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New Books in ReligionYoga, Disability, and Animism, with Theo WildcroftIn this episode, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Dr Theodora Wildcroft, a researcher, anthropologist, and long-time teacher of what she calls “post-lineage yoga.” We discuss Theo's ethnographic research on yoga in the UK, focusing on its connections with animism, paganism, and other somatic practices. We also dive into Theo’s personal approach to yoga as a liberatory practice that allows diverse bodies and minds to thrive. Along the way, we touch on disability, neuro-divergence, cultural appropriation, and the inescapable influence of colonialism for contemporary yogis.Remember, if you want to hear from more experts on Buddhism, Asian...2024-08-111h 04
New Books in Disability StudiesYoga, Disability, and Animism, with Theo WildcroftIn this episode, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Dr Theodora Wildcroft, a researcher, anthropologist, and long-time teacher of what she calls “post-lineage yoga.” We discuss Theo's ethnographic research on yoga in the UK, focusing on its connections with animism, paganism, and other somatic practices. We also dive into Theo’s personal approach to yoga as a liberatory practice that allows diverse bodies and minds to thrive. Along the way, we touch on disability, neuro-divergence, cultural appropriation, and the inescapable influence of colonialism for contemporary yogis.Remember, if you want to hear from more experts on Buddhism, Asian...2024-08-111h 04
New Books in Buddhist StudiesYoga, Disability, and Animism, with Theo WildcroftIn this episode, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Dr Theodora Wildcroft, a researcher, anthropologist, and long-time teacher of what she calls “post-lineage yoga.” We discuss Theo's ethnographic research on yoga in the UK, focusing on its connections with animism, paganism, and other somatic practices. We also dive into Theo’s personal approach to yoga as a liberatory practice that allows diverse bodies and minds to thrive. Along the way, we touch on disability, neuro-divergence, cultural appropriation, and the inescapable influence of colonialism for contemporary yogis.Remember, if you want to hear from more experts on Buddhism, Asian...2024-08-111h 04
Black BerylYoga, Disability, and Animism, with Theo WildcroftToday, I sit down with Theodora Wildcroft, a researcher, anthropologist, and long-time teacher of what she calls “post-lineage yoga.” We discuss Theo's ethnographic research on yoga in the UK, focusing on its connections with animism, paganism, and other somatic practices. We also dive into Theo’s personal approach to yoga as a liberatory practice that allows diverse bodies and minds to thrive. Along the way, we touch on disability, neuro-divergence, cultural appropriation, and the inescapable influence of colonialism for contemporary yogis. Enjoy! and subscribe to Blue Beryl for monthly episodes.Resources mentioned in this episode:Theod...2024-08-0858 min
Working in YogaYoga Teacher Trainings. A Conversation w/ Theo Wildcroft and Harriet McAteeYoga Teacher Trainings.What do we love? What can we do without? What are we missing? I asked two absolute gems of yoga professionals, Theo Wildcroft and Harriet McAtee to answer that question. They’ve collaborated for their new book The Yoga Teacher’s Survival Guide, and this conversation is a deep dive into what we love and need more of as we train yoga pros. You’ll want to listen to every minute.KEY TAKEAWAYS:*Friendships are important, and professional friendships are a sweet treat in our lives. Whom ha...2024-06-261h 45
ConspiritualityBrief: Yoga Teacher’s Survival Guide (w/Theo Wildcroft & Harriet McAtee)Matthew is joined by Theo Wildcroft and Harriet McAtee, co-editors of The Yoga Teacher's Survival Guide: Social Justice, Science, Politics, and Power (Singing Dragon Publications), a volume of essays from 16 yoga world contributors.Three yoga culture critic nerds get into the weeds of how wellness workers and yoga teachers survive and navigate a post-pandemic world that exists at the crossroads of:
capitalism and spirituality
medicine and religion
modern therapeutics and precolonial philosophy and caregiving
gigwork and care work
Theo is a yoga scholar. Harriet has been training yoga teachers for seven years...2024-04-2042 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingFinding Work that We Enjoy and the Importance of Connection with Ashleigh ClarkeIn this episode Harriet is joined by Ashleigh Clarke, travel photographer and founder of Pallion Point. As a travel photographer, Ashleigh has managed to niche herself down into photographing luxury experiences in Australia with her partner, James. Building her career through social media, Ashleigh started her career as a yoga teacher and studio owner but moved away from the online yoga world finding herself now with multiple businesses and a change to her relationship with yoga practice. Harriet and Ashleigh talked about finding work they enjoy, their shared time at university in Australia, and the imporance of c...2022-06-2135 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingValuing People's Contributions and Finding Balance with Tom McAtee (Harriet's Dad)In this episode Harriet is joined by Tom McAtee, Harriet's Dad, and founder of PeopleMix. Tom is a versatile, highly experienced Human Resources leader with a real focus on planning and organising, workforce design and problem solving, and is passionate about faciliting change in businesses. Harriet and Tom talked about valuing people’s contribution, finding balance and unionisation.Connect with Tom:Website: peoplemix.comLinkedIn: linkedin.comConnect with Harriet:Website: nourishyogatraining.comInstagram: @nourishyogatrainingTwitter: @nourishyogattFacebook: @nourishyogatraining
