EP 29 | Philippa Asher
Philippa Asher is a certified Ashtanga yoga teacher and one of the few female students who has completed the Advanced B series. As impressive as all that is, that’s not really the reason I asked her to...
View ArticleHarmony Slater Returns!
Finding the spiritual side of a physical practice and discussing the gender bias that exists - even in yoga - are just a few of the topics covered in this episode of the Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast with...
View ArticleEp 31 | Eddie Stern
During a weekend in New York just before Christmas, I had the amazing opportunity to catch up with renowned Ashtanga yoga teacher, Eddie Stern and practice at his shala, the Brooklyn Yoga Club. Lots to...
View ArticleEp 32 | Jen Rene
Jen Rene is a teacher I’ve wanted you to meet for a very long time - and mostly because I’m afraid you might never otherwise get the chance. You see, Jen is one of those no-nonsense, incredibly...
View ArticleThe 2018 Ashtanga Yoga Confluence
This episode of the Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast is a prerecorded panel discussion featuring Tim Feldmann, (Miami Life Center), Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor (Boulder, Colorado), Manju Jois (Encinitas,...
View ArticleEp 34 | Spring Gathering
The following episode of the Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast is a recording from Stillpoint Yoga's weekend Spring Gathering this past May. The annual event is the brainchild of Scott Johnson who has made it...
View ArticleEp 35 | Ty Landrum
Ever wonder what Plato and Patanjali have in common? Yeah, me neither actually! But Ty Landrum finds the the intersection of the two fascinating and quite honestly, his enthusiasm was enough to get me...
View ArticleEp 36 | Richard Freeman
Richard Freeman has been a student of yoga since 1968, beginning in the Buddhist Zen tradition and then later studying both the Iyengar and Ashtanga Vinyasa methods of yoga. Which may explain one of...
View ArticleEP 37 | Mary Taylor
Mary Taylor is a woman who has been consistently practicing Ashtanga yoga for over 30 years - through pregnancy, injury, and more recently, a debilitating illness. What’s more, Mary didn’t enter the...
View ArticleYoga Podcast 38: David Garrigues Returns
This is teacher, David Garrigues’ third time on as a guest on the podcast. David is someone who sees the yoga through the eyes of an artist - finding magic in the ordinary and painting the familiar...
View ArticleYoga Podcast 39: Mark Robberds
Can exploration in movement and other approaches to practice coexist within the Ashtanga yoga tradition? Teacher Mark Robberds, certainly hopes so. And in today's episode, Mark shares some really...
View ArticleYoga Podcast 40: Eddie Stern Returns
If you want to feel better, healthier, be more resilient and clear, Eddie Stern, says the answer is quite simple: Yoga. In a world more and more divided, yoga may be one those rare and special subjects...
View ArticleYoga Podcast 41: Monica Gauci
In this month's podcast episode, Dr. Monica Gauci discusses some of the more complex issues facing yoga students today - like how Ashtanga yoga is taught here in the west; the effects of age, injury,...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Episode 42: Gregor Maehle
In today's episode, teacher and author Gregor Maehle discusses the corruption of authority in everything from religion to politics - and suggests that if yoga wants to help heal that problem, then it...
View ArticleYoga Podcast 43: What Does Practice Mean to You?
Meghan attended the 2019 Bali Ashtanga Yoga Conference and caught up with long-time teachers Dom Corigliano, Mark Robberds, Kathy Cooper, Scott Johnson, Radha, John Scott, and Chuck Miller - asking...
View ArticleYoga Podcast 44: A dialogue on racism with Shanna Small
Today, I’m talking to Shanna Small, the founder of the Ashtanga Yoga Project and a teacher/student in Charlotte, North Carolina. Our subject is racism. Though not the kind of overt prejudices and...
View ArticleYoga Podcast 45 || Eileen Hall: 'Heart is Opening'
"When we come to that last breath in our life - what's most important?" Recorded on the eve of her 60th birthday, Eileen Hall is a woman who has been practicing for over 30 years, through breast...
