In this episode, Harriet is joined by Sarah Leyla Puello, a recovering academic who was born in the Dominican Republic and has been living in the UK since 2003. These days, Sarah most likes to describe herself as a movement lover, a creative writer and a grace seeker. She works as a project manager, yoga teacher, teacher trainer (for Nourish!) and has recently co-started a new venture called Our Sparkle Club, a virtual space that blends together Yoga, Meditation and Creative Practices like journaling and doodling to help people find and keep their sparkle.
 
Sarah loves the potential for creativity, connection and support that yoga offers and she shares the practice in the belief that by giving the body the space, the breath and the time to express itself in an intentional and honest way, practitioners can begin to piece together the stories of who they have been, who they are really, and how to live better in this world.
 
She loves dancing, naps and the sight of palm trees moving against the breeze. Her dream is to someday publish a book, to go back to live in a country where the sun shines all year round and to turn Our Sparkle Club into a social venture that offers community to people from vulnerable backgrounds.

Harriet and Sarah talked about how yoga teachers communicate, grace, and creative practice.

Connect with Sarah:
Website : sarahleyla.com
Facebook: @sarahleylayoga
Instagram: @sarahleylayoga

Connect with Our Sparkle Club:
Website : oursparkleclub.com
Instagram: @oursparkleclub

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

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In this episode Harriet is joined by Suzette "Sooz" Hammond, an award-winning tea educator, professional tea skills trainer, and tea contemplative and spiritual practitioner. Sooz uses they and she pronouns, and is based in Chicago, USA.

She is the founder of Being Tea - an education-focused business offering interactive online learning and a first of its kind professional teacher training program. Their teaching style centers on sensory-supportive pedagogy, addressing financial and knowledge accessibility issues, and promoting tea as a practice for spiritual connection. Sooz has nearly two decades of teaching experience, across the US and internationally.

Sooz is also a certified trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, and has been teaching tea meditation since 2010, bringing together two deeply therapeutic physical studies and philosophical traditions. Suzette was honored for their dedication to tea education with a World Tea Award for Best Educator.

Harriet and Sooz talked about the process of non-linear learning, how we bring together our transferable skills, and the power of practice.

Connect with Sooz:
Website : beingtea.com
Facebook: @beingtea
Instagram: @beingtea
Twitter: @beingtea

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

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In this episode Harriet is joined by Sarah Walsh, an experienced mental health practitioner, specialising in working with children and families. Sarah has worked in the NHS and social care alongside children and families with complex needs supporting their mental health and relationships.

Throughout Sarah's career, she have observed the transformational impact of bringing creativity, yoga and mindfulness into spaces to promote children and young people's wellbeing. She is passionate about joining these practices with her mental health training to empower young people to thrive in life.

Harriet and Sarah chatted about the importance of seeking new experiences, the roles we inhabit in relationships and the power of good communication.

Connect with Sarah:
Website : accessiblechildrensyoga.co.uk

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

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In this episode, Harriet is joined by Sheena Sood PhD, a Philadelphia-based activist, educator, sociologist, and healing justice visionary of South Asian descent and southern roots. Sheena enjoys teaching gentle vinyasa or hatha practices infused with embodied liberatory philosophy. She is also the founder of Yoga Warrior Tales, an adventure-based yoga program that teaches children mindfulness and yoga skills through educational and interactive social justice narratives.

Currently, Sheena serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Muhlenberg College in the Sociology and Anthropology department, where she teaches introductory and advanced sociology courses covering social and cultural movements. Her current research project Omwashing Yoga: Weaponized Spirituality in India, Israel and the US scrutinizes the application of yoga and mindfulness around the globe, particularly by far-right governments who use yoga to advance their colonial and ethnonationalist agendas. Rather than propagate narratives that glorify yoga’s ancient past, Sheena works to curate healing justice offerings through frameworks that recognize yoga’s oppressive layers and its liberatory potential; she envisions a futuristic yoga that centers collective freedom and embodies political action by centering humanity, all living beings, and Mother Earth.

Harriet and Sheena talk about the liberatory potential of yoga, how governments and organizations use yoga to sanitise their image, and the joy of having delicious treats to hand.

Connect with Sheena:
Website : sheenashining.com
Instagram: @yogawarriortales
Instagram: @sheena_shining

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

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In this episode, Harriet is joined by Elise Tassell. Elise is a hair stylist and yoga teacher based in Oxford, she is part of Nourish’s teaching faculty and from Spring 2022, you’ll be able to find her new home, Sun Moon & Scissors, within Every Body Studio in East Oxford.

Harriet and Elise talk about the similarities between yoga and hair dressing, living in an earth-centred way, and explored the eternal question of whether an Aries can ever chill.

Connect with Elise:
Website : sunmoonandscissors.com
Instagram: @elise.tassell

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

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In this episode, Harriet is joined by Amelia Wood, a yoga teacher and academic. Her yoga teaching is inclusive, therapeutic and centre’s the student’s individual needs, includes embodied mindful movement, breath awareness and deep relaxation. She is currently a PhD candidate researching spiritual abuse in modern transnational yoga at SOAS. This project aims to centre survivor’s testimonies and is a specifically feminist endeavor.

Harriet and Amelia talk about pretending to be Kate Bush, the importance of recognising power dynamics within yoga and having a person-centered approach.

Just a small content note: in this episode we discuss in general terms abuse within yoga, but without detailing any specific instances.

We are linking to OSARCC for anyone who is seeking support around sexual abuse. OSARCC are an Oxford-based charity supporting survivors of sexual abuse, rape, domestic abuse, and harassment. They offer a free and confidential service to survivors who are dealing with the effects of sexual violence, and to anyone who is supporting them.

Links:
Child Abuse Royal Commission: childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au
The Heart of Yoga: goodreads.com

Connect with Amelia:
Website : amelialwood.com
Instagram: @amelia_wood_yoga

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

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Harriet is joined by James Thirlwall, founder of Animalltea and fellow boat-owner. James founded Animalltea afer his four-year-old son asked him if any of the animals in his bedtime book were left in the wild. He decided it was time to do something. 

Animalltea are a UK speciality tea company that uses 100% of our net profit to fund wildlife conservation. Their teas are all pesticide-free, organic or biodynamic. Animalltea exists to protect wildlife, to support sustainable farming and to inspire a love of nature in our community  -  all through tea.

Harriet and James talk about the importance of values, running a social business, and obviously - tea.

Links:
Charity: sanghalodge.com
Charity: niassalion.org
Charity: lwiroprimates.org

Connect with James:
Website : animalltea.com
Instagram: @animalltea
Facebook: @animalltea

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

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Harriet is joined by Barbora Sojková, a yoga teacher and academic originally from Prague in the Czech Republic. She's currently finishing her DPhil in Sanskrit at the University of Oxford with research focused on animals, plants and human-animal relationships in Vedic India. Barbora is deeply interested in nature, environmental activism, and climate crisis.

Harriet and Barbora talk about the value of a great teacher, trusting our personal experiences and the joy of being outdoors.

Links:
Book: The Dawn of Everything
Book: The Mushroom at the End of the World

Connect with Barbora:
Instagram: @barbo_ra_yoga

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 excitied to announce that Season 2 of In Our Experience will be released on February 1st 2022. After such a fantastic first season, we can't wait to share with you even more amazing conversations.

In each episode, our founder, Harriet, will talk to a guest 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

Get comfortable because in this bonus episode Harriet will take you on a 15-minute guided meditation. 

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

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.