Produced by Story Ninety-Four in...2022-06-1439 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingWhy Yoga is Not a Complete Form of Exercise with Kate RyanIn this episode Harriet is joined by Kate Ryan, a holistic physiotherapist, clinical data scientist, and yoga therapist, based in Oxford. She started out in academia doing alternative energy research and has a PhD in Chemistry. However, she left in 2014 to retrain as a yoga teacher and later as a physio. While academia gave her some fantastic life experiences, Kate wanted a career where she was able to help people more directly and share her love of movement. Harriet and Kate talked about scope of practice as yoga teachers, how yoga is not a complete form of e...2022-06-0737 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingTaking Risks and Finding Ease with Carrie ReedIn this episode Harriet is joined by Carrie Reed, a yoga teacher based in beautiful Falmouth, Cornwall. She hopes to inspire students to bring their attention out of the mind and into their bodies, so they can get to know themselves a little better. She also offers bookkeeper services specifically for yoga teachers - including being Nourish's wonderful bookkeeper!Harriet and Carrie talked about taking risks, finding ease and knowing your values as a yoga teacher.Connect with Carrie:Website: carrieonyoga.co.ukInstagram: @carrie_on_yoga_Connect with Harriet:2022-05-3141 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingAgency, Healing and Recovery with Chelsea RoffIn this episode Harriet is joined by Chelsea Roff Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive. Chelsea is an author, researcher, and educator, and has spent nearly a decade pioneering integrative health programs for people with mental health challenges. In 2011, Roff offered the first Yoga for Eating Disorders program to clients at a treatment center where she had once been treated for anorexia. This later became the heart of Eat Breathe Thrive: a seven-week intervention that combines yoga, meditation, and psychoeducation to help people recover from eating disorders. Two years later, she raised $50,000 in f...2022-05-2442 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingPerformance or Practice and the Nature of Rest with Beverley NolanIn this episode Harriet is joined by Beverley Nolan. Beverley is a yoga practitioner with more than 30 year's experience of class teaching and more than 10 year's experience of teacher training and CPD/IST provision. Her practice and teaching has shifted from its origins in the Iyengar tradition to embrace an explorative approach that draws on her love and unfaltering interest in experiential anatomy, infant movement development, somatic psychology and the discipline of Authentic Movement. She studies regularly outside the yoga tradition enjoying other movement modalities including BodyMind Centering®, Feldenkrais Method®, Continuum® and 5 Rhythms®. Her most recent studies and...2022-05-1737 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingFinding Your Way as New Yoga Teacher with Katie McNeilIn this episode Harriet is joined by Katie McNeil. Katie is a woman of many hats, based in Oxford, she is a yoga teacher, admin enthusiast and community builder with people at the heart of everything she does. Her teaching vision is to offer a space for people to practice yoga and learn together as a community. She loves to empower students to feel comfortable to be themselves in class, the opportunity to find a sense of agency within their yoga practice, and their own set of tools they can take with them throughout their life. Outside...2022-05-1038 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingCultivating a Welcoming Space and the Joys of Reading with Katie GordonWelcome to Season 3 of In Our Experience! In the first episode of this season, Harriet is joined by Katie Gordon, coach, yoga teacher, founder of Every Body Studio and parent. She has previously worked as an associate literary agent and a fiction editor in the publishing industry. She brings a corporate background to her work in creating new business models for the yoga and wellness industry.Katie has a special interest in mental health and trauma and outside of work at the studio, she works with corporates and individuals as a coach, mindfulness practitioner and movement teacher...2022-05-0336 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingIn Our Experience Season 3 TrailerWelcome to In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training, a weekly podcast hosted by Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga.We're very excited to announce that Season 3 of In Our Experience