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7 JUL. 2025 · Have you ever noticed how the same sequence, repeated with care, can feel brand‑new every time?
In this episode, I sat down with Karen Fabian (she/her) to explore the unexpected magic of practising and teaching one carefully crafted flow again and again.
Karen shares the story of integrating her work as a health professional and a yoga teacher, and discovering how gratitude, creativity and straight‑up perseverance wove those threads into a career in yoga education.
Together we unpack:
- why predictability in class can lower anxiety and build learner confidence
- how to design a signature sequence that meets your own needs, and if you’re a teacher, shares your unique voice
- practical ways yoga supports emotional regulation and overall wellness
- the role of relentless curiosity—questioning cues, philosophy and the industry itself—to keep your teaching fresh
- the evolving dance between personal practice and professional service
Karen is a yoga teacher, podcast host, author, and founder of Bare Bones Yoga. With a background in rehabilitative medicine and healthcare, she integrates her deep knowledge of anatomy and movement into her teaching and empowers yoga teachers to lead confident, accessible classes while understanding the why behind their cues.
Connect with Karen Fabian at https://barebonesyoga.com/
The Yoga Psychology Mentorship opens for registration tomorrow. Get on the waitlist at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/yoga-psychology-mentorship/
Watch the How to Teach Yoga for Nervous System Regulation Masterclass at https://www.mentalhealthawareyoga.com/how-to-teach-yoga-for-nervous-system-regulation/
Sign up for the Embodied Yoga for Nervous System Regulation Workshop in Mullumbimby on the 26th of July 2025 at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/calendar/
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Listen to Dr Lauren’s interview on Karen’s podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/meet-dr-lauren-tober-ep-355/id1432716189?i=1000713093686
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- Organic India at https://www.organicindia.com.au - use the promo code GRATEFUL15 to get 15% off your next order
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This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
24 JUN. 2025 · Join us for a deeply transformative conversation about yoga as a path of self-remembrance and coming home to ourselves.
In this episode, I sit down with Tracee Stanley (she/her) to explore the profound practice of yoga nidra and how it can guide us back to our true essence.
In the episode, Tracee takes us on a journey into how she discovered yoga after a spontaneous experience on a balcony watching the sunrise in South Africa, and how she now weaves yoga and yoga nidra so deeply and intimately into her life and work.
She shares with us about yoga nidra as a practice, as a goddess and a state of consciousness, and guides us through a beautiful protective practice to support us through difficult times.
Tracee is the author of the bestselling book Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity and The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices & Rituals to Remember Who You Are. She is also the founder of Empowered Life Circle, a sacred community and portal of practices, rituals, and Tantric teachings inspired by more than 28 years of studentship in Sri Vidya Tantra and the teachings of the Himalayan Masters. As a post-lineage teacher, Tracee is devoted to sharing the wisdom of yoga nidra, rest, meditation, self-inquiry, nature as a teacher, and ancestor reverence.
This is a delightful and thoughtful episode, and I am so honoured to have delved into this conversation with Tracee and to share it with you here today.
Connect with Tracee Stanley at https://www.traceestanley.com/
Watch the How to Teach Yoga for Nervous System Regulation Masterclass at https://www.mentalhealthawareyoga.com/how-to-teach-yoga-for-nervous-system-regulation/
Sign up for the Embodied Yoga for Nervous System Regulation Workshop in Mullumbimby on the 26th of July 2025 at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/calendar/
Find out more and get on the waitlist for the Yoga Psychology Mentorship at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/yoga-psychology-mentorship/
Find out more and get on the waitlist for the online Mental Health Aware Yoga training at https://www.mentalhealthawareyoga.com/online/
Find out more about our wonderful sponsors:
- Organic India at https://www.organicindia.com.au - use the promo code GRATEFUL15 to get 15% off your next order
- Yoga Australia at https://yogaaustralia.org.au
This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
8 JUN. 2025 · We often talk about adolescence but what about matresence?
In today’s podcast episode, I sat down with Claire Holloway (she/her) to talk about all things pregnancy, birth and beyond. Claire is a yoga teacher, mother of two and the founder of the Centre of Bright Beginnings, where she holds space for women and parents to explore their own transformative journey, feeling supported and empowered towards autonomy in parenthood.
A few episodes ago, I spoke with https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/jane-hardwicke-collings-on-sagescence/id1193048930?i=1000705200752, and in today’s episode Claire and I talk about matrescence and the role that yoga plays in supporting us during this perinatal period of our lives.
While the focus of perinatal yoga is often on asana, the physical practice of yoga, in this episode we explore how other facets of yoga can support the perinatal journey, including pranayama, mantra, yoga nidra, the yamas and niyamas and having an understanding of the koshas.
