Dr. Sat Bir S. Khalsa is a long term researcher in the field of body mind medicine, specialising in yoga therapy. He has published numerous studies on yoga and mind-body medicine with interventions in insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic stress, and anxiety disorders.

He is the Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and serves as the Director of Yoga Research for Yoga Alliance and the Kundalini Research Institute. He is also the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy.

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Garima Gupta Kapila is the founder and head of the Swasth Yog Institute. She was part of the core Leadership team for Teach For India (TFI) from its start-up years, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. She graduated from IIT Delhi in 2005, with a B. Tech in Computer Science & Engineering.

Garima has completed Masters of Science in Yoga, post-graduate diploma in Yoga Therapy, is a Professional Certified Life Coach (PCC), Integral Somatic Experiencing practitioner and a Lown Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health.

In this episode Garima talks about her journey, Yoga Therapy and her approach in applying yoga therapy at Swasth Yog Institute. 

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Chase Bossart is a Yoga teacher and a yoga therapist, and has been studying yoga for over three decades. And for the majority of that time he has studied with Guru TKV Desikachar, son of T. Krishnamacharya — who is often referred to as the Father of Modern Yoga. Altogether, he has spent more than 4 years in Chennai, India studying a wide range of yoga and yoga therapy topics with Mr. Desikachar and the teachers at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in the Viniyoga tradition. 

Chase spent six years at the Healing Yoga Foundation in San Francisco as Director of Education & Yoga Therapy. In 2013, he founded the Yoga Well Institute in Mill Valley, California, where he continues his mission of teaching yoga philosophy, yoga therapy and his insights on Eastern vs.Western models of health and disease.   In this episode, Chase discusses Yogic Anatomy and the approach of yoga for therapy. We especially loved his commentary on the Koshas.  

To learn more about the Yoga Well institute, please visit their website: https://www.yogawell.com 

Also if you are looking to deepen your practice, then look up their program - 'Deepen Your Yoga Program: A 300 hour Practitioner's Training' on the website. They can also be found on Instagram at: @yogawellinstitute  

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Prasad Rangnekar is a Yoga educator based in Mumbai, India who’s been teaching Yoga over the last 26 years as a science of Mind, Body and Life transformation. A frail child, who was often in and out of hospitals, Prasad’s Yoga Asana journey started at the age of nine when his mother admitted him to a month long Yoga training to improve his health. He has had the blessing of studying under many accomplished Yogic masters but those who have left a deep impact on his life are Tatambari Avadhoot, Baba Bhola Nath, Nari Nath and his Satguru, Shri Swami Samartha Maharaj. He takes 4 months off every year for Mauna Sadhana (silent practice), to go deeper into silence, meditation and study. Prasad’s holistic approach to Yoga has helped thousands across the world in over 15 countries, and he has personally mentored over 200 Yoga teachers till date.  

In this episode, Prasad narrates his own experience with yoga and silence. He talks about yoga as a way to free ourselves of the various identities that we attach to ourselves, and that he says is the root cause of our anxiety. He emphasises the importance of consistent practice and in believing and staying on one's chosen path.  Prasad is the Founder-Director of  Yogaprasad Institute and conducts Yoga Teacher Trainings and Retreats to spread the wisdom of Yoga in its traditional form. 

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Marjorie Woollacott, an accomplished neuroscientist and a meditator for many decades, bridges for us the meditation and neuroscience worlds.  Starting with how the brain filters vast amounts of information, to how linear thinking on the left side of the brain suppresses expanded awareness on right side of brain, she helps us understand what the current neuroscience models explain about the experience of meditation. We also paint a vision of what could be the impact of meditation on the modern world. So if you’ve ever wondered about the impact of yoga on the brain, this is the conversation to tune into!   

Marjorie is an Emeritus Professor of Human Physiology, and member of the Institute of Neuroscience, at the University of Oregon in America. She is the  President of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS) and the Research Director for the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS). Marjorie received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California, has published more than 200 scientific articles and written or co-edited eight books. Her most recent book- Infinite Awareness- has won several awards. This book beautifully combines her research as a neuroscientist with her insights and self-revelations about the mind’s spiritual power from decades of her meditation practice.

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Kamal Maliramani is the founder of Energizer yoga and has been practicing yoga for over 15 years. He began his journey looking to start meditation and was encouraged to begin with asana to establish stillness in the physical body. He studied in the traditions of Hatha, Iyengar, Ashtanga and later in Acro yoga. Along with Hatha Yoga Asanas, he conducts regular courses and workshops on Yoga Sutras to help people connect with the philosophy and take yoga beyond the mat into their daily lives. His mantra is add life to living – “People are living, but there’s no life, with Yoga we bring life to living” he says.  Kamal has given his gracious voice to the Hindi meditation audios on the Eka meditation app.  