will be released on the 3rd of May 2022. We can't wait to share with you even more amazing conversations!In Season 3 Harriet will be speaking to Katie Gordon, Katie McNeil, Beverley Nolan, Carrie Reed, Tom McAtee, Chelsea Roff, Kate Ryan, and Ashleigh Clarke about what's nourishing them, their values, and their ideas about living well. Each episode is around 35 minutes long. We'll...2022-04-2601 minIn Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingYoga Nidra with Theo WildcoftThis bonus episode of In Our Experience features a Yoga Nidra with previous In Our Experience guest, Theo Wildcoft. Theo Wildcroft is a 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.Connect with Theo:Website - wildyoga.co.ukInstagram - @theodorawildcroftConnect with Harriet:Website - nourishyogatraining.comInstagram - @nourishyogatrainingTwitter - @nourishyogattFacebook - @nourishyogatraining2022-04-1916 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingCommunication, Grace & Creativity with Sarah Leyla PuelloIn this episode, Harriet is joined by Sarah Leyla Puello, a recovering academic who was born in the Dominican Republic and has been living in the UK since 2003. These days, Sarah most likes to describe herself as a movement lover, a creative writer and a grace seeker. She works as a project manager, yoga teacher, teacher trainer (for Nourish!) and has recently co-started a new venture called Our Sparkle Club, a virtual space that blends together Yoga, Meditation and Creative Practices like journaling and doodling to help people find and keep their sparkle. Sarah loves the potential f...2022-03-2232 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingLearning in Spirals and the Power of Practice with Sooz HammondIn this episode Harriet is joined by Suzette "Sooz" Hammond, an award-winning tea educator, professional tea skills trainer, and tea contemplative and spiritual practitioner. Sooz uses they and she pronouns, and is based in Chicago, USA. She is the founder of Being Tea - an education-focused business offering interactive online learning and a first of its kind professional teacher training program. Their teaching style centers on sensory-supportive pedagogy, addressing financial and knowledge accessibility issues, and promoting tea as a practice for spiritual connection. Sooz has nearly two decades of teaching experience, across the US and internationally. 2022-03-1536 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingThe Roles We Inhabit in Relationships with Sarah WalshIn this episode Harriet is joined by Sarah Walsh, an experienced mental health practitioner, specialising in working with children and families. Sarah has worked in the NHS and social care alongside children and families with complex needs supporting their mental health and relationships. Throughout Sarah's career, she have observed the transformational impact of bringing creativity, yoga and mindfulness into spaces to promote children and young people's wellbeing. She is passionate about joining these practices with her mental health training to empower young people to thrive in life.Harriet and Sarah chatted about the importance of...2022-03-0834 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingYoga's Liberatory Potential and How We Can Access It with Sheena SoodIn this episode, Harriet is joined by Sheena Sood PhD, a Philadelphia-based activist, educator, sociologist, and healing justice visionary of South Asian descent and southern roots. Sheena enjoys teaching gentle vinyasa or hatha practices infused with embodied liberatory philosophy. She is also the founder of Yoga Warrior Tales, an adventure-based yoga program that teaches children mindfulness and yoga skills through educational and interactive social justice narratives. Currently, Sheena serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Muhlenberg College in the Sociology and Anthropology department, where she teaches introductory and advanced sociology courses covering social and cultural movements. Her...2022-03-0139 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingEarth-Centered Living, Holding Space and Self-Care with Elise TassellIn this episode, Harriet is joined by Elise Tassell. Elise is a hair stylist and yoga teacher based in Oxford, she is part of Nourish’s teaching faculty and from Spring 2022, you’ll be able to find her new home, Sun Moon & Scissors, within Every Body Studio in East Oxford.Harriet and Elise talk about the similarities between yoga and hair dressing, living in an earth-centred way, and explored the eternal question of whether an Aries can ever chill.Connect with Elise:Website : sunmoonandscissors.comInstagram: @elise.tassellConnect with Harriet:W...2022-02-2232 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingKate Bush, Power Dynamics and a Person-Centred Approach with Amelia WoodIn this episode, Harriet is joined by Amelia Wood, a yoga teacher and academic. Her yoga teaching is inclusive, therapeutic and centre’s the student’s individual needs, includes embodied mindful movement, breath awareness and deep relaxation. She is currently a PhD candidate researching spiritual abuse in modern transnational yoga at SOAS. This project aims to centre survivor’s testimonies and is a specifically