This is an episode for anyone anywhere on the perinatal journey, and for those who love or work with people in this phase of their life.
Connect with Claire Holloway at https://www.yourbrightbeginning.com.au/
Be the first to hear when our new online Shala opens at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/join
Find out more about our wonderful sponsor, Yoga Australia, at https://yogaaustralia.org.au
This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
27 MAY. 2025 · In today’s episode, I sat down with Leslie Kaminoff, to talk about the evolution of yoga and the power of breath in emotion regulation.
Leslie is a yoga educator inspired by the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar, and for five decades has been leading workshops and trainings in the fields of yoga, breath anatomy and bodywork. He also is the co-author of the book Yoga Anatomy which has sold over a million copies, and is a staple on the bookshelf of many yoga teachers worldwide.
In the episode today, Leslie shares about his journey into yoga, learning from his father, becoming a Swami in India, then a householder in New York.
We also unpack:
- the role of lineages and teachers in yoga,
- the trap of the ego and siddhis,
- the value of experiential learning over academic credentials,
- the power of the breath in self-enquiry and changing our emotional state,
- why he has no problem with things like goat yoga and hot naked yoga, and
- why Leslie believes it’s important to practice kriyas like kapalabhati before we practice pranayama.
And stay right to the end to hear about Leslie’s personal practice these days, and how it’s evolved over the years.
Connect with Leslie Kaminoff at https://yogaanatomy.org
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Find out more about our wonderful sponsor, Yoga Australia, at https://yogaaustralia.org.au
This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
12 MAY. 2025 · As a new mum, Belinda Haan (she/her) knew all about the power of self-compassion as she’d been teaching other mums all about it in her work. But she had a little secret. She wasn’t being compassionate to herself, despite having all the knowledge and tools at her fingertips.
In today’s podcast episode, you’ll hear about how Belinda overcame this barrier to self-compassion, both back then as a new mum, and more recently as she’s navigated a big, scary challenge in her life.
Belinda also shares some simple and powerful ways we can overcome our own barriers to self-compassion, cultivate more of it in our own lives, and she guides us through a beautiful and very accessible self-compassion practice.
Belinda is a compassion ambassador, mindfulness teacher, and multidisciplinary coach and creator working as a bridge between science and spirituality to help people navigate the full joy, catastrophe and sacredness of life.
She has decades of study, research and applied experience across a broad range of modalities and approaches under her belt, including coaching, psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, sacred space holding, compassion, embodiment practices, and matrescence and motherhood.
An Ambassador of Compassion with Stanford University, Belinda founded The Compassion Project to develop resources, partnerships and creative projects with the mission of bringing more compassion to the world.
Connect with Belinda Haan at https://www.thecompassionproject.au, use the code Agratefullife10 to get 10% off the Emotional Support for Mothers toolkit.
Join the Meditation, Pure + Simple online course with Dr Lauren Tober to try iRest Yoga Nidra at https://www.meditationpuresimple.com
Be the first to hear when the doors of our new online Shala opens at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/join/
- Find out more about our wonderful sponsors:
- Organic India at https://www.organicindia.com.au - use the promo code GRATEFUL15 to get 15% off your next order
- Yoga Australia at https://yogaaustralia.org.au
This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
28 ABR. 2025 · Jane Hardwicke Collings (she/her) works for the goddess and I’m delighted to introduce you to her in this latest podcast episode, as we talk about women’s mysteries and rites of passage.
I have been following Jane’s work for many years and last year, had the pleasure of attending one of her workshops on perimenopause. I was blown away, not only by what she was sharing, but also by the commanding way that she held the space for the biggest circle of women I have ever seen.
Jane is a grandmother, a former homebirth midwife for 30 years, a teacher, writer, and menstrual childbirth and menopause educator. She founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women’s Mysteries School and has created the first holistic menstrual cycle charting app called Spinning Wheels.
In today’s episode, we talk about:
- What it means to work for the goddess,
- What inspired Jane to devote her life’s work to women’s mysteries,
- Why it’s so important for us all to understand the seasons and cycles of a woman’s life,
- Sagescence and the wisdom that can come, both for women and men as we age,
- Whether this wisdom is a given, or something that we need to cultivate in order to achieve, and
- Jane’s everyday practices to support her life
Connect with Jane Hardwicke Collings at https://janehardwickecollings.com/
Join our email newsletter to be the first to hear when our new online Shala is unveiled and our next program dates are announced at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/join
Find out more about our wonderful sponsors:
- Organic India at https://www.organicindia.com.au - use the promo code GRATEFUL15 to get 15% off your next order
- Yoga Australia at https://yogaaustralia.org.au
This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
7 ABR. 2025 · Five years ago in meditation, Rachel Allan (she/her) was given a quest to start the 40 for Tea podcast.
She ignored this guidance for a couple of years, but after finding herself sobbing on the floor with a broken heart, she asked herself what she would most regret in her life if she died today. The answer was not what she expected…. the 40 for Tea podcast.
