has a structured, fascinating, and very hopeful approach to the yoga industry and community.

In the final episode of 2022, Kim reviews the first season of Practicing Well, discussing her favorite episodes and guests. She also talks about the plans for the podcast in 2023.

This is a dense and fascinating conversation that includes many topics, ranging from our joint worry over the “race to the bottom” in yoga-teacher credentialing and training to how HSAs and FSAs are a real—if not the best—current way for yoga therapists to be remunerated for their work. This conversation is for anyone interested in the policy, leadership, and the professional future of yoga.

What is yoga therapy and how does it address the whole person, whether that person is working with disease or wellness? In this episode, Kim sits down with four teachers certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) to learn about the transformational relationships, whole-person care, and wellness paradigm that characterize the yoga therapy profession.

I had no idea how much I’d love launching a podcast! After some years of planning, Weeks Well’s little engine that could masharled the resources to shoo Practicing Well out the door into the great wide listener world.