Talking Yoga

Join us as we explore the physiological and neurological impact of the act of chanting Om with master yoga teacher Jeff Masters, recorded at The Rubin Museum’s OM Lab.

In another special episode filmed at The Rubin Museum’s OM Lab, Dana Trixie Flynn explores how Om lets us make the leap from head to heart and touch the infinite.

In this special episode, filmed as part of The Rubin Museum’s OM Lab Exhibition, Pandit Rajmani Tinguait takes us on a journey to consider the sound of Om.

Master yoga teacher Ramanand Patel and host Colleen Saidman Yee investigate the relationship between knowing ourselves, and loving ourselves and others.

Host Beryl Bender Birch delves into the practice of pranayama with master yoga teacher Tim Miller, who learned from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois over thirty years ago.

Master yoga teacher Dana Trixie Flynn communes with host Colleen Saidman Yee about how our personal yoga practices can help us face our insecurities, aging and loss.

How does yoga empower our own personal, conscious evolution? Find out when host Colleen Saidman Yee interviews fellow host and master teacher Beryl Bender Birch.

Kino MacGregor explains why yoga always keeps its promise, what she’s learned from Guruji, and how the real power of yoga is the power of yourself.

What is the true meaning of yoga, and what does love have to do with it? Find out when host Colleen Saidman Yee interviews her friend, master teacher Richard Freeman.

Kathryn Budig and host Colleen Saidman Yee delve into where self-worth comes from, how to deal with bullies and trolls, and why nobody but you can take away your power.

Kelly Morris shares how shamanism helped her reclaim her own relationship with the divine, and why her job as a teacher isn’t to shape students, but to set them free.

In the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting, Seane Corn and Colleen Saidman Yee explore how yoga gives us the tools to make mindful decisions and change the world.

Rodney Yee explains his teaching philosophy, how yoga empowers him to directly touch life, and what he thinks is the most important thing to ask a new student.

Ramanand Patel discusses the difference between the self and the ego with host Colleen Saidman Yee, and how compassion helps us make sense of violence.

Master teacher Seane Corn tells Colleen Saidman Yee how yoga helped her overcome anxiety, stress, OCD and drug use, and to self-regulate by listening to her body.

Master teacher Amy Ippoliti tells Colleen Saidman Yee how she began her yoga journey, as a lonely 16-year-old who realized “there must be more to life than this.”

Kathryn Budig and host Colleen Saidman Yee explore defying society’s rules in order to become yourself, which she writes about in her new book, Aim True.

Baron Baptiste tells host Colleen Saidman Yee about how his experiences as a teacher compelled him to write his latest book, “Perfectly Imperfect.”

What role does kindness play in daily yoga practice? When it comes to Rodney Yee, quite a lot, as he tells host Colleen Saidman Yee in answer to a question from Jeremiah in Northampton, MA. You’ll hear Rodney draw on wisdom from spiritual teachers like Ram Dass, the poet Rumi and the Dalai Lama, who said “My religion is kindness.” Discover how the growth toward kindness, spurred by what Krishnamurti calls “choiceless awareness,” is a slow process, even for master teachers like Rodney and Colleen, and why Rodney doesn't think of time as a purely linear progression. Moving from kindness to love, Sheila from Hawaii wants to know what role love plays in Rodney’s practice and teachings, which leads Rodney and Colleen into a discussion about love and conflict. You’ll find out why Rodney feels like he’s not qualified to describe love: “Does a fish describe the ocean?” Luckily for us, he doesn’t stop there, helping us understand how conflict is merely a “subset of love.”

When Chris in Oklahoma asks about the importance of deep study with one teacher, Kino MacGregor reaches into her own experiences studying for many years with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois at the Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India. Kino shares with host Zubin Shroff how her travels to India were interspersed with periods of solitary practice, where she began to understand how deeply we can let the work of yoga integrate in terms of our own spiritual practice. She describes how she sees the yoga path as an individual journey, which is at once very intense and very solitary, and that while a teacher’s role can be to help build the roots of yoga, the roots are ours alone. Finally, Kino shares some of her earliest experiences with Guruji, and the support and sincerity she found that allowed her to grow stronger.