Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast

Part Two of our conversation with Ashtanga Certified teacher John Scott, who imparts his knowledge and experience of the Ashtanga yoga practice it in a way that is almost poetic. This was not as much an interview as it was John doing what he loves - teaching, as he spent more than 90 minutes sharing his experience with Guruji, his passion for the breath and vinyasa, and the method of Tristhana, as I hung on every word - and you will too. And why we broke this podcast into two parts, so you could relax and take it all in. Here's Part Two of the Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast with John Scott. Today's episode was sponsored in part by Stillpoint Yoga London, a vibrant growing ashtanga yoga community and frequent host of John Scott's trainings. Visit their website at stillpointyogalondon.com. And also by Meghan Powell Photography, official photographer and creative director of the Ashtanga Dispatch Magazine and website. Find out more by visiting meghanpowellphotography.com. The Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast is brought to you by me, Peg Mulqueen and my producer and editor, Chris Lucas of http://cwlucas.com

30 Sep 201538min

Ashtanga Certified teacher, John Scott imparts his knowledge and experience of the Ashtanga yoga practice it in a way that is almost poetic. This was not as much an interview as it was John doing what he loves - teaching, as he spent more than 90 minutes sharing his experience with Guruji, his passion for the breath and vinyasa, and the method of Tristhana, as I hung on every word - and you will too. And why we broke this podcast into 2 parts, so you could relax and take it all in. Here's Part One of the Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast with John Scott: All is God. Today's episode was sponsored in part by Stillpoint Yoga London, a vibrant growing ashtanga yoga community and frequent host of John Scott's trainings. Visit their website at stillpointyogalondon.com. And also by Meghan Powell Photography, official photographer and creative director of the Ashtanga Dispatch Magazine and website. Find out more by visiting meghanpowellphotography.com. The Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast is brought to you by me, Peg Mulqueen and my producer and editor, Chris Lucas of cwlucas.com. Thanks for joining us and look for Part Two with John Scott, next week.

11 Sep 201544min

Get ready because this is our longest episode yet as Greg Nardi and I covered a whole lot of territory. We talked about relationships, about pain, and of course, a lot about the Ashtanga yoga practice.

5 Aug 201553min

If you’re only familiar with David Keil through his Yoga Anatomy website … or through his Anatomy workshops and DVDs … or even his recently released book, Functional Anatomy of Yoga … then I’d say, you have only even barely scratched the surface. For example, did you know it was David who first lured me into a daily Mysore practice — or tricked me, depending on whose telling the story? It was also David who got me through intermediate series with my sanity still intact. (Though this also is debatable, depending on the story-teller!) How about this? David Keil was also the one who convinced me to begin a seated meditation practice and even introducing me to his meditation teacher, the same one I now call mine.

20 Mai 201534min

Christine Hoar, a woman with nearly 20 years of practice and teaching experience, is a direct student of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (Guruji). Though for years, he referred to her affectionately as “Nancy’s (Gilgoff) student,” her teacher to this day. Now, if you’re a woman in this practice, I don’t need to tell you how rare it is to find women with that kind of depth and experience in the practice.

20 Mai 201550min

As Ashtanga’s most familiar and easily recognizable couples, Tim Feldmann and Kino MacGregor couldn’t be any more different. While Kino has made it her personal mission to introduce as many students, on a global level, to the Ashtanga Yoga method as she possibly can, reaching millions of students a day through books, blogs, videos and Instagram challenges … Tim prefers a more personal connection, closer to home, teaching at Miami Life Center, the studio they founded together in 2006 and he now runs. Either way, whether on a screen viewed by millions or within intimacy of the yoga room, the two of them sure have a lot of yogic wisdom to share. But after listening today, you’ll also see why they also might have a thing or two to share about what makes relationships work as well. Get ready to meet one of Ashtanga’s coolest couples!

20 Mai 201556min

When I asked David Garrigues to sit down with me last week to talk a little about "Parampara", that student-teacher relationship and how, in yoga, information is transmitted, he really took me to the mat in more than one way! You see, I once (or twice) have said that David doesn’t teach me asana – which he disagreed with … strongly! So this became less the interview I had planned with David and more of a lesson I think he had planned for me. And the result is probably one of the liveliest, informative, and impassioned conversations we’ve had to date.

20 Mai 201538min

Welcome to Ashtanga Dispatch: The Podcast Episode 5 and meet Aliya Weise of Ashtanga San Diego and #ThePeoplesAshtangaYoga. Aliya is one of those impassioned people who speaks from the heart – straight to the heart. In fact, his essay, The Call To Mysore, featured in the first Ashtanga Dispatch, received more tearful notes of gratitude from readers than any other featured article. Students who had been feeling excluded, disenfranchised, not worthy – the very ones, I suspect, Aliya had hoped to reach. In this podcast, he does it again. And in under an hour we cover a lot of territory – from Aliya’s ardent stand for any/every student’s ability to be a practitioner of ashtanga yoga, all the way to a controversial online conversation thread had in a closed FB group about Parampara, the traditional teacher-student transmission of teaching, and … well — me. Spoiler alert: I cried. And get ready, because you might too. But don’t worry, it’s the happy kind.

5 Feb 201559min