Sam has been teaching yoga since your host Lucy was 8 years old… and beyond that his practice first began when he was just a boy - learning from his Mother whilst growing up in Uganda.
His yoga teaching experience has taken him on quite the journey - from healing his own back injury (sustained from playing Squash), to teaching 156 people on a beach in Florida, to having shared his knowledge & trained up 93 yoga teachers in our local area - Sam is a yoga teacher who cares passionately about sharing the practice with others.
He’s also authored two books (with a third in the making) - Back Ache: Eliminate Back Pain, Realign, Repair and Maintain Your Back being the main one so far & produced a DVD with his son & actor Doug Rao - Sam & Doug Rao’s Yoga for Any-Body. (They also appeared together on the Alan Titchmarsh show together - you can see them in action here https://youtu.be/fCBhbfdddts).
In this chat we cover many topics from Sam’s sequence to maintaining a strong & healthy spine, to self-acceptance, to taking ownership of our health.
If you want to know more about Sam, or train with him to become a teacher yourself, the best place to reach him is via his website www.samraoyoga.com - on Instagram he can be found @sam_rao_yoga
If you want to connect with your host Lucy she can be found at www.lucyvictoriajackson.com or @lucyvictoriajacksonyoga
The book Sam mentions at the end is Inner Engineering by Sadhguru & the other authors he recommends are Deepak Chopra & Dr David Hawkins. Sam’s Back Ache book can be purchased here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Back-Ache-Eliminate-Realign-Maintain-ebook/dp/B07BK69V5Q/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Sam+rao&qid=1601241089&sr=8-2 and his DVD can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sam-Doug-Raos-Yoga-Any-body/dp/1907386084/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Sam+rao&qid=1601241089&sr=8-1
**Disclaimer: the statistics Sam mentions in the episode have not been independently fact checked**
