Inquire Within Podcast

  Judith Hanson Lasater is a world famous yoga instructor who has been teaching since 1971.   She has studied directly with B.K.S Iyengar, is a physical therapist and holds a Ph.D. in East-West psychology.    She has taught and lectured the world over and is one of the original founders of the California Yoga Teachers Association. In this podcast, Judith discusses her new book, “Yogabody: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana” and her unique and revolutionary approach to the body.     Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Resources Judith’s Website Judith on Twitter Judith on Facebook Purchase Yoga Body: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana Other Books by Judith Hanson Lasater A Year of Living Your Yoga Yoga Abs Yoga for Pregnancy 30 Essential Yoga Poses Living Your Yoga Relax and Renew What We Say Matters: Practicing Nonviolent Communication

  Jonathan Wolf is a renown flute player who has shared his music in the classes of such well known yoga teachers Saul David Raye and Sean Corn.  His hand made bamboo flutes are quickly becoming a standard instrument in many devotional yoga classes and musicians and novices alike are connecting to his hand crafted instruments in very moving and intimate ways.  His debut CD, Dragon Flutes Rising has become a deeply emotional, transformative soundtrack in yoga classes, group meditations and for massage and body work.   Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Resources: Dragon Flutes Rising Website

Jeffrey Small, Jr. is the author of the forthcoming mystical thriller, The Breath of God, the writer of the spirituality blog, OneReality, and a speaker on religious and spirituality topics.  Jeffrey has studied at Yale University and Harvard Law School. More recently, Jeffrey earned a Masters in the Study of Religions from Oxford University in England.   He was raised in a Christian environment, and is active in the Episcopal church, but he has also studied Yoga in India and practiced Buddhist meditation in Bhutan.   In this podcast,  Jeffrey reflects on the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western forms of spirituality and talks about how East and West can actually complement one another. Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesJeffrey's Website & Blog

Michael Watson is a highly regarded international presenter and certified teacher of Yoga, Pilates and functional anatomy. He currently resides in Bermuda, and is part of The Bermuda Integrative Health Co-op, a company founded upon the ideals of integration and community.  He is also the founder of Mindful Integration, which offers workshops, trainings and classes around the world. In this podcast, Michael talks about his unique method of integrating yoga practice with KMI (Kinesis Myofascial Integration).  By combining these two powerful healing modalities, the therapeutic effects of both are exponentially increased.   Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Resources Mindful Integration Website The Bermuda Health Co-op Website If you would like to book a workshop with Michael at your studio, gym or spa, please contact Jennifer Dutch for more details.   Learn More about Kinesis Myofascial Integration

  Judith Hanson Lasater is a world famous yoga instructor who has been teaching since 1971.   She has studied directly with B.K.S Iyengar, is a physical therapist and holds a Ph.D. in East-West psychology.    She has taught and lectured the world over and is one of the original founders of the California Yoga Teachers Association. In this podcast, Judith discusses her new book, “What We Say Matters: Practicing Nonviolent Communication”  which explores the work of Marshall Rosenberg from a decidedly eastern perspective. Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Resources Judith’s Website  Judith on Twitter  Judith on Facebook Purchase What We Say Matters: Practicing Nonviolent Communication   Other Books by Judith Hanson Lasater A Year of Living Your Yoga Yoga Abs Yoga for Pregnancy 30 Essential Yoga Poses Living Your Yoga Relax and Renew Yoga Body: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana

To Westerners, the Indian practice of arranged marriage and the restrictive rolls for women in Indian culture can seem quite foreign and at times misogynistic. In this podcast Sumit Kumar Badola and his wife Navneeta talk about their recent marriage and the changes rolls for both women and men in the worlds largest democracy, India.  They also address the issue of women’s rights and where those rights are headed in the future.     Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Sumit and Navneeta on Facebook

Rachael Evens is the founder of Quantum Martial Arts.  Being a female martial arts master, she brings a unique perspective to the practice.  In this podcast she discusses her groundbreaking work and how it is empowering men and woman alike.    By taking a decidedly spiritual approach to martial arts, she is helping students to strengthen their bodies, minds and souls.   Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Resources Quantum Martial Arts: San Francisco Quantum Martial Arts: Seattle   Recommended ReadingThe Chronicles of Tao by Ming-dao Deng  

  While visiting New Orleans in the spring of 2008, documentary filmmaker Patricia Federico became captivated by the Katrina stories still being told on the street by the locals who survived the storm. After overcoming a catastrophic disaster, loss of life, and the separation of their families, residents come front and center to give first-person accounts of what happened to them before, during and after the hurricane. They describe the struggles still facing them as they try to rebuild what the levee breaches destroyed. Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesPeace Out ProductionsDonate to the Community Center of St. Bernard Parish Watch the Trailer    

Do you have particularly strong emotional reactions that you can't seem to control? Do you notice your yoga students adoring you, clinging to you, or avoiding you? In this podcast, psychologist Gail Brenner, Ph.D. discusses transference, in which we see the world through the unresolved emotions and confused beliefs from our childhood experiences. She offers suggestions for how to respond and take care of ourselves when we are the object of others' transference.Gail is a workshop leader, blogger, and licensed psychologist with 16 years of experience offering psychotherapy. She speaks about practical ways to free ourselves from self-defeating patterns so we can experience lasting peace and happiness. She has worked with adults, elders, couples, families, and teenagers as well as people with pain and chronic medical problems. Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesGail's Website: A Flourishing LifeRead Gail's Article on TransferenceContact Gail

