Finding Harmony Podcast

From Hot Rooms to Healing: Leaving Harmful Lineages and Finding Real Practice


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What happens when devotion slips into blind obedience? Harmony opens this episode with a frank reflection on power, consent, and autonomy in yoga. She then welcomes Tamara Cole, a yoga teacher and former boat captain whose journey took her from Bikram’s hot rooms to a life of freedom and integrity in the Galápagos Islands.

Together, they unpack how groupthink, hierarchy, and manipulation take root in spiritual spaces — and what it looks like to rebuild a practice grounded in awareness, consent, and community. Tamara also shares her upcoming Galápagos Yoga Retreat, where participants reconnect with nature through snorkeling, island exploration, and mindful movement.

The conversation closes with Harmony’s 21-Day Money Magic & Manifestation Challenge, an embodiment-based program that helped Tamara rewire her scarcity stories and rediscover self-worth, grace, and generosity.

Episode Breakdown
  • Devotion vs. Obedience in Yoga: Harmony explores where trust becomes compliance

  • Tamara’s Story: From Florida business owner to devoted Bikram practitioner

  • Inside Bikram Training: Bootcamp culture, sleep deprivation, and witnessing abuse

  • Moments of Resistance: Choosing to walk out when a teacher crosses the line

  • Groupthink and Belonging: Why students stay, even when boundaries are broken

  • Life in the Galápagos: Conservation, connection, and the beauty of coexisting with nature

  • Retreat Highlights: Three uninhabited islands, snorkeling, cacao ceremony, yoga, and rest

  • Money Magic Challenge: Healing inherited beliefs and redefining abundance

  • Community as Medicine: Why doing the work together creates lasting change

  • Guest Bio

    Tamara Cole is a yoga teacher and 100-ton licensed boat captain who spent nearly two decades teaching in Hawai‘i before relocating to the Galápagos Islands. She began practicing yoga in 2008 and trained in the Bikram system before shifting toward more holistic, heart-centered approaches. Tamara now leads transformative yoga retreats that weave movement, mindfulness, and connection to nature.

    She is also a graduate of Harmony’s Lightworker Mastermind program, where she deepened her somatic and energetic practices while developing her signature Galápagos retreat.

    Find Tamara on IG: https://www.instagram.com/yoga.with.tlc/

    Find Tamara on FB: https://www.facebook.com/tami.cole.31

    Call to Action

    If you’ve ever questioned a teacher, lineage, or practice that no longer feels aligned, this conversation will help you find language for your intuition.

    👉 Listen, share, and reflect.

    Then explore the 21-Day Challenge to bring that same integrity to your relationship with money, creativity, and leadership.

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