feminist endeavor. Harriet and Amelia talk about pretending to be Kate Bush, the importance of recognising power dynamics within yoga and having a person-centered approach. Just a small content note: in this e...2022-02-1533 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingSocial Business, the Importance of Values, and Tea with James ThirlwallHarriet is joined by James Thirlwall, founder of Animalltea and fellow boat-owner. James founded Animalltea afer his four-year-old son asked him if any of the animals in his bedtime book were left in the wild. He decided it was time to do something. Animalltea are a UK speciality tea company that uses 100% of our net profit to fund wildlife conservation. Their teas are all pesticide-free, organic or biodynamic. Animalltea exists to protect wildlife, to support sustainable farming and to inspire a love of nature in our community - all through tea. Harriet and James talk abo...2022-02-0834 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingTrusting our Personal Experience and the Joy of the Outdoors with Barbora SojkováHarriet is joined by Barbora Sojková, a yoga teacher and academic originally from Prague in the Czech Republic. She's currently finishing her DPhil in Sanskrit at the University of Oxford with research focused on animals, plants and human-animal relationships in Vedic India. Barbora is deeply interested in nature, environmental activism, and climate crisis.Harriet and Barbora talk about the value of a great teacher, trusting our personal experiences and the joy of being outdoors.Links:Book: The Dawn of EverythingBook: The Mushroom at the End of the World Connect with B...2022-02-0134 minIn Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingIn Our Experience Season 2 TrailerWelcome to In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training, a weekly podcast hosted by Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga.We're very excitied to announce that Season 2 of In Our Experience will be released on February 1st 2022. After such a fantastic first season, we can't wait to share with you even more amazing conversations. 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...2022-01-2501 minIn Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingBonus Episode: Guided Meditation with HarrietGet comfortable because in this bonus episode Harriet will take you on a 15-minute guided meditation. Connect with Harriet:Website - nourishyogatraining.comInstagram - @nourishyogatrainingTwitter - @nourishyogattFacebook - @nourishyogatraining
Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.2022-01-1114 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingAbsence, Whitney Houston and Permission to Feel with Najia BagiHarriet 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...2021-12-1437 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingPleasure, Intimacy and Weaving our Pattern with Simran UppalHarriet 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...2021-12-0735 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingMaking Friends with Failure & Supporting Others with Ajaye Hunn-PhillipsHarriet 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.comInstagram - @nourishyogatraining2021-11-3037 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingYoga as Religion and a Whimsical Tangent with Theo WildcroftHarriet 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...2021-11-2339 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingRetreats, Boundaries & Wild Swimming with Venetia AdamsonHarriet 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.comConnect with Venetia:Instagram...2021-11-1638 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingNeurodivergence and Finding a Home on the Mat with Aisha NashHarriet 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 - @theaishanashWebsite - aishanash.comConnect with Harriet:2021-11-0940 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingAuthenticity, Play & the Magic of Disney with Becky VareyHarriet 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'sConnect with Becky:Instagram - @beckyvareyConnect with Harriet:Website - nourishyogatraining.comInstagram - @nourishyogatrainingTwitter - @nourishyogattFacebook - @nourishyogatraining
Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.2021-11-0238 min
In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingCreativity, Personal Practice & Anastasia with Georgie DaviesHarriet 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 DoshiAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrConnect with Georgie:Website - yogipod.co.ukInstagram - @yogi_podConnect with Harriet:Website...2021-11-0236 minIn Our Experience with Nourish Yoga TrainingSeason 1 TrailerWelcome 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...2021-10-2701 min
Me & My Yoga#3 Harriet McAteeIn this episode, we talk about how Harriet’s approach seeks to dismantle some of the toxic power dynamics in yoga that remove the agency of students, and instead focus on promoting a culture of inclusivity and person centred practices. We talk about empowerment for pregnant and postnatal people, her experiences with joint hyper mobility syndrome and her thoughts on how yoga may look in a post-COVID world.2020-09-0957 min