So as the world went into lockdown, Rachel began this quest of having forty cups of tea and forty conversations with extraordinary humans from around the world.
In the episode, you’ll hear Rachel and I talk about intuition, including how to cultivate it and gather the courage to follow it, as well as the intention and essence behind the 40 for Tea podcast and the key pieces of wisdom that came out of these forty profound conversations.
Beyond the podcast, Rachel is a certified Professional Certified Coach (PCC), specializing in life and leadership innovation and executive coaching. Her work centers on deep listening, presence, and meaningful dialogue, fostering personal insight, authentic connection, and real transformation.
Her passion lies in helping people return to themselves - out of the noise and into clarity, calm, and connection. Nothing is broken, we only remove the friction.
Connect with Rachel Allan at https://rachallan.com/
Get the last place on the Australian 2025 Mental Health Aware Yoga hybrid training on the 12-13th of April at https://www.mentalhealthawareyoga.com/hybrid
Join my Embodied Yoga Nidra workshop in Brisbane on the 26th of April 2025 at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/calendar
Find out more about our wonderful sponsors:
- Organic India at https://www.organicindia.com.au - use the promo code GRATEFUL15 to get 15% off your next order
- Yoga Australia at https://yogaaustralia.org.au
This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
24 MAR. 2025 · Did you know that yoga nidrā is not just an evidence-based relaxation practice, but she’s also the goddess of sleep and dreams in Indian mythology?
In this podcast episode, I sat down with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli (she/her) to talk about all things yoga nidrā.
For those of you who know me, you’ll know this is a practice I’m very passionate about, and it truly was an honour to chat with Uma in this episode, as she’s really a pioneer in the areas of women’s yoga and yoganidrā.
Uma first fell in love with yoga in 1969 at the age of 4 and has been practicing and sharing yoga in various ways since then. She is a yoga therapist, the author of six yoga books, including Nidrā Shakti, which you’ll hear about in the episode today, as well as the Co-founder of the Yoga Nidrā Network.
Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy, and her practice and teaching respects the cyclical powers of the living earth, and honours human life cycles as spiritual initiations.
In this episode, we speak about:
- The goddess of yoga nidrā,
- Yoga nidrā as a radical rest practice,
- If it’s really true that a short yoga nidra practice can replace hours of sleep,
- The psychological and spiritual aspects of yoga nidrā,
- How to practice yoga nidrā with an ADHD brain,
- What a feminine approach to yoga nidrā looks like,
- What it means to be post-lineage and
- Uma shares her own daily yoga practice with us (I love asking people this question!).
Connect with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli at https://www.yoganidranetwork.org
Join the Australian 2025 Mental Health Aware Yoga hybrid training on the 12-13th April at https://www.mentalhealthawareyoga.com/hybrid
Join my yoga nidra workshop in Brisbane on the 26th of April 2025 at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/calendar
Practice yoga nidra with me online at https://www.meditationpuresimple.com
Find out more about our wonderful sponsor, Yoga Australia, at https://yogaaustralia.org.au
This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
10 MAR. 2025 · Aunty Jacqui Jarrett (she/her) is a proud Dharawal & Gumbaynggirr woman, elder & traditional owner of the Sydney Basin in Australia.
As soon as Aunty Jacqui joined the Mental Health Aware Yoga training last year, I knew that I wanted to invite her on the podcast to speak about her life and work.
Aunty Jacqui's yoga practice is intrinsically tied to her cultural obligations and responsibilities as a custodian of the land, and through the practice of yoga, she shows continual cultural connections, practices and knowledge of First Nations people. She is the founder of Nura Yoga and offers Yoga on Country classes which she shares all about in this fascinating podcast episode.
In this episode, Aunty Jacqui shares about how it wasn’t until she found trauma-sensitive and Mental Health Aware Yoga that she finally started to see herself represented in contemporary yoga. She also shares about the ways that she brings yoga onto Country and how she has been applying the principles of Mental Health Aware Yoga in this space.
We also explore the similarities and differences that Aunty Jacqui sees between yogic practices and wisdom and the wisdom and practices of Australia’s First Nations people.
