In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training

In this episode Harriet is joined by Ashleigh Clarke, travel photographer and founder of Pallion Point. As a travel photographer, Ashleigh has managed to niche herself down into photographing luxury experiences in Australia with her partner, James. Building her career through social media, Ashleigh started her career as a yoga teacher and studio owner but moved away from the online yoga world finding herself now with multiple businesses and a change to her relationship with yoga practice. 

Harriet and Ashleigh talked about finding work they enjoy, their shared time at university in Australia, and the imporance of connection.

Connect with Ashleigh:
Website: pallionpoint.com
Instagram: @ashleighbridget
TikTok: @ashleighbridget

Connect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatraining

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In this episode Harriet is joined by Tom McAtee, Harriet's Dad, and founder of PeopleMix. Tom is a versatile, highly experienced Human Resources leader with a real focus on planning and organising, workforce design and problem solving, and is passionate about faciliting change in businesses. 

Harriet and Tom talked about valuing people’s contribution, finding balance and unionisation.

Connect with Tom:
Website: peoplemix.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com

Connect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatraining

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

In this episode Harriet is joined by Kate Ryan, a holistic physiotherapist, clinical data scientist, and yoga therapist, based in Oxford. She started out in academia doing alternative energy research and has a PhD in Chemistry. However, she left in 2014 to retrain as a yoga teacher and later as a physio. While academia gave her some fantastic life experiences, Kate wanted a career where she was able to help people more directly and share her love of movement. 

Harriet and Kate talked about scope of practice as yoga teachers, how yoga is not a complete form of exercise, and the journey we go on with practice. 

Connect with Kate:
Website: kateryan.biz
Instagram: @kateryan_physioga
Facebook: @KateRyanPhysioga

Connect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatraining

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

In this episode Harriet is joined by Carrie Reed, a yoga teacher based in beautiful Falmouth, Cornwall. She hopes to inspire students to bring their attention out of the mind and into their bodies, so they can get to know themselves a little better. She also offers bookkeeper services specifically for yoga teachers  - including being Nourish's wonderful bookkeeper!

Harriet and Carrie talked about taking risks, finding ease and knowing your values as a yoga teacher.

Connect with Carrie:
Website: carrieonyoga.co.uk
Instagram: @carrie_on_yoga_

Connect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatraining

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

In this episode Harriet is joined by Chelsea Roff Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive. Chelsea is an author, researcher, and educator, and has spent nearly a decade pioneering integrative health programs for people with mental health challenges. In 2011, Roff offered the first Yoga for Eating Disorders program to clients at a treatment center where she had once been treated for anorexia. 

This later became the heart of Eat Breathe Thrive: a seven-week intervention that combines yoga, meditation, and psychoeducation to help people recover from eating disorders. Two years later, she raised $50,000 in fifty days to kickstart Eat Breathe Thrive. Since its inception, she has brought the program to scale in thirty-two U.S states and seven countries. Prior to her work in the charitable sector, Chelsea worked as a researcher and grant writer in a psychoneuroimmunology laboratory. 

Her early research focused on how yoga affects the immune systems of people with HIV/AIDs and cancer. She is currently overseeing a research initiative on the Eat Breathe Thrive program, which will be the largest ever study on a yoga programme for eating disorders. This year, Chelsea took on an additional role as UK Operations Director for The Give Back Yoga Foundation. 

She is currently spearheading the initiative to bring The Give Back Yoga Foundation programs to scale in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe.

Harriet and Chelsea talked about yoga for eating disorders, starting our mornings with word puzzles and practising agency. 

Connect with Chelsea:
Website: www.eatbreathethrive.org
Website: givebackyoga.org

Connect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatraining

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In this episode Harriet is joined by Beverley Nolan. Beverley is a yoga practitioner with more than 30 year's experience of class teaching and more than 10 year's experience of teacher training and CPD/IST provision. Her practice and teaching has shifted from its origins in the Iyengar tradition to embrace an explorative approach that draws on her love and unfaltering interest in experiential anatomy, infant movement development, somatic psychology and the discipline of Authentic Movement.

