Harriet is joined by Najia Bagi, mum, Whitney Houston super fan, artist, musician, yoga teacher and creative learning curator. She has a special interest in how breath work and improvisation can inform our self defined identity, especially when considering the challenges faced by the global majority. The intention of her work is to create and nurture space for creativity conversation and self care.

She has worked with organisations including Tate, Arts Council England, South London Gallery, and she currently works at Every Body Studio and Prana Yoga Oxford, The Mosaic Rooms and independently.

Harriet and Najia talk about their shared love for Whitney Houston, whilst also touching on the wonders of macaroni and how absence shows up in art making and music.

Links:
Parcels
alt-J
Whitney Houston - Welcome Home Heroes
Still Processing Podcast - Whitney Houston

Connect with Najia:
Website - najiabagi.com
Website - withnajia.com
Instagram - @najiabagi
Instagram - @withnajia

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

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

Harriet is joined by Simran Uppal (they/them), yoga teacher, writer and organiser based in East London. They focus on critical approaches to the philosophical and social contexts of modern yoga, experiential and embodied forms of education, and creative, expressive movement and rest practices rooted in their own experiences of devotion, bliss, and joy in the body.

Harriet and Simran talk about the fetishisation of yoga teaching, the relationship between activism and practice, being intimate with all things, and their upcoming co-practice course with Nourish in the new year.

Connect with Simran:
Instagram - @simransuppal

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

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

Harriet is joined by Ajaye Hunn-Phillips, co-Founder of The Project PT. The Project PT is a personal training studio based in central Oxford offering private and semi-private personal training sessions. Ajaye believes that exercise can empower people to make positive life choices.

Harriet and Ajaye talk about overcoming obstacles, not being afraid of failure, the importance of supporting others, and favouring community over competition.

Connect with Ajaye:
Website - theprojectpt.com
Instagram - @theprojectpt
Facebook - @theprojectptoxford

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

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

Harriet is joined by Theo Wildcroft, 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.

Theo is also a post-doctoral researcher, investigating the democratization of physical practice, how it evolves, and why it matters.

Harriet and Theo talk discuss whether yoga is a religion, different forms of practice, spirituality, and Harriet's most birzare tangent yet - mustard.

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.

Harriet is joined by Venetia Adamson, yoga teacher, work-wife to Harriet, and Nourish Yoga Training faculty member. Venetia started pracricing yoga whilst studying Univesity in London. Soon she started to incorporate the lessons learnt on the mat into her everyday life. After a couple of years of travelling, working and training, she I decided to take the leap and make my yoga practice her work.

Harriet and Venetia talk candidly about imposter syndrome, authenticity online, boundries, yoga retreats, wild swimming and more.

Links:
Passenger - passenger-clothing.com

Connect with Venetia:
Instagram - @venetiayoga
Website - venetiayoga.com
Email - [email protected]

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

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

Harriet is joined virtually by Aisha Nash from London, who, after burning out of her career, decided to retrain as a yoga teacher after getting off a bus at the wrong stop and spotting an advert for a yoga studio on a notice board.

In this episode they talk about what's nourishing them this week, neurodivergence, questioning the expectations of how yoga teachers should look, the affect of COVID on yoga training, and finding home on the mat.

Connect with Aisha:
Instagram - @theaishanash
Website - aishanash.com

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

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

Harriet is joined by Becky Varey, actor turned yoga teacher and faculty member at Nourish Yoga.

In this episode they talk about Becky's journey, authenticity, working with kids, the seriousness of practice, the the importance of play - oh, and what vegetable would you be and the magic of Disney.

Links:
Maggie's

Connect with Becky:
Instagram - @beckyvarey

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

Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

Harriet is joined by Georgie Davies, yoga teacher and founder of Yogipod, a home for finding comfort in your practice through yoga props and practices.

In this episode they talk about creativity, the relationship between beauty and unqiueness, finding time for personal practice, and the wonders of the Disney animated film, Anastasia.

Links:
Anastasia
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Connect with Georgie:
Website - yogipod.co.uk
Instagram - @yogi_pod

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 know some great people, and we love talking to them! In Our Experience...was born from the realisation that we were having some amazing conversations and we wanted to share those conversations with our community.

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