Shahla Ettefagh and Patrick Riley have committed their lives to assisting underprivileged children in India. They gave up their careers in USA and permanently relocated to India in 2002 and founded the Mother Miracle School.  Located in Rishkesh, India the school provides much need services to more than 400 children. By addressing educational, nutritional and health care needs, the school is supporting some of the poorest children on the planet. In this interview, Patrick and Shahala talk about the school's humble beginnings and how it continues to grow.  They also talk about ways you can help by sponsoring a child or evening traveling to India to work with the children.     Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Resources The Mother Miracle School Sponsor a Child Darren’s India Retreat

Although the twelve-Steps began with Alcoholics Anonymous, today there are dozens of twelve-step programs addressing every form of addiction imaginable.   One trait all of these programs share is a focus on spirituality.  While no one dogma is advocated, a regular practice of prayer and meditation is encouraged. In The Twelve Step Buddhist, Darren Littlejohn explores the relationship between each steps and modern Buddhism while providing a model for recovering addicts who want to take a Eastern approach to their twelve-step recovery.  In this interview Darren shares some insights as to how a recovering person might benefit from the teaching and practice of Buddhism in conjunction with their twelve-step work.   Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesDarren Littlejohn’s Website Purchase The Twelve Step Buddhist

In SIGNS: A New Approach to Coincidence, Synchronicity, Guidance, Life Purpose, and God's Plan, well-known author Robert Perry ventures into new territory to explore what he calls a CMPE (Conjunction of Meaningfully Parallel Events).  Although Perry has written and taught almost exclusively on  A Course in Miracles in the past, this new book speaks to a more universal audience. According to Perry, each of us is receiving guidance all the time, but without knowing what to look for, those signs often go unnoticed.  In Signs he outlines his model for recognizing these messages and offers insight into  using them to guide our lives.   Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesCircle of Atonement Website Signs Website Previous Podcasts with Robert Perry Understanding A Course in Miracles- Part 1 Understanding A Course in Miracles- Part 2 Understanding A Course in Miracles- Part 3 Purchase SIGNS

All of us have times in our lives when things seem to be falling apart.  In this podcast, yoga teacher and personal coach Peter Chandonnet explores the process by which we can take difficulties and turn them into opportunities.   Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Resources Peter’s Website Peter on Facebook

For more than 30 years Yanni has been entertaining people around the world with his soothing instrumental music.  His new CD, Voices is a departure from his past work, however.  In this new CD he has gathered some of the most talented vocalists from the next generation of musicians to add lyrics to some of his greatest hits.In this interview I join Nathan Pacheco and Chloe on their tour bus to talk about what it is like to work with a musical legend and how it feels to lend their voices to such a groundbreaking CD. Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Resources:Yanni VoicesNathan Pacheco on MySpaceChloe on MySpacePurchase the CDAmazon • iTunes

Early in his life, Nathan Ohm was raised a fundamental Baptist and eventually graduated from Bob Jones University.  As a gay man, Nathan continues to reconcile his past to his present spiritual journey of peace, love, and enlightenment.  He advocates that through all of our challenges, we can ultimately experience satisfaction and wholeness.Nathan  is the founder of Lifestyle Invention, a coaching practice designed to help people improve the quality of their lives.  He currently resides in New York city where he leads a multidimensional lifestyle as an actor, singer, life-coach, yogi, corporate manager, and world traveler. Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesNathan's Website

David Plotz is a journalist and writer with Slate as well as the magazine's editor.  He is the co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest podcast with John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon.Several years ago, he began blogging about the Bible, which became the foundation for his second book entitled  Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible. Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesDavid's BlogEmail DavidThe Slate Political Gabfest PodcastDavid's Books• Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible • The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm BankDavid's Kindle eBooks• Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible • The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank

Director and filmmaker Kate Churchill discusses her new documentary on yoga and the transformational effects it had on skeptic Nick Rosen.  Enlighten up is a  funny, charming, and informative tour of modern yoga that will take you around the world in search of the essence of yoga. Sync with iPod • Return to Directory Resources:Enlighten Up WebsiteWatch the Trailer

Have you ever cried while practicing yoga?   This experience is very common and yet it can take a new  yogi by surprise.  In this podcast, psychologist and yoga teacher Darcy Lyon explains that emotional and psychological releases during hatha yoga practice are a natural way for the body and mind to release past traumas that may be stored in the tissues of the body. Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesDarcy's WebsiteSuggested Reading

John Friend is the founder of Anusara Yoga and a world-renown expert in both hatha yoga and yoga philosophy.   In part two of this two part interview John talks about the principles of Anusara yoga and what distinguishes it from other styles. Listen to Part 1 Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesAnusara Yoga WebsiteFind an Anusara Teacher John Friend on YouTubeBooks Darren Main’s Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic is a completely delightful and insightful introduction to the philosophy of yoga for the modern practitioner. Darren’s personable and compassionate style makes the philosophical visions of Classical Yoga and Vedanta easily accessible and applicable for the quickly growing yoga community in the West. ~John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga

John Friend is the founder of Anusara Yoga and a world-renown expert in both hatha yoga and yoga philosophy.   In part one of this two part interview John talks about his own start on the spiritual path and what lead him to develop Anusara Yoga.  He also discusses his passion for "The Wizard of Oz" as  a spiritual metaphor. Listen to Part 2 Sync with iPod • Return to Directory ResourcesAnusara Yoga WebsiteFind an Anusara Teacher John Friend on YouTubeBooks