Through this interaction we learnt Kamal's definition of awareness and how yoga is all about connecting with forces beyond the mat. His simple stories and easy narratives make the subject of awareness accessible and easy to understand. Awareness, he says, is the goal of all yoga practices and it helps us to see the interconnection between all things.  If you liked listening to Kamal, don't forget to subscribe to our channel.  

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Ashima Goyal is a writer, an editor, a socio-emotional learning educator, an artist, a community-builder (and visionary behind Romania's first Karma Kitchen), a cook (and food blogger!), and a spirited volunteer. Her service has spanned from online space-holding, to hands-on direct disaster aid in grassroots villages after serious floods in Uttarakhand, to transformative 'hands, head, heart' retreats. Her work has focused on transforming her environment by first transforming herself through small acts of service. Her mantra is "bloom where you are planted."  Her education includes Electrical Engineering from IITB and Masters in Social Policy & Development from London School of Economics.  She taught mindfulness to elementary school kids in Mongolia and Romania, and currently develops learning products that bring holistic education to school students.  Through this interaction we learnt Ashima's definition of mindfulness and her approach to cultivating mindfulness. We understand the subject from the lens of children and how we can learn from children to be present, and at the same time support them in retaining their attention and awareness as they grow into adults. Ashima touched our hearts with her shining eyes, ear to ear smile, and simple explanations.  

Ashima has also shared with us some wonderful resources for further reading and exploration: Pebble Meditation: Book: A Handful of Quiet https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13590614-a-handful-of-quiet Wait: by Antoinette Portis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22718683-wait Mindful Games by Susan Kaiser Greenland https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29236414-mindful-games 

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Lalithashree Rajesh is a yoga and meditation teacher who is eager to help people become more mindful and lead a fulfilling life. After exploring various spiritual paths for 15 years, she is now a regular practitioner of Vipassana meditation and yoga. She completed an RYT200 certification in 2018 and more recently, a Yin Yoga teacher training. In addition to regular asana, pranayama and meditation classes, she also takes classes for a group of adults with special needs. In the past, she has conducted classes for various underprivileged groups such as destitute children, remand home inmates, individuals with special needs, and children with cancer.Lalitha has an engineering background and an IT experience of 15 years, during which she gained expertise in software documentation and team management (along with the art of balancing a career and a home with two growing boys). Now yoga and meditation are her way of life and (pre)occupation. 

In this episode, Lalitha helps us understand how mindfulness is a stepping stone to building awareness. She talks about awareness being a deeper state than mindfulness, and shares insights from both her Vipassana and yoga experiences. This insightful conversation with our very own Eka teacher set the foundation for future episodes in this series.  T

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Prof. B.N. Gangadhar, a Senior Professor of Psychiatry and the former Director of the prestigious National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) in India, talks about the impact of yoga on the brain and the nervous system. 

Prof. Gangadhar has been a pioneer in both clinical and research work relating to the application of Yoga in psychiatric disorders. He has made significant contributions in understanding the neurobiology of Schizophrenia and has been awarded several prestigious awards and honours including the Padmashri in 2020. Prof. Gangadhar is a great proponent of yoga as a means to improve the mental and emotional health of patients with mental health issues.

Through this interaction we learnt how yoga helps in building neuromotor coordination, agility, and balance; and how it helps in reducing cortisol (the stress horomone) and in turn helping us repair the brain and reverse ageing related deterioration in the brain. This discussion will provide you the most important and recent insights into the emotional and mental health benefits of yoga from the best in the field. We do hope you enjoy it and please don't forget to subscribe!

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Sunil Kudva is the founder of Elite Fitness Mumbai. He is a qualified Personal Trainer, Aerobics & Aqua Aerobics Instructor, Les Mills Trainer, Yoga & Pilates Trainer, and CrossFit Certified Trainer. Sunil has trained hundreds of fitness instructors, established successful fitness and yoga centres in Delhi, Mumbai, Melbourne and Mexico.

In this episode, Sunil talks about the importance of building muscular strength and endurance, and also gives us the steps to do so. He says one dooesn't have to go to the gym necessarily to build strength, but it is important to educate ourselves and work on our weaknesses in order to build strength. Yoga is excellent to build joint mobility, flexibility, and body weight training and can be a great foundational practice for everyone. 

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