View ArticleYoga Podcast 46 || MC YOGI & Amanda Giacomini
Today's guests are hip-hop artist MC Yogi and the creator of the 10000 Buddhas project, Amanda Giacomini. MC and Amanda met at a teacher training at It’s Yoga in San Francisco back in 2000 and have...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep 46: Meghan Powell
"Chanting has helped me become more comfortable with myself. And feeling the freedom to open up in a devotional sense, in an emotional sense. I think it’s really released a part of me that I kept...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Episode 48: David Keil || The Puzzle of Pain
As an anatomy teacher and neuromuscular therapist - David has spent most of his career working with people in pain and helping them find a way out. And as the person who literally wrote the book on...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 49 :: Conrad Anker || Humanity in Nature
As one of today's most prolific explorers and mountaineers, Conrad Anker is a legend in the climbing world - though certainly not limited to it. Because Conrad has long been a source of inspiration for...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 50 :: Theo Wildcroft || Post Lineage Yoga
"Hierarchies are easy. That’s why we set them up. But the hierarchies have such a lack of resilience in response to rapid social change. And we're in a situation of rapid social change - in a...
View ArticleKinship: A Way Forward
These next episodes will be devoted to one story … Of how a community moves beyond the authoritarian Guru model, and away from the kind of hierarchical structures and rules of silence that have allowed...
View ArticleA Loving-Kindness Meditation
During these challenging times, we are here to support you. Please visit ashtangadispatch.com to join us for a special program: Equanimity Through the Storm. We hope you take these few minutes to enjoy...
View ArticleUncharted Waters - with Dena Kingsberg
During these challenging times, we are here to support you. And so every Monday morning, we will try and bring you a message of hope and comfort - perhaps a meditation, a chant, or inspiring words -...
View ArticleHow Shiva Got His Blue Throat - with Roberto Lim
During these challenging times, we are here to support you. And so every Monday morning, we will try and bring you a message of hope and comfort. This week we bring you Roberto Lim from Vital Living...
View ArticleIs Our Definition of a Yoga Practice Changing?
This week's offering through the podcast is part of an online talk for Merchant City Yoga in Glasgow on how our definition of a yoga practice could be changing as a result of this ongoing pandemic....
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 52 || The Yoga Mythbusters
Today's chat is with Mark Robberds, Oliver Crossley, and Scott White who together, formed the Yoga Myth Busters. Their hope is to educate and clarify some of those pesky myths that continue to...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 53 || Mary Taylor + Richard Freeman
In today's episode, we sit down with Mary Taylor and Richard Freeman to talk about their new book, When Love Comes to Light: Bringing Wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita into Modern Life....
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 54 || Dena Kingsberg
Today we welcome a very special guest - a woman we hold dear as teacher, mentor, and most especially friend - Dena Kingsberg. Dena has been a devoted student of Ashtanga Yoga for over three decades....
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 55: Santina Giardina-Chard || Feeling Our Way Through
Visit www.ashtangadispatch.com for more interviews, articles, and our latest online classes and courses. Beginning this Saturday is Elements of a Home Practice - a 4-week immersion with Peg Mulqueen +...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 56: Dan Nevins || Living Life to Its Fullest
In 2004, after an explosion in Iraq, Dan Nevins would ultimate lose both his legs. And in today's pod, Dan will not only tell you this story - but also about his life, before and after. Including how...
View ArticleOn the Path -- with Ashtanga Dispatch
Welcome to On the Path – a new ‘talk as we walk’ podcast from Ashtanga Dispatch where we will take you outside on a new trail or with a new walking partner each month. If you enjoy, go over to apple...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 57: Deepika Mehta || The Power of Hope
In today's episode, listen to Deepika Mehta speak to the power of hope and how it plays such an essential role in times of despair. Especially as India suffers through a second wave of COVID. And why...