She studies regularly outside the yoga tradition enjoying other movement modalities including BodyMind Centering®, Feldenkrais Method®, Continuum® and 5 Rhythms®. Her most recent studies and experiences have channeled her energies into understanding how embodiment practices including yoga can be made more accessible through integrating Trauma-Informed protocols and how they can successfully migrate into Outreach settings.

Harriet and Beverley talked about finding our way with asana, the coincidental nature of rest and performance within practice.

Connect with Beverley:
Website: beverleynolan.com
Website: barefootbodytraining.co.uk

Connect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatraining

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

In this episode Harriet is joined by Katie McNeil. Katie is a woman of many hats, based in Oxford, she is a yoga teacher, admin enthusiast and community builder with people at the heart of everything she does. Her teaching vision is to offer a space for people to practice yoga and learn together as a community.

She loves to empower students to feel comfortable to be themselves in class, the opportunity to find a sense of agency within their yoga practice, and their own set of tools they can take with them throughout their life. Outside of teaching Katie supports both Nourish Yoga Training and Every Body Studio with admin, she loves supporting businesses that are working towards similar goals as her own and gets a kick out of smoothly running systems.

Think spreadsheets and tick lists. In her personal life, she has set up a housing cooperative with a group of friends where together they foster the wider community, grow food, and share the highs and lows of life with each other.

Harriet and Katie talked about their morning routines, finding the joy in admin, becoming a yoga teacher and their shared love of baked beans.

Connect with Katie:
Website: katiemcneilyoga.org
Instagram: @katiemcneilyoga

Connect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatraining

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

Welcome to Season 3 of In Our Experience! In the first episode of this season, Harriet is joined by Katie Gordon, coach, yoga teacher, founder of Every Body Studio and parent. She has previously worked as an associate literary agent and a fiction editor in the publishing industry. She brings a corporate background to her work in creating new business models for the yoga and wellness industry.

Katie has a special interest in mental health and trauma and outside of work at the studio, she works with corporates and individuals as a coach, mindfulness practitioner and movement teacher. Her approach is collaborative and empathetic, combining evidence-based tools from yoga, mindfulness and breathwork with psychology.

Harriet and Katie talk about the joys of reading, Married at First Sight Australia, cultivating a welcome space and making friends with procrastination.

Links:
Girl A, by Abigail Dean
The Searcher,by Tana French
Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
Here Again Now, by Okechukwu Nzelu

Connect with Katie:
Website : everybodystudio.co.uk
Website: helmcollective.co.uk
Instagram: @everybody_studio
Facebook: @EverybodyStudioOxford

Connect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatraining

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

Welcome to In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training, a weekly podcast hosted by Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga.

We're very excited to announce that Season 3 of In Our Experience will be released on the 3rd of May 2022. We can't wait to share with you even more amazing conversations!

In Season 3 Harriet will be speaking to Katie Gordon, Katie McNeil, Beverley Nolan, Carrie Reed, Tom McAtee, Chelsea Roff, Kate Ryan, and Ashleigh Clarke about what's nourishing them, their values, and their ideas about living well.

Each episode is around 35 minutes long. We'll provide show notes and a full transcript of each episode for you to enjoy as well. Of course, we're bring Nourish's values of inclusion, joy and being person-centred to every episode being a mixture of the silly and serious, playful and profound.

Connect with Harriet:
Website - nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram - instagram.com/nourishyogatraining
Twitter - twitter.com/nourishyogatt
Facebook - facebook.com/nourishyogatraining

This bonus episode of In Our Experience features a Yoga Nidra with previous In Our Experience guest, Theo Wildcoft.

Theo Wildcroft is a yoga teacher, post-doctoral researcher, and Nourish Yoga Training faculty member. Theo is based in north Wiltshire working for a more sustainable relationship between our many selves, the communities that hold us, and the world that nourishes us.

Connect with Theo:
Website - wildyoga.co.uk
Instagram - @theodorawildcroft

Connect with Harriet:
Website - nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram - @nourishyogatraining
Twitter - @nourishyogatt
Facebook - @nourishyogatraining

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.