Truly it is an honour to have shared the teachings of Mental Health Aware Yoga with Aunty Jacqui and I’m excited to share this episode with you today.
Connect with Aunty Jacqui Jarrett at https://nurayoga.com.au/
Sign up for the 2025 Australian Mental Health Aware Yoga training at https://www.mentalhealthawareyoga.com/hybrid
Stay connected by joining our email newsletter at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/join/
Find out the latest events at the Yoga Psychology Institute at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/calendar/
Find out more about our wonderful sponsors:
- Organic India at https://www.organicindia.com.au - use the promo code GRATEFUL15 to get 15% off your next order
- Yoga Australia at https://yogaaustralia.org.au
This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
24 FEB. 2025 · What if yoga was built on a system of caste apartheid? If the very philosophies and practices we engaged in for our personal and collective liberation were actually deeply unjust and harmful for many?
Can we still practice and teach yoga?
Where do we go from here?
These are questions that we’re exploring today in this thoughtful, heartfelt and somewhat controversial interview on the podcast with Roshni Lakhani and Bess Prescott.
Roshni (she/her) is a scholar, educator, and facilitator, specialising in the intersections between language, caste, and power in South Asia. Raised in a caste-privileged Gujarati Hindu family in London, Roshni was immersed in South Asian spiritual traditions from a young age. She holds a BA (Hons.) in Sanskrit and South Asian Studies from SOAS, University of London. Her current work combines personal insight with academic depth, examining how systems of power shape modern yoga, south asian society and its diaspora.
Bess (she/her) is a yoga practitioner and teacher interested in the intersection of yoga, human rights, history, ethics, politics and environmentalism. You might know her as the co-founder of Creature Yoga, in Byron Bay. Bess is deeply curious about how yoga can do good in the world, how it has contributed to harm, and how as teachers and practitioners, we can be aware of tradition while refusing to uphold dogma, hierarchy, patriarchy and caste apartheid.
Connect with Roshni Lakhani at http://www.roshnilakhani.com/
Connect with Bess Prescott at http://www.bessprescottyoga.com/
Join the free Info Session for the hybrid Mental Health Aware Yoga training at https://www.mentalhealthawareyoga.com/hybrid/#info-session
Sign up to the 2025 Australian Mental Health Aware Yoga training at https://www.mentalhealthawareyoga.com/hybrid
Join the Brisbane Yoga Nidra workshop and find out latest events at the Yoga Psychology Institute at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/calendar/
Stay connected by joining our email newsletter at https://www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com/join/
Follow up resources provided by Bess:
- Interrogating Yoga training with Roshni and Bess https://bessprescottyoga.com/upcoming/interrogating-yoga-50hr-advanced-ytt/
- Are you looking for me? poem by Kabir
- The work of Johannes Bronkhorst, particularly Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahminism
- Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste (2022): An urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism
- The Trauma of Caste (w/Thenmozhi Soundararajan) from the Conspirituality Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/4w1pkTeGV4MsM7A3lX21S9?si=W0ofTNPQTNGCJ3R8g2QRWQ
- The Trauma of Caste with Thenmozhi Soundararajan from The Love of Yoga Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/6D34vASw3gRZCzZQXjntdE?si=9MvHnkxJRne8eSyHjut4Nw&nd=1&dlsi=9c2dfc4ef6fd4238
- Annihilation of Caste by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar (1936): A lecture that was never permitted to be given due to its incendiary nature, this book was self-published and immediately became the eye of a storm. Radically against the Brahmanical caste system and Hinduism, it argued for a society based on equal opportunities for all. You can find PDF copies of this floating around the internet.
- India Untouched: Stories of a People Apart documentary https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/5752/india-untouched-stories-of-a-people-apart
Find out more about our wonderful podcast sponsors:
- Organic India at https://www.organicindia.com.au - use the promo code GRATEFUL15 to get 15% off your next order
- Yoga Australia at https://yogaaustralia.org.au
This podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice or training. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for personalised guidance or come and join one of our programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute for professional training. While we are grateful for our guests and sponsors, any statements, claims or endorsements made are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Yoga Psychology Institute.
Join Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Teacher Dr Lauren Tober for intimate conversations on yoga, mental health, psychology, spirituality and living a good life with some of the world's best teachers...
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Join Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Teacher Dr Lauren Tober for intimate conversations on yoga, mental health, psychology, spirituality and living a good life with some of the world's best teachers and thought leaders in the world.
Find out more about our work over at www.yogapsychologyinstitute.com
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| Autor | Dr Lauren Tober |
| Organización | Dr Lauren Tober |
| Categorías | Salud mental |
| Página web | www.laurentober.com |
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