View ArticleYoga Philosophy with David Garrigues and Peg Mulqueen || YS 3.17: Why Words...
Join David Garrigues and me as we discuss Yoga Sūtra 3.17: There is a natural confusion of words, meanings, and our own conceptual experience that arises when we superimpose one upon the other. But...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 58 || Dr. Shyam Ranganathan: Yoga Philosophy + the Conundrum...
In today's episode, Dr. Shyam Ranganathan explains the process of translating spiritual texts; how belief systems, both conscious and unconscious, can influence our interpretations; and why logic is...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 59 || Lara Land: Trauma Awareness Begins with Us
Lara Land is the founder of the non-profit, Three and a Half Acres Yoga, a partnership program that offers yoga, breathing and mindfulness practices to underserved communities. In addition, Lara trains...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 60 || Kathy Cooper || The Yoga of YES!
It's the kind of wisdom that can only come from many years of personal practice that guest to the podcast, Kathy Cooper, brings in today's episode. As a female practitioner, now in her 70s, and as...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 61 || Kino Macgregor || The Dawn of a New Day
The past few years has been like a story that’s unfolding. One that will be told for generations to come. And it is this personal retelling, a weaving together of stories, we will bring you this year...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 62: Eddie Stern || An Imperfect World
Though the message isn't necessarily new -- the need for a more malleable and adaptive approach to practice within Ashtanga Yoga -- it's the messenger that may actually surprise you. Today's episode...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 63: Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen || Go Get Your Peace.
Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen is an Ashtanga yoga teacher based in Finland. Born in Kenya and raised in the U.S., Wambui now lives in Helsinki with her husband, Petri who also teaches, and their two young...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 64: Mark Bint || CODA: The Heart of Listening
Mark Bint grew up with two parents who cannot hear; Mark is known as a CODA, a child of deaf adults. And in today’s episode, Mark tells his story and how growing up in a non-hearing home taught him...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 65: Lea Perfetti || Breaking the Code of Silence
Meet Lea Perfetti, an Ashtanga yoga teacher I discovered on Instagram after a series of posts that were so raw and real, I knew there had to be a pretty powerful story behind. Hers is not just one...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 66: Prasad Rangnekar || Today's Yoga Teacher
If you’re a yoga student and on instagram, you might have come across our guest on today's episode, Prasad Rangnekar, where his posts are often widely re-shared by yoga seekers from all style's and...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep. 67: Ty Landrum || Calling all Rule Breakers
"For spiritual expats and philosophical refugees, somatic explorers, soul hunters, star gazers, rule breakers and other mystical miscreants who have had enough of the ruses of religion, and want to set...
View ArticleAshtanga Yoga Podcast Ep. 68: Dr. Jean Byrne || The Upside of Crisis
Dr. Jean Byrne, the co-founder of The Yoga Space www.yogaspace.com.au in Perth, Australia, talks with me about changes she's made personally and within her teaching after a momentous crisis of faith --...
View ArticleYoga Podcast Ep 69 with Ava Taylor: Remembering Your Why
Today's guest is Ava Taylor, founder of Yama Talent and author of the new book Your Yoga Business. And trust me, today's talk is not just a must for yoga teachers, but anyone starting their own...
View ArticlePatty Ivey: Suffering as Opportunity
Patty Ivey is the owner and founder of Down Dog Yoga, one of the hottest yoga studios in Washington, D.C. But after 20 years, she and her husband were ready to embrace the next phase of her life. It...
View ArticleThe Descent of Inanna: A Journey into the Great Below
In today's episode, we take a little break from our usual interviews and conversations to bring you a story from Sumerian Mythology called The Descent of Inanna. It begins as, "From the Great Above,...
View ArticleMaking Your Way Through the World Today, with Ross Rayburn
Meet one of my favorite yoga teachers, fellow word nerd, and an extrovert who also loves introverting -- Ross Rayburn. In today's episode, we talk about Ross's new book, Turning Inward, an inclusive,...
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