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In this new format of our podcast, now recording live, I lecture on the Daoist idea of non-intellectualization from the Dao De Jing - Chapter 20. In the second half of our time, I take a question on 3 strategies yoga teachers can take with beginners who find the challenge of yoga in their minds and their bodies. To 30 mins - Against Intellect, Dao De Jing Chapter 20 From 34 mins - Q&A, How do we deal with challenged beginners?

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In this simple format cast, I talk on the Daoist idea of Simplicity from the Dao De Jing. In the second half of our time, I take a question from a listner on whether Range of Motion and health are the same thing.

To 30 mins - Simplicity, Dao De Jing Chapter 19
From 34 mins - Q&A, Range of Motion and Health: Are they the same?

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Andrea Boni is a dedicated meditation practitioner of over forty years and a meditation teacher for over twenty. Based in Rome, Italy, Andrea teaches globally to students of all levels. Here Andrea talks to us about his 45 year meditation practice which has been his anchor in a colorful life and what it has bought him in times of trouble, in times of joy. For the last 15 minutes, Andrea guides us through an "Intimacy Meditation", a meditation with our intimate, physical self... Come join us.

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Benoy Matthew is a registered physiotherapist, currently working in London, United Kingdom. As a clinician since 1998, he treated injuries ranging from minor ankle sprains to complex multi-trauma sports injury, but now specialises in hip and groin injuries for serious sports men & women. In a recent interview with the BBC, Benoy commented that many yoga teachers came to him with injuries which he felt could be avoided. I am excited to welcome Benoy and explore how we can all be smarter, more compassionate with our bodies in our Yoga. We talk about Benoy's 3 pillars of a good physical workout - stretching, cardio, strength (and how we need to have them all), how we are all different and how to identify difference between muscular pain and joint pain. Come join us.

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---- FIND BENOY HERE: Twitter: @function2fitnes Clinic: https://lifeplusclinics.com/ Find below links of the studies Benoy refers to: https://jisakos.bmj.com/content/3/4/229.abstract https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360859217301225 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17457300.2015.1032981

I fly through 8,000 years of Taoist mythology and at least 3,000 years of Taoist philosophy like a drunken monkey this episode. Taoism has given birth to Chinese Medicine, art, music, yoga and meditation and much else. But it is relatively little understood and that is a shame.

We often draw on its wisdom in our Yin Yoga training program and many students find it mysterious, confusing and inspiring in equal measure. Prepare to lose your head, grow your Qi and be water my friend. Come join me.

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Yoga students often their yoga history from yoga schools & gurus with specific viewpoints or spiritual takes on the world. This is great but potentially sub-optimal. Because they learn from a certain point of view,

Yogis often miss out on a neutral, factual take on yoga, the ideas and the (crazy) characters in the 8,000+ years of the yoga story.

Join me to listen to a simple yoga history free from a point of view.

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Suzee Grilley is half one of the Yoga world's most beloved Teacher Training partnerships. Together with with her husband, Paul, their "Yin Yoga" has become one of the world's most popular postural Yoga styles.Yin Yoga is non-muscular and non-sweaty.

Suzee and Paul always say Yin is only half of their physical practice. Today, we talk the other half: Suzee and Paul have created & choreographed several "Yang" Yoga sequences over the years of their long yoga career. Come join us and listen to the story of the context and function of Yang for their Yin.

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Singaporean Restorative Yoga Teacher Trainer, Adeline Tien joins me this week to help us understand this fascinating style of Yoga. As a teacher trainer of a style often confused/mixed/thrown together with Yin, I wanted Adeline to help us all parse these two styles apart and see them on their own terms.

As it turns out, it is all about flicking the switch. Come join us.

Find Adeline at https://www.atyoga.asia/

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This episode I meet Aussie men's yoga pioneer Greg Cawley who has transformed from high achieving business man to getting stretchy and bendy. Greg is passionate about getting men involved in Yoga, something I also feel strongly about. Why don't men come and what do we have to do in yoga to get their beery bums on mats? Come join us.

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In this episode I talk with California based Kundalini teacher, Ahmed Elaasar. I have always found Kundalini yoga so different to all the other styles out there and when I met Ahmed, I cornered him and begged to let me (and you) in to their world. Based in Venice Beach, Ahmed is such a relaxed dude, he's the perfect guide to Kundalini.

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