The Chai Sessions - Merchant City Yoga

The Chai Sessions - Merchant City Yoga

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The Chai Sessions - Merchant City Yoga episodes

  • Freedom & Balance Through Yoga - Dan Gronan

    I'm delighted to welcome and introduce you to Dan Gronan in this, my 21st Chai Session!


    Dan is offering a brand new weekly class, Movement & Yoga Nidra, here at MCY on Tuesdays 6-7.15pm. I thought it would be lovely to sit down for a chat and a cuppa to get to know him a little better.


    Dan begins by sharing what got him started with yoga. Referencing one of my favourite movies, The Karate Kid, as he shares his journey up till now. He talks about freedom through discipline and choice, choosing your limitations to achieve more.


    We get into the benefits of yoga. How these tools and practices have helped Dan navigate life and be of service in the world.


    Book your place for Movement & Yoga Nidra with Dan HERE

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    28 min
  • Yama-Niyama & Doing Yoga Philosophy - Ema Čulík

    This is my 20th Chai Session and I’m delighted to be chatting with Ema about yoga philosophy, specifically yama-niyama.


    Yama-niyama are a living, breathing, moving, real life practice. Our understanding of them changes depending on where we’re at. Each can offer a fresh perspective at different times in our life.


    If you’d like to explore further, Ema’s Yama-Niyama course is coming up here at the studio in June! It runs over 3 consecutive Sundays from 11th June, 3-5pm. BOOK NOW

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    1 hr 4 min
  • The Yoga Manifesto - Nadia Gilani

    Nadia Gilani is an author, yoga teacher and former news journalist. Her book, The Yoga Manifesto, is what brought us together to chat. Plus she’ll be coming to visit us here at Merchant City Yoga next month! For me, Nadia's book is a call to action. An open honest look at modern yoga, how we engage with it and integrate it into our lives. Nadia says, "without action the yoga isn't working... we have to engage in the world."


    nadiagilani.co.uk

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    33 min
  • The Subtle Body, Mantra, Sound & Music - Tony Young

    We begin our chat by considering if these traditional, more esoteric systems of yoga are getting a little left behind in this modern age of yoga.

    Tony explains just what we're talking about when we say energetic or subtle body. He says, "it's a lot more down-to-earth and practical than you might think." This knowledge, this framework can be used to explore and understand our human experience. This is a fascinating chat you won’t want to miss.

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    32 min
  • Feel Deeper & Sense Wider - Scott Johnson
    If you haven't had the pleasure, Scott is the founder of Stillpoint Yoga in London, host of Stillpoint Podcast, and good friend and regular visitor to MCY. For Scott, practice is about listening, uncovering and being aware of the conversations we're having with our body. "What communication is happening, what conversations can be had..."

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    32 min
  • Magic, Meditation & Candlelight - Ema Čulík & Nicole McMahon
    Our annual Candlelit Meditation here at MCY is a really magical event. I love it because it offers us the opportunity to slow down for a short while to connect. Something very magical really does happen in the room when we all get in there. Listen for advice on meditating, what to expect and more.

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    11 min
  • The Gift That Keeps On Giving - Debbie Richie, Yogability
    Debbie is the founder of Yogability, a wonderful charity who provide free yoga to children and adults with special needs, their families and carers here in Glasgow. At MCY we support Yogability with fundraising every year in the form of our 108 Sun Salutations challenge. Debbie shares what your generous donations have helped them do over the years and much more.

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    21 min
  • What Makes A Yoga Practice Yoga? - James Boag
    James is a good friend and regular visitor to MCY. He’s a gifted yoga philosophy teacher, sharing these ancient teachings with us in a way that makes them really relevant and valuable to our modern lives. We begin by considering what yoga poses, have got to do with yoga...

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    38 min
  • Massage Therapy & Moving Into The Body - Jules Harrington
    Jules has been travelling to MCY from Edinburgh to share her magical massage skills since 2016. To start I ask Jules how she describes what she does. It's not just physical body work, what Jules offers is something quite special. We then get chatting about how talk therapy and body work go together...

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    25 min
  • Now Yoga Begins - James Boag
    I first met James in 2011 in Mysore, South India where I took some of his yoga philosophy classes. I was a little bit hesitant but what James very quickly did was show me how practical and relevant texts like the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras could be. These texts and teachings are not separate from what we think of as yoga.

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    38 min

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The Chai Sessions podcast with Judi Farrell shares the magic of chai and chat at Merchant City Yoga Glasgow wherever you are. Each episode Judi is joined by a special guest from our MCY family to…